Mar 24th 2023, 14:13:36
Yeah, no qualms on your attacks - that's all fair play.
I grabbed you once, then a week later I grabbed you again (because yeah, your only defense was high spies and you had the highest land outside the top few NW) and the server only has 30 people. You were then out of my range (you can only hit people half your size) and I wouldn't have attacked again (2x is the most I've done on anyone all set).
You declared war, opening the door for me to attack you without regard for GDI / NW, and then tried to bomb structures failing half. I attacked you again and then you nuked me. I did a few tiny bioterrors since you're a casher and you're clearly going to keep coming after me. You then went after my beautiful, shiny jets with ops.
My main point is that with two attacks, you lost like 700 acres and the primary gain for me was ghost acres. You couldn't know I wouldn't attack you again, so I'm all for you fighting back - that's the right idea for the game. The issue is you're not war prepped in any way. For future sets, if you run high tanks or stock missiles, people will think a little harder before grabbing you.
The alternative though, is what we see from the other top commie (and typically across servers) where they declare war on someone 1/7 their size, then hit them 3-4 times a day every day until the gains are no longer worth it. For as challenging as it is for you to fight back against me, it's quite impossible for those players. In fact, from a sense of competition, you sometimes see other players try to outfarm the same player to help reduce the lead for the player who started it (because with only 30 people there aren't a lot of great targets to begin with).
So yeah, not any complaint about you or our fight, just an observation on how being a small bully like my play which would keep you from the very top spot but allow you an overall nice finish (including a likely stay in game A), is actually detrimental compared to being a big bully and just demolishing one player until they're at the bottom of the scores list.