Let me first state that our chances of crowning were low (not zero) prior to you having your cows razed by some random ghetto. I rated the chances of winning as 25% against you guys. But the plan that Pyros has was simple at that point in time, b2b war with AMA and CR... No matter how low our chance was, we were determined to try, and fail if neccessary. Even kees (1 of the more reputable and respected players in pyro) said that he would have wanted to war ama, win ama and then probably lose to cr as cr had played a 'good diplo' age.
When your cows got razed by the external ghetto, I would say our chances of wining you guys rose to 75%. As we were 5v3 up there in the cow wars, and then a b2b with havoc is still massively disadvantageous, but we could still try for it. odds have improved. once again, even if we were to be farmed by cr after beating you guys, i can guarantee you that Pyros didnt mind that. And for those that say we have 0 chance for a b2b, it is not true. There are some setup comparative advantage over CR and we would need to exploit it post AMA war. I cannot share what would be a good setup vs CR now as we may be warring later in the age.
So after AMA knew their chances were messed up because they had ghetto problems, you guys held a vote on what to do. This is when Elit approached me saying that he suggested to AMA what he intends to do, and then you guys would vote on a decision. He told me he's going to offer 'acres for cf' and possibly let Pyro overtake CR. I dont care what AMA is going to do after this offer 'acres for cf'. All I know is that Elit telling me that I could either A) take those acesr B) AMA will intra-raze. And Elit said that if we dont take A, he will do B and pyros is ****ed because we needed a war with AMA to even have a small chance to war CR.. And Nesta&me knows this.
So now, Pyro's only small chance of crowning 'legitly' is being taken away because AMA decides not to war us.. their rationale for not warring us was because they said that even if they win Pyro, they would have 0 chance against cr, and they hate cr and dont want cr to crown. So, I dont know what's the right choice.. I can tell you there were people in pyros that were upset if option A) were to occur.. and we were like wtf? we got to take it or else we're ****ed?
In addition, I told Elit repeatedly that Pyro would prefer to war AMA and not take this 'acres for cf', but if AMA were to not war us and fsu CR, we would have to choose A which is to take this 'acres for cf'.
I mentioned that I preferred to war AMA several times in our conversations and I can provide logs. So it's either AMA's hatred for CR is really very very deep, or they knew they couldnt win a 1v1 with Pyro then. Or maybe a combination of both.
Yes, perhaps we might made an incorrect decision by not speaking to Drixx or other notable figures in utopia for their opinion on how we should have proceed then. If the community thinks we should be action-ed for this, do let us know.
Fast forward several days later, and you guys decided to deal break cr. If you had read
http://forums.utopia-game.com/showth...9#post15279469 , you would know that Nesta & Me do agree that CR has some fault running up to this deal-break, but AMA definitely did a greater crime by clearly deal breaking and ****playing. I mean, come on, even you guys know what you did was wrong.
If we were to not take part in this gb, it means that we are indirectly supporting AMA action CR. And we do not condone this dealbreaking action. Even if AMA were to have a grudge with CR and wanted to settle with CR 1v1, your leadership+core members of AMA had differring opinions on what to do post 1v1 war. Some said that they would intra raze the acres, some said they would not. Some said they did this to 'punish' CR, some said they didnt mind crowning from this etc etc.
Even if Pyros were to trust your word and that you would intra-raze etc, I doubt the rest of the kingdoms partaking in this gb currently would trust you guys. And in the event that you guys go back on your word, you would be huge at 240k acres vs Pyros at 180k acres. With at least 3x 20k+ cows... I dont think any kingdom would be comfortable with this -> needing to trust AMA on their word (when AMA's leadership and senior core members had differing views on their post war plans). By then, it's going to be too late and it's going to be super hard to enforce anything on AMA at all. It would take at least 10x the effort now. No one knows what's going to happen in 1.5 weeks, and whether the kingdoms taking part now will take part then, and the conditions of these kingdoms then too.
Lastly, if you were to take a single sentence from our logs, I'm sure it can be misinterpreted out of context. What that statement meant was that for the gb to be successful, I believed CR only needed Pyros. Other kingdoms joining in definitely makes the job easier, and also gives out a shared common stance on this situation.
I have no wish to bear any grudges with you guys, but if you want to hold a grudge on Pyros, I cannot stop you. I already shared my viewpoints at
http://forums.utopia-game.com/showth...9#post15279469 that you guys had reason to be pissed, but Pyros not acting now shows that we advocate your deal-breaking.
-cJ