As one of the players mentioned by AreWeInsaneYet, allow me to weigh in. Bottomline, I think Jazzepi really said it all a few posts above.
On the specific situation in the Chinchilla game that AreWeInsaneYet refers to, I'll say the following:
- I won't go into the details of who's wrong or right; we had a 'yes-no' discussion on this in the game thread, I guess we just don't agree and for me that's just another instance where diplomacy fails, and that's fine. This goes to the points brought up by Jazzepi that 1) there is always more than one side to a story, and how can others verify if what you claim is true? I certainly and sincerely do not agree with the claims you make, but I can't prove this, apart possibly from the claim about me treating all my neighbours as I allegedly treated you - this could be discarded by my neighbours although I wouldn't want to ask them to get involved in this discussion, and 2) there is no way to appeal. Even if you were right in this instance (which I think you are not
, the type of thread you are suggesting could be abused.
- I will say that a lot of what went wrong was due to miscommunication between our nations, partly due to the lag in the messaging system which I had to get used to - this is my first MP game. While I apparantely haven't been able to convince you of this, the things that did go wrong (for the record, again, this did not even involve breaking any NAPs), were non-intentional. I also did send you a message to apologize for that early on.
- We had (and are having) some fun fighting in the game ever since diplomatic talks were abandonded - although I am clearly on the losing side I am learning some lessons and still enjoying the game. If you're looking for revenge I'd say you're getting plenty by kicking my @ss ingame.
Given all of the above, I do find it a bit much for you to come and trash my name and reputation on a public forum. Very easy too, as there is little I can do to defend against it.
I would prefer we'd solve this by getting into a new game together. We'll fight honorably, I will win
and we can forget about all this.