{34:67:5} dispute

[kae]

Love these! I thought I might get away clean on this one too, but someone sent cats with their fleet. Three of them, no less, for an isle that had nothing, and the main house was already knocked down.

I took the isle approximately 3:30 AM GMT last night. Built up the main house. Had a few raids come in, and one colony attempt that I was warned about ahead of time.

Then, at 1 PM this afternoon, this hits.

3½ hours ago
Attack on 021 - Sagittaron (34:67:5)
Colonization successful.
Units of Serathis
Total Losses
Large Warships 50 0
Colonization Ships 1 1
Spearfighters 250 1
Catapults 3 0
Units of kae
Total Losses
Plundered resources
Gold 0
Stone 0
Lumber 0
Destruction
Main House Level 1 (Destruction: 3)
Barracks Level 2 (Destruction: 1)

No warning ahead of time. Followed by this message:

Sagittaron 34:67:5
Hello there,

Sorry about the island. Do you want me to compensate your for the colo ship and I keep the island OR you take the island and you compensate me a colo ship ?

Regards,
Serathis

to which I replied:

I will be taking the island back, and expecting full compensation for a colony ship. There was zero reason to send cats with your fleet.

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I'll keep everyone up to date on how this progresses. I'll be producing another colo ship in that area, and then retaking the island.

[Gornall]

ooo, if he gets funny I'll jump on board for you.

This AeRoS one seems to be coming to a close.

Unless of course Cesium/McGoogus want to play diplomat for a bit n give me and POSE a break

Good luck either way, this one a bit of a no brainer in how it will end.

[kae]

Update:


Serathis wrote:
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And why not ?


kae wrote:
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I had colonized the island, built up the main house, and had you checked it out before sending a cat fleet not properly dispersed, you would have seen that the MH was already at lvl 1.

By sending the cats with your colonization fleet, you removed all chances of a fair colonization by anyone else.

Therefore, I will be taking the island back, and will be expecting full payment of my colony ship.

[kae]

Update 2:

Serathis wrote:
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Well, no as it was a 300 pointer and not sending a cat fleet is for a 100 pointer or below. Yes, you may take it back but I am not compensating as I also lost one.

kae wrote:
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I've already spoken with my alliance and they back me on this. Do I really need to forward it on to diplomats?

Serathis wrote:
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I'll talk with pain about this first.

Gornall, jump on in!

[kae]

Update 3:

Serathis wrote:
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And yeah, just to let you know I did not spied on it first so I'm sorry if I had done the wrong thing by sending cats on the colo fleet.

Never knew it was at lvl 1.


kae wrote:
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Hey, no worries.

I've done it before too, and unfortunately, the consequences suck. The best way to avoid this is to space out your cat and colo fleet by an hour, and if you warn the person ahead of time, then you avoid most of these issues.

So, are we good? Resources can be sent to 34:68:13. I'll be building a colo ship tonight from my resources, and retaking the island sometime tomorrow.

This may resolve itself yet.

[Null]

whatever you do, take the isle back asap. People seem to be stoner dropping these disputed isles during negotiations as a tactic to then keep the isle in the end. Although this guy does seem more reasonable than most, at least he sees you taking back the isle as a "normal" option. I know you'll get it either way, but may save some hassle.

PS: Glad I didn't bother with this isle, I think my colo would have hit around 5am GMT.

[kae]

I believe we're getting it resolved. I'll have my ship in the water tomorrow morning to take it back. He'll be compensating me fully.

[Cesium]

Well, if you need a diplomat, I'm up for it. But if you think you can handle it, that's okay.

[kae]

I'll post here later today if I don't hear back from him. He's 'thinking' about the offer, so I'll give him a few more hours and ask for an answer.

[eproxy]

Just remember that compensation is negligleiglble (sp?) when compared to an isle churning out resources (35k gold is only a small amount if you have the isle for say 2 months).

[Gornall]

Its very true, but its costing him an extra 35k due to someone elses ignorance.

[kae]

Arrg. Ships are in the water.

Unfortunately, my internet crapped out at EXACTLY the moment I was sending out my clearing fleet. Just enough that it's arriving a few seconds AFTER my colo fleet. I've recalled the colo fleet and will redeploy it when it gets back. Frustrations.

[Clausewitz]

Just be glad the colo wasn't beyond recall I've seen that happen more than a few times...

[Gornall]

kae said:

Arrg. Ships are in the water.

Unfortunately, my internet crapped out at EXACTLY the moment I was sending out my clearing fleet. Just enough that it's arriving a few seconds AFTER my colo fleet. I've recalled the colo fleet and will redeploy it when it gets back. Frustrations.

Haha, unlucky mate.

Least this all settled now mate. Have fun with the new isle.

[kae]

After 3 or 4 tries, the island is in my control.