I would like the advice of forum readers on an issue.

I gather I'm not the first to experience this. I'm quite irritated (VERY rare).

I just had a discussion with a 7k prestige vice host, after mailing the other 5k prestige vice host, after one of them mailed me. It seems that a member of my training alliance attacked one of their members. They are a very small alliance. I assume my training alliance member hit them just to try out an idea, or something he learned. The small alliance has 9 members. My training alliance, and DaFallen, have an exemption that they can hit small alliances with few members, as we do not recognize them as legitimate. Once they grow past a certain point, it is against our rules to hit them outside of a war declaration.

I received a mail that one of MY members had repeatedly hit their alliance. So, I searched back 150 pages and found no hits on said alliance by DaFallen. I then had a DaRising member review the last 60 pages of their war reports. ONE attack found. After responding to that vice host on how to approach larger alliances, and how to accurate voice a complain/request, I advised him on how to easily avoid further attacks (more than the ONE already).

What ensued, is a 15min whisper chat with the other vice host begging for friendly status, to prevent further attacks. He has allegedly previously played on Server 2... so you'd expect he understands the game well.

After realizing I was not going to set his alliance to friendly, simply because any alliance where the prestige of the two vice hosts total 12k is a joke, he then proceeded to threaten to report all my members for harassment... all of them... without true and just cause.

So I guess my question to forum readers, and hosts, is this:

If you encounter a situation where you have a discussion with an alliance representative who says something like this (invented example):

"We'll have to report all your players now for harassment since we feel we're being harassed! Since you can't give us respect as human beings - you expect us to have more members... you are dictating how we play and that is harassment"

how would you react? I'm hoping Evony wouldn't be silly enough to entertain such reports, but considering their tendency to suspend before investigating, this could become, if it isn't already (I've read reported cases already) a very serious issue.

I'm inclined to annihilate the threatening member, and not least of all for him repeatedly calling me a jerk, while asking for friendly status.

So... set to friendly? ignore? attack?