flip, you have to be realistic. Who is going to come to the defense of a little family being farmed? No-one is going to do that individually - no offense, but if anyone did it I'd salute them, that would be pure class - in fact they are going to see what other opportunities there are. Two ticks after 663 de-declared against 657, two new families declared, that's on them.
Right now, the illusion of strength of 663 is being punctured, Colour me suprised for example that they've already lost the number one ranking. So the opportunity is there for other families. The bottom feeding argument doesn't really apply when you're taking planets from the #1 family - especially when they've made it clear that if you leave them in your systems, you "deserve" to lose them. So a lot of families may see this as their chance to kick 663 out of their cores.
What else might stop such a thing? Well, to put it simply, if they liked or respected 663, they might say hey let's leave them alone. But here you've got to be kidding, between 663's tactics, insult, and ridiculous swagger, they've mae few if any friends this round. Even now they are all full of it, saying who are you and you'll all play. When the bully gets taken down, nobody feels too bad.
Do I agree with the people taking planets during a war? Depends on where and how many to be honest. But 663 right now is getting a dose of "live by the sword, die by the sword". Except I don't think they are losing many. Now, there's again a chance for them to post reports and actually prove their point for once. Maybe they are losing a lot to vultures, if so it's pretty easy to prove. But maybe, just maybe, they are losing a war to a skilled family fair and square, and their claim of vultures is their attempt to try to explain away that they are getting pwned by a team which would have been the underdog on paper, but is bringing it with old school skill.
I don't know which is which, but so far almsot everything Anub has posted here about which I've had direct knowledge has been grossly inaccurate, and you notice their "debating style", if I can call it that, is: never deal in facts, just insult the other person. So right now 663's claim they are being vultured, well, call me skeptical. They post some reports and show it happening, OK, but frankly just because they say it, I don't believe it. I might from some other players, but they don't get the benefit of the doubt from me at this point.
Like I say, they prove it happening, fair enough. They don't prove it happening, I once again say this is more BS from a dishonourable fam.
Tryp