if threatening going into vacation mode is against the rules the admins can delete my account.
i'll just explain what happened from my point of view.
We got merged into 1:9 at the beginning of age.
Last age we were a small ghetto formed at the start of age with 10 provinces (8:16) somehow we managed to pull together a ghetto kd of 22 people by the end of age. mostly through random recruiting and some lucky defections. We ended up having 5-6 wars all very fun and interesting. We won some and lost most. Any true warring kd generally rolled through us and stomped us out, as our kd was not setup for any strat it was just a jumble of players chosing their own race/pers. I ended up being king for most of the age and was pretty proud of what we accomplished. We taught a few true newbies how to play and how to use the wiki and some of the intel tools. We got people to log into discord for chatting and game strategy. Most of the core people were actually good players that were taking a break from their top tier kds to spend less time on utopia, as such we did not have many people choose to stay around for this age. Only 8-9 of us chose to stick around so we were forced to merge with this 1:9 kd. The king informed us that they were the kingdom "Wishmasters" from last age. Many of us questioned whether this was true. Now the new age starts and we are tagged as Ruthless HaJ and the king is proclaiming we are a great and powerful alliance. It was obvious these were complete BS lies, as the kingdom didnt use any tools and had no chat but the ingame kd chat. Age begins and we are being attacked by larger kds from the word go (which is expected being a ghetto kd). Our king initially showed some great diplomacy with timely CFs and had some good moments. We try to start our first ritual. Everything is going well we have the ritual at 50 casts and 24hrs left to finish it. Out of nowhere the king declares war on 6:2 a kingdom who was larger had more attackers and just obviously way out classed our ghetto. For 72 hrs our ghetto is pounded into the dust by 6:2 all the while many of us questioning why the king would declare war on a larger and better kd while ritual was at 50 casts left. Many of our own kd didnt have offensive army built up that early in age. The term farmout was thrown around alot during this time. The war eventually ends but a rift has formed between this king and our core of players who merged here from 8:16 last age. Having only 8 players from 8:16 taking all of our votes away from him still allowed him to remain king, so we chose to try a coup. During the coup this king started to unravel and attempted hurt the entire kd as much as he could. While he was raging out he admitted in a kd blanket mail that the war with 6:2 was in fact a fake war farmout, that he had a "kill list" that he was going to give 6:2 to target provinces he wanted gone and shelter his buddies. He exited eowcf early before most of the kd (even his own allies) had built any army. He immediately started spamming war challenges to huge kds. No one bit on those first challenges. He was eventually removed. BUT..... as it turns out he was sitting another province in the kd and before his province that was king had been eliminated he chose the sitting province to be steward allowing him to spam even more war challenges to huge kds. So here we are at war with 6:4 getting pounded by a kd 1mill bigger than us and we have half the kd with no army as we were in the middle of the eowcf from the 6:2 war hours before this new war started. Welcome to our second farmout of this age.