Originally Posted by
Drixx
I'm not actually in his kingdom. I run a different kingdom. I've already spoken privately to you, but there is an observation that seems necessary:
Last age, what was going on was kds would get a province of theirs heavy chained to point where it had no military and thus couldn't take or hold onto any land or do any damage to the enemy kd. Provs which were, for all intents and purposes, out of the war. The reset in that case took a province from being completely out of the war to being able to come back into the fight with huge military, without the need to even receive aid.
You did not consider that to be abuse. That was tantamount to buying warwins, and I said as much and made a suggestion thread, and you implemented a solution I suggested.
Havoc aiding out from two provs and then paying to reset them (and in a war, no less so the oop was 72 hours and not 24) is considerably less swingy to a conflict. It's nowhere near the amount of added military and resources as what was going on last age.
So you took an objectively worse case and said it wasn't abuse, even though it amounted to buying warwins so long as a kd was willing to pay $2.40 per chained prov they wanted to buy back into the war with.
But a far smaller usage caused you to change your position completely about whether it was abuse or not.
The only meaningful difference I can see is that Havoc plays in the top and the smaller kd who was abusing last age was way down the charts.
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That said, my kingdom will always follow the rules, and even though I believe that this is an ex post facto application, which real world legal systems recognize as wrong, we still just dropped nearly $100 into the game to reset our kd and be on the right side of the rule change that you made.
I would suggest in the future that people not be punished ex post facto simply because if you (as the sole arbiter of what is right/wrong) are on the record that something is acceptable, and then change your mind, people should not be retroactively punished for doing it before you changed your mind about whether it was abuse or not. The whole idea of ex post facto laws are actually a huge part of what sparked the American Revolution nearly 250 years ago.
And before anyone trolls; yes, I am aware that this is a game and not the real world, but the analogy is useful and fits the situation.
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@Proteus - LOL. It's really amusing when you say something so incredibly wrong and everyone knows it but you. Also ... pay KuHaN his money. You can't be prestigious if you don't pay your bets.