Originally 
posted by 
silentwolf:
A retal is a retal. If you want to ROR.. please go ahead. Also taking on grudges from reset to reset shows maturity :)
and Xin is right. getafix, braden, superfly, me, bonesaw, gogy and et all use the same country name all the time across servers for a reason.. you play nice, we play nice. 
I too get retalled and i dont whine. 
amen to that bstrong86 
Originally 
posted by 
silentwolf:
Also I don't change country names each set so those that hit me.. have a very high chance of getting retalled.. either way.. getting topfeed or not is not the question here. 
Plenty other targets that don't take initiative to retal. 
all I want is to do an all-x.. and try out strats. But noooo.. someone has to grab me. 
  
Same here, silentwolf.
I play same name for same reason as well and to build a network of friends (or enemies).  As TDA mentioned, some can be 360+ turns behind others and I have been one of those lately due to work schedule and new strategies.  If someone is going to hit me after having the opportunity to see that I am sitting on turns, they deserve to be retalled.  I credit my man Vic for teaching me this. 
A few months after I started playing Express, I went down the score list grabbing people after looking at their military without paying attention to their strategy.  I didn't know it was him I was hitting, but he knew it was me (you dirty dog lol), he retalled me but rightfully so.  But more importantly, he taught me a lesson in a single grab and I have paid more attention during my spys ops since.  
I was focused on him being an easy break and didn't notice he had not played a bunch of turns.  That was his strategy and who am I to attack him for having turns and low military?  I should have moved on and found a better target.  Now, I look at the turns left in my spy op before I look at anything else. That is actually a better defense as far I am concerned, at least to those who pay attention.
Last set, a player hit me ten times without any regard to the fact that I had not play my turns.  As part of my strategy experiment, I let him slide...until the end.  That was very difficult for me because my style, personality, and principle is that I retal most hits and flatten anything over a double tap.  But I was focused on all-xing, playing peacefully, and trying to get my best finish....which, by the way, I had my worse finish in awhile.  So that part of the experiment failed and I will not allow the multi-tapping again in the future regardless of goals, rank, etc.  I am playing the same name again, but I bet he isn't.
I want to play peacefully and learn to net.  If I get hit, fine, but don't complain if I retal or when I choose to do it.  If I happen to have some turns stocked, that doesn't make me a cheater or a noob.  (IMO, it is more of a noob move to hit the person with that many turns; quite pompous, too.)  I think some mistake me for a noob because of my networth, which usually sucks.  But I was a warrior the first 15 years I played, and never learned how to net.  
I am trying that approach now and, you know, almost every name mentioned on this single thread has helped me at some point.