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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 15:22
Originally posted by geofrey geofrey wrote:

StJude seems to have a righteous cause, and I would not be surprised if many like minded righteous and justice seeking Lords come to his aid.
If you have read this post alone, that statement would have merit.  However, one should not forget St.Jude instigated this war with Harmless?....  <--(that was not a question, but a statement...difficult to tell with the [H?] question following the alliance name.)  So turning around and painting them as a tyrant is just plain ridiculous


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 15:43
Originally posted by SunStorm SunStorm wrote:

Originally posted by geofrey geofrey wrote:

StJude seems to have a righteous cause, and I would not be surprised if many like minded righteous and justice seeking Lords come to his aid.
If you have read this post alone, that statement would have merit.  However, one should not forget St.Jude instigated this war with Harmless?....  <--(that was not a question, but a statement...difficult to tell with the [H?] question following the alliance name.)  So turning around and painting them as a tyrant is just plain ridiculous



Yes, Stjude instigated the war, suffered monumental losses, and gave up his cause. He even went so far as to remove his last city, loosing thousands of villagers in the process. StJude started the war, we can all agree the Harmless? and Champs ended it. 

StJude no longer stands a threat to Harmless?, or anyone for that matter. He has become a struggling Lord, trying his best to improve his small villages. And after moving his city, he still faces prosecution for crimes he has already paid for. 

Furthermore, I was not painting them as a tyrant as I have no proof of anything, besides StJude's wicked words. I was just pointing out that if an alliance was to defend land from settlers, they should claim sovereignty on it, or be prepared to be labeled as a Tyrant. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 15:55
Originally posted by SunStorm SunStorm wrote:

However, one should not forget St.Jude instigated this war with Harmless?.... 

StJude made a war declaration against H and other 30 alliances. As far as I know, It was just a mock declaration. He did not attack any H cities. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Originally posted by SunStorm SunStorm wrote:

So turning around and painting them as a tyrant is just plain ridiculous

And 4 of his 5 cities were burnt to the ground. Now they want to burn down his last standing city.

But I agree that painting them as a tyrant is ridiculous. It doesn't take a tyrant to beat up a tiny unpopular player.  Any bully can do that.





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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 16:26
I really feel the point is lost in here.  Jude fried his account by his own actions...  He made his bed, now he must lie in it.  His best hope would be to create a brand new account and dump this one.  It has a stigma that will stay with it until the very end.

I regret trying to point out the error of his ways - obviously, people will make their own decisions as to his post based on their opinions and personal bias.  My opinion/bias is that Jude has reaped what he has sown.  And with that, I will not debate this any longer...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 16:43
Originally posted by SunStorm SunStorm wrote:

I really feel the point is lost in here.  Jude fried his account by his own actions...  He made his bed, now he must lie in it.  His best hope would be to create a brand new account and dump this one.  It has a stigma that will stay with it until the very end.

I regret trying to point out the error of his ways - obviously, people will make their own decisions as to his post based on their opinions and personal bias.  My opinion/bias is that Jude has reaped what he has sown.  And with that, I will not debate this any longer...

Have a great day!  (^_^)

This is one of the daftest arguments I continue to hear. Abandoning my account due to bullies would actually be me not lying in the bed I made or not reaping what I have sown.

I continue to play my account and I continue to reap what I sow. However, that does not mean that I simply give up and say, yeah, you won. Because, no, they have not.

I am still at 2k pop, despite being attacked by 8 different alliances with at least 4 of those being page 1 alliances in size. (RES, Chimps, H?, mCrows)

So in short, do not expect me to continue to fight and claim I am not "lying in the bed I made" because that is simply shortsighted and narrowminded.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 16:59
I admire your fighting spirt in difficult cricumstances, however I fear if you don't get the support you need it will all be in vain Unhappy
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 17:32
so its a sense of the big football player junior shoving freshmen in the hall, then comes along a senior who shoves the junior, to the rejoice of the freshmen, then the senior continues to shove the junior even days after the incident.

Just because H? or whatever stopped a bit of their actions that could have or would have caused harm, it does n';t give them the right to keep shoving.  And no im not saying it as a supportrer of Jude, im saying it from RL experience, everyone just stop shoving.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 17:52
Originally posted by geofrey geofrey wrote:

This is a free land we live in. If someone wants to mark territory as "theirs" they are welcome to do that using sovereignty. 1

If they do not claim sovereignty over the land, it is open for settlement, or for someone else to claim sovereignty over it. This is not merely guidelines, it is the war the world works. 

Being a free land, Lords and alliances are welcome to engage in war to remove cities that they do not like, for one reason or another. However, this is a form of tyranny, and there could be consequences for such tyranny. 2

If H? wishes to remove towns that they previously had no claim over, they are setting themselves up to be tyrants. If they truly want to "reserve" land, it should be done officially with sovereignty. Any turf war dispute not involving canceling sovereignty on a square becomes bullying. Except in the case of smaller towns who have not the resources nor the research to claim sovereignty on so many squares. 3

StJude seems to have a righteous cause, and I would not be surprised if many like minded righteous and justice seeking Lords come to his aid. 

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not only that sir.
there is no sov border, yet i dare you settle in the heart of foreign land whit but enemy towns around you.
there are areas claimed by some alliances.
  this land is not a free one.
you better watch out for the local  feudal lords that own the region you are in before starting "sov tag" the neighbourhood..
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of course some are tyrants. .. hahaha.. really... some of the noblesse have nasty habits of torturing, besieging and so on. you can't boost rights and such about their lands.
the one that holds the land is the one that crushes all opposition. again. the land is not for free.
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that island is owned by H?.
Dont like it? who cares? make them surrender it , and THEN you can call it your turf.
Sov is just a fancy way to say "hey, look, i spend tons of cash to highlight this land as mine" which is useless. you keep pointing out that sov is = possession. false.  more than sov a land, you need to be able to back your claims up.
That or whit huge alliance, or whit superior fire-power.

and lastly..

StJude is death seeker, and leaks respect , cant distinguish rank carefully and has somewhat inflated ego.
He masks himself as the "champion of people" which is rubbish, since lowly peasants have just the right their lord gives them. 
h is good cause would be... what exactly? be a pain in H? sophisticated butt? or maybe just wreak havoc? so long so far, resistance is futile.




Edited by Kilotov of DokGthung - 01 Nov 2011 at 18:08
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2011 at 18:13
Originally posted by Southern Dwarf Southern Dwarf wrote:

Originally posted by Kilotov of DokGthung Kilotov of DokGthung wrote:

just give up.



Nah, it's like in "Tangled": "Stop fighting me!" "I will fight you every moment for the rest of my life!"

I am going to go  with Southern Dwarf on this.

Harmless? are a big alliance who have helped many alliances in the past. Also they have contributed so much to  the game like their work on the Arcanum Illyria. All that should never be forgotten.

But in a 15 round mismatch where the little guy should have been put away in round one yet is still on his feet fighting on -  I'll shout for the underdog everytime. I got to say that their players like Zork, AB, Venita  and whoever  must have nerves of steel.

Harmless? have many smart players but that StJude has put them in a position where they are beginning to look more and more like the Sheriff of Nottingham with each passing day.

Hope this comes to a sensible end though.


Edited by Gilthoniel - 01 Nov 2011 at 18:14
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