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Mirror Accords Preamble The Knights Radiant and The Syndicate enter into this treaty of mutual defense. Article I: Defining Aggression The Knights Radiant and The Syndicate, referred to hereafter as the Signatories, come together as friends, and shall not undermine one another or infringe upon one another’s sovereignty. It is agreed to handle any other issues between them in private. Article II: Paranoia Both Signatories agree to share all relevant information of worth and to collude as suits their mutual goals. It is agreed that this information shall not be falsified, or changed in any way, to mislead the other Signatory. As per this article, neither TKR nor t$ can be at fault for any incident or occurrence. Should any leaks occur or misinformation be presented, the Signatories agree to coordinate the development of a set of wild conspiracy theories and present a scapegoat to the world at large. The Signatories are also encouraged to share technological and monetary assistance as well as spin with the other if requested. Article III: Mutual Entitlement Should either Signatory come under attack, they will be entitled to military and political support. This article shall only go into effect if the aggrieved Signatory properly displays their entitlement via a request for assistance through proper diplomatic channels. This entitlement shall be waived if the attack is borne from responses to a Signatory's obligation towards, or actions undertaken on behalf of a third party. Article IV: Bravery Clause Should any Signatory cease hostilities unilaterally and without the other Signatory’s consent after a multi-month war and structural mistreatment, the other Signatory will respect the sovereignty of their ally and thank them for their assistance. Article V: Stall It! Should either Signatory fear they will regret being allied to their counterpart 10 years from now, they may cancel the treaty at any time with proper notification of the other alliance. The cancellation will then be stalled for 72 hours, during which articles I, II and III remain in effect. The cancelled party shall be blamed for the delays. After 72 hours have passed, the treaty is nullified. /s/ The Knights Radiant Queen of the Heralds: Adrienne Prince of the Heralds: GoldyHammer Herald of Foreign Affairs: Benfro Herald of War: Blink Herald of Growth: Schirminator Herald of Internal Affairs: Modi High Princess of Foreign Affairs: Menhera High Prince of Foreign Affairs: Cooper /s/ The Syndicate Chief Operations Officer (IA): Inbred Autocrat Chief Financial & Security Officer (Econ & MilCom): U-boat Strategic Planning (FA): Greetings, friends! Vice President of Strategic Planning (FA): B-train Vice President of Operations (IA): Big T Vice President of Infringement (MilCom): C-dubs Vice President of Finance (Econ): The D

Don’t lie, this was signed way before this war. This has always been intact, just like you told me in private. Surf’s Up was a manufactured war, and to top it all off - it was T$’s idea!!!

Following the (re)ascension of the golden habsburg emperor Leopold, blessed be his name, Syndicate associates were assaulted in an unprovoked and unprecedented fashion by North Point forces. Though North Point's motivations remain an enigma, the $yndicate has no choice but to recognize that a state of war now exists between The $yndicate and North Point. May admin have mercy on your souls, for we shall have none. /s/

See, Keshav was right about EMC!

@Alex This war is war slot filling because you are attacking a probable ally with minimal unit naval attacks doing as little damage as possible and with no resistance from an active defender with a superior ground force. >It was his decision not to strike >there was no coordination between me and Bartman >striking me over a probability to boot? Lulz >Sorry but I'm not wasting resources blowing up 600 infra in a raid war with what was 70 ships at the time Congratulations, I am one strike away from getting banned because again, you lack the motivation and observation skills to determine what war slot filling actually is and I am, quite frankly, exhausted about this. I am sorry if Coalition B is bored and running out of slots to fill, but those that were open are fair game and it's pretty whacked I get admonished because I didn't choose to speed-beige some dude who had no ships nor valuable infra with a needless amount of munitions and gas. Which, you know, I kinda need since I am more than likely gonna be pinned for months by mindless pinko drones and sore winners (with obvious OOC motives) waving their e-peens in everyone's face. It's not fair, it's a lousy assumption at best then I get told strikes are easily avoidable, but it's as avoidable as a landmine in No Man's Land because I don't know how nor when will it be triggered. I staffed at communities numbering in the thousands too and I think it is kiiinda important to consider more circumstances than what you just displayed. Since you double downed on my last strike when I tried to appeal it, I now know I shouldn't even bother trying to appeal this one and accept the fact I am just not allowed to transfer treasures and conserve resources like some people can (like known people under a lot more scrutiny than some rando like me). Then again, that is probably because I didn't grovel enough or donate enough shekels to somebody who played favorites and instigated between people in the past. Which I think is abhorrent, but that's aside the point. You can ask anybody who knows me well that if I of all people, am this publicly heated about your inane management, you're doing something wrong. I try to be courteous and thoughtful of others when playing this game, but I see that still doesn't mean a goddamn thing. Pfft, how ironic now. -removed- So seriously, screw you, dude.

Opus Dei signatories (GOONS, BK, & NPO) agree not to engage in against Avengers for the duration of the ongoing conflict, and extending for 30 days after the conflict comes to a resolution. Avengers agrees not to engage in hostile operations against Opus Dei or it’s affiliates. Avengers agrees not to “ghost” other members currently engaging in the conflict. Avengers agrees to not accept members engaged in the conflict into their alliance as a refuge from the war. Signs: For Opus Dei: Do Not Fear Jazz (GOONS) Keshav (NPO) Leo the great (Black Knights) For Avengers: Krystel (Avengers Leader) Tyler1945 (Avengers FA Head)

This is Shifty doing the first SNN of the New Year and well, if you're an Orthodox Shifty Cultist, this is the holiest day as this marks not the P/W Anniversary (12/29), but the irl Shifty day of birth. Anywho let the games commence: Intro (Courtesy of Fien) This story begins with how Dusty, an NP and former BoC gov/leader, got TMC killed. Knowing his ties to IQ, not hard to th0nk. In the aftermath of this, IQ has decided to Order 66 (really Order 69 since TCW nu-sphere is gonna get f*****). Wait so there's nothing here to incriminate Dusty or NP, is there? Yeah here we go bois Anywho, NP is harboring the cause of all of this, so NP should burn on its own. That being said, the bloc was rigged from the start.

Batavus has been ground down by months of war, and has a military disadvantage. He opts to fortify. Reaper raids. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=582769 ^ War in question ^Batavus military as of this post. ^reaper military as of this post. Sequence of attacks: - Batavus fortifies - Reaper uses a classic 1-ship tactic to raid and minimize his losses. - Moderation shuts down the war within a day of declaration despite attacks being made. - Batavus' previous war history shows he was recently looted for a decent amount of cash, providing incentive to raid, and incentive for batavus to try to preserve. ---------------------------------------------------- As per the rules: --- The nations in question are attacking us. Our nations can't fight back because they've been ground down and sat on for 3 months. The game rules do not cover a standard raiding scenario and specifically denote "declaring without intention of fighting is punishable by a nation strike". Reaper is raiding according to precedent and convention. ergo- there is no violation on going. That brings us to the body of this post. Why is moderation warning and deleting perfectly legitimate wars and providing strikes for standard usage of the war system? Why is this policy being applied arbitrarily while the exact same style of warfare has been employed by raiders for the past years, and while there are plenty of recent examples of similar timelines by alliances currently at war with tS who are not being striked as slot filling? More importantly: Why is moderation once again intervening in a war's progression without cause?

Okay people, the real question we need answered here is how does this affect the timeline for Mimesome's game development?

Like how we live in your heads rent free? Gotcha.

there’s a lot of content you could have gotten about this war and you got like 5 out of context logs two months apart and im not quite sure what it’s trying to say

this didn't age well

Where's mine?

Is there some sort of context to this, I don't understand what the logs are supposed to be saying.

By definition, this is not cheating. NP's motivations are their own. So long as the war is being fought with the purpose of beiging (which it is), this 1:1 equals standard raiding practices which have been accepted norms for a long time now. Unless the rules are rephrased, your gripe with the action is irrelevant to its validity as a legitimate move within the boundaries of the game rules set by alex. I'll also note that with all the mass reports we are going down a very slippery slope where the gaming element is being taken entirely out of the IC environment. It's getting stale. Some folks would do well to save using moderation as a weapon for actual cheating. The quote you highlight is in direct reference to the sentence preceeded by it: "Declaring war on a nation without the intention of fighting them". That is the definition of slot filling. If the war mechanic is used to beige (which by definition means trying to win the war), then that constitutes a valid war. You being disadvantaged by the situation is irrelevant to whether or not the rules have been broken, which they haven't. If anything, beige prevention (which has been employed en masse by coalition B ) comes closer to war slot filling than this.

Here's the rough situation as it is: NP is at war with BK / BoC / Camelot since one of their new members took the BoC bank. T$ is at war with BK / Camelot. OD's (BKNPO) military control is contingent on keeping opponents out of beige and keeping them deplaned. So obviously, NP hitting T$ and beiging them, is advantageous to them as they are helping the enemy of an enemy rebuild their military assets. ==== Now, let's look again to what the rules are: https://politicsandwar.com/rules/ War Slot & Espionage Filling Declaring war on a nation without the intention of fighting them is punishable by a nation strike and additional punishment for multiple violations. You are not allowed to declare war on nations to prevent them from being attacked by other nations. This same rule applies with spies and espionage operations. Knowingly participating in having your war or spy slots filled is also considered a violation of this rule. Moderation discretion must be applied when interpreting and enforcing this rule. An example of behavior violating the rules would be declaring war on a nation and sending attacks with minimal units, or using 'Fortify', to appear to be fighting a war, when in reality the attacker has no intention to fight and win the war. The rule being violated is "you are not allowed to declare war on nations to prevent them from being attacked by other nations". NP slotting T$, beyond merely increasing the strength of BKNPO's enemies, is denying BKNPO the ability to counter this tactic by bringing someone of their own to keep the T$ opponent down. In essence, this is the same as Joe Baker getting slot filled earlier in this war (which means any time within the last year, hardy har har) to prevent others from raiding him. All wars with 3 NP slot fillers should be taken out and the parties involved warned. Wars with less than 3 NP slot fillers should also be likely taken out, as they aren't providing a legitimate reason to engage, and that they've more or less disclosed the real purpose of hitting T$ at this time. ==== Also, since why not, #banNPO2020

While I have some reservations about the flag and my "code name"...... I feel like I've spent enough time dealing with the truly unstable in this world to recognize what I don't want in an ally. TKR displays none of those attributes, thank god! Here's to a long relationship of dream speak, voices in the back of our heads and constant fear of fear itself deciding all our decisions going forward!

Mirror, mirror on the wall... Who is the bravest and most beautiful of all?

Nation Link: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=172664 Ruler Name: Reg Penney Nature of Violation: In-game Communication - All forms of in-game communication, including but not limited to, messaging, war declaration reasons, alliance announcements, leader, city, or nation names, and nation and alliance descriptions must be appropriate. Vulgar language, mean comments, Nazism or Nazi related names and titles, Terrorist organizations related names and titles etc. are not allowed and will result in your nation receiving a strike. Please note the spaces put in between the vulgar language. Although there is no filter put on ass in game, there is a filter on !@#$. I'll just pin this on here because it's the same thing. His war declarations are vulgar as well.

It looks like someone is frustrated that an important title was stolen from them. No worries, Tib. "NPO did a good job!"

I'm trying to understand what is there to gain/damage by gathering random screenshots of random chats of different time ranges

Shifty is an underwater researcher. He's merely here to observer.

how long did it take you to come up with this one lmao

If you guessed Brave and Beautiful BK, you guessed right!

Back when Coalition B was defending baseball against nerfing despite it being clearly broken (and tbh it still is) I was a bit disgusted at myself to have been helping them in the war at the time. It fills me with great relief to see that the other side can go just as low. What's happening now is definitely the most blatant case of mass slot-filling since I have started playing a year ago, conducting and defending it is definitely a new low for some of the coolest and most respectable players I have gotten to know in this game and I'm a bit sad it's happening. The slot filling rule has always sucked. In order to judge the intention of a war declaration you need to have an understanding of what's actually happening in the game and unfortunately Alex has proven time and time again that he doesn't possess this knowledge. If he did then certainly it wouldn't be only 3 wars that would be force peaced by now but all 50 or however many it is by now. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=582718 "Dusty's justification for the war was, "I bring Gifts of beige"." I'm actually unable to understand how cases such as this, where its blatantly stated in the war reason that he is gifting beige, arent forcibly peaced yet. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=582715 "Windseeker's justification for the war was, "GET BACK UP!"." How about this one where its obvious he is beiging to have him rebuild? The intention behind all of these wars is gifting beige for a rebuild and most definitely not to harm whoever they are attacking, and it doesnt matter whether they do this with one ship navals or if they nuke beige them, the end result is enough beige time for a rebuild. To understand this you need to not look at what's happening in the wars and how they are fought but why people declared them on the people they did declare on. Again: this requires an understanding of the game, but it's not difficult to clearly see for someone who does understand it. Now would be a good time to read up on who is fighting who, its not difficult to see when someone attacks an ally with the intention to help. Alex, please be aware that this situation is another climax in the global war and that this cheating could be a major factor in a potential turnaround.

I can't believe you'd just hand us these high quality tactics. Forwarding to Milcom immediately.

I'll tell you what, if you manage to make it past the sea of Ayyylien bottomfeeders to fill my def slot, I'll humor this RoH. Just be sure to use an impractical amount of ships when you do. Hell, build tanks while you're at it and nuke my 1k infra on raid mode to be on the safe side.

Not gonna lie, that was a pretty good comeback lol And probably accurate

Enjoy peace

Don't act like your alliance contributes anything lol

OD prots is blake, panthsphere is weiss, goons is ruby, and gog/bk/npo is yang change my mind

We once saw the rise and fall of the Easy Mode Coalition and now see the rise of the Easily Rolled Coalition.

checks signatories checks Keshav's signature Yeah... If I were you, I would feel safer if I had Roquentin signing that. As safe as you can feel towards a person that goes forward with rolling his MDP allies.

But it is almost definitely your most important

Theyre too op for you

One day they're bragging about how far they've gotten, the next they hide from any sign of war. Isn't it fun to watch

You chickened out faster than I could turn on my Baseball bot.

nubs

Fully story on this because I do what I want. Minesome was in TMC. He merged in because he feared GOONs was gonna leave him with a permanent limp. Minesome loses his Discord mask because Dreki doesn't like it, but most of TMC leadership found him annoying in high gov. Meanwhile, he goes back to Dusty. Dusty asks for leaks, Minesome gives him the API keys and data sheets which help run a more automated TMC. Minesome is targetted, rumor gets out that BoC will counter, so NP goes in full force. At this point, NP has still harbored Dusty and hasn't ejected him for this shit. Next up, it was Gatorcock saying he didn't give a shit about Fark, but that was a TMC government widespread sentiment. Fark was a buffer wall/supposed to be a meatshield and treaty chain protection. Fark has had complicated FA, but yeah, part of these logs are to tell Fark, bro, don't jump in, don't drag in Farksphere, this ain't your war. Odd that in 2020, Shifty would be trying to save Fark. What a time to be alive. Anywho, as for IQ, no problems there really. The whole Dusty is a ploy by IQ, is fine, if they executed this then good for them. Dusty and NP though, I'm not diggin' it so yeah.

Correct.

F. I'll get a strike for this, but meh. Sucks to see you go bro. F

Guess people can use a lot of words to try justifying ignoring a NAP which had no words; although since it had no clear terms or words to it; guess people can interpret it many ways. Although if it covers ODP allies, then it doesn’t matter when Mythic was switched to ODoAP in regards to their attacks. Although a distinction was never made on some types of allies being covered and others not. So props to Camelot at least for somehow creating a dozen or so holes in the idea of this NAP with some of their allies bring able to ignore it; as others supposedly covered. Lol

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand SNN. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of P/W backdoor politics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Shifty's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from self-reflection for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike SNN truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Shifty's existential catchphrase "ayy lmao" which itself is a cryptic reference to extraterrestrial visitation and ancient alien theory. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as SNN's genius unfolds on their computer or iPhone screen. And yes, by the way, i DO have a meme to post with this. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 50 IQ points of my own (preferably much lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid ? I'm waiting for someone to post bait to respond with. Every SNN is like this, I wait for someone to say the wrong thing and then they get whacked with a screenshot to refute them. Come on guys, 4 (news) scoops if you wanna get big.

And I smell an opportunist. But who asked? Amirite?

#couplegoals ? o7 TKR o7 t$

Sorry, not sorry.

To live in the hearts of others is never to die. Tonight is a somber occasion, as we mourn the passing of a great member of the $yndicate community, and the Orbis community at large. It has been brought to our attention that our friend and brother, Digitizer, has fallen ill to Pneumonia. After being hospitalized a few days ago, he passed away on the 29th of October, at the young age of 24. Digitizer joined us on July 13th, and immediately became an active part of our community. His continued effort in safeguarding our community from raids was a testimony to his loyalty and consideration for his brethren. His bright personality and quick wit were always a joy to be around. Digitizer was always great to be around, and his presence will be sorely missed. Seeing a young man with his life ahead of him die at such a young age is always tragic. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Digitizer's friends and family. May they take solace in the knowledge that Digitizer will live on in the memories of the people who's life he touched. As a final salute to our comrade, The $yndicate will sport the Irish flag - the flag of Digitizer's homecountry - for the month of November. We greatly appreciate anyone who wishes to join us in honoring Digitizer. Rest in Peace, Digitizer, and may you move on to a better life beyond this one.