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A bloc is a multilateral treaty among 3 or more alliances. A sphere is (traditionally in pnw meta) a major alliance and their allies+allies of their allies who coalition together; or (more in the micro realm) 3 or more alliances that hold multiple treaties among each other and other allies or allies of allies, without a formal organization, that have coalitioned together at least 2 times for the purpose of defense, political bargaining, or offensive war. A bloc inside of a sphere, is not a sphere, but a bloc. A bloc which brings along their outside allies along with their bloc mates outside allies, act as a sphere. Rectangles can be squares, but only a square can be made up of 2 equally sized right triangles. There's nothing acute about flying off the handle here people. Don't sweep this under the rug. ||I bite my tongue hearing people talk about "bloc" level treaties. God they drive me up the wall. We have a name for those type of relationships already.||

Am I a joke to you?

Pardon for any spelling or grammar mistakes. I'm tired and I also don't feel like proofreading this: I disagree with the OP pretty strongly. I still think politics are the best they've ever been. Some of you guys really don't understand how good y'all have it. Wars in 2015-2020 were almost entirely just the same two sides going against each other. Maybe one time it was Para-Convenant against Syndisphere, and another time it was Inquisition against 'Easy Mode Coalition' or whatever; but for much of the game's history, that's pretty much all that ever happened, and people planned for that. People wanted it to be different as early as 2017, but you didn't really see any big changes until 2019. Then, we had to - tragically - fight a war of extermination that resulted in the worst elements of the community being driven out of the game entirely. Although it's been a long road, the meta of the game is finally a point where I think we've broken out of that bipolar (in more ways than one) world that we inherited. Look, I'm sorry that dawgpiels happen. I'm sorry that Oasis and Mystery had such a bad case of feeling impotent and buck broken that they scrambled to the bunkers because half of Clock built a few tanks. I'm sorry that secret treaties are something we still might have to deal with (or are dealing with, depending on what narrative you want to push). I'm sorry that this isn't a game with 30,000 players and dozens of blocs who all have something different and interesting going on. I'm sorry that P&W is kinda a shit game that doesn't give us anything to really fight over (which leads to the weird cognitive dissonance of people saying that they don't care about CBs until they get hit, then they suddenly care about CBs). I'm sorry that the meta still has a way to go before we're all happy. But, with where we are now, we are in the wild west of politics. Blocs split and join up with each other. When somebody mils up, nobody knows what they're doing because there's so many directions for a person to swing at. Globals ends with a sudden white peace that nobody really saw coming. Entire swaths of the game are making agreements on how they'll approach peace terms (the NAP end 4 out of 6 blocs signed right before the war started). That in particular in something I haven't seen in years. A lot of people seem quick to read the eulogy of minispheres, but I'm just not seeing it. Now, we have a global with TKR and Rose staying out. Did anybody see that coming? Would anybody see it coming if Rose and TKR did decide to come in? Who knows! Hell, did anyone see this current war coming? What was supposed to be 2 alliances against an entire bloc turned into two blocs on another two blocs. The current flexibility of politics is only possible thanks to the commitment to minispheres that people have been pushing for. Mystery-Oasis forming a megabloc because they got scared does not kill minispheres. Lord Tyrion does command a lot of power within Oasis, but he isn't some demigod who is capable of blowing up a massive chunk of the meta based on his political posturing. The reality of P&W is that we went from boring, predictable wars that eventually led to one side trying to win the game, to a very dynamic, open political situation where alliances, blocs, and decision makers have a much wider toolbox of options to use when executing their political agenda- whatever that may be. I'll believe minispheres are dead when we're back to, like, how politics were back in 2015-2016. And if you don't even know what I'm talking about, then I'll repeat myself: You don't know how good you have it.

global war going on, so global radiation is at 100% which means until that number drops you will be producing 0 food. your best bet is to drop those farms, and produce something else till the war ends.

for being the first alliance to reach 1M score, this time without having to absorb the entire game

Since Rose's change of leadership (and the fact that they sat out of this one, showing they don't hold any more paperless ties), we've actually managed to achieve a true minisphere meta, which is a 1st. Any old timer in this game remembers how it used to be, literally the 2 same sides fighting each other every single time, with a few exceptions. In the past wars were more frequently caused by hate of the other side, namely from the sphere NPO was a part of, and Roq didn't fool anybody as to who his real enemies were, which made wars very predictable and boring. Right now we have the healthiest meta we've ever had, sure you could argue that 2 of the spheres don't seem to embrace it but after the clapping they're getting for trying to break that same meta, I'm pretty sure this will serve as a cautionary tale to any alliance leader wanting to try something similar in the future. Sure this might end but I don't see any reason as to why, since current big alliance leaders, namely the 3 most influentiual (Rose, t$ and TKR) seem to support the minisphere meta. The only thing that makes me doubt a bit is some alliances' paranoia with HW's supposed upper tier consolidation, which hopefully will disappear since for instance Rose sphere also has a pretty vast upper tier, and BW and Clock have pretty respectable tiering as well. Other than that I can't see any other factor that could push for the dissolution of the minisphere meta in the near future.

It is indeed fixed; thank you

I think he might be referring to this

Rose ate their family. Only a few lucky ones were able to escape. Some say they were spat out but that's like ur opinion man.

The white peace given was a pity term. If it looked like Hollywood won, and it smelled like Hollywood won… doesn’t matter what the peace terms said.

Show us on this doll where Rose touched you

That was Impero and not Goldie. Also can we not call every war where one side has a slight advantage a dog pile? Does BBC have an advantage this war? yes they do, is it a dog pile? no it's not. If other alliances start to jump in after BBC locks down Swamp, then yes you can complain about dog piling. But a coalition that has you outnumbered by less than 100 nations isn't a dog pile. Swamp, you have the advantage in the lower tiers use it, and drag the other side. Don't continue to be the paper tigers the rest of the world thinks you are. Every war is a chance to change the narrative about your alliances, take advantage of that.

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The Grand Council of the Commune of Soviet Equals gathered on March 2nd, 2071 to discuss a life-changing topic that had spread across the nation for months. The Grand Council and the 48 representatives of the nation had gathered inside the meeting room of the Kremlin, gathered and each person sat down, with the figurehead of the Grand Council sitting in the middle with a circular desk surrounding him. He straightened his papers, and cleared his throat before pulling his microphone close to him. Everyone leaned in, listening closely. "As figurehead of the Grand Council, we are required to show inside the Kremlin on a regular basis to address the status of the nation, military, and government. Our nation has sat in chaos, we have been through war after war, fending on pirate scum and dirty gluttons. A militia defended us during those dark days, and only recently have we rearmed our infantry with modern equipment, only now can we call ourselves further sophisticated. Back then we were desperately grasping to the cliff of nationhood. We desperately held on, but one after one they came and stamped on our fingers over and over again. Pirates, gluttons, Capitalists, and traitors came and raided us. We defended ourselves to the best of our ability in those times, and in an unusual came after the storm we had gathered our diplomats and what boats we could find at first and we sent them. They embarked on a journey, and out on the sea they sailed. Those men sailed for miles, and have now reported back to us. I am to announce our entry into the Black Skies alliance, because those men sailed to the clear ocean water and the darkest sky and they walked onto the boats of our former leaders and friends and shook hands. Now the Commune of Soviet Equals is to raise a Black Skies emblem at every government building and agency. In accordance with our entry, we will cease all previous connections to past alliances and rebegin our relationship with Black Skies and those inside it. Once we escaped the crisis of raiders, and there was a moment of calm, we took the opportunity and have now secured our nation's life and continuation with the help of our former alliance. I am proud to announce this to you all, and I am proud to see that fact that our nation is already stabilizing from this decision. With the reason of announcing the entry of the Commune into the Black Skies alliance, I dismiss the Grand Council and all national representatives to normal duties, this meeting is concluded." Everyone grabbed their papers or their suitcase, rose, and took their entry out of the meeting room of the Kremlin. Newspapers all across the Commune echoed the fateful words that changed the fate of the nation, "our entry into Black Skies". Moscow Express Newspaper, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Eastward Commune, Commune of Soviet Equals. Official Government Approved Public Media paper. (This will be Page 1 of a book that will be created in multiple pages, named "New Russia - Familiar History". Once all pages of this book are posted, there will be a google document created with them all combined.) Nation Link: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=229556

t$ losing will make minispheres go away

m8 there are 26 pages and counting on that bulletin.

THIS IS A DNN EXCLUSIVE AND SHOULD BE CREDITED AS SUCH; JOIN DUCC NEWS NETWORK TODAY GW19 thread: Updated 12/11/21 ~4 AM GMT: City-By-City Membership Count: Military Strength: Military Strength Comparison Graph (Based on Totals): Military Strength Comparison Graph (Based on Averages): Summary: Although it's still early days, BW + Clock are leading in the tiers where they outnumber Oasis and have a slight edge in the more competitive tiers. (lmk if you would like me to add something to this or notice any mistakes)

this is only gonna be relevant to a few people but i really really crave attention plus me just silently walking away would not be my style at all so uh i've played this game for like 580 days and stuff but like im leaving now that's all generic list of people who were important or something: @JadenStar10 thanks for uh being a furry? i dunno man but i feel like i should thank you for something thanks to all of DPE for being idiots with me, it was fun while it lasted uh thanks to those guys at that micro that took me in on my first days of playing @Origin we did some things together, so i suppose i should thank you too thanks to uh that guy who was in that micro i mentioned before i think his name was uh dumpstercan or something? no idea and most importantly, i would like to thank myself for finally quitting this game oh and all those people i entirely skipped, thanks i suppose and uh thats it i think have a good one (if anyone asks, i NEVER played this game ever at all)

Hello there, mighty @Pythonian23

Updated 12/15/21 ~7 AM GMT: City-By-City Membership Count: Military Strength: Military Strength Comparison Graph (Based on Totals): Military Strength Comparison Graph (Based on Averages): Summary: Ran it one last time cuz I was curious to see how close the lower tiers were. C6-15 still looks kinda fun tbh but beyond that Swamp has collapsed spectacularly.

Are you here for the looses?

The truest tragedy of this war is that Clock wasn't able to hit Mystery Inc alone. Coulda called the war "Clockin' Around the Mystery"

Wow this is a Good Forum NGL

GREAT LEADER! This AA has been nothing but kind and welcome to me and my friends in the Orbis. The community in TE is also a friendly family like environment that is helpful and will strive to fulfill the needs of the people.

Uhhh ... I think this looks like The Future is ... promoting Eclipse? Idk exactly what this means. Need a "To complicated didn't read" pls

In the Future do you have any spies?

Yea all fixed now.

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Thanks - working on it now I think this should be fixed now - let me know if it's not.

Due to your mom and her girlfriend (both of whom are giant spheres) creating black holes and dominating the desserts section of the supermarket, I will now do your mom. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Signed, the horni

Why the hell are we supposed to watch the ECLIPSE 'LIVE' from 2006, you a little late bud

You good bro ?

1m NS posts are so Two Thousand Eleven... || ❤️ ||

Correction: Yahoo! Let's get rolled.

Minc and Oasis are basically what happens when you hand micro leaders a big alliance.

your alliance and bloc are good

Only in the low tier. I don't know why people insist on posting enormous multicolored bar graphs with 82 little lines. Its very hard to recognize both scale and difference in those contexts. I took data from the posted table and calculated both the difference and % difference (difference / total at that tier). Negative favors Blackclock Tier Black Clock MO diff % diff 1-5 160 190 30 9% 6-10 212 214 2 0% 11-15 292 317 25 4% 16-20 221 215 -6 -1% 21-25 233 179 -54 -13% 26-30 110 90 -20 -10% 31-35 71 39 -32 -29% 36-40 28 10 -18 -47% 41+ 8 0 -8 -100%

Still better than secret treaties

Yes, but Oasis isn't in a NAP either, and they're bigger than you. Why would we go to you rather than Oasis? HW is in a NAP but they've got more whales and a bad (?) relationship with BW. Anyone wanting to hit BW would approach those 2 before talking to you

I know you're probably pretty mad right now, but take a deep breath, step away from the computer for 10 seconds, and reread what he said because he didn't say that.

Not the first time it's happened to those guys

So your own government says that screenshots don't exist, and you say they do, but when you're asked to show the screenshots, we're just being silly and we should just believe you? Is that you, Rudy Giuliani?

Was expecting Vein to have posted this tbh

What? Can you pin point a date between sept 18 2021 and today that you took a radical 180 in your thought process. I seem to recall multiple conversations with you asking us to assist you (and Rose) in a massive offensive war against TKRGG. It was us who decided that it was overkill, you even kept pushing the matter with Rose to get us on board after our blatant refusal. Is the issue that only you are allowed to form agreements and connections between blocs or is it that they must be secrete? Gee, its almost like when you ghost our rep its hard to get answers, unless you count your "totally in good faith" discussion with Oasis that led to exactly what you requested (MDP dropped), yet decided it was not quick enough for you. I seem to recall this same MO from Syndisphere days, glad to see you still have it in you! *cricket sounds* This is a joke right, we publicly stated our treaty was temp, defensive in nature and the target of said treaty was obvious to you. Where is the threat to BW again? Ohhhhh it may be the rest of Orbis, but your threat is not in this conflict. Quite frankly id put money on you entering this conflict to avoid a greater and potentially less certain one? I used word of mouth and rumors to convince my gov Oasis / Minc man bad**** and immediately created a secrete treaty Clock outnumbers MINC is essentially every teir, and on top of that has mega whales that we do not. Every other bloc is involved in a nap, of coarse we worked with Oasis! What do you expect, me to ring up the Johnson's. This is gripping at straws and over complicating a basic issue. lol Yes I have reflected and decided I should have taken offers from other non oasis spheres to hit you seriously

This might be the post of the year

Is it possible to select Arrgh as the target? #arrghcivilwar

I'm in favour of nerfing all loser weapons too (secret treaties, treaty chains and dogpiles).