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At the onset of this war, our goal has been to deal with the threat to ourselves, not to exact a vengeful price on those on the periphery. The Syndicate have demonstrated that they are not a threat to our spheres, and thus our coalition has agreed on peace terms with The Syndicate. The peace terms are as follows. 1. The Syndicate agrees to return to their peacetime standard of military readiness, agreed to as 0/2/5/0. 2. The Syndicate agrees to not launch wars against members of Coalition A (including all members of Hollywood and OO Sphere), and agrees to refrain from providing aid to any member of Blackwater. 3. No new wars will be declared between the two sides, but all existing wars are allowed to run their course. Signed for The Black Knights, ayyliens Signed for the Syndicate, ANAW, Super Chief Global Strategist Yarg, Super Chief Security Officer Nitsuj, Super Chief Financial Officer Sacul, Super Chief Operations Officer

At the onset of this war, our goal has been to deal with the threat to ourselves, not to exact a vengeful price on those on the periphery. The Lost Empire have demonstrated that they are not a threat to our spheres, and thus our coalition has agreed on peace terms with The Lost Empire. The peace terms are as follows. 1. The Lost Empire agrees to return to their peacetime standard of military readiness, agreed to as 0/2/5/0. 2. The Lost Empire agrees to not launch wars against members of Coalition A (including all members of Blackwater and Rose Sphere), and agrees to refrain from providing aid to any member of Hollywood. 3. No new wars will be declared between the two sides, but all existing wars are allowed to run their course. Signed for The Lost Empire, Ocean Master: Putmir Imperia: Xi Jinping Legatus of Economic Affairs: Waterwall Legatus of Internal Affairs: Henrik Legatus of Military Affairs: Germanicus Signed for the Syndicate, WANA, Chief Global Strategist Gray, Chief Security Officer Justin, Chief Financial Officer Lucas, Chief Operations Officer Signed for Carthago, Daveth - Suffet Krampus, Asierith and Gallant - Elders Signed for The Legion, Totem, Imperator Istandor, Proconsul David Ben-Gurion, Consul of Foreign Affairs Kiwilliam, Consul of Internal Affairs Michael Lybrand, Consul of Military Affairs Signed for Order of the White Rose, Prime ~ Sval Prime Regent - Monkeybutt Legate of Foreign Affairs - Kamade Legate of Internal Affairs - Kabu Legate of Economics - Karl XVIII Acting Legate of Defence - Ekrdin Signed for House Stark, The King in the North: Zygon Hand of the King: Darth Ataxia Three Eyed Raven: Samani Lord Commander: Henry Sutton Archmaester: Sojourner Master of Coin: Enjgine Wisdom of Alchemists: VIllage Signed for Rose, Emperor: Valkorion Baratheon High Justice: Vexz Horizon Guard of FA: Harry Flashman Signed for Swords of Sanghelios, Arbiter - Christian Kaidon - Jaden Oracle Master of Warfare - Flamescove Oracle Master of Diplomacy - Grabacr Oracle Master of the Interior - MorganL Oracle Master of Machines - Scatheon Signed for Church of Atom, His Holiness, Pontifex Atomicus - James II Primus Inter Pares - Keza Purple Cardinal of Foreign Affairs: Kongo Jack Cardinal of Internal Affairs: RandomNoobster Cardinal of Finance: Soxirella Cardinal of Protection: John Baraboo

From the onset of this war, our goal has been to deal with a common looming threat and not to exact a vengeful price on those on the periphery. United Ummah have demonstrated that they do not wish to participate in the ongoing conflict and that they are not a threat to our coalition. Towards that end, we have agreed to peace terms, which are as follow: 1.) United Ummah agrees to return and remain in their peacetime standard of military readiness, agreed to as 0/2/5/1. 2.) United Ummah agrees to not launch wars against members of Coalition A (including all members of Blackwater and Rosesphere and associates), and agrees to refrain from providing aid to any member of Hollywood, through any means. 3.) No new wars will be declared between the two sides, but all existing wars are allowed to either run their course or be peaced out. ---- Signed for the United Ummah, HaxBaba, Sultan Babur, Ameer Ameer Sohaib, Wazeer of FA Rasputin, Wazeer of War Signed for Carthago, Daveth - Suffet Krampus, Asierith and Gallant - Elder Signed for Church of Atom, His Holiness, Pontifex Atomicus - James II Primus Inter Pares - Keza Purple Cardinal of Foreign Affairs: Kongo Jack Cardinal of Internal Affairs: RandomNoobster Cardinal of Finance: Soxirella Cardinal of Protection: John Baraboo Signed for Eclipse Vein & Pascal, Commanders

tfw TLE TFed UU have all peaced and BS is still getting statpadded off of despite not even being tied anymore :lmfao:

Panky are you disappointed TLE didn't get beaten to a pulp again? Why do you have it out for them so much? @Putmir @Xi Jinping Really glad you guys are out, hope you can rebuild fast, you're an amazing alliance.

damn fast surrenders

You do realize that shitposting is BK's raison d'etre, right? They would be shitposting regardless of how the war is going.

TLE'S BACK HURTS SO MUCH, OH GOD IT'S CRACKING! SOMEONE COME SAVE TLE'S BACK, WE NEED A DOCTOR!!! PLEASE COME SAVE TLE'S BACK

This argument is so worthless and so stupid for so many reasons that it becomes laughable at this point. I'm no FA man, so i'm not going to write a 5000 words well-written essay showing you how dumb you are, as t$ is doing that well enough already. So i'll just come and destroy your examples with what I know best, maths. You compare Grumpy and e404, and that they have both taken about 50 billions damages in GnR, which is true. But you forgot to mention, mind you, that Grumpy peacetime daily income is 1.8 billions/day whereas e404 daily income is of "only" 500M. Which means that it takes e404 almost 4 times longer to recover from GnR than it does for Grumpy. 1.2 billion per member in GnR ? 900 millions in DH ? Lol, that's peanut for whales, your members make 60-70 millions per day on average, that's not even 3 weeks of income to recover from a global war. Using absolute values to justify yourself is just stupid in every single way possible, if you use relative values or ROI, your damages taken are basically nothing compared to others alliances. I see that you didn't mention gw15 either, since i'm guessing your damages taken there are at an all time low. So right, all Grumpy did since the end of NPOLT was dogpiling not once, not twice, but thrice in a row in the whale tier (gw15, gw16 & gw18), basically destroying any sort of concurrence every war (tCW in gw15, t$ in gw16, Rose in gw18) and snowball from there. The results of this snowball effect are today very clear, since GG holds alone about half the megawhales in the game. But right guys, let's not forget that "t$ man bad" and "Rose man bad" for dogpiling you once now. It's obviously t$ and Rose's fault if they are behind Grumpy to this day after all, right ? I'm amazed how your group of dogpilers/pixelhuggers whales even somehow convinced people like @Dryad that Grumpy is a "warmongerish" alliance. Lol. tl;dr : You are a fatuous pixelhugger, and a dogpiler.

Much needed break for TLE, glad they could get peace GG and congrats on peace They’ve gotten ass whooping after ass whooping they’ll never learn

A simple addition to the active wars screen would be to add an icon for the Iron Dome and VDS. I imagine it could work like the ground control and air superiority icons. I doubt you'd need extra text, just something to instantly see if they have VDS as opposed to clicking and scrolling through the nation or going to the missile/nuke option.

He doesn’t do DM’s.

Well to be honest this was a smart move. This way SoS at least can do more damage than they do on battle field.

Zig damages dealt: 538m Pre damages dealt: 2.2b Let me know when you want some tips, rookie.

You got it wrong. TLE does not have a upper tier consolidation like GG does, hence we're not a threat. Moreover, this is not our war to fight, I am glad that Col - A agreed to peace out as soon as they did. For everyone else involved in the war, GLHF 👍

Well fought

Then TKR will move to beige

I really wish I had a dollar for everytime someone resorted to a lazy "you salty, bro?" comment instead of actually bothering to read literally anything said. I'd be a &%$# millionaire. It'd be awesome.

You didn't shower yesterday either.

It's not like the color bonus means much during a war. Early days yet.

May the waves crash no more. Wishing the best to TLE 👋

There's like a whole dozen of us. Syndi left wing contingent stronk Pablo doesn't count

I mean honestly, why should I dig into this more? We were communicative when asked by people in blackwater that we weren’t on the offensive. Ben approached you when he had the time (he has a lot of stuff going on irl), and you decided that we could be straight up lying to you because of your Grumpy paranoia, instead of trusting people that you had worked with for however long Quack existed. I’m not questioning your Grumpy narrative. You have been terribly consistent with this narrative for a long time. All i’m doing is pointing out the areas where you are seeing things differently than how they were. We get that we are a threat to you by merely existing, and that you saw an opportunity. I do wish you thought more of yourselves though. You didn’t need Rose. You guys have the talent and skill to do it on your own.

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.

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.

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.

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

Oh hey Excalibur, I remember teaching you how to fight wars and snipe slots quickly in Terminus Est when we were fighting Knightfall. How are things going? I remember you had just rejoined the game at that time and were upset that so much had changed. If I recall correctly, you and many others in Test (Aku) had a mental breakdown trying to get slots and throwing accusations of cheating around since you were just so awful at apparently using a clock. I remember having to personally tutor you in DMs on how to do that step-by-step. So maybe you should work on your own complete ineptitude before lecturing others.

We will have our revolution one day, brothers. We will paint it all red.

I think BS needs a good ass whooping so they can hopefully learn from it and improve.

This is a small thing that has bugged me is when the game shows you can not declare war on someone. Let's say i want to declare war on a very big (or small) nation, from the moment i press the declare war button it will bring me to this screen: This makes sense. But let's say I want to declare on the leader of my alliance (grumbles in taxes), it will first let me fill in a captcha before it will take me to this screen: Now let's assume I want to declare war on my good friend @Kuuhaku. Now Kuuhaku is in the enemy coalition, and already full slotted. So first I will have to fill a captcha, and then after i press the war button it will take me to this screen: Now what i propose is: Check if you can declare war on someone from the moment you press the button for the first time. Problem: in busy times like these you might click that button when he has slots open, and hell be full sloted by the time you did the captcha. Solution: Just check twice. In most cases it would solve a lot of time without causing a lot of issues.

Allhamdulliah Brothers, enjoy peace. (Also leave TLE, join CTO)

I've always enjoyed what you thought of wars and what have you over the years. Keeping it a buck fitty and letting me keep the change type of deal. I think this is correct. Personally, I would have just been straight up and said that GOB needs to get on MY level as far as stats go. Just to prove to all these cats that the only thing allowing GOB their bark are active nations at a higher tier than the rest. Put GOB at ~c30-c35 for all of their nations, they're just another Guardian. I'll even argue a weaker Guardian with their sphere !@#$ing at @Sweeeeet Ronny D and trying to put a muzzle on his ass. I could be wrong though because from recollection, there have been leaders like Pfeiffer that led a successful band of ass clappers in Mensa HQ while being able to talk wild off the cuff.

Your chart and comparison aren't great, Grumpy currently has 31 members not 35, and if you seriously want to compare us in a one on one, both rose and ts would demolish us, even with guardian, numbers still overwhelm size, and you are still able to attack people that cant attack you back. Would you have to work for it? yes you would, but would you win after 3-4 rounds, assuming you have your shit together. You can even look at the fight Dave and I are doing now, you sent 2 35s and a 38 after a 40, and 41, you would have had us dead to rights if we didn't call in some people to kamikaze. As for guys that dont want the hard fight, your entire alliance just proved you didn't want the hard fight, and you have proved it over and over again over the history of tS. You want to come after me personally, that's fine but keep my members out of your mouth, you can take your passive aggressive shit and get out of here with that, every member in grumpy fights, and if they dont they find a new alliance after the war ends. We are one of the only alliances in the game where ALL our guys declare wars. You cry to me about not being able to grow, you got Eumir, at 550 days old and 29 cities, I am fighting a dude right now that is 1100 days old and has 40 cities. Those are bonkers numbers, you prioritize your upper tier growth you will catch up or your upper tier allies will help bolster your numbers. We still have to produce 3 billion+ for those 40 city nations to grow. As for whatever amount of damage we may or may not take, you constantly !@#$ing about what you perceive to be our lack of damage is not the same thing as us flaunting anything. Now do I talk about being able to instantly rebuild after a war? Yes I do, but that has nothing to do with taking a lack of damage, and everything to do with being prepared to fight. It's like how Yarr within a few days was right back to their old numbers, and how i assume TC will be right after this war ends, and how you guys will be after this war ends. So if your excuse is that Grumpy has a culture of being a well run alliance, well it will be a cold day in hell before I change that. I have said this many times, and ill keep saying it, its not my job to beat me, it's yours.

Wars get me pumped. The game alone cannot contain my energy. I have to channel it somewhere therefore I have made the OWF an extension of my battleground. Let's do this shit! crushes can on head Woo!

Well then instead of crying on the forums just take your L and enjoy the fight. And next time don't get in the way of us going for grumpy this war isn't about tkr.

Ah... So all those missiles falling in my cities are just your failed space programs...

Let's start with blatant point number one here. Guns n Roses should not have been Guns n Roses. While I love the war name, everything beyond that was an absolute unmitigated debacle of a dumpster fire, everybody had their dumpster fire. Roasis had mind boggling battlefield incompetence and HW had face-desk-inducing FA incompetence. "Oh we don't wanna hit t$ after we split its just like not cool and stuff" oh shut the hell up and just do it. Not only is it literally the smarter option it's the more interesting option. The internal drama and reasons for the split is why it's interesting. The only thing vaguely interesting about what you did instead is that it was pretty completely random and suffered once again for the 10057273rd global in a row from a hilariously shit CB that makes anyone paying attention what the fricking point was of even bothering with it. There's a way to make totally random violence interesting, I assure you. I also assure you you haven't the slightest inkling of a shit on how to do it, so please stop. Now sure I suppose this could've happened sitll if you hit Syndi, but frankly these days I've felt like rose has made itself more of a perennial reactionary actor, soooo, fair chance you coulda walked on by with that? To sum up really killing minispheres though, tl;Dr agree with INH, but also it's because those ebul IRL politics aren't as far away from your IC as you'd like to think. And no I'm not talking about how the rank 2 alliance is a blatant homage to neoliberal capitalism and super corporations, although that is yanno, definitely evidence. I'm talking more about how the general political "meta" for years now is run with the same spineless sort of approach we see from centrists in the real world, anyone knows who joe manchin is congratulations you've stumbled upon the point! Pretty much every global is the same as the last with a rotation on whose getting slapped silly. The CBs are the same, the setup is the same, in almost all cases everybody knows what's happening, and the argument on the forums is the exact same. Treaties are all basically the same, all basically function the same, and everybody's "grudges" are just whoever was on the other side of the nonsense CB arguments in recent memory. Until there's a small treaty changeup and then suddenly the new addition is good and correct and past sins disappear and the people they left nod and agree only for 2 months later they're magically now bad and wrong about everything even in the past. The entire political craft of this game for years is everyone sitting quietly a table, for anyone to do anything vaguely with the same interstellar parsec as a fopah and then flashing their fingers out like lightning and going "AH HAH" and then everyone else at the table proceeds to vibe check with baseball bats. There's no interesting pasts anymore that are really brought up or seem to matter, there's no need to find an actual CB because only one is allowed anyway and everyone openly acknowledges is basically fake nonsense everytime. And this is exactly why minispheres aren't working, because in the theorhetical papers of it, these teamups shouldn't be happening not because of honor. Not because the only good peace now is white peace, that's part of the problem too actually. They shouldn't be possible, because in the theory, you're not supposed to be friends. You're not supposed to trust them. and I don't mean whatever you think you have for distrust I'm talking like, as referenced, pre getting t$ and IQ on the same team kind of distrust. TKR trying to sign NPO kind of distrust. And you know what? White peace might be a nice high horse to ride on, but it doesn't fit the theory. Maybe people need to just actually not Boogeyman about IQ on everything. The word "reparations" does not mean 70bn+. "Oh but nobody would ever pay them" I paid them, me of all people, because the simple fact is there comes a point where any realistic figure asked for like done to me is significantly less than the blood you're gonna lose from saying no. Hell I even like the idea of viceroys, oh sure if you do it you're an !@#$ there's no question there. But that's kinda the point. It's a political simulator and to play the game you have to like, kinda be an actual !@#$. Everyone drones on incessantly about OOC/IC separation soooooooooo what's the hold up? Afraid that droning is gonna be revealed as moralizing nonsense you can't uphold either? Seriously that's the only reason I can come up with. You're like the equivalent of artillery players in World of Tanks moralizing how they're good and necessary for the game. Meanwhile everyone else calls them "sky cancer" and "griefer" and "[expletive deleted] [expletive deleted] clicker piece of [expletive deleted]" and so on and so forth. They stagnate the game, they punish people who try to push the tempo and make things happen as opposed to sit back and hide in a bush, and the moment you point that out as bad, moralize incessantly about it. And that's what it is. FA is a joke to the point where the best path is so often to do as little as possible (avoid fopah risk) that people end up doing nothing and oops that's a fopah too! It takes nothing to hop a sphere which you think is great, but it never dawn's that it rarely happens despite that and the trade off is this. The same war like the same old TV dinner with the same old side of "politics". No wonder player retention is so mediocre, the game would be less boring if people didn't camp bush, and actually did things interesting. I've had a change even I've been mulling proposing but haven't because I think most of you are too busy camping bush to ever use it or even support it to begin with to not use it. I had a wonderful little idea talking a couple weeks ago. Double the color bonus. Or more, 250%! 300% even. Why? Significant income boost for everyone, but not necessarily game breaking - but more importantly, big enough to actually be very important. Yanno like maybe policing your color with force actually becomes advisable, like maybe even being more violent than t$ is sometimes. Maybe so much that protectorates (why do you even protect them again? Political sim remember, if you just do it for the shiggles with nothing else to it, you get this crap, rants from a schizophrenic awake at 630am included) become relevant because now you can stop being amicable about asking them to move colors and intentionally have them sabotage colors of rivals, and then they'll do it back, and then instead of sudden big wars all the time you an have frequent and constant low scale warfare and manuveuring in these power tiers to win smaller localized battles, where guess what, you on top of getting micros fighting experience and killing the bad ones, could test out that reparations and viceroys and whatever the hell else you can come up with and see how it works, shove them off your color too, and then one of the experiments pisses off the superpower behind the proxy, now you have this whole ass web of nonsense and chaos between low tier satellite AAs proxy warring to feed into it. Look again I'm awake at 630am but that sounds more interesting than reading another DoW about how everyone but OP is an evil meanie secret treaty having would be hegemon poop face. Thanks to all the 2 people who actually read all this for some reason.

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.

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?

They would shitpost even if they weren't involved in the war

I'll send an SoS to the world I'll send an SoS to the world I hope that someone gets my I hope that someone gets my I hope that someone gets my Message in a bottle, yeah

That is the nature of war, if you are on the losing side of a conflict anything you type or say is a showcase of your saltiness.

Mebbe.

The Legion formally submits it's declaration of war against The Lost Empire, The Federation, and the entire Hollywood bloc. Please see the below leaflet for more details:

Oo gotta love swimming and fighting, two of my fav things.

Shame I only got the opportunity to use the submarine hunting tank now. GLHF to all micro parties involved o7