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locket:
it was a topic in which sol had previously insulted us about :P might not have been DH but it happened so pang felt a need to point it out after a couple comments :P
Locket you were the first to mention Laf, to a degree justified, that was on the issue of something someone said in another thread at another time about Laf in a similar often joking way. I would consider what you said to be friendly banter. To be fair most of Pangs post in this thread are fine, but its the same dilemma Mickster (a soler for those in the audience) faced. I believe the problem was the degree of off topicness of all the laf related posts in this thread.
From a sol perspective, we regard Laf as one of the top, if not the top netgaining alliance, that has on many occassions set the path for other clans to adopt agressive pro-netting policies. Is Sol innocent, no, not since we liberalised our policies in 2006 or 2007.
Ultimately its the tragedy of commons, if one clan farms aggressively a resource, then its not a problem, but if everyone does it, then nothing is left. Sol resisted liberalisation of landgrabing policies for quite some time but it got to the point where members said that we are being taken advantage of because we find a good target then its dr'd by other clans, if you don't change the rules we will go to laf.
HAVE NONE OF YOU DONE THE MARSHMELLO EXPERIMENT!!!
If you get a bunch of kids and a bowl of marshmellows, and tell them that they can have as many marshmellows as they want, but the marshmellows will only be refilled if there is at least half a bowl of marshmellows left at the end of each round.
9/10 the children will take as many marshmellows as they can fearing that the others will not follow the agreement, thus depleting the marshmellows.
In terms of Sol landgrabing neutrals more than netting clans I would say thats wrong. To say that Sol kills untags more than netting clans, I'd say thats absurd, except if it was during a chat lead by Makinso, then with that qualification it may be correct.