[Politics and Downfall]

Just got me some fancy new internet today. First thing I did with it? Well it wasn't uploading this, but it was close. Also to celebrate the change I'm unveiling a new opening with a special thanks to @ϟħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘-̶™, @JtTeE, and @Malal for their help with the steamroller. Not like any of you care about this so I'll just roll the film now.

 

 

[War name vote - Purge Round]

1 minute ago, Felkey said:

Some of these are really bad and lack any sense of creativity...

Agreed, but to be fair this is better then the usual selection.

[War name vote - Purge Round]

This one is for the war between Nuke Bloc and Guardian/TKR/Grumpy and co. Where applicable acronyms have been included for reference but are not actually part of the name.

Names are listed in a particular order as provided by Random.org

Voting will end approximately 72 hours from now.

The most popular names will move to a runoff vote.

 

Removals:
Any name that was over 4 words long

Both fallout names since they would have produced screwy urls on the wiki.

[Removing Beige or Severely Nerfing It]

 

I will not be sorry to see war beige go. It is a flawed concept, it attempts to force a winning party to do so something against their best interest, namely giving their enemy a chance to rebuild and counter. Any mechanic that operates in this manner is flawed as the wining side will always attempt to get around it, see the current clusterfrick. Unless you make circumventing it so damaging that having to refight your enemy entirely is a better option, unfortunately this route fails in that this type of mechanic becomes unwieldy in an effort to obtain balance if it ever does. (The resistance system was a literally an attempt to do this.)  Moreover, its not really effective at what it was designed to do, which is stop one sided beat downs. It is honestly better to removed it entirely and other mechanics to serve the purpose added. And such mechanics don't even need to be directly tied to the war system, making rebuilds easier particularly after a beat down is a valid route. As would other changes that make it undesirable to drag out wars for both sides.

Also for those of you talking about beginner beige, this doesn't hurt newbies really as alex isn't saying he's getting rid of beginner protection. If anything this actually benefits them indirectly by making it easier to implement special mechanics for them as beige would become a color only for newbies.

 

tl;dr Beige doesn't do what it was designed to do and creates a convoluted cluster that makes no sense and generates a moderation headache, when other options could do the job better.

[The End (of Orbis?!).]

2 hours ago, Apeman said:

From me? I don' think I even nuked you and I know I never had 100 million worth anything in my nation. Let's see some stats from a area the numbers can be checked. Mine is the stat tracker random number generator provided by alex

Fixed, per alex the thing is horribly broken and should be ignored.

[Name that war!]

Bump, per long standing tradition I'll get the ball rolling on the voting 48 hours from this post.

[Growing Strong DoE and DoW]

1 minute ago, Placentica said:

So what was the original plan?

For TKR to cucked

[Growing Strong DoE and DoW]

2 minutes ago, Apeman said:

I give tkr credit because the moment you don't fit their agenda, this will be you.

Mkay

[Growing Strong DoE and DoW]

13 hours ago, Apeman said:

Why does tkr need help with nuke bloc?

 

12 hours ago, Malal said:

tkr-nb is the new ts-alpha

I like how tkr is getting all the credit when they weren't even supposed to hit per the plan. Not like this was an effort spearheaded by Guardian and friends or anything.

[>MRW I notice there isn't a dedicated propaganda thread after two weeks]

On 4/4/2018 at 1:19 AM, TheNG said:

- NPO Humor Production Facility 217, Orbis District, 2018 (colorized)

Should have used me instead of roq, but gg.

[Cheaper Nukes]

5 hours ago, durmij said:

To brace for the coming glut of resources and the probable cash crisis, units should have their costs changed to remove cash from the purchase all together. I'd like to see an across the board reduction along with some other incentives to promote wars.

Also worth noting that halving a nukes damage did more than halve their effectiveness. A nuked city now has enough infra to support population that will significantly contribute to the unit/pop cap. Before, a nuked city would have to be rebuild some if you wanted it to support units (after fallout dissipated of course). This makes nukes a much weaker longer term strategy, even if the side getting nuked is often the conventional winner and can often afford the rebuild.

Also going to point out nukes weren't the only thing nerfed. My attacks also do a whole hell of a lot less damage like this. And your niche argument is totally ignoring the fact that you still have 5 offensive slots you can declare using attrition. 

[Cheaper Nukes]

I'm okay with this only if every unit has it's costs halved. The war changes were a deliberate nerf to everything. I fail to see why nukes and only nukes should be exempted from that.

[Blackjack]

But with proper management of the limited resource that is dev time, Sheepy can I don't know, make a Jurassic Park project or finish perks?

[ugghuggh]

8 hours ago, jack3top said:

I was doing mind warfare lol, regardless of whether or not it backfiredm it will have an effct on your members. next time. I was whing that their gov let them die

I'm gonna assume you mean propaganda and not telepathy, in which case your bad at it and I kindly request you stop, maybe hire someone to do it? My services can be purchased btw.

[Declaration of War]

On 4/3/2018 at 7:00 PM, Karl VII said:

You lose by default actually, kinda like how you lose a war ingame when you don't even try to fight back.

[UPN Presents: Orbis Wars - Hosted by politicsandwar.com]

19 hours ago, TheNG said:

I... I think I may have just peaked folks. Nowhere to go from here....

I have a video that may change your mind, hit me up in dm. Also I've got another concept in the works

[The Dioist Reformation]

Also clarity's sake, by reform I mean were all just gonna start attacking you from wherever we happen to be. Actually setting up the alliance again would be to much work.

[The Dioist Reformation]

 

You all are so terrible that Mensa is reforming just to roll all of you again.

Dio with it.

Also we declare war on The Golden Horde and the alliance with id 4510 for heresy.

 

[Check... Your move]

30 minutes ago, Joel James said:

Mostly that it doesn't contrast all that well with the font color and typeface. And this is a little nitpicky, but it would be awesome if there was a button on the home page where you can toggle it on and off. But all in all, a good effort. 

Tweaks are in the works. At least as far as contrast goes.

[Hi Under, also something something nuke bloc shitstacks]

 

[Praise Buorkhann]

Those sunglasses though.

[Breaking News]

 

[Guardian Announcement]

4 hours ago, Placentica said:

Both Alpha and SA are tightly tiered.  We were on friendly terms with both you and Guardian and last war we almost entered for/with Guardian, receiving a request from Guardian.  There were no tensions.  You attacked us because you thought our other allies were occupied and you want to be the biggest whales in the game.  It's pretty cut and dry mate.  It's a good short-term strategy.

There is no harm in just admitting that you are EMC supporting opportunists.  Nearly every war in this game is based on opportunism.  The game now has a very clear 3rd sphere and that's good for it.  You guys tried to hide that you were a sphere with secret treaties and now you don't have to hide anymore.  Feels good doesn't it?

No

[Recognition of War of GOB and TCW on Spanish Armada]

4 hours ago, Placentica said:

This is rich, coming from the alliance that declared lots of "Ordinary" wars to limit the damage you took.  If you find me one non-Attrition war that SA declared, I'll give you a even bigger teddy bear to pixel hug onto.

No

2 hours ago, Placentica said:

I must be seeing those and your EMC buddies who have used it quite a bit, especially the really big whales in Guardian.

No

[Close War Mechanics]

This is silly. While I agree that the stare contest thing is an issue, punishing someone for being victorious after an actual fight is not a solution.