Quote Originally Posted by Palem View Post
So you turned two of your own provinces into farms, aided out their resources and then reset them?
While I agree that's it's certainly not the worst of offenses (nor did you receive the worst of punishments), you honestly don't see how that's abuse of the reset function? The reset function doesn't exist to be manipulated by the players. It exists as a fair out for people that screwed something up and need to restart their province. This is very different than manipulating your nw to get better gains or declare war. It's very much like abusing VM, which has a very clear intention that is capable of being abused for a kd's gain.
Palem -- the reset function has a cooldown on it so you can't aid out and then reset. We aided out and then reset 24 hours later, per the game mechanics. I don't see how that's an abuse of the reset function since there is an explicit cooldown if you aid. I don't see how it's different from using reset to slay/send dragons, which Bishop said was legit last age. What I take issue with is the lack of clarity -- if we send aid, are we then never allowed to reset those provinces? Clearly I can't reset them when the mechanics allow me to, so when is it ok? Why was it not a problem for me to send aid last age and then abandon? Isn't that the same thing? If there were clarity around this (i.e. 'the mechanic is not enough!') we would have just reverse banked with them until we wanted them to grow. Or is that not allowed, either? Can we change strategies with certain provs partway through the age?

(I'd point out that VM was abused 2 ages ago by Ryan to crown and Bishop didn't care).

I also don't see a real difference between that and abusing NW to farm to 15k honor in 3 days.

Korp -- not only did he not action it, he said there was no problem with it. http://forums.utopia-game.com/showth...-exploit/page2

Would we be actioned if we reset provs that were chained right now? Last age Bishop clearly said it was ok in that thread.