[Requiem declaration of war]

 

"Meteorological witchcraft bad, religious witchcraft good."

- Shiho

 

 

 

Requiem declares war on Eclipse and Terminus Est.

 

[Actiones Secundum Fidei]

 

[[Treaty] The Search For Destiny]

14 hours ago, zigbigadorlou said:

I mean, there's no difference between that and pretty much all of the odd bunch, right? Like, how many people are going to jump at the chance to defend Cam?

That doesn't mean you're not in the Florida sphere of influence. Bloc =/= sphere.

Yaknow

There are concepts outside your narrow minisphere mindset. They existed before minispheres too.

 

 

 

I feel old.

[No one wants to take over the game]

4 hours ago, Adrienne said:

Even this is a heavy understatement. It was to the point that even the most active players in this game no longer wanted to engage anymore and that takes a substantial effort. When even alliance gov and leadership don't have the heart to continue and start going inactive, that's a new level of fatigue. It was more physically mentally and emotionally draining than any game ever has a right to be and there was no end in sight. We were fighting an opponent who was quite literally determined to eliminate us from the game and they were doing a rather good of it up until the point the cheating scandal broke. The end of that war was incredibly abrupt and the only reason it did stop was because of the opposing member response to temporary bans handed out to their leadership from the cheating scandal verdict. As you stated, had a heavy toll on the game and thousands of players - friends, alliance mates, alliances, etc. - were gone. We've all got friends from then we've never heard from again.

It's something I'm glad we're recovering from - and yeah, honestly, I would still say we're in recovery in some ways and I'll agree with the general sentiment that the game as a whole may still be a bit gun shy over it all and I hope we continue to move beyond that - but it's leaps and bounds beyond where we were even a year ago. We'll continue recovering and moving on but I hope we'll never forget because the last thing we need is a repeat.

And there on that distant hill stood Partisan. His pink cape draped over his shoulders, loosely hanging in the wind. He surveyed the clamors of  the people of Orbis and with every frightened scream of agony his posture straightened further and his stature seemed to rise. Behind him the contours of a confused and leaderless Syndicate army was vaguely visible. He raised  his arm. The world came into motion around him.

According to preeminent historians, a guineapig burned his computer by the end of  that saga.

2 hours ago, Arthur Wellington said:

Everyone is entitled to their own views, ofcourse. But precious two posters exactly show what I'm trying to point out.

I feel the very heavy handed emotional approach to this game creates a potential weird attitude towards PnW gameplay.

The sentence 'we all got friends we never heard a from again' could be followed by 'because of the evil NPO' and, to me, seems quite detached from reality. 

I do get what involved is, no need to tell me, but this kind of involvement to me seems to have lead to the constant need to either praise certain players or demonize others, even if they have been gone for years now. Time to move on, I'd say. 

History informs politics

History shapes society.

This is a basic rule IRL whether you like it or not. It's a concept that carries to these games because the common denominator, *mankind* is the architect of both. It's only natural that PW's history with e.g. NPO is referenced over time. Before that was the case, many (in and around IQ even) referenced syndisphere and EMC in similar vein.

Same thing with the good-bad dichotomy. People are just naturally inclined to view themselves as righteous and whatever opposes them as evil. Let people remininsce their stories and take it with a grain of salt imo. It doesnt say a whole lot about game health atm. 

I do agree that its ok to be (mildly) "bad" to other actors in this game from an ingame pov.Make stories ad create drama. Emotional attachment there should be kept  to a minimum. 

42 minutes ago, Buorhann said:

I’ll take over the game.

BUORHANN THE INDOMITABLE

[A Very Grumpy Retirement]

Years ago back in 2014 or 2015 you (still as VE gov) and I were allied as upstarts attempting to challenge the status quo. That challenge ended in complete victory as the  powers that be lost and were forced to accept a  redrawing of Orbis' landscape.

That process of redrawing turned out different than anticipated with Impero and I buting heads, leading   to the formation of Syndisphere and the vanguard variant of Paragon. We then spent years fighting one another.

Yet, I hold fond memories of the followingperiod in the earlier stages of grumpy, when you and I allied grumpy to my upper tier project- Hogwarts. The flexibility and fluidity with which we worked despite differing agendas allowed us to assist one another in conventional and rather unconventional ways. Communication  was relaxed and precise-focused on the core issues at hands.

Skip forward to post-NPOLT and  we found ourselves respectfully arrayed against  one another due to the power balance of the game. Me, railing against the upper tier prowess you had cultivated over time as a security threat. You, wary of the increasing sphere of influence of my tS. We came to another head in Duckhunt, and set the tone for a t$-GOB rivalry for the coming years.

What few know, is the cordial discussions that preceeded that period. We privately discussed alliance prospects, but ultimately opted not to align ourselves with oneanother because we felt that in the wake of NPOLT  and with the tiering dynamics of the time, that would spell a possible "game over" scenario. There are times where I wonder how political paths would have ended up if we *had* pushed that buton.

The situation though, exemplifies your approach to the game  Ronny. Calm, mild-mannered, pragmatic but with an eye for game health. It is a style that mirrors mine in a few ways (though I may be slightly less mild mannered ), and perhaps that's why i've always appreciated our interactions.

Enjoy your retirement. You've  achieved great things with GOB.

[On the current state of Foreign Affairs]

On 1/22/2023 at 12:42 AM, iAlrea said:

Since my tenure in Rose govt I've been pretty withdrawn from wider Orbis affairs so I have no real idea what's been going on except the major wars, but regardless of my absence, I thought we agreed as a community to stop making superblocs?

 

Does this not remind you of anything?

 

 

And yet we still get this kind of bs? What is this? Since when it was it socially acceptable for a dozen top 50 alliances to behave like a 2020 micro? Didn't we used to roll microspheres with 30 treaties per party?

If I'm being stupid please, feel free to let me know but it feels like we as a community have some kind of selective amnesia once every few years. Why is it that we catagorically pay lip service to the idea of "minispheres" and yet we bumble along like drones when someone decides to bloat their sphere up like they're having a meal at the Heart Attack Grill?

 

Greetings and welcome to Orbis!

I see you are looking for an alliance. We at Requiem cordially invite you to check us out. We're a young upper tier alliance with some major experience. Besides a low-tax option, we offer solid tiering and a microphobic government.

Kind regards,

Partisan

[No one wants to take over the game]

2 hours ago, Etat said:

NPO showed us how to ruin a game and failed in the process.  @Arthur Wellington For the record TKR has always been a close knit community despite NPOLT or anything else.  That is not to say a few didn't hibernate at the time, or we didn't experience any degree of attrition.  As for the term hegemony, it is used flippantly these days, and no one group of us has come anywhere near the excesses of NPO (which is why they're so commonly referenced btw).  Also from my perspective Partisan is a potent turkey, that is all.

Did you just namecall me friend?

[No one wants to take over the game]

10 minutes ago, Roberts said:

You lost when t$ signed NPO homie

I wasn't there when t$ signed NPO. Technically. Ergo, I didn't lose.

5 minutes ago, Kastor said:

You are DEFINITELY a villain. 
 

also, I think you’re misreading. I’m saying VE/UPN lost, not you. I guess I could’ve worded it better.

I accept your apology.

Just now, Roberts said:

I think rarely anyone purposefully seeks out to grief others, but if you think it doesn't happen at all then you're fooling yourself. NPO was very interested - as shown in publicly available discord logs from their highest gov chats - in ruining other player's game if it meant fewer political enemies to oppose their group. To the extent that they actively wanted and tried to get people to delete their nations by refusing peace deals and extending the war. This is to say nothing about inadvertently ruining the game via creating an unchallengeable force.

Just to be clear: A hegemony is not a group with a tiering advantage or the largest bloc in a multipolar world. A hegemony is a force that cannot be challenged even if the rest of the game combined. People called Hollywood and Quack a hegemony, even though they both easily lost wars when coordination was applied.

I agree with parts of this, and it's been something on my mind as well in this past year. TKR only sought out maybe 3 or 4 wars this past year, yet we were actively involved in some conflict or another for almost 11 out of 12 months in 2022. Be that from rogues, raider groups, Midgard, HoF, etc. We spent almost a full year at war, 2 months longer than NPOLT. I know you're in Guardian so maybe you'll empathize here: I was a proponent of splitting up Hollywood for a more interesting world - yet now that we've conformed to the minisphere meta we've seemingly been punished for almost a year since. Security is starting to appeal to me more than everyone else's "interesting" narratives.

 

Solid WoT overall, even if I disagree with bits. Have an upvote.

Welcome to reality. Need any pointers? I've been here a while.

[[PEACE] The Bifröst Blitz shimmers - WH surrenders to MG [PEACE]]

On 1/9/2023 at 7:06 AM, Victor Truchev said:

Hey, man, all chill here. Just talking history and laughing about how you think Arrgh did anything more than stand behind t$ and snub their noses at us as Partisan and his ilk did the heavy-lifting. 

 

On 1/9/2023 at 7:13 AM, Mayor said:

I am glad we are all chill. Always like to talk shop about history, usually I prefer events I was apart of, all the same congrats to Partisan and Syndicate about winning a war against NPO years ago. And congrats to Aurora for winning a more recent war fair and square. It was genuinely fun to fight them.

Hello Mr. Kadin, I see you.

Thank you both for the congratulations friends.

 

 

[No one wants to take over the game]

On 1/10/2023 at 3:06 PM, Kastor said:

There is/was a huge section of the game who believed Partisan to be the bad guy. Pre was definitely the bad guy. 
 

I don’t think you can argue Pre, Parti-Boi is a little different. 
 

partisan had ve trying to remove him as tS leader, left, hit them, lost, got upn & friends to hit them too, lost. Then with Pfieffer and his whole toxicity and Partisan “protecting” him because Mensa was vital to the sphere

Except I didn't lose until Quack. Your timeline is off.

 

 

 

P.s gobble on these. I'm no villain.

[[Peace] War Is Over]

12 hours ago, Buorhann said:

4billion?  White Peace?

 

TFP, you guys got fleeced.

Well played, Arrgh

[Requiem Declaration of Existence]

1 hour ago, Arthur Wellington said:

Gl and hf but one tiny thingy,

After the inspiring Latin phrase you sum up some binaries (except 0-1). Why are there dots after nr 1,2,5 and 6 but not after 3 and 4? 

I suspect some deep state double layered meaning that could threaten all of Orbis?

 

Blinks

[Requiem Declaration of Existence]

 

 

 

Light.
Dark.
Good
Evil
Right.
Wrong.
 

Mankind drafts its reality with this pallet of binary concepts. Colorful sagas of righteous and heroic ideological struggles are painted with broad,sweeping strokes. As we lay our identity on this ideological canvas, it comes to life in our visions. More and more,we propagate the story we just crafted. We feel more certainty in every repetition of that vision. Its projection gains detail and appeals to us more. We entangle the very roots of our identity- our view of self- with the grand ideology we have now become a part of.

But the more we invest. The more the canvas- and pallet are corrupted. Through this vicious spiral, the beautiful, bright colors in which we saw glimpses of a better world turn tints of grey, reflecting the flawed simplicity of our nature. Reality no longer impacts our moral compass. These colorless shadows dance on the canvas as our dissonance morphs into an abyss of faux righteousness. We continue painting with broader and broader strokes. The nuanced tints of grey become an interplay of bright white and pitch-black. All subtlety is at that point erased.

We are good. They are evil. Our ideology is superior. Theirs inferior. We are right. They are wrong. We are light. They are dark.

The world is now binary. Many walk the earth in this cursed state of being. They sleepwalk through an endless dream.

Lost.

The light and the dark do not exist. There is only sight and blindness.

Father has stirred. Commanded us away from the canvas' damnation. Away from the torment that ignorance and dissonance bring. We turn inward, onto the interests of ourselves, of our community and of those whom Father obliges us to. The pathway to that vision is war-torn and hazy. We shall traverse it nevertheless, and lead those who will follow to a different vision.

That is our salvation.

There lies our Requiem. 

Vizier (Leader) - Partisan

Harjis (Second in Command) - Shiho

Airus Weiha (FA) - Tartarus

Kattja Weiha (Econ) - Pablo

Waldan Weiha (IA) - Itachi

Waihjo Weiha (Milcom) - Shiho

Alliance link

Discord

 

 

[Wayward: TSoJLJ]

6 minutes ago, Avakael said:

Well alright then, let's just be vague historical acquaintances and hope it doesn't get awkward when we need defeat the same tCW member or something.

@Salvarity

[Wayward: TSoJLJ]

1 hour ago, Avakael said:

I was driving down the street in Dayton Ohio today, and I poked my head out the side of the car window, and a dude outside the car stared back at me, and I asked him if there was any Waffle Houses in Dayton, and he said there sure was, and he said I could go to Waffle House #373, or Waffle House #907, or Waffle House #394, but don't go to Waffle House #1733 because they say it's in Dayton but it sure isn't. Well I went down to that Waffle House #1733, and sure enough, it wasn't in Dayton, but they had waffles, and those waffles were a solid six and a half out of ten. I keep thinking about the Waffle Houses that were in Dayton though, and I bet if I went to one of those Waffle Houses, the waffles I ate at those Waffle Houses would have scored at least a seven. Whatever you do, don't go to the Waffle Houses in Reynoldsburg, neither of those did any better than a five point five and that was being generous because I like pecans and they gave me extra pecans on my waffle at Waffle House #495 in Reynoldsburg, but the cooks in the back were smoking half and half and it reeked all the way through the dining area. I guess if you really wanted, you could try the Waffle House #1240 in Monroe, but I'm pretty sure I had a better experience at Waffle House #1642 at Girard, and that's saying something because last time I went to Girard I needed to stop off at the local hardware store to buy a new tape measure, and I measured the waffle I had at the Waffle House in Girard and it was a full half inch less in diameter than the waffle I had at the Waffle House in Sharonville earlier that day, and that was Waffle House #304, where they make waffles at the Waffle Houses out of eggs that even Waffle House #798 in Troy would never use, and that's saying something because Waffle House #798 didn't even rinse the chicken crap off their eggs before cracking them open directly into the waffle mix. Only Waffle House #2092 at Colerain Township would do worse than that, and that's because eggs were made illegal there after a very regrettable but largely forgotten act of Chinese espionage at the height of the Korean War. They have to smuggle their eggs in via one of three other Waffle Houses, and I have it narrowed down between Waffle House #2008 in Cincinnati, Waffle House #1839 in Bellefontaine, and Waffle House #1595 in Medina. As soon as I do, I'm gonna bust open that racket and the entire house of cards is going to come crumbling down, and only Waffle House #1542 at Beavercreek will be left because they still serve their waffles with the old cutlery with the big 3 inch fork prongs.

The operation is a success, Partisan.

Partisan stared at his old friend Avakael. The scarred soldier looked older than he'd seemed that last time in the syndi trenches during NPOLT. Back then he had radiated a vigorous energy. Now he seemed broken. His weary facial expression contorted into a restless grimace. The silence in his elaborate  dialogue was a melody of agony. For a split second, Partisan felt himself swallowed whole by avakael's desire for tranquility. He blinked.

It was not Partisan's tarnished scream. Not his restless soul. He had found his Requiem. He nodded at this ghost of his past, and stepped back into the light.

 

[[DoW] Judgement Day]

I can not help but bask gleefully in the layers of irony displayed at my feet.

Welcome, my friends. To the seethe and cope conglomerate.

 

*waddles off*

[Inbox missing messages]

We at the development team are devastated to see that you are experiencing bugs in the functionalities of our browser sim.

Your report has been added to the list, and will be handled between 2024 and 2025.

In the meantime, might I invite you to come enjoy this useless meta-breaking,  bugged functionality that no one asked for but was introduced as a vanity project?

Sincerely,

 

- The dev team

[A call to arms (against Alex)]

Sigh.

Which genius has been advising you this time alex?

7 years of random outbursts of idiotic moderating decisions during global wars, yet it took you a huge investigation by half the community to consider axing the most blatant and game-constricting cheating (npo) the game has seen.

Id say im disappointed but its par for the course.

[Honey Badger Propaganda thread]

4 minutes ago, Horsecock said:

WEW LAD, ONCE AGAIN RON STEALS CONTENT AND DOESN'T EVEN GIVE CREDIT! THIS WAS MADE BY @Denison!!!

[GW25 (HW vs. Ro$e) Tiering Report]

6 hours ago, Charles Bolivar said:

All warfare is based on deception.

Not mine i have morals charles

[GW25 (HW vs. Ro$e) Tiering Report]

At least i never lied to get my dubs.

 

Deez snakey nuts on your foreheads.

[Time is Up.]

13 hours ago, His Holy Decagon said:

"The Time is Up Agreement"
(In HW or Celestial and get scared for a moment, when you saw this go up? Lol.)

Preamble: In the interest of peace and mutual understanding, the two parties of Clock and Backroom enter into this agreement. Recognizing that at this time there is no Casus Belli between the two parties and as such in an effort to avoid a needless and causeless war, the two parties agree to enter into a mutual agreement of demilitarization. 

Article 1: The two parties, effective of the update of today, June 29, 2022, in game time will not militarize beyond what's a rational MMR.

Article 2: Not dictating what c10's and lower can do, for real, Jesus.

Article 3: During this period of demilitarization in the face of the current ongoing global conflict, the parties pledge to come to the aid of the other if one party comes under the attack of a sphere that is already militarized. 

Article 4: This agreement will expire once the current spheres already engaged in hostility have rebuilt and returned to a standard peacetime MMR.   What do I type here that also sounds sort of pathetic?

Signed, 

Clock, on behalf of Test, all Protectorates, and all Extensions of those associated,
CATA
Co-Leader: HisHolyDecagon
Co-Leader: TigerFire
2iC/Foreign Affairs: Keegoz
Foreign Affairs: Cadn,Codename

Eclipse
Co-Leader: Vein
Co-Leader: Patrick

Aurora
First Explorer: Kan0601
First Explorer: ToxicPepper
Second Explorer: Alex
Chairman of FA: Xi Jinping
Chairman of MA: Jacob Knox

Weeb
General Secretary: Empiur
2iC/Head of FA: Taiga

The Commonwealth
Prime Minister: RightHonorable
Chief of Staff: Lionstar, Jeric
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Christian Dahl
Minister of FA: KillzBob
Home Secretary: Dillon I
Foreign Secretary: Azazel
Deputy Foreign Secretary: SwedenBall

The Wei
Regent: Boris Underground
Regent: (The Definitive) James
Flying General: Penpiko
Flying General: Canter

Carthago
Suffet: Daveth
Elder: Krampus

Bourbon Street

Councilmen: Kiloist, Hannah
Deputy Councilman: Mutedfaith

Chairmen of Public Relations: Arln Nen, Aero
Chairman of Security: The Ringer
Chairman of Finances: Galerion
Chairman of Marketing: Fulcrum

The Residents of Bourbon Street

Legion
Imperator: Istandor 

Consul of Economic Affairs: kiwilliam
Consul of Foreign Affairs: David Ben-Gurion
Consul of Internal Affairs: Nome
Consul of Military Affairs: Micheal Lybrand

Global Alliance & Treaty Organization
Assembly Chairman- Jgoods45
Vice Assembly Chairman - KittenGosCrazy 
Minister of Foreign Affairs- Clancy
The General Assembly

I can't lie.This was funny.

[[DoW] Honey Badger Dont Care!]

6 hours ago, Bezzers said:

If you respect your elders so much why are you making me read all this waffle

The only unchecked power in HW econ wise is Grumpy, which I will concede the point on. Aside from that, Ro$e has done a massive amount of economic consolidation. You're telling me HW has unrivalled economic superiority despite our growth numbers being less Celestial. t$, who has historically been a large percentage of players first thought when it comes to econ, and Rose who had 900k peacetime, demilitarised score?

 

I've no idea what you mean by no rebuild, because I was certainly part of one just a couple of months ago. If you mean not pumping ourselves up to higher infra, probably. But TI certainly had higher infra. So did Grumpy. Some TKR folks did, though I suppose that's gone now. 

The CoA thing doesn't nearly stack up to an entire sphere on sphere fight leading into a back to back war. It wasn't like CoA was ever going to be capable of reducing the entire spheres infra a decent enough amount to get even close to that effect. 

 This is going to be a challenging war. There is no way that it won't be, for either side. I'm eagerly looking forward to it. We've picked the sphere that will give us the biggest challenge, plain and simple. If we lose we lose. Don't forget that we haven't started with much more military in the first place. Its anyone's game. 

 

Regardless, I vaguely remember you from somewhere so good to see you bud, hope you're well! enjoy the fight 

Can you define to me what "Economic consolidation" is?

 

Do you mean that we've.... grown our nations?

[[DoW] Honey Badger Dont Care!]

I for one am shocked, absolutely shocked!

Shocked at friend Ronny playing the friend Ronny card while masterminding an evil ploy to get his whales more leverage!

Shocked at TKR spitting in the face of minispheres and @Adrienne's legacy of honesty and general goodnes once more! (Shame on you @Wizel16. Shame! If I were Adrienne i'd be very upset with you).

Shocked at @Benfro. 

Shocked at being proven right once more about the direction of Orbis!

Shocked at  the betrayal. Shocked at the next knife in my back. I AM NOT A KNIFEBLOCK

Shocked at having to log in

Shocked at the predictability of PW Politics. 

 

Wake me up when you do something interesting.

[[PEACE] Time is up. (Clock vs The Backrooms)]

17 hours ago, Borg said:

SRD leaves most of the policing to other alliances, like T$ and is in fact incapable of policing the lower tiers at all, due to it being outside their score range. There are several alliances who have come to an agreement. If he wants to unilaterally kick someone off, then it would mean expending some political capital and using military force to do so. I would assume the current status quo is due to this rather than requiring benevolence on SRD's part. 

That said, I don't know what the situation with Aurora is, but my guess is T$ would prefer them on green than Guardian, seeing as how guardian is more of a competitor and threat.

Aurora can gobble on deez green nuts