For some players like me, diplomacy is essential to my style of play. I wouldn't rule it out so quickly. Your style of play may be different, but that doesn't mean that the other guys isn't alright also.
People playing the way they want to play and having fun should be encouraged, not have people like you who think that everyone has to play the same way saying how stupid it is to research different researches.
Like here:
I could tell you how stupid you are for researching cryptography, but I can appreciate that you play differently than I do.
I
never used the word
'Stupid' nor did I call anyone
'Stupid', it was my opinion
Playing differently is another story, for example some people use biremes to snipe some go with Land units (Regardless of wall thing), some players balance their offence and defense and some not, this is called diffremnt playing style
But, there are some things that are obvious even if you go around Grepolis forums and ask the top players of different worlds, for example attacking with bireme is one of them
Now, I dont know if you were around old Grepolis or not, but Democracy was essential for farming villages at that time, coz you had to attack the villages to get resources not like now that you order, each time the mood would go down, so democracy was good. But it is useless now.
So you see, it is a mistake whether you wanna call it playing style or not, instead of getting offended, think about the reason why some one is saying something
But hey Awesomeness, you are in Black Legion, I can not expect more, you guys like to insult and brag about what you dont have