jack you go from generalizing to specifying. I'm just saying not everyone who has turns stocked are bad people.

There's people who intentionally stay behind to get big retals. I don't do that, it just works out that way because i batch explore to 10k before i attack and i don't really start playing until friday when the market's stable and i have time.
I know old man intentionally play behind at least a couple hundred turns every set because he stockpile turns. Maybe not for retal, and probably more of jumping net at the end. And the other reason probably because he's intentionally staying out of t10 since he felt the heat of being topfed before.

Techers have to keep spending all turns to get max price before prices crash.

Yes, viva is an obvious camp and retal strat.

My retal policy is max gains. By the time i stop exploring, there are at least 3 hits on me. Whoever is around my net, i hit and continue to retal until all retals are made. If you are half my net then i will sell everything to drop net and retal you. I'm not being greedy but a 300 acres hit on me while i'm tech starting at 3800 acres is going to set me back about 30 turns so i maybe hit you back for 800-900 acres but it's definitely fair.