IDK if you remember properly but Niko was SUPER disrespectfull towards Design and AMG when we were still fighting with AMG. That is the sole reason why Design stopped caring about their initial reason to join the world, to rim ODIN. I wouldn't call that respect.
It's amusing seeing non council members or people I've talked to about the world diplo with, writing this stuff.
You judge me as disrespectfull, and all the propaganda around it.
This message was way back when the world barely begun, Design just launched a few days prior to this and we hadn't really talked anything about diplo because we were so far apart.
We noticed Tudadar barbling and PP'ing around and we do not wish to negotiate with him because he clearly sucks up farm possibilites and markeds in the area. He did a lot of this on 105 and 108 where we have our majority of players from, so we didn't really prefer to have Tudadar going crazy on the barbs where as we as a tribe likes to farm. So we wanted to prevent that.
Personally I find the response quite disrespectful, so naturally I won't be all hugs and kisses. This along with the info I got prior to diplo work with trex and flex, that wasn't nessecarily good on their behalf.
This was my first encounter with Design, pretty much.
Now a bit later, when SL begun nobling behind Squad so we could finish them off fast, things started to spark. I already told ya'll about this, and it was definately fix able, but the way Design handled it was both impulsive, disrespectful and stupid.
This was basically their impulsive response to the leaders of Monkey, that because SL took a few barbs in the north for Squad, they didn't see us anymore as allies and wanted us removed.
Naturally I recieved this info quite fast from Monkey, and I heard the lies from Design council while I held a lot of this information.
Instead, we could have solved the SL barbling situation with gifting villages back and arrange a fitting borderline, but this mail along with all the other lies, we naturally didn't wish to give any good will.
And then I can mention all the NAP agreement's that was broken, supporting OUT, dishonoring the CD, conspiricy to recruit MOP from Squad and wanting k33 just because. You know all the agreements that were broken, don't need to explain in details.
I think the phrase you are looking for, isn't disrespectul, but being neutral and adjusting to their behaviour. On top of this, we were a significant size bigger than Design, which always plays a part. Geniunly I just believe Design leadership aren't used to being challenged, and that's why they feel disrespected, because they are used to getting huge respect from noob tribes that just want to survive that they will force internal later.
My agenda was never to screw Design over, they managed that perfectly fine themselves. Even Design's own members didn't want to be apart of the toxic and disrespectful athmosphere and either quit, deleted or joined us because they want to crush their toxic leaders.
As for AMG, yes I was full on disrespectfull to them because they do stuff that I dislike such as force internal for fun and backstab, along with having the most notorious names for such activity in their roster. Of course I won't be friendly to that, and afterwards one of the biggest memes and double standards I ever seen on tribalwars with Odin's statement that ''AMG IS A WAR TRIBE'' didn't make it harder to disrespect them, when they recruited all of our enemies (SND/Pshyco)
Last stance, I don't give a f if you call me disrespectfull or if anyone in Design/AMG does, couldn't care less. Majority of the players I do not wish to play with anyways. But get the facts straight thanks