NationStates Jolt Archive

I just as an invader took Avalon. I've been there quite some time, about a week actually. These nations have come in after me:
shiff_ii
mopery
smallv1lle
ballowall_barrow
misty_knights
tudor_fiefdom
bedalaire
bedfordshire_abby
saint-hobart
free_radicals_of_mu-mu
salmon_spite
This according to the region feed. I suspect, indeed I'm sure, that some of these are counter-invaders who saw me in region and decided to thwart me. However I'm not sure whether or not these constitute natives. Some of them are definitely invaders, some are innocent, and some are probably counter-invaders. Does the fact that I came in before them (invaded before them, but took delegate after them) mean that they are therefore not natives and I can ban them? Or no? I know the overarching rule here is natives are natives, invaders invaders, and anti-invaders anti-invaders and I should act accordingly, but that requires telepathy. I don't posess telepathy. Free_radicals_of_mu-mu, smallv1lle, and shiff_ii will be ejected and banned if they aren't deemed natives, they came in just recently and my intel suggests they are counter-invaders.

The longer you wait between the initial move in and the actual strike, the more difficult you make it for yourself to distinguish between natives and non-natives.

Imagine how short that list would've been if you had done the move-in / strike all at once ;)

A straightforward mod answer here could be very interesting.

Ballotonia

I'll be waiting for the answer, too. :D