I was on my way to attack a merging nation on the northern peninsula (where there has been a boom in population of multiple countries) and this morning, all of the new countries are gone. Is this a glitch or can someone "quit" and remove their country? So far, all that I have managed to attack have been "abandoned" settlements. I was actually looking forward to a strategic encounter (that I would most likely win in the long run). I haven't developed the balls yet to take on some of my larger neighbors. But I digress.

Just wondering if tomorrow, or some time down the road, these colonies will pop back up.

I did some cleaning up yesterday of countries that all originated from the same IPs. There's still more to examine, but that was the most obvious case.

One person, <i>eleven</i> countries.

Could you check out that whole flying Mongolian clusterf*ck to the ESE of me, Johnny? I think that's a guy from our old WoW guild who made all of those accounts..

what if there are family members in the same house Johnny? My 3 brothers play to.

All the Disney characters live in the same house? What a surprise.

I looked into it and the accounts <i>appeared</i> legitimate, so I left them.

Well you nuked my brothers account, and we have the same IP, different computers, but the same household comcast outgoing router IP

I thought it was a little suspicious that your brother decided to create a country as close as possible to the capital of the person you were fighting. Still plausible, though.

I thought it was strange, though, that you were born 21 days apart and have the same name. [/plain]

Ah, this is why I love programmers.