Spies are part of the game, and the uncertainty of having a possible spy in your alliance always seems to be a worry to some inexperienced Alliances. In my expeience spies are much more rare than are claimed. It is usually just the deflection tactic of weak leadership when something goes wrong. The KOM claim that costy was a DoD spy being a prime example.
Costy has been a regular foe of DoD for months, and like some other KOM members plays the game with a sense of fun and respect. After an internal dissagreement my undersyanding is that the KOM leadership simply decided to take costy's cities whilst he was still a member. Costy asked for our help, which we were glad to provide. I sincerely hope that the many other friends we have in KOM are not singled out as spies, they are many, and I for one look forward to doing battle against them, that is what makes the game so enjoyable.
Just to clear this matter up,Costy was not purely attacked because players thought he was a spy,Costy told us he was quitting Idalium weeks ago and offered his cities to us..we lined up players and put all other conquest ideas to one side as we planned to take his cities in 24 hours so enemy alliances would'nt have time to respond,costy then decided to change his mind when we were ready to begin which annoyed alot of our players as some had to go on BP runs wasting troops just to get enough BP to open slots,that was one minor detail but the main issue with costy was that he never was a part of the team,he never supported players in the alliance or took part in assaults but when he was under attack from DoD we all supported him,KoM saved alot of his cities numerous times from DoD,most of these were lost after but DoD had to try many times before they got them,the main reason why Costy is ranked in the top 10 defenders is because DoD attacked him so much and KoM defended him equally.All we asked was the same help in return when we needed it but he failed to respond.
As you know Rex KoM had a nice quantity of cities in 035 for a few months,cities which your alliance eventaully captured...to the best of my memory costy never supported any of our lost KoM cities even though he had the largest presence of all our members in 035,he shared an island with me for a month and never supported me even though his support was 20 mins away...but of course when he was under threat i sent him everything i had as did most other members.
As for DoD recruiting him while his cities were in revolt....did ye ever hear of the refugee rule?...Are DoD that desperate to gain a foothold in 045 that you recruit a player who is hours away from losing half his cities,then you come here and make excuses for DoD's city losses by stating that CS's were already in the water when you recruited Costy..seriously what did ya expect thats why most alliances wait 24-48 hours before recruiting a player like Costy.
KoM took 6 of his cities,13th got 1,the others will be taken and we dont care how well DoD/IWW stack them...
@swarren i know you will read this so could you tell your wolves thanks for all those dogs that ye sent to my city in 055,they'll help when Apa come attacking.