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Did we decide 30 pages was the necessary limit for peace?

Why do I recognize all of your names as BK members? Time to come home, lads. jk - congrats!

You know I do what I can for my favorite TEsticles.

Your hyperbole of my point doesn't negate it. Roquentin provided an example of someone who wasn't active over the course of multiple days, didn't even know there was something relevant happening, and didn't care when he found out. If that is your standard, then don't come on here and complain that our side is killing the game.

If you depend on someone like you mentioned to be a part of a blitz, or cover a certain target, etc - it becomes a problem with your war effort, even though they are a convenient farm for resources. When you only end up declaring 35 wars when you almost have 100 members, just another example, is embarrassing. It has political ramifications. People don't want to forever be in a shittier AA, nor do people want to team up with someone who has a losing record. I know we're doing our argument thing in this thread but if anyone, including anyone on our side, reads this I hope they pay attention. Collecting a hive of inactive members is not good for your AA, nor is it good for your coalition, and it's not good for the game.

Outside of political reasons for not doing, I sort of wish NPO would just blast their allies for ruining what should've been a won war. NPO has had consistent performance throughout, but their allies have dropped the ball as per usual. To answer someone's comparison from page 17 or 18 - Mensa is a "godtier" alliance because they actively cull the shittier members from their ranks. Just like NPO tries to do. Just like BK, tS, TKR, and any winning alliance try to do. BK, TKR, NPO, and tS have high member numbers because of their competence and cultural attractiveness. So next time someone says "well we can't do anything about inactivity" - how about stop trying to make your alliance look like it's not suffering when you're publicly repeating that it is. Kick the shittier and be a 40-50 man competent alliance instead of being a 70-90 man AA relying on inactives. Any arguments about "muh members" or "muh effectiveness without 100 meatshields" just point to mensa as the best example of what quality vs. quantity truly means.

TEst desperately trying to keep up with the Rose Surrender thread postcount itt.

Your OBL player, Vince Muhammad, has reached age 40 and retired. A new player, Hillary Freeman, has automatically been recruited by your team to fill his position. "Hillary Freeman". Et tu, sheepy?

... wut? Historically speaking our coalition has had less total score and less nations than your's.

While "Grand Conspiracy" is hyperbole, NPO from its inception had decided that they would oppose tS and their sphere. Also your entire salty argument is based on tS not wanting to be friends with VE... while they were trying to treaty UPN... See the flaw?

I know this is two pages late, but you realize that Syndicate/Mensa/TKR/BK and our respective spheres were already consolidated? It's ok to admit that ParaCov got together and collectively overreacted due to your own propaganda. I also like that your post dispenses with the pretense that Paragon and NPO were ever really separated though.

This is so wrong it could be an article on the Onion. Black Knights aggressively sign a new treaty in an attempt to provoke newly-separated ParaCov.

While I appreciate being mentioned in a Roq Wall of Words, I do have to correct one thing. I don't think I somehow influenced NPO to offer reps. I petitioned BK gov to ask for them. I quoted these two because they're an excellent summary of the arguments thusfar without being overtly wordy. I know we're doing the whole narrative/propaganda thing right now but I really can't let this one slide. Look at who your Emperor is and get back to me on how old and gone the people who have demanded crazy reps are.

An anaconda can only tighten when its prey exhales. I think you'll find this continued war much more inconvenient for you than it will be for us.

You people are misunderstanding what reparations are, which is ironic given many of your personal histories. Your well being during reparations isn't a matter of concern for us beyond ensuring our payments go uninterrupted. Protection beyond that is kindness from us. Your well being after reparations isn't a matter of concern for us, period. The impact reps will have on your rebuild or post-war economy isn't a matter of concern for us, period. If you want to know who is responsible for the demand for reps, you need only look in the mirror. $800m is a cheap bill to foot.

People taking Jacob Moore as the spokesman for tS/OO and complaining that "Salty / git gud" are dumb things to say. Moving on to another thread.

I'm excited to see what happens with Rose's future.

I think Prefontaine rerolled as Spontaine to give himself an enemy to fight/argue with.

c/p from my post since I thought your's got deleted. I removed the redundancies. Politics and War channel - https://discord.gg/xSgZ9Vk Alpha - https://discord.gg/sxkabam

ahhh ok. I'll c/p my post into that thread then.

So idk where the other thread went so here it goes. Please set your links to never expire so they can be used after 24 hours. I've pulled some links from channels that I'm already in / able to pull links from. Discord is the future of instant communication for our community. It's insanely easy / user-friendly compared to IRC. Hopefully using this relatively new app will facilitate newbies becoming a part of the community much more smoothly and without the hassle of setting up IRC. Alphabetized for your pleasure: Politics and War channel - https://discord.gg/xSgZ9Vk Alpha - https://discord.gg/sxkabam Arrgh - https://discord.gg/QWEUsaS Black Knights - https://discord.gg/R4m7gB7 New Pacific Order - https://discord.gg/usbecHp Roz Wei - https://discord.gg/8cEpw7e Terminus Est - https://discord.gg/cMhgGTV The Teutonic Order - https://discord.gg/g9uzRWx Valyria - https://discord.gg/nJpkxke

#M-D is our IRC channel. Holton is my nick on both IRC and Discord if anyone wants to reach out on those platforms.

I'm glad TEst is eliminating the threat that these Fighters pose. Their very name indicated their intent to be aggressors.

Hooray for new steps forward!

It seems like a simple economic incentive would work well to induce competition between alliances. My thought is to do a tiered system. #1 gets a 10% income bonus #2 gets a 9% #3 gets an 8% 4-10 get a 5% 11-15 get a 3%. Or something similar. This is basically just giving people a permanent treasure which has already proven to generate competition, but you can't win it through raiding alone. The fact that it's just another treasure bonus means that it won't break the game by giving the #1 alliance a ton of extra income either. So, for instance, this could give people a reason to wage war on neutrals. This would also give neutrals a reason to fight back and retain a spot in the top 15. (in our current situation as of this post) It would give people a reason to dethrone TEst. It would give Syndicate-OO a reason to compete with each other. It would give ParaCov a reason to rebuild. Etc. It basically just gives another actual in-game reason to want to compete rather than just exist.