Regarding the upcoming changes to neutrality

I'm trying to decide if you're genuinely interested or just asking for carte blanche to start attacking other people's caravans when everyone posts that they don't consider it an act of war...   :)

More seriously, FWIW I don't think people will be going to war over one resource skirmish but as with all competition - some people will go over the top, things will escalate and a dead caravan today might result in a siege tomorrow.

This thread is on how to handle upcoming mechanics, theft mechanics are already in place and haven't caused any friction or problems other than what is to be expected, as such I see no reason to discuss this here.

Diablito wrote: As we all know, next week anyone can attack anyone unless a peace treaty is in place. This I expect will cause quite a bit of confusion, and so I thought we could toss up a thread and discuss how we all feel about it. I am currently leaning towards the following policy. * Military attacks on towns count as acts of war * Caravans bumping caravans count as market rivalry * Military attacks on caravans count as market rivalry To put short, military actions taking place on the map and not in the towns, is in my opinion not an act of war, though it might obviously encourage retaliation against ones own occupied resource nodes, caravans and such. What are the opinions of the other alliances? Let's be honest, these things will happen, and a game where nobody fights at all will become dull, but then again..who wants a power struggle this early? The winner (me clearly) would become rather omnipotent and thats just no fun.

I think you mean impotence.