So you used Platinum as a punching bag to force greater players to give you stuff?
No wonder Platinum sulked. I too would consider quitting a game where players act like pampered and brutal feudal lords who have no morals and only care for themselves.
Keep us updated on the game. It's great to see someone rise from newbie status to beat up the rich and wealthy players. An inspiration to us all!
Not
exactly. Platinum decided to go claiming worlds just because he happened to have explored them and placed silly demands on the houses operating there. They then started beating up on a new house pretty badly (glyph) because he tried to roleplay, and began hurling OOC insults at both of us. We didn't have the forces on hand to contest them but we tried anyway because why not. Later on Platinum made a complete idiot of himself by assassinating someone in cold blood in a grisly fashion. That someone happened to be the house in charge of the military arm of the Citadel empire, which promptly blew the shit out of them.
The end result of this whole debacle is that I got a planet and a lot of war funding, Platinum got ganked, and and Vulo is sitting pretty with his own homeworld intact.
It worked out alright but it was a close thing. It would have gone much better for Platinum if they were willing to do any negotiation or diplomacy, and didn't respond to every peace message with OOC insults and IC threats. It took another unrelated house to step in for them and pay me off before he could recover and stop whining about the fate he brought on himself.