I would like to add, in regards to the comments regarding cross-retalling, that I hit exactly one country, and was thereafter hit by two different tags. Don't come to me claiming that there wasn't any cross-retalling; I'm not as angry about the fact that it happened as I am about the fact that we just fought a war about this, lost it, and were told that it shouldn't happen, only for someone else to do it and not get called out.

CHEESECAKE. Pie is for throwing.

I'm not sure that honor has a place in a game that let's you blast people with nukes for no reason.

More seriously, I've never played Utopia before, and don't know anything about it. However, I also don't care for the idea of declaring war only after a certain number of hits have been made against you. What ever happened to the age-old tactic of preemptive strike?

While the idea sounds interesting, is there no reason that this can't be tested in its own server first? I don't pretend to know the details of setting up new servers, so this could easily be a lot more problematic than I think it is, but I shiver at the idea of another massive rule change within four sets or so of the last one. While I understand that you don't like the similarities between this server and Alliance, I don't think that pulling the rug out from under those that continued to play Team because it was the former Alliance server is really the way to go.

Of course, I don't know who else agrees with that sentiment, and I have a sinking feeling there aren't many who do anymore...