Sanskrit - The Art of War
Attack the enemy when they are at their weakest.
You like to take this game seriously, so things will get dirty, thats how war can get fought, and it is done so to win. If you can't handle it, go play something else that does not deal with war or fighting.
If our base gets attacked and destroyed when I'm not online, then gosh darnit, we'll take it back when we get online.
We used to have a base in 2ho, fought for 2 days to keep it then we said screw it, it wasn't worth fighting over that land every single day. So build where you can defend it. AND like how so many others say, if you can't defend it, then don't build it.
If you build it, they will come, and they won't send a tell to everyone in your org to find out if your online or not. Theres been a time when we went to attack a base and no one showed up to defend it, so we still destroyed it. Honorable were we? Honorable to the clans we were for destroying another of Omni-teks Notum facilities. We were lucky that no one showed up, we didn't know if they were online or offline, didn't bother to ask them, and would have NEVER asked them. Thats like telling your enemy your plans.
And on a side note, if the sun was made of cheese, would you eat it?
Re: Attacking for the Sole Reason that Someone is Offline is Dishonorable Play
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Originally posted by Sanskrit
I believe this issue is important, and so am starting a separate thread from the "reset land control areas" thread that it originated in.
I believe that to attack towers for the primary reason that you know the tower owners are offline and not likely to come online soon is at best dishonorable play, and at worst, cheating.
Go ahead and tell me again that this straw man is not your position when you absolutely said that it was.
It's never going to be cheating. Ever. It will never be against the code of conduct.
If a guild based in Japan decided to attack a tower I placed during what would be their prime playing hours, bully for them. They should not have to alter their play because I am not online, and they would be able to easily find out if I was likely to be online. It's not wrong. It's not cheating. Their enjoyment of the game/playing experience should not be curbed based on someone's need for sleep. The same applies for all players.
Your "belief" is flawed. You were the one that brought up cheating.
It seems to me most of what you call "straw men" in this thread are really the presentation of the personal codes of honor or ethics of other players as honor and ethics pertains to the attacking of land control towers in this game.
They want to play it like Machiavelli. It really doesn't matter why, as long as they don't lose sleep over it.
Furthermore, REAL war does NOT justify anything you can get away with, or think you can get away with.
Many countries on this earth have made a show of creating and following a set of "rules" for warfare, such as chemical and biological weapons should not be used, or that .50 caliber machine guns can only be used against equipment, not personnel (are uniforms worn by personnel still equipment?).
Edit: Iraq allegedly used Sarin against its Kurdish population. What were the repurcussions? Is the same ruler still in power? Did their economy suffer from sanctions any more than it already had from previous sanctions? Whomever made the decision to use it got away with it with nothing more than a scolding, despite international agreements (likely not entered into by Iraq) not to use nerve agents in "war."
No one has to agree with your sense of honor, ethics, or fair play. They only have to abide by the actual rules of the game.