[Alliance Reserve Forces]

1 minute ago, Grandmaster Bee said:

How does this effect pirates? Would an alliance be able to send soldiers and tanks to instantly counter a raid? 

The nation in question can only receive the number of troops according to their improvements. So if they're running 0/2/5/0 the amount of soldiers an alliance can send will still be 0 until that nation switch's their build. Also as I mentioned if you blockade said nation they cannot receive any reinforcements & furthermore as I mentioned I was thinking there should be a 5 day cooldown for individual nations after being sent reinforcements.

[Alliance Reserve Forces]

I'd like to start out with a disclaimer before I get jumped on (rightfully so, since this is only a rough idea) and clarify that I thought my idea itself is good, however I am asking for community help in the case the community finds this interesting enough.

So to start, as the topic title suggests the idea here is to add "Alliance military." What do I mean by this exactly? Well it's actually quite simple. For every city a nation owns that nation can have up to 15000 soldiers, 1250 tanks, 75 planes and 15 ships. It would work largely the same.

So for example TKR has (currently as of writing) 3851 cities total. So 57,765,000 would be the maximum amount of reserve they could hold in soldiers. Now here's where things get tricky because I thought of multiple ways this could obviously create problems, some of you are probably thinking "okay but if an alliance has such resources sitting in reserve they can just continually send out 'reserves' to keep their troop counts maxed" Your right to think that, which is also why I thought of the next step.

Limitations on either how many times per day an alliance can send out their reserve forces and/or limiting how many times per day/week an individual nation may receive these reinforcements. So this is where I need your help, what would be the best way to achieve this in order for this to become a good idea? Do we add a bit of everything limiting an individual nation to say receiving these reserve troops to once every 5 days? Would that be too long? Should we also limit how many times an alliance can send out reserves to their member nations -10 per day as an example, or perhaps a % depending on how many nations are in said alliance or maybe a percentage of the total reserve forces on hand for an alliance?

Next I'd like to just toss a small cherry on top of this suggestion. Similarly to aiding nations with resources in wartime if an alliances nation is blockaded and needs reserve forces you cannot send it to your member nation if they are blockaded which I thought would be a cool little addition that would add immense value to ships that simply weren't there before.

In conclusion the idea I'm presenting is meant to help add a new breath of fresh air to the depth and intensity of a global war, give a new direction to alliance banks that at the moment only exist to give out city/project grants and 'save' up war chests and in rare cases help certain spheres from not getting caught completely with their pants down or rather giving them a fighting chance in what would be a day 1 lost war.

Everything written above should be considered subject to change to fit in better with the communities feelings on if the subject matter in this topic can be of a benefit towards the entire game community or this is just another idiotic idea doomed to be tossed aside a few hours after I post this. Let the dunking commence. Thank you to the people that take the time to read this. I will edit this post with community suggestions if for some odd reason this comes off as appealing to you all. I hope it does, despite my terrible ability to communicate my thoughts and ideas.

P.S just small small QoL clarifications - lets say an alliance has maxed out their reserve forces, if for some reason that alliance disbands without selling off the forces it will automatically sell off all military at the same return of an individual nation selling off military and be dispensed evenly to every member of the alliance, this does not include applicants. Also if you lose members from your alliance at max reserves you don't lose those forces but you cannot buy more until you've fallen under your new maximum. For example if TKR had full reserve and lost 20-30 cities, they would keep the forces those cities provided but could not buy more until they dropped under their new maximum.

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200+ I want the treaty web to be as confusing and unreadable as possible. 

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54 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

if it makes you feel better I sold 4 projects today to hit a dude.

Yes this changes everything. Thank you for your noble sacrifice SRD.

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6 minutes ago, Dr James Wilson said:

So...if it hadn't been the same two nations you would have found...4?   Out of 140?   Man, your argument just gets better and better.   We appreciate your apology though.

I think your a bit confused on something there. At the time I accused you I hadn't went through any of your individual nations except those two, mainly because I remembered when I heard HW went out to blitz. I was the one that sent that info to RON reporters about those 2 nations. I then apologized here because it's the right thing to do after falsely accusing the whole. I appreciate that the rest of you are being earnest about fighting. But yeah, get your guys to quit it with those shenanigans, it's really poor sportsmanship. And kinda insulting towards the rest of you that pay taxes, regardless of if they got the ROI or not.

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8 minutes ago, Alcyr said:

That's... Not actually that much when you're talking about selling infra. Literally, just the two nations that RON reported on covers that entire infra drop. So congrats, you've gone from "omg there's a person selling infra!" to "omg there's two people selling infra!" and making it sound like it's an alliance wide policy.

I honestly expected to find more than I did when I looked. Good on the rest of TI, I'm not mad to be wrong about that. But those 2 that did do it also did it to me in the past, as I brought up earlier, which obscured what my actual stats would have been. I apologize to the rest of TI though that didn't sell down I'm glad I am wrong.

But as far as those other 2 TI players that I did catch I am 100% not sorry. You guys suck.👎

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1 hour ago, Maks Maximmillian said:

Keyword one.

I doubt nay know you couldn’t find even 10 of our members selling their infra for a gw. 

Sure if you ignore what I previously said. I'm not going to fully out them since yall will likely jump into your private chats about it and try to make it look like they didn't. Fact is I've caught a few of your nations doing it every war, and the fact it's being done while your on the winning side is absolutely pathetic. 

Don't worry TI, do it 3 or 4 more times and maybe those net damages will make you look somewhat competent by the end of it. Brilliant strategy.😂

Here ya go, a graph showing your infra losses within a few turns of the war. Yeah that was totally Celestial when at the time of this graph being made they had done a grand total of 500M in infra damages to HW as a whole. Also the damages left you on perfect 0's like 2000 and 1650. Yeah. I buy that.

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6 hours ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

just realize that you joined an alliance where your leader does the exact same thing you dont seem to like very much.  

And Krampus, you did this in the last war we fought, so as much as you may find it embarrassing (as you should) the time limit on busting your balls about it, has very much not elapsed.

Oh shit CTO mass sells infra on multiple nations? I didn't get the memo last war. !@#$.

Imagine pointing the finger back like "well Krampus does it too!" while simultaneously being allied to the #4 alliance that does it en masse. And your calling what I said throwing stones in a glass house? 🤷‍♂️

3 hours ago, Zevari said:

Care to provide some evidence to back your claims up?

The only major case of infra selling I have ever seen was from your own alliance and that one is quite well documented in many news servers, not to mention leaks showing attempts to suppress the news getting out.

 

No thanks, yall should already know whose doing it. Why would I out the exact nations I know will rebuild up to 3k as soon as the war's over. Don't worry though, the point of this was for everyone to watch the next time yall roll out to war. So don't worry, TI will be the next alliance documented in those news servers for their infra selling ways. Edit : Here, best your getting. Screenshot of one of TI's nation's infra score plummeting from mass selling.

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1 minute ago, Dr James Wilson said:

Your opinion is really important too us.  Please stay on the line for the next representative.

You wouldn't have these representative problems if you didn't sell your infra, it's reducing your population too much. 

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1 minute ago, Dr James Wilson said:

That was more than enough confirmation for me, thanks. What a joke of an alliance. 🤣

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Just now, Krampus said:

What's the statue of limitations on dumb shit done in the past friend? 

 

Totally the same thing when your outnumbered what, 18-1 and getting blitzed rather than being on the blitzing side, that's winning, twice now in a row, and selling your infra off before firing the first shot. Yes valid tactic. Gotta avoid those nuke damages to 25 cities, and how do we do that? Sell off 700M worth of infra. Big brain moves.

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6 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

Wait... arent you in carthago, where your own leader decommed like 2 billion in infra to make his numbers look better?  Glass houses friend.

1 person compared to an alliance that's doing it every war to mitigate the damages they take? Regardless I wasn't in CTO when that occurred so that doesn't apply to me. Nor will it ever. I fight my battles earnestly, thanks. 🙂

 

I'm also salty, since the same 2 nations did it to me before they declared last time I fought you guys. That's how I know. I want my free net damages for them willingly selling off 1k infra per city vs me, that would put me near the top in net damages in the HW vs BW war before they split up. Give me my justice and I'll drop it.

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1 hour ago, Dr James Wilson said:

Yes, I love grass.   I declared war from some grass using my phone.   It was amazing.   Grass is great.

Care to comment why TI's always selling down their peacetime infra builds before yall go to war? Yall are that desperate to appear competent huh. Some of us notice your C30's dropping from 3k peacetime infra builds to 2k/1.65k. Very impressive strategy.

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1 hour ago, Buorhann said:

Exactly how many wars has CoA been the aggressor in over 4 years of existence?

Not sure how this is a slight when the most recent war shows a good change in CoA. In fact considering their history this is a fresh and community invigorating move. Good on them.

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6 hours ago, Pubstomper said:

Silly idea

Just because Rose would end up on everyone's worst fighters/most disappointing list in the event Rose was in a war (more like got rolled.) doesn't make it a silly idea. 😉

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Alliance Categories:

Best Fighters: Cataclysm

Worst Fighters: OWR I guess. TEst for Clock's side.

Most Surprising Entry: N/A

Best PR: Eclipse DoW

Worst PR: HollyRo$e

Playmaker (In other words, who had the largest impact): Cataclysm / Eclipse

Most Improved: The Wei

Failed to Meet Expectations: TEst

Best DoW: Eclipse

Best Blitz: Cataclysm

Worst Blitz: ---

 

Player Categories:

Best Fighter: Multi Nation. (Isjaki)

Most Friendly: Alexander Philippou

Most Salty: Winswol Churchill

Best Rookie (for those who popped their war cherry): N/A

Best Troll: ---

Best eLawyer: ---

 

Community Categories:

Best Post: ---

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1 hour ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

Violating an alliance's sovereignty, so you can make more money...  Pretty big scumbag move. 
Eclipse, you want to make more money? have your offshoot Test go join brown.

You should totally be the moralistic leader and invite GATO to join green instead. 😉

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Ruler Name: Winswol Churchill

Nature of Violation: Homophobic remarks directed at me

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9 minutes ago, Jacob Knox said:

AUP costs, with current market prices, about $550m. This would cost about $614m. (For reference.)

That's exactly my point, it's supposed to be the next level up. There should be at least a 200-300M difference in price for something that requires the prior project.

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On 5/2/2022 at 5:58 PM, Prefontaine said:

SOONER:

• New Project: Metropolitan Planning
  Requirement: City 21 or higher, Urban Planning, Advanced Urban Planning.
  Effect: Reduces City costs by $150,000,000 per city, stacks with UP and AUP.
  Cost: 
  Aluminum: 60,000
  Steel: 40,000
  Uranium: 30,000
  Lead: 15,000
  Iron: 15,000
  Bauxite: 15,000
  Oil: 10,000
  Coal: 10,000

 

I'm not against adding this.. but why is it currently cheaper/sameish price as AUP? Up the cost another 300-500M.

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8 hours ago, Adrienne said:

I thought that was @Benfro

if there's 1 thing I learned from our time playing Among us together.. when in doubt, blame Adri. ❤️😅

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5 hours ago, BigMorf said:

No offense to Immortals, whom I have a ton of respect for and am quite fond of. But the idea of us signing Immortals as comparable to you signing Rose is just hilarious. 

The Immortals are high quality folks, I agree. But they are still a relatively new alliance (happy two years to the homies) who have been relatively passive in politics compared to Rose who is the largest alliance in the game and is a mover and shaker. This is like comparing apples to oranges. 

But again, even when we signed Immortals. Where the hell was this narrative that you guys are pushing now? You all had plenty of time to come and chat with us to share your concerns, to speak out about how you really felt about Grumpy etc.

 

Instead you continued to tell us that you didn’t have a concern about Grumpy anymore, that you didn’t think they were crushing the game. All of your rhetoric on the topic died until you needed to dust it off to justify this particular consolidation of political power and influence. 

That's a lot of words for what essentially boils down to "mommy, the big bad alliances that were smaller than me are teaming up and now I don't have clear advantages in the tiering in which I want! wah wah wah!" Sounds ironically similar to a certain line I've heard before. Sorry Morf. 😂

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On 3/9/2022 at 10:55 AM, Alex said:

I think the biggest issue here is it's not clear that people are "no lifeing" baseball. They could very well be cleverly using automated scripts that are either somehow able to evade the captchas, or they are just doing the captchas themselves every 15 minutes.

Does that change anyone's perspective? Are you still okay with people generating free money just by turning on a script rather than actually sitting and clicking a button?

EDIT: And I'll add, because I'm sure the response will be "just ban the cheaters" - it's basically impossible to tell how you're clicking a button. If you want us to just ban the people who make these crazy outlier amounts in baseball, we can do that, but there's a real chance we end up just banning some actual "no lifers" too.

To be clear, no I'm not tech savvy enough to use one of those things. But I also don't give a !@#$ anymore either if someone else decides to use one, if there wasn't a limit on the daily games already I'd care. But go ahead and ask me again with this silly 250 games per day.

Edit 2 : Actually instead why don't we talk about the fact your so "busy" you can't update your game but you have the time to post in some baseball thread? Seriously? SERIOUSLY?! Give your head a shake bud.

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7 hours ago, Buorhann said:

Have you ever figured out why they've been allied so long and continue to remain as such?

(Also their alliance isn't nearly as bad as some of you think it is.  Neither Guardian or Grumpy exercise their might aggressively or pressure other alliances)

 

Personally I admire their alliance.  Had you told me 7 years ago that they would remain allied and be two of the top tier alliances in the game, I'd have shook my head at that.  There are many players in this game who brag about knowing the best growth path, the best political schemes, etc.  But here we are, people complaining about Grumpy/Guardian.

Did you note read the post I quoted? I didn't come to complain about GG, Ronny specifically asked for "solutions to our complaints" well that's a solution. I'm not crying over them staying allies, I'm simply pointing out that it is, in fact, a solution.

For the record I don't disapprove of such a relationship, it is indeed admirable. But it also conflicts with the idea of a multi-polar world when everyone else buys in and 2 specific alliances which as you've attested to, are in fact important playmakers in the political overhead of the game insist of staying together. Like you guys gonna just merge then or stay allies for another 8 years? At some point everyone will get bored of fighting the same GG dynamic over and over and over and over again.

 

6 hours ago, Indger said:

then pls give another alliance as a option to grumpy which is in range and can be a good ally.

Why? Ronny asked a question, I gave him a legitimate option. Grumpy has been allied to TKR in the past too, you guys separated and stayed friends. What's the issue with change? Isn't the entire idea of a multi-sphere world one where we all need to do our own parts in keeping things spicy, that includes switching up who our allies are from time to time. I'd call out the other alliances that go 7 years together but GG is literally the only example of a 'too long' treaty. 

I'm not trying to force GG or Ronny to do a damn thing. I simply put it out there as food for thought. Something that hopefully in the future could actually add some extra fresh air perhaps?