Mar 13th 2012, 22:15:38
SoF are no angels... but seriously. We've been unpacted with PDM for over a year and there are only two or three real incidents that I can remember. The first was a PDM member friendly to SoF finnishing off a suicider then TAN openly offering to FA that suicider's restart on AT, because it was the honourable thing. Another was this set when you tasted some suiciding of your own and you responded by directing them towards SoF. There was the RoRing by the SoFer last set and the failure to pay reps, but we did end up sending them eventually, but I'm prepared to admit we didn't deal with that well. Then there was the topfeeds that triggered your rash action. Yet, it was you who FSed and it was you who defused us 24 hours earlier. It is also you who is approaching every alliance and his dog in hitting SoF in future sets.
We couldn't agree to a pact, because you were unwilling to compromise at all. We decided to do 2:1 or more than land:land, which we do not even offer our FDPs and we watered down the landtrading terms (which we have in 90% of our pacts) to the bare minimum. Even without the pact we had decided that we could wargain the set out and finish well if we were not hit. Our members didn't like it, but you came to our rescue. The reason we did the grabs was because our finishes were being undermined by the abuses in landtrading (multi-hits a day which hardly anyone on the server agrees with) and this was a way of negotiating the odds while applying your own retal policy. We evened it up with a few grabs on these specific countries and you became ruffled (despite Balin claiming it was our right to grab landtraders). You might argue that it was our 'crap' countries doing the grabs, but one of those countries was mine and happened to have 3x the stock of any PDMer this war, so it's as ludicrous a claim as SoF being a 'fading star'.
PDM are living in a dream world. They think our policies are archiac, yet our year-old retal policy has meant that we have grabbed more countries than PDM have this set (if you exclude multiple reciprical hits). They think the rest of the server are on-board with the mass abuse of multiple hits a day and that they can force it on everyone else, yet pretty much all the major alliances are against it. They thought they had this war won and that they had the good countries and we had the bad. They thought they were more active... geez where are you living; MarsEmpires?
All I have to say to Nuke, is why did Evo approach us with a cf proposal and why did we end up with a few 100x more networth at the end of the set?