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[AquaSeaFoam]

I fail to recognize a difference between that act and collecting tax before a conflict or getting a farm war to avoid notice.

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. 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. 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.

You're misconstruing my motives here. Which I think I've made clear over a dozen threads and several ages. Namely that I seek absolute consistency, or absolute anarchy. You're the poster child for arbitrariness disguised as whatever the **** you think you do, and by default find yourself on the other side of me on basically all issues.

But yes I do think you and abs are cancer, and due in large part to your contribution to and complicity in this ridiculous cf climate. I mean among other things over the ages.

Absolutes rarely work. I seek reasonableness.

If you're not aware, Abs disbanded a while back and I had completely quit the game. When I came back to the game and helped found Emeriti, I learned that the game had changed while I was away and my kingdom got beat for the crown by Pyro my first competing age back. The cf climate had gotten much more "extreme" and taxing and land dropping ghettos had become the dominant way to get land. I was behind the times and got beat due to these deals that had become commonplace in my (and Abs) absence.