Can we farm?

Can I farm players for SP?

No.

I wasn't clear.If I let players alive in-game just to farm them.

Sp farming is deliberately running huge stacks into each other to abuse sp gain or medals.

it is also empting your cities to enemies ,letting them take them, then they empty them and you take them back, like 10+cities every 2 turns.

if you find people doing that, report them.

Also i don't see why you'd want to keep someone alive just to farm them? The most sp is earned when your major forces clash, and you win, after you start taking territories you start getting less and less sp. just finish the game and move onto another one.

Thats interesting, I haven't looked that closely.. what IS the formula for SP gaining? Is it based on the size of the forces in an individual fight? City vs. Capital, how much territory either player owns (i.e. relative in game strength), does rank come in to play (which would be bad)

Precise definition of farming is kindah vague, but the one form of cheating is where your coordinating with your enemy to generate sp. leaving someone alive so they can be trampled by your enemies is called your allying that player, unless you like them. This one of the reason communication between allies is important.

Also tactically deciding that player rank 1 will be easier to kill over a skilled player, even if he gets a large empire ie allowed and is reasonable.

The type of farming where you are using your enemies but your enemy isn't aware you are using him to farm gets tricky as to where it is legal. Amok/Ivan have official ruling on this one, but i would say it technically isn't illegal. Reasons being that if your forces are nearly matched, even if the opponent aren't skilled, it will be a good learning experience for other players and therefore should be allowed. If there is a ridiculous difference in troops and land, that there is no chance of winning for the less skilled player you are simply torturing the newbie, which will most likely cause the newbie to quit and not come back therefore it is not allowed.

Let me explain what vafika (madness, pure lust, whatever) means:

in a game he simply conquered half of Europe and let the balkans/Italy player live and he constantly attacked him, vafika killed all his attacks and amassed SP. The rest of his coalition (we were allied on this one) did the job of defeating the rest of the opponents. On round 45/50 he decides to finish off the Balkans and break alliance with all of us and then win alone due to the excessive amounts of SP he had collected <3

I would say it is suprising he would collect more sp than you in just western europe.

I would hope that higher ranked players earn less SP by defeating the lower ranked. The higher ranked players have so many more types of units that they just walk all over the less skilled.

In a duel this is the case, Diamond. Check my profile: I win next-to nothing in SP when duelling lower-ranked players. I stand to lose a lot however: I have 10:5 W:L ratio, but still -600 SP from duels.