Originally posted by Pain:
Originally posted by Rockman:
Originally posted by Pain:
Rockman please explain to me how that statement makes even the slightest bit of sense.
If you gain land from alliancemates, then you have an unfair advantage over other countries. Give a techer free land at the start of the set, and his economy will now allow him to get enough defense to bounce retals, when without the donation from his alliance, he would be breakable.
Therefore, any hit he makes on another alliance should entitle his target to retaliate on anyone from the alliance that hit him, rather than having to hit back on the specific country that hit him.
thats a retarded scenario but instead of explaining why ill ask you another question.
would you have an issue if a country in an alliance is FAed military by 3-4 of his clanmates. without the self farming that is.
It would be extremely difficult to prove the FA shipments, but yes, I would have a problem with that, too.
In Utopia, the top kingdoms didn't do kingdom:province retals, they did kingdom:kingdom retals. Earth has done things differently, but has never provided adequate justification for why that way is better.
Why should anyone in the alliance get to retal rather than just the country that was hit? Why should only the country that did the attack get retalled, rather than anyone in their alliance? Why should 1:1 retals be used, with escalating 2:1 on the 2nd hit etc? Why should land:land be used? Why should landgrabs be legit retals, but spy ops aren't legit?
It's all about whoever has the power determines what retal policies are accepted. The server will be a dangerous place if you let alliances boost one country up with FA/free land and give him free reign to grab other alliances who haven't done such a thing. The stigma against farming your alliance mates has prevented this from happening, but as the stigma wears off, I'm sure some alliances will start doing this. And then we'll have wars to determine whether or not you're allowed to feed someone land & FA to make them unbreakable so that they can grab the top countries of competing alliances without getting retalled.
