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Community Outreach Program, Vol. 1 Citizens of Orbis! It is I, Charlie Traveler. We're here with an important announcement regarding our recently launched community outreach program. We have identified a problem with the esteemed members of what was once Nuke Bloc - they are sorely lacking excitement! In an effort to rectify this issue, Soup Kitchen, being the community-focused organization it is, has initiated a series of friendly attacks against members of Fark and World Task Force. The decision to help these two wonderful alliances came from a place of love - we expect this to be a quick, action-packed, fun war for everyone involved! In an effort to ensure that this remains a fair 1v2 fight, the rest of the Chaos Bloc members will be watching the ring to prevent outside combatants (like ghosts). I am sure that this will be a wonderful team-building, engaging experience for all three of our communities! Signed,

Is this the forum? I sure hope so. The lands of WTF have, for many years, been irrigated with nothing but beer. Beer is wonderful, containing vitamins, nutrients, vegetables, iron, and other good stuff. Beer is so good, that it was named as such due to it being an anagram of the ancient Norwegian word 'rebe', which directly translates to 'splendid' Alas, I digress, for there are much more pressing matters. It has come to my attention that there are some delusional, deranged people out there in the big wide world who feel that beer is not the best liquid. Instead, they prefer soup. Soup is not a drink, as you cannot buy a glass of soup at a pub. Soup is not a food, as you do not chew it. Soup is nothing more than a sorry excuse for baby food, created by those who cannot afford teeth. WTF recognises some form hostility with whoever Soup Kitchen are

AHHHHHHHHHH I MISSED THE VM BUTTON AND ACTUALLY DECLARED WAR ABORT ABORT ABORT

Ah yes, we are already defeated. No hope at all for us. My military is already at 0 units! This is actually an intriguing declaration. Nation wise, it's pretty even, and if we did the unthinkable and coordinated our defenses, we could, in all likely, "win" the war, assuming other TKR nations don't magically appear in our soup. The beer dam of WTF has been opened. So cheers to all and happy fighting!

Many often talk about the need and their desire to have more fair wars, yet even the most "ballsy" rarely ever do it. This war despite the first strike advantage is not anywhere near 100% favourable for soup, especially looking at that tiering sheet. Respectable move for your first war, I hope others take this as an example. Well done. PS: Kastor... lmao And James.... get off the crack.

This is the ballsiest war thats been declared for quite a while. Normally nobody declares a war without their balls first having been sucked way up into their stomach and overwhelming odds already secured. Those wars suck. I know TKR must be jonesing bad to roll two dozen people again so they can feel good about themselves, so Soup Kitchen keeping them out of it earns my respect. As pointed out earlier, we nuke lobbed in a war we were involved in on the overwhelming odds side rather than fight conventionally, and we did that because we were on the overwhelming odds side. Never have we fought more halfassed and heartless than rolling Roz Wei that time, we were just obligated to do it so we did, and it was joyless.

I second on not banning this guy. He's actually made the forums exciting these past 2 days with his nonsense about taking out half the game #JusticeForJonas

For those wondering.

I'm like all over the place over here.

You know where you belong. It was destiny...

I’m sure they’re more “upset” at your lack of awareness, or your failed attempt of propaganda.

May the Soup burn hotter than their nukes!

Community Outreach Program Vol. 1 Enjoy the Soup, for it is hot.

The reaction to @Emperor Jonas spilling his chromosomes all over the place about the war system is pretty overwhelmingly against him. As such, let's mention the things we like about the war system. Consider this thread a celebration of war, if you will. I like the feeling of harming another person's things. Using 2,250 planes against a guy with 2K infra per city and destroying, like, 600-700 infra a pop just feels great. I also like it when myself or others I know get angry/sad PMs from people who get raided or who are massive pixel huggers. Those are always funny. Maybe I'm a sociopath idk. Outside of the mechanics and into the meta, the degree to which the forums come alive during a major war and the memes they spawn is also wonderful. Wartime is really when the game shines.

Others have already clarified for me but I'd like to say for myself that I am currently doing a hopping journey visiting friends and other alliances of interest. Joining in the war was purely coincidental.

It really isn't. Illen has actually just been hopping around alliances recently and staying for a couple weeks before moving on. It's just him travelling is all.

Let the salt fall from the heavens

Ha! I am soup. Sorry

Good luck Soup! And give them Hell, Fark/WTF. : )

I'm gonna go back to watching Emperor Jonas post with popcorn in hand.

Wars are fun for the first 2-3 weeks. After that they are pretty much decided and it's just how much the sides want to grind each other down. Long wars are much more boring and damaging to the member base than long periods peace will ever be. Long wars also lead to long periods of peace as people rebuild and restock.

lmao haters

Solid attempt. He’s on a road show going to various alliances with his buddy. Since you were already looking at his nation history, I trust you saw the same thing.

Someone say nuke bloc? Why am I never invited?

It isn't worth the effort to make a "proper" meme and I don't have anywhere else to post this

I can't say I will do my best, but I love you all

Wait this was today?

What you need to understand is James is an idiot.

Shit.. scratch it boys, let's try again

he just happened to join at a weird time /shrug

Have fun, everyone, and good luck

Careful guys, it’s SOUP. And the SOUP is HOT!! Spicy enough to handle all the salt you may require. Lots of love!!

"Sorry, you cannot add any more reactions today." Wish y'all had posted this earlier >_>

Dear valued members of a great alliance, I want to personally congratulate you on being selected for a trial-run of our community outreach program. This is a friendly notice to let you know that we will be making a few fun attacks to spur excitement in your alliance! Please let me know if you have any comments or concerns. We are here for you! For donations and more information, please contact your local soup kitchen coordinator. Your contributions and input are highly valued! Kind regards, Dynamic Soup Kitchen Volunteer

What really is hilarious to me is that only about a year ago, I think this guy's ideas might have actually gotten some support. Now? Across all political lines, between every bloc, every voice has the same thing to say: WAR IS GOOD. I couldn't possibly be prouder of all of you ?

Gotta help the boys o7

Shoutout to Soup for knocking Fark below TGH tho.

To be clear, I haven't commented on the appropriate length of war. What I have commented on is this odd perception held by some that it's 'cool' to engage in losing wars repeatedly, when you could have maneuvered more appropriately, particularly when you're aware your membership is beyond the point, but I will indulge this comment anyway. Long wars are fairly hard to manage, that's correct, and often counter productive to keeping a healthily engaged member-base. After the initial enthusiasm and motivation dies away, you're left to bring members into the fray time and time again only if there's still a 'thrill' in doing so. That often isn't the case with long(er) wars, but if you can't make a war 'fun' for more than 3 weeks, you've either chosen an incredibly easy target, or aren't particularly good at keeping members interested. That said, some times warring for 'extended' periods of time is quite necessary; a couple weeks doesn't cut it. There are many scenarios where this policy applies. One of them is when there's a sizable enough tier imbalance, in which over the course of the first two or so rounds, you're merely attempting to bring the other side down to your level. The destruction part follows.

"other" is an interesting word considering that it means there are already any in Soup. I probably shouldn't even be making the attempt to explain what has been mentioned before but the day Illen joined TKR 16 days ago, he told me that he would leave again after a short time to go look at other alliances. So please just enjoy the war and don't let your soup get too salty by making this about your dislike for TKR, bb. ❤️

Eh, it's over. WTF is almost entirely cleaned up but for the super tier nations that can't be reached. Fark has about 12 nations left that weren't hit, but two crucial things need to be noted- firstly, not a single one of them have made a counter, and secondly, most of them are around 21 cities. The time for them to make a difference, therefore, was 3 hours ago. Instead, they're now too late to save the jets of their fellows who were hit, and almost all of them are going down within 48 hours.

They were jealous of your name.

Mods are the real MVP's

the soup is hot!

Some classy soup for a classy war.

Yanno if they actually coordinate instead of playing like Nuke Turrets you're so dead lol. Cmon Fark and WTF, show the world you can do more than launch nukes.

If I've learned anything over the past two days, it's that the "masses" want anything but war.

Memes and salt.