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I do. I think we're doing ok.

Well, you did it. You took my one chance at happiness and crushed it, crushed it into tiny bite sized pieces. I really did expect better of you, but I guess i'm a loser for that too. Don't bother beiging me tomorrow, i'll tell them you all won in a triumphant march. So thanks, thanks for nothing. In all seriousness, I can't support myself playing this game anymore. The double standard for fascism in this game is absurd. Apparently it's okay to support literal white nationalists, but thinking they don't belong is too far and would dogpile us. Apparently realpolitik is more important than any political hill to die on. Apparently it's okay to think gay people are disordered, but not okay to say that opinion is not a good one. The level of salt that I eat playing this game far outweighs the joy I get from it, and even my dearest ASM comrades. It drains me way more than is worth my time compared to Valheim, Paradox titles, LEGO, and my non-PW comrades. Thanks @Redarmy and @Pasky Darkfire for opening up their lives to me. Thank you @Comrade Joe for giving me a chance so quickly into my tenure in this game. Thank you @Akuryo for being on my side in almost every debate and argument. Thank you @Aiya and @Menhera for being our Blankie Gang comrades in GNO. For yinz, I still wish to be friends. But this game is just self-harm for me. Consider this a win, KT - thanks to the liberals, yinz have free reign over Orbis's politics. Peace.

Ive have categorized every top 100 into a sphere to compare each one and to see if a true hegemony exists. I can inform you all that a hegemonic power does not quite exist, yet. For the comparisons btwn top 50/30/15 etc. Head towards Royal Orbis News and view the the #tid-bits channel.

Invite Link: https://discord.gg/86Hzkp2CWU Database is essentially what you would call a PnW library already boasting 500+ PnW files, including invite links to some PnW based bots and access to other resources (Advanced Recruitment bot, etc). I’m making a forum post in an effort for as many people have access to this public resource as possible. Incase you weren’t aware of it beforehand.

The seeth and cope from last year was delicious. Probably some of the best meltdowns I've ever seen within the realm of this game.

That's numbe rof alliances? How does it compare with number of nations or cities or something? Cause you can't really compare a 170 man alliance to 20 man alliance.

It's weird honestly. I join alliances that I think I'll be a good fit in, and usually you can tell if I still think that's true if I log in every day. Strangely I can say that, even as a non-Christian gay disabled man, I find kt to be a far more fun experience than I found Fark when you were leader, having experienced both. Do you have any idea why that might be?

More proof why the CB for GW16 was nothing else but utter nonsense.

Now, I'm just sick and tired. Here is the truth. In recent news, you may have heard about the forced removal of my position from the Independent Republic of Orange Nations by those who call themselves "The Council". I would like everyone to know the sacrifices I have made for IRON even before its formation. I have not built a city nor had any meaningful growth since October of last year, that is half a year without growth, all to finance this Alliance. I invested everything I owned, whether it be liquid assets, my resources, and my stocks into the Alliance. I single handedly ran 4 departments of government for the longest time due to high government incompetence, and recently from my removal, I single handedly ran IA, Econ, and Milcom. The High Government of IA, Econ, and Milcom have done close to nothing, leaving everything to me. I have been doing admissions, running our academy, writing our guides, buying, or finding/editing scripts and bots. Though I am not perfect and make some mistakes, I, ONE PERSON, have been single handedly running all of IRON. I make our grants, our guides, got us the protectorate, admissions, and frequently help EVERY single new member who has questions to the BEST of my ability with almost no one to assist me. I am the only one who keeps our IA membership lists updated, only one who checks in on nations, only one who talks to nations after they leave, asks for feedback, or certain repayments. I am the only one who makes builds for our entire alliance, and manages the entire command economy we have. The job I have is extremely stressful, but even more so with the lack of competency of certain high government, with doing close to nothing. Hideri Kanzaki, a retired highgov of FA, has done more than the current highgov of IA in IA matters because though she retired, she still gives a damn, and ironically the person who runs the department does not. Funnily enough, this is the same person that has replaced me, the person who has done NOTHING since day 1 of this alliance founding. I gave this Alliance my all, I put every sliver of time I had into it, because I managed everything, the Councillors of IA, Econ, and Milcom do not give a damn about their departments, and have done nothing since they have taken over. Now to address the documents of my removal, and, I am going to tell you that 90% of it is baloney. I admit to asking friends to start my Alliance with me, however, how can this be seen as poaching at all, is the council going to sit there and tell me that everyone that has made an alliance just started with 1 member and didn’t tell friends they were making a new alliance? Velyni is from TKR, Winston from E404, and MJ from Nuka, if they really believed it was poaching and wrong, why have they decided to join? Because they know the things they say is bullshit to retain power. Most current councillors weren't even councillors at the foundation. They don’t know all the hard work I did to set up all branches of government (which I continued to run anyway because the current Councillors did not do anything). To the statement of the “misrepresentation of IRON” is complete baloney, they are just sprinkling fluff in there to validate their coup of me. Unto their next statement of Council concerns. I have listened to council concerns, and have taken them all into account. If I had not, how has the Council been able to pass any decisions at all which I did not agree with, because in the end I recognized its sovereignty. Certain proposals that come to mind are the pursuing of treaties with certain Oasis sphere members (which was initially declined, though accepted much later), the establishment of a new discord separate from our community one, and the new grant plan I proposed. Though I have made mistakes whilst running the alliance, their appraisal is frankly false. I made certain changes in department functionality which they said needed to go through the council, however, please keep in mind that I am the ONLY person running these departments, as they have done nothing even with the guides and knowledge of doing it. Their concern was primarily over holding the vestiges of power and respect without doing anything to earn that respect. I always tried to be there for “needed” presence, keep in mind my needed presence also include real life and the departments they practically refused to run. I always prioritized Council discussions over “socializing” with members, so I can clearly say that that statement was a complete lie and is false, some would call it “complete bullshit”. Keep in mind they also pinged me while I was sleeping to talk to me, I'm guessing they’re taking me sleeping as ignoring them. I also can't be on the computer 24/7 as they would like me to, but I am there whenever I can be and have participated in EVERY. SINGLE. COUNCIL. DISCUSSION. SINCE. IRONS. FOUNDING Onto the Amarr incident. I reached out to a prot of Amarr for them to potentially merge into us, as they were a small AA with a leader that had no experience (was 13 days old last I checked). I offered them the standard deal that all members get when they join the alliance, which was $5 million. It would be a good way for the alliance to grow, and for me to invest comparatively small amounts of money into these low city counts to bring them way, way up. I admit I am at fault here for not reaching out to Velyni, and apparently the Amarr Empire thought of it as poaching. Previously to the merge offer, they were regarded as a protectorate of Amarr, however, immediately after offering the merge, Amarr FA bumbled over their words constantly, trying to convince us that the protectorate was actually a direct extension, and they literally TURNED it into a direct extension AS we were talking to make it seem like a poach, when they themselves has previously bumbled over their words and constantly referred to it as a protectorate. I truly am sorry to the Amarr Empire for the confusion caused by my offer to merge, however, I would like to clarify that offering a merge is not poaching. I admit I am not perfect and should have certainly talked to Velyni prior, which is why I truly am sorry for it, I am not a perfect human being, and I can recognize that. However, one misunderstanding is not warrantable of a coup of my position. How IRONic is it that the head of IA, the man who did nothing since he took that position, has come to replace me, and I would like to emphasize as I remain in the alliance, has CONTINUED to do nothing. Behold the peak of their incompetence, where they added every single inactive/VM member that I had applicanted, making up around 52% of their AA. This is my final statement, their coup of me was not valid, and full of bullshit. I recognize I made mistakes and I am not perfect, and for that I apologize, but I am truly and utterly disappointed that they falsified a document of me, blatantly lied. This same government that has done nothing, and continues to do nothing, has decided to replace me with the king of doing nothing. Edit: the "King of Doing Nothing" went into VM, again! He has been in VM for the majority of his time in IRON, and when he isnt, he is inactive, gets raided, gets looted, and doesn't listen to any milcom instructions. I can confidently say that really only Velyni, and MJ did their job. The only business I have left with the current gov't of IRON are my deposits. I'm tired now, I'm so tired of giving this Alliance my all and having my dedication stripped from me. I sacrificed alot, in game and irl for this AA. You, who are reading this, do not have to believe me. I know what happened, and my closest friends know what happened, and now, that's all I need. I needed to get the truth out, because I am so goddamn tired of the lies. Thanks to those who reached out to me for my well being, people who I realized are closer friends than those who I considered my close friends. Thanks @Allend of the union for keeping me in this game playing, I would have quit without him. Thanks @Thalmor, @Lossi, and @Rainbowgeist, for reaching out to me and making sure I was well. Thanks @Sunara for being there for me and defending me. Now I'm at a crossroads, unsure of what to do. I have no community to turn to nor go to. I'm just so tired. Perhaps I've had enough of Orbis politics, and BS for one lifetime.

I'm sorry to see you go. Good luck out there. Your mental health and well being always come before a game.

As sad as it is to see you go, your wellbeing always comes first. Stay well and take care of yourself Lexi, will still be around to talk whenever~

Heres why youre a racist idiot: Your alliance is racist, and whether or not you identify as a racist, you dont care that youre in a racist alliance, dont care what your racist alliance has done, dont care who it has done it to, dont care that those people are still in and still leading your alliance. That makes your actions support racism, that makes you racist.

You mean people like my friend Queen M who you racist blights upon society chased out of this game by constantly harassing her with racist shit all over discord including in my alliances server because she had the gall to be a black woman, to the point where Bluebear even told me he was glad I was going after you idiots because hes a white nationalist and you were making him look bad?

Ok, I need you guys to start naming names, because I am completely lost here. 8 years ago Roq was running Umbrella, and had nothing to do with NPO. I know this because I was allied to umbrella and had to work with Roq as the leader of umbrella in a bunch of wars, which honestly he was kind of a pain in the ass to deal with back then.

Wrong. At least this one is entertaining, yours is just pure brain cancer.

Would have to make one for November of last year to prove that, for example, the only bloc that is in the way of a Quack hegemony didn't exist when gw16 started. That also ignores that regardless of who got hit by Quack first, whoever didn't was going to be the next target and in that case should compare Quack vs. TCW/hedge Quack vs. Rest of Swamp And Quack vs. Roselot Separately

"I can inform you all that a hegemonic power does not quite exist, yet. " Your data doesn't inform that, it just shows the number of alliances in each bloc. I'm not saying that there is a hegemonic power or not, just that your data does not inform that. Anyhow, good work and if you need a hand gathering more data then I'd be happy to help.

Thank you for all your service to the ASM gov and for showing us your passion for your hobbies. I hope that we will still get to see you in the hallowed halls of Bezzer's Dank Meme Stash and the Gaming chat. I wish you all the best irl and hope that you stay safe comrade.

I never really knew you and we found ourselves on opposite sides in this conflict but I hate to see active players leave a small community like this. I've had my struggles with mental health in the past, and I know how much it can suck, particularly when a game like this is pressurising you. Good luck in whatever rl brings you, and I hope to see you back some day, hopefully under happier circumstances.

Why can't everyone just act like normal human beings and not be shitty to each other? Why is this so hard?

How does Camelot maintain a government then?

Slowly, Partisan erected himself from a gloomy corner. He had observed the squabbling newgen leaders long enough. Now was the time. With a cataclysmic BANG, he whacked his epeen on their table and stared the men coldly in the eyes. They dare not measure. Silently, he zipped himself back up and strolled back to the shadows, leaving an uncomfortable, awe-struck room in his wake.

I disagree, I'm a pizza extremist and I have the right to stop the abuses on those poor pizzas around the world, I will fight to save every single one of them from obscene ingredients

Big talk for two city 12 nations. Mess with IRON or any of our protectorates. Let's see what happens.

Someone should’ve demoted you a long time ago.

I want to say that OOC, I hope you are well and try not to let the game get you down too much, it's supposed to be fun. IC, try not to be so reckless in your alliance duties, you were haphazard in your time in TI and it seems also in IRON. If you give it another go, try to learn from your mistakes and I'm sure you'll be more successful in future.

My sympathies. I also recently went through a coup. They can be very taxing.

Give us the option of locking alliance announcement threads and deleting individual posts. Right now, all we can do is edit the first post or delete it.

Thanks for filling in that gap. Even with it being linked though, it wasn't TKR/IC/Az that did that during NPOLT like Inst seems to be implying with his earlier statements and the folks that did circulate it didn't realize the context of it and immediately removed it once they were told about it and apologized.

The beef between roq and the members who were in MK and later founded TKR started when roq was still in umbrella (before he left umbrella and later returned to it). As far as I know, roq was never in CN's NPO. I stopped playing CN around 2015 so he may have joined CN NPO afterwards but up until 2015 at least he was not a member of NPO. Indeed, he had a bit of a rivalry with NPO before that date. I'm thinking this event might have occurred around mid 2011?

Mental Health is always more important than the game, I would know , good luck

I appreciate your data, however, I think a much better way for comparisons would be to measure members, cities, average cities, etc etc. This'll help us get a better depiction of the situation. You cant compare a random top 100 micro to Rose for example. I dont personally believe Quack to be a hegemony though I fought against them, but I feel as though your statistics do not show the full picture

As of 2:54pm cst, both CC & BETS have established white peace under the circumstances that both sides are willing to make a better relationship out of a resentful, unpleasant and scandalous one. An NAP will also be installed between us two for three weeks. Signed by: Blind Eternities: Firwof-Eternal One Chocolate Castle: Lossi-Queen Menhera-Popess

Advanced recruitment bot is in #resoucres As for a traditional recruitment bot it should be in #bots if you scroll enough But I’ll DM you directly to help.

Missing the point. t$ vs The Armed Peacekeepers despite being both 1 alliance for top 50 aren't an equal fight.

Since this is a 'clarification' on kt, I'd be interested to know which categories we all fit into. Namely, am I a sycophant (if so for who), a basement troll, an edgelord or a common garden troll? What I think happened is that I left TI because I wanted a change of scenery, joined kt and enjoyed it, and I'd rather my time not be spent countering for people because there are people in this game who cannot accept that others have differing opinions to them. I will though, if that's what I need to do, but really if we could all act like we're above the minimum age to play then that would be preferable. In short: KT not all nazis, don't attack kt because I want city 29.

Kind of amusing how I didn't even have to mention that particular person's name for you to figure out who I we referring to. Needless to say, however, that particular person pursued a grudge against an alliance in an entirely different game consisting of a handful of members from the other game for I think nearly 8 years after the initial issue occurred. Members who I might add, were not even directly involved in what went down. It might actually be more than 8 years now that I think on it. My memory of the events I witnessed over the initial fallout which went on for at least a year are starting to become a bit hazy after all this time. But needless to say, this game's meta being adversely personal is nothing new. The personal grudges have dominated this world's state of play from pretty much day one and I don't see it changing any time soon unfortunately. In the mean time, however, blowing stuff up is just as fun.

Well yeah, you tend to get shunned because you didn't bother to read and process what was said, and focused on the words that made you upset.

KT vs TKR round 3, here's your CB!

Absolutely. It is a tough age for them as they are exploring and have big changes going on, so it is expected they may act out violently and irrationally as they explore the beginnings of joining the mature nation world.

C12s are Terrifying, personal experience. 😰

Bruh.

This one?

Our interactions were very few but I do remember the countless alliances you jumped to and from even though most are just history now they were pretty solid creations/communities so hats off to you lad. Go show the world how creative you are & Goodluck!

Disband

but can you expect a nub to look at an alliance page rather than just joining one that looks cool?

this you ?

i dont see a 1 billion dollar bounty on him