What shooer drunkenly tried to post about was a run in with stormwood we had late last night. We're the nomalimesh khanate though our names a bit in flux. Anyways.
On evening of the 8th when we only had 2 members (and i had just started), stormwood decided to infiltrate our empire and steal items from the forge. We ignored it not knowing how to check the elogs yet and being too new to put up any defense. Later, one of our new recruits seeing as stormwood was set to distrustful decided to test infiltrate on one of their spawn island buildings, walked onto their lumberyard, then was cut down without causing any damage. This was used as an excuse for them to put 2-3 max lvl stealth people in our city to arras and steal from us for 3 days. We tried to contact them, but were ignored repeatedly.
Late last night we finally managed to find their leader online to ask what was going on, he demanded we pay "reparations for damages" for the effort that they spent stealing from us, i guess. he denied it ever happened despite us having the logs, he did change the subject quickly straight to threats, though. They know we don't have the items theyre asking for(or have already stolen them) but gave us a 24 hour limit before they would destroy our village. Overall, the conversation made it clear to us they arent interested in diplomacy, they just want an active group to attack.
have a read. We also have proof of their aggression in the logs:
May 8 13:38:48 2015: An infiltrator has been spotted at (1556, 535)!
May 8 13:38:48 2015: This empire now officially distrusts Stormwood due to stealth activity
May 8 13:45:14 2015: An infiltrator has been spotted at (1559, 530)!
May 8 13:49:50 2015: An infiltrator has been spotted at (1559, 530)!
May 8 13:52:39 2015: An infiltrator has been spotted at (1555, 531)!
May 8 13:53:21 2015: Theft at (1556, 535)
May 8 13:53:29 2015: Theft at (1556, 535)
And to top it all off, there are two other empires in our direct vicinity they've stolen from.
If you guys are looking for a justified target for a conflict, we found you one. At this point it seems people are starting to get bored, empires like stormwood who cant wait will attack small empires like us without reason or risk. The game world is going to warm up soon, this will not stay a small one on one fight. People will pile in. Thats the usual way it goes in games like this. Regardless, we have enough active players to slow them down and do some counter damage on our own and plan to do so. If it comes to it, we rebuild, we wont be going down easy.