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"a. No member of Vault 111 will be allowed to make any statements, posts, threads, or content otherwise on the global forums. An explicit exemption is made for Catsby to post in the National RP section so long as those posts do not in any way reference non-RP aspects." So... he's not free to come here and defend/explain himself.

I think what the game needs is less inert !@#$ing and moaning about what the game needs.

We sip, we die, we sip again. Uncle offers his utmost thanks to Mr. Woods for an interesting interview. It was a pleasure speaking with him, and I hope everyone enjoys his insight.

Since everyone is using them nowadays, drop your permanent link and I'll add you to the directory. Or a mod can do it if they see it. Please use your full alliance name. Please pin this topic. Politics and War Channel Roz Wei Lordaeron Rose Grumpy Old Bastards Blue Moon STAG Corporations Alpha Brotherhood of the Clouds Viridian Entente Ragnarok Holy Britannian Empire Earth Space Defense Resplendent Vox Populi Global Communist Bloc Arrgh! The Knights Radiant The Syndicate The Commonwealth Oblivion Polaris Acadia Black Knights Terran Republic The Chola Seven Kingdoms Terminus Est Order of the White Rose Order of Storms Fark Pantheon Valyria The Teutonic Order Guardian

Alliance Projects - I had the idea for Alliance based projects that can be purchased by any member with management rights and affect all accepted members within the alliance that purchases one. These are made to be purchased for alliances hence why they have hefty prices and I tried to balance the effects with either slight drawbacks or prerequisites. Basic Req: 500,000 alliance infrastructure per slot for an Alliance Project hence if you got 1,000,000 alliance Infrastructure you got 2 slots open. Also can only be deleted/purchased after 90 days. **Alternative idea: All project would be temporary limited to 180days and have a reset timer for every 50 days for purchase/deletion. In this version there is no infra prerequisite. (prices below have been adjusted to reflect this alternative) International Monetary Fund - $550,000,000 [ 70,000 Lead / 80,000 Iron / 30,000 Steel / 20,000 Aluminum ] Boost all nations commerce cap up to 127% but requires an International Trade Center to take advantage. Global Reserve Bank - $300,000,000 [ 90,000 Lead / 100,000 Iron / 30,000 Steel ] Allows you to store 15% of the current alliance bank in a reserve fund which can NOT be looted. However funds can only be deposited/withdrawn once every 7 days. World Health Organization - $225,000,000 [ 60,000 Iron / 50,000 Bauxite / 15,000 Steel / 700,000 Food ] Reduce disease -3%, pollution -50 points and boost population by 2% in all nations. However reduces gross income by -1%. Social Security -$400,000,000 [ 65,000 Iron / 65,000 Gasoline / 35,000 Aluminum / 500,000 Food] Boost population in all nations by 6% but Increases Food Consumption to (Peace) = (Population / 700) + (Soldiers / 750) (War) = (Population / 700) + (Soldiers / 500) International Mining Consortium - $250,000,000 [ 60,000 Lead / 75,000 Iron / 25,000 Gasoline / 30,000 Aluminum ] 25% Boost to all mining Coal/Oil/Iron/Bauxite/Lead/Uranium but adds 16 points of pollution in each city of every nation. International Trade Centre/International Trade Organization - $450,000,000 [ 75,000 Coal / Oil 90,000 / Iron 75,000 / 30,000 Gasoline / 20,000 Steel ] Boost gross income +3% for all nations in the alliance but adds 20 points of pollution in each city of every nation. Strategic Air Command Center - $700,000,000 [ 150,000 Lead / 120,000 Iron / 100,000 Gasoline / 80,000 Munitions / 95,000 Aluminum ] Increases Hangars production to allow you to manufacture up to 4 new Aircraft a day per hanger and increases the production of missiles & nukes to 2 per day. (FYI aircraft can stack with Propaganda Bureau) However It increases upkeep of air units as follows: [ Increases Aircraft upkeep (Peace/War) to 650/975 ] [ Increases Missiles upkeep to $27,300 per day in peacetime and $40,950 per day in wartime ] [ Increases Nuclear Weapons upkeep to $45,500 per day in peacetime and $68,250 per day in wartime ] Orbis Stock Exchange - $150,000,000 [ 40,000 Coal / 40,000 Oil / 40,000 Lead / Bauxite 40,000 / 25,000 Steel / 500,000 Food ] Adds +0.2 per alliance to the Cumulative Bonus to all nations in an alliance involved in active market sharing that owns this project. It caps at 2% **New Update 7/4** Military Industrial Complex - $600,000,000 [ 175,000 Oil / 20,000 Uranium / 140,000 Lead / 150,000 Bauxite / 60,000 Steel / 20,000 Aluminum / 300,000 Food ] Soldiers increase their efficiency by 80% when supplied with munitions. It also reduces Steel Requirements for tanks to 0.75 per tank and for naval vessels to 17.5 per ship. However munitions requirements increase to the following: [Soldiers now require 1 munitions per 2,000 soldiers.] [Tanks now require 1 munitions per 50 tanks in battles to operate.] [Naval vessels now require 4 munitions each in battles to operate.] Advanced Defense Research Agency - $275,000,0000 [ 135,000 Lead / 100,000 Iron / 85,000 Bauxite / 35,000 Steel ] Fortify now causes your opponent to take 20% more casualties if they attack you while you're fortified. Decreases infrastructure damage taken from Ground Battles, Airstrikes,and Naval Battles by 5% to all nations. However Fortify only adds +8 Resistance. Also Gasoline requirements increase for all Land/Sea/Air vehicles to the following. [Tanks now require 1 gasoline per 50 tanks in battles to operate.] [Aircraft now require 1 gasoline per 2 aircraft in battles to operate.] [Naval vessels now require 3 gasoline each in battles to operate.] *New 7/8 Drone Defense System - $600,000,000 [ 100,000 Oil / Bauxite 120,000 / 25,000 Uranium / 135,000 Iron / 175,000 Munitions ] When an opponent attacks with Aircraft a drone is launched to preempt engage the enemy air craft and may shoot down 0%-2% of the attacking planes before ones aircraft engage. However this also increases the Aluminum necessary to manufacture Aircraft to 4 Aluminum per aircraft. Drones are military sub units that must be purchased and are limited to 1 per day with a cap of 15. Drones Cost: $100,000 , 50 Aluminum, 50 Gasoline, 50 Munitions each For clarity when attacked 1 drone launches per attacks so even if you have 15 and get attacked by 4 opponents in single air raids 4 drones will be used i per opponent . Afterwards then your regular airplanes would engage. Also clearly this only works as a defensive countermeasure not on offensive attacks. Also Drones are susceptible to spy attacks which can destroy 1 each. . Notes: - The IMF finally lets you use all those Markets : - The GBR feature is linked directly to current bank total to avoid people being able to throw money in once their funds start to diminish. It also limits both withdrawals and deposits to once a week all these to avoid abuse. To further clarify "The Global Reserve Bank only lets you put 15% of your current Alliance bank total" so... Example: If your Alliance Bank = $500,000 you can place $75,000 max into reserve. If your AA bank gets drained down to $200,000 you can NOT put any more money in cause your already past your cap unless you take money out below your new cap. Any money you withdraw automatically goes into the AA Bank. Therefore you can not send money from the reserve to a specific person you must use the bank. Also blockade rules apply to the Reserve and you wont be able to access until blockade has ended. - Strategic Air Command originally had a different purpose to reduce AP of air/missile/nukes by -1 but that might break the balance. It was when I was considering making AA projects temporary. - **The Orbis Stock Exchange is unique in that it requires inter-alliance activity via Market sharing trades with various alliances to gain the bonus. Global trades do NOT count and it must be done via the Market "Alliance Trade offer" with a member belonging to your market sharing grouping to be considered valid. An active trade can be considered any trade made and completed within 72hrs. The bonus only applies to the alliance who has the Orbis exchange project. Example: So if you have a Market sharing with 5 AA and they are all active you would get a 1% boost to your bonus. However if only 1 were "active" you only get 0.2 The idea is to encourage alliance Market sharing via a bonus. - In general I'm still adjusting the purchase cost slightly and i had some other ideas for alliance projects but didn't want to clutter too many ideas just yet until I get some feedback.. Update notes: I added 2 new military Alliance projects and boosted the cost of SACC. The new projects follow the same principle of having slight drawbacks to offset the advantages. - The Advanced Defense Research Agency 5% def bonus can be added to war policy bonuses to boost, reduce or neutralize effects. Update note: I added the last project the DDS and updated the cost mechanics with resources which I still may tweak.

So, most people are probably aware of my growing inactivity since September. I just don't really have any motivation to play this game any more. Put the nation in VM for 6 months on the off-chance I want to come back, but realistically I'm probably done. I'd sit here and list people, but there's way too many to name. So I'll just say, to everyone who made this game worth playing, thank you. Didn't think I'd be here for two weeks, let alone 2 and a half years. But for now, ring the bell, I'm tapping out. -Strummy

(I request an immediate transfer if this thread is in the incorrect sub-forum) Please highlight to better view the white letters in my message, To all Americans present, I wish a happy Independence Day. May God bless you and your families.

Reminds me of the "There will be no war" 2 hours before the blitz of the previous war. XD

NO STRUMMY!!! WE NEED THE TRU KOREABOO!!!

I didn't vote for Trump because he seemed like he was telling you what you wanted to hear about political correctness and the rule of law and order just to get votes. He even said that we don't care about Hillary anymore since he won. Anyone who's followed him for the past 30 years knows that he's a John Kerry flip-flopper too since he's admitted to supporting plenty of liberal policies over the years. Even CNN's producers were caught on camera saying they believe he's not a real Republican. Trump voters aren't duped though. They anticipated he'd do this, but they just didn't care. They voted for his personality, not his policies.

MoG[Corp] Army 600,000 Army 60,000 Central Readiness Force(Rapid Reaction Force) 5,000 Salamander Infantry Regiment(Amphibious warfare Spec Ops) 10,000 1st Airborne Brigade(Paratrooper Spec Ops) 5,000 Special Forces Group 6,300 STARS (Special Tactics Armed Response Service) 45,000 Autonomous Ground Force Military Army Structure: Size of Fireteam: - 2 Soldiers One fire team per squad consists of medic and lieutenant. Size of Squad: - 5 Fireteams - 10 Soldiers Size of Platoon: - 2 Squads - 20 Soldiers Size of Company: - 5 Platoons - 100 Soldiers -50 Mechanized Size of Battalion: - 5 Companies - 500 Soldiers -25 Mechanized Size of Regiment: - 5 Battalions - 2,500 Soldiers - 50 Tanks - 250 Mechanized Size of Brigade: - 2 Regiments - 5,000 Soldiers - 100 Tanks - 40 Artillery - 500 Mechanized Size of Division: - 4 Brigades - 20,000 Soldiers - 500 Tanks - 200 Artillery - 2,000 Mechanized Size of Corps: - 4 Divisions - 80,000 Soldiers - 2,000 Tanks - 800 Artillery - 8,000 Mechanized Size of Field Army: - 2.5 Corps - 200,000 Soldiers - 5,000 Tanks - 2,000 Artillery - 20,000 Mechanized Size of Army Group: - 2 Field Armies - 400,000 Soldiers - 12,000 Tanks - 4,000 Artillery - 40,000 Mechanized MoG[Corp] uses the most modern and cutting edge equipment available to it in order to achieve dominance upon the battlefield. OOC note: this is what I would be using for "modern" equipment, those who RP on a more advanced timeline will be fighting equipment on a more equal footing with their own. MoG[Corp] Ground Forces Equipment: Protection: Body Armour: Level V Dragon Skin Weapons: Anti-Material Rifle: Vektor M107 Assault Rifle: Vektor T91 assault rifle, (OpRec) Vektor G56 Battle Rifle: Vektor M14 EBR Grenade Launcher Attachment: T85 40mm grenade launcher Grenade: Anti-Tank: Type 06 Rifle Grenade Frag: M67 grenade Smoke: M18 Grenade Incendiary: M14 TH3, Model 308-1 Napalm Stun: M84 stun grenade Grenade Launcher: Vektor SuperSix MGL Grenade Launcher, Automatic: Vektor Type 06 SutoraikÄ Knife: varies, personal choice Machine Gun, Light: Milkor MINIMI 5.56mm Machine Gun Machine Gun, General Purpose: M240 machine gun Machine Gun, Heavy: Milkor M2 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun Mine: Anti-Personnel: M18 Claymore mine, M86 Pursuit Deterrent Munition, BLU-92/B anti-personnel mine Anti-Tank: M93 HORNET mine, BLU-91/B anti-tank mine Mortar: M224A1 Mortar, M252A1 Mortar Pistol: Vektor P320 Pistol, Machine: Machine Pistol: Vektor 9mm Machine Pistol, H&K MP7 Rocket Launcher: BGM-71 TOW, FGM-148 Javelin, FGM-172 SRAW, FIM-92 Stinger Shotgun: Sumitomo M590A1, Vektor M1024, Sumitomo AA-12 Sniper Rifle: Sumitomo Tac-50, Vektor XM109, Vektor M107 Sub-machine Gun: Vektor P90, Vektor K7 Tools: MoG[Corp] Military Soldier Kit (Includes mess kit, shovel, gas mask, first aid kit, cleaning kit, poncho, canteen with cup, blanket and personal hygiene items), and Field Telephone. Armoured and Mechanized Vehicles: Armored Car: Denel LAV Amphibious Transport: Denel AAV Armored Personal Carrier: Denel Armored Personnel Carrier Armored Recovery Vehicle: Type 11 Tank Recovery Vehicle (Type 10 body) Armored Vehicle-launched Bridge: Denel AVLB Infantry Fighting Vehicle: Type 89 IFV Main Battle Tank: Type 10 Olifant II, Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles: Utility: Komatsu Mamushi JERRV: Komatsu JKTS Mine-clearing: Type 92 Mine Clearance Vehicle Recon ​Komatsu ChÄ«tÄ Recon: Type 87 ARV Tank Destroyer: Mitsubishi Maneuver Combat Vehicle Utility: Landing Craft: Landing Craft Utility: Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Truck, Toyota Type 73 Medium Truck, Isuzu Type 73 Heavy Truck Light Utility: Komatsu LAV Motorcycle: Kawasaki KLX250 Artillery: Anti-Air: Gun: Sumitomo 35 mm twin cannon Missile System: Type 3 ChÅ«-SAM Self-Propelled: Gun: Type 87 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun Missile System: Type 93 Surface-to-air missile Anti-Tank: Type 87 Chu-MAT Artillery: Field Artillery: FH-70 Towed Howitzer Mortar: Type 96 Heavy mortar (RT 120mm Mortar) Self-Propelled: Anti-Tank: Type 60 106mm Recoilless Gun Artillery Light: Type 99 155 mm self-propelled howitzer Artillery Heavy: M110 howitzer Missile System: Type 75 130 mm Multiple Rocket Launcher, Type 04 Multiple Cradle Launcher Mortar: Type 96 120mm Self-Propelled Mortar

Exactly. When likes are transparent, it makes them seem at least somewhat objective since you can see when strangers without a predisposition approve as well as what friendships try to game the system.

...before, I at least knew when to discount likes because I could see when people who were friends and alliance-mates were liking each other. Now, I have to discount likes all the time since the difference between friends and non-friends liking posts can't be determined.

The worst part of likes being no longer displayed on the OWF is that now i have to indiviudally message each person to let them know I liked their post

I completely forgot about that. You got me.

My theory is that Catsby wants some resemblance of power that's secure. If that means being the leader of Vault 111 and Vault 111 practical being Duat's !@#$ to the point where they're basically just a puppet state, then Catsby is fine with that because it fulfills what he and possibly the rest of his core group wants. Catsby is more than free to come on here and defend/explain himself ofc (this is a joke thread anyways), but the terms of the protection treaty basically throw any idea of sovereignty out the window. If KT got into a war and those peace terms were the only way out, then I would prefer to just disband that to have those cuffs on (and I think that would be the position of most alliances).

ex.

Well what you guys could do is ask everyone who liked your post, and then inspect element and change the HTML code to that, and do that for every single post you make.

Did you not read what this guy said? Send Alex a PM in-game, and you'll get the extra creds in less than a week.

Hippo's always on my mind. <3 Marxist Dream -) They likely weren't going to receive a protectorate agreement, Grealind employed his silver tongue to talk of a seemingly beneficial plan, and they got trapped. Vault 111 -) Kinda obvious. It's led by Catsby and a few others that still haven't been capable of bringing up an alliance that, y'know, works. Oh and, those people are dumb. 'Nuff said.

*insert BDSM with flags edited in for faces image here* I'd post an actual one but, you know nazi mods and all that.

And I recommend reading Catsby memoirs, so you don't get couped instead. And, another piece of a great book, that's just about to come off the press - "The Great VE Schism - How and Why".

And I'm the drunk one who needs to get back in my cage......geez

We've been rebuilding. Thanks for pointing out that we need to restock however, it was on our "to do" list right after clearance shopping at the gun and knife store getting the Gougar a brake job your mom restocking the whisky cabinet getting some more steak tacos at that place up town, I swear they are to die for! By the way souparmon, impressive number of nukes held. Maybe some day you'll catch up to me on nukes launched (63 to 44).

Happy canada day

Ride with Zeon Today!

but what if condition 1 was a lie and I was just shitposting...

...That was the entire point, so to say, condition 1 being true, ends in statement 1 being true. Since condition 1 wasn't true, statement 1 isn't true either.

Actually, that doesn't help. In fact it has the reverse effect, I am now an insomniac. Pls help.

If it helps you sleep at night too, I'm the one who liked your comment just now. :^)

Yeah, I agree. It's good to know who's a fan/supporter and who isn't.

I can't sleep unless I have confirmation that my opinions are correct.

As do I

I second this; I love seeing who has liked what content.

Leather: Check Whip: Check Rope: Check Sub: Check seems like youre all ready to start your session Gre

I'd play Poker with it... ...except I'm already doing that. :-P

Would you please play the game, so we can DEUS VULT! "Islam means to surrender" +1

At least you're honest, i guess.

Man, I hate Windows 10. I was trying to make a PNG to an ICO file for a secret project I'm doing (I haven't even told Thalmor). Then this shit shows up.

Look at that guy, he's a complete badass. Wanna be him? Join Knights Templar! Aside from the usual grants, interest free loans, and an awesome community, we have memes! Deus Vult memes!!!

Not even our former friends in CKD are safe from the coming storm:

Further evidence to this point:

The first crusade has begun. Lordaeron will fall.

The biggest problem with American Democracy is that it's basically an oligarchy. Politicians (many of whom have been in office for decades) care to much about re-election to want to support any really dramatic legislation.

Things are changing now - but the way I see it, since the recession interest rates have been very, very low. Lots of foreigners want to invest in the United States (i.e. buy our debt) and at the current prices, it makes sense, in my opinion, to borrow their money and invest it into our infrastructure, which will promote future economic growth and allow us to pay back the debt in the future. Now, whether the government is using the money in a worthwhile way that promotes future economic growth is another question. But, in theory, I think it makes sense for us to be taking on debt. As I started though - it looks like interest rates are set to rise, and ideally (fingers crossed no jump in military spending by getting involved in another war) we'll be back to producing a surplus soon and be able to pay down some of that debt. That last bit might be a fantasy if Trump slashes taxes without offsetting in reduced spending, though.

I'll say yes, and here's my argument: If a society values education enough to mandate that it's youth be educated, then the marginal cost of making that education better is small comparatively to the cost of organizing such a system to begin with. So, if we agree that the education received by a society's youth ought to be decent, or even good, then paying teachers more is a means to that end. No, paying an individual teacher more will not necessarily make them a better teacher, or make students learn more. However, an increase in teacher's wages across the board would increase the number of people that want to be teachers. With more applicants, this allows school boards to be more selective in who they hire. Basically, increasing the pool of people that a school board can choose its teachers from should increase the quality of the teachers. Assuming teachers are selected for their ability to connect and relate information to students, we would expect that new teacher hires would be higher quality teachers than existing/old teachers. And thus, over time, the quality of education ought to increase. Of course there will be kids that just do not want to learn, even if the greatest teacher in the world were in front of them. But on average, education should improve. And with better education, that ought to create better workers, managers, and entrepreneurs, which in turn should increase economic activity. It's not impossible to think that there's a return on education spending in terms of economic growth; what that is is probably impossible to determine. But similar to the Laffer curve, I would expect there's an optimal point at which X spending yields an optimal Y returns. And based on the number of people attending college after high school (in the United States) I'd say we're undershooting that mark.