Hereno

depends on what kind of control we're talking about, for one, but communism is not a state of affairs to be established - it is a movement. i get what you're saying - that the USSR had more "control" than, say, Sweden, but Sweden is not a socialist state and neither was the USSR ron paul is like the campbell's of libertarian politicians. sure there are other soups, but they're not all that different, and he is by far the most well known of his kind.

"they aren't working class because they work outside in rural areas rather than in factories" - brilliant class analysis, professor stalinoid gangsters and whatnot are actually considered lumpenproletariat according to marxists, because they do not participate in the formal economy and do not earn a wage

i didn't buy VIP access, i'm just very important and i feel like having the lounge but not having me in it is pointless

>join my alliance >all i want is my apology accepted you literally contradicted yourself in your own OP i don't think you understand what "leave me alone" means, because this isn't it try something else also, no, lol people who are genuinely sorry do not think of themselves the way you have been. if you were genuinely sorry you wouldn't have went and told me it was my fault that you're an idiot in the report thread. you would have respected MY wishes not to be around you, rather than going "but I want it accepted!" and going around the forums trolling me, posting in most of the threads i make, and making an open letter thread directed @ me you're like the type of guy IRL who stalks women who are like "DUDE, GO AWAY, I DO NOT WANT YOUR PENIS" and you think it's their way of playing hard to get and that if you just KEEP TRYING eventually she will see how wonderful you are like, dude, go away. there is no alternative meaning here. i don't want to talk to you. you're an !@#$ who has no respect for me. your behavior proves that over and over again.

as much as i want to, i genuinely find it difficult to be in "normal" alliances with a bunch of useless yuppies who get paid to do nothing and get mommy and daddy to give them cash when they're making 40, 50+ thousand bucks a year, and then go on to !@#$ shame women in front of me i've self-identified as an SJW before - irl i don't go around policing language (i say "!@#$" like every other word), but there's a reason that they do that. one thing i've done is replace "!@#$" with "!@#$" in my vocabulary, so that it becomes a female version of "dick" with ostensibly the same meaning. and it's hilarious here in america because "!@#$" gets about as much of a reaction as saying the n word. which is, of course, an example of language policing that i don't see as necessarily bad. i mean if that's how you feel that's how you feel but i personally don't want to associate with people who say that word unironically, because they're racists. don't get me wrong, i get it when people use "!@#$" and other discriminatory words when they're pissed off and just want to hurt someone with them, or if they're just saying it because they don't really actually have the connotation with those words that would be hateful, but i still try not to talk like that out of respect for the various groups that i'm not a member of who i feel deserve respect. but i don't go as far as just hating all white people like these weirdos i keep meeting who think that being white and rich is like, this god-given thing we have going on that has been going on forever and ever, or some bullshit, though. and for the record, none of those people are ever black people. it's always white people "oh i hate white people" !@#$ look in the mirror. and as much as the weirdo stalinoids and "we need to support north korea" trots (lmfao) piss me off, at least they're willing to read a book about something, and they care like yeah most people are garbage but i need to be around people who have brains and use them to think about shit. even if i disagree with them, i get along much better with people who think than the hurrdurr droolbabys, and being in a leftist alliance is a good way to sorta cut off some of the fat that i don't want. i actually was thinking about making something completely apolitical, but this thread was actually in response to one of many messages i've gotten of people wanting this back. and considering how half of the "leftists" here are just like the ones in INT (almost none of whom were actual irl radicals at all), i feel like doing this and sorta helping the process along can at least guarantee a starting point where there are some decent, intelligent people who are laying the foundations, rather than a bunch of idiots who don't know shit about !@#$ e: god damn it sheepy it's really hard to talk about curse words when you filter them all

here, have some more of this fine, moderate "anarchism": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute literally the people who want the south to "rise again" and the !@#$ koch brothers, these are the "libertarians" i keep hearing so much good about real anarchists have nothing in common with these parasites

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2011/02/09/ron-paul-invites-neo-confederate-witness-testify-congress in the words of ayn rand, you can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality although, to be fair, she hated libertarians, so she'd probably be happy with me using that quote here

communism is a movement within the broader spectrum of socialism stalin was a communist in ideology, not in rule communism is not "more authoritarian liberalism" anarchism is historically a left-wing ideology, whereas "libertarianism" as it is known in america is very far-right on economic issues, the exact opposite of anarchism lots of problems mainly with your inclusion of "radical" ideologies

i am a very important person but the vip lounge is inaccessible to me sheepy please fix this asap

i don't understand, why is making an alliance about pink flowers an insult? aren't pink flowers a good thing?

it is an interesting concept but you and i both know why it won't be implemented and that's because it makes the score range nearly useless and amounts to making "fire teams" (i never understood why people actually bothered with these in the first place) part of the in-game mechanics

many alliances protect their applicants. including wars that already existed wouldn't be cool, but it would probably be very helpful for many alliances to have an easy way to check if their applicants are being attacked. that said, having a lot of applicants for a long period of time is completely their fault, and if they can't be bothered to check up on them (or the nations themselves can't be bothered to inform someone that they're under attack), who cares? but, really, there's no reason why someone couldn't just make a script for this. in general, i support having as much features in the game possible not only because it makes the game better but because it limits the advantage that people get by being good with computers irl i don't really see how this could be used to troll or cover anything up, tbh. i think maybe you've been hanging around the people in this community a bit too much, sheepy

probably a better fit than being protected by arrgh, knowing some of the people in both of your alliances, but i would hate to see that relationship diminish as the result of a single war, even if that war left them temporarily incapable of fulfilling their protectorate obligations. after all, most protectorate agreements were useless just a few weeks ago.

not sure what you mean by this, but since you mentioned it, i think NS's dark theme is kinda gross (despite having used it when i played)

i ended up making this same suggestion without having seen this thread, as a way to make it so people actually have to carefully choose their wars not from an anti-raiding aspect, but from an alliance-war aspect, it makes it harder to beat people down over time if less people can take those ever-expiring defensive slots up

it would be hard to do well, especially with all the different images we have if you care about the idea, maybe you could download a page and alter the colors, or something, to give us an idea of how it might work if you show that it is possible to be done well, i don't see why sheepy would be against adding in the option for us, provided he has the time for it

if we could target aircraft with missiles it would be a quick and easy way to nerf aircraft without changing the rest - basically an air attack against tanks, but against aircraft. make it kill like 10% of the opponent's planes... something scale-able increasing steel output modestly seems like a better alternative to having tanks be worth less than a single unit of steel i don't really like the idea of reducing casualty numbers - it's just that when you outnumber your opponent a lot, you basically just trounce them. it would make more sense, to me, to just make it so no battle goes more than, say, 5:1 casualty ratio all of these are really easy to implement and solve 90% of those problems, along with just making immense triumphs more unlikely, but i feel like doing that would be awesome for raiding because you can just sit there and moderate attack over and over and get tons of money. although i guess you can already do this by just not sending all of your ground forces in the first place, so maybe we should make the change

I did leave for a while; just recently came back. Sorry about what I said. I can see why you might've taken it as an insult, but weird to me hasn't had negative connotations for a long time. And shit is just another word for "stuff". I liked having you as a member because you contribute interesting stuff, and the support that I showed for your posting back then has not eroded over time.

i really like this idea land is useless except for lowering pop density and increasing farm output this gives a way for us to buy improvement slots that is directly not related to infra, which gives us our money that said, i'm not sure i like population being based on land - i think it makes more sense for it to be based on infra, and i worry that adding pop to land would make land a bit overpowered but because land can't be touched, this gives us a way around the whole "having improvements that you don't have slots for" problem. it lets you make score much more accurate because of this, and also means that, for example, we can have improvement destruction chances increased because you're not losing the slot, just the improvement itself, and the slot always remains open additionally, this solves the problem of people getting beat down and not being able to fight back, because their improvement slots remain intact. what i fear with this suggestion, though, is that warchests would start to be a thing again. needing to save up resources for long periods of time in order to wage war effectively pushes the war cycle out further. and this essentially ties our ability to fight to how much stuff we have, rather than the real capabilities of our nations at the time of the declaration. this already exists to a certain extent, though. perhaps a way to render land temporarily unusable, for example, to "capture" improvements with successful ground attacks (and thus removing their positive effect on the nation), would make it so that a lot of tweaking wouldn't be needed but at the same time effectively allow us to temporarily limit improvements during war, keeping things the same as they are now wrt infra level/improvements being destroyed providing a minor setback to the war effort and being beaten down that doesn't override the good effects of a lower infra/city ratio wrt being able to fight against weaker opponents as a result of being knocked down i think it's workable and potentially very good, but you definitely would need to test it out a lot and make sure it's good before putting it live

you guys probably think that these posts make you look good in truth, i would drink bleach before joining your alliance. there's nothing cool about being stupid, racist, or rude.

flattering, but reality is that i've a lot to learn i'm pretty sure the nazis are to the right wing of just about everybody, though love the way you just twist that around to avoid the point won't be replying again because holy shit this thread is about ragnarok not hereno

no, u seriously go look at what you and eatemup said to me a couple nights ago and ask yourself when i ever said anything even remotely like that perhaps you have a reason for your "trolling". if so, feel free to actually talk to me about it. as far as the rest of this, in the interest of not derailing a thread, i'm not going to reply to any more of these. you guys get too much enjoyment out of it

when did i ever do that? why does every time i post the thread become about me? christ

ogaden is right here - a 3-5 city advantage in being able to rebuy troops isn't going to let you overcome someone who starts the war with at least one type of advantage over you (probably ground advantage) the ground/air advantages you have are basically designed to make it so you can shut someone down easier by attacking first. it encourages aggression and teamwork. which is fine. but in combination with the way it takes us days and days to rebuy troops, it's relatively easy to just avoid beiging and keep someone at war forever, perpetually unable to rebuild themselves, even with infinite resources. while i sorta agree with you wrt politics and whatnot, as a player who is universally hated, i feel like we should be able to still play the game. one way you could perhaps fix this balance is make it so offensive slots cannot be immediately filled after they're used. like each war still lasts 5 days at max, or whatever it is i don't remember, but you can only declare 5 total offensive wars per month, regardless of if you peace them out the next day or they last forever. it slows down raiding significantly, vastly limits the power of a single juggernaut nation to destroy alliances, and keeps people from getting beaten down forever unless the opponent truly has ridiculously superior numbers. more importantly, it makes it so you can't keep people out of beige forever, which the whole point of was to let them rebuild their militaries back up to size and get to start fresh again. it's a simple fix that doesn't require you to go back on the score change, but you should still test it out for a while before implementing it.

at this point, you guys are just derailing my thread with flaming and trolling beyond this post i'm gonna just start reporting you to the mods for it