Topic: 5820 vs 5805
I'm sure 5804 would have declared too, but 19 still has a declaration on us.
Here's a brief timeline:
19 raids one of our bankers, we pnap immediately. There's no way we can fight them, so we agree to compensate additionally. In order to get those planets, we explore and we begin fighting 12 and 98 (12 fought us early in round and slowed our growth, so they had it coming a bit).
We were having fun with 98 and then Fenix (05) fig runs my attacker Weasel and clears some shares. So when Weasel is rebuilt, we retake and bust some portals of his and some other members (8, confirmed by Teddy in a msg). Eight shares. 05 retaliates with 04 and miniraids a banker of ours, then declares war.
I will now add in that at the start of the round, I went to 05 and asked for a pnap. I told them that I had zero intention of attacking them this round (especially Spam, who I try to play with every round and am good friends with), but Teddy would not give me a pnap. I was told my multiple fam members in 05 that we would not be targeted. I idled in their chat, told jokes, had fun, and now this. I guess Teddy never did say that he wouldn't attack, but I guess I expected some courtesy to the guy that was your main infra builder in the 2 previous rounds that you won in MW. Needless to say, I am mad.
The lesson to noobs, veterans, etc is this: if someone doesn't sign a pnap with you and people make deals under the table instead, they always mean to kill you later. We're an SS fam - Nightwish and I have operated mostly independently from everyone else in our fam. We give advice, we encourage teamplay amongst our noobs and we aid them/we are aided if needed (when I was raided by 01, my fam was kind enough to give me planets and cash to rebuild. I have done the same for them.) In the end, there is no way to play nice in this game. Teddy feels a need to increase his planet count so that he can beat his chest at the end of the round and say "look at us, we had a great round!" Well that's fine, but you're the reason why this game is dying. Our fam had a good thing going on: we don't have an ally, yet we've fought fairly well to protect our expo'ed planets and we've skirmished well (and cut our losses when bigger fams come "farming"). I am now once again contemplating retirement at the end of the round because there is simply no way for middle-tier families to co-exist in IC anymore. You are either top 5 or you will be farmed. I tried a tactic with Nightwish this round where we diplo'ed first and tried to pnap fams that we knew we could not beat. I actually mirrored the Torqez/Genesis strat from a couple rounds ago. We were doing fine, and now we are not.
Take what you want 05/04. We cannot mount a defense against a 2v1 that you've clearly prepared for. I'm just disappointed that the "deal" that I thought I made with some old buddies of mine is destroyed when the need for planets arises.