Dear Invicti,
I am just alerting you that you are trespassing upon the Wercheg Peninsula which is claimed by the Kingdom of Veluca. We do not approve of you adding to the prosperity of our soon-to-be city as this will add difficulty to our efforts. If this trade continues, your caravans may not return.We are looking after our interests and we would appreciate talks instead of blatant action.
King Robert of Veluca
I (and I believe other clanmates) was not aware that trading with other cities would hinder plans to take them, and I'm sure that was not anyone's intent. I haven't been following much in the strat general discussion, but looking at some of chadz's posts I did not see anywhere that trading increased prosperity which in turn increases defenses etc.
One thing I DID see from chadz's posts though:
"How am I supposed to take castles or towns? They have so many troops!
You are not supposed to take them yet. They will be updated with appropiate numbers in some time. "
..so it is quite possible that this is not going to be doing you any damage.
Still as I said before there is no malicious intent in our caravans; I'm sure if you hop into our TS and speak to Sittingbull Callous Jeff Jesse(Ragnarok) or I we can come to an understanding.