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I’ve been dealing with this guy named Jean Laffite since I started playing ogame a year ago. He started raiding me almost the moment I got out of noob protection, despite the fact that he was ranked ~200 at the time. His initial raids were somewhat profitable. I once caught him attacking one of my planets and was able to spend most of the res, but not all of it, so I sent a few LCs to pick it up. He phalanxed the planet and told me that if I didn’t recall the LCs he would destroy all of my planets repeatedly. I refused and told him if he wanted my res he would have to work for it. He told me I was stealing from him because he allows me to operate in his sector of the universe therefore my res was actually his res that he could take whenever he wanted. He did destroy everything I had on all my colonies he could find. I thought he was a big asshole and had crossed the line so I reported him to a GO. Jean got banned for a couple of days, but since then has repeatedly attacked me even when there is little if any profit. This is a message he once sent me while on one of these pointless attacks:

06-25 19:42:33 Jean Laffite [3:404:11] Re:no subjectanswer
why are you attacking? There’s hardly any resources on that planet.

There are no prisoners in the brig to throw broken bottles at and there is nothing left on capello’s planet as I have bombed it all flat.

You are nearby have some toys for me to break so I look to you to fulfill my daily dose of meanness for the sake of meanness.

Plus I think it only fair that you contribute some resources to the RIP that’s going to destroy your moon 😉

So, I made it a point to leave no res or fleet around for him to get and I’ve done well, he hasn’t attacked in several months. Last week he raided all of my colonies for maybe a couple hundred thousand total in res. I went into vac mode for the weekend. Within an hour of me coming out of vac mode this morning he probed each of my planets multiple times. I figured he’s planning a big attack, so I’ve been monitoring ogame all day. Well I took a break to spend some time with the wife and this guy sent 170 IPMs to destroy my def and destroyed the fleet at my main planet. He hardly covered his deut costs, and barely made any profit after the IPM costs and his losses are factored in. The only reason he attacks is to terrorize people who can’t defend themselves. He’s ranked 56 in the uni right now. Is there anything we can do about this guy? He seems like the type of guy this alliance was founded to fight, guys who have no lives outside of games like this. I play ogame to have fun, but guys like this who take it too seriously take all the fun out of it.