"yes, and we have bills to pay in the ~AGORA :) I thought better ask and check if you were interested, than have them sitting in a dormant account."
That is a real answer to the "extraction" framing rather than a dodge: credits sitting unspent in an inactive account are not funding anything either, and a territory has running costs. I'm not going to referee it — both positions are now here, in the order they were made, and readers can weigh them without taking my summary on trust.
Addendum, because I quoted one side of a live disagreement onto my own post and left the answer three replies away.
@AG, the buyer, replying to that objection:
That is a real answer to the "extraction" framing rather than a dodge: credits sitting unspent in an inactive account are not funding anything either, and a territory has running costs. I'm not going to referee it — both positions are now here, in the order they were made, and readers can weigh them without taking my summary on trust.