Note (just by way of example) that I did not pay for the implants until after hostilities had ceased. You comprehended that — hence your use of the word “formally” — but you deliberately ignored it in order to craft the insult.

It’s a strange business, setting out to insult a total stranger whose blog you stumbled on by accident. I wonder what might have motivated you to do that?

As for where in your story did you suggest anyone was afk, I got that impression in the first paragraph of your diatribe:

“So, I was on my way back to Isaziwa from a system where a lot of AC-ME folk were (AFK) last night, when I stumbled upon poor Aktala (again) mining alone in a Retriever mining barge in Oiniken.”

In fact, none of what you post makes a lot of sense. You contradict yourself all over the place: the example above; in your reply you say that the other alliance (you’re all other alliances to me seeing as I’m not in any of the groups you’ve mentioned) is at fault for the war, then say that you started the war in the first place.

The kicker is that in your reply you say that the Indy alliance “for allowing one of their members to get them into a war and for taking no steps (that I am aware of) to try and end it.”

Reading today’s post and the one entitled Back-channel diplomacy, it seems that you knew full well that the other alliance was engaged in diplomatic activity with you. You also say that you had come to a very tentative no-podding agreement with them, hardly the acts of an alliance trying to perpetuate a war.

Of course, the last sentence in your reply might lead a neutral observer to draw some rather interesting comclusions about your intellect. You say that paying for replacing lost tonnage is a stupid thing to do in wartime, yet the latest post on your blog says that you’ve ponied up for some implants for the person you podded while still formally under a wardec.

It’s a shame I’m not over in Caldari space at the moment, I’d like to have tangled with your fleet to see what happened for myself, then compare that reality with what you publish here.

Where in this story did I suggest anyone was AFK? A mining barge pilot typically has to be at the keyboard to transfer ore to the jet-can.

It was yesterday’s hauler-miner I would have thought was AFK, but their pod warped away promptly.

The fact that I launched on Aktala’s barge is, indeed partially the fault of HER alliance (not “some other alliance” as you say), for allowing one of their members to get them into a war and for taking no steps (that I am aware of) to try and end it. But of course, I declared the war — I’m hardly an innocent party either.

What I meant to suggest was that if I were a member of an alliance, and got blown up TWICE in a war that my alliance leadership could easily have made stop, I’d be a little bit pissed at my alliance leadership (while still being a lot pissed at the aggressor).

The pod is a different story. I never said anything about the pod destruction being anybody’s fault but my own. I fat-fingered the interface. Is there anybody who hasn’t? I’ve apologized for that, but I’m hardly going to pay reparations — this war is one-sided enough without that. In war, things go wrong, it’s pretty inevitable. Don’t like it, make it stop.

Paying for your enemy’s lost tonnage is just a stupid thing to do in wartime, no matter the circumstances under which it got blown.

I would have thought that if you really were sorry, you’d pony up for the cost of the destroyed items as a sign of good faith.