Respect, asking too much????

 I am fed up with players harvesting on my Sovereignty.  I am about to go on a rampage and start killing harvesters without warning or any chances given.  That isn’t something I like to do or what I want to do but my hand is being forced. I am done being nice and taken advantage of.  Players need to turn on the Sovereignty on the World Tactical Map and LEAVE IT ON!  

I keep hearing the excuses; "I didn't know and I wasn’t paying attention" more and more.  If they don't know then leadership and Global Chat players are failing new players in Illy. This community takes a lot of pride in New Players and have no problem bragging about how much they love them.  If this is so true, then you all need to be guiding them by giving them the basic Charm School education of what is acceptable and what is not.  If you don’t have time to pay attention to where you are sending harvesters to, then you should not send harvesters out!

Training alliances, you have the worst offenders.  Heck even players in your leadership are offenders  You are failing your players if you are not teaching them respect of their fellow players.  I have seen some nasty stuff go down in this game and have even been on the receiving end of some of it.  I am a retired training alliance leader.  I know how hard your job is but you still should be driving home respect of other players every single day.  I still love new players, do not misunderstand me.  I also know how ignorant to the ways of Illy they are.  

I am done being taken advantage of.  From here on out, death will come to harvesters if I catch them still on my Sovereignty.  If I don't, I will want what was harvested/stolen, returned to me.   Leaders get prepared to hear from me.  I will be very direct and no nonsense about this.  I have let the players off with just a warning in the past and have lost out on countless resources because of this.  NO MORE!

Your players will now be required to return what they stole from my Sovereignty according to the amount of harvesters they sent to the spot.  This will not be negotiated.  You would expect the same for your player if they were thieved and you found out who it was.  This is NO DIFFERENT!  Do not give me the excuse to “prove it”.  I am not one that has time to make stuff like this up.  I have no interest in taking the time to forge incidents.  You will see the notification I get of your players trespassing on my Sovereignty.

This is not a diplomatic matter.  This is a matter of respect for another player’s land they have claimed that actually shows on the map.  It is not the imaginary borders that some alliances choose to make as their land claims.  You land claiming alliances will force players to move and go to war over that kind of stuff, but yet do not teach your players to respect another players Sovereignty.  If you find issues with this complaint then your land claims aren't worth the words on the page and everyone should ignore them.  At least my claim shows up on the map.  I am not a war monger and have no desire to be.  I just want what I have rightly claimed.  I do not think that is unreasonable, just as you with your imaginary borders for land claims do not think your land claims are unreasonable.

 As I stated earlier, this will not be negotiable.  I am done being a door mat and going to leadership of alliances that will tell their player "Do not do this again" and not even get my stuff back that was stolen. I shouldn't have to ask for it back either.  Your player is in the wrong, it should be automatic to pay it back, yet leadership just slaps them on the hand and thinks the matter is closed.  Your players will no longer keep the resources they have stolen from my Sovereignty.  They will be returned to me from now on.

If you go inactive (we have ways to see that) do not whine to players that move into your area if you come back.  You choose or your real life took you in a different direction, game play doesn't stand still just because you don't have time to play.  That is what sitters are for to make sure your account shows life.  It takes less than 30 secs to set a sitter. Use them!

Players are more worried about what wars they can get into and who they can destroy next.  I have no interest in that sort of thing.  I do, however, have an interest in not having to deal with harvesting issues.  I am no longer the player that had to be diplomatic to keep her little ones safe.  I will speak my mind and be VERY direct.  There is no diplomacy left in me.  It was burnt out of me while I was leading T? and having to deal with all the ignorance I had to deal with in the 1st server war. Then you add all the issues I have had with players since and my cup runneth over from lack of respect and bad manners of players.  I do not envy anyone in leadership.  I do not want to be in leadership.  I have even asked mCrow to keep me out of leadership because my patience is not just a city and a virtue but is threadbare with the issues. 

Enjoy the discussion.  My piece has been said.  I am not here to discuss this issue.  Do not mail me about this either.  Your opinions on my post are of no interest to me. You all expect your Sovereignty to be respected.  Why would it be wrong for me to expect mine to be?  I am not asking for more than what was taken.  However, will kill harvesters instead of bumping and giving curt warnings that fall on deaf ears for the most part of players and alliance leaders.  I do not see any further discussion that would be valid on this point other than what I have already said! 

 In the words of a former player "STAY OFF MY LAWN!!"

 Thanks!