That's a very interesting question!

I also think that flags should be ranked higher than a "truce".

Besides, a flag is a very clear sign to all players that a person surrendered, while a truce is something very vague and sometimes unfair, too.

However, there are also situations, when truces are more important than flags.

Example: I (red) was restacking for an upcoming battle for 1st with another player (blue)... next to us was a battle for 3rd between teal and purple and purple was flagged 3rd.
I had more terretories than blue, so blue interfered in the battle for 3rd and attacked purple to get more terretories (He didn't border teal). The game for purple was quickly over. Blue destroyed purple's game.

So I told teal that he should get 2nd, because I didn't like how blue ignored pruple's flag. So teal and I had a truce.

After it became clear that blue couldn't win anymore, he flagged. I ignored his flag then...

oh...I forgot my conclusion:

it depends...

...but in most situations, FLAGS RANK HIGHER THEN TRUCES.

However, there should be made truces to defeat players who ignore flags :)

Good answer moondust ... I agree ...

This game is a game of polotics over all eles. Play by your views and take the result. Atleast at the higher tables one wrong decision can cost you your standing to the eyes of the rest and cost you more than a few points.

I too agree. :)

oops to moondust's and magliarosa's FLAGJ OVER TRUCES

truces trump flags...why do you want to screw the one that helped you maintain or even get your first???...you should inform the rest that your partner gets second...maybe noone will flag for it...

^--I'm with that guy :D

Truces come before flags. A truce is way more than agreeing not to attack each other. A truce means that from that point on the two of you are fighting side by side in a battle for the top. If you happen to make it to 1st, you owe the person that helped you get there, and the only way to award them is with a place. How would it be fair if, say, 3rd place (you're truce) and you fight against the 1st place person, and as soon as you become first, the other person flags. The only reason you are in first is because of that third place person.

Also, I personally feel that there is a difference between a truce and a mutual understanding. A truce you owe place to, while if you have been nonverbally helping another player out, flags are still more important. But that one's just my view.

All in all, people disagree on this issue. Know that if you are playing on a higher level table and you don't reward a truce, they will not help you out in the future. But more than that, don't start a whining battle. In the end of a game, if someone picked a truce over a flag or a flag over a truce, don't fill up the chat box for the next three games with your argument about which is right. Just take the place you got, and go earn points in a different game.

Always, I mean ALWAYS: truce>flag.

P.S.: there are thousand of threads/replies about the same, why are we still discussing it?