back on PT(obligatory fix PT @Walling)Â An alliance I was in, Seven Kingdoms (which I helped re-create here and on o-game) were one of the first to go "Paperless", we originally took it from EVE if my memory serves right as a few of us were playing it back in the day too.Â
Paperless, while it sounds great is just someone trying to figure a reason to go attack people without having treaties. "friends helping friends". It makes warfare far more unpredictable, however it does mean those dogpiles tend to happen more often if the paperless alliance is the one doing it. Having experienced it, those alliances which are paperless and are getting dunked on, don't tend to have their "friends" helping them unless there's a treaty there.Â
A true paperless alliance, when they declare war shouldn't have much more of a reason than "we're bored and wanted to do a few rounds of warfare". Seeing them try to justify their existence (looking at Church) is fucking pathetic.Â