I have been trying to smooth out an issue between my Alliance and an ally. Apparantly we joined the server late and one of my guys ended up in a spot where one of our allies had set up their farms. As you can imagine this guy tried to claim all of the flats in the area so my guy cannot create his own farms.
My guy being the profiteering ******* that he is, rolled with it. He built his ballistas and started farming the preexisting npcs. So a week later our host recieves a message from their host. ZOMG you guys are hitting OUR npcs.
Alright before we go anywhere. What color is on the npc flag? It is most definately not the pastel blue that friendlies are. it is black. the troops garrisoning it are npcs. That means the city belongs to the server, the resources belong to the person that harvests it.
In real life once we hit adulthood we realise that you cannot lick something and expect it to be yours like in childhood. Dude spread like creep across the land expecting his neighbors not to hit these npcs he placed all around them, preventing their own growth. Whatever.
You possess something in this game through force of arms and mutual agreement, not because you put them there. So I decided to negotiate with them. I looked at the cities in question and told the guy claiming the cities that I suggest we draw a line halfway between the two players in question and that any city he loses I will replace around the origional claimants other city 2 for 1. For whatever reason this dude refuses. I told him, "Fine, then things stay how they are now. contact me when you see reason." I told my guy to farm the crap out of dude's npcs.
From what I can tell his alliance doesnt want to break our agreement over him. They got war decced by the most powerful alliance on our server and we backed them up. It just amazes me that people think the npc's belong to them. what are your feelings on this matter?





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