Mima

I'm not dodging wars. I did enough war for y'all. I'm setting out on my own.

Working with the associates of Okazaki Incorporated and the power of a faraway Eastern land, the Orreries Sun is proud to announce the creation of a new alliance: The Probability Space Hypervessel (PSHV). As a former member of the #1 (currently #2) alliance of Orbis, Archmage Mima was sick and tired of the "same old" safe strategies that have sucked all the fun and enjoyment out of Politics and War for many people. To this end, the PSHV will aim to promote a more enjoyable inter-alliance experience, one that doesn't require its spherelings to follow in lock-step. There's more to a sphere than slaving away under its one decision maker. Further details to be provided soon, including a Discord server.

You don't get it, do you? What this game has devolved into was a mistake. How FA has "evolved" from the apparent days of old has been a mistake. This whole dang war is proof of such.

Being part of Rose these last few months has felt very dull and empty. War, then massive span of NOTHING, then war again. The same old same old "safe" strategy just to keep the massive alliances afloat. Sketchy, Shiho, you want more public FA? This post has two purposes: A public departure, and the creation of something new. Glory to the Probability Space Hypervessel! DoE coming soon, once I can cobble one together.

Ah, this'll be fun

Yeah, they are pretty annoying. For some reason I also trigger a lot of challenge requests from the CAPTCHA machine, despite not using a VPN or other anonymizing software. The upgrade should be done as soon as feasible.

It is unfortunate to hear and it is on my mind.

New alliance "Probability Space Hypervessel" ? "HYACINTH"? As far as I know I do not have any outstanding debts to my current alliance ... Unfortunately I am very busy with non-P&W commitments these days... though I guess I could act as such temporarily... Let's make it happen!

Lame as hell, in my personal opinion. #CrapOnTheNAP

sounds good to me

I like this idea

SHORTEST GLOBAL WAR EVER

Yep. Absolutely. Grumpy/SRD makes a great point here. If you can just show up regularly, check up on whatever your alliance is up to, take care of any wars for the day, that kind of stuff - even if, like me, you unfortunately have to be at work when the day-change/military purchase reset occurs, or if you're still on snail-speed dialup or DSL - this shouldn't take more than 15-20 minutes over the course of the in-game day (from 12 midnight UTC to 12 midnight UTC). You can split some of it apart, if necessary, just keep track of what you have and haven't done yet for the day. Some words of advice to any new player that happens to be reading this thread: If you can show up regularly, and are willing to learn, you will become a competent player of P&W, given enough time. If that can be replicated with everyone in your alliance? More power to you. Interacting with people in and outside of your alliance will also do you wonders for being recognized as "a fellow P&W player" (the latter - interacting with folks outside of your alliance, that is - can take place in many forms, such as informal chats, PMs between players, making posts on the forum, participating in formal in-game diplomacy, or even just playing video games with other P&W players - just be careful not to leak your alliance's intel). People showing up or not showing up are how alliances win or lose wars. (A good blitz or numerical advantage can also help you, but those are different threads entirely, ones that I really don't have any right to speak of at this point in time, given the side I'm on in the latest GW that has broken out...)