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Pupper Wars

Mercury God
12-08-2006, 07:41
I have some questions about puppet wars.

I was told that the mods ruled that using puppets to lessen the influence of a delegate, for the purpose of invading, and using puppets to lessen influence to make those invasions successful was in accordance with the rules, and thus a legal action to perform.

So these are my questions, that I hope can be answered to avoid any rule-breaking.

1. Was this ruling infact made, and validated as legal behaviour?
2. Is mass-creating puppets legal, if it clears the Regional Happenings of the pacifics, or should you make a few at a time so as it does not clear the entire board?
3. Is the mass-movement of puppet nations into a warzone justified, or is it also considered spam as it will clear the regional happenings?
4. What about moving those nations out once the war is done?

I ask this because today I was notified by a moderator that I had spammed the region of Ocean. Now that I can see as a fair ruling, as I only moved 5 nations into the region, then quickly out again, BUT on the same token, I have moved 25 or 50 nations at a time (by opening up tons of windows and moving them at once), into and out of Minnesota, and a host of other regions, without complaint from the mods. Then I recieved notice that if I moved my nations to another region, and it cleared the Regional Happenings it would then be considered spamming them. What am I to do, and how do I then move them - or do they stay put. Can I move them to my own regions?

Basically, what I am asking for is clear legislation on what is allowed, and what is not, so no rules are broken in the future.

Edit:

Also, how do I move my remaining 195 puppet nations out of Minnesota without getting them all deleted. if I move one a day it would take nearly 200 days to perform the feat. Can I mass move those to the next war-ridden region?
GMC Military Arms
12-08-2006, 08:56
I was told that the mods ruled that using puppets to lessen the influence of a delegate, for the purpose of invading, and using puppets to lessen influence to make those invasions successful was in accordance with the rules, and thus a legal action to perform.

We'll pass this one over to Morbo, I think.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/GMCMA/Other%20stuff/Morbo.gif

'REGIONAL INFLUENCE DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT.'

Thank you, Morbo.

This trick of yours does nothing but spam regions. It doesn't decrease influence of the delegate. Stop doing it.
Questers
12-08-2006, 09:19
Also, how do I move my remaining 195 puppet nations out of Minnesota without getting them all deleted. if I move one a day it would take nearly 200 days to perform the feat. Can I mass move those to the next war-ridden region?

Or, you could
a.) Not have such a ridiculously large number of puppets...
b.) Move more than one a day? If you move 20 a day you can do it in ten days. That's a rather short amount of time for 195 puppets.