Ogaden

1 turn every 30 minutes my dude, let's separate the wheat from the chaff

Amusing anecdote from the Purple Spy war, as an alternative to the giant DNR imposition I offered Emmad a freebie war assist from Arrgh, as I had launched the war on the suspicion that UPN was preparing to attack Arrgh, which proved to be false information. UPN refused this. 3 months later, UPN and friends narrowly lost a war where we, Arrgh, changed the balance of power. If Emmad had taken me up on our offer instead of imposing their terms on us, they would have won and history would have been different.

That was hilarious, those treasure raids were the most fun I've ever had in this game.

I've decided to return for some fun and plunder.

Let's get all the band back together

You missed all the fun

I have bequeathed my vast fortune to Arrgh for this very purpose. I request a pirate funeral

It's been a fun 10 or so years of playing browser nation sims but it's time to say farewell. I'd like to thank everyone for an amazing time and the amazing community that I've been a part of these years. Arrgh was a dream come true and every last captain in our merry fleet was a joy to raid with. For everyone who's come and gone, it's been an absolute pleasure. There are too many shoutouts to make and I would be here all day so let me just say, you know who you are and it was wonderful.

So what you're saying is nukes should cost as much or more as the infra they destroy? I'm pretty sure that's not the intent. You're essentially arguing that it's more cost effective to be hit with a nuke than to fire them, which is completely insane and validates everything I've written here.

Missiles are about right, in a perfect world they would also be back down to 6 action points rather than 8, and nukes down to 8 rather than 12

Due to the decreased effectiveness of nukes, I would like to recommend a change to the cost of nukes. As they are generally speaking half as effective as they used to be in terms of damage output, I think it would make sense for them to be much cheaper in terms of cost. Currently, nukes cost: $1.75 million, 750 aluminum, 500 gas and 250 uranium Compare this to a missile, which has about a 1/5th of the power of a nuclear weapon: $150,000 100 aluminum, 75 gas, 75 munitions Let's make nukes scale to effectiveness in terms of cost. They are five times as powerful as missiles, so they should be about five times more expensive, leave the uranium amount the same: With this you end up with: $750,000, 500 aluminum, 375 gas, 250 uranium

I am enjoying how this update deliberately designed to screw us over is ruining everyone else's lives as well Oh schadenfreude you old dear friend, yes please come in and make yourself at home

Beiging is good, get that loot, get out of the CN stagger mentality, it's toxic

Isn't this just them constantly building more and more infra for you to blow up? I don't know if this qualifies as either an exploit or particularly smart

I agree actually, but this was due to the failure to bring it about. In 1918 and 1919 there were socialist uprisings all throughout the world. France, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, China, Egypt, Poland and more, every country on earth. In all but four countries the establishment suppressed the uprising by force and hundreds of thousands were murdered, except in Germany, Hungary, Iraq and Finland. Russia tried to reach their army to support the protestors, striking workers and revolutionaries but they got bogged down fighting reactionaries and the Entente Powers in Poland, and were not able to make it to Germany in time before the German Rotrepublik was crushed by the Freikorps, then Hungary fell, China's revolutionaries were defeated by the colonial powers, etc. In the end, only Russia remained. When Stalin came to power he was not committed to internationalism or really, socialism all that much. He ended the internationalist policy of world revolution and declared Socialism in One Country, establishing Stalinist doctrine. After World War 2 he did not incorporate any countries into the soviet union and opted instead for buffer states. Stalin in many ways was the last Czar. He cared only about his own power.

Is that why the US had to fix the 1996 elections to keep the communist party from winning and reversing all those wonderful reforms that caused the single greatest drop in HDI in human history?

Yeah they went from the most backwards state in Europe that had just lost to one third of the German army and the only other state more pathetic than they were (the Ottomans) to a world power that defeated all of a stronger Germany 30 years later. They went from a 20% literacy rate to a 98% literacy rate, atomic weapons and managed to outproduce Germany in the war by all metrics. Now with leftism gone Russia has been reduced to a regional power with a rising infant mortality rate and a GDP about the same as Belgium. Yeah what a disaster leftism has been for Russia

Slavery really wasn't that long ago. Hell the Roman Empire really wasn't all that long ago. Things change and technology changes and states come and go, but the humans involved are the same generation after generation. It will take ten thousand years maybe to actually evolve into a more moral creature, but our genes are the same rapist, enslaving caveman that burned down a village a ten thousand years ago just to watch it burn.

In percentage terms of human history, how long is the time span between 1918 and today, keeping in mind that people still have trouble adapting to the social changes brought about by the end of feudalism

Nationalism is literally tribalism with a veneer of ideology. World War 1 and Kenyans shooting each other over election results are morally and ideologically equivalent, one is just on a much larger scale

Nationalism never changes, it's the same shit from the caveman era, where the tribe over the hill is bad because they talk funny

Let me tell you a story about globalism and nationalism. Before World War 1 broke out, it was clear that war was brewing in Europe. Ever since the Franco-Prussian war, nations were militarizing at an enormous pace, alliances were being formed for war and it looked inevitable. The Second International of socialists met in Zurich in 1907 to discuss this crisis of militarism, the problem of colonialism and the oppression of Africans and Asians, and the liberation of women. The Second International represented labor unions and millions of workers, and could have shut down the war machines of Europe if they so chose. If they could act as one, World War 1, a pointless war where millions died for no reason and the collapse of Victorian civilization could have been prevented. In 1907 the delegates adopted a resolution to oppose militarism and imperialist wars. seven years later World War 1 broke out, and every single socialist party but one broke their pledge. For nationalism. They formed governments of national unity with the imperialists and redoubled their efforts to produce arms and ammunition and materiel for the war effort, for national pride and nationalism, the disease. Only one party, out of all of the parties, had the courage to stick to their pledge and refused to support the imperialist aggression. The Russian party, under Vladimir Lenin.

"Look man, just ignore the times when nationalism has literally enslaved people, killed millions and destroyed entire cities nations and peoples, and nationalism looks great!"

Yeah gee I wonder why nationalism looked bad in World War 2

The system you describe is the current system, created by nationalism and capitalism. You can't defeat it with more nationalism and more capitalism, you can't fix something with what caused the problem in the first place. Capitalism and finance and labor arbitrage has created this nightmare world, the only solution is something different, not more of the same.