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  1. It's a new trend. If you want attention, announce that you are leaving in alliance affairs. If you are a pro like Nokia and Wingawoo, you can do it multiple times, and get away with it.
    3 points
  2. People that think they're more important than they are.
    3 points
  3. 2 points
  4. --- 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. --- 🦍 ---
    2 points
  5. >posts goodbye post in aa affairs.
    2 points
  6. Well Wonder what I should put here For starters, how about I go out of my way to dedicate this forum post to the wonderful folks at Chocolate Castle who consentingly brought me down the path I've finished walking Personally I think there was no reason for me to do what I've decided, but thus here I am At least I can be confident saying I'm not leaving the same way Nokia is... It's probably obvious what this is about, and I'll cut to the chase I'm leaving I'm done No more bad micros No more defending myself against allegations spawned from the exact alliance who took it upon themselves to work their way up my list of most hated alliances Of course, no better way to go At least not in my opinion Golden Dawn is a mess I made it this way, no one else The members that remain, have the inconvenience of not knowing what a good alliance looks like After all, I took it upon myself to exploit Golden Dawn to it's furthest extent So, I shall now leave the mess I have created to the same fool who followed me through this game Don't quit Don't blame yourself Just find a real alliance One that isn't Golden Dawn That's not a request That's an order My final order Lastly, I think it's of note to mention why I quit Lets put it simply Chocolate Castle Now, lets not point fingers But Chocolate Castle helped me, and the rest of the game realize what I couldn't No, not that I'm a fascist, and people will certainly take it this way But simply that this game is not made for me There are no goodbyes There are no farewells There are good riddances Not from me though More than likely from the comments on this post There is no tl;dr tl;dr's are for those who can sum up a page or two into a sentence or two That'd be if I could sum up this game into a forum post, which I can't Guess that's it Don't try to message me Those of you left in my friends list are there for a reason Hopefully you'll remain there Last post? September 11th, 2019 - April 15, 2021
    1 point
  7. After looking through the SOS alliance I find them suspicious because comparatively with most alliances these guys seem to have to most applicants and most of these applicants are either active or offline for a week or so and most of these people are all newbies created in a few days or so. This can essentially justify the case they might be using bots to exponentially increase their member numbers and score and as you can see on their alliance they have essentially added a 50k score to themselves in the past month with most of their members being newbies. Honestly, I think it's quite unreasonable to see that newbies that were created in a day or so that are a part of SOS or just applicants immediately target raid targets and usually just block them without winning the raid. Also as well essentially as I've been looking through Norval's war activity it can be easily seen that many times that SOS newly made members immediately jump on Targets Norval is on. Following what Ragnar and Norval said I agree when they said this deserves some investigation if they are truly using bots.
    1 point
  8. I would just like to second Norval's case here. The alliance as a whole has a few things that are so outside the realm of normal I can't help but be suspicious. The alliance score as a whole has almost tripled in a month, and new nations have joined at a pretty ridiculous clip. They haven't been advertising, and neither I nor anyone else I know received recruitment messages from them when we joined. I've only been playing for a couple months now, but it does seem far from normal when a smaller alliance recruits at a rate that dwarfs the rate that other actively recruiting alliances have. Norval also notes a few other things that members of the alliance do that are atypical, following certain people's raid targets, members start raiding the same people just before joining the alliance, etc. All in all, I think it would be unreasonable to not be at least somewhat suspicious, and I really think this deserves at least a little investigation.
    1 point
  9. Alright it's possible to set different daychange, a new feature I was not aware of, so it's possible this person just did that
    1 point
  10. Your order to me means a lot, but in the mean time I think I'll stay in GD and see where that brings me
    1 point
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  12. Thanks for the reply Alex! I normally don’t check but I saw similar names then noticed lol.
    1 point
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  14. What's with all the leaving messages being posted in Alliance Affairs recently?
    1 point
  15. why alliance affairs tho?
    1 point
  16. 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.
    1 point
  17. It's been ~11 months, and you were banned for operating a large multi-ring and secretly funneling money to yourself using baseball. I don't see any reason to unban you, your appeal is denied.
    1 point
  18. El Presidente, the people may be calling for an election next year!
    1 point
  19. Aside from being a CN mechanic, one of the better ones if I might add. Imagine that they did something right with their *dead* game. All the lol's Make infra cheaper to build, or in other words add "peak" infrastructure to the game. But on a serious note plenty of people have suggested this as well as myself and I feel that if Alex wants to make the game better and discourage pixel hugging this is the best way. An example would be if I bought 2k infra on a city and it gets destroyed to a low of 100 you can rebuild it back to 2k for 50% of the cost. Where it normal costs like $14m it'll cost $7m this of course is without the urbanization projects & policy. The only downside I see is pixel huggers will cry and giant behemoth whales will have a huge advantage but It's worth it. I'm curious what the rest of you think about this.
    0 points
  20. Left Black Skies to get in Carthago hope things go well
    0 points
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