So this is what, an Ottoman War of Succession/French Unification War/American Intervention Just-For-Lulz?
War of Rebel Aggression with American, French, and Russian intervention.
Anyways, good thing this happened now, cause we need some serious rule clarifications or serious ramifications to what just happened.
Here is what happened:
[Original DOW period]
-Free City of Istanbul is attacked by Bosnia, Anatolia, and Russia
-Caliphate honors defensive agreement and declares war in defense of Free City
[Response]
-France honors defensive agreement and declares war in defense of the Free City
[Response]
[End of Original DOW period]
[Response period begins]
-America declares war in defense of Bosnia, the aggressor
[Orignal DOW outside of the DOW period]
-Pyrenees declares war in defense of Bosnia, the aggressor
[Original DOW outside of DOW period]
[Response period continues]
Obviously, the two last DOW do not make a lick of sense. A defensive pact is signed in case a country is attacked by another, not for when a country attacks and triggers defensive pacts on the other side. If you allow that, what separates defensive pacts from alliances? They're basically the same exact thing at that point. Tailless you have to draw the line here, or this entire game is going to get screwed up with loophole-ly stuff like this. Either these last two declarations should be declared null, or both countries face serious internal ramifications, riots, loss of IC, loss of territory to rebels, etc. for declaring war outside of the DOW period using deceptive reasoning.
tl;dr Tailless needs to fix defensive pacts so they don't work like alliances, last two DOW are not valid, and should either be nullified or both countries face serious internal ramifications
I came to play the game by the rules, not by loopholes and other deceptive crap like this. Defensive pacts are defensive pacts, NOT alliances. If you can't get that straight, then don't play the game.