Originally Posted by
Leshrak
I was barely logging on to make sure that my prov didn't starve at that point. I wasn't intentionally stalling, I wasn't participating much in leadership discussions, and I wasn't going onto IRC. I told my KD that I was unable to dedicate the time then to doing the monarchy things that needed to be done, but I didn't want to just up and abandon my prov in the middle of an age, and I needed others to step in. This game isn't worth losing a job/house/wife over. The discussions ASF referred to happened in my absence, and were not intentionally delayed in being transmitted to you; hence my apology to you in the logs.
Given that our whole CF discussion to that point was predicated on one or both of us dodging simians, when someone finally SMSed me to say they were going to give you notice and wanted to make sure we hadn't agreed to a deal, I didn't think giving you notice 26h earlier than you were asking for (yr5) would have really been a big issue for you.
I confirmed our timeline with Mithras, who was the main person handling discussions around this time. Nobody made simians draft up, and in fact they had plenty of time and advance warning (a week) that we were not going to fight them at our cf expiration. We were just over half their size and fighting them at that point would have been a complete farm-out; had it gone to war, it would have been much worse than the 30k acres that we took from Chrystal or the 50k BB took from Divinity later in the age. We asked Simians for a CF extension a week in advance because of that size difference. At that time, Mithras told Anri if he wouldn't agree to CF us, we'd have to find a way to dodge the fight.