[Beck]

Well, I'm not sure I can explain it any better than I already have. And okay I'd expect you to be curious and maybe peeved too. And I'm trying to answer you. I wasn't implying someone was told to go to war. But the fact that alliance has no rules of any kind any attack made by any member can effect all the members of the alliance. There are any number of examples on the CN forum (and perhaps I let them color my thinking too much) where an attack similiar to one Renegade13 made that almost involved the Legion did involve someone like the Legion, well, if it had all the members of the alliances would have been facing the maximum number of wars for as long it took to make us ZI. A prospect I'm sure I found more distateful than you do. With no rules to separate what is approved by the alliance and not approved, many of the other alliances will take that such an attack was approved by the alliance. One of my fears, founded or otherwise, given my reading was given the number of tech raids we were conducting and on targets to me that were increasingly risky (there's a reason behind why an unaligned nation is receiving a million in aid, and to me it usually means the sender is not going to be happy with you and if its an alliance it could mean trouble). WP isn't set up to handle that from what I see. How many aagreements does WP have with other alliances? Does WP even have diplomatic relations with anyone? These things would help in times of misunderstandings. With nothing in place, if someone were to go rogue as say attack the Goons, what do you think would happen? You have no agreement in place to disavow such an event. There are many small alliances that think very much like you do. War is the Game as far as CN goes. The WEPA comes to mind. Even when the five alliances took it to defend the unaligned nation I mentioned earlier. WEPA said basically bring it on, we love a good fight, even if it was they couldn't win and even if it meant they were ZI'd. Even they have rules as to what is acceptable behavior. Without it in times of crisis how can you have meanful conversations with potential adversaries? It wasn't anything I saw happening as much as what I saw could happen. When I went to bed last night the first time, I couldn't sleep for thinking what if I wake in the morning and we're in a war with the Legion over a tech raid. It distrubed so much I went back online and made the move to BTA. It was probably sooner than I would have liked and certainly less smoothly at this end than I would have liked. For that I apologize.

edited to correct word meanings.