(hang wails) "The community is unhappy! Oh; woe; woe to the community! Our God's are Human!"
*sigh* It's ugly; unkind; unwarranted; unseemly.. all kindsa 'un's' can be applied.
DATA POINT: Spying and spies are part of the game. I could not begin to cataloge the number of times I've recieved unsolicited tactical info on what an opposing country is doing or about to do. I'd be lying thru my teeth if I said I had not acted on that info in some circumstances.. including tracking down and recapturing one of our 'missing' fleets..
DATA POINT: The various sides have been grabbing and hiding the other sides toys ever since it became possible to do so. I interpet all of the above as 'part of the game'.
DATA POINT: Some folks take this game a heluva lot more seriously than others do, and some of our players obviously need to take a vacation every once in awile, lest they begin to take themseves too seriously also.
DATA POINT: Had the FDB's pulled either the spy scam, or the resultant cross-country hop and boat snatch, we would be roundly villified here and on-line; we would have enjoyed immensely the resultant whining and bleeting cries of "foul play!!", and then gone on our merry way, finding other clever and unusual ways to go about busting virtual chops and kickin over yer virtual garbage cans, swiping yer virtual hubcaps, shootin yer virtual chutes and generally makin yer miserible too-serious virtual game lives interesting.
Frankly; my reaction to Rips intelligence coup was admiration... and my reaction to Cit's snatching of the knit boats was amazement... That took some balls.
So; we get a 'tit fer tat' goin, and as a result Cit and Rip get into a 'this 'n that' and then everybody gets horrified. A clue fer yah all... mayhaps we are overreacting to the prime incidents that set this thread in motion. A GAME gents. It's a GAME.
On the other hand.. personal attacks and wheelchair commentary are NOT what we woulda put on an FDB agenda; and I was pained and sorry to hear that that occured also. Most regrettable that part. I hope it ain't what it sounds like...
Rip.. you not very long ago pointed out that the player base could be counted on to exploit the game's features.. yah both proved that well enuff.
Lets all shake hands, shake our heads, and get on with the game, shall we?
Hang
