There's 2 sides of a story I guess. I dont know which is true. The one I heard was Emeriti refusing a CF deal without acres being handed over. Why does a CF deal always have to include land? Do you honestly want to risk screwing your pump for a top fight by being stubborn over a temp cf?
I know Beastblood gave Emeriti in their ghetto age a free CF without even asking for land. Now when BB was ghettoing, Emeriti felt the need to be the only whoring kingdom to want land for a CF.
As for keeping intel up on kingdoms you have no CF with, I do/did this all the time with kingdoms in range. You'd be dumb not to.