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LOOKING DEEP: TKR Welcome! To "Looking Deep"! "Looking Deep" is an sort of experiment I thought about a second ago, and one that I thought would be fun to try out. The premise of this, is a sort of thread for the members and ex members of the specified alliance to tell their story in it, and I thought the best way to start this off, is by selecting one of the most active communities in the game, TKR! Just a bit of backstory, if you are a newer player such as myself. I'm going to start at the "Trial of Tiers" because that's were I started off, and I don't want to fumble around, I'll leave that to those who reply to this thread ? Community From the time I began this game, to now, I always look at the community (Salty as it may be at times) to be the best part of this game, some people may agree or not, but that is my solid belief. Being that the community is such an important part, the first time I had seen TKR, it had seemed they had very much enshrined that belief into their alliance to make it a whole new community in itself, basically a family of sorts, if you will. I wouldn't shy away from saying that The Knights Radiant is one of, the most friendly, welcoming and active alliances out there, they also have a very important skill, that a lot of alliances ignore, welcoming newer players, making them feel at home, liked, etc. Welcoming newer players is such an important skill, I'm going to go on a bit of a rant because of how much it is. A lot of alliance forget about newer players, and have the mindset of "Hand them a guide and order them around" , a lot of newer players may shy away from conversation with older players, to not look silly in front of people that are more experienced, but alliances that deal with this, truly benefit the game, nurturing a newer player, and inviting them into conversation, playing games with them, or whatever is an absolutely crucial part of keeping this game alive, and most importantly having fun, especially with those new friends you have made. It might be a silly thing to say, but a loneliness of a player, a person whose joined for the game, but left because he has been shut out, is hard to see. A lot older players tend to see newer players as a obstacle in front of their "Next city" or "Progress" but those players have no idea what those new players mean to the game as a whole. They are the next generation, per se, and they should be supported. Hats off to most alliances, and very well done to those who help introduce newer players to their community and the P&W community as a whole. Anyway, that paragraph is meant to underline the importance of it, and in my opinion TKR is absolutely great at it, all the people are friendly, you can randomly chat to someone and they'll kindly do the same back to you, it is a very warm atmosphere, a sense of importance. Which, is very much so, the greatest trait in this game that an alliance could have. History TKR, is based off of a book by Brandon Sanderson, named "The Stormlight Archive", I can't say much about the beginning so as I've previously stated, I will move onto more familiar territory. Before Knightfall, TKR was an absolute powerhouse, perhaps not necessarily in military might, which was certainly a big stick they held, but in influence. TKR absolutely dominated world affairs, and that is not overestimating the history of it, TKR had been known as "The world police" for it's past actions, dealing with the Hogwarts-Sparta war, chasing down Partisan, etc, whatever was going on in the world, one way or another, they were certainly involved be it big or small. A lot of that can be seen to have started from Trial of Tiers, because of how much of an impact it had on very influential alliances, Mensa disbanding, t$ losing influence, certainly the rise of TKR as a truly alliance shifting power cannot have started if it had not become the dominant leader of Easy mode and certainly the loss of two Behemoths helped make that a reality, but the end of that era swiftly came around with Knightfall, beating TKR harder and giving them a loss that I would think would be hard to forget, the Chaos sphere, proved to be the evidence that TKR needed new allies, and also that it had lost the near Hegemonic power that it once held. It also hit TKR from 1st in the alliance leaderboards, doesn't seem important but new players sometimes choose the strongest alliance, learning from the best. Conclusion Now that you have either been thoroughly bored to death, or has even chosen to skip the whole segment above, for how possibly face palming my knowledge of it is. Please at least stay for this, if you are a member, leader, ex member of TKR then it would be great for you to share that story on this thread, your experience in the alliance, and for older players, possibly sharing interesting segments of your history. If this gets any if at all, positive review, I'll try to do another alliance of which I am interested in. Thank you! And If you do take a little bit of your time off, I appreciate it very much. this was not based on discord or slack because of micchan's absolute distaste for them if you go blind by reading this i bare no responsibility

Well, I made it through 27 pages. Something about TKR and NPO or something. I think i saw the word "obfuscated". I don't know what that means but i like it in theory and i'm immediately going to buy two of them. The constitution of the United States of America is 4,543 words but this is definitely better.

TKR is not only the best alliance in the game, but the active community is the greatest any simulation game alliance has to offer. There really isn't any other alliance that can compare to TKR and although I am a bit bias about their leadership (with Lordship being the best) leadership within TKR sets the standard of quality throughout Politics & War. Put clearly, if you dislike TKR or don't have the same opinion - you're probably racist, own slaves, and hate Politics & War. Paid for by the committee to keep TKR on Top.

TKR has, hands down, the best community in the game. There is always someone hanging around willing to chat with you (usually a bunch of people are around) and it makes for a great time. One of the main reasons I joined was the promise of aid, guides, and mentors, and I'm pleased to say they followed through on that promise. Despite me constantly asking what to do, is this a good strategy, etc, they never got annoyed and were always happy to help me learn the ropes. I highly recommend TKR as an alliance for new and old players alike.

Careful, @Robert Taber. Speak positively of TKR and NPO will not be able to work with you for the next 50 years.

It's okay to believe what one wants to believe. It's also okay to fight against them. True freedom allows one to have their own views, however be expected to defend yourself from those with opposing views. As someone who's had family killed by both Fascists and Communists during the war, I personally dislike their views. I do believe however people can express them.

Just saw this, but NPO essentially has my thoughts, albeit less skeptical then my own. No one does anything in this game that doesn't put them further ahead. Those who champion "mini-spheres" or decry how we harm "game health" have an obvious benefit from whatever virtue they extoll.

TKR is a very welcoming alliance. I joined their discord server and Mitsuru knew I was KT from the get-go. I have never felt more welcome except when I joined the Pantheon discord server. If you were to give a theme song to TKR it would be the Cheers Intro Theme Song, because everyone is glad you came. I would classify TKR as a soul food, a good vegetable, and quite possibly thicc in the heart. And while being thicc in the heart is a medical condition that can have debilitating defects, you could not classify TKR as having a debilitating defect, unless of course you believed that too much love is debilitating. I believe without an objective doubt that TKR is the right place for you. tl;dr orange alliance good...?

I'm relatively new to tkr and this game (only 111 days in the alliance and 114 days in game). But I must agree with what you said, regardless of your opinion of how TKRs attitudes to other alliances or whatever it is the most socially active and community driven alliance. You are welcomed and introduced to the alliance from the beginning and are taught the ins and outs of the game, supported throughout and are asked to contribute to anything and everything if you can and want to and even when I have felt like I messed up the alliance doesn't treat you like shit or anything (unless you really messed up and disobeyed direct orders I guess) they encourage you to look at how and why the mistakes happened and how to move on and build upon it so it doesn't happen again. If it whernt for the TKR community I would probably not be playing this game tbh.

orange alliance bad.

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-exercise-cute-fail-gif-3358922

I think... tKR is... not bad.

TKR cool

imagine stealing goon squads flag

Just a note: If a OFA nation "raids" a KERCHTOGGASOUFDSPOUF nation - the entirety of your alliance will be dragged back into war.

Better being toxic than just... basic.

That's a lot of limited edition anniversary badges....

I was only in TKR for about 2 months before my jump to Soup Kitchen (The Soup is Hot) TKR is probably the best community I have been in without a doubt, and I look forward to hopefully re-joining someday.

You misspelled KKKT Get it together

Quick reminder OFA is led by a Nazi :^) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G9bRpbRf2sh55eVe5C4y6O-tsZYz1EggO_8XuxeRIjg/edit?usp=drivesdk

I feel exposed seriously though thank you for your kind words ❤️

My time in TKR was pretty damn boring, but I was also taking a break from the entirety of the game. One thing though, they've always been great people to coordinate/work with if you find yourself on the same side.

I feel like this thread turned sarcastic at some point but i can't tell exactly when that occurred....

Don't tell me what to do mom

"But we didn't fall apart" I mean, yes, actually, you did. You went from 80 someought members down to 44, with roughly a dozen or so active and most of your government MIA. The only guy i heard of helping organize or change anything also recently left you. So, yeah. You're basically on life support right now my friend.

@Comrade Boris one more random topic and you will be flagged as a spammer (which is equal to getting banned from the forums). With love, Chief Wiggum

Swagrr recognizes BK recognizing us, we're flattered. I'd say it's our first time but honestly CoS beat you to it. GL;HF

I mean this explains a lot. I think as a general rule this is true, but if you treat it like an absolute then I can totally see where your paranoia is coming from. I could also see this being true if you meant that having fun was an obvious benefit, but I don't think that's what you mean. It was pretty clear that many of us just didn't have fun being the hegemonic power else EMC would still be ruling the game.

Your Mother is a Hamster and your father smells of Elderberries.

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.

Yeah fark that Also I really approve your Lupin choice for your name

Forgive you? What are you even talking about at this point? Edit: Misread. You do you, Keshav. I'll be off shirking my responsibilities elsewhere

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-gif-12446356 (p.s. that was a royal you, not a "you, Roq" and the message wasn't "let's blame Roq" but good to know that was your take-away so thanks for the response anyways)

I was gonna say I did the math myself but it looks like you found the problem. Thanks

TGH got involved in Knightfall due to you paying for those members, Roq. But thank you for confirming another moment where we fought TKR again. Gee, I wonder where this “trajectory” BS came from. It couldn’t have possibly come from you holding a bias on us, would it?

Please, inform me more of what was happening internally in my alliance at that time. I've forgotten all about it, see, and I need someone to fill me in. Nuke Bloc was TCL's war and he'd be sad to see you trying to rob him of the credit for his only war. KETOGG was trying to set a different precedent for wars. We made the decision to roll with it because we were going to be at war regardless at that point and trying to make the best of it sounded like a better time than arguing on the forums. My only action before Knightfall was the KT/TGH war and I have it on good authority the war planning started prior to that. My actions might have reinforced some people's mindsets but it wasn't the motivator for Knightfall as a whole and, as you've confirmed, it wasn't your motivator for joining. As for the victim stuff, I could comb through and find a half dozen examples easily to back that up. "Your side has all the active/good players", "your side has all the old connections", "no one wanted to play with us", etc, etc. You continually try and cast off the issues you face onto anyone but you. Your shortcomings and your problems are not due to us.

Faster than DB did.

yall really cant let an alliance surrender and move on without making sure to trash them one more time? smh nobody asked for your opinion good luck with the rebuild OFA, im sure yall learned a lot

You're probably doing better than CoS... good luck in the war mates! Have fun and fight well!

Dear OFA, just a suggestion, don't go over 1000 infra until the end of the war or the brave and beautiful BK will boost the stats with you

>starts a war during summer vacations >complains about the inactive people, most of them probably being in vacations Mmm, OFA isn't what we could call a micro (since they have more than 40 members, I guess that to be a micro, you need less than that), but they sure are a new alliance. You always need to be salty or triggered about everything. They had bad net damages, ok. They didn't really do so well, sure. They lost a ton of members, you're right. Who cares ? Can't you see everyone just wishing them good luck ? From Coalition B and KERCHTOGG, let's not forget. If North Point (it's an example, I don't actually think that North Point will leave ) was to leave, we would all wish you good luck. We wouldn't make fun of your members, and we wouldn't mock you. At least I know that I wouldn't. Despite you being one of the most despicable person in this game (since you don't know when to shut it). So please, leave those guys alone. Amon is a great person. A good friend, and he's a new player. He'll learn from whatever mistake he made, and OFA could become a really strong alliance. But people like you are the reason why others don't want to start alliances. Learn to be nice to others, positivity is beautiful.

"The Return of The D" Was it wrong to think this post would involve the D or do I just have a dirty mind?

Alex, have you figured out what's going on? Because the game has been basically unplayable the last few updates. Tonight, not only was I not able to do anything I needed to do today because the game went down and didn't let me get my buy in but it also stopped me from being able to send aid to two of my members last minute so they could fight as well.

Pretty sure what was meant was that there would be no terms, not that anyone from our coalition would try and add terms after the fact. Good luck, TCM and TSL, enjoy peace

Speak for yourself dude, I'm not wishing for that. Mainland China belongs to the people who live and have lived there for literally thousands of years. While I agree that the people of Hong Kong have a right to their freedoms, it would be wrong to seek to punish average working men and women for the acts of their corrupt and authoritarian governments. And the Chinese government and economy really isn't Communist. It should be painfully obvious to anyone that actually knows what they're talking about. They might employ Communist aesthetics and rhetoric but such things are mainly meant to keep the population they control in a complacent state. It's easier to control workers if they think their government is pursuing a strongly "pro-worker" ideology. How you managed to let them fool you is beyond me. If you look at what they actually practice, it is beyond a doubt some form of state capitalism. I mean, it's pretty much common knowledge at this point: Don't believe me? You don't have to take my word for it. Just look it up. Anyway, time for a complimentary meme: Enjoy.

@YawningOwl If you're over there, make sure nobody picks up tear gas grenades. Do not pick up tear gas grenades. The ones police typically use now are designed to disperse the gas quickly using a small explosive to prevent people from throwing them back at police. Most other grenades police use also violently detonate (flashbangs grenades, concussion grenades, etc.). Some protestors in France tried that during the yellow vest protests and had their hands blown off.

Not only are you a terrible forum poster you're also a necromancer of old threads. You couldn't hold a candle to the Roz Wei of old that rolled my old alliance many times.......for shame.

"Borisology... Borisology it is the cure. All followers of Borisology suffer from knowledge deficiency, ignorance is bliss, we see the light, we come as a vaccine to cure the infected" -Comrade Commissar Supreme Dear Leader General Admiral Therapist ModeratelyEsteemedOne Commander InternalAffairsMan Kommandant Man DoctorForiegn Affairs Mascot CEO Chairman Boris Boris and Empyrea declare war on KT. No terms To: KT From: Boris and Empyrea