I understand. However, since things the community have policed themselves for 47 and a half ages are not passing under the radar anymore I request official clarification on the following "shady" scenarios or unintended use of mechanics:

- Fake wars: Declaring war on a friendly kingdom with the intent of getting protection from other kingdoms outside of the war.
- Friendly GBP: Hitting a province with the intent to bypass the normal aid taxation rules.
- Entering vacation mode because you know if you don't you will get into a fight you cannot win
- Intra KD thievery to redistribute resources while bypassing normal aid taxation
- Intra KD thievery to redistribute resources while bypassing effects of the explosion spell
- Intra KD kidnapping/fireballing to bypass military troops leaving when overpopulated
- Intra kingdom tornadoing/farms torching/forts burning/arsoning with the intent of reducing raze-costs
- Purpousley losing acres to allies so that your enemies can't get a hold of those acres
- Last second waving of a kingdom before daychange to abuse relations decay mechanic when the opposing KD wants to retain the war button
- Last second monarchy swapping to bounce attacks abusing the fact that kingdom screen is no longer real-time updated
- Last second stance changing to bounce attacks abusing the fact that kingdom screen is no longer real-time updated
- Having monarchy on a province with the highest income instead of the one leading the kingdom
- Using the aid system to accelerate the process of creating super large provinces of which to derive economies of scale that would not otherwise be accomplished by the intrinsic resources of the individual province
- Aiding soldiers to an overpopulated province to prevent more expensive military from deserting

I will also ask if there will be any type of consistency in the punishment for something you find violating the rules, as you have now handed out three different punishments for this instance of this violation.
My own province you first saw fit to suspend for 4 days, my kingdom mate got the same punishment.  (1.)
This has now been changed to a 3 day suspension for me, but with the added quirk of VM cancelled before I can access the province, meaning all soldiers deserted. (2.)
For my kingdom mate it is still a 4 day suspension, but with VM cancelled added on top of that. (3.)
If you judge on a case by case basis, what made my case different to that of my kingdom mate?

Finally, and I don't expect you to oblige but it doesn't hurt to ask does it? Any chance you'll give us the benefit of the doubt due to the history in cases like this being "let the community settle it" to consider changing the punishment to a suspension which once lifted will have my province rolled back to how it was before any vacation mode trading took place?

/Mamman