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  1. TL:DR at the bottom So one sadly hot Autumn day, there was a GIANT tree on the top of a hill. A pack of Griffins were flying when they noticed the giant tree in the distance. The leaders of the Griffins decided to head out by themselves to check out this unnaturally large tree. So the leaders landed under the tree, looking up and seeing how vast its leaves and branches were. "I think we should claim this as ours" Said leader JtTeE. "How do we claim things again? It’s been months and my memory is a bit poor" replied Synthesis. "We get one of us to piss on it! Like a cat!" Roared Memph. So 8mrgrim8 is chosen as the designated claimer and starts huddling beside the tree, ready to take his griffinous leak when the tree started making a noise! "OH NO THIS THING WON’T PISS ON OUR TREE" Was heard from up above in the cloud of leaves. The Griffin leaders all jumped back in attack formation when they see one after another, common humans sprouting from hiding to look down at them "Yo this is our tree, wanna kerfuffle?" Came from the man who looked to be the human leader. "Uh, I'd rather not, we are a bit hungry though" Replied 8mrgrim8. Out of nowhere, a smaller human starts shaking one of the branches, the Griffins are confused but still on guard about what the human was doing. The little human shook the tree so that piles and piles of cake fall down out of the leaves in front of Griffins. "Have some of our cake! Also, we haven’t even introduced each of ourselves yet, I'm Purpley and the one who said he wants to scrap is our leader Felkey". Later on after the first appearance of the two groups, Purpley invited the Griffin leaders (and the pack the Griffins mentioned about) to come mingle for a meeting party! So all the humans and Griffins met and had a get together, eating lots of cake and delicacies that the humans offered, even though most of it was cake. The Griffins and humans got together more and more as days passed, introducing and having a good time together. After the leaders of each group had introduced themselves and had a chat, getting to know each groups culture, how they are, and what they like, the first get together seemed to be a success because both groups seemed to really like each other right off the bat. "Sorry for the confusion at the beginning, it was nice to meet you guys! The Commoners are pretty cool" Said 8mrgrim8. "No worries, happens sometimes when we take a snooze, you guys are pretty amazing as well, as we said we have no Griffins here but we have something similar, we have a pet Sphinx!" Replies Felkey. They all laugh and have a grand time “So this first appearance has turned out a lot better than I expected, we were looking for more people to be friends with, what do you say? We don’t bite... most of the time" JtTeE says "Friends sounds good! We might show ourselves as aggressive sometimes, even when we first meet but getting friends is awesome!" Blurted out Sven, one of The Commoners leaders. "What is a friend to you guys though?" Mentioned Lionstar. "Well, friends are close to each other, if they hear something interesting they will tell each other, same goes if your friend is in danger!" Replied JtTeE. "Especially with that danger, friends will come and defend you if anything happens" Memph added. "Friends also rightfully help each other on occasions where you need to strike first! Boomed Synthesis. The Commoner leaders looked at each other, and showed big smiles. "That sounds exactly like friends should be!" Chuckles Purpley. "What happens if we stop being friends though?" Was asked by the pessimist Felkey. A quick pause of silence happened from both sides. "Well, even if we stop being friends, we will tell each other about it, but we don’t think friendships should go like that though!" Smiled JtTeE. "I guess we should celebrate our new found friendship with more cake and tea then?!" Purpley said as she jumped with glee. So they all celebrated, eating more cake and having a good time with each other over their new bond of friendship. Common Humans and Griffins, together. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Griffin in the Tree Accords Guardian and The Commonwealth have agreed to the following terms: Article 1 If one alliance hears something interesting, they should inform the other alliance should it pertain to them. Article 2 If one alliance is attacked, the other alliance must come to their defense. Article 3 Both alliances reserve the right to enter into a joint offensive together. Article 4 If either alliance wishes to end this agreement, a 72 hour notice must be given wherein a NAP will be observed for that 72 hour period. Signed for Guardian, Memph - High Government JtTeE - High Government 8mrgrim8 - High Government Synthesis - He does things too. Signed for TCW, Felkey - Prime Minister Purplemoon/Yui - Chief of Staff, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sphinx - Minister of Finance Lionstar - Minister of the Interior Sven Shieldmaker - Minister of Defense and guy who refuses to buy more cities
    20 points
  2. Hey everyone, this is going to be a long post, so bear with me here. First, a couple of housekeeping announcements: @Honey Monster has resigned as a forum moderator. I am very grateful for their help, without the forum moderators I certainly wouldn't be able to keep things civil here by myself. Next, I'd like to introduce a new forum moderator, @Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. who has just signed up to help pick up the additional workload. I have high hopes that they will make a fair and unbiased forum moderator. We will likely be bringing on some other additional forum moderators in the near future as well. My goal is to have a professional team of moderators to ensure everyone has a satisfactory experience on these forums. If you have any particular qualms or grievances regarding forum moderation, please shoot me a PM. --- Geography Update Now, to the meat of this announcement, which is about a significant update to the geography mechanics of the game. Primarily, this update is about a shift to using Google Maps as the map interface in-game, and with it there are some mechanical changes as well. I released a video on the Facebook and Twitter pages about the map update yesterday, feel free to check that out. Instead of picking a point on the map, you get to draw a shape (polygon) This is perhaps the most exciting aspect of this update from a role-play perspective. Instead of an arbitrary colored circle, you will get to draw a polygon made up of up to 20 vertices on the Earth's surface using Google Maps. You'll have a huge degree of customization, including the size of the map display and zoom on your nation page, as well as the color of your borders, fill, and opacity of your nation shape. An example screenshot The area encompassed by your map shape must be less than or equal to the total land area of your nation as defined by the sum of all of the land in your cities. This will prevent arbitrarily large polygons from covering the map. Note, like the circle points previously, nation maps can "overlap", i.e. the area that you draw for your nation is not exclusively "yours". The reason for this is that it would be incredibly complex and difficult to set it up any other way. Antarctica is now a continent option Going with Google Maps, there really wasn't a choice here. You can now draw your nation in Antarctica, and so Antarctica has now been added as its own separate continent with it's own resource distribution (Coal, Oil, and Uranium.) Antarctica can build Farms as well, but instead of having seasonal effects, instead there is a permanent -50% food production penalty. When this update goes live, everyone will get 2 free additional location changes. New nations will start with 3 free changes This should be pretty self-explanatory, you'll have some freedom to play around with the new location options when the update goes live. Cities will now start with 250 sq. miles of land (instead of 20) This will give new players a lot more freedom in drawing their polygon, and hopefully eliminate some of the high population density problems new players often experience early on. The tutorial has been updated to reflect this change; instead of asking players to buy to 520 sq. miles of land, they will now be asked to buy 500 sq. miles of land to reach 750 in their capital city. The World and Nuclear Proliferation maps are updated to Google Maps (as well as Alliance maps) Instead of drawing 200+ polygons on the world maps, instead your nation will be represented as a point (the center point of your nation's polygon) with your national flag on the map. Test server example --- Halloween Tournament To thoroughly test the new geographical changes before they are launched into the live game, we will be hosting a test server tournament starting at 12AM October 17 (server time.) It will run until 12AM on November 11 (server time.) Note that the server does not observe daylight savings time. Standard tournament details can be found on the test server homepage: http://test.politicsandwar.com/ If you are unfamiliar with the test server, it is a copy of the source code of the live server (with some modifications) running on a completely separate database. You will need to create a new account there. A few things to note: The test server does NOT send e-mails. Ever. You do not need a valid e-mail address to play on the test server Having multiple nations is NOT allowed on the test server. You will be banned permanently and prohibited from participating in any future testing/tournaments Registration will be closed 3 days after the tournament has begun. This happens automatically, and you will NOT be able to join the tournament late for any reason. Trading will be disabled until after registration has closed. Alliance banks are disabled for the duration of the tournament. Creating a nation to send all of your money to a friend and then quitting is not considered fair play, and you will be banned. Your nation will be deleted from the test server at some point after the tournament ends. Please do not get too attached. Other details, such as starting Beige time and starting cities, money, and resources are listed on the test server homepage. While the purpose of this particular tournament is primarily to test the robustness of the map update detailed above, there may be some Halloween related tricks/events to be had. I won't say anything further on that point, though I would encourage you to participate in what I anticipate to be a very unique tournament. Winners in the following categories will be recognized in the live server with a nation award: Highest Score Nation Most Wars Won Most Money Looted Most Infrastructure Destroyed Most Nuclear Weapons Launched Largest GDP Nation Largest Land Area Nation The alliance with the highest score at the end of the tournament will also be able to select a flag to be added to the test server permanently. --- I believe that's it. I'm sure I've forgotten some detail or other, so feel free to ask any questions and offer feedback here in this thread. A lot of effort has been put into this update and tournament; I hope you're all as excited as I am!
    13 points
  3. If Sheepy hurries with the geography change and launches it mid-war, then we know it's a real war. The update will probably catastrophically kill the game code and we'll be left with a 3 day intermission as we try to figure out why Antarctic nations exist in their own game or are immune to all attacks.
    10 points
  4. It's been on his calendar for weeks.
    8 points
  5. Bets are open, who will be the first banned for making his nation borders like a swastika?
    7 points
  6. What would be the point of having a whale nation if not to draw the biggest cock on the map?
    6 points
  7. Uh, yes? Why else would they watch it then? That's a terrible analogy.
    5 points
  8. Have fun. Stay safe.
    5 points
  9. 5 points
  10. I told you so. Someone say apeman? What else was it I used to say about these folks? Never mind apes got a good memory.
    5 points
  11. I stand with Element! Shifty must appologize and TEst must disavow. In response to Element's bravery, I am coming forward with my own story. Just a few nights ago I was playing Halo when one of the opponents I killed told me his dad was Bill Gates and would ban my Xbox! I immediately shut down the machine and was left shaking uncontrollably. I still haven't managed to eat or sleep. How will I get my life back? How many more people must be victimized so? Shifty and those like him must pay for their crimes!
    5 points
  12. I see what you did there. Great Job! Also, congrats! Also also, Sphinx and Shlappa = bae
    4 points
  13. Where's apeman or anyone else from old nuke Bloc to scream "I TOLD YOU SO" at everyone about EMC.
    4 points
  14. I'm afraid to say anything because anything can be misconstrued as rude - I don't want another warn point. Great Job - This looks so awesome - so proud for you guys people of both of these alliances. Good things here. Side note - its awesome that y'all are still using the flag I made back in the day - if you want to redo, hmu on discord.
    4 points
  15. 4 points
  16. Wait... just hold on a moment.. "When you click the resource icon on the top it leads you to the trade screen"
    4 points
  17. Shifty basically coming here to gloat further Shifty is here to say, he knows about the war, he knows what's gonna happen, but..... because everyone gets so pissy and cancels plans, he won't leak it (if at all). Not yet, not unless it grants a tactical advantage to someone. The fact is, at this point the war happening is more entertaining than it not. Seeking salt from the leak isn't really the punchline of this joke we call FA logs. Shifty goes for the highest gross sodium output. Anywho, Shifty knew of the TCW-Guardian signing. Next step is TCW-TRF split.
    3 points
  18. This is where my massive land size finally comes in hahaha! I am looking forward to this update, I think its gonna be really fun (as long as it doesnt break anything else) @Alex now if you can only just add that leaderboard for land I would love you man!
    3 points
  19. Moving right back to where we started. Grrrreatttt.
    3 points
  20. Where oh where could Felkey be?
    2 points
  21. Not enough Devils Triangle
    2 points
  22. He converted to ayyslam and went on a pilgrimayyge
    2 points
  23. Should be honored I consider you a pet you ungrateful cat thing ?
    2 points
  24. I always feel real smart, to be honest. My IQ was once measured as above 235.
    2 points
  25. Not too sure if I should be honoured being compared to a Griffon or if I should be annoyed that I'm now Felkey's pet...... Still o7 tCW & Guardian
    2 points
  26. It maybe an old rumor, but there's a debate as to who really dropped who.
    2 points
  27. Wow, people reacting to consolidation by consolidating. Bet you feel real smart now t$ and Rose.
    2 points
  28. Man, now that's how you fricking announce something. Welcome to Roz Wei. Wait... this isn't about Roz Wei. What in God's name. Congrats mate.
    2 points
  29. I dunno about that, but I'm definitely expecting some phallus
    2 points
  30. Afrika Korps(AK) and Respublica Romana(RnR) treaty: -"The clanging of swords upon shields could be heard in the distance through the desert . Oberst Velium, leading his Panzer division, came out from his flag panzer and looked through his binoculars to see what it might be. What he saw, was an army of shining legionaries in glorious combat against a horde of savages. The Panzers fired a volley of explosive shells into the horde before mowing them down under their tracks. The legionaries charge behind the Panzer line to finish the disoriented barbarians. He ordered our panzers to fight against the barbarians, and in that moment of unity, two different armies fight as one. The barbarians fled before the might of these two forces. As the dust settled, Oberst Velium came forth and asked to speak to the leader of these Roman Legionaries. Consul Dreadnought, the leader of the Roman forces happened to be in the fray. He rode up on his horse, meeting the Velium's Flag Panzer as the two forces circled around. Velium came out from his tank and stood upon it's front, extending his hand in friendship. "I am Oberst Velium of the Afrika Korps. Let us join forces once again when the time comes." "I, Consul of the Romans by the name of Dreadnought, accept your offer." Dreadnought said after he came closer and shook hands.". And so they agreed on these treaty: -Article 1: Sovereignty: This treaty will not interfere or infringe on the sovereignty of the alliances signing it. The inner workings of both of these are not going to be changed in any way by this. -Article 2: Non-aggression: Both of the alliances included in this treaty must not get involved in hostilities against each other in any way. -Article 3: Optional Defense: Both of the alliances included have the option to defend one another when the situation seems fit. -Article 4: Optional Offense: These alliances can join up and fight together in wars if they want to. -Article 5: Sharing of information: Intel that seems useful can be shared between both of these alliances. -Article 6:Cancellation: 72 hours of notice must be given when either side chooses to cancel this treaty.
    1 point
  31. Downvote. You came out neutral, one downvote, one upvote. Bourbon is the only acceptable answer.
    1 point
  32. This might be one of the most wholesome declarations I've seen.
    1 point
  33. I suppose the question is, is the war going to be delayed on account of the test server tournament? Also we really should schedule our wars with Sheepy so this kind of overlap is minimized.
    1 point
  34. Congratulations! Bird Cats and Naked Apes
    1 point
  35. The Commonwealth, I know we are not allies, but in your hour of need, I am willing to put the full military might of Grumpy behind your war effort.
    1 point
  36. This is Shifty reporting the top story tonight, A story of pirates, a story of businessmen with too much cash and damaged pride, and of a game Admin. Following Wilhelm the Demented's acquisition of the tS bank, Arrgh mateys realized he had too much loot and not enough wars dec'd The legendary DragonK got his bounties purged and got beiged right before he mashed up Wilhelm and got close to victory Sadly, Bluebear made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his shot at loot glory to ensure his son DragonK won. Meanwhile Boyce, the great looter, managed to loot: Empire looted $548,301,582, 110 Coal, 3,374 Oil, 14,436 Uranium, 4,680 Iron, 7,632 Bauxite, 1,683 Lead, 214,690 Gasoline, 202,528 Munitions, 161,413 Steel, 66,806 Aluminum, and 596,488 Food. Verumque Amentia also lost 4.2% of the infrastructure in each of their cities. So doing what any alliance that just got teabagged would do, they complained and got DragonK's beige removed. And thus, Alex once again favors as a side and proves that pirates are not loved. Requote/repost if you agree: RIP Bluebear, Alex made your ultimate sacrifice go down in vain. We shall avenge you brudda.May you rest in Davy Jones' Locker.
    1 point
  37. 09/11/2018 04:01 am Kroatoria looted $472,857,293, 99 Coal, 3,037 Oil, 12,991 Uranium, 4,212 Iron, 6,869 Bauxite, 1,515 Lead, 193,127 Gasoline, 182,170 Munitions, 141,197 Steel, 60,493 Aluminum, and 536,760 Food. Verumque Amentia also lost 4.2% of the infrastructure in each of their cities.
    1 point
  38. No, he should not remove beige under any circumstances what-so-ever. Not ever. Don't even suggest it. Don't even THINK about it. Don't even think about thinking about maybe suggesting it. Don't even think about giving that thought even the slightest consideration of thinking it might be worth even the most passing discussion. Beige. Is. Vital. Without it, anyone that loses a war loses the game, full stop. There would be no coming back, not for anyone. Removing fortify was bad enough, but to remove beige entirely removes all possibility of warfare; there would only be immediate and permanent destruction of the losing sides. But if it HAS to be done, if sheepy is THAT committed to NOT DOING HIS ONE JOB, if it's SO important to just throw fundamental game mechanics to the wind, then remove beige loot along with beige protection. And remove beige infra damage along with beige protection. And at that point just remove war, there's no way for it to exist in sheepy's dream world of everyone-pays-him-for-nothing no-moderation wonderland. If it's possible for someone to lose something, then it'll be possible for them to !@#$ at admin about it. So nobody should ever be allowed to lose anything, lest they disturb Alex's inbox with complaints about it. Edit: Yeah, you really SHOULD get rid of war @Alex. Literally nobody would like it, which by your arguments here means it's the best thing possible.
    1 point
  39. No we don't. Also, why so Sirius?
    1 point
  40. Remember back in the day where too many bloc members and MDPs was frowned upon? @LordStrum I miss those days. Just merge already
    1 point
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