What's your take on friends in ghettos helping their friends in larger kingdoms?
Since you brought up both the subject of kingdoms coming up out of no where and alluded to your personal strife with sanctuary (of which I have a newfound appreciation for as of late given our history) It still goes without saying that whenever a kingdom comes out of no where to have 25 players, like Sonata did, that even truly impartial observers (of which I consider myself) would be suspicious of how "legit" they were.
Now its clear from both your kingdoms widely known member base and following, that its possible that there are players out there who are willing to play legit and help you at the same time (I had quite the following of these types of players in my heyday) but at the same time subsequent incidents with the Versace/Secrets-rage debacle make one wonder if your friends were truly friends or just multis.
I personally saw Sanctuary's news so its not as if I'm unaware of the amount of seemingly random provinces that were hindering their growth compared to yours in the age where the bad blood between you started and their subsequent EoA shenanigans. Without getting into the merits of that, what is your take on the role of friends of superkingdoms interfering in the affairs of those kingdoms larger than them with a fairly clear agenda of doing nothing more than helping their superkingdom friends.
We had a player in pulse leave us this age because he was too busy yet he was able to keep a top 5 province for a majority of the age (which just shows the sad state of the game today) and I personally was hesitant to ask him to assist in our various conflicts, although he certainly could have and was in fact asking us what he could do to help us at various points in the age.
What is considered kosher, in this regard?