Paradigm Retal Policy

The following is the retal policy of Paradigm on the alliance server.

• Paradigm only accepts (and performs) retals in a 48 hour retal window.
• Paradigm retals 1:1 and only accepts 1:1 retals for cross country retals (when the retaller is not the country for whom the retals are being made).
• Paradigm escalates retals on an entire tag basis in a 48 hour window. The first six hits on Paradigm by any countries in another given tag to any countries in Paradigm will be retalled 1:1. The seventh, through twelfth hits from the same given tag against Paradigm will be retalled 3:1 each. Paradigm does not accept more than 12 attacks from any tag in a 48 hour window.
• Paradigm retals land:land (L:L) for country:country (when the retaller is the country for whom the retals are being made) or standard escalation, whichever yields higher results for them. Paradigm only accepts L:L retals for country:country retals (not factoring in ghost acres). L:L retals stop once 80% of the land has been recovered if buildings make up 20% of the land lost. All L:L retals must be land grabs of the same type. Mixing SS and PS is not allowed for L:L retals.
• Paradigm retals retal on retals (RoRs) double normal grabs based on how it fits into the escalation scheme described above. A RoR on a L:L retal is retalled L:L+1. Paradigm only considers attacks made on a country within 24 hours of that country making a retal to be a RoR. After that the attack is considered to be a random landgrab.
• If an alliance puts a country of it's own into diminishing returns that has hit Paradigm within 48 hours and Paradigm has not yet retalled they will take the land from someone else in that alliance.
• Paradigm will only accept responsibility for detaggers for 48 hours from detagging. They only hold other tags accountable for detaggers for 48 hours from detagging. The exception to this is if a member of the alliance from which the country detagged is still allied to countries from that alliance then that alliance is still culpable for the detagged country's actions.
• In Paradigm policy there is no such thing as a topfeed. Their basis is that the definition of a topfeed is irrelevant for L:L retals and if the country itself isn't getting the land back then the returns aren't important as the person who suffers does not receive the reparations and the land is free land for the retaller.
• Paradigm does not have a set standard to define when to maim, farm or kill a country. For example after five attacks from a country and they might think about killing it but it depends on the nature of the hits and what they feel the country's intentions were. Paradigm states that they do not need legalese authority to kill something if it is giving them grief.
• Paradigm accepts any 1 attack for any 1 attack that shows up in the news and reserves the right to retal under the same principle. If a Paradigm country grab you, you can retal with an equal number of attacks of your choosing such as but not limited to ABs, Cruise missiles, etc as long as the number of hits match up. This can also be applied in conjunction with the escalating hit policy.
• Paradigm does not recognize the in-game action of declaring war as affecting the number of retals owed. Their reasoning is that declaring war only hurts the country who did it through increased expenses. It is equivalent to weapons tech that you only buy for a short period of time.
• Anything Paradigm signs in a pact supersedes these policies.