New Kinda Noob game Starting

[mockingbird]

I jumped the gun earlier in this game when I assumed that Ragnar's Wolves was fully cognizant of his actions, when as it turned out he was merely clueless. I wished not to repeat my mistake.

If I sounded rude or curt, I apologize. Sleep and time have been very short for me lately. My posts were intended to be a courtesy; I'm sorry if they fell short.

At any rate, nothing I've said hasn't already been gone over in any of a number of threads about NAPs on this or the other forum.

As for MonkeyParadise, and not getting jumped for casting Arcane Nexus and Forge of the Ancients:

1) When I cast those spells, I only had a NAP with one of the four remaining players (Allium). Of the others, one was already at war with me, and another had declared hostile intent. I checked in advance in general terms to make sure that Allium would be okay with my actions. Since I was a bit vague about what I was going to do, I wouldn't have a problem if Allium changed strategy and decided to jump me, however.

2) I was at war with the (still) leading nation in the game, who was twice my size. Without those spells I would have been crushed. So really, the major reason I wasn't ganged up on immediately was that people were more afraid of the game leader.

3) The game leader then cast Astral Corruption, which massively irritated all the other players.

Mockingbird

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