to reply to your points in order middle:
1) "but then immediately warring (and eventually hacking) as soon as it had ended" - you put hacking together with warring, and therefore implied it as an active action of mine or my fam's. if someone in my alliance did hack you, it was not known to any other player in the alliance and it was certainly not something i wanted. the rest of the round was boring bar the last week.
2) the ss guy in my fam that i couldnt control was dang. i could not control him becos he had far more fleet than me ashe was one of those ss players that likes to keep a huge fleet. even if his fleet had been smaller, i dont believe in forcing players to do as i want when they arent working as part of the fam anyway. as i said above, my philosophy for playing a game like this is for everyone to have fun. it is suggested that you work with the other members of your fam as a team mates, but nowhere in the rules of the game does it make it obligatory. ppl have a right not to participate in the dealings of the rest of the fam if they so wish. i'm not gna punish sum1 for not following my leadership, and im not gna force him or her to leave. Who am i to decide who gets to play and have fun and who doesnt'?
3) i didnt say you were suiciding. i dont care if you war us, but seeking revenge (expecially for sumthing for which i am not responsible) 2 rounds later is ridiculous.
this isnt a fair or fun war, and that is why i currently resent the players who started it. perhaps you are unware as i didnt see your face around here after your deletion, but we did lose that round in a fair war to 58(noir/jag/broker etc if u dont remember the numbers). and it was a fair war. both sides knew it was coming as it happened in the last week of the round, both sides had similar savings and both sides (i think) had alot of fun. there was a slighty problem with timing as iggo was on holiday until the day after war started, and then a couple of ppl had net problems during the cancellation time, including me lol, but all in all it was nothing 58 knew or could have done anything about. This war on the other hand cannot in my eyes be called 'fair' in the sense that you guys beating us cannot prove definitively that you have greater skill than us (rather than not fair in the sense of sumthing being honourable or not). when we made the nap i asked to put a date for the war, or at least a 'do not cancel before such a date' becos i knew it would make any war we had much more enjoyable. but instead i got lies about another cancel war already planned, then when i found that was untrue i got some lies about kagar going on holiday. you had twice the savings we had which already gives you a ridiculously huge advantage. but another reason for our lack of enthusiasm in this war is the fact that every one of my drafts, and some of my randoms too i believe, is in the middle of exams, including me. kagar and glue both knew i had exams, and yet they cancelled anyway, and at 7am in the morning no less, totally screwing up our sleep patterns at the worst possible point in the year. oh and then there's the fact that glue and kagar specifically waited til the weekend orbit went away for his charity cycle across France. im not calling you dishonourable for doing this, but i AM telling you to stop boasting about winning this war as if it were some great achievement.
your leaders were given the chance to make the big alliance war of the round a fun, interesting and, most importantly for you it seems, a fair war, but they didn't want it. there's nothing wrong with that. if you wanted to win the round then great, you did what was needed. but if you wanted the right to boast that you beat us in a fair war and are therefore better players, then you should have let it be a fair war. in other words, you chose the easy route that will win you the round but nothing more, over the more difficult route that would prove for many rounds to come who does and does not have skill.
