I just love how you try to spin it, but you are only digging yourself a bigger hole as more and more of your words fall further from the truth.
303 have been our allies since server started. they were the only allies that we made back then that actually honored any agreements we made with them. I admitted that some were refugees but am not gonna turn away allies that I have been hoping would eventually join us anyway. besides them the only other refugee we took in was 1 x-havoc member.
If you were such close friends, why did you run into each other's sieges many times? In fact I have a message somewhere from one of your members saying that your relationship wasn't as great as you describe, but rather hostile.
Anyway, Volsung made it clear back then that it didnt matter if we talked to you guys before or after we took in a refugee cause no one should ever take them in. I can look up his exact wording if you want but it was something along the line of it being common practice in grepo for alliances to not take in refugees and to let them all get rimmed.
In case you didn't know, it is not ok to take refugees. And if someone takes them anyway, it is common to send a message informing that alliance about their new member with battle reports as proof. Then it's up to you whether you want to go to war over these refugees or kick them. Sounds reasonable, no?
Then you took in a refugee from S.T.O.R.M which as far as I'm aware is why 303 started attacking as they had been attacking the person before they joined you. So please explain to me how it is ok for MOS to take in refugees but no oe else to?
We were attacking S.T.O.R.M. as well and had information that this alliance would disband. The player in question Bair N did lose 2 cities to 303 before he joined and yes he can be considered a refugee (we did not know it at the time). However, 303 never informed us about the alleged refugee and just started attacking our old members. When we asked why they attacked, they brought up 2 refugees, one of whom joined us weeks ago. That's not very diplomatic. On the other hand we contacted you first regarding 303 issue. Aren't we nice?
Also when we took in that first refugee back then I even offered to treat him as a refugee and give you guys a day or 2 to try and take his city and none of us support him but was tod the only thing that would be accepted is for us to boot him. Would have offered the same thing this time as well but when Volsung mailed me I could tell no atter what I said he was gonna set us red.
So basically you would give us 48 hr to rim several active players with more than 10 cities and loads of gold. You are so generous.
The biggest issue I have is you seem to think its ok for you to do whatever you want but go to war over someone else doing the same thing.
So go ahead and call the ones that joined us refugees. I wont deny that some of them were getting hit and are refugees but dont agree that only your allance should be able to take in refugees. And if you really want to fight us cause I wont boot someone... Then thats fine with me.
The biggest issue I have is you going back on your word and pretending it's ok. It's not. You don't just take in an entire alliance that is fighting us and say "some of them might be refugees, u did it too." That's why you should check the facts by asking for battle reports before you rush to conclusion and start a war. I guess you wanted that war, didn't you?
I did hit a few of your ppl today and you do need to consider booting some of your players. Not because they are refugees, but because they are simmers.