[Sombre]

I personally think kingmaking is pretty frickin lame. I'd never do it. I also believe trashing your provinces to spite an attacker is a crappy way to play and giving all of your stuff to an enemy of your enemy because you're going to die is even worse. It leads to the situation where you have people using 'diplomacy' along the lines of 'if you attack me with even a single thing, I am going to throw every single thing I have at you and give all my land/resources to your enemy'. When that happens it leads to turtling because attacking /anyone/ will lead you to a worse position unless you are confident you can beat /everyone/.

I am all for people playing the game the way they want, but people do generally know when what they're doing is crappy (seen as crappy by other people) and if they go ahead and do it anyway, they can't complain when people are mad at them or feign innocence.