Pay back

[Zeon]

Indeed

[Mordack]

In this newfound spirit of exaggerated victimhood, I will be available via private message should anybody want to retroactively overcompensate me for any hits which have occurred over the last decade so.

[caesar2]

Repayments... Zeon, who asked you to repay and why?

[harchester]

Make them repay - mass them - don't repay them - if they moan mass the alliance

[D3ath]

Make them repay - mass them - don't repay them - if they moan mass the alliance

ahh the first smart words from u in a long time

[harchester]

Make them repay - mass them - don't repay them - if they moan mass the alliance

ahh the first smart words from u in a long time

what you talking about...i was the one who taught you this!!

[~Odin~]

The first player to mass me in this game (late 2006) was a well known and popular alliance-leader of the past, famed for his very aggressive stance which led his alliance into many many wars. He massed me because I had been silly enough to take a planet from a friend of his (not in his alliance). He had a talk with my friends, we explained our responses and his choices, following this he agreed to pay a compensation package to cover most of my losses. I was happy and no-one else got massed.

The moral of this story? Repayment of damages has always been a way to resolve hostile situations and prevent further conflicts. The choice is usually simple, you repay what you took from me, or I take everything you build for the next XXX months/years. In the vast majority of cases, it's far cheaper to choose the repayment plan rather than the ongoing war. And that's without factoring in escalation to the point of alliance/empire wars.

I probably can site a hundred or more examples of where reimbursement has been used to resolve conflicts in this games history. It is one of the key diplomatic tools on both sides of a table and it's uses or refusals to use have been influential in starting and ending wars, keeping peace and even the rise and fall of alliances and empires.

~Norbe~

Well said.