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    So, What The Hell Happened?

    in Orbis Central

    Posted

    1 minute ago, MinesomeMC said:

    What in Tarantino 

    You have no idea. I just crept up on a Fisher, those massive rat lookin things, and blew it across my property with 12 gauge buckshot. Pretty beautiful. I was like...3 meters away.

    Caught one on camera dragging one of my hens away, so they deserve what they get.

    Not like he felt anything, considering fine red mist probably doesn't have feelings.

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    So, What The Hell Happened?

    in Orbis Central

    Posted

    Hello! It's me! I'm not dead, surprisingly.

    I have a bit to explain exactly what happened, because I have nothing better to do.

    I think it's already been established that I'm a minor that is still in school and subject to parental control. That being said, everything I have said prior is still truthful.
    To cut to the chase, my mother disowned me and is currently about to die. My father is never around, he is in Louisiana at the moment, and my step mother is also about to die of complications related to her recent breast reduction surgery. But I'm getting ahead of myself. My mother took all of my property and sold it (expensive coins, phone, computer, souvenirs...) so that's why I haven't been able to get on discord. My school provided me with a computer because online school and whatever, so I could access the forums for a while. At the request of my mother, my school decided to block PnW. That's everything without the fluff.

    Want the fluff? Awesome possum. Enjoy:

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    I moved school districts so my work permit is invalid, my family is never around, my doctor[s] retired, I'm on the cusp of failing school, I am still subject to my USNSCC obligations, my depression still exists...and yeah. I am unsure when/if I will return to discord/PnW considering I have no money and no family to provide me with said money and I have no electronic devices. How did I type this up you ask? Well, funny story. Every weekend I have POLA (Petty Officer's Leadership Academy) for the Sea Cadets. Yesterday I tripped over my cable while scrambling around my house trying to finish the long list of chores I have to complete (chickens, dog, dishes, laundry, heating, cleaning, yard work, school work...), and I subsequently broke the head off inside my computer. To avoid failing the course my step mother (who is 1. too doped up to think and 2. too doped up to care and 3. genuinely wants me to succeed so thats a first) provided me with her 2009 laptop to finish today's work.

    Considering I was an EMT and I have at least rudimentary medical experience and my father is way down south in the land of cotton, I have to drain my step mother's boobies. I won't ruin your life by describing in gory detail how the fluid looks like someone combined swiss cheese, !@#$, pus and blood and it also smells like the worst thing you can imagine but I will say it's not enjoyable. My mother technically died, but was brought back. Don't get me wrong, she can die again and I couldn't give a shit if I tried, but if she dies then my 4 siblings will be under my father's custody. Which means under my custody. 

    School is a joke. My mother and father live in different districts, so when, in the middle of the year, my father had to take custody I still had to go to the same school. Thats great and all, until they don't send a bus for months and I have to literally take an uber to school every morning. And I have to switch school next year. Note: this is the 4th school switch in 5 years.

    Life is a joke. Dysphoria sucks, and my therapists keep retiring. No joke I've had 8 therapists over the past year. Also, mental hospitals are silly. Anyways, my doctor that I've had since I was born retired 2 weeks ago so that's great. The USNSCC, being an auxiliary of the US Navy and the US Armed Forced, couldn't give 3 shits about all of this and gives me 100 pages of work daily in order to pass this training that I was put in. Also also, its on zoom. And I have to be in uniform. For 11 hours. Without moving.
    For every. Single. Weekend. For. A. Month. 

    Also, INSOMNIA! I don't sleep for more than 2 hours a night. It's safe to say I have actually lost my mind. 

    So. Yeah. How did I get into VM you ask? Well, @AmethystGamer (the best person in the world) helped me out with that. To all the raiders who decided to decimate my nation, I forgive you. But my nukes [d/w]on't. Assuming I ever return. Big assumption tbh.

     Questions? Feel free to ask. As long as its in the next like...hour before I have to nurse my step-mother, do homework for school, do homework for the cadets, shoot the coyote who keeps killing my chickens, do the dishes...

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    Game Development - February 2021

    in Game Discussion

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, KingGhost said:

    Can't we just change this so it somehow can interact with other types of units so ships aren't just a perma waste of steel over half the time. @Prefontaine

    *cough cough*

    16 hours ago, Aqua-Corpsman said:

    Ehhh...... hold your tongue. Raiding has it's place in Orbis, but should not be buffed in any way. Raids directly harm new and smaller alliances while larger alliances go unscathed (usually). 

    Here's an idea, how about ships can attack ground units? 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_gunfire_support

    Rather than destroy improvements, this would be a lot more balanced.

     

    Baseball Streamlining

    in Game Suggestions

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, BelgiumFury said:

    I am not sure if a trivia quiz would be the right quiz, but everything is better than the button spam.

    Well I was thinking something that requires thought. Maybe a pop math quiz that you get a few seconds to answer or something.

    There is no real incentive for war

    in Game Discussion

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    That is ridiculous, it's been over 2 months, if your alliance is still rebuilding after fighting for a month, you should rethink your continued membership in said alliance, because they are failing you. 

    No no no no, the alliance I just left. The alliance I joined built me up just today. They had to take out a loan to do it.

    There is no real incentive for war

    in Game Discussion

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    If it takes you longer than a week or two to rebuild post war, you are not prepared to fight in a war.  Honestly if it takes more than a few days to bounce back, you are not prepared to fight a war.

    people are still rebuild from the last GW. there is only so much money in orbis lmao.

    Baseball Streamlining

    in Game Suggestions

    Posted

    Baseball, the one mechanic everyone tries out and realizes how boring and repetitive it is.

    I've invested almost 50m in my team, and I'm almost ready to just give up on it. Why? 

    I'm tired of having to click, refresh, click, refresh, click, refresh click click click, refresh etc. It's annoying, inefficient and boring. 

    Let's start from the beginning, yeah? When you first open your baseball team, your stadium is Chernobyl and the players are a bunch of irradiated flesh bags who can't tell their ass from a hole in the ground. You have to invest ~40m to have a team that works, and that system is kinda broken. Firstly, it's either all or nothing. There is no point in upgrading your players half-way. Also, there are two buttons for upgrading your players.

    "Each upgrade costs $2,000 and has a random chance of improving the chosen stat anywhere between 0.15-0.35. You can train your players in bulk using the red button, which costs $20,000 and has a random chance of improving the chosen stat anywhere between 1-3."

    This never made sense, and for the sake of efficiency, I clicked on each player ~500 times to upgrade them the slow way. I understand the point of it, but it seems dumb. Yah it's more efficient, but why? It's so arbitrary and it doesn't give nearly a large enough benefit to warrant clicking that button 500 times. May I remind you, the page has to refresh every time. Refresh, scroll, click. Rinse and repeat 500 times. For a measly little bonus that in the end is negligible compared to how much you are spending on it. And then THEY RETIRE! And you get a new one right back at level 1 again.

    In order to possibly pay off the 40m, you have to literally play all day and hope that someone actually plays against you. Every day. For the whole however long it takes for your oldest player to retire. Then you have to pay again. Then, after a few more days, you may see an ounce of profit.

    Btw, that was just getting started and an overview. The whole ticket system/stadium is silly. The max you can possibly ever get from a baseball game is $25k. That's with a 100 point team vs. 100 point team in a 100/100 stadium. You can never increase that, and the "away" player doesn't get anything unless they win. If they win they get a whole $500. What sort of bs is that? What national baseball team gets $500 for winning an international game? So, the away player usually charges a fee. Depending on the player, it can get pretty high. That already small $25k can get cut in HALF!

    But that'd be all well and good if it was more efficient. But no. It's tedious and enraging to have to click literally 5 times, while the page refreshes every time, to just LOOK if a game is ready. Then you can refresh the page there, because if you do it right after you open a game it breaks. There is no dynamic, nothing new or interesting, nothing to keep someone entertained while they mindlessly click and refresh all day.

    THEN THERE IS A CAP ON HOW MUCH YOU CAN EARN! After a certain amount of games, you get like 10% of what you normally get! Like, wtf?? I put all this effort in and the time and have resisted going insane for long enough to play this many games, and as an insult to injury there is a fricking cap on it. 

    Why? Just why?

    Now, here's the solution. Have somewhat of a minigame and larger payouts. Even if it's just a chance game like Keno, or maybe trivia or guess the number or something. When you host a game you give your answer and when you go away you give an answer and whoever is correct gets a lot of money plus the person who hosted the game gets some money as well. That's more fun and interactive. Obviously you'd have to increase the payout a lot, but I think a $50k payout for hosting the game and a $100k payout for winning isn't world ending. Maybe a more reasonable amount would be $25k for hosting and $50k for winning.

    What's everyone's opinion/thoughts on this?

    To add on, the minigame could be made easier with better players. If you want something like Keno, then the higher your team rating is the less numbers there are to pick from.

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    Game Development - February 2021

    in Game Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Aqua-Corpsman

    59 minutes ago, Charles Bolivar said:

    If anything, we should be buffing raiding.

    Ehhh...... hold your tongue. Raiding has it's place in Orbis, but should not be buffed in any way. Raids directly harm new and smaller alliances while larger alliances go unscathed (usually). 

    Here's an idea, how about ships can attack ground units? 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_gunfire_support

    Rather than destroy improvements, this would be a lot more balanced.

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    Partisan's hot takes: Episode 1

    in Orbis Central

    Posted

    On 2/12/2021 at 9:06 PM, Roberts said:

    See above regarding the "vote with your feet" lazy argument. To address your actual point: See my reply to Ronny. A democracy only works as well as the people within the democracy. If the people fail, so too does the democracy. If dummies such as "Joe Schmo" win their election bid via a police force platform... well I think that alliance has bigger problems than one scrub becoming gov.

    You are aware that there are perfectly interesting alliances that aren't democratic, right? Weebunism for example is a meritocracy, as are most other alliances I've noticed. That system works and nobody really complains, except Arrgh of course.

    The voting with your feet argument is not lazy, in fact it would occur with or without democracy. If I'm in an alliance, and it's going a way I don't like, I leave. Period. End of story. Democracy only works in alliances that want it. I do not want to be in a democratic alliance, but I recognize the successes of democratic alliances in Orbis. Saying that everyone should be a democracy is silly, because it doesn't work that way. Not everyone wants to be in a democracy, and a democracy is not fool proof. See the 2016 election and 2020 election and every election in between. 

    [Treaty] The Dominion and Human Over Pave the Road for Peaceful Relations

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Sval said:

    Well, no. Not really. My argument was that they should ignore the haters because treaty announcements is exactly what Alliance Affairs is for.

    This is what you've demonstrated so far:

    • you don't know what "toxic" or "unanimous" mean.
    • you don't understand the criteria for posting in this forum
    • you don't check whether the posts you quote actually back up your point
    • you get yourself into an argument, call the other person stupid, and feel as if you're the victim

    Oh. And if it doesn't appear on the treaty web, you don't think it should appear in Alliance Affairs. So by your own logic you shouldn't even be posting in here.

    I'm done helping you derail this topic.

    Good luck to The Dominion and Human Over Alliances. Ignore the haters.

    Lmao okay. I would respond, but you don't want to talk about it anymore.

    I'll leave it at a simple "what?" and "lol".

    What? Lol.

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    [Treaty] The Dominion and Human Over Pave the Road for Peaceful Relations

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted

    1 minute ago, Sval said:

    Yes, it is.

    Right, either I'm being used as a scapegoat (wouldn't be the first time) or you're stupid. It isn't entirely impossible that both are occurring, however.

    For one, this is hardly toxic. Much much much more vile language occurs in Orbis on a day to day basis.

    For two, nobody is following my lead. It's unanimous. If anything, I'm following the crowd in telling them off.

    For three, it's not like this is the first alliance to do this and get chewed out for it. Nobody gives a shit any other time, so what's different now? Is this alliance somehow special or better than the others? 

    For four, !@#$in and? I never said anyone should/shouldn't be "toxic to newbies". Do whatever the hell you want. You are acting like I am garnering a hate mob against these two alliances, which is blatantly not the case. I've said before and I'll say again, I have no particular grievance with these two alliances and I wish them well. I am merely following the tradition and the culture of baptism by fire in PnW.

    Maybe, just maybe, you're stepping out of line.

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    [Treaty] The Dominion and Human Over Pave the Road for Peaceful Relations

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Sval said:

    Just because you choose to be toxic to newbies doesn't mean the rest of us have to follow suit.

    Is that so?

    On 2/19/2021 at 5:41 PM, JadenStar10 said:

    Why would you post the signing of a NAP...

    On 2/19/2021 at 5:45 PM, Natonito said:

    They're just looking for that sweet forum approval.  I've never even heard of Human Over before.

    On 2/19/2021 at 5:56 PM, Smokey1 said:

    Anyone who signs anything with this guy is automatically my enemy. 

    On 2/19/2021 at 5:56 PM, MinesomeMC said:

    Because it’s not important. Relatively speaking only M-level, maybe O-level, and sometimes protectorate treaties should be announced.

    On 2/19/2021 at 5:57 PM, Malleator said:

    No one will ever forget this monumental day!

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:10 PM, Merky Mo said:

    This is monumental I'm truly astounded by this marvelous cooperation between Human over and the Dominion. All of Orbis will remember this treaty for years to come cheers to this NAP!!

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:18 PM, BigMorf said:

    The world has changed

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:20 PM, Cedar said:

    I wish you all would keep youre NAP announcements  simple for I dont care much for reading an erotic short story 

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:21 PM, Aqua-Corpsman said:

    Cute.

    Now shut up.

    /s

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:36 PM, hidude45454 said:

    micro moment

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:50 PM, Starfuze said:

    Didn't even realize it was an NAP until I actually read it

     

    thought it was something at least somewhat important

    On 2/19/2021 at 6:53 PM, Aqua-Corpsman said:

    you've been bamboozled. 

    Important treaties that make sense are criticized. Also, it's tough love. You learn best when you are embarrassed to all hell. 

    It would seem no one has to follow suit....maybe that says something?

    The defense rests, your honor. 

    Nevermind this:

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