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--- 8:17 PM The day had been pleasant, for a change. Work wasn't good, but it was better than usual. There were no particularly troublesome customers, and Jonathan had been unusually friendly. Maybe he was getting over whatever problem he had with you, and perhaps now you two could start to become friends for a change? After work, you met up with your friends at that new pizza place. You had been looking forward to this for weeks. It wasn't often that the four of you could meet up, thanks to everyone's school, work, and family obligations. The food was good, and you though the girl at the counter was eyeballing you some. So... the day was decent. It was a 6 out of 10, maybe 7 out of 10. The best way to top it off would be to enjoy some time on the internet. You change into more comfortable clothes, crack open a cold one (beer, soda, or water- your choice) and sit down at your computer. You enter your password and your computer fully whirs to life. You go to watch your favorite Twitch streamer, but stop before you can finish typing out the words into Google. Instead, you hold down backspace, and instead search for Politics and War. It's been a few days since you last logged in, and even longer since you were on Discord. Logging into the game, an interesting sight greets you. --- 8:29 PM The words 'utter failure' borrow into your head. As the adrenaline kicked in, you did all you could to fight back against your attackers; of which there are three of the bastards. However, the numbers were against you, and all you succeeded in doing was putting yourself into an even worse position. By the time you ran out of MAPs, the heaviness in your chest had fully set in. Your cities were being pummeled, two of your attackers had 'Air Superiority', and the third one had 'Ground Control'. You weren't fully sure what these terms meant, but you knew it was bad that they had those things and you didn't. Finally, some mechanism in your brain triggered, and the initial shock and panic had subsided. Rather than thrash around like a trapped animal, you bend over slightly, put your hand on your chin, and start thinking. You asked yourself a simple question. "How am I going to get out of this mess?" As you carefully scrolled your nation page for some hope - praying that all the numbers and statistics would hold some golden nugget of information - you find the answer. The answer, in fact, was so obvious that you were surprised you didn't think of it immediately beforehand. Your would ask your alliance for help. --- 8:42 PM Logging into Discord, you find 12 pings awaiting you. Most of them are @everyone or @here spam from trolls, two of them are @everyone pings from government, and 1 was a member of government thanking you for your taxes. Joining this alliance as a City 32 nation was a bit odd, but you've known the leader for a while as you've been Steam buddies with him for years (going back to your Counter-Strike days), and he promised you a voice in government if you agreed to 40/20 taxes (higher than the 20/10 the alliance runs for the rest). You felt good about helping the new, smaller players who joined the alliance, so you agreed. Of course, It didn't hurt to have some power too. You navigate past the Discord channels to find the member chat... passing up some archives, the public chats (including a NSFW chat you've been meaning to check out), and a room for the bots. Upon finally finding the member chat, you type out your plea. "hey im getting attacked. can i get some help??" Unfortunately, your message is lost in the sea of the member chat. The member chat is full of similar such requests, but also of some despair. A member of the alliance that you don't recognize, ForkofApple, voices his displeasure. "Guys I can't take this damage I think I'm gona quit." Your mind races. The entire member chat is full of similar such messages; of the collective of the alliance requesting help or voicing great displeasure. The heaviness in your chest returns. As the largest tax payer, you were promised by you leader some power in the community. You realize you have a duty to... try and do something to help. Clearly you should ask the 'Military Department' head for assistance. You send him a message on Discord, but he is offline. A quick look through Discord reveals that he hasn't said anything on Discord in over a week, and hasn't even logged into the game for over 3 days. That's a dead end. The chest heaviness is gone, but a general sense of dread fills the crevasses of your mind. You get another notification. You open it. Dope Dealer of Dope Land ordered a ground attack upon your nation of New New Canada. The attack was an immense triumph. Dope Dealer forces lost 7,672 soldiers and 127 tanks, while your defenders lost 28,102 soldiers and 1,284 tanks. You used 260 tons of munitions and 232.40 tons of gasoline defending the attack. The attack destroyed 229.01 infrastructure in the city of Newer Quebeccz. Dope Dealer stole $2,496,880.98 in the attack and destroyed 0 improvements. You swallow. Your drink from earlier is at room temperature, and is mostly untouched. --- 9:02 After pacing around your home some, you get on your computer and are pleasantly surprised to see a Discord message from your leader. Your leader, who you know simply as Disciple, sends you two short messages. "Hey man hows its going" "How much gas and ammo do you have?" You respond, but then stop. You check on your resources, and then respond. "im good except im getting screwed in my butt lol" "4000 gas and 2100 ammnition" Disciple doesn't respond to you for some time. You seen him try to coordinate a military response in the member chat, but his own messages are interrupted by people being uncooperative; claiming to either not want to fight, not having the cash/resource to fight, or simply in despair at how their military is mostly destroyed and the enemies are at max military. You check the alliance page, and a few minutes of discovery later, you find out that almost all 32 members have had their defense slots filled. Wait, 32? That's odd. You could've sworn it was 37 a few days ago. You search where you can for several minutes, and find out that within the past hour, 2 members have went into vacation mode, and 3 others have left. A page refresh reveals now 31 members- a 6th member has been kicked by Disciple himself. You exit out of the game and Discord. You need a break. This day was a 7 out of 10, now it's like a 3 out of 10. --- 10:49 You log back into the game, only to discover 3 more notifications. The last of your tanks were airstriked, and the last of your planes were spies away. Well.. almost anyways. Only a few hundred tanks remain, and only about a hundred planes. Tens of thousands of soldiers remain, but even you know that isn't worth much. You tried to watch some of your favorite shows to get your mind off of the game, but are unable to lay back and enjoy the media. An idea crosses your mind; why not ask our allies for help? You log back into Discord, and message Disciple. Asking about your idea. Disciple responds: "No silver knights and yorktown can't help. they've been hit too. we're just gonna have to fight as hard as we can and see where things are after round 1." Round 1? What does that mean? Actually, forget it. 1 round of whatever hell this is is already to much. Maybe if your allies could do unto your attackers what they've done to you, maybe it would be okay. However, with your alliance by itself, what does it matter? You check the alliance page. Now, 29 members. You don't care what happened to them. Another notification. This time, a ground battle. There goes all your tanks and most of your soldiers. You check on the members of your allies. Just like your alliance, most of their members have had most of their defense slots filled. Several times during the past two and a half hours, you've had your hopes crushed. Your attacks failed. Your alliance can't help. The head of military affairs is practically inactive. Your allies can't help. Your military is gone, and your alliance has lost a lot of its members already. Another notification. A spy op. An unknown nation has killed 22 of your spies in one go. You swear. You decide that enough is enough. The situation is intolerable. You leave a short rant in the member chat full of profanity. You navigate to the 'Edit Nation' page, then to the Vacation Mode page. You enter '14' into the box. You enter your password (the same you use for all other accounts in your personal life). You check both boxes, and then you click the big blue bottom. It's over. --- ??? Like a limb severed to save the body in times gone by, you emotionally detach from your nation the best you can. Over the next few days, your nation is ravaged. All your resources and cash are looted. Your military is 0'ed, and your average infrastructure level in each city reaches levels that they haven't been in years. You gain close to a week in beige time, but end up on grey. Perhaps you would've interacted with your nation had you not been in VM, but that is not the case. You inability to interact with your nation drains your interest, and you stop logging in. Your Discord usage also ceases. You log in once more after quite some time, only to see dozens and dozens of notifications. Your inactivity was rewarded by raiders pillaging what they could from the corpse of your nation- not unlike how scavenger birds eat up a dead deer once the coyotes have had their fill. Disciple unfriends you on Steam. Perhaps it was the not-so-nice things you said in your rant before you VM'ed. Whatever the case, your ties to your alliance mainly cease. Besides, who needs to be a part of such a shitty alliance that gets itself into such a shitty war anyways? You deserved better. How dare Disciple get you into that kind of situation anyways? He did you a favor by unfriending you. How could he reward your years of internet friendship like that? Your nation is beyond repair. To many holes in the ship. You think about starting over, but it would take years to get back to where you are now. And, just for what, for this to happen again? You don't delete your nation, but you cease logging in completely. You block emails from Politics and War, and soon you forget about the game. Eventually, the game itself puts you in VM, and then deletes you itself after a long time passes. Sometimes you think about the game, but you remember your feelings on that night- when the dumb bastards of some other alliance ganged up on you for no reason. When you were abandoned by your alliance, your leader, and your allies. You decide not to ever return- and you never do. What a stupid game. --- 🦍 ---

Packed with pulse-pounding action, fascinating characters, and electrifying intrigue, Thalmor does it again and proves why he is known around the world as the “Scourge of Pixelhuggers.” ~ The New York Times You should consider writing a book.

I'd like to mention the alliance raiding these guys, was in fact, KKKT. Goddamn them!

Listen here buddy No need to militarize like you are in a hurry We can just relax We can just grab our hands Jump around and take care of each other like fams. "We know Planes fly fast But I fly faster With this nuke in your face I am joking... don't give me a plaster Jokes on you again! Here's a nuke! with my F-22 Raptor!" admit this is useless admit that nobody is ruthless I am a jokestar, you are a super star You have the power to end it all So why not comment below That we should have another NAP so we stop the rolling ball. Alex is a walking meme a weird looking weeb Saying this because I can not because I want to get a ban. Now it is time to say my goodbye before I get rolled Seems like it will happen so goodbye to you as well, coal. We should see all alliances getting a NAP after this one just give it 3 days, ignore your alliances' announcement channels... dw on what's happening Issues resolved. Thank me later... I am always glad on helping the community ;-]

It did! One thing to note is that if you're trying to search by discord username in the 'everything' category it won't work. I chose this because I thought it would be confusing for the majority of use cases where people are not trying to search by discord username. But, of course, selecting 'discord username' will search by it. It's even useful for me, often times players DM me on Discord and I need to figure out which nation belongs to them in-game

Obsidian Order Redux: The Onyx Order Preamble: On the 3rd of April, 2021, The Black Knights and The Knights Radiants signed a meme treaty two days after everyone else tried and failed to meme on the 1st of April, 2021. We don’t need April Fools to make our memes. We make memes any day of the year. Today, we once again prove how far we will go for the memes by making this treaty official or whatever. Article 1: All Hail The Holy Legs Article 2: Hoedowns and Peanut Butter Article 3: Ayy Lmao Article 4: We have an MDP now and promise to share info and defend each other and do shit together blah blah blah… That promise to do stuff becomes optional if it’s for someone else. We can cancel it if we want in 72 hours. Article 5: Why are you still reading this? /s/ The Knights Radiant Queen of the Heralds: Head Trojan Second-in-Command: His Eminence Herald of Foreign Affairs: Cottage Cheese Connoisseur Herald of War: Allend You Herald of Growth: Mutually ASchirmed Destruction Herald of Internal Affairs: The GodFather Mk. 2.0 High Prince of Foreign Affairs: All Morf No Bite /s/ Black Knights Emperor: The Right Honorable Yosodog, Master Black Man of the Realm, Seducer of Women, Protector of the Unholy Lands, Secretary of State for Useless Titles, Purveyor of Sexual Favors, God Emperor of the African Alliance, Lord Admiral-General President of Zimbabwe, Printer of Currency, etc Viceroy: The Strump Archduke of Defense: Clown Archduke of Foreign Affairs: Supercheese Archduke of the Interior: Shadow Company Archduke of Economics: Brandon Donsberger

Nation Link: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=298698 Ruler Name: Ion24 Nature of Violation: Multis Was trying to get the link to this thread for my fellow alliance member and clicked a nation completely at random, clicked the unique ID, and see this garbage. Going out on a limb and saying this is slightly fishy. https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=299088 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=298698 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=299088

A (hopefully) simple addition to the search function: search by discord username. A lot of people don't have the same name in game vs. on discord, and adding a search function for it would provide a simple means of translating back.

This got implemented. Yay 😁

The truly funny thing is I have a plethora of old discord messages from nearly all Rose members but most of them are people telling me about how they have been destroyed in a war or me telling them to increase their war-chest. "4000 gas and 2100 ammunition" hits really close to home. I always had to just deposit resources directly into peoples nations since they always went to war with like under 5k resources... Or people not wanting to fight because they don't want to lose infra. A true classic. You can be destroyed to basically nothing and it still costs the same to rebuild in the end. If new players understood this I think they would enjoy the game a lot more.

I found back in the day it would happen with the newer guys, because they would lose all that infra they bought up, and just not realize how easy it was to replace.

The theme was the joke hence the superficial poetic nature. Hopefully I don't have to explain the joke.

LMAO, I laughed but the depressing truth we all know is it to do be like that for some people/alliances.

I, for one, am glad to be a slayer and envoy of the end. Ending your career through me is a privilege. Shifty is a prized commodity in many foreign nations.

my head hurts pls help

i wish curu was here to see this ayy lmao

Hi Where do I apply for leader? or Professional Bank Safe-keeper?

Myself and several other members (like @Pailin and @RagnarDanneskjold) of my alliance (The Knights Radiant) suspect that many fake nations have been created for the Swords of Sanghelios (SoS) alliance (formerly named Arsenal) in the last month controlled by one or two players perhaps using masked ip's or something else to hide this. Many of these newly created nations just sit and block good raiding targets without attacking. My mentor says this all looks very fishy and I should file a ticket. The evidence for this is complicated but I will try to explain: 1) If you klick on the alliance page and filter by date created and descending you will see there have been over 60 NEW nations created in the last month that have joined SoS. There are many more not on the list who are "applying" that have been newly formed as well. There hasn't been an active ad campaign for this alliance (and I've been on a lot in the last month) and most other alliances don't have this many brand new players suddenly joining their alliance. My alliance (the #2) alliance has had only 13 new people join in that time period. Most just joining our alliance don't almost immediately attack people either. Also, If you look at the graph for this SoS alliance there is a huge uptick. 2) Many of the newly created nations know exactly who to target almost immediately (nations that have had good raid results,). Some within minutes. Some even before they apply to join SoS (or formerly Arsenal). This is too coordinated and not the behavior of random independent newbies just learning the game. Here is some proof of the fact that these new nations suddenly know who to attack and the targets are top raid producing nations (scroll through their nation activity history and see when formed etc): https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=289093 (this one attacked people i've raided within 3 minutes of applying to sos/arsenal) https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=297290 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=298570 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=297902 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=289075 (this one waited a day to join but knew within 13minutes of applying which countries to attack) There are many more. Here are some that just sit and block spaces without attacking (notice also they know who to attack very early in their formation unlike most newbies) : https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=289093&display=war https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=292988&display=war https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=285279&display=war Recently, they have gotten a bit more clever and had some nations pretend to apply to another alliance but quit them and soon attack still when they shouldn't really know who to attack for example: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=296914 Some wait a day or so to join SoS and attack but it's still fishy that so many newbies are doing this and following a similar pattern for just this one alliance. In our alliance it takes people a while to learn the ropes. Of course, there's a chance that some of these are actually independent players but the odds of so many nations exhibiting the same behaviors and all applying to SoS seem pretty....odd! Also, given the recent news about a possible spy ring with multi's some of whom have been connected to SoS, the evidence above seems worth looking into. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Pixel Huggers of the world, unite!

I will agree to rejoin Thalmor radio if you read this on air tomorrow 😖

I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. I personally don't care one way or another whether I'm in a war or not. The only worthwhile reason, to me, to stick around these kinds of the games is for the community (or at least parts of it). Playing the game is your ticket into participating in the community. But I can see the argument that is to be made for those who don't like that. We as a player base have decided, at least tacitly, that one is really only allowed to play this game one way, which is to be subjected to fighting wars at any given moment. It's a false dichotomy we've created where you can either 1) play the game and do wars or 2) not play the game at all.

You fail the game by deleting your nation. Also you do realize this is a multiplayer game with war mechanics right? If you don't want to get destroyed then join a better alliance or deal with the fact that sometimes you lose, everyone eventually does. If instead you choose to breakdown and cry and then quit the game then yes, you failed. Yes there have been many debates about how open Rose recruitment should be and many people have found themselves no longer in Rose after they refuse to fight in wars (then you get the whole, "please my irl has been tough and I honestly meant to fight that war.... etc" and then my weak heart gives in and I don't kick them out of the alliance...

Its not just 10 city nations unfortunately, its continues from city 1 to city 40 for some nations. I do have the advantage tho of running a much tighter ship than say a Rose, so if you dont want to hold a warchest as a member of Grumpy, you will quickly find yourself no longer a member of Grumpy.

Yeah the warchest issue is the first thing I have to beat into many new Grumpy members, its very rare that one will apply and actually have a warchest built up from their previous alliance.

It always was funny from the beginning. If you quit the game because you failed so badly at a browser sim then GG.

7 people have no class and hate poetry it seems. 🤔

I dont know, could just be a good recruit bot, but take my upvote.

We live in a society

I love it! Pure poetic talent

No wonder you are in KT then

This is because Dryad has hit the cap on looting money and has started stealing improvements. :serious:

Improvements will remain after the Infrastructure is destroyed. He bought to at least 2700 infra, got those improvs, and then got rolled multiple times. His Infrastructure was destroyed, but most of his improvements remained.

Says the guy who kept insisting I was a spy for CC during Arctics first time

I am the collective children of the union between two alliances? This is gonna be one messed up family tree; especially after I'm done doing what I'm about to do in about five minutes.

Obsidian Order Redux: The Onyx Order Preamble: On the 3rd of April, 2021, The Black Knights and The Knights Radiants signed a meme treaty two days after everyone else tried and failed to meme on the 1st of April, 2021. We don’t need April Fools to make our memes. We make memes any day of the year. Today, we once again prove how far we will go for the memes by making this treaty official or whatever. Article 1: All Hail The Holy Legs Article 2: Hoedowns and Peanut Butter Article 3: Ayy Lmao Article 4: We have an MDP now and promise to share info and defend each other and do shit together blah blah blah… That promise to do stuff becomes optional if it’s for someone else. We can cancel it if we want in 72 hours. Article 5: Why are you still reading this? /s/ The Knights Radiant Queen of the Heralds: Head Trojan Second-in-Command: His Eminence Herald of Foreign Affairs: Cottage Cheese Connoisseur Herald of War: Allend You Herald of Growth: Mutually ASchirmed Destruction Herald of Internal Affairs: The GodFather Mk. 2.0 High Prince of Foreign Affairs: All Morf No Bite /s/ Black Knights Emperor: The Right Honorable Yosodog, Master Black Man of the Realm, Seducer of Women, Protector of the Unholy Lands, Secretary of State for Useless Titles, Purveyor of Sexual Favors, God Emperor of the African Alliance, Lord Admiral-General President of Zimbabwe, Printer of Currency, etc Viceroy: The Strump Archduke of Defense: Clown Archduke of Foreign Affairs: Supercheese Archduke of the Interior: Shadow Company Archduke of Economics: Brandon Donsberger

Grandmother told us how to suck them😊

Nice C0ck.

This is terrible advice! Don't partake in the game! Run as fast as you can before your time is sunk into this game. I haven't been able to see my family in months and [redacted]

TAP doesn’t do treaties. We are essentially TFP and do not operate independently. We sometimes drunk dial the mortals which is why they have a treaty with us. Good luck on your alliance Jayren.

Prot of a prot :gigabrain:

1. You need a better flag and i can deliver that 2. TAP (The Armed Peacekeepers) is not an alliance you want as a protector, for the fact that they are not an actual alliance but rather an extension of the alliance The Fighting Pacifists. You may want to consult with them about the treaty lol. Good Luck

April fools is probably the worst day in orbis

I nominate Vero for all categories

As a member of KT, I can 100% confirm I'm a white supremacist.

Yes, my IC propaganda of... saying CoTL had no knowledge of it and I'm keeping everything OOC as a result of that. The rest of that isn't worth responding to because you're doing precisely what I said you were.

@Kevanoviayou really made me actually login to this godforsaken place just to shut you down publicly. Fine. Let's play. Let's start at the basics. You're one of the pioneers of using OOC stuff for IC reasons. You leverage OOC relationships constantly as an attempt to get IC benefits. In fact, you were in my DMs sucking up to me and publicly sucking up to me until t$ folks took issue with you watering down the situation by saying "Akuryo used to be good", and got suddenly when you provided with testimony that she wasn't good then either. Then you decided, once Partisan and I both blocked you because we're tired of your "professional victim playing", to go full out anti-t$ and try to paint us poorly OOC and IC. Bite me. This is the reason people stopped trusting you. This is the reason that some people you used to be close to you OOC and IC want nothing to do with you now and actively speak poorly of you. Grow up. The OOC line was crossed by Aku and I've responded fully OOC on it. You (and a few others, I see you) claiming we're trying to politicize this in anyway is laughable. @Leftbehind We've talked enough in DMs for you to know my personal (and by extension, t$'s official FA stance on it). But for the peanut section: I don't believe Lefty had any knowledge of this. We've talked and I trust him to do what's best for his community while also doing what's best for the game. I should've DMed you earlier, but admittedly at the time I thought it was some "blurred lines" things that certain FAs in the past have done and I ignored it and settled it in-house. That's on me. Since you've been actively aware of the situation you've been on top of taking care of things and I appreciate that and it's noticed. I'll DM you shortly after I finish writing this to settle any leftover bullshit we have from this situation and we'll move on. Now for an unexpected ping. Believe it or not, @Akuryo, I don't think you're an awful or irredeemable person. Am I completely pissed off at you and this situation? Absolutely. Do I think it's ironic that the post ended up leaking rather than you posting it yourself? Definitely. Do I have issue with you slandering my gov and I with OOC accusations and using it to leverage IC? You betcha. But I don't like to hold grudges too long. Take time to work on yourself. I know what it's like to seek something to belong to while you've got no clue who you are, and to look back and hate the person you were. Give things a week to calm down and then my DMs are open. We'll talk shit out. Now y'all leave me alone so I can go back into my "yell at the wall until it falls over" IC persona, yeah? Not sure if you're actively reading RON but that's been mentioned by me multiple times and I've made my opinion on KT taking them in very clear.

i need a TL;DR

~snip~ Read nothing but the title, congrats tho!