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I'm sure we'll all yearn for the good old days of H? beating people down over Trove mines and NC and friends' constant wars against anyone they decided they didn't like.  I'm glad BSH, an alliance who would never dream of using it's size and militarism to push other alliances around, is on top of this issue.  I should stop now.  I've gone way over my recommended daily dose of sarcasm.    

Edited by Aurordan - 20 Jul 2014 at 01:33
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Angrim Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jul 2014 at 02:18
Mr Damage has the way of it. H? was unassailable so long as its power bloc remained intact and its opposition fragmented.
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Aurodan - lets compare and contrast what H? vs Vultures and friends did with their power.   

On one hand you have an alliance who setup the server wide code of conduct about protecting new players and training alliances.  Who actually aborted more wars than most people realize and who went through a whole bunch of diplomacy to try to prevent another server wide war.  The one major war they did then enter (and remember there was only 1 war dec from H? followed by 6+ from the other side) that some folk (Rill) are using as justification for the current dog pile, lasted 6 months and ended with at most two players (debatable that it's even two) reduced by more than 30% of their accounts and peace settlements which totaled <10bill gold across 8 alliances with individuals leaving the war for approx 50million. 

The "victims" of that war bounced back in a relatively short time to mastermind the next server war for revenge - one which laid waste to most of an entire alliance, upwards of 50 accounts (an probably closer to 100) reduced to 1 city, 40 billion in gold compensation (and counting) and extortions of 1 *billion* gold for single players to exit the war.   Plus all the other terms alliances had to suffer (no more than 10K troops, no participating in tourneys on XYZ square under threat of resumption of war, etrc etc etc.).

Your sycophantic posts of love about the latter group of folk are making you look kinda ridiculous.


Edited by KillerPoodle - 20 Jul 2014 at 04:47
"This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM

"a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill
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Yes KP, but you know...that's "different."  ;)

(funny how it's *always* "different when we do it") - magic!


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It's over now, so... We'll see how The Grand Alliance will conduct themselves. Hopefully better than they did in the war. I have no interest in staying in a game where folks are regularly sieged out of the game. Two continents will also make things quite different, I believe...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote bansisdead Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jul 2014 at 05:47
Aurodan there were always bigger alliances to push BSH about.  I cannot speak for previous BSH administrations, but BSH is under new leadership now and I sincerely doubt NVP is about to start bullying smaller alliances.

Personally I think Brandmeister is spot on.
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Originally posted by KillerPoodle KillerPoodle wrote:

Aurodan - lets compare and contrast what H? vs Vultures and friends did with their power.   

On one hand you have an alliance who setup the server wide code of conduct about protecting new players and training alliances.  Who actually aborted more wars than most people realize and who went through a whole bunch of diplomacy to try to prevent another server wide war.  The one major war they did then enter (and remember there was only 1 war dec from H? followed by 6+ from the other side) that some folk (Rill) are using as justification for the current dog pile, lasted 6 months and ended with at most two players (debatable that it's even two) reduced by more than 30% of their accounts and peace settlements which totaled <10bill gold across 8 alliances with individuals leaving the war for approx 50million. 

The "victims" of that war bounced back in a relatively short time to mastermind the next server war for revenge - one which laid waste to most of an entire alliance, upwards of 50 accounts (an probably closer to 100) reduced to 1 city, 40 billion in gold compensation (and counting) and extortions of 1 *billion* gold for single players to exit the war.   Plus all the other terms alliances had to suffer (no more than 10K troops, no participating in tourneys on XYZ square under threat of resumption of war, etrc etc etc.).

Your sycophantic posts of love about the latter group of folk are making you look kinda ridiculous.

Oh my Devs you're right back at it.  You would give H? credit for the sun rising every morning if you thought you could get away with it.  Harmless spend years encouraging and supporting her allies' aggression across the map.  You don't get credit, in my book, for 'only' reducing  people's accounts by 30% in a war you trumped up right from the start, and every single day, someone, usually you, is out someplace in the forums of GC spewing your bitter slander against someone you don't like.  Give yourselves a rest.  Give everyone a rest.   
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Originally posted by Aurordan Aurordan wrote:

spewing your bitter slander against someone you don't like. 


and I suppose you own the moral high ground on this issue, pot, kettle, black springs to mind...
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Originally posted by Aurordan Aurordan wrote:



Oh my Devs you're right back at it.  You would give H? credit for the sun rising every morning if you thought you could get away with it.  Harmless spend years encouraging and supporting her allies' aggression across the map.  You don't get credit, in my book, for 'only' reducing  people's accounts by 30% in a war you trumped up right from the start, and every single day, someone, usually you, is out someplace in the forums of GC spewing your bitter slander against someone you don't like.  Give yourselves a rest.  Give everyone a rest.   


Of all the people in this peace I feel the most sorry for, it is you, Aurordan... Who will you rail against now? To which windmill will you tilt? Your skewed world view can accommodate a world where H? is surrendering in good faith? stop the press? Where is your raison d'etre now? Such hatred is not healthy...
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Close this one Rik.
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