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I believe in the sun, even though it is slow in rising.
I believe in you, without realising.
I believe in rain, though there are no clouds in the sky.
I believe in truth, even though people lie.
I believe in peace, though sometimes I am violent.
I believe in Dio Brando, even though he is silent.- 6
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I only remember one time Mensa was on the receiving end of a dogpile from us and that was a very long time ago.
Are you referring to our first war? The one where we (being hugely inexperienced) were dogpiled by a lot of alliances? Because, I distinctly recall UPN and VE being the only alliances to really hit us, and if CS was involved, it'd be after the actual fighting had happened.
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To be fair, I always wanted to fight BoC more.
I look forward to more Dioist shrines.
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I'm Quaker and find this offensive.
I'm sure he's quaking in his boots.
:>
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What did I do?
General shitposting, this thread, be annoying, etc.
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I, personally, will be declaring war on Kastor today.
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I do give out to new nations who post on the forum or have a theme that I think is cool. I don't only give to my AA, but I do have a list of alliances I won't send money to.
Which alliances?
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I don't think it does considering most of my wars are offensive and we have more offensive wars than Mensa rn...but okay.....
Well generally when one declares a mass raid/war, they do get more offensive wars in first.
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What do you mean we can't raid alliances stronger than us?
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PEACE AT HOME
PEACE IN THE WORLD
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For those saying it isn't physically possible to counter the syndi-OOsphere as is, you're right completely. Syndicate foreign policy has cultivated this sphere for about a year and a half since breaking away from Paragon. The amount of goddamn protectorates (much to my frustration) they had when they started out was insane, along with allying with the side that had lost the Great VE war or whatever it was called (someone in t$ still has the sig on here from the propaganda from that war huea). Of the two sides, t$ were on the underdog side for a long time, take a brief second to look at the Oktoberfest wiki page to see the standings then: http://politicsandwar.wikia.com/wiki/Oktoberfest
It was only going into the Silent War that the Syndi-OOsphere were considered the outright top dogs, and that was simply of the virtue that they had won every war since it's formation, numerically the advantage wasn't that great. t$ had taken the time to woo BK, TKR, Pantheon, Cornerstone and all the other big names that we see today but when they began their friendship with t$ they weren't big powerhouse alliances (granted BK was still strong iirc). All of those alliances recruited new players and grew them into strong nations that form strong alliances. A year and a half ago, only MENSA and t$ itself were top alliances that remain in their sphere today, the sphere which by no coincidence occupy the top 6 spots in terms of points on the alliance leader board at the time of posting. I'm pretty sure t$ & MENSA held spots 7 & 8 going into the Proxy War, or there about.
The overall point of this pseudo-history lesson is that it's going to take some sort of FA work to cultivate new alliances, p&w is growing (you'll all have noticed we've just overtaken (That terrible game that is totally irrelevant and I shouldn't be bringing it up anyways) in numbers of players) so there is fresh blood coming in, you just have to exploit them and turn them into allies and/or new recruits. VE and UPN used to be the big mass alliances that were light years away from the rest of us, it's going to take a bit of effort but that's exactly what we~ did to get to the state we are in today.
Edit: Also see http://politicsandwar.wikia.com/wiki/Great_VE_Warfor MENSA's position a year and a half ago and the compare the two sides of that war and their respective strength/positions.
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Good DoW, 10/10
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A screencap of the greatest blitz ever perhaps?
Just kidding, best of luck, give them hell
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PRIDE
POWER
PAKISTAN
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-snip- so they could take advantage of the update spies are to going to receive is abuse of his mistake, which makes realising this pre to him disabling the war system and not informing him of it, a super shitty thing to do.
For the the entirety of my time playing this game, in alliance warfare, countries would try to beat down the enemy military to zero and then damage infrastructure without performing 6 ground attacks that would beige them and not "winning" the war in-game. This, by virtue of the Alex attempting to change that now so you *must* beige, we can see this was an originally unintended consequence of a legal game mechanic, that you, I and every other competent player has exploited to it's fullest extent, There are many who as a result of this tactic lost thousands upon thousands more infrastructure than they would have, to the point that doing so is more effective than using a nuclear weapon.
We all knew this, we know Alex didn't like it much, but everyone did it anyway because it was within game mechanics to do so.
Playing legally within game mechanics is not a "super shitty thing to do", it's just smart.
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Going to be a very sandy Christmas.
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I think this a Fark DoW on Arrgh
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Three things added since posting to help with balancing:
- Nuclear weapons no longer send the opponent immediately to beige
- When winning a war and sending an opponent to beige, if they are already beige you will not reset them back to 3 days, you will instead add 3 days to their beige time. This is a buff to players who are losing multiple wars.
- Espionage operations targeting enemy spies have reduced enemy spies killed by 30%
Dr. Alex Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Conventional Alliance Warfare and Love the Bomb.
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Fort Knox, not Knoxville. Knoxville is just some random town.
Pretty sure that robbing an entire town with a populace of 185,000 people is still pretty impressive.
As would robbing Johnny Knoxville.
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Anybody who gets 'extreme' is probably joking or nuts.
F u dude
But great stats
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4 days of war? Why even bother.
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... isn't TKR allied to Pantheon? Why would TKR attack them?
A true show of strength would be proving you don't need allies and can take on the world alone.
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I for one wholeheartedly agree that alliances should scrap war target lists and let their members chose their targets with uncoordinated attacks when they go to war.
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I wonder if there are people here who know about Dio, but not Jojo.
It's like making "I am your Father" jokes and not knowing about Star Wars.
I spent years having absolutely no idea it was from that, all the while being a devout Dioist huea.
ZA WARUDO!!
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Hopefully there'll be a last hurrah.