Originally Posted by
AquaSeaFoam
Anri, I've avoided weighing in regarding Simians since you asked to not talk about Simians, but since you now want me to talk about simians, ok, I will.
I wasn't playing besides the last 3 weeks of last age, so anything before that is just what I heard from you and Emeriti. I hear that earlier in the age, Emeriti dodged Simians when Simians were much larger by warring Pyro instead. Later, after Emeriti farmed out BB for 67k acres, Emeriti had the advantage on Simians.
We first made a war deal that you agreed to and then backed out of a couple days later. Emeriti then continued to prep to wave you when the cf was up and you came and asked Emeriti for a deal where you'd give Emeriti #1 kingdom and you'd take #1 province. I recommended Emeriti just accept this but dorje and some others in Emeriti didn't see why they should agree to that when fighting you was nearly certain to result in Emeriti winning both #1 kingdom and province. I argued that it'd just be nice of them to give the province crown to Simians even though fighting would result in Simians cow being farmed. Dorje didn't agree and specifically told you he would not agree to not try for #1 province and if your deal was based on that then it was a waste of time to continue discussing a deal.
Negotiations stopped and both kingdoms continued to prepare to fight. It became clear that Emeriti would have about 50% more military than Simians and any fight would be a complete farm out. You then went back to dorje (while I was sleeping) and offered a new deal. In the new deal, there was never once any mention about #1 province since dorje had specifically ruled this out before to you. You agreed to give Emeriti a bunch of land in exchange for EOA CF. The deal terms were specific and detailed and agreed to by you and dorje both on IRC and ingame. There was no mention at all about #1 province anywhere in the deal, nor in the discussion once you resumed them after previously stopping after dorje said he would not agree to it.
Emeriti followed the deal as it was agreed and explored their top province candidate. It explored past your province and nothing was said. Only once it then did a large explore to a size that was unbeatable by your province did you then come and accuse us of deal breaking. The logs and deal you agreed to on irc and ingame were shown to you and you then agreed that no deal was broken but that Emeriti were assholes.
I agree that Emeriti could have given you #1 prov to be generous and kind to you after you had played a good and fair age. They chose not to give away a crown that their player also wanted (had never crowned before) and that Emeriti would have certainly had if there was a fight. Emeriti didn't show you generosity, but I read the logs, was shown the ingames, and read the emeriti leadership logs and never once did Emeriti agree or even think you thought they agreed to give you #1 province. Dorje was very clear in saying that he would not agree to that and it was not discussed further after that.