[[Anniversary] Yesteryear]

it's too beautiful

[2022 Community Award Nominations]

Funniest Event: Heung Shing Company's math exam

Biggest Controversy: NPO's cheating scandal (classic)

Best Declaration of War (please link): https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/34073-dow-watching-the-ball-drop/

Best Wall of Text (please link): https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/34052-roh-recognizing-our-sacrifice-endurance-bravery-and-determination/

Best Leak (please link):

Best Meme (please link):

Best Discord Server: P&W Stats

Best Ad (please link):

Best Community Contributor: Dr.Rush

Best New Addition to the Community:

Sexiest Voice: Aleksi of Kajjaani (that Finnish accent do be hitting different)

[2022 Alliance Award Nominations]

Alliance of the Year: Mom's Friendly Robot Company

Most Improved Alliance: Serene Wei

Best New Merged Alliance: Moms Friendly Robot Company

Best Rookie Alliance: Stargate Command

Best Alliance for New Players: Castle Camelot

Most Likely to Succeed in 2022: Name Withheld

Most Likely to be Rolled in 2022: Cataclysm

Most Honorable Alliance: Name Withheld 

Best Fighting Alliance: M.I.L.F

Worst Fighting Alliance: Mole Rats

Best Alliance Growth: L.A.T.A.M

Best Foreign Affairs Team: The Knights Radiant

Best Foreign Affairs Move: TFP declares war on Arrgh

Worst Foreign Affairs Move: TFP declares war on Arrgh

Alliance with Best Propaganda: The Wei (Serene Wei)

Most Missed Alliance: Pantheon

Best Alliance Flag (please link): https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=1584

Best Holiday Flag (please link): https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=622

Biggest Alliance Decline in 2022: United Socialist Nations

[2022 Player Award Nominations]

Most Influential Player: Dwight K Schrute

Most Likely to Succeed in 2023: El Presidente

Best Alliance Leader: sweetstorm

Worst Alliance Leader: Teaboi

Best In-Character Poster: PnWPaintMC

Best Villain: Sam Cooper

Nicest Player: KingofNations

Most Controversial Player: Epimetheus

Most Missed Player: Jet Whites

Best Nation Page: Horsecock

Best Fighter: CShaners

Best High Government Member: Soup Cat

Most Online/Likely To Respond in 1 Minute: PnWPaintMC

Best War Criminal: Dryad

[2022 PnW Academy Awards!]

I'd still be playing this game down in hell

[An ASM/RedArmy Announcement]

Deep condolences from USN, may RedArmy as well as other PnW players who passed away rest in peace.

[[DoE] Mom’s Friendly Robot Company]

Paint approved, good luck to y'all

[[Surrender] Burning the House Down]

Wet Bandits, I'll be waiting for our next rematch

[[DOE] Notorious Outlaws]

Ride on outlaws !

[(DoW) Melting the Chocolate Castle]

Choccy Milk time

 

[[DoW] Awrawra decklairs wore on The Nightz Raidiant]

Seems like I had my expectations too high

[Arrgh! Seeks Refreshment]

Arrgh!

[The Harsh Reality Of Micros]

4 minutes ago, MCMaster-095 said:

That isn’t going to work because an alliance needs order and structure. Think about it logically. Your alliance will have no power if everyone gets to just do whatever they want, and whenever you get into conflict, your disorganized non structure will be unable to compete with the heavily organized efficient machines of the top alliances. Same for growth - you won’t be able to gain members, train members, or grow members.

That's why it's half anarchic, duh. I still control them in a way but not so much.

[The Harsh Reality Of Micros]

16 minutes ago, Sam Cooper said:

Well If you expect something to be easy and get salty when you find out it really isn't that easy, the problem lies entirely in your expectations.
Making and sustaining an alliance is simply not supposed to be easy, if you can't even manage to get yourself a decent protector, then to be honest you probably don't deserve people to be under your command.

Ok first, I'm not really that salty about it not being easy, I'm just saying that it's hard for a micro to grow now than in the past.

Secondly, you can still grow without a decent protector, it's just that raiders like you usually aim at targets like us when having a chance.

Thirdly, my alliance is half anarchic, I don't command people to do things that they don't like. You should be able to understand, unless Arrgh is not anarchic.

8 minutes ago, Mahakall said:

There is no sustainable way if you can't get a big alliance 

Yep, reality is usually disappointing

[The Harsh Reality Of Micros]

1 minute ago, Rex Tyranus said:

Building an alliance takes work and connections, yeah. That's just how it works. No one has ever risen to greatness on their own. It's naïve to think otherwise. Best learn to accept it.

True, but at least it should be acheivable, not near impossible

[The Harsh Reality Of Micros]

Let me give you a simple challenge.

Name a micro with no treaties that still survives and prosper ‘till this day.

Can't think of any? Yeah right, that's because they're dead mostly due to piracy or random attacks from other alliances. Those who still survived are suffering from raids every single day and night and are forced to either disband and join another alliance, sign a treaty with the big alliances or quit the game due to the frustration that they could no longer handle.

Nowadays, if you want to start your own alliance, you'll have to join a big alliance, get stocked and then make your own alliance which is usually treatied to the alliance that you previously came from. Or you'll need to have a good connection to one of the top 50's alliance and discuss about treaties before you create your alliance.

It's just impossible to play the game in a micro alliance with no treaties now that everyone is always craving for loot. Having a crappy treaty with an alliance that is not in top 50 will also gives you endless pain from raiders that your protector can't handle. Many micros tried to treaty with each other to protect themselves against threats from the world, and what's the result? Yep, still dead or barely alive.

The fact that you can no longer have your own alliance without having to depend on the big alliances just really shows how cruel this game can be. The big alliances keeps getting bigger and more whale while the small ones gets raided to ashes and blown away if they even try to post a DoE on the forums. ( Yeah posting that stuff is just a death sentence to your alliance if you don't have a treaty beforehand ). The raiding mechanics aren't bad, but it's just a pain in every part of a micro because somewhere in PnW, there will always be that one toxic player that likes to loot micros all the time.

So, in conclusion, will there be a way for micros to survive in Orbis without a treaty? Can they ever have a good time enjoying the game independently? From my experience of having to lose an alliance in the past and had to reroll, the answer will always be a big fat NO and it'll probably never change.

Thank you for reading my useless midnight Orbis Ted-Talk with poor grammar ( I think ). Have a good day.

 

( P.s: I'm bored and posting this probably wasn't a good idea. Also alliances on white blocs aren't peaceful as you think )

[[DoW] Discord ruined everything]

No More Coal would sounds like a good name

[[DoE] Sorry for being annoying but hear me out]

*happy noises*

[[DoE] Sorry for being annoying but hear me out]

Told my guy to make the DoE at least a bit formal, welp didn't expect it to be lit asf.

[[Counter-Counter-Counter Coup] The Chocolate Revolutions]

18th century France in a nutshell

[DoE - Return of the Pacific]

Ah shit, here we go again

[Official Address of JadenStar10, Former President of IRON and Patres Conscripti.]

Touch our prots and we'll break your spinal cords

[[DoW] WTF is KT's Target?]

Well done KT, well done

[[DoE] Special Antarctic Alliance]

Aint no one touching our penguins

[Another coup???]

This definitely have 18th century France vibes