Quote Originally Posted by kamikazewave View Post
"Dirty" tactics? Give me a break. They were part of the game. There's nothing "dirty" about using an aspect of the game the the fullest.

The only time a tactic is "dirty" is when its legality is questionable or unfair to other players. Any player can medal farm.

Just because a player is good at dominating his territory it doesn't mean the player has to be spending large amounts of cash. Just like spending large amounts of cash doesn't make you good, or even dominating sometimes.

Your characterization of Confederacy as opposed to Empire makes me laugh. All alliances worth their salt has their borders, and makes sure that no one inside their borders is an enemy of their alliance. An alliance that tells people that they won't do anything bad to them even if they're part of another alliance in the middle of their territory is just an alliance of weak farms without any leadership or teamwork at all.
Hey the Byzantine Empire isn't an alliance of weak farms! It really isn't that hard to bring your neighbors into your alliance, especially early on in a servers life when many people aren't in an alliance yet, which is what I did.

We have our borders, and enforce our rule within them, but we let people stay who aren't in the Empire. Please do give him some credit for this, it is a very good work.

And while yet they were part of the game, I did not farm medals or anything similar because I felt they were dirty and underhanded. Different people have different codes of honor.