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Mainly because of beiging protocols; down low with insurgency fighting players didn't have to beige hold anyone. Up north, apparently there was an order to not beige C26 or above, with the predictable violations.

On the other hand, you're proposing to delay growth by getting rid of the existing 1-10 zero timer function. In reality, for most players, growth is not a function of the city timer but rather a function of their resource availability. This allows players to get recruited into alliances, and also poses interesting challenges for alliances; i.e, do we bulk the player up to C10 now, or do we do a testing period to see whether if they'll stay? If we do a testing period, how long should it be and how should the tests be constructed? In reality, if you remove the timer for C10-15 city buys, most players won't actually be able to fully exploit this, barring some exceptional raiders. Instead, it's more an option for existing alliances with stockpiles to expand members and rapidly fund newbies to C15, where they're all of a sudden economically and militarily relevant (albeit to a much lesser degree).

Problem: Currently, cities between 2 and 11 can be bought without an addition to the city timer, but with an addition to the project timer. This is in order to make it easier for new players to join the game and grow. However, when this functionality was added, the in-game mid-tier was C15-C20 (City 15 to City 20), or perhaps C18-C23. Currently, the mid-tier is centered around C25. The cities without timer range no longer matches the metagame. Solution: To match the evolving metagame, it might be a good idea to make it so that the city timer exemptions are extended all the way to C15, matching the increase in the mid-tier. This would also help the raiding situation, as raiders currently are only efficient around the C4-6 tier. By making it easier to grow to C15, raiders can now be active closer to the 9 city tier. Likewise, for new nations, because the project timer for Urban Planning is reset by city buying regardless, it'd also encourage players who are being boosted from C1 to C15 to spend 4 credits to reset timers so that they can buy Urban Planning without halting their city buy.

I was about to say: Nokia fakes his retirement, yet again, but then I notice the alliance has 0 active members. I'm sorry to say, but if I weren't held up with my new perpetual obligation, I'd have been highly incentivized to join your alliance. Then delete.

Feeding India is currently short 6.43 crore or 857k USD (at old 75:1 exchange rate) of paying for their first shipment. I'm pissed at them because it really shouldn't take that long to raise money for buying oxygen equipment; since they're claiming 15k or so oxygen concentrators, they just killed perhaps 15k people by being tardy by a week. Still, could someone dump some cash onto them, or more importantly, re-advertise to some place that's willing to chip in? https://www.feedingindia.org/donate/help-save-my-india?review_id=oxygen

I'm going to post so much of this if the global turns the right way. As it turns out, snake is roughly comparable to fish or chicken in taste, and is relatively flavorless on its own. It's very good when well-spiced.

Nope. I'm more related to your newer archenemy as opposed to your classic archenemy. Hey, if you're India-based, can you do me a favor, download the Zomato app, and see if Zomato has bloody donate options on its orders? I'm pretty pissed off at Zomato; 50 crore shouldn't have been that hard to raise.

If you want, here's CNN's list of charities. Most of these should be US-based, so should have standard US-type NGO corruption, but that's better than standard Indian NGO corruption. Likewise, more importantly, most of the contributions should be tax-deductible. https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/27/world/iyw-combat-india-coronavirus-crisis/index.html

Post your donations if you can make them? Even $5 helps.

As we all know, India is currently overrun by coronavirus, with an official count of more than 350k new cases a day and 3.3k deaths a day, although there's strong suspicions that there's massive undercounts and hiding of death by various Indian governments. I'd personally go with a 20k deaths per day figure, from various crematorium undercounts. What we're getting right now are stories like this: https://www.businessinsider.com/covid-19-india-journalist-live-tweeted-oxygen-levels-before-died-2021-4 You can also check Reddit to see what the situation looks like on the ground. https://www.reddit.com/r/India There's currently a major hospital bed and oxygen shortage in India right now, and while it's being addressed through some levels of aid, as well as trade, it's not enough given India's massive population and the rising caseload (376k / day, or over a 21% positivity rate). Some estimates expect India to peak around 500k, and that's only detected, announced cases. https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/4/26/oxygen-demand-outstrips-supply-in-indias-covid-hotspots To address this problem. I'm plugging a few Indian charities that are aiming to alleviate the oxygen shortage, mostly by buying oxygen concentrators, which can treat moderately afflicted patients at home, reducing deaths and also reducing the load on hospitals. My preference, to begin with, is Zomato's Feeding India "Help Save My India" campaign. If you're familiar with charitable overheads, Zomato is promising to subsidize fully the administrative expense, so every dollar / Euro / Yen you chip in goes to buying oxygen concentrators and shipping them. Moreover, Zomato is invested in by the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek as Zomato's the Indian equivalent of Grubhub / Doordash, so Zomato should be relatively uncorrupt. Unfortunately, the primary drawback of Zomato's Feeding India is that they're not registered overseas so contributions are not tax deductible. https://www.feedingindia.org/donate/help-save-my-india?review_id=oxygen GiveIndia, on the other hand, is a charity platform that IS tax deductible, but I've done way less vetting of particular charities they're advertised. https://covid.giveindia.org/ Act Grants is sponsored by more or less the entire Indian start-up community, but they have a diffused focus. Like Zomato, to the best of my knowledge, they don't seem to be tax deductible. https://actgrants.in/healthcare-covid-19-and-beyond/ ==== I've personally chipped in $100, and I've gotten others, including people who should by all rights hate India, to chip in $300. If you go with Zomato, based on their sourcing, $300 should buy one oxygen concentrator, which should be able to save at least one life through its use span. But every little bit helps. Besides that, as a sidenote, PMFunds, the official Indian government charity, is scandal-ridden and is commonly believed to be the Indian PM's slush fund. Note that one of the reasons COVID-19 rates are apocalyptic in India is as a result of the present PM conducting political rallies without masks. === In any case, I'm putting this up. You can do what you want with it, I've tried to help in other ways, but I don't expect much success. If you can spare the money, please help India breathe. Edit: someone said clickbaiting with gore porn in the title (even though the tragic stories are basically gore porn) achieves the opposite effect, so I took that out of the title. But the story is basically gore porn, isn't it? Thousands, likely tens of thousands are dying each day, and many of the deaths are preventable.

Yeah, I was originally hoping for negative costs, and to see how long Alex would take to fix the bug if I reported it. I'd estimate around 1.3 billion every 10 days if it were exploitable, more if we included credits to reset the city buying timer.

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We are never going to have a war again, because everyone is waiting for everyone else to make the first move. Therefore, no one will make the first move, and we won't have a global ever again.

I'm being allowed to build new cities despite having decommed no more than 4 in the last 48 hours.

First time this war cycle KT hits someone I don't actually care about. Hooray!

Thing is, when you come up with utter bullshit vs IQ, it flies and sticks because most of the game hates IQ. When you come up with utter bullshit against the majority of the game...

Bank hide declares on main alliance for lulz. Be aware, the last Eastasia was a crap alliance that got totalled almost immediately in its first war. I spent a lot of time humiliating them, and they eventually disbanded.

KT being KT is just part of the game. And you know my attitudes toward this game.

No point commenting no KT doing things that are unsightly, unseemly, and tasteless, because it'd quickly become a doctoral dissertation.

The way I understand it, KT is complaining about getting cities named after Horsecock (the user) renamed for profanity. But if you go back to Brexit's nation, the old name is still there.

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Double April Fool's joke? Why are all the KT beiged?

Rapmanej was around during the time the recording was made (and that incident was hilarious), so I find it hard to believe he wasn't aware of what he made.

According to your professed statements, I'm more aware of what you're talking about than you are. I'm commenting on other things that have gone personal / OOC.