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https://discord.gg/hJQ8jjHe2k Last for this announcement, but certainly not the least, we here at The Company would like to wish a Merry Christmas to everyone! Foremost, much health, happiness and joys of life to yourselves, your families, your beloved ones. May the year ahead be better than the one we leave behind us, and may you all have pleasant holidays.

but vein weak :serious:

Just don't let Sphinx do any FA, ever.

How about this bot spam? I don't care about the new mehanic that's introduced to spam nation's notifications. Why should I recive a message about it from a random person I don't even care about.

I can’t stay away from alliances with the acronym of TC

We use a recruitment bot too, the thing is ours doesn't send 6 messages in the same day, the way yours has if you read or didn't ignore the timestamps. When I got it to send 3 to people by running multiple at once, as swamp was doing the same, Alex demanded everyone cease and desist immediately or warns would be handed out for spamming. It's straight spam, no other alliances recruiter does this, unless specifically calibrated to do this.

@Dwight k Schrute seems like you finally found some courage after all this time.

The Company Stronk!

Communists, fascists, and liberals sleeping together, mass hysteria!

Oh, you must be new. Rule #1 of PnW, don't speak unless you have an alliance and a few billion money backing you. Wish I took my own advice smh.

Its not though. Have you noticed that the only people who have the information you want are the also the ones not talking to you? Why should it be made public and why was it more important for that information to be public? It didn't shed light on anything, and only turned people against you. With all this leaking, what information do you have that wasn't already known by the time you arrived? I don't think you have grasped that we all get what you're trying to do. The issue is, you are now being told that you "putting the pieces out there" (leaking) is not appreciated. Again, you are not doing a service or making demonstrating anything that isn't already known, you are just marking yourself as an untrustworthy individual.

Phoenyx, what would you be confirming by leaking and expecting an opposing party to play along? You don't have any guarantee of honesty or transparency there at all. Apparently you haven't been paying attention: Leaking as carelessly as you have puts cooperating sides at odds with another, and damages reputation since there is potential for it to be misrepresented. We've seen it with Ronny and Tyrion, we've seen it with you, and we've seen it with Boyce and Sphinx (although this was deliberate). You're not illuminating anything by leaking, you're just showing everyone you are naive and untrustworthy.

"What happened was that we had a difference of opinion. I'm fairly sure he was always aware that I might share what he told me- from the get go, he said that if I wanted to be involved, I would have to keep what he told me in private and initially, I thought that might work. And it did, for a time. But not for long." Everyone in this thread is giving you good solid advice and a massive second chance to be accepted in this game and you choose to spit in their faces... You focus so, so much on politics. (I get it, it's politics and war) However you really should focus more on the people and individuals involved. Even if you think some info should be leaked to public for the greater good you should at least ask the other person involved if they consent to release information or block out their name if they want privacy. I don't understand how you can not show anyone this basic courtesy and respect and think you are in the right morally.

I am both amazed and confused by the amount of detail you put into dissecting 2 words lol.

Good grief... I can't even. But I'll try. @Phoenyx, there's a concept that you should be introduced to: It's called "trust". "Trust" means considering that other people may know more than you do, and therefore their decisions may be better for you, personally, than you might think given what you think you know at the time. "Trust" means that when you find someone worthy of following, you at least consider what they say and do to be at least possibly correct, and you give them the benefit of the doubt and don't outright revolt against their decisions by default. You see, sometimes we don't know things. Either our understanding is flawed, or we simply don't have the information ahead of time. Ideally of course we would research that information, but it is logistically impossible to develop a full scholarly knowledge that's objectively true about literally everything, especially complex multiplayer environments such as politics and warfare wherein there are multiple competing reasons for the same exact things even from the same side, let alone opposing sides. We can indeed do so with hindsight, but even the deepest spies and highest lords of this realm cannot achieve such clarity by the time decisions must be made. Therefore, in those cases, we must delegate at least some of our decision making process to our leaders, allies, or advisors. Ones that we "trust", so that we can make a decision with a much more reasonable level of surety. When we refuse to "trust", however, we must act entirely on our own observations, and it is physically impossible to achieve full and comprehensive observation of all things. One can achieve that with hindsight, eventually, given sufficient "trust" to be informed by those that know the bits one does not. However, by then the world has moved on and decisions have to be made that need observations from the present. Therefore, "trust" is mandatory in order to compete on an equal level as anyone else, and mandatory in order to make decisions that are beneficial for, or at least less detrimental to those that "trust" the one making the decisions. Thing is, while you might know these things in terms of yourself, your selfishness has blinded you to the most fundamental truth of all: "Trust" works both ways. You have to make decisions based on your observations and research... and so does everyone else. There's therefore another concept you should be told about: It's called "insult". "Insult" can sometimes mean making it clear to someone that they should not trust you. Even if you intend to deal with them fairly, their observations of you are negatively impacted. Any insight you might give them, even if true and accurate, are rendered useless by virtue of your prior actions towards them creating an environment devoid of "trust". When you re-post something that someone told you privately and in confidence, then you "insult" them and show them that they should not have "trusted" their assumption of privacy and confidentiality. When this happens, they cannot "trust" anything else about you without risk, so they must remain mindful of that. This is costly, and when one's decisions affect others' welfare or effect changes in the environment of the world, such costs cannot be taken lightly. Thus, it is simpler and safer to just plain not "trust" you after such an "insult".

---------------------------------------------------------------------- By the way, something you might be ignorant of: Your forum reputation? The number there is misleading. You see, downvotes don't count. As a favor to you, I went to the trouble of checking up on your total reputation all the way up through last week. Specifically Saturday. Here it is, in a handy graph form: (Graph information: X-axis represents a group of 25 posts from when Phoenyx initially began posting, y-axis is total reputation including upvotes, laugh reactions (which are counted as upvotes), 'like' reactions (which are also upvotes), and downvotes. 'Thanks' reactions are not counted either way.) And for the record, yes my own downvotes *and* upvotes are counted, and I did not inflate them at all. Yes, I did upvote a few of your more coherent posts, you're welcome Also, fun fact: A negative reputation of that magnitude makes you the single most hated poster of all active posters, at least of the ones that aren't literally asking for downvotes. Congratulations 🎉 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- So! Now that the first round of our little war is over, we now have the chance to negotiate peace. And since you expect peace negotiations to happen in public, here they shall happen, Mr. @Phoenyx. I await your reply

Because you'd have trouble finding 3 wise men and a vir-.... especially after getting ****'d by rayyds lmao Tis' the season my dudes, nothing better than waking up to leaks after a holiday binger and seeing Alex kiss Santa Claus.

tldr?

Mate, the war is over and you're still looking for "Ronny's HM leader" for you to get to the bottom of this. No one with the info you want is talking to you, that's why you're still here. You leaked because people are confused as to why the war started? But everyone knows why the war started, there is like 28+ page thread for it. The only point of contention was who was at fault for the escalation. That doesn't justify a leak. I don't know what you understand from trustworthiness. You can be honest without being a liability, you can give the truth and provided evidence when prompted for it WITH support from your source in doing so. But no, you leak conversations and blindside the other person and that's without being challenged or prompted for evidence by anyone. How does that make you trustworthy? Its not just about being 100% transparent.

good luck and merry christmas as well~

The fact that you believe what you are citing to be important is evidence enough that you have no idea what is going on. It’s all smoke and mirrors. Both sides of the war know what it was about, what is put out publicly is an attempt to win a PR battle. You’re taking the PR quick hits and using them as evidence/the Bible. That’s why no one thinks you’re credible, and the reason why the only people that are giving you your desired upvotes are the other people that have yet to learn how politics (and be able to see the truth of the political climate) on Orbis works. Edit: Also, Merry Christmas

I use a recruitment bot, like every other alliance out there. It works by sending an in-game message to new nations that have been made in the past 7 days who aren’t in an alliance. With the person in question, he didn’t join an alliance until recently, therefore the person will have received in game messages from the bot until said person joined an alliance. If you’ve any other queries please feel free to contact me through discord or use my email address, [email protected]

Specifically adding onto "When you re-post something that someone told you privately and in confidence, then you insult them and show them that they should not have "trusted" their assumption of privacy and confidentiality." This, Pheonyx, is why "opsec" exists. Things that are classified as secrets, because them being leaked can negatively impact everybody, be it reputation or otherwise. If somebody had leaked the paperless treaties among Hedge, Rose, etc., then things would have gone on very differently - Quack might not have attacked, the coalition may have never formed or rushed to eachothers mutual defense, etc. If somebody had leaked Quack's plans to attack Rose and/or Hedge (I have heard variations of who they planned on hitting first), Rose/Hedge may have attacked first (if they didn't - again, it is unclear). "Trust" plays an important role in our community, and the designation of "opsec" is there for the exact reason of "trust" and allowing plans to be safely executed - instead of the details being leaked by any random member, foiling the entire plan. If Quack's plans were leaked, they could have been dogpiled even faster. If Hedge/Rose/etc.'s paperless treaties were leaked, that could have spelt doom to the whole coalition and maybe lose them the war. By violating this "trust", not only would more people lose pixels (a meaningless thing in a web game, of course), but real life relationships could be severed over the resulting paranoia. This game community allowed me to find a home with comrades. If I had instead leaked everything ASM ever did to RON or something, I could've sacrificed myself to being homeless for Gods knows how much longer.

Considering you were part of a coalition that put a 1 year NAP into peace terms, I don't think you have much room for criticism 😛

I thought Phoenyx was ok until he went on this anti-vaxxer tirade in Thalmoria kek.

1.) Former RoseCam member declare some raids, finds himself on the naughty list. 2.) The guy sending these to Shifty is in too many servers with those 380 pings. 3.) Nukes for the pixel gods make a good calling card.

You might have an alliance, sure, but we both know empirically that they're not backing you at all

I will watch the Company’s career with great interest.

Good luck to y'all, have a great Christmas.

Whoops, typo...

Merry Christmas Aurora

Wow the hypocrisy of this statement is astounding. anyways can you guys stop giving attention to the brick wall. You guys are trying to teach someone who believes they are an expert in something they aren’t. I believe anyone who continues to give attention to this guy after a month of his shit posting is an idiot so i’ll Give you a strategy, look upon his big walls of texts and then reply “lol idiot” without reading it. The result will still be the same as if you actually read and replied.

Jesus. I'm not even sure what he did, but the fact that he managed to unite the Orbis community into hating him scares me.

You see how quickly everyone attacked you when we start discussing how you leaked all these private convos you had? Do you not see how you solve nothing by posting essays?

NPO man... nice? Also too many words and not enough pictures, so here's a meme.

Just got around to seeing this thread

Oh. Hey. More Phoenyx attention.

Damn Phoenyx beat Vacaid in amount of Downvotes

Cla$$ified email$. Unauthorized acce$$ will re$ult in law$uit$ $o big your great great grandkid$ will feel them. DATE: 22/12/20 Pope, Hello! Before I an$wer the que$tion$ in your la$t email, a few of my own: How i$ $i$ter Lati$ha? I mu$t remember to pay her a vi$it. Are the vine$ I tended to $till growing well? You know, I found tho$e on a company outing when they were fir$t $prouting, and knew you and the $i$ter$ would love them. In your la$t email you a$ked me a bit more about my relation$hip with Theo, and I mu$t admit thing$ have been rocky lately. He'$ been $pending long night$ in the office, while I go to the bar with Ju$tin, the $nake, Luca$, and of cour$e that $trangely per$onable AI we keep around. Hi$ origin$ $till allude$ me, but I won't deny hi$ incredible $kill$ and how much of an a$$et he i$ to u$ a$ a company, the la$t great American dyna$ty. I wi$h you would come vi$it the office and come out of the wood$ for once. You know, we had a job and a place for you. All you had to do wa$ $tay. I know you are in love with your job, but that offer remain$ open. Back to Theo! $o, a$ I $aid he'$ been hanging around the office a lot more. Ye$, we have a lot of extra financial form$ to fill out given our late$t law$uit, but 16 hour day$ con$tantly? By the time he get$ home, I've already fallen a$leep. By the time I wake up, he'$ gone back to work. He feel$... di$tant. I'll be hone$t - I got a tad no$y ye$terday. I had Vero approach him and apologize for dropping cla$$ified paper$ out$ide, which got Theo on a rant for about 2 hour$ about operational $ecurity. I walked into hi$ office and entered hi$ pa$$word (I mean cmon theo, "franzhaditcoming"? Be a little le$$ predictable.) I loaded hi$ Brave (not $pon$ored) brow$er up, and the hi$tory had a bunch of $trange google $earche$ that put me off, but tho$e aren't important. What i$ important i$ a file he named re$ignation. I opened the file, and it had a full re$ignation along with tran$fer paper$ for Ju$tin to take over. How ludicrou$! The AI would $urely never let hi$ underling go into accounting. Ju$tin i$ far too manly for that. $peaking of, Ju$tin'$ been a good friend lately. T'i$ the damn $ea$on for a lot of $tre$$, $o it'$ nice to have a friend like him. In our talk$ at the bar, we've di$covered a $hared love of both Greek Mythology and wine. Lot$ and lot$ of wine. And the partying the exec team (minu$ Theo, a$ previou$ly mentioned) can do! Parti$an can $ing quite well, de$pite hi$ champagne problem$! You $hould've heard him when Folklore wa$ relea$ed. It wa$ an ab$olute work of art. Almo$t a$ good a$ Queen Taytay her$elf if you a$k me. And Ju$tin'$ emotional range on Teardrop$ on my Guitar? Moving. In$piring. Have you heard my Look What you Made me do? I play the $corned party incredibly well! You know, now that I'm thinking about it. Theo'$ not been alone in that office. He'$ been with Patrick. He'$ that bald, mu$cular, incredibly manly guy I mentioned a few month$ back. From what I hear, we hired him directly after he e$caped from $ome cult that wor$hipped nuke$ like $ome $ort of fal$e god. Radioactivity and mutation$ would explain a lot, in fairne$$. I wonder if there'$ $omething true to that earlier thought... Patrick ha$ been mentioning a vacation for two... But $urely not, right? The hole$ they would leave in our heart would be $o $ad, yet al$o almo$t poetic enough to find beauty in the tragedy. He would be the lucky one if he got away with the king of my heart. We've achieved $uch a $tate of grace in the office$ lately that I've hone$tly forgotten the cruel $ummer we've gone through thi$ year. Maybe I $hould talk to Theo. If I don't, and my $u$picion$ are correct, everything may change. I'd rather avoid any company talk when I do it, le$t I fall into any illicit affair$ they've become involved in. It'$ not too late, right? Not like there'$ $ome invi$ible $tring tied to him and pulling him away from me in $ome $ort of exile. Maybe I'll take him to the lake$, the cabin we have out there. You mentioned a few week$ ago that maybe we were di$tanced becau$e of my overtime. Thi$ i$ me trying to fix that. I know place$ thi$ love can come back in $tyle, and I intend to u$e them. Perhap$ I'll contact a publi$her, and write a book of our $tory $o new romantic$ can live out their wilde$t dream$ through it. I can feel it, Pope. He'$ the 1. Your loyal $ervant, Adam Do$iu$ COO

😭

It means that Alex doesn't count downvotes.

Anyone else chuckled at seeing Guilo educate DtC, and being correct?

LOL well ill just crawl back in my hole. However it may mean mutual, its always looked at as mandatory Either way, they did not break the NAP by defending their ally.

This is one of the reasons why war is necessary in this game as a filter for what essentially becomes overgrown micros. Schrute left NPOLT, had to have their allies and Rose bail them out against raids, and barely lifted a finger in the most recent global. If they had to face a real, challenging war, they would've collapsed or got their crap figured out. Mostly, I see this as an indictment against allowing and protecting pixelhuggery as even the members here got hurt. It was an open secret about what Schrute was doing. Anyone who paid any attention to his nation knew what was going on. Nobody grows 36 cities with weird infra counts and horrendous city builds in that timespan. ASM, as an upstanding alliance, deserves better than this imo. So do the members of Schrute. But this wasn't just enabled by the Dwight or his government.

The Virgin Ancap Pyramid Schemer versus the Chad Syndicalist Union Organizer.

Dear Sir: I have been requested by the Schrute National Beet Company to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. The Schrute National Beet Company has recently concluded a large number of contracts for farming development in the Swamp region. The contracts have immediately produced moneys equaling US$1,000,000,000,000. The Schrute National Beet Company is desirous of soil exploration in other parts of the world, however, because of certain regulations of the Schrute Government, it is unable to move these funds to another region. You assistance is requested as a non-Schrute citizen to assist the Schrute National Beet Company, and also the Central Bank of Schrute Farms, in moving these funds out of Schrute Farms. If the funds can be transferred to your name, in your United States account, then you can forward the funds as directed by the Schrute National Beet Company. In exchange for your accommodating services, the Schrute National Beet Company would agree to allow you to retain 4%, or US$40 billion of this amount. However, to be a legitimate transferee of these moneys according to Schrute law, you must presently be a depositor of at least US$4,000,000,000 in a Schrute bank account which is regulated by the Central Bank of Schrute Farms. If it will be possible for you to assist us, we would be most grateful. We suggest that you meet with us in person in Scranton, and that during your visit I introduce you to the representatives of the Schrute National Beet Company, as well as with certain officials of the Central Bank of Schrute Farms. Please call me at your earliest convenience at 18-467-4975. Time is of the essence in this matter; very quickly the Schrute Government will realize that the Central Bank is maintaining this amount on deposit, and attempt to levy certain depository taxes on it. Yours truly, Prince Dwight K. Schrute

Where is No Pixel Order in your announcement smh

Please stop. This isn't politics, this is you talking about every single little thing people are doing. And quite literally 95% of forum users want you to stop doing this. I do not know why you are doing this, how long you will be doing this, but there is a not insignificant group of people who want you to stop quite badly. Edit: Seemingly Hime-same agrees with me, oh the irony.

They certainly don't want to testify to you. Because you're a chattering hog monkey who won't take a hint to shutup. And also because nobody's going to agree on the truth because nobody in any sort of meaningful position actually wants that.