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When the majority of the posts here show disdain for one person (Leo), shouldn’t that cause you to take a step back and think hard on that? And no, the blame is set on the leadership of those 2 respective AAs. One of them ‘cheated’, the other called for your disbandment after their friends got banned. No one outside of your community called for you to disband. In fact: https://imgur.com/a/y7uYHrG We attempted to give you room so your community could figure out what to do.

The Commonwealth is Now Proudly Sponsored by The Coca Cola Company. I know this is shocking, but I'll do my best to explain; as we all know, Alex doesn't care about anything but money, knowing this, we at The Commonwealth knew if we wanted to quickly win the war, we had to give Alex a lot of money, but where were we to get a lot of money? This is where the gracious folks at the Coca Cola Company stepped in. The Coca Cola Company, if you didn't know, make and sell a wide variety of very delicious drinks. They agreed to sponsor our admin bribe if we took control of the Lime color bloc at some point and changed it to advertise the amazing taste of their extremely popular beverage: Sprite. We of course immediately accepted and the rest is history. For the record, all it took for Alex to accept our deal was a total of $4.99 and a two liter of Sprite. Because of this, we were able to pocket the rest of the multi-million dollar deal, and we plan to use the money to translate Australian magazines to English in order to use them to recruit the British into our new upcoming, TOTALLY LEGAL AND LEGIT, alliance, "Enjoy the Great Taste of Coca Cola," otherwise known as EtGToCC. Thank you for your time. Signed For The Commonwealth - Malleator : Soon to be Fired Deputy Minister of Machines and Growth For The Coca Cola Company - James Quincey : Chief Executive Officer Please note that Alex did not accept any bribe, The Commonwealth is in no way affiliated with the Coca Cola Company, and this entire thread is a lie/satire that has been disavowed and disallowed by the entire government of The Commonwealth, yes that includes Malleator. Thank you for your patience and please vote Sprite for best color bloc name. Love you. ❤️

To echo the other sentiments, few people are happy to see BK dead. I won't be shedding any tears for Leo, I doubt many will. Just as you called BK home, I have called SK home for nearly 10 years. You can understand, then, how alliances on our side reacted to Leo stating his goal was to drive our members to delete, and our communities to disband. But BK itself? BK was probably one of the most beloved alliances in the game. For years, you had the most upvoted posts, highly regarded discords/IRCs, and often won most popular posters. They memed a lot IC but aside from NPO, few considered it toxic. You were just a bunch of folks laughing and having fun, pleasantly free from the sort of OOC grudges found in other groups. The sort of grudges that consumed your later leadership. It's worth noting that many of the people posting here are your former allies, and even some old members and leaders. It's not some circlejerk from longtime BK haters. SK and I have had a funny roller coaster relationship with BK through the years. We started off as allies when BK was first created nearly a decade ago in Project Terra. We started as enemies here on Orbis in the VE war, and flopped back and forth ever since. Allies in Oktoberfest/168, enemies in Silent; allies in Trail of Tiers, enemies in Ayysalmic Crusade; allies (albeit strained) in Knightfall, enemies again in this war. Through it all I always enjoyed the general BK community. Memeing on the forums and Discord. All the BK Stronk posts, Biel's reminders to disband and join BK. Maybe if Leo didn't start taking that last joke seriously, I could have enjoyed BK the government too. So I'm not happy to see BK disband. It's like watching an old friend fall in with a bad crowd and slowly lose themselves and their life. I have only contempt for those that led us to this moment. But as for the old friend, I will remember the good times, and wish they could have lasted.

Literally only one person in our coalition leadership stated "getting rid of BK/NPO" and that was Sketchy after NPO lied to us and joined the war, without any treaty to tie them into such. Basically showing that their word is worthless (How amusing that they kept that up, all the way up to their talk with the Admin of the game). And even after Sketchy stated such, numerous of our leads stated that isn't the goal of our coalition. Including myself. If we wanted to remove an alliance from the game, we would've done so a long time ago. There were multiple times where any of our alliances could've sat on another alliance for an extended period of time till they disbanded or left. NONE of us have ever done that or made it our goal. So please, Epi, kindly stfu. On the other hand, multiple times throughout the years - people have often spoke ill of Leo or wished BK would turn around and be the fun alliance they once were under Strum/Yoso's reign. This isn't new.

After further consideration, and review of my previous decision (see relevant topic here for reference), I believe I made a mistake in this case. I didn't realize the volume of money and resources being taken into Vacation Mode. Per my previous ruling, taking a large sum of money and resources from an alliance bank and going into Vacation Mode is against the rules. When you deposit money and resources into the alliance bank, you generally give up your right of ownership over them. They no longer belong to you, but to the alliance. To be clear, if you want to maintain sole ownership of money and resources (for the purpose of taking them into Vacation Mode), you should keep them in your nation. Discussing my change in ruling with @Do Not Fear Jazz, I offered him the choice of me either ending his Vacation Mode early, or returning the money/rss to the alliance bank from which they came. I am not enforcing a punishment here because this was the result of my mistake and no fault on the part of @Do Not Fear Jazz who did make every reasonable effort to follow the rules. They have selected to return the alliance bank funds and remain in VM, so I will be returning those contents shortly. I understand this may be frustrating to the 3 nations who had declared war on @Do Not Fear Jazz, probably with the intent of looting some of those contents, but it is important to me that I get this decision right.

The Council is proud to bring you Combating IQ Gaslighting: Guinea Pig Special Edition Part the Third: NPO did nothing wrong There are many more screenshots in Alex's report, including those showing that NPO leadership lied repeatedly when confronted and deleted incriminating evidence, but I believe I've proven my point here. Further, a common attempt at muddying the waters is that all of this refers to a novel and not a scanlation of a manwha (WMMAP is a novel that was adapted into a manwha), which is what Alex referred to in his report. This is an attempt to obfuscate and also not relevant to this incident. While there are further references to the distribution of translations of the manwha in these and other screenshots, this will be saved for the next part. The distinction between whether a translated manwha or novel was distributed is nonexistent. Further, whether any of the accused parties themselves committed copyright infringement is also not at issue here. The fact remains that exclusive access to content was given in exchange for becoming a passive resource farm for GWPC, and through them NPO. This is a clear violation of the rules and therefore Alex is not only justified in, he has an obligation as the administrator of this game to take action. @Chief Wiggum since there's been a lot of vitriol surrounding this topic, I would ask that all discussion be redirected to either the announcement topic or a separate thread.

Ahoy, Comraid! Even as they slipped into their moorings at port they could hear the commotion. Sounds of laughter and singing threaded together with slightly discordant violin music drifted across the bay towards them. Grand Admiral Zim stood on deck gazing inland toward what sounded like quite the party. “Lads” he said over his shoulder as the crew gathered on deck. “I don’t know about you, but it appears we are late to the party”. Admiral Ripper chuckled to himself behind his mask “Aye! But better late than never, I always say.” As a crew member lowered the gang plank, Zim yelled over his shoulder “Lads, and Ladies! It’s time for a bit of fun!!! We celebrate tonight, for you have earned it, but two days hence we sail!! You bilge rats had better be ready then! If you fall behind.....” “YOU GET LEFT BEHIND” the crew shouted as they jostled their way over the gangplank and down the dock towards town, First Mate Bocephus wagging and barking along side. As the crew approached, the sound of the party grew louder and louder until they arrived at the tavern. The Admiralty pushed their way forward through the crew and opened the door. They were greeted with a blast of sight, sound, and, unfortunately, smell. Pirates were everywhere singing, drinking, and playing dice. A few were dancing and several were in various degrees of undress participating in questionable things with the staff. Someone was swinging from the light hanging above the taproom, and some fool was trying (and fortunately failing) to set fire to the upstairs balcony. When the revelers noticed the Arrgh! Crew filing in, they slowly ceased their fun and stood, staring at the pirates as they entered. The music suddenly stopped and an uneasy silence filled the room. Both sides bristled at each other as hands strayed toward sword hilts. Both sides staring hard across the room. Zim searching through the crowd for threats noticed a familiar face across the room. A slow smile spread across his ugly mug as he put the name to the face “Dryad, it’s been a long time”. As Dryad recognized the speaker he returned the greeting “Ahh Zim, I see those navy jackals haven’t managed to get a noose around your neck yet, you filthy pirate!” “I could say the same about you and the national guard” replied Zim. Both leaders strode to the center of the room and exchanged a firm handshake. As if everyone in the room was holding their breath and could only now exhale, the tension in the room went out and everyone relaxed returning to their activities and the new arrivals shouting for ale and rum. “Let’s you and I get a quiet table and catch up.“ Dryad said, moving to a dark corner of the room. “You know” Dryad said after emptying his tankard. “With all this warfare going on between the two coalitions......there could be......opportunities for the, shall we say, industrious to make some coin”. “And of what industry do you speak?” asked Zim leaning into closer. “But, raiding of course!” said Dryad. “Of course!” Zim replied laughing. Dryad leaned forward, ”I have heard many sea stories of late about the mountains of booty the Arrghcrew has been hauling in”. “Similar stories are heard about Mythic” replied Zim. “Well” said Dryad, eyes beginning to glow with anticipation. “Imagine that instead of working separately, and in some cases against each other, we came to a...sort of.....understanding? “Of mutual benefit?” asked Zim, eyebrow raised. “Of course!” said Dryad laughing. “Well let’s get to the details then” smiled Zim leaning closer to hear more about the arrangement. The party gained momentum, both Mythic and Arrgh! crews began to bond over rum, sea stories, and other sorts of shared debauchery. It was a party of such magnitude, that to this day people still talk about in port. As dawn broke over the bay the party was still in full swing, and the two figures in the dark corner, heads together were still plotting their collective courses.......... ~ From the Chronicles of Cap'n @Critters ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As it has been recognized that both Arrgh and Mythic follow a similar governing philosophy and support communities the members of which... pillage, plunder, rifle, and loot kidnap and ravage and don't give a hoot extort, pilfer, filch, and sack maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack kindle and char, inflame and ignite burn up the city, are really a fright are rascals, scoundrels, villains, and knaves are devils and black sheep, really bad eggs are beggars and blighters, ne'er-do-well cads but are all loved by their mommies and dads … Arrgh recognizes Mythic as an Associate and makes a toast to all the future raiding and plundering to come. This does not imply the signing of any kind of a treaty between the two alliances that will remain paperless, but does signify their will to work together in an attempt to terrorize all the seas, lands and skies of Orbis. tl;dr: Arrgh and Mythic have decided to become raiding partners.

Buorhann: It never was our intention to disband you. In fact, here's a screenshot of us offering BK some peace and quiet just as we did with the rest of Colo B. Epi, only one post after Buo's: YOU ARE ALL FULL OF SHIT YOU STARTED THIS WAR TO DISBAND PEOPLE.

Well I am a man of my word. You'll get your 2 chapters in 3-4 weeks after we verify that your build and color are in compliance and you're in the proper tax bracket.

Wait.... you're a fellow Aussie? @Buorhann @ArcKnox Also the translation is, ;,p "There's a Kangaroo loose in the top paddock of whatever seppo (Seppo is slang for Americans, its short for Septic Tank, which is rythming slang for Yank and also cause Americans are said to be full of shit (Like how Americans say we don't have freedom cause we don't have gun rights). Don't take it personally its just typical banter) dreamed up this yarn (Highly exaggerated story). We Aussies speak the Queen's Lingo just fine, mate. (We speak the proper British English just with our Aussie twist, since unlike you Americans we aren't lazy f**ks who forget their 'u' in words like Honour, or Armour. ;,p)

Paperless doesn't have to mean neutral or isolationist. You can have friends based on relationships. Those relationships can also dissolve once those friendships go their separate ways. That is, in fact, one of the key tenets of being paperless. You move on from relationships that aren't working, you aren't bound by a silly treaty ad eternum. Too many alliances these days pick a sphere and sign an alliance and forget about them until war rolls around. The little ones do it for protection, the big ones do it to have pawns in their chess match.

Alternately if enough of you are sticking around, I would encourage the BK members to create a new alliance and keep the community alive. If you enjoyed your time together, there's no reason you can't open a new chapter. Otherwise, I'm sure all alliances would welcome new members, but its certainly an option worth considering.

Pirate King Monkey approves this paperless alliance, may this venture bring you many riches! BTW: Don't forget ur weekly tribute payments to the Pirate King.

All your gov got banned and all your allies committed suicide! Boy, you sure showed us who's boss!

I can already see the fruits of this partnership

Can anyone translate this? I'm offering 3 manwha chapters.

This isn't the whole log. Here it is, for full transparency and context: It's clear that this log that's been trotted out by NPO over and over again was cropped to make it look better for them. This conversation opened with "I have an interesting question about fairness philosophy, so I'll use an extreme example" And following up with "What would your gut reaction be?" I agree with others in this thread who have stated I should have been more careful with my words. However, given the context, I don't think my answer was inappropriate. Had I known what was going on at the time, I would have implemented a change like I did when I found out, kicking inactive nations to Gray much sooner than 14 days to solve the problem mechanically. Finding out what was going on months later and having to compiling evidence, ban players, and create such a mess was never the solution I had desired. The fact of the matter is that I did not understand what was going on. I just knew that the players weren't bots; they were real accounts run by real people. I didn't know what manhwa was, and I never dreamed that such a scheme could or would be implemented, especially to such a degree. And, as I pointed out in my report, the reason for that is because the GPWC members were actively discouraged from participating in the usual communication channels of the game and were told to keep the manhwa stuff secret. @HeroofTime55's response sums up my opinion on this pretty well: My interpretation and enforcement of the rules is that things that exist for the purpose of the game (game-related Discord bot, alliance flag, nation flag, custom graphics for the game, etc.) are okay to trade for in-game money.

Actually the admin was asked to either clarify the rules and compensate Bjorn for the inconsistency, or to stop being dumb and enforce the rules as per his prior precedent. He did neither, and uses the hilariously weak of excuse of "I didn't realize how much there was." Incompetence should not be relevant factor into properly executing the rules.

"Sorry... Blockaded..."

NPO, I'll say, has a much classier banme than GOONS.

Yep i named those. whats the issue? are you a nazi or a fascist @LordInfinitius? Guilty conscience maybe? Every one of my cities is a political statement about this game and the toxic community that infects it. a game i played for over 4 years before it was destroyed by inept management and simpering toadies begging for advantages they didnt deserve because they were incapable of achieving greatness on their own

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Arrgh! Nice to see a mutiny every now and then.

The appeal is denied, but please see: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/28112-bank-vm-sorry-raiders/&do=findComment&comment=453077

There's a kangaroo loose in the top paddock of whatever seppo dreamed up this yarn. We Aussies speak the Queen's lingo just fine, mate.

Part the Fourth: Manwhas? What Manwhas? Anna was involved in the distribution of Manwha outside of this Raws are the original, untranslated comics Sawateam is a group that translates these types of comics. Why they are involved with the GPWC to be "poked around at" is unknown.

Your arguments are being addressed, but I can't stand by any longer and watch you use whom so incorrectly. Whom is the object of a sentence (object of a verb or a preposition, most commonly used after a preposition). Who is the subject of a sentence. Ex. For whom are lying? Ex. Who are you lying for? The subject of a sentence is that noun that is "doing" the action. This can be determined by asking who or what is VERBing. Ex. NPO is cheating. WHO is cheating? NPO. NPO is the subject. The object of a sentence is the thing that the verb is being done to. So you can ask what is being VERBed. Ex. NPO is ruining the game. What is being ruined? The game (the object.) Who is ruining the game? NPO (the subject.) The object of a preposition is that which follows a preposition, for a full list of prepositions and a song to learn them, go here. Ex. NPO threw a temper tantrun along with their friend BK. WITH is the preposition, "their friend BK" is the object of the preposition. So we could substitute "their friend BK" here with a variant of whom such as: NPO threw a temper tantrum along with whomever sympathizes with cheaters. Carry on.

Leaked footage of NPO winning the game:

Someone must be mad that was not invited to the party. Arrgh had Associates in the past while remaining always paperless. Thanks for reading.

Aye, it gave birth the best MilCom in the history of Orbis. First to 100+ bln net damage in a single war by an AA, and still maintaining the military prowess today even as our numbers dwindled. Thanks for the sacrifice bruv. Reducing the old growth to ashes gave birth to new life. o7

I'm glad BK is disbanding, but not for the reasons being mentioned in this thread and behind closed doors. With BK disbanding an old established alliance is leaving, the government leading it -- its friends and enemies -- will fade off. Those who remain have the chance to start their own alliances, join other alliances, become possible active and future leaders. When TEst disbanded after getting our butts stomped in "Papers, Please" and I removed myself from the political community, 3 new alliances sprouted up in our wake, one of them, Knights Templar, is still here today. When old established alliances die it gives a chance for new alliances to take their place and this is a good thing. So BK, I smile as you burn into ash but not out of hate, but for the possibility of what you ashes will grow into.

Hopefully the next game's admin will let you and your allies cheat so you don't have to quit when one of you gets caught. I'd hate for you to have to play legitimately like everyone else, and stay and face the consequences when you don't.

And to think that your most significant accomplishment will be how efficiently you gutted your own alliance after failing to destroy all of our communities. Good riddance, Leo, and my best wishes to the remnants of BK.

Let us know when you decide to ragequit that one too

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I swear, if you pick a random player, there’s at least a 20% chance they’re Australian.

I lived off MD for 2 years while working 3rd. The grape isn't bad. The black cherry is good with a little vodka

I will do it for a pack of Ramen. The good kind, though. Top Ramen.

As the night progressed, Zim and Dryad’s drinking took a turn for the worse when someone put a bottle of tequila on their table..... “hmmm this stuff is okay, but something is missing” said Zim grimacing at the taste of the brew. “I agree” said Dryad searching the room with his eyes. “Aha!!” cried Dryad. “I see that salty assed horse somehow managed to sneak in here. For once, I’m glad to see it”. The two moved to where the horse stood, alone and crying. They rubbed their glass edges in the salty tears and returned to their table. “Ah, that is what was missing. It just needed a little salt” said Zim tasting the brew again. “Here’s to the future” they both toasted, their salt lined tequila glasses clinking.

Arrgh!

As a note, if Alex changed the mechanics to disrupt idle farming under how NPO was operating GPWC, then NPO naturally would have just changed their compliance requirements for GPWC inactive farms to whatever the new mechanical requirements were. The idea that Alex could realistically stop it through mechanics changes is more or less nonsense. Which is another reason an admin of a game should never shoot from the hip like that, and I think that was a tough lesson for Alex to learn in this, and I hope he has. Some people will run with that as if it's law, even if it clearly contradicts multiple terms in the official rules. I think Alex learned that all rules questions must be thought through very carefully, because someone might be approaching him disingenuously to toss out a half-baked "hypothetical" so that they have a screenshot to cry about later.

I would urge the community to not remember BK as the combative forum presence of Leo/Mad Titan. Instead remember the glory days of Shifty's ministry of propaganda, photoshopped treaty signatures, Ayy Lmao, Ayyliens, the Obsidian Order, Curbstomping UPN/Rose/Acadia repeatedly even though they always "blitzed" first, Stratton Oakmont, Yosonet, the list could go on... BK has been around longer than most, it's sad to see the alliance officially disband. It was the first place I was a member of when I joined PnW and it was a great time while I was there. Special shout out to the greats who may or may not still be in the alliance as it breathes its last: @Curufinwe you were always genuinely intelligent and though our opinions have differed since you became Emperor/retired from Emp, I will always fondly remember you as one of the great Foreign Affairs minds in PnW. @LordStrum you were perhaps the most inactive Emperor I'd ever experienced under any alliance gov, but you had class and a sexy voice. BK flourished under your benign neglect, and was likely the last "Golden Age" before the descent began. @Yosodog You'll always be the true leader of BK to me. You were a great dude, fun to chat with, and you created some fantastic software for alliance organization. You brought BK from 2000's spreadsheets into 2020 workflow and you deserve all the love. @丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™ I had to copy/paste your forum name into a notepad and back to the forums to actually ping you and I hate you for that. You brought about some of the best and most iconic propaganda/photoshop works in all of PnW. @Psweet Stratton Oakmont and your internal BK bank was one of the first banks in PnW, you set the standard for how private banks should operate and ran it with expertise and professionalism. SO was instrumental in the early days of my nation in growing and flourishing while maintaining BK's MMR. @Tiber @Zoot @Taco and countless others who deserve special mention, you all rock but I'm running out of time to type. One last Ayy Lmao for the road.

you all weren't content creators... illegal translations are not owned by the illegal translators...

I rest my case.

Well Leo, I told Curu that you guys had sold your soul to the devil and I guess now it's time to pay the butchers bill. It's just too bad you had to take a proud and active alliance with you. While I wish you well in RL, I won't miss your massive douchebagery in the game.

Those responsible knew what they were doing was against the rules. That's why incriminating information was removed after Alex started asking questions.

The Dragon paused for a moment at the question, "A very broad question. Our society is a tapestry of individuals of many different values, only of which the most violent and detrimental to the whole oppressed. Even as Emperor, I would take much in the way of liberties to speak for my entire brood. Personally I value friendship, knowledge, camaraderie, and integrity. Progress in our society is typically governed by a merit based system, an economy of prestige. But the next drake might want to set the world on fire." With a slight pause considering what to say next, he continued, "What sealed my throne is my ability to lead, a position trusted to my family for generations and for which I was uniquely groomed among my peers. You'll find our people tend to specialize, different bloodlines capable of different feats. It's almost to the point we have diversified into multiple sub species and you can tell what we were born for merely by shade of scale. We tend to put our gods first, family second, and the state or general welfare last in general in terms of our priorities. Your question is so illuminating, I would ask the same of you. What are your values?"