Quote Originally Posted by Bananamancer2000 View Post
Well actually that would be be me. Since our last war I mailed 4 times trying to discuss a CF, anything at all really, even just a mail back. Mentioned we had deals with all the rest of the top. Never a reply. We hit you twice of our own accord no part of a gb, asked for a CF a 5th time, mailed a player who did an Intel sweep and was laughed at. Got anyone else that was interested to hit and called it a day.

You describe the odd behavior of not having a cf with the #4 kd, yet #5-6 can't even get a reply from you. I sort of felt bad, feeling now like you deserve it.

Fake war, you described it as impossible to win or gain, yet you don't WD.
It's not odd behavior, it's on purpose, at least for Mangoism.

Given that people had no way to grow outside of wars, there was no reason to CF KDs that are much smaller than you, because short of a crippling loss or GB, they're never going to be in a position to hurt you, and if you don't have a CF and they grow from a war, you get instant vulturing on them.

To be blunt, there's no reason for us to CF KDs that we consider 'weak' or potential late age farms, because then we just end up rolling the dice on whether it's us or another KD that gets to farm them.

If we keep you at arms length, we can sort of ensure that a situation where you farm out to someone never happens.

But hopefully your KD has done well and feels it has a good group to compete in the future. I do rather like current mechanics aside from being a bit too turtle heavy, and I like the warring it should encourage in the top.

More people participating means more war targets to go around, which means less people being left out in the cold while others grow.