Not long after I joined the game Goonheim was attacked, the newbies and crafters wanted out so I helped start a new peaceful city so we could all avoid conflict.
We kept the location as secret as we could, but we were attacked anyway. Not a single person at the new town had commited a crime and everyone there was just trying to avoid any combat, 16 people mostly newbies were killed.
What did this do? Well it turned a group of people who didn't care about war into a group of people who just wanted to fight back against what had happened, we joined back up with all the goons who wanted to fight. Instead of killing off goons the players had just created a larger group of goons who hated them.
After the raid on Chernobyl alot of the newbies and non fighting players wanted to go off and build a new city so they could avoid war. They kept it secret as best they could and commited no crimes.
Today Xanadu raided the new city of Prypiat, killing newbies and people who moved to avoid war, breaking containers filled with mostly low QL bread newbies were making to feed themselves, going through a mansion filled with lockers of newbies most valued items: their newbie hats and maybe a pickaxe or bow and breaking it all.
What has this done? Instead of killing goons off you've made everyone who disliked the idea of war either quit or jump right on into the war "What do I have to lose now anyway?"
Xanadu while trying to be the heroes they pride themselves on being have once again just killed off newbies, but this time they didn't even get a single person who had done something wrong.
Once again goons are together against the community because of the community.