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  1. Looking at the ads currently running, almost all of them are aimed at trying to get people to join their alliance and while that is a fine use of ads, it is also rather dull. When you consider what ads are, a way to reach a large portion of the game, then they could be used for so much more. They could be used for spreading propaganda (Alliance X are bad!), they could be used to try and sow discontent between people (Alliance Y are so much better than alliance X!) or they could be used to expose secret information to the public (Alliance X are planning to attack alliance Y at update!). Yet we rarely see them used for any of these purposes and I believe the reason for this is that you cannot publish an ad anonymously. If you want to make an ad lambasting an alliance for being terrible, then you probably don't want the backlash of that ad to fall back on your own alliance. The same if you want to use ads to publish sensitive information (and just to be clear I mean sensitive as in things alliances don't want people to know, not, you know, personal stuff), then you would not want it traced back to you. Personally I know that I've had ideas for several ads, in the past, that I have refrained from publishing because I didn't want to cause a headache for my alliance's FA department. So, what will this idea, if published accomplish? Well it might lead to more people using ads. It might also lead to some drama as people start firing shots at each other through the use of ads. Overall, I just see it as making the ads a more interesting mechanic. And the cons? Well some might argue that the ability to post stuff anonymously is a bad thing. Personally I don't agree, but I know some people will inevitably bring it up, so figured I might as well put it out there from the get go. Other than that I can't really think of anything.
  2. The reason no one else is commenting is that Psweet (and others) have already made perfectly good points explaining why this is a terrible idea and you haven't even attempted to address them, but have instead just cried bias.
  3. More like Peace Machine, am I right
  4. They should cancel on you then! I mean the only reason to have protectorates is so that you can use stuff like this to get your war on and you refuse to give it to them. Selfish, Jodo, very selfish
  5. Why is your post that weird blue-green color? It's kinda creepy
  6. ALLIANCE CATEGORIES Alliance of the Year: NPO - Having gained almost twice as many cities as the alliance that has grown the second most speaks for itself. Most Powerful Alliance: NPO Best Military: GoG Best Rookie Alliance: Zodiac Best Flag: Polaris - There has just always been something about that flag for me... Best War Flag: Polaris Most Active Alliance: NPO Most Honourable Alliance: CS Most Improved Alliance: GoG - Considering what they've been through, the fact that they're in the top 10 is impressive. Best Diplomatic Team: [none chosen] Best Economic System: NPO - See alliance of the year for reason Best Recruiting Staff: NPO - They are the alliance that has gained the most members through pure recruiting. Numbers don't lie...unless they are fake in which case they do...but MY numbers don't lie. Best Propaganda Staff: [none chosen] Best Alliance Growth: NPO - Isn't this just a combination of the best econ system and best recruiting staff ones? Best Forums: [none chosen] Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2018: GoG Most Immoral Alliance: KT Most Controversial Alliance: Arrgh Best Alliance for New Players: GoG Most Missed Alliance for 2017: TEst PLAYER CATEGORIES Player of the Year: Roq Most Powerful Player: Tiber (Roq is just a puppet of our potato overlord) Best Alliance Leader: Seeker Most Controversial Player: Curufinwe Best Player Sig: [none chosen] Best Player Avatar: [none chosen] Best OOC Poster: [none chosen] Best IC Poster: Apeman Nicest Player: Rache Funniest Player: Shifty Stranger Most Active Player: Who Me Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2018: Leo the Great Best New Addition to the Community: PnW Balls! COMMUNITY CATEGORIES Best Wall of Text: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21454-dear-tkr-a-hogwarts-message/ Best P&W Forum Topic: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21454-dear-tkr-a-hogwarts-message/ Biggest Controversy: Alex deciding to ruin the game economy showcasing how little he understands his own game Funniest Event: NK taking in Hogwarts to stop TKR from attacking them. Most Entertaining Discord Channel(Please don't include Slack): [none chosen] Best Treaty Announcement: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/18786-lets-be-honest-this-was-leaked-weeks-ago/ Best Declaration of War: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/17986-whale-season-in-bk/ (I know it was technically last year, but it was too late for last years awards, so I'm giving it a go and gonna try to nominate it) Biggest Meme: Mini spheres Largest E-Peen: Durmij Best Villain: Partisan Most Hated Poster: [none chosen] Most Missed Player (Player that has gone inactive/quit): Yosodog WORST CATEGORIES Worst Alliance of the Year: UPN Worst Military of the Year: Pantheon Worst Diplomatic Move: UPN deciding it would rather be a Rose vassal than an independent alliance Most Inactive Large Alliance: Pantheon Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: TKR - Not even kidding, they have pretty much the best cards of any alliance and they are going to waste them due to their aversion to, well, doing anything. Worst Player of the Year: [none chosen] Worst Alliance Leader of the Year: Matt2004 Worst Treaty of the Year: https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/20898-eclipse-over-the-fields/ Worst Forum Poster: hidude45454 - Sorry bro, but you have been annoying as !@#$ for a while... Worst Nation Setup: [none chosen] Worst Fighters of the Year (must have fought in 2017): Pantheon Alliance Most Likely to get Rolled in 2018: KT
  7. So this idea is to adress the concerns about small nations and upwards mobility, yet the argument that it will help large nations more, thereby accomplishing the exact opposite, is silly?
  8. So you wanna make the game even more hostile to new players than you did with the last update? Why not just rename the game to Politics and Whales since it seems all you do is make updates to ensure that it will be impossible for new players to ever catch up.
  9. Now it may just be me being old school, but when I have a conversation with someone I expect it to be kept private. That's just common courtesy... How you expect anyone to want to have an open and honest discussion with any of you when everyone knows that you're just trolling for logs to use against people is beyond me. But I guess to each their own.
  10. Your nation is in t$? I'm confused...
  11. I wasn't originally gonna bother responding in this topic, but dangit, you convinced me to do it anyways. So firstly, the motivation you are trying to attribute to BK and BoC simply isn't accurate. Neither of us set out with the specific goal of rolling anyone. But let me put aside all the propaganda and try to give you some honest insight into our thoughts. Whether you choose to believe me or just decide to ignore me is of course entirely up to you, but this way I can at least say that I tried. Alright, so all of this hinges on a premise. The premise that The Silent War is the last, somewhat, even war that we have seen in this game until the current one. Again, not asking you to agree or disagree, just saying how I see it. So The Silent War, which was in September if I remember correctly, is the latest war we've had where the outcome wasn't decided in advance. That is approximately 6 months in which the only wars we've had have pretty much been complete beatdowns. So it has been 6 months since we've had a somewhat even war. Now for anyone just wanting to sit on top of the world and pad their stats, that would be a fine situation, but in case you haven't noticed, that has never really been BK's goal. We like to fight and we like a challenge. Going back to the end of the Silent War, there didn't really seem to be any challenge left. NPO, the Covenant and all their friends were severely beaten and demoralized. The attempt at creating a new sphere around SK and Valyria were taken down before they ever became a true challenge and the last remaining opposition, the paperless, were crushed in an overwhelming fashion. Now I'm not blaming anyone for any of that, just saying it like it is. So it was clear that Syndisphere or Syndi-OO-sphere or whatever you want to call it had, in essence, won the game. There was literally no one left to stand against us and even worse there was no one even willing to try. Thus it was clear that if anything interesting were to happen, it had to involve a split in the then powerstructure. Now we originally wanted the split to be OO breaking away from the rest of Syndisphere, but when TKR made it clear you weren't interested (which is completely fair BTW) we had to do it in some other way and the way we ended up doing it was with the creation of The Inquisition. Now you can agree or disagree with the way we did it, and I'll be the first to admit that there were some missteps along the way, but you can't really argue that it did what we set out to accomplish. It shock the status quo of the game and gave us a war in which the outcome, at least as far as I can tell, isn't decided from the get go. If your goal was to just sit on top of the game, having won, then I can see why the current situation is upsetting, but, as mentioned, that has simply never been BK's goal. We don't want the iron throne. We don't want to "win". We just want to wake up to the lovely smell of gunpowder in the morning. Now you are welcome to try and pick apart my post, hell I more or less expect it and I just realized I could have boiled it all down and just quoted The Dark Knight: "Some men just want to watch the world burn".
  12. Dear Hades. Your pathetic attempt at deflecting would work so much better if it wasn't completely inaccurate. You see the BK bank module specifically DOES NOT automate any transaction. There is ALWAYS someone manually clicking a button. Which is why, when we discussed it with Sheepy, before we started using it, he said it was ok, because it does not play the game for us, it does not try to circumvent game mechanics. It is simply a front that simplifies things. If anyone is interested in learning more about the BK banking module then feel free to contact me, we have nothing to hide, but please lets not derail this topic with it.
  13. That doesn't excuse the land
  14. Gotta say I think more people picture The Lion King...
  15. Lions are pack hunters, so yeah, that does fit pretty nicely with his analogy...
  16. The text on the battle simulators (and probably the simulators as well) needs to be updated.
  17. Is there somewhere we can see how much resistance the different attacks reduce? Preferably somewhere that is not a random forum post, but somewhere that can be used as a quick reference for posterity.
  18. I dunno man, the paperless potato salad does have a nice ring to it EDIT: Actually I think that's what I'm going to refer to them as from now on. That way I'll avoid getting dragged into arguments about whether it's a sphere or a bloc or whatever...
  19. I did what? But I thought I was our econ guy and also that I was on vacation for the last week or so. HOW AM I DOING THESE THINGS?! Honestly? I don't think anyone outside of NPO understands that...
  20. Coming from someone in SK, I take that as a compliment...
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