Actions against Myll of [Wave]

I am still a fairly new player myself and am curious as to when this started, I remembered looking around Elgea just before BL opened and thinking I would never be able to find anywhere to settle and not encroach. I actually wonder whether I would have persevered without BL opening as it seemed nobody had room to breathe.
I have not seen any of the attempted discussions or responses and have no knowledge of Myll's motivations but the lack of room before BL could well have inspired an aggressive approach. In RL I live in a country with an extremely low population density and this desire for my own space definitely transfers to the virtual environment. I offer this observation purely as a new player in the hope that it may shed a little light on possible motivating factors from a new players perspective.
I also suspect that many newer players think Illy is a war game which it really isn't as their is no way to even contemplate conquering even one country with a 10 city limit which gains you approx 200 squares in a world with hundreds of thousands.
When this is taken into account I find the refusal to respond in any meaningful way to the initial requests for talks truly bizarre and self defeating. I find it a lot easier to be nice than antagonistic and the first step in being nice is nearly always communication of some sort. It sounds as if Fairy would be willing to keep the option of discussing a peaceful solution open but is very hard if the other side refuses to talk and I hope that this changes sooner rather than later as communication before the war is always easier than communication after the war but either way it will require communication to end dispute not weapons.
 

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I don't see what the big deal is about.

When WAVE first announced their contempt of the ten square rule, it was made clear that they could do whatever they wanted but they had better have the forces to back themselves up.

In my opinion, the qualities or otherwise of the 10 square rule notwithstanding, when an alliance chooses to deliberately defy a policy without prior arrangement it should be ready for the consequences of those actions. An alliance shouldn't be free to do whatever they want to do without consequences due to size.

TanyaFairy wrote: I just want to make it clear that we are in no way Declaring War over this.

Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned, but razing an alliance leader's cities is typically considered an Act of War. Pushing the big red Declare War button on the alliance screen seems like a mere formality.

Dan, to me this looks more like friction between two alliances who inhabit the same region. WAVE seems to be a new, somewhat defiant group of rookies. Fairy is the established alliance.

Biomoda, you shouldn't be surprised that threatening to squash some newbs (or even just their newb leader) over a minor dispute will draw criticism. I'd speculate that if the conflict is perceived to get out of hand, you could even see action from regional powers to stabilize the situation. WAVE is, after all, only 4% of Fairy's size. This community tends to scrutinize such conflicts, even when the little guys are clearly being abrasive.