RedPhx

Like I said to my alliance the war system is broken. If its 1 declaring on 1 then its more or less even depends on who is prepared, 2 declaring on 1 its one sided with the player having a shot at rebuilding if things don't go the attackers way, 3 declaring on 1 and the game is broken to where the defending player has to decide about whether to send his forces out on an attack, get crushed by a larger force and left open to the others attacking, or keep them at home and wait for them to be destroyed. I have spent the last several years rebuilding from attack after attack by raiders and after getting nuked over a dozen times I'm not sure if I rebuild after losing most of the ground that I gained in the past couple months. Fair is where experienced and large players only have to worry about experienced and large players, players who spend years building up their nations are higher in the game because of size and experience, shouldn't have to fight on the same level as players who started a year ago and was given their cities.

Wanted to say that by going after big players you are destroying the games economy. The amount of money each player generates adds to strength of the economy, if you have a bunch of strong but small economies you have a little bit of income and not much cash to go around, thats what we had for the first couple years. Once we had big players who could help smaller players build new cities we were able to keep growing, and the growth would slow around war time and the small player would get a war chest and the big players would rebuild and grow. The amount of money that we have in the game is because of older players like myself whose purpose in the game was more about building and playing the game over destruction. If you get rid of all the larger players by attacking them you are forcing the game farther towards all the money is old money in the hands of larger alliances and no players who could produce enough to grow the economy. Pretty much a world where the warfare is the only way to get funds.

I started playing Astro Empires (mystic.astroempires.com) again and was thinking that instead of having an inevitable war of conquest and domination by one guild why not have a bunch of players from PnW join AE and we take over and use it as another way to make alliances and enemies. If we keep this on one game then we will just keep destroying eachother but at least on AE fighting is different and a bad war doesn't always mean destruction.

There is something that I want to say about the current situation that Shrimpatonia finds itself in, and I am sharing it with my alliance to minimize the effect that my own personal statements would have on them, they are a good alliance and I am here to help and advise. I am an honest player who has been here for four years, before that many of you knew me on Project Terra and Cybernations. I haven't cheated in these games (takes the fun out of it and only allow myself in single player) and while I have been a willing participant in every war that my alliance has asked me to be in, I have not been involved in the events that contribute to them, check my post count lol. I have fought over forty wars on Politics and War, winning most, and until recently I had only been nuked on one occasion, the count came after my raider hunting days in GPA. I have known and played with many of the well known players around here, Yoso and I are friends from our days on Terra. I don't have any feuds with anyone on the game, I was involved in one of Kastors failed alliances, and I never said anything to her about it but when it was down to a tie for the third slot of the triumverate for GPA, I voted for Rose who favored a soft neutrality which meant joining the tree while not being pulled into war, not knowing she was about to attempt a coup and set off a chain of events which had the wrong leader as the sole remaining member of the triumverate, I figured I would ask about it some day and have too much respect for what she and Kastor did with Roz Wei to make it a point. I have been tied to Black Knights sphere but when the small alliance I joined left the sphere I never complain and don't have any personal issues with The Syndicate and their friends, its just a game and I'm a loyal member of an alliance, I am always loyal to one alliance at a time to keep things simple, I haven't spied for or on any alliances and have always been loyal to the alliance that I was in at the time, even declaring on BK when asked to. Before Net Revenues Coal Mined 13.76 tons 165.13 tons Oil Drilled -12.00 tons -144.00 tons Bauxite Mined 14.86 tons 178.31 tons Iron Mined -8.59 tons -103.08 tons Lead Mined 7.95 tons 95.36 tons Uranium Mined 0.00 tons 0.00 tons Food Grown Winter: -20% food production Radiation Index 692.46 tons 8,309.56 tons Gasoline Refined 21.60 tons 259.20 tons Aluminum Refined 23.20 tons 278.42 tons Steel Milled 23.20 tons 278.42 tons Munitions Produced 43.41 tons 520.88 tons Net Income $1,457,172.58 $17,486,070.92 Monetary Net Income* $1,894,213.67 $22,730,564.03 Af ter Net Revenues Coal Mined 13.06 tons 156.71 tons Oil Drilled -10.75 tons -129.00 tons Bauxite Mined 15.17 tons 181.98 tons Iron Mined -8.59 tons -103.08 tons Lead Mined 7.58 tons 90.94 tons Uranium Mined 0.00 tons 0.00 tons Food Grown Spring: Normal food production Radiation Index 1,114.28 tons 13,371.39 tons Gasoline Refined 19.35 tons 232.20 tons Aluminum Refined 22.28 tons 267.41 tons Steel Milled 23.20 tons 278.42 tons Munitions Produced 43.41 tons 520.88 tons Net Income $1,221,761.78 $14,661,141.38 Monetary Net Income* $1,615,132.50 $19,381,590.03 Now Net Revenue Coal Mined13.06 tons156.71 tons Oil Drilled-10.75 tons-129.00 tons Bauxite Mined15.17 tons181.98 tons Iron Mined-8.59 tons-103.08 tons Lead Mined7.00 tons84.02 tons Uranium Mined0.00 tons0.00 tons Food Grown 1,515.95 tons18,191.45 tons Gasoline Refined19.35 tons232.20 tons Aluminum Refined22.28 tons267.41 tons Steel Milled23.20 tons278.42 tons Munitions Produced43.41 tons520.88 tons Net Income$931,964.80$11,183,577.59 Monetary Net Income*$1,328,421.74$15,941,060.92

I was redoing my cities and when I pasted a build onto the Import, instead of giving me what I wanted it instead cost me money to scrap all of my improvements costing millions in cash and resources to set it right (pasted the same build when I set it right so it wasn't the copy and paste that caused this), it was also the second time that this went wrong except last time it wasn't nearly as bad. As for the suggestions there is a fix and a feature returning that I would like to see. When I export a build I have to go back a page and then of course refresh the page in order to move on, so I would like to see a back button or even a short cut that allows you to copy the cities without visiting each one. Also before you allowed us to do more than 100 Infra or 500 land at once there was a feature that told you how much infra or land that you could buy and having that returned would take out the guess work of saying ok lets see if I could do 400 infra, nope lets try 300 etc.

No just pointing out that they've been hit two or three times this year.

If its yearly then they should be safe for a few years.

I'm in Cornerstone who has treaties with several alliances and are definitely not neutral. Last I heard GPA has rules about posting in OWF so I'm here on behalf of my old alliance.

People like to point out the War part of the name while ignoring the Politics part. If you have a problem with someone here the norm is to declare, same with if you get bored. Games last longer if the new players are allowed to thrive rather than having the choice of joining a big alliance and getting crushed in a major war or joining a small alliance and getting raided constantly. At least on Bob they had the option of going red and being under NPO's protection (yeah they changed their mind a few years after but it was still a safer color to be). Also wanted to ask when has it been a bad thing to do well? All this talk of the wars being because of GPA's being #1 makes me wonder if people are being insecure about something. Lastly, Grillick was too hawkish for my taste but at least he was big on aggressively hitting back. In any game if you don't want to be attacked, then give the attackers a black eye and a bloody nose.

How many of those wars did GPA declare? The last couple of rounds there wasn't even a lightning rod like Grillick to get things going.

This after a war against an alliance that just wants to build up their nations in peace. Not everyone plays nation sim games to blow stuff up.

Kudos to Hope Solo and G4LYFE for being the first to defeat me and kudos to Jon Colman and Loxxy for wars well fought.

I was listening to a bunch of philosophy lectures on CD at the time so I didn't remember which one came up with it. In my defense the oldest guy it talked about was Plato and the longest portion (it was over 75 CD's) was in the Renaissance. And yes it doesn't have anything to do with neutrality but it was in response to something that was said above. And yes it does have to do with philosophy though.

A philosophical analogy is this. You put a cat in a box (just to warn you I'm going to get crap about the analogy but the guy who came up with it lived 3 or 4 hundred years ago so blame him) and wait an hour. Since you didn't open the box you don't know if the cat is alive or dead. So the question is simply is the cat alive or dead? The philosophical answer is that until you open the box the cat is both alive and dead at the same time. So in conclusion to the question. Until you check in the forum it is both old news and boring, as well as complete chaos and nukes are already flying at the same time. Also wanted to add about the comment about my being in only two wars so far. I'm not only one of the responders for when we have a raider in my score range but also part of the first wave when we do go to war, its not my fault that CS has only been in two wars since I joined.

I'm in Cornerstone so I haven't made any profit from this. I'm just pointing out that the alliance who said give us a billion dollars or we attack you is now saying that they are the victims.