Things I do that I don't feel bad in the least about:
1) I don't attack certain countries based on knowing the owner and being friendly with them. (rarely this comes up but it does)

2) I look at my D allies military status (so you can see how many jets they sent to break a guy and use this to find good targets...based on how my allies grab I'm sure they do the same thing...this can often make it "look" like coordinated attacking)

3) I attack a player who has been hit by other players (often allies) in part b/c I know he can't retal all of us. I don't ever discuss this with anyone, but a quick looking at the news you see it's very common for the top dogs to hit a country and then a day or two later one or two other t10 countries do and a week later the country has been blasted 10+ times.

4) Sharing ops. I get/send messages like #xxx has no D allies on occasion every reset.

My larger point is I think that this is a complicated game, where playing for yourself can lead to this greyish area behavior. My personal opinion on "spirit of the game" is that no player should be playing with the intent to let another player win. Any other goal is legit be it to win yourself, to keep player X from winning, or to keep the entire server under 50k acres all set.

What do you all think?

I usually attack some buddies, but not on purpose.... Just because I'm too stupid to remember all their country names. Lol. I try not to.

I think everyone has gotten target tips through viewing ally brigades or watching news to see who gets hit and can't Retal.

I have shared good target info sometimes with allies in the past, not for many sets though. Don't want to take the chance at a deletion for something so stupid. Usually you end up spying them again to make sure anyways so it really is useless to do since you can already see in your allies brigades what eachother sent. It's not really that advantageous unless it's not your ally your sharing with, or you have someone doing ops directly for you or something. That would be pretty bad.

If your ally uses OAs, you will regret not spying as I have found out mostly in Express though. Regardless, I typically will spy for myself as I find my allies really oversend well past the break when they hit and I like to save on oil.

I don't attack my "friends" less because they are my friends and more because I fear the retal. When I typically retal I always bring the pain (I have a fetish for weapons tech and military strat tech) and "friends" have been known to PM me their country #s just so that we do not interact in that way :-).

Reasonable posts so far. I also think it's probably best to keep info that took you a turn to get to yourself but most people have probably shared a hot tip now and then..

a little less reasonable: http://www.eestats.com/primary/country/143

At least the permanent country:country ghost DR kept that from being worse, otherwise the guy would have like 60k land.

Teamplay, to me its spotting a person that's randomly causing chaos to people trying to net or getting ahead via cheating, rounding up a posse and take em out :D

KoH is on my team. Don't trust him.

You can't ever trust me :p

i have been sending an o allie to the commies i see grabbing and think it could be "the big one" for the set. I use them to keep my jet count down so i can spend more money on defense and growing my economy. also it prevents them from attacking me. so cause i use o allies for personal gain is that team play?

Nope it's smart play.

Yup, that's smart play. Unfortunately for you there are almost always more than 3 good CIs.

lol ya i try to d allie them too

but when three commies link up - who can stop them?

hmm... good point. Who's also playing commie/ indy next set ;)

You'll be fighting eachother to use the jets.

yes that does happen a lot - fighting to use jets, some days you retal, some days you let it go and bottom feed

I find someone pisses me off way too early in the set so I end up leveling them. Since it's supposed to be a standalone server as much as I do teams is the folks I'm allied to. Half the time I end up killing folks who hit them anyway.

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