I was hanging out in Drug Wars Discord last night and overheard someone upset as they were being attacked by high-level players. It's kind of the fact of life, but he then got flagged by another player on Steem in a completely unrelated post.

After speaking with both of them I felt the other player had no justification and was harassing someone much smaller than them. His justification was he was being taunted. When asked for screenshots, he sent a couple that was the smaller player complaining he was attacking smaller players and he doesn't have the guts to pick on someone his own size. After many attacks, he also said "thanks for the shield". None of this I felt warranted him to flag his Steem Monsters post for $0.53 cents.

I went ahead and healed his flag for a bit more than he was flagged and returned the flag on the other party threefold. Unlike @fulltimegeek, I don't like to flag because I'm mad or I don't like someone and only try to use them for spam, abuse, and harassment.

This player is also one of the largest in the game, but not large enough that I couldn't stomp his army.

I decided to actually analyze this battle and some interesting information about it. Before I do that, I'm going to mention there was another ninja change to the rules sometime last night and battles don't act the same way. Before your bouncers would take all damage before other units, apparently that is changed.

In-Game Resources Lost

I lost 1,114,600 weapons and 474,300 alcohol in the fight and the victim lost 2,496,800 weapons and 2,615,100 alcohol. So even though I lost a lot and I gained no resources from it, I came out far ahead in the fight due to the size of my attacking army.

I also went ahead and calculated the loses in terms of Steem if you went ahead and bought troops with Steem.

The fight cost me 107.12 Steem in loses while I inflicted 415.35 Steem in loses. While that was a very successful fight, that's a lot of resources down the drain on both ends. Interesting statistics though.

The fight ended up costing a total of 522.47 Steem in resources.

Either way, keep it in the game!