I feel I have a contribution to make here, I will answer the various points in order of importance (to me!)
1 - I am a guy. No really. Seriously, I have even checked this morning and counted the relevant bits just to make sure - yep, all present and correct!
2 - Black was an experiment - I came up with a crazy idea "Let's start an alliance with no outside contact and see if it works" Well, it didn't. Sucks to be me. It was fun while it lasted!
3 - I am a guy, just checked again. Please refrain from any further references to me as "she" or "her"
4 - Black was not formed until around 10 days out of BP...so I have no idea how we can possibly be blamed for starting aggression on the server. Yes, we are aggressive and have taken polis from people. In the main, it has to be said, we have taken polis that were largely undefended and used our armies to build up the required BP to be able to take more polis. We have never, until this point, declared an official war on anyone.
5 - I am a boy. Boys have certain anatomical differences from girls if I remember correctly!
6 - The "Wall of silence" was entirely dependent on our desire to maintain it. Plenty of people managed to breach it. We just chose not to waste time engaging in lots of PnP or making 20 NAPs or Alliances to keep ourselves from harms way. We lived by the sword and died by it. Those that have got through the wall of silence are either friends of Black or members of it. I have even personally taken it upon myself to help quite a few people new to the game that have asked for guidance, they know who they are and they have thanked me personally for it.
7 - Sorry to keep coming back to this, but I'm still a boy. This has been proven by the fact that I managed to father a child!
8 - I stepped down because real life comes first and I have a very full plate right now. I simply didn't have the time to dedicate to running an alliance.
9 - Meat and two veg still apparently in evidence.
10 - The reason the stats show us taking less % of huns polis than they should is because, unlike Black, Huns choose to kick members they are about to lose to the rim before it spoils their pretty stats. In exactly the same way that they choose to kick people that fail to keep up their average points. We do neither of these things, people that go inactive are kicked but only after certain checks have failed.
11 - Correction, I am a man, not a boy!
12 - I don't think anyone has said we are scared of a war here, just that with 7 vs 1 or 5 v 1 depending on which stats you choose to read, it won't last long.
13 - I will concede though, that I used to be a boy, a long long time ago!
14 - The Huns have conquered more Huns polis than we have. (Really, check grepostats, I speak the truth!)
15 - I am what I am and that is all man!
16 - 44, I don't know what personal beef you have with me, I don't believe we have ever spoken. Those that have spoken to me will tell you I am a man of my word and of principle and I value friendship and the social side of this game more than anything else. After all, if we are just pushing pixels around then I for one am not interested! I have a life. My skype button is right there, anyone is welcome to use it.
17 - How many roads must a man walk down? Not sure, but I am definitely one of them!
18 - Daniel1 did not, whilst he was a member of Black, engage in any spying. He did it after he left, and possibly before he was a member. While he was in the alliance he was told it wasn't appropriate given the way we had decided to experiment with the outside contact thing. He chose to break it, so he was not allowed back in. He then proceeded to slam us on the forums and use whatever spy methods he could against us. He has jumped alliance at least a dozen times. When the music stops I feel certain he will find himself without a home, or a polis. I look forward to that day!
Leggy
(Who is male)
