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  1. Investor Contact: Justin Media Contact: WANA Greetings Esteemed Members of the Community, As you all know by now, the Syndicate has declared a state of war against the combined forces of Hollywood, as stated in my initial DoW. However, I believe there is some misunderstanding about the reasoning of this war from the Syndicate’s perspective, so I am here today to set the record straight. In my initial post, I mentioned that recent ex-members of the Hollywood bloc, including Hidude and Hillbilly had undertaken a campaign of aggression against some in our sphere. This was not the reason the Syndicate opted to move to neutralize the threat that Hollywood poses, but an indication I took of their potential intentions.When the Knights Templar hit the Legion, we were content to let their allies respond to the situation, as to not make a mountain out of a molehill, this changed when Eclipse was directly attacked a few days after the initial hit. While we were rightfully angry that our allies were being hit, we decided to militarize to get ready for a conflict with KT. At that point, some members of my government immediately responded by declaring wars on KT, while the rest of the alliance was put in a state of militarization. This was partially due to the fact that we understood that if we hit KT, we were likely to be countered by their members, and we didn’t want any of our members getting caught with their pants down, so to speak. This caused Hollywood bloc to respond in kind by issuing their own militarization orders, which we quickly noted. A determination was made at that time that Hollywood may be a credible threat to us, only hearing from TKR the day we had equalized in military readiness. Given the uncertainty of the situation, we decided to go ahead with an offensive blitz against Hollywood in order to neutralize them as a threat. The above paragraph gives you a look into our thought process leading up to the war, but the question of why pick this fight in the first place still remains. I took over the position of Chief Global Strategist immediately after The Last Ride had concluded. I was greeted by a grouping of HM that was quickly militarizing, and a TKR who had not decommissioned to their peace time standard. There was some thought amidst our government that the newly formed Blackwater may be the target of the war. The Syndicate has made no show of obscuring our thoughts on GG’s supremacy of the whale tier, and the FA and gameplay implications that has. I have expressed this thought publicly on Morf Radio a handful of times. During this time, I was in communication with Adrienne from TKR, and representatives from Rose sphere, Oasis, and the alliances that would become Mystery. We each went back and forth on who the potential target might be, so the Syndicate also didn’t decommission to peace-time standards as a precaution. When speaking to Adrienne, I got cryptic responses that didn’t assuage our fears. After the fact, Adrienne confirmed to me that we were never the target, and she would have been personally upset had we been the target. As we all know, Rose was the intended target, with Oasis/Mys declaring in defense of Rose and their allies. During the early planning phases for this conflict, several people from the defending coalition approached myself about joining the war on their behalf. This is an offer I declined. I declined this offer in part due to the recent breakup of Quack, and the feelings of mutual respect that existed between tS and TKR. I thought the feeling was mutual, I didn’t necessarily believe that BW and HW needed to be enemies. Consider my shock then when I went on Morf Radio one evening and heard SRD say in no uncertain terms that the Syndicate had been considered a potential target of HW’s war of aggression immediately following the dissolution of Quack. Now I have heard the argument over and over that you can’t take SRD seriously, that it’s just a personality, but that undersells just how influential and aware SRD is as an alliance leader. Unlike some other leaders, SRD has never shown himself to be someone who makes poor decisions. SRD knowingly admitted on-air that we had been considered a target, on a show with the man who had recently been promoted to the FA Exec position in tS. I don’t think this was an accident or some slip of the tongue, I think SRD was being honest. As I stated above, the Syndicate’s narrative across the past year and a half has been consistent. The grouping of GG as a unit presents a stratification of not just whales, but mega-whales in a singular grouping. This is not to say that GG are bad or evil people, but that they could be a potential security risk to ourselves, and are almost impossible to deal with as a single bloc. The fact that SRD had postured openly in both a VC and Discord chat lead to my firm belief that GG would eventually seek to fight us. There is no one way to skin a cat, and dealing with GG as a unit is incredibly complicated. I would never seek to suggest that either Guardian or Grumpy should disband, split, or reduce their size in any unnatural way. I have made that point quite clear during my time as an Executive. However, a contributing factor of our concerns about GG has been due to their lack of competitive wars in recent past. By my calculations, it has been since NPOLT that Grumpy has fought a war where they were in any danger of sustaining heavy losses. Duck Hunt came close, and a few members of GG certainly took some damage, but due to the sheer numbers disadvantage Quack was at, we were unable to make much of a dent into them, with some of our high tier even dropping to a range where we couldn’t declare on Grumpy, much less thinking of causing infrastructure loss. All the while, TKR has been well aware of our concern over this grouping and even privately shared some of those concerns with us, at least until they allied them. It certainly didn’t help then, after Quack broke up, that TKR immediately signed a treaty with not just Grumpy, but one with the entire force of HM backing them up. Perhaps this was understandable, though. Breakups are never easy, especially one with as much history as the Syndicate and The Knights Radiant. I do not envy the position TKR found themselves in, but their choices are their own. It was their choice to sign GG despite knowing fully well our concerns about that grouping, it was their choice to immediately declare a war of aggression against Rose that roped in every power bloc in the game minus our own. This is a war, mind you, that they pretty clearly came out victorious. I don’t believe it’s a stretch to say that no individual grouping could comfortably take on the might of HW. Hollywood started out the aggressor from the day they were borne, and because of their previous actions, it became entirely plausible that the Syndicate, the last true powersphere that could challenge them would be next. This has never been a conflict I entered into lightly.Put simply, there are many people in HW who I admire and deeply respect. However, my responsibility as an Executive is now and always will be to ensure the success and prosperity of the Syndicate. If there is harm that may come to the alliance, it is my duty to pre-empt those threats by either diplomacy or war. SRD consistently displayed he was a threat to the peace, prosperity, and security of my alliance. I chose to take him at his word. It is unfortunate that war had to come between BW and HW, but I was unwilling to take the chance that HW had been lying about their intentions as a bloc. It took courage to do this, to enter into a war that will be incredibly costly for both sides, but throughout my short tenure as an Executive, I have never shied away from making tough decisions. It is my sincere hope that this war will yield a rebalancing of the economic advantages faced between GG and the rest of the game, and that at the end of this war, both sides will emerge with a renewed willingness to ensure the balance of this game, so that all players, whales and noobs alike, have the ability to determine and chart a path towards a more exciting future. -WANA Chief Global Strategist About SYNDICATE, INC., SYNDICATE, Inc., based near Nassau, The Bahamas, is the world's leading gasoline, aluminum, steel and munitions distributor for a wide variety of peacekeeping and humanitarian activities. Wholly-owned SYNDICATE, Inc. subsidiary brand/s include ENTERPRISE, Corp., (NYSE: ESC), which provides opportunities for growth, development, and outreach for exceptional candidates throughout the globe, The Rohirrim, a rising equine research and breeding firm. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and it's activities, contact WANA, Chief Global Strategist.
    32 points
  2. We at SoS are in need of a fitness plan, our average score is down but our members are up. This results in Borg Brown being the poorest colour bloc. How can we go about fixing this? Fix our bloat? Up-tier our members? No. We've found another solution. Hollywood. How do all those Beverley Hill's elites keep such athletic figures? In our plight, TKR has stepped forward and opened their doors to us (knowingly or not). Now instead of Brown being tanked, Orange will suffer under the weight of our unending bloat. We hope that our stay here, however brief or protracted, will help our members, both big and small. After all, Orange is the new Brown. In a show of appreciation, i have written a Haiku for Orange Bloc: When a high bonus is met by a bloated horde it will be no more TLDR: SoS is coming to the orange colour bloc to share the bloat
    15 points
  3. As one of the loudest proponents of the split, allow me to get involved. For the sake of keeping things clear: This response is fully OOC. Let's start with this. As literally anyone in t$ or anyone who knows me outside of the game can confirm- I'm an extreme leftist. I'd leak some of the politics chats from t$ to "prove" it but frankly I can't be arsed because the claim is so innately outrageous it doesn't warrant the time and effort. Let's look into why the split exists in the first place. We all have to play characters to genuinely enjoy this game. Do you really think Partisan is as eccentric, wild, and outspoken IRL as he is IC? Do you think that I actually stand by my "old people are bad", "all communists deserve punishment", etc rhetoric IRL? Do you think @Denison dresses up in a half-assed crusader halloween outfit everyday and goes around to call people weak and cowardly? If you do, re-evaluate a bit. The internet's an escape - games like this even moreso. It's an excuse to put IRL junk aside and be someone you're not. It's no different from if I were to go play DND with some friends, or jump on Gmod for some StarWarsRP. It's something you use to separate from your IRL self for a minute, because let's be frank, the world's in a shitty spot and we need something to go to to get away from it. Let's point out a prominent example of where this can quickly go wrong, especially when certain people are attempting to cross that line and use it for something else. Again, a reminder that since this is an OOC post from me. Also a pre-emptive I'm not here for sympathy or other bullshit, I'm just wanting to make sure this sort of attitude doesn't permeate and ruin a community. From January to right at the start of April, I was dealing with a situation where members of the game were insinuating t$ was a !@#$/!@#$ sympathizing alliance. I dropped character for this, as I believed it (and still believe it to be) a dangerous accusation to make. During this time, I was dealing with helping my mother and my grandfather deal with my grandmother, who'd been in the hospital for most of 2020 and had, in December, been put on hospice care and given a few months to live. I tried to use this game as an escape from the day to day I was dealing with, only to find out I was being accused of being a !@#$ because I was indirectly tied to a group of, let's be frank, trolls. So, to clarify, one of the few escapes I had at the time (thanks to COVID ruling out a lot of other ones), was being actively ruined because of the accusations that were being pushed. Eventually I got screenshots of these and to top it off, it seemed to be an attempt at getting some IC gain (the person leading the accusations was attempting to get a prot of an ally to join them and drop their current protector). I had a few friends involved in the situation that believed the accusations, which lead to us, obviously, drifting apart. In March, logs of/from the main accuser dropped. I read through the logs a few times before, justifiably in my opinion, getting pretty pissed off. I had lost more than a couple people I'd considered friends over the accusations, as well as had to deal with getting questioned about IRL morals by IC folks. A week later, my grandmother passed. I was dealing with the loss of a few friends, my grandmother, and trying my damndest to keep my shit together for my family that needed me. All that shit at once was, frankly, bad for my health and ridiculously stressful. If it weren't for a few folks (you know who you are, and I appreciate y'all a lot), I probably would've completely dipped out of the game with one last "go !@#$ yourself, Orbis". Dropping the OOC/IC line helps nothing. Get rid of the blatant racists, homophobes, etc, but when you drop it entirely you will inevitably make a bad call and cause undue stress and harm to a community and/or person. The game is just that - a game. Let's keep it that way. Let moderation handle the bullshit. Witch hunting does nothing good for the game. Frankly, if this kinda stuff doesn't stop, it'll lead to the death of the game. And you'll be the only ones to blame. OOC over. Adam out.
    12 points
  4. I think there's a miscommunication here so allow me to clean it up a bit. GoB by itself is not unstoppable. Guardian by itself is not unstoppable. Both would 100% be incredibly difficult fights because the general member competency and the tiering would support them a lot, but there'd still be a generally fair 1v1 sphere fight. Here's an objective alliance-by alliance tier chart. Notice something a bit off? If you just look at the totals, sure; t$, Rose, and GoB are relatively matched. But look at the tiering. We're extremely bottom heavy whereas you're extremely top heavy. What's the point of elaborating that? Simple: Downdecs+Guardian giving you extra support on the lower half. No matter how you put it, there's next to no way unless GG suddenly stops logging in for either Rose or t$ to 1v1, even if you add allies in. It'd be throwing our c30+ into a grinder and telling them good luck. TKR knows this as we talked about it in depth when discussing meta in Quack. Now, let me be fair and clear: I don't think GoB or Guardian are innately bad people and doing this to hurt the game, and I disagree with anyone who suggests that. That said, the strangehold on the upper tier hurts it regardless. And I don't think that's all on SRD. There's always going to be folks that don't want the hard fight and they'll be drawn to you. It's your gimmick. It's not necessarily something you can control without uprooting your culture entirely. That said, when you yourself constantly flaunt GoB's relative lack of damage, shit on your former allies for not wanting to fight while y'all always come out relatively unscathed, and then go "well if Rose and t$ would just grow" when we both consistently take significant damages in that tier, it gives you an reputation, and not a good one. It's extremely arrogant and is the reason that t$ has been consistent on this stance for years now. If you want a switch up, the ball's in your court. Where you throw it decides where the next road leads. If you want to actually see new and interesting FA, it's not us that can make that change this time. EDIT: SRD pointed out it wasn't updated. Got it fixed, will only post t$/Rose/GoB as they're the main point of my post: Numbers for Rose and Syndi are up and GoB's is down, but the disparity is still tehere and the new 30-32's don't change the downdec argument.
    11 points
  5. I have zero idea how I missed Aku's ginormous post here lol. I think you need to reread what I said: No shit your worldview is going to impact your actions and yes, you will make mistakes. We are only human. But that doesn't negate anything else I said. Hard is not impossible and simply because you are incapable of not making everything political and personal doesn't mean everyone else is. You are awful at this game and clearly know literally nothing about the player base that makes up our community. TKR is not a monolith and we're definitely not center/libright/whatever other weird labels you're using here. It may surprise you to hear this but an alliance with 180+ members has a wide variance in thought regarding both political interest/engagement and belief. And if I were to give TKR an average political leaning based on what I see of my fellow members, it would be very different than the one you gave.
    10 points
  6. Dude, if I acted and went through life thinking the way my character is in this game, I would be cancelled on a daily basis and be sent to a mental hospital.
    10 points
  7. guys i dont care, no listen like i really dont care, seriously i dont actually care, seriously listen listen i dont care really i dont care at all, i literally dont care literally do not care at all
    8 points
  8. Are we supposed to be concerned? TI has done this the last two wars 😛 I'd be more impressed if you went after green but since t$ and Grumpy can't agree in game but can agree on color politics and no one on their side wants to piss off them off by tanking their bonus, it'll never happen.
    8 points
  9. The arguments of your coalition are weak and the spin won't affect the cheeks we about to clap.
    8 points
  10. Spooky whale man said t$ was a potential target for being hit after the dissolution of Quack and spooky whales must be dealt with.
    8 points
  11. Orange Man Corporation News Release: Recognition of Hostile takeovers Orange Man Corporation, commonly called TKR, hereby recognizes the attempted hostile takeover by hedge funds T$ and Rose. Both companies have been implicated in predatory actions that have diminished investor confidence. T$ executives have been caught in a series of contradictory statements that has rattled their resolve. One man in a businessman-looking suit wearing a snake costume was quoted "What even is our CB?". Rose company heads have engaged in consolidation that some fear is already too much. Entire industries are now under the behemoth's control after many, many previous mergers. A stout man from somewhere in the midwest with a mustache commented how "Rose took our jobs." Share prices have tumbled for both companies with these revelations. Investigations last night uncovered an operation from the two companies to take down the mom and pop business, Orange Man Corp. with the codename "GG G/G." Execution of this plan was hindered by unforeseen technical difficulties resulting from extra high trading volume on the Sheepy exchange. Upon learning of this, Benfro, queen of TKR, declared that he would begin immediately to take action to protect against the bevy of shorts and puts facing his shareholders. Ben was not the only one to take notice. Soon, an army, with the moniker "Hollywood," were supporting Ben under the ancient principle of "YOLO". T$ and Rose sustained billions in losses of hedge money as investors flocked to TKR. While driving by in rural Iowa, one stereotypical swing voter recounted "TKR made him a millionaire." Internal polling has indicated that TKR has now replaced snek on moon. Now emboldened, Ben sought to acquire assets from both T$ and Rose, setting his sights particularly on the subsidiary, Terminal Jest. Thus, in a surprising maneuver, TKR began its own hostile takeovers of both T$ and Rose began under codename "Orange Man Bad". Rumors circulated that as Benfro announced this, a chant could be heard from the knights of the company. Continuing even to now, the echoes can be heard: "I pledge allegiance, to the flag. Against the $yndicate and Rose. One orange alliance. To prevent ROI and growth for all. Furthermore, I am of the opinion that pixels must be destroyed." - Signed: Orange Man Corp, TKR (soon to be found on the moon). Tl;dr - TKR is ready to dance. May only the worst ROI lead to the moon.
    7 points
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    7 points
  13. With the beginning of the global war, there is a flurry of activity to make sense of all of it. This post is to let you know when to tune in and how to get involved. Radio shows this week: Thursday at 10 pm est (2 hours after day change), Morf Radio The long awaited return of Morf is here, with contributions from every sphere including Leftbehind, Hellmo/Kev, Wana and more! Morf radio gives a voice to all sides, so people either negotiate peace or cause a war. Grow internally! http://discord.gg/Amp4bPfcEz Friday at 9 pm est: Thalmor Radio Thalmor hosts a show (and I cohost) every Friday at 9est (48 shows recorded since October) usually including "based" opinions and terrible hot takes. http://discord.gg/Kma5nEQFTj Saturday at 9pm est: Keeping it 💯 🌈Rainbow has recently begun hosting a new show on Orbis Crown News! Rainbow will be interviewing Velyni Vas of TFP http://discord.gg/aPtn39Qftm Sunday (tentative): Radio show at Clarent Clarent's radio show is hosted by Azazel (George) http://discord.gg/hudghunfJc Want to catch up? Royal Orbis News radio ( http://discord.gg/royal-orbis-news )had a two hour voice chat during the blitz including live reactions to the broken MAPs system which can be found here (sorry for the poor audio, it was rushed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTKTJ7dWECk&list=PLDe5dWb0KFVZ9zvQpk0e09vxnp_rDwo4b Thalmor Radio posts radio shows (both theirs and RON's) weekly or more! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFr5zXOgj1AEVtX3OIsK7ZA Morf radio streams their shows on youtube! Also, check out the four hour epic Emergency Rose Blitz Podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB9V2rIxzoe7iqlghU_LIeA Let me know if I missed anything!
    7 points
  14. Ah... So all those missiles falling in my cities are just your failed space programs...
    7 points
  15. You all were concerned af when tap was on it last war. For SoS to take their common criticisms and have self deprecating humor is comedic gold. I give SoS a hard time but this was hilarious.
    6 points
  16. 1. Even the left nut and the right nut is not equal. So is this war !@#$ 2. We'll take any random ass help we can get and roll any fricking alliance in the way of clapping GOB cheeks. If you wanna get rolled again with GOB, Idgaf you can get it again. 4. You ain't gonna do shit. @Cooper_ and @BigMorf is your FA. They ain't gonna do shit, but accept this ass beating. We gonna let you beige us this round, and then infra bombing from here on out. You know what I don't like @Charles Bolivar. I don't like GOB having more cities than me. I want GOB rolled over and over again until average is the same as my city count.
    6 points
  17. The syndicate didnt like being dumped by TKR, and certainly didn't like who TKR's new GF turned out to be. Somehow that led to tS becoming Rose's new side chick. It's like the plot twist in a telenovela. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned ,🤷‍♂️
    6 points
  18. Just speaking for the Syndicate, we have Conservatives, Liberals, Centrists, Communists, Feudalists, advocates of a Catholic confessional state, and at least one Latino White Supremacist. You can't assign beliefs to a whole alliance.
    6 points
  19. Ultimately, I think the formation of Hollywood and the subsequent sudden war on Rose is what brought this war on. This is essentially Knightfall 2. You even had t$ high gov dunking on you guys in public over it the night that war started. Now that you're dealing with the consequences, you wanna complain? My own feelings towards Hollywood were rectified by E404 and CotL leaving, but a lot of people still felt as if Hollywood was a threat to everyone- same as it was with T$-TKR sphere. You guys split up because you don't want to be the bad guy, but then you merge with Hedge to form a bloc that makes t$ and/or Rose feel like they need the help? I do think a Syndisphere vs Hollywood war would've been dope. I think ideally Rose should've stayed out. But ultimately positioning yourself for security also positions yourself to be threatening. It's a big reason why people have swung at Grumpy lately, but it applies to Hollywood as a whole too. I don't know a fix for this except for GG to split off and try something new. Probably won't happen. In fact, it makes sense for you Hollywood guys to entrench yourselves now. But, I'm pretty sure we won't see a formal tie between Syndisphere and Rose, and I think a lot of feelings will reset post-war so maybe we can all try again later. I think minispheres is still a thing and I think politics is the healthiest it's ever been. Y'all have the short stick in this war, but it doesn't have to be that way next war. Fight it out for this war and let's see what happens between now and the next global. I hope this is coherent and makes sense. I'm tired. Gn.
    6 points
  20. Then TKR will move to beige
    5 points
  21. bro i literally don't believe nations should even exist, what the !@#$ does this even mean
    5 points
  22. Right. The membership sticks through thick and thin, as it's actually proven by history. Same about the AA itself. The FA climate often dictates the wars to be fought, which is well beyond the control of most people. It's neither their fault, or problem, if you, as a leader, handled yourself in such a way contributed to this end result.
    4 points
  23. You went from this To this What the !@#$ happened? Call it what you want, your nations will be leveled again and again until my city count reaches about c40.
    4 points
  24. Oh tS... You guys are like the pre 2004 Redsox to our Yankees. To you we are and continue to be your biggest rival and threat, I assume this to be the case since all you do is declare war on us. Where as we look at you as an annoying little brother. Could we attack you guys? sure, but generally there is always someone more important for us to fight than you. If you guys keep this up tho, you may just move into the number one spot in our hearts. Nice to see your CB redo is much better tho.
    4 points
  25. Bold of TKR to call Eumir out for "tantrums" (which tbh, in itself makes you look dumb) when their prevailing narrative has been whining about our cb and how its a dogpile. Then, when WANA gives you what you want, have two TKR reps completely ignore the post y'all have been begging for only for one to make a comment on something you've already dug into the ground while ignoring all the additional context, and for you to whine more about a member that's getting on your nerves/hurting your feelings. Bricks in glass houses, friend. I'd do yourselves a favor and let Adri or Cooper chime in, at least they do your FA some justice.
    4 points
  26. You and what army? 🤣 "Yes SRD said some things but you cannot take his word seriously" "Yes you were considered a target but surely not a serious one" 😴 Huh? Wholly owned parent, public subsidiary.
    4 points
  27. There may be multiple people in t$ with this view. By may be multiple people, I mean there are probably are multiple people. Pic unrelated.
    4 points
  28. It had already been a long day at work. I go into the walk-in cooler to get some tomatoes to slice when my phone gets several notifications. Can't hurt to check in. 2 defensive war alerts? Hmm must just be a pirate. I issue counters including myself and then go back to work. More notifications. Did they just counter our counters? Strange. Then I see the message "Hollywood is being attacked by Blackwater and Rose". Well, this'll be interesting. GLHF to both sides TLDR: An irrelevant micro declares it's existence and RoH with Blackwater and Rose
    3 points
  29. JaxTeller sat astride his mount, alongside his Prince and commanders. They surveyed their men as they rode in column to the front. The beacons had been lit. The Rohirrim mustered. He gestured to his commanders and they rode down together amongst their men. Many would not see the next morning. How many would be beneath the ground before the war ended? A sacrifice the people of Rohan were always ready to make when asked. As the column of riders noticed their King joining their ranks they broke out into song. The Lament of the Rohirrim. "Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, And the bright hair flowing? Where is the hand on the harpstring, And the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest And the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, Like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?" The Rohirrim declares war on Hollywood, pursuant to our treaty with t$ good luck to all and other such pleasantries
    3 points
  30. buddy i don't actually care, which is why i took exactly zero time to respond to any of wana's points (didn't actually read the op tbh), but eumir is out here being the human embodiment of the navy seal copypasta which, to me, is Very Funny. wars are just some dumb shit i have to do every several months or so because i accidentally found cybernations 13 years ago. internet nerds with a hard on for watching numbers go down are not gonna hurt my feelings lmao
    3 points
  31. 3 points
  32. I’m not a fan of green day if that helps!!
    3 points
  33. 3 points
  34. A publicly-listed yet wholly-owned subsidiary? 🤔
    3 points
  35. PIT Radio hosted every other Tuesday 9PM EST. https://discord.gg/adhpQUa3ef Recordings available on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfWVilnRoGiIbETMbVOt2w
    3 points
  36. Granted, I wasn’t around for the whole thing - but when I came back on the tail end of the situation you’re referring to, your account is different from what I had been told. So I appreciate the additional context from your end. It is a good example for people to understand that there may be more going on than what others realize. IC and OOC should be kept separately, and it’s a good point you’re making to utilize moderation as the way to handle those kinds of situations in order to keep from unneeded BS/misunderstandings from transpiring from folks in the community. (<- Speaking from firsthand experience) I think the community as a whole needs to take a step back and check ourselves on how we are approaching this game/others. As stated, this is a game and should be treated as such.
    3 points
  37. How's the view up there? You FENCE SITTER.
    3 points
  38. To be honest I think expecting some separation is reasonable as to not devolve the game into complete toxicity and/or make the game unenjoyable for those who simply want to craft a separate political landscape because that's what the game is supposed to be about. In the same vein though, people who target other players either directly or indirectly and make the game unenjoyable should be liable to face IC consequences from others for such, without chastisement. At the end of the day, we all just wanna play this game and enjoy it~
    3 points
  39. The 'politics' of Politics and War doesn't have anything to do with political ideology. It has to do with how alliances operate. Or, even how individual nations may interactive with each other. Real life ideology does play in with nation themes and alliance themes, but that's about the extent of their involvement. By the large, IC and OOC separation has to do with how personal things gets. I can say "I'm going to wreck your shit, UnitedCommander!" and everyone will know I'm talking about their nation and that's IC. This is an example of an OOC attack. Kosmo is calling Babei and KT as a whole KKK members. Very classy! Other examples of OOC attacks would be to call someone a pedophile or to threaten someone with harm. Or, to dox someone. These are pretty extreme and are uncommon, and I think the community does a good job at policing things. I don't agree with this. I see political discussions all the time on Discord, like on RON or the official P&W server. I discuss politics on my show and a lot of my audience disagrees with me on my views, but I still respond to their questions and try to hash it out. I won't change anybody's minds, but if I can give people new information to work with, that's the next best thing. I do think some people are unwilling to have political debates. A lot of times it devolves into something pretty rough. It's a reason why I try to avoid such discussions a lot of the time. I take it that you want to have more debates, which is great! I wouldn't mind engaging with you more but, you blocked me on Discord! Lol Also some people are stupidly toxic and if IC/OOC lines got blurred, I think that could be rough. Houses are so special because they have walls. I think separating a lot of game activity into 'IC' and other things as 'OOC' is healthy. Hopes this gives you or any others some new information to work with.
    3 points
  40. Wholeheartedly disagree. IC refers to you the player, OOC to you the person. Yes, there is crossover. Both are you. But you shouldn't make game decisions based on you the person and your personal feelings on things. You shouldn't attack someone based on them the person versus them the player. For example, challenge me politically in game for your opinions on my in-game actions and things I say in character when we're acting within the game instead of me being a woman or for my political beliefs (as you mentioned) or my personal likes/dislikes or whatever else I choose to divulge to people outside of the context of the game. I think this is a distinction that is harder for general members to see, perhaps. It has nothing to do with shutting down discussions you don't like or anything to do with external politics (which not everything relates to RL politics here, Lexi - arguably very little of it does - but you're a politically minded person, so that's important to you) and everything to do with not letting the personal impact the game politics, which is incredibly important, especially as you rise in involvement in the game. If you want to RP your political beliefs within this game, that is fine. But it has nothing to do with RL politics (which shouldn't even be brought up in game debates) as you're applying it to the context of this game. How will ASM's beliefs as an alliance (not really individually) impact their actions/gameplay? That's what IC means.
    3 points
  41. No sphere does offensive wars they are going to lose or have a hard time winning. Last time that happened(and the only time I've seen it happen) is when Chaos and KETOGG decided to go head to head. The obvious reason for this is no one wants to lose. T$ have never lost a war but one. Adding another loss to their crown would reflect negatively on their PR. Rose is run by statpadders who only know how to statpad-something fair wars might not be good for. Oasis+Swamp openly have flouted their numbers advantage and one could understand that they are spheres who rely totally on number superiority to even war. Hollywood, specifically Grumpy, have been vocal and jubilant about how they have the biggest whale tier and openly are vocal about trying to consolidate the whale tier. The idea of mini-spheres is to have many more or less equally powerful spheres. And this is where the problem lies. Since no sphere wants to lose a war, they will always ask some other sphere to help them make a fair fight into a one-sided fight. While this is expected, the problem starts when one sphere keeps getting targeted again and again. The said sphere would then try to consolidate power because it gets paranoid that it would get targeted again and in the end we end up with a bipolar world. The new war's CB is trash-talking and upper tier consolidation. My question is: How do you try to stop upper tier consolidation? Do you force GG to cut ties with HW? What after that? They join some other new sphere and then that becomes the new upper tier hegemony? Would you force GG to disband? Now that is an extremely bad thing to do and after NPOLT, I don't see why you're going to want to do that once again. Would you keep attacking HW at most times to not let them grow anymore? Uh, won't that make them just consolidate even more upper tier to fend off such attacks? So my question to Roa$is Inc: How are you going to make good on your CB and stop the upper tier consolidation?
    3 points
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