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 land:land (L:L) for country:country (the defender taking his/her own retals). Paradigm only accepts L:L retals for country:country retals (not factoring in ghost acres). L:L retals stop once 80% (79.5% or higher is considered 80%) of the land has been recovered if ghost acres make up 20% of the land lost. Mixing SS and PS is allowed for L:L only if all previous attacks were PS and the final attack is an SS. Any DH CANCELS L:L claims.

• Paradigm retals 1:1 for alliance-wide retals (if another country or countries are retalling on the defender's behalf).

• Mixing country:country and alliance-wide retals is prohibited.

• Paradigm retals a 'retal(s) on retals' (RoRs) double normal grabs based on an escalation scheme. 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 an RoR. After that, the attack is considered to be a random landgrab.

• If an alliance puts a country of its own that has hit Paradigm within 48 hours into diminishing returns and Paradigm has not yet retalled, they will take the land from someone else in that alliance.

• Paradigm will only accept responsibility for de-taggers for up to 48 hours from de-tagging. They only hold other tags accountable for de-taggers for up to 48 hours from de-tagging. The exception to this is, if a member of the alliance from which the country de-tagged is still allied to the de-tagged country, then that alliance is still culpable for the de-tagged country's actions.

• Paradigm does not recognize topfeeds. The reasoning is that the definition of a topfeed is irrelevant for a land:land retal policy.

• 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 grabs 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 have a set standard to define when to maim, farm, or kill a country. For example, after five attacks from a specific country, they may consider killing/farming/maiming it, however, this would depend on the nature of the hits and what they feel the country's intentions were. Paradigm stands by their right to maim/kill/farm any country that is giving them grief.

• Paradigm does not recognize the in-game action of declaring war as affecting the number of retals owed. The reasoning is that declaring war only hurts the country (who declared war) through increased expenses. It is equivalent to buying weapons tech that is only kept for a short period of time.

• Any pact signed by Paradigm supersedes these policies.