All actions are dealt with on a case by case basis and will never be exactly the same as any other situation. For that reason standards are difficult to outline and draw from. However, in this instance we draw from previous examples such as: KD A agrees to war KD B. KD B accepts, attacks are traded and war begins (pre-proposal style). KD A then halts all attacks to make the appearance that KD A & KD B have an arranged fake war wherein KD B will farm KD A, KD A will surrender to give KD B the war win and KD B will be deleted and actioned for cheating thus being deleted from rankings. KD A does this entirely behind the back of KD B to punish them for some previous digression, or just as a favor to friends. Is KD B at fault in any way? No. Should KD B be punished in any way? No. Could this have been avoided by KD B in any way? Doubtful. Does it look very bad for KD B? Yes.
What should be done?
KD A should be punished.
Should KD B be allowed to retain everything that had been gained?
1) Yes. They had no knowledge of what KD A was planning and should not have their age ruined because of vindictive players looking to hurt KD B for any (or no) reason.
2) No. It can't be proven that KD B had no knowledge of KD A intentions (or it was schemed to appear this way) and would be unfair to allow them the unfair advantage and benefits that come from this fake war scenario just because they had no knowledge. The no knowledge part can be easily deceived and makes judgement difficult. In the future this could be done and schemed to look like this such that KD B gets to keep the land and only KD A gets punished. Therefore, judgement must be made to determine the result of KD B for being the victim.
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3) No. KD A & KD B were in on it together to make it look like option 1) should be enforced and allow KD B unfair advantages over the competition for scheming with their friends. Therefore, both KD A and KD B should result with deletions and suspensions, among other things.


With the introduction of War Proposals in their current form, what happened to your KD is an unfortunate result that is similar to the above outlined scenario. Your KD had no knowledge of what was going on inside the opponent KD, all you knew was you had a war declaration button and the chance to farm easy acres and honor with effectively zero risk.
Should your KD have received deletions? suspensions? removal of acres? pushed directly out of war & full KD suspensions? These are all potential consequences of fake wars. We saw fit that your KD had done no wrong and should not be punished under historical standards yet we could not allow the war to continue. Your KD has lost out on some time, your plans have been changed however you did make that decision. You actively made the decision alter your existing course of action to reap the potential free rewards of the farm war that had been presented to you. As others have mentioned, if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Had you NOT declared on this KD, another KD likely would have and that other KD would be in this position and not you.

For clarity, the Monarch of the opposing KD was controlling two (2) provinces in his KD. Both of the accounts have been banned.


To summarize, your Kingdom was not really punished in any sense of the word by any historical standards. Your Kingdom was not allowed to engage in what could have easily been construed as a fake war and actually been punished for, which you should probably be thankful for. Had the genius who dragged you into this actually been half-witted once the war started he would have begun sending messages to you stating fake war terms and agreements etc to make you appear to be a co-conspirator and take you down with himself. Wouldn't we be having a much different conversation had that happened? You would be arguing for option 1) and trying to prove that you had nothing to do with it (because you in fact did have nothing to do with it).

I hope that provides a bit of clarity into the situation and the actions that we took.

A word of advice: nothing is ever free