I can see you guys argue whether the game is a war or not war games, but the truth is its both. The only thing that should fixed here maybe the balancing sa random selection for setting up people neighborhood in a certain AGE/ERA. Like a neighborhood should only stick on a same AGE/ERA after Iron AGE. because its not really fun when there is 3 different ERA/AGE in the neighborhood.
Like in our neighborhood, I am only at High Middle Age, and I attack/plunder all people in Late Middle Age and Early Middle Age, I really find easy attacking people at Early Age and Kinda bit challenging for Late Middle Age. Most complainers in our neighborhood are in my same age and Late Middle Age, they even reported me for bullying or blackmailing which I didn't do to them. I attacked/Plunder them on my daily playing activities. I did try to negotiate but they declined, Well for me Harvesting plundered goods was always better than Motivating my House/Supply Building because it costs both right?
I don't know if my playing style is wrong because I am worried if I can get banned for being so aggressive warmonger and some people asking me not to attack/Plunder them I only replied to them "we should have Peace Negotiation" (which includes demands and rules). I am not really sure if this is illegal or not, I am playing in this world last July 2014 (3 months from today), And since I entered Early Middle Age last August, I receive a lot of threats from Guild leader and some players in my message box but I intended to ignored it because I am thinking that they still don't know are the possible game style of the game to play yet.
I played Civilization V, and the game has included a Diplomacy features which FoE doesn't have. I play FoE with the game preference of Civ V was it bad? Although I am not complaining really, I am just curious and worried because most of people that hates my guts and playing style, calls it bullying and blackmailing. And they message me that they reported me about what I've done to them, not only them but their guild leaders too. Was it bullying and blackmailing? I know its really bad to do it because everyone who does it, gets ban-hammer in this game.