Ukey wrote:I'll begin with Mr Cookies' conclusion: I did not have a secret alliance with Hacx5nine in the Arms Race game in question. Even before looking at the specifics of the accusation and reviewing the game log and game chat, I am fairly certain of this fact since I have never had a secret alliance nor cheated in any CC game. This is what is known as a strong logical argument.
A good example of a weak logical argument, rife with fallacies, is Mr Cookies' accusation. However, unless requested by the CC community to destroy Mr Cookies' reasoning, I will limit my response to a few simple points regarding the specifics of the game in question. There was overwhelming evidence early in the game that I was in an extremely strong, if not dominant, position both in USA and overall. The key piece of information, in fact, came from Mr Cookies himself, who confirmed my suspicion that he had lost most of his troops the first two rounds. Subsequently, there was a fair amount of player-on-player aggression, which suggested I was the only one growing in strength in absolute terms, and more importantly, growing in strength relative to all the other players. I shared only one border with another player (Yellow in Denver), and had fully occupied eastern USA. So my choice at that point was to stockpile in USA fully, expand into western USA with the idea of securing the entire continent, or stray from the usual Arms Race script and head up the missile earlier than usual. Purely stockpiling was too passive, and expanding to secure the continent very quickly would've left me as the sole target earlier than I wanted. The missile allowed me a compromise strategy of expanding in an unexpected fashion while partially stockpiling at the same time. And if ever there was a time to proceed up the missile before securing the entire continent, this was it.
Just a couple of things that dont add up here Ukey, firstly, there was not a "fair amount" of player on player aggression... in actual fact it was the lack of it that 1st arroused my suspisions that something was amiss....
U were not the strongest player, shivi, who was also on your side of the map as hacx pointed out in round 2 had +8 bonus while u had +6
and if u only shared one border with yellow in denver as u say, how the hell have u come to the assumption that u were the only one growing in strength. In my limited experience, fog games require a little more information than 1 border to know what is happening, unless ofc u have more information to hand than you can see
oh, and wreckead 
it sounds like him
