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  1. ... to join us for a tale most beautiful ... "Best Buds" by Mariana Kushowary VIII ... Bird Weed hereby declares its existence in the beautiful world of Orbis. Bird Weed is about birds and weed. We like cool and nice people. If you want to find out more, check us out here! With kindest wishes from our very own Dank Weed, we wish you a blazingly beautiful day. Signed, Everyone belonging to the flock of Bird Weed
    22 points
  2. Goons are actually pretty alright . I noticed a lot of your forum posts and I came to the conclusion that you follow everything they do every waking minute of the day. Maybe if you stopped worrying about it and focused on yourself or you're alliance or whatever the hell you do in this game you'll come to terms that their just too * Cash Money* for you , I went to war with them and after 2 days they have my vote as the most welcoming alliance in the game.
    11 points
  3. The House has agreed to surrender to Goons. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-UPmsN1jNRpC3mxpbo345s30kjvWAEgqWYrawzFjnw0/edit?usp=drivesdk I'm sure 99 percent of you don't care and don't know of our alliance:)
    10 points
  4. Our titles are earned, can you say the same imperial?
    9 points
  5. A Werd frum Da Herd, Da Cowz r big fanz ov da Birds an ov da weedz upon da ground 2 eat. So glad there is gonna b mor representashun ov da Animals udder then Hoomans. U R welcom 2 Da Pastur at NE tiem NE daye NE night 4 a big ol' Pastur Rompus thru da dumbrainz on Orbis. Send da Birds 2 eat da flies an we'll send da Cowz 2 keep the dumbrainz frum pickin' ur eggs and stompin the grasse. Sinsteerly, Da Cowz
    8 points
  6. We’ve only had Bird Weed for a bit and a half, but if anything happens to it, we’re going to kill everyone in this game and then ourselves.
    7 points
  7. Goons would like to take the time to thank The House for this quick and feisty ending of hostilities. It was a bloody affair, and the 500 coal will be placed in a museum for all newbies to gawk and awe at
    7 points
  8. Good luck! Don't let the no-fun-allowed-censor-crowd get you down!
    6 points
  9. I was not able to get my signature on the document in time, unfortunately. I have placed it here, for commemorative purposes however. Blutarch Mann, the Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds.
    6 points
  10. Yes unfortunately our leader also resigned when he learned of the treaty, meaning I have to take charge. Not ideal, oh well got nothing better to do.
    5 points
  11. i am abhorred that there is a three page abomination commemorating whatever happened here
    5 points
  12. Greetings, friend!
    4 points
  13. Sure, I will block him. I just personally will disagree with it not being punishment-worthy to randomly write "Allah Akbar BOOM" and calling people "Führer". Those kinda things would be unacceptable on a nation page, I don't see why they should be okay in messages.
    4 points
  14. guess I should get back to working on my aNiMaLz DoE
    3 points
  15. Lack of knowledge for new players is an issue. If you are unlucky enough to end up in a not-well-established alliance, the main issue is not as much as that you don't get funded/protected as that you don't get to learn the game. Having a common knowledge repository available to everyone (integrated in the wiki?) would be good enough to resolve this issue. To that direction, the experienced players/ alliances could (should?) share their guides and work together to perfect them. Most of them get leaked anyway, one way or another. tl;dr: Open guides for everyone, created by experienced alliances/players.
    3 points
  16. rofl stfu. You act like NAPs didn't occur in the past.
    3 points
  17. Look how easy it is to secure peace when your negotiators aren't both literally and metaphorically dripping with venom! Grats on peace House!
    3 points
  18. Comments like these undermine the war effort!
    3 points
  19. 3 points
  20. 2 points
  21. Greatest alliance ever? I really can't say, but yes.
    2 points
  22. I mean I feel like a lot of y'all overestimate the impact of baseball solely because you're too lazy to put in any effort in playing it/joining the communities that play it. It may help to git gud and you know actually allow different play styles to exist, rather than trying to hegemonise your views in such a manner, to solely suit your political objectives. Threads like these are basically folks who've failed at their political outcomes, trying to force admin to step in and help them. It's absolutely hilarious at some level.
    2 points
  23. Welcome to Orbis, little birds! This song isn't quite right but bird and bee start the same right?
    2 points
  24. We love birds, we love weed, this treaty just makes sense.
    2 points
  25. Thank you for revealing that you were never acting in good faith towards either coalition and had your eyes set only on dominance and stat hugging.
    2 points
  26. The best part of this thread is all the super salty Coalition A members complaining in a thread that has nothing to do with them.
    2 points
  27. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.
    2 points
  28. I wager you 3 million dollars that you'll make another post here. Brb gonna ask someone to trigger you so you will lol.
    2 points
  29. who told him? who was it? who went and broke the goon hegemony?
    2 points
  30. To be fair, Mao was very courteous in all my interactions with. A couple of his now former team members on the other hand both instigated this whole thing and tried to convince him to take us on once it escalated. I'm honestly not sure what they expect to happen.
    2 points
  31. Im willing to play ball on the meme war too
    2 points
  32. NPO hasn't funded GOONS at all for general growth. You can thank Syndicate and Rose for that.
    1 point
  33. Da Cowz so luky 2 lay eyez on da immens waelth Da House sent da GOONS. Da Herd nevr dreemed ov seein 500 coals all 2gether.
    1 point
  34. I for one don't think this, "House," alliance has ever existed, and was solely a fictional creation of the goonies so that they may have an excuse to post their signatures. I'm on to you, boonies.
    1 point
  35. I too would like thurther clarification, as the current state makes me wary of participating at all on the forums.
    1 point
  36. Sigh, no you are not history's greatest monster but you do enable Leo on his quest to do stupid things. As I recall, I was in BK's government channels and at times held their bank during a war and had zero affect on what Leo and upper government did at the time as well. So that dog don't hunt. Leaving my alliance during a war, however I felt about what my government was doing is something I am very loath to do and is something that I would take a very long time to decide. No matter how most people in this game feel about it I still have a great deal of personal honor and will do what I feel is the right thing for me. Just because you have sold your soul to the devil doesn't mean I should or will.
    1 point
  37. I am absolutely not defending that fool. If he agreed to pay that back, he should. The amount of influence I have on what Sphinx does is right there at zero. Paying back the loan after the war is fine, not that you guys ever want it to end. However I have also seen your "peace terms" for tCW so please do not play stupid with me. You can talk out your ass to people that don't know any better all you want but please do do so to me. You used to be a reasonable person, it is sad to see what you have become.
    1 point
  38. How very reasonable of you especially when BK doesn't want to repay the $7 billion loan they got from tCW pre war. It is sad to see how far into the crap you guys have fallen.
    1 point
  39. New players: *Join the game, an objectively good thing.* Also new players: *Happen to align with NPO* Col A Players: The sheer, abject terror Col A players experience at the thought of new players joining the game and not kowtowing to them never fails to amuse. Just say you'd rather they'd all delete, it'd be more honest. That said, I do quite like the sound of the NPO Manga Trading Conspiracy, it'll join other classics like the NPO Steel Conspiracy, the NPO Stats Conspirac(ies), the NPO Bots and Baseball Conspiracy, the list goes on.
    1 point
  40. And people say IQ isn't a hive mind. Mind you, we should ask if you're done slot filling as well. @Keegoz @Princess Adrienne Was a pleasure to fight you guys, this war was probably the most fun I've ever had in this game.
    1 point
  41. Seven months into a probably endless war that is likely hurting the game, and your argument is that, without baseball, certain parties couldn't maintain fighting an endless war that is bad for the game. Huh.
    1 point
  42. In another lifetime I have been in bureaucratic alliances, both democratic and undemocratic, and there are four underlying features that most "traditional" alliances have: Defined ministries (finance, war, internal affairs, foreign affairs) Defined government roles and portfolio limiting ministers to a particular area. Meritocratic promotion style governance where you work your way up via a particular ministry. Orders-based mobilization of members, where independent action is prohibited or discouraged. I will explain why all of these features are inefficient and damaging. In any given alliance, regardless of whether it is an elite alliance or a mass alliance, there are a limited number of people who are interested in alliance government. Within that limited number of people, there are an even more limited number of people who are competent and capable of being alliance government, and among those, a limited number who will be active in governing at any one time. When I say active in governing I don't mean active as in they log in everyday, but are actively pursuing alliance goals (coming up with guides, planning wars, talking to other alliances about common interests, etc). Your best government people are probably not running your alliance right now, the smartest people in your alliance probably don't want to run the alliance, and just want to play and lurk in the background. Alliance charters are written as though everyone is clamouring for a government position, whereas the reality is that getting people who are motivated to be actively governing are rare and precious commodities. There are a number of reasons why people might not pursue government in your alliance, chief among them are: - Defined government roles are unappealing, they want to do something else where there is no defined role - Ruling clique inner circle situation where government is basically a closed aristocracy - Uninterested in government - RL too busy - Can't be bothered to jump through all the hoops of a "meritocracy" These people who are interested in governing the alliance but don't for one reason or another are unrealized alliance potential. For some it is not possible to realize that potential, you can't write a charter granting people more free time IRL for instance, and you can bring a player to power but you can't make them care. For the rest though, you CAN realize that potential, by having an Arrghist government. What is an Arrghist government? Our governing philosophy is essentially that if someone is interested in leadership, let them do whatever they want. They want to start a whole new program where they pursue bounties? Let's make one! Someone has new banking ideas? Let them try it out. They want to start a mentoring program? They're crazy, but if they want that headache then go for it. The classic failure of the ministry system is a classic situation most alliances have encountered: Here's the scenario, your alliance has just been attacked, your economic and foreign affairs ministers quickly gather to figure out what's going on, but where's the war minister? Noone wanted to be the war minister last election, so they nominated the old war minister who doesn't care anymore and isn't even online. Who will plan the counter-offensive? The charter forbids anyone but the war minister from issuing orders! In this situation many alliances end up de-facto embracing Arrghism on a temporary basis as the Economics minister ends up planning a war offensive and the FA minister helps him send out attack orders, days later, after the war has been run into the ground. Imagine instead a decentralized system, war is declared and every gov available at the time discuss what aspect of the war, who wants to do what? Ok you plan the counteroffensive I'll send out war aid, guy who isn't even in gov volunteers to train the noobs how to fight, awesome let's promote that guy to mid level government and see how they do. You would think a system where random people are promoted and given responsibilities would lead to ineffective leadership, but sadly this is not at all the case. Inactive leadership is actually worse than no leadership at all, since without a minister to wait for orders, people would just take individual initiative. This gets back to the final aspect, individual initiative. In general, alliances look down on individual initiative, and consider government to be a much better judge of action. Often this is true, however this assumes that government has unlimited time to determine the best course of action. Consider the target list. Every war, most alliances draw up a target list of enemy nations, painstakingly crafted considering every last detail. The problem is that target lists are pointless. You could have just left that to individual initiative, where your own players could get together and pick their own targets, and coordinate their own attacks. Unlike target lists, this individual initiative has no expiry date (targets lists are worthless immediately following the first offensive, when score ranges no longer even resemble the old ones) and individuals spend much longer on each matchup. If you tell your alliance to pick a target, they have all day to plan out an attack against the targets they chose. Target lists, your poor milcom guys probably spent 3 seconds on each matchup. Even if your milcom guy is a genius and your members are retards, you'll probably end up with about the same quality of matchups. It isn't just this though, individual initiative also means your alliance is never waiting for orders. Waiting for inactive government to respond to crises is crippling, especially to memberships who have grown to rely on orders and cannot act independently. Individual initiative allows for swift action and reaction. Your members are smarter and more capable than you give them credit for.
    1 point
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