Quote Originally Posted by drkzeraga View Post
Sure but I think your example is a little misleading. Let use a more fair example instead:

Both Amy and Bob are players of identical skill level, who are both unwilling to wake up in the middle of the night to attack.
The only difference is Amy pays for someone to sit for her, while Bob doesn't.
End result: Amy's army attacks, Bob's doesn't.

Can you understand that from Bob's perspective, Amy just basically used a p2w feature?

Also on a tangent, "having someone else log your account in Utopia" is against the rule, but having someone log your province isn't? Why is that so? What's the difference between the 2 actions if the in-game benefits are the same? Just because one's an in-game feature makes it ethically ok?
Your definition of p2w is wrong. For it to be p2w it must both offer an advantage and the mechanic/item must not be available to a non paying player. Anything that can be obtained by a non paying player by just playing cannot be p2w, by definition.