I'll explain it for you.
Despite a long alliance with The hive they have for some time been neutral in Evolution's (LEGION and Athenians before that) wars. They had been asked to join in the war against KOTOR and Legacy, involving both LEGION and Athenians, but said they would prefer to stay neutral. Neither alliance was ever bothered about that as it didn't affect the result of those wars.
When Evolution was created, the war with LEGION took place. At the end of the war many ex-LEGION players ran to the hive for protection. Although those of us in Evolution never wanted to rim previous alliance members, the fact that the hive actively recruited players who were technically 'refugees' without any consultation with the leaders of Evolution goes against every standard good practice that is usually adhered to by decent alliances. In fact when questioned by leaders of Evolution they were pretty much told to 'get lost'. 'We (the hive) will do as we want and who cares about our allies'.
Now, given that a lot of those players taking refugee in the hive were former alliance members and friends Evolution decided to drop this matter.
Shortly after this though the hive started to actively recruit our players. Sending out mails to individuals and inviting them to join. Really bad practice for a so-called ally. Now admittedly at this stage I thought stuff this and recruited a couple fo hive players.. well possibly underhand, but those players did approach us and were recruited because they were good, decent players.. it was just a bonus they came from the hive
Following that the hive asked us to assist them in a war with the templars, which we dutifully did. Despite their reluctance to involve themselves in any war Evo was part of or even agree to provide support.
Of course this is now clear as to why they did not want to involve themselves. They have been for some time supporting the coalition! yes, our long-term allies since the start of the world, the ally we are assisting in a war, are not only taking in our refugees and trying to recruit our players, but are also supporting our enemies! well who needs enemies when you have friends like these? The hive of course deny this, but not only did this come from a very trusted source but also when taking cities from coaltion members there has been incoming support from the hive.
The icing on the cake (or cookies lol) was when a player who has been under heavy attack by Evo joined the Hive. 3 times he has ran to an ally of ours whilst under attack. I asked very politely for the hive to boot the player and they refused outright. It was the final straw I'm affraid. Enough is enough.
Actually also, the war with templars which the hive asked us t join in on.. and then agree a truce without any discussion with us and leave us at war with the hive's enemy
now whilst we haven't gone looking for a war.. I'd like to find anyone that would put up with this for so long and not get a bit fed up.
