Mistaken Identity

Diva, perhaps you should check with players like MicroMe.  We have worked out a very peaceful agreement to move a recently settled city within our LC.  She has agreed to exodus into another part of Fellandire outside our claim.  We have worked out an agreement whereby SIN has been sending her resources and supporting her work towards the lvl 20 warehouse (exodus research).  

Edited by Stukahh - 03 Aug 2015 at 18:34

FORTUNE TELLERS GOT NOTHING ON ME!! Somewhere I predicted LC  wouldn't like someone/alliances in the LC ... and forcibly move them. Dear poster of thread... you ain't the only one recently to have this issue.

Edited by Diva - 03 Aug 2015 at 16:43

A very open alliance only works if you are sure you'll never be in a war, never be fighting in a tournament and never have any information which gives you a competitive advantage over others in your game play style of choice.

My experience is that most players (even those stridently self-righteous ones that talk about how disgraceful it is) are fine with spying while it's being done to someone else and especially when they are are benefiting from it.

The mature folk accept it as part of the game, utilize it where they can, defend against it as best they can without letting it consume every waking moment and have fun burning spies when they get the opportunity.

gosh its a silly strategy game, but usually u wipe out spies when u catch them which i am surprised sin isnt doing...but dont relate spying in a game that has features to actually encourage it to be nothing more than fair game play..thats one reason i want sitting and alts limited only within alliance....its too easy to spy in this game and you never know who you are actually chatting to within your own alliance...weak game play i call that and the reason so many use skype and offline mailing which only discourages active play in this game...otherwords too many special clubs and few groups of power brokers controlling the game....but spying is just normal play....kill the account and be done with it!

Being a basically transparent alliance limits the damage that spies can do. From that perspective, the strategy works, independent of ethical considerations.

You may consider it egocentric that I look down on spying in video games. So be it. But spying isn't a play style, it's a deliberate breach of trust among people who treat you as an online friend. The fact that it occurs in the context of a game just makes it more petty, because you are selling out a real human interaction (albeit online) for zero real gain. It's the equivalent of cheating at your weekly poker night with the guys. Can that happen? Yes. But from a social perspective it's bad form to cheat your buddies for a measly $10, and a little disturbing that it would make someone feel clever for getting away with it, in an atmosphere of trust and camaraderie.