Yep, you did, and you know what, Ailia has been really great when we try to negotiate stuff with him. Is he a jerk? You bet... he used to try to MPK some of my members at serket. But guess what happened... we kept on going, and now he respects and trusts us and treats us.
Does that make him a better person for what he did or has done? Hell no.... what it does do though is show that he is open to negotiation. I don't really trust him... I won't be surprised if some day he fucks us over, but until that time I am not going to go to war with him, or anyone else, just because of their rep... The fact is we established a rapport with them and now we on a shell to shell basis don't hurt fight with each other anymore.
Same thing happened between our shell and serise at KB... After a few head butts we had a really nice thing going on there, we simply backed off when the other won claim... Currently Serise's new Kirin crew and my shell had a bit of a clash, and we worked out a schedule now so we don't conflict with each other... and for those who think we take it up the ass, they are the ones who got the short end of the stick. Furthermore, they know (believe me it was relayed to them about 30 times) that if they fuck us over in this deal we will declare all out war on them, much like you are doing now with Lucifar.
Now, about no peaceful resolutions... Let’s go into the Dragon's Aery business now than shall we... 1. I told Lorelaiy about what was going on in there a maybe a week ago so it ain't a fucking secret. 2. We have been going, we have been helping fight, and we have been getting items. If you want to ask me more about what is going on there send me a tell... it’s off topic in this thread though so I am going to abstain from going into more detail.
Drewtaru can attest to issue we had with Serise's shell, as an outside source... Ailia's rep warrants no explanation to the sorts of things we ran into at first. Yet, after butting heads for a bit we realized working together was 1. Possible and 2. Wise... why conflict and worry about who is behind your back when you can come to terms with each other?
Eladamiri: Yeah, I have Japanese and English in my bazaar comment... why use auto translate when you can do it better in the individual languages? My search comments, since you brought those up, are equally English and Japanese as well. The top is all numbers or auto translate with the O-button 's O next to places I can go (like “Sky” or “Sea” for example)... the second line usually says “よろしく~ Lv↑をしたい 誘ってください” which means Hi, I would like to lvl. Please invite me. in Japanese. The bottom is always in English, because I find if it’s in the middle people usually miss it... and it always says "hi, I would <3 to lvl, plz invite me".
I am not ashamed of being NA, I am damned proud of it. I am in an NA LS that I started because I was sick of Kurei treating the NA in his LS like dirt. Just because I am willing to negotiate with "them" doesn't mean I want to be one of "them"... I do what I can to benefit my LS as much as possible... That means I am willing to make offers and listen to offers, and if they are good we take them and if they are crap we say "that’s BS, make it better or it’s a no go".
Last night I laid down the law with Serise and 70 other Japanese players who tried to make me step down, and if they fuck it up be sure you all will be the first to know, and I will invite the whole server to a "Get claim and CFH" party at their next event... The difference, the reason I am on a high horse, is that you guys made the first attack... If they had stolen it from you, or tried to MPK you first, while I wouldn't be applauding you, I would be giving a negative response either. I might say “hm... maybe you guys can try and talk it out...” but that would be it if anything. Frankly, I don’t give a damn what is done between groups when I am not in one of them... but when someone asks for sympathy after throwing the first stone, I can't leave that alone.
Eye for and Eye and Tooth for a Tooth is only a good argument if you got your eye plucked out first... So you got called shitty names? So the fuck what, if they said “{English}{Too Weak}” or whatever return it back to them. That's eye for an eye. Having that said to you, and than turning around and stealing something is more like committing murder because someone chipped your tooth.