RedKGB wrote:higherark wrote:stuff
You sound mad bro, relax.
Since you see the need to quote me twice, I will answer some of your allegations.
His actions are his actions, neither good nor bad. Your actions are neither good nor bad. It is as you pointed out, a game. You seem to take offense that you are not regarded as some hero, the killer of the bad people. You buff up at the mention that your village is considered a power house, that ya'll have the ability to field an army, which you have the right to hunt down those that transgress against you.
That makes your village competitive. Try to bullshit it all you want, but that is the bare bones of it.
As for calling people out to come and get some as you so put it, is a pillar of a competitive power house.
I didn't quote you twice. You probably shouldn't tell other people to read when you fail at it yourself.
I don't expect to be considered a hero. What I don't expect is to called a competitive power for the act of defense. That notion holds zero weight because its easy to twist it around as an excuse for raiding others. You call us competitive yet fail to adequately describe what would not be competitive. Are you saying we shouldn't have defended ourselves against someone who showed no restraint on anyone who crossed his path? That villages with -any- capability to field a cohesive defensive force is liable to be considered a competitive power? Or that as long as you leave the area in question you ought to be immune to retaliation? What a great way to intimidate others and leave them defensless.
Thankfully, most people aren't stupid enough to buy that kind of a weak deranged argument.
All of us are in agreement at NB that we simply want to play in peace. Bob Dole proved definitively that lacking a defensive force is foolish and I know he won't be the last. The bare bones of actual competition would be actively seeking out the domination of resources, villages or political structures. To compare retaliation against an aggressor, to US foreign politics is a logical leap to say the least.
Comparing words flung on the forums to actual actions in game is both a logical leap and somewhat amusing. It shows how little your claims are based off of actual evidence and more on extrapolating from what little there is. Excessive extrapolation is a sign of anger or rivavlry by the way, so it would seem as if you may very well be projecting. We killed a guy who was killing us. You can try all you want but you can't twist that into some grandiose and uncalled for act of subjugation.
RedKGB wrote:Robben_DuMarsch wrote:My immediate instinct is that we would remain neutral.
To me, that is the crux of a problem for wanting to be a trading hub, and not protecting everyone with in your borders. It no longer becomes a trading hub but a killing field.
Oh so now we have to defend random people is that it? Weren't you just making a big stink about how we shouldn't be competitive or playing politics? I'd think it would be extremely easy for a group of raiders to abuse such a clause and, subsequently, that would force us into the political playing field. We would be obligated to defend or do something about those who are competitive, thereby involving ourselves in the competition.
You are, in a phrase, trying far too hard.
