NC crusade vs. STEEL

I'm lost could NC care less or not care less about Twilights.  This important piece of gossip needs to be clarified by NC...

[16:09]<Keikodjin> I'm sure ~NC~ don't care what you think Twilights.

abstractdream wrote: Chaos Armor wrote: I would like to have seen your opinion if everyone had said "Let them have at it." when Aesir had declared war on you. Well, first off my opinion is just mine. If everyone had said "let them have at it" about Aesir attacking TLR, this would be a different game. At the time Aesir's population was 2.5 mil and TLR's was 500k. Currently STEEL has a population of 1.5 mil and NC has 1.4 mil. Those two situations do not seem quite equivilant to me. Maybe my bias is blinding me? How much different would it have been if Aesir had had just one ally in the loop? I suppose one can infer my opinion from my posts at the time but let me just state it here, now: IF the community had left Aesir alone to do as they pleased, I would have done the best I could to fight back. All of TLR would have. I think the results would be easily predictable but Aesir would be much more vulnerable to a similar attack on them after we had taken quite a bit of them down with us. The next step would be for someone with a distaste for GD or HtW or whoever to destroy them. Where it ends, who knows? Aesir declared because they hate EF. The other issues were a smoke screen. It was a simple case of (what Aesir thought was) opportunity. They underestimated the "fair play" mentality of the community. It enlightened me and most assuredly enlightened Aesir. My opinion then was something along the lines of: it is unfair but so what? My opinion now is: so what? I've become quite accustomed to the pile on. I did nothing to warrant loosing a city yet it is gone because I am associated with Illy's resident villain. Again, so what? If Illy were a simple war game with no political aspect, I would not be here anyway. So what?

Chaos Armor wrote: I would like to have seen your opinion if everyone had said "Let them have at it." when Aesir had declared war on you.

Well, first off my opinion is just mine. If everyone had said "let them have at it" about Aesir attacking TLR, this would be a different game. At the time Aesir's population was 2.5 mil and TLR's was 500k. Currently STEEL has a population of 1.5 mil and NC has 1.4 mil. Those two situations do not seem quite equivilant to me. Maybe my bias is blinding me?

How much different would it have been if Aesir had had just one ally in the loop?

I suppose one can infer my opinion from my posts at the time but let me just state it here, now: IF the community had left Aesir alone to do as they pleased, I would have done the best I could to fight back. All of TLR would have. I think the results would be easily predictable but Aesir would be much more vulnerable to a similar attack on them after we had taken quite a bit of them down with us. The next step would be for someone with a distaste for GD or HtW or whoever to destroy them. Where it ends, who knows?

Aesir declared because they hate EF. The other issues were a smoke screen. It was a simple case of (what Aesir thought was) opportunity. They underestimated the "fair play" mentality of the community. It enlightened me and most assuredly enlightened Aesir.

My opinion then was something along the lines of: it is unfair but so what? My opinion now is: so what? I've become quite accustomed to the pile on. I did nothing to warrant loosing a city yet it is gone because I am associated with Illy's resident villain. Again, so what? If Illy were a simple war game with no political aspect, I would not be here anyway. So what?