Spite

Better than delusions of mediocrity.

Beige should be 5 days. That way you can make a decision to beige someone as a way of quickly knocking a threat out of a bigger war for five days. This will introduce more strategy into warfare

It varies depending on the market. The bottom exchange rate offered by the game is $6 = 750k O$ Which puts the value of the orbis dollar at around 0.000008 American dollars. I've sold credits for double that though. Put the other way, one American dollar will buy you up to 1.5 million Orbis Dollars. In other words it's worth nothing.

The speak every language one would be great. That's the kind of thing I'm after, stuff that is genuinely interesting. For example you could write an entire book about a guy who could speak any language, it would be p cool. Inventive stuff like that is awesome.

Just thought I'd post since it's all quiet at the minute... There is a plethora of superhero movies out there now, and there will be more. In light of this, what superpower would you have? To make things slightly interesting, I'll specify a few ground rules: 1. No God-powers. Superman etc is just lazy writing and everything always ends with deus ex machina 2. No invulnerability (kind of covered by 1) - you can have a power to dodge bullets but being able to dodge tactical nukes or whatever is just stupid Let's hear it

Top kek

Warrrr

On the no no life/activity thing, I work all day and have an active social life. However we don't all live in the same time zone and have the same activities, so we actively cover organisational roles between us. You have to remember a significant number of us weren't in the same alliance in another game. We were the alliance leadership of various alliances in another game. It's like if the top few most active players of each of your alliances banded together and went elsewhere. And as for organisation, apart from the above, in eRep we were organising tens of thousands of players each day. 70 or so is a piece of cake.

Cos brown-nosing the administration on your submission is more accurate of the p&w culture... Oh wait it actually is

DIO SAVES AND SPENDS

err no, i think you're deluded there

Hail Guardian o/ Hail Seven Kingdoms o/ May the glory of Dio rest on all our allies and may Ashland's tears of frustration bathe us in their salty goodness

The Attacking Pfeiffer is a Retarded Move War The Herenow Gonelater War

Great news Hail SK o/

UPN obviously like us a lot more than they like you if they're willing to pay your reps for you to keep things friendly. UPN o/ !@#$ confirmed for !@#$.

Are you saying your allies asked you to start a war with us? You don't have that many more missiles than us, and we could have doubled our missile launch capacity overnight if we had to. I'm not going to go into strategy though, if you had attacked you'd have realised what a mistake it was. We'd have particularly focused kicking your ass because you know, you're a dick. That's if we went to war by ourselves and nobody helped us.

You were the ones too !@#$ to just directly declare.

Like I said, we had our suspicions. Even after they were confirmed we didn't act immediately. Because you know, this way we get money and you look stupid. Much better outcome.

You're extremely rude. We knew that there were BoC members involved, but as I said we knew there were people from other alliances too. Ergo it wasn't certain whether it was an alliance initiative, or something private. It turns out it was a bit of both. What made you change your mind about attacking us? It would have been an unpleasant experience for you I can assure you.

Firstly, we didn't join this game and join an established alliance. We're working things out as we go. Secondly, many of us did have a lot of spies, but other people had more, and the strongest players were taken out fast. Nobody had 700 score and 1 spy before all this happened, obviously a lot of us don't have many now because of the constant spy ops for the last week against us.

Hello all, I’d like to write today a little bit about the recent NAP between the Brotherhood of Clouds and Mensa HQ, my side of the story, a look at the events immediately leading up to it, and my thoughts on why this and not a more violent path was taken. People familiar with my writing will probably know this will be fairly lengthy and rambling, for the sake of brevity you can skip to the conclusion if you like, though you’ll miss a lot of the “whyâ€. As always, this is my opinion and doesn't reflect the official position of Mensa HQ, which you can get from Pfeiffer if you want it. The story begins shortly after the end of the conflict between Socialist International and Mensa HQ. We were evaluating just how bad the diplomatic fallout would be from that particular expedition when we began to be hit by spy attacks, with no known source. Prior to this we had been hit sporadically by nations, as I’m sure you’ve all experienced. There are a couple of ex-Mensa members who don’t like us, and we witnessed a lot of people being somewhat grumpy about the Mensa-SI war, so we expected it was related. Being a somewhat young alliance (just under three months old) our spy numbers were small. Firstly because you can only build so many spies in seventy days, and secondly because since many of us had nothing worth spying on (no missiles, significant numbers of ships) people were lazy about building them. So other than a few players with 50+ spies, our people were overwhelmed pretty quickly. I myself lost my twenty-something spies in the first couple of days, starting on the 17th of April. Obviously we immediately knew from the timing of the attacks and their intensity that it was not just random attacks anymore, but an organised strike on Mensa. We assumed two possibilities: firstly that a group of OWF players, annoyed by our actions in the last war, had teamed up to “teach us a lessonâ€. Secondly that there was an alliance out there actively trying to attack us. As I said in my last article, we are a war-based culture, and a lot of people were angry about these attacks. However when you don’t have a clear target, it’s hard to call for war. “Let’s attack people at random until we hit the right one!†has never been a popular battle cry through the ages. With remarkable discipline for a bunch of rabble, Mensa sat it out and I didn’t see any accusations, demands or bluster on the forums through the whole week long spy onslaught. In that time several people were caught, from more than one alliance. In each case we dealt with it diplomatically, speaking to leaders of the alliances from whence the attacks came, until it became obvious that the organiser of said attacks was Ashland, the foreign affairs minister of the Brotherhood of Clouds. His exact motivations remain unclear to me to this day- in normal (read: eRep) circumstances I’d see it as softening up an enemy for an attack, but considering the NAP went through with nary a dissenting voice I’m assuming that pecking at us from the dark like a rabid chicken was always his plan, and once caught he didn’t really know what to do. In any case, once we found out it was him, we armed up for a potential full scale war against Brotherhood of Clouds. Obviously this would be a whole different kettle of fish to fighting SI. BoC are an established alliance with a strong core group at the top, and any war would be incredibly destructive to both sides. In addition, BoC has several allies who may join in the battle if pushed to it by a declaration of war. Mensa membership was all for a suicidal charge to cause as much havoc as possible before going down, but we were aware that our already stained reputation might not survive another mauling. From there, the NAP. After talking to various players from BoC’s allies, Pfeiffer established that a peaceful resolution was possible. We’d get the money back in damages, we wouldn’t have to fight BoC (and possibly allies like UPN who we’ve always had good relations with) and there would be no more spy attacks for three months. So with that conclusion in place, why the article? Well because really I have a few unanswered questions, and no doubt many of you do as well. What was Ashland’s motivation to bring his alliance to the brink of outright war like this? Why did he use spies as a weapon instead of just attacking honestly and directly? Should Mensa have responded to these threats with a declaration of war instead of a diplomatic resolution? What impact will three months of guaranteed non-aggression have on the development of both Mensa and BoC? Ashland’s motivation and choice of tactics are a big question for me, and one which I’d personally like him to answer. From the beginning of the game, I’ve had no direct conflict with Ashland. He sent us some guides when we first joined, and personally looked over our early cities to make sure we weren’t doing anything stupid. He spoke to me a few times on IRC to give me pointers. Even in the SI war although several BoC members voiced objections, he was never actively anti-Mensa. Was the friendly face just a cover for his real opinion? The extent to which BoC was involved is another question. Clearly they were to some extent- their interior minister blew up five of my ships for a start. But why did they get involved, unless Ashland convinced them that the risk of starting a war with Mensa was worth doing $20m worth of damage over. The cost of the operation must have been huge as well, spy attacks don’t come cheap, especially when a lot of the time spies were being killed in groups of 2 or 3. It occurs to me that BoC saw Mensa as a possible threat, and decided to take action against us before we grew too big. But why then not follow through with a hot war? All of this is ironic since Mensa had no beef whatsoever with BoC until all of this began. Many people in the NAP thread argued that Mensa should have responded with war. The standard response to this sort of thing seems to be “mind your own businessâ€, but I’m genuinely interested as an outsider why war in this case would have been a good idea? Remember, casus belli and the like are of almost no interest to me, since all they are is excuses for doing something you wanted to do anyway. We didn’t want a messy and brutal war against a nation with some fifteen missile-armed nations, so an alternative to that was always going to be good. In fact, we planned to put all wars on hold for a while until we properly understood the network of alliances, and hopefully got ourselves some friends of our own. To the many individuals calling for war, would you have got involved? From what I can tell, in such a war Mensa would have been standing alone. At least, that is the scenario I was planning for. If you aren’t going to get involved in a war, did you want it to happen just for entertainment value? I can understand that, but it seems to be contrary to the culture I’ve witnessed so far on these forums. Finally on the question of peace, and what comes from it, all I can say is “si vis pacem, para bellumâ€. We have three months to build ourselves, promote our younger players into higher ranges, secure ourselves in our position. I’m just going to put this chart out there, showing our current rate of military growth since 7th March. As you can see, we have more than trebled our military power in around 45 days, and if the trend continues we will see around 750 points added to our military score each week. This peace will give us the time to grow properly into our role and position as a top ten alliance. Right now we are here by virtue of having a fast growing but tightly knit community. In three months we will probably have members from outside that community, and will have grown into an orbis community. Hopefully by then Ashland’s motives for attacking us, whatever they were, will be buried. Kind regards, Iain

>Question is "are you a kebab" >Claims not about racism Sure, because you were genuinely asking whether people were a piece of meat cooked on a skewer and not whether or not they were middle-eastern.

What's to stop an entire alliance going on vacation to avoid getting rolled

Dear Sheepy, We despise you, like a flower. Your new, smexy volkswagen is on my cat. I sent it across the void into abbas. But my crocodile converted into MLGism and abbas blew skinflutes at dawn. So blow our sails through the open potato pudding sea of poop. Wieners roasting Jodo wants a big potato pancake. So cooked children are amazing. Plus, you eat Vlad the registered hippo immediately before stepping into Grillick's mouth. Grillick is plotting

I vote for two religion options: "Dioist" and "Heathen" Heathens get -50% economy and they have to wear big red noses on their avatars.