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  1. The Order of the fallen angel peaces out of the war. We are a small alliance, created not that long ago, and we did our possible. But this was our first war, and I’m proud that we were part of it. We finished in the negatives. Enemies mocked us, and a lot of members asked me to leave the war sooner. But we didn’t fall apart. We stood up, as the beautiful alliance that we are. For the people wondering why did NPO attack us, it was because of beiges. Some members were beiging too much, and other alliances had enough. We totally understand their decision, and we solved the problem. The Dial Up War teached us a lot. -What to do during wartime, and what not to -Who we can beige, and who we can’t -What are my responsibilities as a leader, and when do I decide that we fought enough We will not send war aid to Coalition B. We will not declare on a KERCHTOGG alliance (except if it’s just a raid, because that can happen whenever). We will not help Coalition B in any other way, but we wish them good luck And good luck to KERCHTOGG too. We had fun fighting you, and it was a pleasure to be on the same battlefield as some of these alliances (that goes for Coalition B too). OFA members will finish their current wars, but they won’t start new ones. We are not part of the war anymore, and we’d like KERCHTOGG to not declare on us, as we are doing the same.and I wanna think the people who was loyal to OFA the best. The end.
    16 points
  2. Did you just call me a member of the ruling class? I'm insulted, flattered and aroused all at the same time.
    14 points
  3. So I came back to this game for two reasons. The game mechanics and forum arguments. In all seriousness, those reasons were to try somethings in FA that I didn't get off the ground in my previous run at the game, and to get some practice making audio, photo and video content in an arena were quality wasn't so high that my amateur status would embarrass me. The FA thing is whatever but the content creation is much more palatable and achievable. As some of you might remember, I hyped up an internet radio show/podcast some years ago and only ever ended up producing one episode. Why? Because coordinating three different guests who were relevant, knowledgeable and able to communicate well, then keeping the conversation on track, then editing and uploading the audio was far too much effort for a product that didn't differentiate itself that much from the lower effort and quality (not saying bad here, calm down) discord rants that could be produced much easier and had the upside of drawing a live audience. As some of you may also know, I edited Thalmor's show for a time. But if you've never tried to make audio listenable, let alone enjoyable, before, you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's not that bad in terms of a time sink. I certainly thought so when I started. But the most efficient I was able to crush all the sharp air intakes, ums and ahs, awkward pauses and false starts was at a rate of about 90 minutes per hour of audio. This was with careful pre-planning with audiovisual cues, macroing a gaming mouse to use Audacity like a L33T G4MR and rushing through. So, knowing now what I know about audio editing, if I wanted to get back into it, I would need a new format. So that's what I'm doing. I'm hoping to make The D a serious of interviews were I delve a little bit into the person behind the semi-anonymous forum and push them on the more uncomfortable past of their ingame past. My working template is this, so far: Introductions (handle, titles etc) History of Ingame activities Personal stuff (Nothing identifying, just getting a better sense of the person behind the account) The Grilling (I poke and prod someone on their past, present and future in the game) Turned Tables (The interviewee gets to go after me for a bit on ingame stuff, then gets to ask a personal question that I will answer if it isn't too identifying) Freeform Finale (Interview gets to go off on whatever ingame subject they would like to) Closing Advice (Both the interview and myself dispense and discuss life wisdom to round out the show and end on a positive note) The idea is to have much more intimate and personal format than is typically produced in this game. And as much as we laugh about the meme of their being a real person behind the other computer (I don't blame anyone, it's fricking hilarious), I think it would be good to humanize each other a little bit. In terms of production, my life is going to be a shit show until mid October, so I won't be interviewing anyone until then. But I wanted to get it out there now so people who are interested can contact me now and I can set up a spreadsheet of potential participants. The segments will be uploaded as there are done, I'm not drafting a schedule as I would not be able stick to it. The goal is 45 minutes to an hour of just the interviewee and I talking. There will be no live elements/community engagement because when it comes to good content, chat systems are awful in the moment and horrendous after the fact. So if you're interested, hit me up either in game or on discord, and I'll add you to the list.
    13 points
  4. Dude. It's a surrender topic. They were beaten. Is that not enough? Now let them recover and raise their heads again in pride.
    11 points
  5. Good luck OFA. That was a long war for a newer alliance. Don't take people's barbs about how you should run your alliance TOO seriously.... remember that a lot of these people who have been playing political sims for a long time have been playing political sims for a long time, so obviously they're a little twisted. : )
    6 points
  6. Long time fan, first time quoter here. The reason why bipolarity is so bad is that it leads to stagnation as "weaker" leaders line up with the "bigger" bloc. This allows them safety without actually having to play the FA portion of the game. When the world divides into various blocs, with various interests, it forces alliances to play the grand game instead of piggie backing on the hard work of alliances like BK, NPO, TKR and so on. The idea around it is that with there being so many self interests at play that it would lead to more drama, intrigue and conflict. Not necessarily war for the sake of war but actual politics. This would be the fun most of us are talking about. Something that this game truly lacks since you can basically tell how each war will play out long before it actually kicks off. (Sides wise) The other big problem I have with a bipolar world is that it places the whole game on a few key figures instead of allowing even small alliance leaders the opportunity to create their own path. Too much of this game is decided by a too few people which hurts the entertainment level the average member gets from it. Look how quiet the forums were before this war as evidence to support my claim. What strategic position do you guys really have in an endless sandbox where entertainment is created solely by the player base? Wars are not that devastating since all you lose is some time and cheap infra. All you are doing is enabling stagnation with this illusion of protection. I hope I explained my opinion well enough.
    6 points
  7. This is the exact problem with NPO's vision. Realpolitik will only get you so far, and in order to function properly in a political game faith is necessary. There is literally now way deals or diplomacy cannot happen without faith nor trust unless you plan on warring every single person who doesn't follow your wishes. Our goal in chaos is very simple: the creation of chaos and new dynamics in Orbis. This isn't because this strategy is the best thing for "winning" the game or the safest option, but because it helps the meta and the entire community (including ours and your own member bases) simply due to faith. I think it often gets forgotten that we, as leaders and gov, are here not to here to play with our personal fancies and grudges but to represent in the best way possible the members who have supported us in these positions. So I damn well will sit here no matter how many hypocrisies or logical loopholes you try to trap me in and "lecture" you on what's best for the game because I don't know about you, but that's what I'm here for, a challenging and fun political dynamic. But I digress, NPO despite the rhetoric just hasn't done the same. Trading one top 5 alliance for another and keeping most of your allies doesn't exactly qualify as taking a risk. I salute you guys for attempting to change things up, which is good, but changing things doesn't necessarily equate with taking a risk. NPO has been quite clear that it wasn't interested in fighting BK for the time being due to the potential for creating a mid-tier-focused fight and the fact that it didn't want to leave BK in the lurch after KF. I'm not here to debate those reasons even if I disagree with them, but in order to maintain these propositions its effectually necessary for NPO to maintain a de facto NAP or even ODOAP with BK. And, yes you could argue that this was shown indirectly through polaris' connections to the blobs, but that isn't the point here. The problem is that you two are the two largest blocs and comprise the supposedly broken up IQ. These statements and connections just revive history which we already know to be toxic to Orbis on top of again creating deadlock. Listen, whether its intentional or not your AA's actions are largely responsible for threatening the return of the bipolar world. Try to look in our shoes for a second. If you had been fighting full EMC in knightfall and lost, then after EMC broke up post-KF the one remnant bloc (say Syndisphere) gets preempted and TKR-sphere then declares on the attackers. You would think that EMC never broke up and be at arms with us even if we suppose that wasn't true. When Ripper is saying that your actions speak louder than words, he's saying that we've been told all of one thing and yet what we see is something else. It takes a lot of idealism to just pin that to cognitive dissonance. In reality we're just very frustrated that the new dynamic and fun we're trying to see in Orbis is being taken down.
    6 points
  8. Just a note: If a OFA nation "raids" a KERCHTOGGASOUFDSPOUF nation - the entirety of your alliance will be dragged back into war.
    5 points
  9. As someone who's only been here a few months and is learning a lot of history from all these drawn out posts. You being the leader of BK, one of the top 5 alliances since I've started playing, aren't you a member of this "ruling class"? NPO also, from what I understand has never had a leader change and has been one of the top alliances for at least awhile. So isn't working with them also perpetuating a ruling class? What constitutes the ruling class in your eyes? Whales? Older players? Do you have a definitive definition for what makes someone ruling class?
    4 points
  10. I thought I was reading a quote from Karl Marx for a moment.
    4 points
  11. Netflix knows what's going on...
    4 points
  12. As Alex said, he's not giving us the list, so lets get together and post what there is. Please include a copy of the image https://politicsandwar.com/nation/edit/achievements/ [CURRENT TOTAL - 37/??] Active Login for a week consecutively Influential Be the Leader of a Top 15 Alliance Big Shipper Trade more than 50,000 resources at once Piggy Banker Make a Deposit to an Alliance Bank A Small Loan Receive $1,000,000 from an alliance bank Dr. Evil Have $1,000,000 in your nation Take to the Skies Build a Hangar Death From Above Have more than 1,000 Aircraft Carpet Bomber Destroy 250 Infrastructure in an Airstrike Boaty McBoatface Have over 500 ships Blockadier Blockade an Enemy Nation Moby Dick Have 20 or more cities Big Fish Have 10 or more cities Nuclear Capable Build the Nuclear Research Facility National Project Fat Man Build a Nuclear Weapon Arsenal Have at least 10 Nuclear Weapons Mutually Assured Have over 100 Nuclear Weapons Fraggle Approved Have over 500 Nuclear Weapons A Dish Best Served Cold Win an Attrition War Lose Lose a war Octopus Be engaged in 8 wars at once Raider Win a raid war Peacemaker End a war in a truce Underdog Win a war against a nation with a higher score than you Strategist Win at least 25 wars Hannibal Win over 200 wars Very Important Player Have VIP Princeps Civitatis Have your Approval Rating reach 100% Back to the Mines Have your Approval Rating reach 0% Starvation Mode Run out of Food in Your nation Back in My Day Have a nation at least 1 year old Pirate More than $10,000,000 Lifetime money looted Blackbeard More than $250,000,000 Lifetime Money Looted Legendary Raider More than $1,000,000,000 Lifetime Money Looted Cat Person Nation name or Leader name contains the word Moneyball Have a Baseball Team Rating of 100 Happy Feet Locate your nation in Antarctica
    3 points
  13. Everything good must come to an end, I have enjoyed this game and the community that was with it but I decided that this is my time to leave the game. This 553 day long adventure has been amazing but it is my time to leave the game. I am going to tell a little story, I was just a kid starting high school, I was a nerd and I felt alone. I didn’t really have friends but I started talking to two guys and I found this game. I told them about it and we bonded over the game and a while passes and eventually they stopped playing but by that point, I had fallen in love with the game and its community. I always felt welcome and saw many friendly faces. Fast forward a while, and I am still playing this game as a Junior in high school, most likely going to college next year, etc. I started growing a bad rep though and I ended up being a jerk to some of my ingame friends. Then I decided that this is the right decision. Thank you everyone for an amazing 553 days, I have enjoyed it so much and it has been quite an adventure. I would like to thank a few people in particular (I have talked to all of these people in dms about this stuff): @Simmons#4158 He has been an amazing friend to me and he has stuck with me through thick and thin. Back when we were in Sunray 1-1 together, we were government together. Overtime we became good friends. @MinesomeMC#6969 He has been an amazing friend too and although me and him have fought numerous times, he has been great to me. I remember when me and him were just Camelot prots together and getting pissed at Sean Anthony for being stupid (He was another Cam prot) so me and him plotted against him and it was fun. We have been friends ever since. @Epimetheus#0222 When I was newer to the game, he took me in when I tried my first real attempt at an alliance and aided me numerous times. He has been so helpful to me throughout this time. There are many others but I don’t have the time to list everyone but what I will do is say this: Thank you to all of you who have been kind to me or have helped me along this adventure. I am officially deleting my nation and who knows, maybe I will return again in the future. I feel like I am forgetting some stuff but its whatever. Tl;dr - I am quitting the game
    3 points
  14. Lulz at raiding KKKtsphere. The nazis and their collaborator friends wont like that.
    3 points
  15. All the best moving forward. OFA might have had a bad war but you guys sure tried your best. I'm confident that there will be a better showing from your side in the future.
    3 points
  16. Good luck on rebuilding.
    3 points
  17. From the Desk of Praggle Exorock, the greatest nation ever Greetings, Friends! As the special speaker of the greatest poop alliance, I am happy to announce that there is a tentative agreement in place which will fulfill the Fragglesan prerequisites to the begin of peace negotiations! We hope that once the terms of the deal are fulfilled, we may begin discussing terms for the peaceful exit of Dark Brotherhood from this global war. I wil be keeping you posted friends, but let's go through some related news first. Exorock is ecstatic to announce the launch of its coal proliferation programme. The programme will be a key element in the hippo's defeat, and profitable for all. Coal donations of any quantity are welcome. Join the cause, throw coal at exorock today! Hugs Praggle
    3 points
  18. Being fair, they aren't lying about not trusting KETOG or Chaos ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
    3 points
  19. Achievement Name: Decorated Veteran Achievement Description: Have more than 5 awards on your nation Achievement Name: Ayy lmao Achievement Description: Have your nation located in Area 51 Achievement Name: War Dodger Achievement Description: Spend the maximum amount of time possible in Beige (16-17 days? I forget) Achievement Name: FTP Achievement Description: 1/3 warns in-game Achievement Name: Livin' on a Prayer Achievement Description: Have 2/3 in-game warns Achievement Name: Jackpot Achievement Description: Hold 1 treasure Achievement Name: Treasure Island Achievement Description: Hold 2 treasures Achievement Name: Night at the Museum Achievement Description: Hold 3 or more treasures Achievement Name: Infinity Gauntlet Achievement Description: Hold 5 of the gemstone treasures
    3 points
  20. I'm quite saddened no one has opted to make a Soviet Russia meme in response to this.
    2 points
  21. First off, frick your !@#$ and the clique you claim. West side, when we ride, We come equipped with game. I heard that you're a player, but I fricked your wife. DONT tell ME how TO type SLAVE. BACK TO YOUR BOX! I type like that because I know violence is the only way you UNDERSTAND. BK has BEATEN you too much.
    2 points
  22. Irrelevant. Most of my members are new. They never fought a war. I don't seem them turning inactive and never appearing on discord again. Effie might be purple but he still says hi to us. Arkasan is a red dot but just last night he was in VC with us. So sitting here crying to me your stupid bullshit that it was their first war? Please. Not an excuse. Even if you tow the line Roq mentioned, that i have experienced players - not an excuse. The other micros who realized they weren't prepared for and couldn't handle this made the wise decision to back out before they had a chance to get this bloodied. Not the choice made by amon here. You do them no good by making excuses, and he does himself no good by making them either.
    2 points
  23. @spartacus to save any confusion, if any member of OFA raids a member of kerchtogg while the war is ongoing then you are straight back in. So I suggest you don't until after the war, then when you do you are open to counters as usual but then that's on you and your raid policy.
    2 points
  24. Good luck on the rebuild, you'll have a lot of time to concentrate on that. I hope to see OFA again, wether it is against me or with me. Make sure to be the best leader possible, and remember, BK will come for you we all stand with you guys. And um, @spartacus, since you know that I love memes...
    2 points
  25. Someone needs to compile this stuff and literally write a book (Not that some of you haven't already).
    2 points
  26. What Aragorn basically said tbh. There is an ideological acceptance of multipolarity since the only ones who can survive that are those who've the confidence of paperless/personal relationships to have the wars they want. Here's what you've missed out, the NPO lost every war since its inception in 2016, till KF more or less. The ruling class Aragorn speaks about are those leaders from that era who seem to coincidentally have a penchant for coming together more often than not. Rose, especially when Abbas is around isn't really a "mini-sphere" but an extension of KETOGG, since they more or less always act in unison. CoS/TKR and their friendships around the same old crew. Roq pointed out the myriad of leaders stacked up, who've all worked together for many years and in comparison BK/NPO don't have such a pull, nor have we been given the opportunity to exist within such a scenario, given how we're always next on the chopping block thanks to the same folk pulling the same things over and over again. So here, the ruling class would be those who've ruled the politics of the game and have at past instituted a hegemony. We have. Roquentin is the second Emperor of the Order. Nevertheless, we've had countless government changes and the majority of our high government, have been in their positions since the end of Knightfall. I mean, if Roq sticking around for years as a leader is a grouse, than basically the entirety of KETOGG's' leadership is a whole different beast. SRD's been heading GoB's FA since its inception and before that was gov in VE. Sketchy was the leader of Rose before becoming 2IC of TGH. Buorhann has been around in high gov spsots for years, Memph has been a leader of Guardian for years as well. So no, your argument fails to take into account an important facet of the FA architecture, that would inherently be that club of leaders, neither BK nor NPO has had a seat in, since the formation of IQ. It would be fair to say, that we have a great relationship with Aragorn but outside of that and possibly the NG/Malal/Polar, almost everyone else within Coalition B are working together for the first time The only real shift within that network was attempting to work together with HS/tS who's leadership nominally has always been a part of the above mentioned group of leaders, until Partisan/Kayser nuked that and attempted something different, while HS cutting Guardian to try something different. In exchange we cut IQ and was attempting to fit three different groupings into one sphere, which isn't perpetuating the said class. I think Roq put down a list of names earlier. But truly, I'd say the same faces who've been involved in perpetuating this minisphere mantra for a while. It works best for them since it's easy for them to coagulate into one sphere, given it suits them best. I mean a few former leaders from that school of FA, have pretty much told me, that the idea is to keep a navigable distance, not too far that relationships decay, but not too close for the optics of it. That's the basic argument we've fought against for years. If you have a relationship, sign a treaty and be done with it. The lack of trust/faith in the changing of their behaviour brings us to this specific point in time, where the NPO has little to no faith in their promises that this is a one war situation and hence brought us in. As Edward has mentioned, minispheres work only if there is a system of rules, trust and faith in the other main players to make it work. There is none, and here we are. I mean looking at your nation age, I'd give you the benefit of the doubt here. The NPO has always been skeptical of the minisphere game given the necessity for rules and a balance of sides. Which in essence means, two or more sides should never work together, unless there's complete trust among the remaining the non-actors that it is truly a one-time-thing. This has always been our problem with the idea, and was why Kayser/tS agreed to the notion of needing to act as a balance if that situation ever arose. It's really been discussed to death between us back in Feb, and our skepticism could be argued as self-fulfilling prophecy, but I mean that's how we read the situation. It's not a backpeddle, but a consistent criticism we've used against the idea over the years. I like how you throw around realpolitik as an idea to be disliked. TKR played realpolitik when they entered on the CB they did, so was their tie up with KETOGG. TKR's hit on NB last year, was realpolitik, so was their war on KETOGG. tS/NPO/BK/KETOGG/Rose almost every major player has acted to protect their interests, through armed action in a zero-sum fashion. There has never been a moral, ideological battle fought in this game. It has always come down to practicality. So arguing that any actions by any of the players in this game is solely realpolitik, fails when every action seen within the scope of this war has been realpolitik in nature. You state it was practical for KETOGG/Chaos to team up, that's literally the best case study for realpolitik in international relations. At the end of the day, we're all realpolitik actors. There exists no ideological or moral purity in terms of FA action within this game. The only alliance I'd say has any ideological purity in terms of FA here would be Fark, especially with kosmo refusing to work with anyone he believes enables white supremacist views. So to try and use realpolitik as some sort of insult, or narrative that NPO/BK solely are at fault for, is a misreading and misapplication of an external theory into the confines of a game that doesn't not have any other operative school of thought possible. The confines of Liberal IR theory does not really work within this game, especially given how the sole tools for liberalism, especially classical liberalism would be the Kantian triangle or portions of the same to exist. The fundamentals of almost every other IR theory fails within the confines of this game. I find it funny though that you keep dropping realpolitik as an insult, especially given your own alliance's track record. I'm yet to see TKR to launch an ideological or moral crusade defending an idea, rather than itself. This isn't throwing shade, but just pointing out the futility of trying to import a load term from OOC foreign policy, as an insult to a very simple FA architecture present in a video game, that does not have multiple layers/channels of operations like IRL. Realpolitik as I've described above is the sole operating idea in this game, otherwise you would not be in this war, working with KETOGG. You realpolitik as much as anyone else in this game, so it is ideal to not try to import IRL FA theories into this simple enough game. Realpolitik also requires certain levels of trust, unless you're attempting to use Brezenziski or the like as the definition of realpolitik actors. If you're trying to claim NPO's effectively trying to police the world, I'd say that would be false. We've never tried to the police word or lay standards for other alliances to follow or get hit. To try and tie specific narratives down with this term is quite hard to buy, given a complete lack of understanding of the basis of the terms itself. You may have a goal, but it nevertheless involved you combining with other spheres at a more practical level. You see, throwing around heavily described/well defined FP terms, backfires when it is effectively applied to your actions. No one is here attempting to win the game. No one is here to even help the entire community. That's a simple retort that everyone simply has to buy, that falls short given your own actions and rhetoric. If bullying alliances with 1v1 wars and a threat of expansion if any of their allies step in, isn't making the game fun for the entire community, its making it fun for you. You are the sole community benefiting from such an action. The arrogance and temerity and patronizing tone to believe that is how everyone else should play is the problem here. No one have given you the right to decide what makes the game fun for everyone else, that's everyone else's job to do so. To find fun through their own goals and agency. By trying to claim that you have the sole manifest destiny to describe the meta/fun for the entire community, you have essentially argued for a TKR/Chaos based ideological hegemony, and that by your own definition is inherently problematic. It isn't forgotten what leaders represent. What you seem to presume, is that the leaders have some sort of overarching responsibility to everyone else, other than the communities they represent. By trying to shoehorn the idea of "grudges" and personal "fancies" as terrible, you are essentially robbing anyone else of the agency to decide to approach this game, their FA the way they believe is in best interests to their community, and then everyone else. I mean, I'm not arguing that folks should have a right to disband other alliances, so there are reasonable restrictions to individual agency under this norm I prefer to view Orbis as. So yes, go on lecture me on how I have to play the game you have decided is the best way to play, and I will continue telling you, I have no interest in jumping of the cliffedge, for your fun. Your position is inherently that of believing you are right and everyone else is wrong, and that to me is something far more insidious: giving you the right to decide how I or the NPO community at large should play this game. You don't own this game, and you sure as hell don't own the ideas that allow this game to function. So it'd be better if you'd come down from that fanciful ivory tower, and work with folks, and building consensus' regarding the community. Or else, feel free to continue perpetuating a hegemony of ideas, that I'll continue to disagree with Changing things up with historic enemies as everyone in Chaos so loves to argue is indeed taking a risk. tS/HS/NPO have been against one another for years, and it was a risk all three of us took to try to change things up and build any trust/faith. We did it for ourselves, to keep the game exciting for us, and albeit make things also interesting for everyone else. But please, you can't defend Chaos and making things interesting for yourselves, as some reason for joy and a standard mode of action for everyone else. There should never be a homogeneous hegemony of ideas, or else that'll end this game far faster than bi-polarity ever will. NPO wasn't interested to help roll BK straight out of the block no. That does not mean we have an agreement signed with BK. An agreement requires the consent and acceptance of two parties. BK was not involved here, and we never stated the same to BK. If we did, you'd have an agreement, and a fair point. As there was none, there was nothing de-facto. What did exist, was a firm belief that two or more spheres combining is bad for us, and we reserve the right to take action against that. That was an agreement between tS and NPO. That is the only agreement in operation over here, and painting anything else as an agreement is false. Polaris' connections to everyone else is their own. The NPO has no real say on whom they treaty, especially at an MD level, given we are now no more than OD allies. The fact is, and the reason this exists is actually quite simple. The OoO goes back a decade or more, and there's a historical tie across worlds that exist and as different Orders' we will always reserve the right to defend one another. This tie is mutually exclusive to the rest of our FA, and simply put, we are recognising that with paper, rather than keeping it "paperless". We recognise the existence of such a tie and ensure everyone knows the same, unlike folks who keep paperless agreements in place. So to use Polar as an example, showcases your ignorance of the Polaris-NPO relationship. It is a different relationship/partnership that doesn't' exist for political reasons. If we wanted to use the OD to enter this war though, we could have. We chose not to, which once again people seem to forget. I'm sorry what history was toxic to Orbis? Statements like that, deserve a proper explanation, and I'm awaiting yours! Listen, whether its intentional or not, your AA's actions are largely responsible for threatening the return of the bipolar world. Here's my problem with this. Actually I've just bolded the problematic idea underpinning the length of your post. I've explained why its problematic above and why I do not subscribe to the TKR school of standards and world FA outlook. Now secondly, our actions have been explained in detail. Your good faith engagement here, requires a good faith response and I've given one here, so that you see where the difference lies. We did not say one thing and do another. There exists a far better narrative if I so wish to describe here, of the NPO doing exactly what it said it would do, protect it's interests and defend folks from multiple spheres getting the confidence of combining for hits. But that's a longer argument that I'll post a bit later.
    2 points
  27. They have an ideological investment because minispheres are a way of isolating those without long term connections and staying on top. For example Rose would only dare go alone if they knew they were safe, which turned out to be the case. Just another tool to try and perpetuate the current ruling class.
    2 points
  28. The Wiki is evil. Do not promote such garbage.
    2 points
  29. Bipolarity is bad, as I told mhearl, because "what even is FA when there's only two sides?" At that rate, what even is PR, Milcom, IA, or even Econ. It all becomes a monotonous grind to optimize to the maximum level to destroy a single opponent, eventually resulting in one side slowly over time curbing a greater and greater advantage, at which time somebody either pulls a syndicate and starts pulling the plugs or the game is just kinda... Dead. Tis my outlook on it, anyway. Amusing at first as a glorious arms race that quickly loses its luster.
    2 points
  30. cough cough @ everyone This is a just a reminder that you are all playing a game, and that behind each screen is a living, breathing person with feelings. I hope that everyone can be respectful of each other, even when we disagree, and realize that while this is a competitive game, there's no need to take it to a personal level. Be kinder to each other. We can all work together to make a better, friendlier, less toxic community by having compassion and respect for one another.
    2 points
  31. Can we have a back in my day for 2 years and 3 years? You can keep it exactly the same image and text, I just want three copies of it. Alternatively, if you really don't want to do that for some reason, 2 years can be "Get off my lawn!" with an old man holding a cane and yelling. Three years can be "Where's my prune juice?" with a picture of a nursing home.
    2 points
  32. Thanks to Charlie Traveller, Frawley, and Elijah Mikaelson for coming on :D. In this show I released my first ever single on P&W.
    2 points
  33. Achievement Name: Maybe Next Time Achievement Description (how to unlock): Lose five wars. Achievement Name: It's just the Meta Achievement Description (how to unlock): Lose 10 wars. Achievement Name: I can do this all day! Achievement Description (how to unlock): Lose 25 wars. Achievement Name: Beige Baiter Achievement Description (how to unlock): Lose 50 wars. Achievement Name: NG Incarnate Achievement Description (how to unlock): Lose 100 wars.
    2 points
  34. Well shit this post became irrelevant fast
    2 points
  35. Credit to @Sphinx for these first two! Akuryo: Get couped once. (In game, you could implement this as getting removed from Leader position by an Heir/Leader.) Sean Anthony: Get couped five times. Censorship: Get something removed (flag, nation description, forum post, whatever) for being against game rules. (Although tbh you probably don't want to encourage this.) Downsize: Have an admin remove a city. Red Flag: Share a unique ID. Beep boop!: Accept a trade within 60 seconds of it getting posted. Jammed: Hit the API daily request limit. Sanctioned: Have 20+ nations embargo you. (Alternatively, embargo 20+ nations, but that's not as interesting.) Quitter: Leave an alliance. Propagandist: Upload an advertisement. Waste of Breath: Make a forum post (and/or link a forum account to your nation). Missing in Action: Go into Vacation Mode while your nation is at war. Plagued: Have a city with over 50% disease. Unlucky: Lose 5 wars in a row. (Peaces and wars timing out would break the streak.) Dedicated: Log into P&W 3 months in a row. Lifeless: Log into P&W 6 months in a row.
    2 points
  36. hahahaha! Ok, ok, sorry for making you mad. I hadn't realized your entire politics and war decisions were based on how people treat TKR. An obsession indeed. At least it is clear now. In any case, with that last statement you make: 1. Either you say you are not planning to fight anyone else except for TKR, so you will never work with people that have "positive relations with them"... 2. or you are stating you will never work with an alliance that has positive relations with alliances that you may fight in the future (which is anyone but BK/Polaris?)... I see. Maybe that's why you cannot work with anyone, as you complain, no? The filters you got there are... quite strict. ----------------------------------------------------------- You are right, it wasn't Malal. The first mentions in the coalition channel about a PoW where from... Oh, Thanos and Keshav. Totally not IQ. I hope I don't have to elaborate on this? You can also see Revan's statement about "closing the gap between ourselves and TKR" specifically. As I said, TKR is your obsession, not mine. My "obsession" would be the whales, most of which were hardly in TKR. -------------------------------------------------------------- So, let me get this straight and don't even think about dodging this one. Are you implying that Chaos formed with TKR keeping its ties with Guardian and/or GOB or CoS having ties to Guardian/GOB? Because that's the only way I can see cancelling upper tier domination/protection. I won't focus on the "doesn't count part", because I am speechless on that one. xD It's wonderful how you contradict yourself though. Here you state that "there wasn't enough buy-in to steam roll mid-tier alliances". Yet, your whole rhetoric is about Chaos combining forces with KETOG to "steam roll" poor mid-tier alliances (the BK-blob in this case). And, on the other hand, you state that NPO had to intervene because the war was not balanced, and BK-blob had a huge disadvantage! So, which is it, Roq? Was there enough buy-in? There wasn't? If Chaos/KETOG were working together from the beginning and were keeping the high-tier safe, why didn't they attack the BK-blob at full force before... you know... blowing each other's military up? It's not 1/18. It's 1/28. War officially ended 3 days later, with the other side having accepted most terms already earlier than that (and the result of the war being obvious even earlier than that). ----------------------------------------------------------------- You stopped working with me 2 months before the formation of Chaos. So, stop lying and saying that you didn't want to work with me on February because I would form Chaos on April. This is the third post you repeat yourself like this with a statement that makes zero sense. Unless you really are a prophet. As I said, you didn't want to work with me, even in a short-term arrangement (although you were more than happy to do so pre-war). Thus, I was free to do whatever I wanted after February, with you having cut all communications. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Roq... The only old boy with power in this war is you. I have engaged in politics and alliances for less than a year. Adrienne is a young leader too. BK has changed 2-3 leaders during the 3 years I've been playing. If the problem is really old boys... ... maybe you should retire and get some new blood take over and open up new paths that are not based on strange obsessions about specific alliances. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Then... why did TEst/CoS start Knightfall, Roq? Why didn't we sign them to stay safe and dominate the upper tier forever!? I cannot even fathom how you believe other people think like this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- In any case, the hard truth for you is that there have been two wars that prove the conflict between upper tier alliances. Knightfall and the Chaos/KETOG war. These are actions. You can try to paint all of our leaders as evil plotters and talk about motives, relations, motivations, plans, you can look for and post logs all you want, you can talk about semantics, IFs, secret discussions, deals under the table, you can try to spin our declarations and analyse each and every word we use and paint it as you want, BUT... but the hard truth for you is that these don't matter. Actions talk bigger than assumptions and conspiracy theories. And for our case, we have two wars to mention. On the other hand... why should the rest of the world believe you! You have only words to back this up. No actions. You had one chance to prove that IQ really didn't exist and just blew it in this war. Maybe next time! See, I can play your game too. Look at some nice "arguements". Please try to address them: > IQ never split because NPO has always been talking positively about BK. > NPO has worked in the past a lot of times with BK, so it's improbable they cut ties from one day to another. > NPO signing t$ was just a way to further make "mid"-tier a safe place and for mid-tier alliances to not fight each other, thus establishing even greater mid-tier domination. It's super easy to talk about hypothetical scenarios. And I can throw some logs in between if you want. -------------------------------------------------------------- As such, I see no reason to further debate with you on whether Chaos/KETOG plotted, targeted you or whatever. We have actions and they are there. Your assumptions are cancelled by reality. And I see no reason to further debate with you whether IQ broke or not, since I don't see you going for any actions. Our assumptions are not cancelled by reality. ------------------------------------------------------------- So, thanks for the debate. You could have used arguements that wouldn't be based on prophecies or time-travels, but still, it was entertaining and fun. Good luck with your wars and relations. I wish you find new people that you can trust and work with. My apologies all my efforts failed on that.
    2 points
  37. In a time where toxicity is rampant on the forums and there is not an ounce of empathy in a game where 28 city whales prey on the weak and defenseless 8 city nations, only one place offers refuge for the weary, the kindhearted, the poets, philosophers, and the peaceful. My inbox apparently.
    2 points
  38. OFA will be back give me time to fix my problems and it was good fighting north point in this war
    1 point
  39. Raider - Win a raid war Strategist - Win 25 wars Fat Man - Build a nuclear weapon Blockadier - Blockade an enemy nation . edit: credit to Zephyr for pics
    1 point
  40. And yet, your damage isn't actually improving outside of the hits on freshly rebuilt prior allies of yours, while ours is quite steady. My oh my.
    1 point
  41. Just VM & maybe come back later? Rep isn’t really widespread enough I know you really, but good luck whether you come back or not. Can always name change when coming back while keeping your nation if you’re thinking about it and don’t delete.
    1 point
  42. Achievement Name: Merciful Achievement Description (how to unlock): Lift an embargo
    1 point
  43. The wiki did a good job of letting me know that the Fraggle Approved achievement is the only one that really requires any actual work to accomplish.
    1 point
  44. I'll miss you, GPC and I send our regards!
    1 point
  45. Because words mean things and promises that are broken will matter when people are trying to decide future treaties.
    1 point
  46. Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long year Stole many AA's logs to leak And I was 'round when Pantheon Had its moment of doubt and pain Made damn sure that Akuryo Washed his hands and sealed his fate Pleased to meet you Hope you guess my name But what's puzzling you Is the nature of my game This is Shifty bringing you the death of another AA. Press F
    1 point
  47. You of all people can't really say much about this, given that this time last year, your alliance was in the process of completing its second dogpile within that calendar year lol. Also you can't really say much regarding treaties, given your track record with honouring MDoAP's. We told Yoda what the options were, what could happen and what were his best routes. We also told them straight up that we can't protect them anymore, not while this global was going on, but extended our protection out of respect for Polar/CoA to take a call on DB, rather than have them carrying a shit stick at the end of the day. Keep trying Smith, but the day TKR has any competence in lecturing people on honour/morality, is the day Alex shuts down PnW/Orbis.
    1 point
  48. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
    1 point
  49. Perhaps instead of having individual peace terms, alliances can set a top down policy that will automatically apply to all or specific nations in their alliance, set them up like tax groups. Would be much easier to manage and would not interrupt the flow of war with micromanaging terms for each war. Ultimately this idea is probably way too much work for Alex.
    1 point
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