***Oh good it wasn't me phew. And yes like Serp said, this isn't alliance server. A "retal" is not an obligation or a rule of the game, hence for a non-political server like primary it's defined by each person.***

Think of an alliance as a country. Do you think there are alliances that have never failed to make a retal.

***As the person doing the "retal", it's smart to hit someone who's hit you once back anytime during the reset (call it a retal, call it a LG, it's irrelevant) because it puts them at the position you're in.***

How is this different from alliance again?

***As the person doing the initial LG, you understand this risk when you make the hit. This is a war game, and on primary there are no politics, anything goes whether you think it's "fair" or not. Heck someone can choose to eff up somebody else's reset for absolutely no reason if they want, it's not illegal, it's life. If you can't play without tag protection or in an anything goes environment then stick to alliance server.. or play farmville.***

And this is different on the alliance server, how? I'm pretty sure there are no alliances that choose to bully others. Doesn't happen. Also, see this set's Monsters vs Imag war.