Originally Posted by
Helluva
You couldn't be more wrong. You see, dealbreak is seen as a very serious issue and agreements are the only thing keeping people's CF in place. Without it, we could all just break CF/NAP whenever it was advantageous to do so. As part of ED leadership we could never just in-game CF FS and move on without a former agreement/deal. Doing so would've just been met with reprisal later on when it would be most advantageous for FS to do so. We needed to establish terms. By the last hours of the conflict, near the end, I had become weary of our positioning (i've seen the FS stall tactic done before) I sent Ahlene (who was being sat by Yume) an ingame msg saying we'd accept the CF after they agree to an EoACF. After all, we didn't want to keep looking over our shoulder for the remaining month of the age and by that point you could smell the BS in the air.
a few times in my n00ber years I made the mistake of not getting agreements and the exact same BS play went down. Opponent KD sends CF in game and refuses to negotiate after refusing to war. We take CF and they break it weeks later and go "serves u right for waving us!"