This simply makes no sense.
Who do you think uses the large amount of NA that you buy instead of sanctions?
The lower states? Come on, they were covered 4x of their amount at all times.
When we had top 2-6, we all had a rather large land advantage over the lower guys, and also a nontrivial NW advantage.
Had you initiated sanctions at that point, the top5 of NS could have just kept on gaining land and farming the lower guys who would have had no chance to catch up.
But instead, we were gaining our measly 500 land grabs at best and getting farmed by top1 for over 2k, with him gaining what, 12k'ish land every 36h (that's when he was at 50k or so and we were at 25k, depending on the state - i think i was at ~30 when he was 50)?
Had sanctions or simply a kill taken place, i am pretty sure NS would not have suffered this pitiful fate.
With me a 92 out of the picture because of your lack of action, you were overtaken (i saw 5k, 6k etc grabs start happen on NS when we hadn't been grabbing for a couple of days) and after that, you had nothing.
Btw, i was told something like "oh no, it's 40k tech per member, each day" and when i looked at the members sheet, we had about 5 states that were under 1mil NW - very productive members indeed.
But hey, at least you were able to buy all that precious NA,
all the while managing to solidify your position as the greatest landfarm nation that took it like real men do -
"Calmly, coolly, entirely without incident"
Grats on that.
Awesome movie btw, watch it if you haven't