Nothing we got was free, we pryed it off thier cold dead hands and paid for it with LOT of reset provinces.
And there is a big difference between honor whoring and going for dmg, I just flushed all my stealth ns'ing guy with 4.5 rtpa, 100% crime science and 15% wts ... if I was whoring I'd be raping their reset mercs and not waste my ops on that guy. If we were whoring we would not be macing thier faes, we would trad them down. We would not be tackling sages with insane ratios and 150k def hiting with our uds against rnw, we would be 5x taping merchants with 30k def.
We did not join when this was all over to vulture remains, we joined early and took bulk of dmg from their side together with Pyro. I resent implication we hiding behind anything and leeching honor and land.