[To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.]

I am very happy to see our rightful leadership reinstated to power. [insert nation name here] is better for it, I - [insert leader name here] am also better for it. 
 

Dont forget to post this message to the OWF in order to qualify for your monthly rations. Long live the Queen!

[[DoW] Enough Was Never Enough]

2 hours ago, Kyubnyan said:

So the tables have turned.

Kyub look out! We’re gonna hit CTO!

[Syndicate, INC Withdraws From Business Office in Uritithu]

12 hours ago, Kastor said:

There is no reason to believe this. 
 

There is nothing to stop you for just signing TKR again next time they want to start a war. I assume, and others should as well, that you’re just moving with TKR and want to not get targeted for the semi-hegemony you’ve created. 
 

tS, being shitty allies yet again.

Did you miss the last few times where t$ rolled TKR, and then TKR rolled t$, and thence again? 

 

I mean I know you’ve been asleep for like 6 years but this is lazy even for you

[Yell at the clouds with me]

4 minutes ago, Alan said:

Bots and Automation


Everything in this game from trading, recruitment, war declarations to spy ops, WC findings and banking is all done by AI.

It's no longer a "How good are you at MA" or "How are you managing your economy". It's just whoever has the most inclusive bot wins. Destroys any chances for the newer alliances to get off the ground and really saps the bred talent from the new player base.

Surprise! A spreadsheet game is played best by… you guessed it! Data Scientists!

 

Just because you can’t keep up with the vast amount of data doesn’t mean other people shouldn’t be able to synthesize and organize public information.
 

Your concept of being good at “MA” and “Econ” management without bots are people that can no-life refresh pages. That is the worst sort of game. Final note, most of the “bots” and “automation” alliances can use are public, or freely available. You don’t have to hide in the dark ages any more old man. 

[[Statement] A Bad Joke]

1 minute ago, Buorhann said:

By now, for some of you alliances, 8bn should be a drop in the bucket.

Starting a war over 8b, understandable.

 

But you don’t start a war to recoup money. War is expensive. Which is why it’s always punitive. Trying to act like this war was solely to make money back is fake as !@#$ especially given HS’s size, age, and access to sphere wealth.

[(Merge) NpO into TCM]

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a merger.

[[ROH] Carthago's Guide For Dummies: Finance 101]

Tl;Dr shares has always been a terrible way to represent equity in small markets that has a 0% likelihood of being bought out.

[PnWGPT]

This is probably one of the coolest community projects I’ve seen come out of this game. Hope to see it get more and more polished, enormous potential here.

[What do you want for politics?]

14 hours ago, Sketchy said:

Goals change over time, and spheres shift to adjust. All sphere politics is driven by alliances. Usually when alliances compromise their personal goals for a sphere it's because they are choosing to put one goal over another.

Right, but I think we all (or maybe 70% of us) can agree that the political climate is much more interesting and dynamic when alliances have prevalent opinions that stand out from their sphere. Which is what I believe Lysander was getting at.

 

A great example being  Carthago and TFP, both have a very strong individual presence outside of bloc politics 

[What do you want for politics?]

If there were no differences between alliance politics and sphere politics, spheres would stay the same forever. But clearly each alliance has goals that they promote or push aside to work with people they desire to.

[[DoW] ODOO to Enter the World Dodgeball Invitational]

Maybe you can dodge a ball, but you can’t dodge this war 👀

[[Bloc Update] ESPN8: The Ocho Presents ODOO Tournament in New Orleans]

tldrtldr: ODOO MDP BS rn

[[Politics] Don't Be A Follower, Be A Leader]

Oh is it that time of the month to post about why orbis is dying again? Where’s Roberts when you need him 

[Delete]

No one deserves this

[[Birthday] Another year, another internal memo]

Merger when

[No one wants to take over the game]

On 1/11/2023 at 4:04 PM, Charles Bolivar said:

There are only two poles,with these poles being comprised of multiple spheres linked by common interests, security and their alignment with other alliances within that same pole and most importantly, their opposition to alliances found in the opposing pole.

See but there isn’t. There are a few alliances that absolutely will not ally themselves with other certain alliances, but for the most part in the past two years everybody done did everything with everybody. This dichotomy that you’re depicting does not exist any more. tS went from fighting rose, to allying rose, TKR went from allying tS to fighting tS. Midguard arose as a tripartite to the typical TKROSESYNDICATE rivalry (which in itself is a set of three poles) HOGG has arisen as a separate sphere again. The idea that the entire world operates around two poles is blatantly false.   Time and time again, the three major players in orbis politics continue to be consumed by other mini conflicts that begin to create new powerhouses. 
 

The reality is that you’re seeing these divisions because you’re looking for them. Age old rivalries shaped our spheres and our mindsets as players for years. New rivalries and lines are being drawn and it’s not just straight in half. I mean shit, we had three major conflicts occurring with completely different parties in the past two months alone. 

[[Bloc] ESPN8: The Ocho Presents the Orbitite Dodgeball Organization of Orbis (ODOO)]

Not one of y’all are making these blocs easy on the illiterate smh

dodge sphere > ODOO

[No one wants to take over the game]

2 hours ago, Zed said:

I do think that there are periods where an alliance can say they have "won", in these games. That does not always have to last, and it does not always have to be the strongest military alliance or the one in the #1 AA rank by score. The threshold for that is relatively high, and I would not give that to an alliance that simply won a global war without the impacts of it lasting long-term.

There are probably 3-4 alliances who can say they have hit that height ever in this game, as it stands right now.

This is precisely the point. The concept of having “won” the game is fruitless and inevitably the game moves on. Time does not stop because you created an unbeatable hegemony, the world does not pause and congratulate this accomplishment. You don’t receive a reward for this stalemate. When you get to the top of the mountain you find more mountains. 
 

Since the game has evolved into creating a constant dynamic atmosphere to encourage multiple different spheres to compete and grow, people moved past this archaic idea of the ultimate victory. So we don’t have one villain, we don’t have us vs. them in mass. We have many many different points of view, and the political scene has flourished because of it.

[No one wants to take over the game]

55 minutes ago, Kastor said:

The goal of the game is to guide your alliance into a hegemony.

This is what happens when you leave the political scene for a while. You fall into old tropes. Any person that truly believes that this game can be won forgets the 90 different times people have claimed this “win” or built “the perfect hegemony”. 

As someone who’s old playstyle was, “!@#$ !@#$es, steal banks” - you should know more than anyone that the goal of this game is whatever you make of it. But most of the game has moved past sustained global domination and stagnation m8

[Aren't you guys on vacation?]

7 hours ago, Firwof Kromwell said:

- snip -

 

 >.>   <.<   
my guy this is straight up unhinged

[A proposal.....]

When did minesome make an alt

[[DOW] Midgard declares war on Withheld - Enough is Enough [DOW]]

We could sit here for hours about how this cb (and all cb’s for that matter are invalid) the fact remains this: Kan and Toxic have decided that the entirety of Midgard is going to get rolled for their failure to coordinate FA. 
 

Not that I wouldn’t do the same petty shit, I’m just not sure I’d like them as bloc partners or in control of my gov

[[DOW] Midgard declares war on Withheld - Enough is Enough [DOW]]

25 minutes ago, ToxicPepper said:

The Hostile Actions:

• Ghosting

mfw NW won’t answer my booty calls

[HoF is just the best alliance ever]

I’d say some shit like “imagine playing magic in 2022 after these last three dogshit releases”, but I’m straight up playing this dumpster fire of a browser game 

[[Treaty] The Elephant in the Room]

 

TKR FA’s at it again - welcome!