Please, call me Yangfan.
The only message that I could find that fits what you were talking about (in that it deals with unfairness) was this one:
Out-of-Character from Enri Kinsey (4 days, 14 hours ago)
Yes, because CE and Carelia & Co. was so "mismatched" at the beginning of the war. Spying is a tool that you always deployed, not something that you reserved for desperate situations.
There is a difference between competitiveness and bad sportsmanship. There is a difference between playing well and taking unfair advantages over others. There is a difference between obeying both the spirit and the letter of the rules, and skirting around the edges and rules-lawyering. Like, oh, say, claiming that you are not realm-merging because there was still that lone stronghold left out in the middle of nowhere, and then throwing its duke under the proverbial bus when he merged with a neighbor. Was it against the rules? Technically, no. Was it a dick move that would have made Machiavelli blush? Yes.
This is supposed to be a friendly game. I find it sad and pathetic the lengths that some players, including Devs, will go to try to "win" unfairly. Sometimes they fall flat on their face anyways. I do get some schadenfreude from that.
"That's why I don't bother with spying, and haven't since leaving Carelia. Despite what you might think, and certainly despite what your character in D'Hara thinks."
... I have a theory about spying: You don't really need to gather intel using the old-fashioned ways anymore. It makes you out of practice. You are a really bad liar, you know?
I'm not really interested in anything that you have to say at this point.
Yangfan Wang
I would like to note that this message was sent neither "repeatedly" nor "publicly". I was also very careful to never accuse Aaron (or anyone else in particular) of breaking the game rules or the Social Contract. My low opinion of certain unnamed person (or persons?) on the Dev team is out in the open now, but surely that won't come back to bite me in the future.
If that was not what you were referring to, please show me where I repeatedly, OOCly, and publicly accuse him of cheating, or abuse, or breaking any of the game rules, or breaking the Social Contract. I'm not trying to be obtuse here. There is just a lot of messages to go through.
On the other hand, Aaron's response was to insult me, OOCly and repeatedly, and then publicly.
