Quote Originally Posted by AquaSeaFoam View Post
A tax in utopia is an involuntary payment typically given by a kingdom that you are in position to farm should they refuse to pay for a cf.
I'd say giving resources away to kingdoms competing for a crown is chart shaping, and against the spirit of the rules. It discourages the kingdoms involved from playing the game. Of course it is their choice to give them away without making you pay any cost. The results is an artificial, user-imposed cap on hostile actions with an outflow of resources that help decide the winner.

Bart and RoO had eoa cf and worked together for RoO to "borrow" a large amount of Bart's cow land specifically to hit down my kingdom by using the combined resources of both kingdoms. Others agreed that this did not seem fair, especially with Bart's non compete, but even without that.
What is unfair about it? You've posted, yourself in this very thread in fact, that you manipulated explore mechanics so as to explore the most possible acres on the fewest possible provinces. You and RoO were of 'similar' composition and had an expiring CF. if RoO needs land to fight you, I fail to see the relevance of where that land comes from? If you (the general you) can scour the server begging for acres, and pussy **** kingdoms in BB are going to pay you ever single opportunity that arises, what is the distinction between that and Bart voluntarily giving land to RoO?

For god's sake the kingdom you helped found and are so fond of defending on the forums, Emeriti, actually offers free CFs to kingdoms around the server with the oh-so-kind offer that the aforementioned kingdoms can ask Emeriti to take land they don't want. Which seems very voluntary to me. Will Emeriti be returning all the land it's obtained with this method?

No, you just like to create your own rules, apply them selectively, interpret them as partially as possible, and manipulate others to dance to your tune as with the RoO situation. Bart's non-compete didn't really have any baring on other banks, just you.

It'd be like if I would "loan" 40k cow land to Emeriti before they fought BB. That would be an unfair move and one I wouldn't do, but if I did do it, I would fully expect everyone else to agree it was unfair. Certainly these things are different and I'm sure you can see that if you try.
The key difference being that RoO needed the land to war you. Emeriti did not need land to war BB at any point this age.

Absolutes rarely work. I seek reasonableness.
That you seek 'reasonableness' is patently false. You seek an advantage, like everybody does, and disguise it as 'fair'.