saadht I've already posted a few times about the specifics, which I'm sure you've seen before, so I'll try to keep it brief because this is a busy day for me.
I believe your so-called "strategy" of "planning" to boost/feed other kingdoms of the conspirators came about as a lame excuse for inactivity. I first saw some players proposing that "maybe this is the plan", then slowly but surely it became "this was the plan". Yet, your "plan" doesn't make any sense.
What's the point in halting "the plan" for days and doing nothing? No login, no building anything, no techs, no troops. Those kingdoms had 500k to 1 million gold just sitting in them, totally abandoned.
And yet, we're to be led to believe "this was the plan"... The plan is to have a highly coordinated plan that's strategized down to the tick... And then walk away for 2 days - we can come back and finish the plan some other time, maybe next week, or next month, or who knows.
Not only that, but at least one of your conspirators was on the forum from day 1 complaining about what I said "as long as they're real players", saying he is not planning to play because of work... Well, I guess it was a bad idea to employ someone in "the plan" that only planned to play until protection was over and then quit - don't really care what the excuse is, facts is facts.
As for "why cli made it easier", we discussed all those points before your stunt, we discussed those points during the cli vote. You kept saying you had "some big point to make", NOW after your stunt was blown to shit you're just reiterating the points that we had already discussed weeks ago? That's pretty dumb, big waste of time. Obviously you could get an inconsequential amount of more protection time with cli in place, and it would inconsequentially reduce the difficulties of setup by -1 castle pass. Does that negate the benefits of CLI in any way? No, not at all.
- The functional multis, as already covered extensively in other threads. I don't care if the rule isn't written, there's such a thing as the spirit of the law.
- I doubt it. It's more likely he logged in and started activity after the hammer dropped. In any case, I don't feel sorry for a conspirator of multi activity getting swept up in multi punishment. You're lucky your own account didn't get wiped.
- Why would they need huge stockpiles of resource accumulated from inactivity, and why wait several days after castle boosting 1 player, why not continue the chain ASAP which makes more sense so you can gain more of a lead over other players? Why stop researching tech, exploring lands, building the kingdoms? Why, why, why.
Ultimately, you guys had the choice to just play the game and try to have fun and continue helping the growth/development of Thardferr. Instead you guys chose to throw a fit, I guess thinking if you cried enough about it you'd get your way? Everyone involved did a huge disservice to Thardferr, wasting so much time, and look - it was all for nothing.
On the plus side we did learn one very important thing from the fiasco = if we ban trolling/disruptive players, the remaining player base and forum turns into a very positive and welcoming environment 😉
