Rage of Absalom: Dealbreakers

[Drixx]

I'm not so sure why everyone thinks that we're crying or don't want to fight. I'm merely trying to expose that you should make sure you cover every single possible option with Rage or most absalom kingdoms, because they are going to **** you over if they have the slightest chance. Make sure when you say 48 hours, you mention that those are earth hours and not lunar hours. Make sure when you say no hits that includes thief ops or something along those lines. Make sure that you define what a hostile is and what a war is and what an elite is and what a defense spec is. Hire a contract attorney for completeness.

Ideally, no one would make deals with these chumps again, but I'm sure that won't happen. Have fun everyone.

Come on Godly. That was a good troll, but seriously. You cannot honestly believe that only abs kd's look for loopholes and maximize their advantages. Heck, we've just seen in this thread an example of how ZZ abused a loophole which led to the standard practice of specifying eowcf in agreements. That wasn't specified in this agreement according to ASF, and I don't believe anyone from inzz has contested that.

So if some of the same people who were involved with exploiting a loophole some ages back have the same loophole exploited now ... you're going to cry about how abs is terrible and corrupt and awful and everyone else is a saint? Come on. Every kd will try to find every advantage they can for conflicts. There's not a top kd going right now that hasn't done it. I'm fairly certain there hasn't been a top kingdom ever who didn't do it, but since I didn't play for every top kd ever I can't say I'm 100% sure. But only someone setting up a straw man argument or who was a few steak knives short of a set upstairs would argue that only abs kds have ever taken advantage of loopholes in diplomacy.

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The humorous part is hasn't Rage put itself in a position where it's forced to give a button to avians in fortified in order to avoid BIO?

That does not seem like an ideal situation.

[Godly]

The humorous part is hasn't Rage put itself in a position where it's forced to give a button to avians in fortified in order to avoid BIO?

That does not seem like an ideal situation.

You've hit the crux of the issue that no one seems to be focusing on. Do you honestly think that they're going to wave? I'm convinced that this is just a silly attempt to get us to pump ahead of our inevitable conflict with Fury/Sanc when our year 6 CFs expire and stop us from doing extreme science pumping for the next 4-5 days while they fight BIO. Most would call it blocking. I call it blocking with a capital ***** as they're already in a "conflict" with BIO and if they had any sort of sense of fair play war or no war, EoW or no EoW, they'd realize that there's no point for them to give a notice now outside of strategic stall tactics.

Yeah... Absalom is all about 1v1, UtopiaNub. The minute you start believing that these Absalom kingdoms aren't working together as one entity, that's when your brain has officially been taken off of life support.

Also I was not involved in whatever happened with CGG, but other than Absalom, the majority of my deals haven't had to be very complicated... we call them common sense rules. It's only when it involves an Absalom kingdom that **** gets complicated.

Lestat, it was obviously a joke. I'm very hopeful that Rage decides to wave us and we can farm them for a couple days.

[flogger]

You've hit the crux of the issue that no one seems to be focusing on. Do you honestly think that they're going to wave? I'm convinced that this is just a silly attempt to get us to pump ahead of our inevitable conflict with Fury/Sanc when our year 6 CFs expire and stop us from doing extreme science pumping for the next 4-5 days while they fight BIO. Most would call it blocking. I call it blocking with a capital ***** as they're already in a "conflict" with BIO and if they had any sort of sense of fair play war or no war, EoW or no EoW, they'd realize that there's no point for them to give a notice now outside of strategic stall tactics.

Yeah... Absalom is all about 1v1, UtopiaNub. The minute you start believing that these Absalom kingdoms aren't working together as one entity, that's when your brain has officially been taken off of life support.

Also I was not involved in whatever happened with CGG, but other than Absalom, the majority of my deals haven't had to be very complicated... we call them common sense rules. It's only when it involves an Absalom kingdom that **** gets complicated.

Lestat, it was obviously a joke. I'm very hopeful that Rage decides to wave us and we can farm them for a couple days.

Well someone has to save sanc from themselves. They have a twelve thousand acre faery.