Question regarding military and diplo actions

The non Allliances player vs player scenario is a matter of balance, imo.

If you militarily confront an equal foe  for a "fair/good" reason [insert definition here] and stop when you have achieved that goal, I would say it is  ok (and I would add "after you have exausted all diplomatic options").
On the other hand, were you pursuing her/his destruction wantonly, just for the lulz of it, then it would not  be ok imo, and I would  probably step in for defense - if  asked  to - after having it discussed with my Alliance.

I  guess  that it could even come to the unlikely point where I'd have to  leave  the Allliance to do  what I would deem as right.

KillerPoodle wrote: Kill them all and let God sort them out.

Rill wrote: If worse comes to worse and your cities get sieged to the ground, you can rebuild or start another account.  Building cities is fun!

Fellow Illy players,

I understand that in Illyriad, the community shuns players who attack newbie players or players of much lower level, i.e. bullying. The community also tends to prefer diplomatic (as in, communication, not diplo units) solution rather than resorting to military actions immediately when conflict arises between players that are part of different alliances. I can see the grounds for those community reactions. As for those are agreeable or not, let's leave them for another discussion.

My actual question however, is : how does the community view military / diplo unit actions between 2 active players that are of somewhat similar level (i.e. not bullying) and not part of alliances (and therefore no alliance-wide wars are involved)? If I want to siege active player X's city due to its good square location for example, or I just want to plunder his stockpile of resources, and player X is not much weaker than me, and player X is also not affiliated with any alliances, will the community still see this in bad light?

Now of course, I understand that player X can ask for help from his in-game friends to protect him and retaliate against the attacks, and I have to calculate for that consequence. However, will the whole Illy bear down on me and witch-hunt me down like what is done towards bullies, seeing such military actions (considering player X's conditions mentioned above) as forbidden, or is this a fair game?

I apologize if this question might be a bit controversial. I just want to get a accurate answer so that it can guide me in my future Illy gameplay. Thank you.



Edited by mizaralcor - 22 Sep 2012 at 04:52