Lu Xun

Why did you randomly mention TFP?

Arrgh is a very proud alliance. Good luck getting a diplomatic solution with them, and the alternative usually costs you more than it costs them. I like Arrgh, I think they're great fighters and a good source of mercenaries. But I do admit that they get out of hand at times. Taking another regular swill, here's to a healthy, lively Arrgh alliance.

I'm more surprised it was AK that officially DOWed, as a Syndisphere protectorate. There's also VG assets counter-raiding after the 450mn cash + RSS raid, and there's even a Syndicate-Enterprise strike team attacking Arrgh, when the nation involved never directly attacked a Syndicate-Enterprise asset.

I guess that it's more that PnW is labeled a politics game, whereas it's actually a war game, with rampant hostility that ensues. W&P War and Politics might be a less deceptive name although this war is getting to be War & Peace. This game, in terms of war intensity, is basically a hybrid of CN:SE and CN:TE; i.e, TE (war-intensive) with real politic that last months. I was told the GPA, for instance, when they moved into this game, barely lasted months.

23 days in june, 31 days in july, 14 days in August. 68 full days. I'm serious, Dance Dance Revolution is, well: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dance-psychology/201003/sex-and-dancing Then you stuff in 69 days as an alternate nick. Minds in the gutter. Time to have a mental cleanse on (gore forum that cannot be named).

Laugh / Cringe are good enough. Actually, I think I made this suggestion a couple of years back and apparently it was outside the forums' capability.

Did we reach the longest global war record yet? 54 days, I keep on going through records on Wiki but we seem to have passed the Trial of Tiers in length. DDR (68 days, counting full days) has yet to be reached. Steve's War is still 11 days to go. So we should have exceeded all other global wars in length, with just two side wars (needs to reach December 27th) in front of us.

What, the OOC attacks and real-life persecution? Been there, seen that.

Move your bank off alliance. Simple workaround.

❤️ Typhon

Until it turns out they weren't and I have the videographic evidence. @OP Just a note about the game. A former friend told me this was the most toxic game he's ever played, and that's how the game is designed, to be honest. From the very beginning, the game is supposed to be about beating other people's teeth in. The speed of combat engagements mean that it's very hard to win a war when you're losing, and the most effective strategy early on is to raid inactive or, more upsettingly, weaker nations. The loot mechanic in game encourages incessant warfare, with the initial stage often contentious, but with the later stages approximating a glorified raid. I think in other games you have a dynamic between "moralists" and raiders. In this game, the concept of moralist barely exists. The last people who tried to stomp out lower-tier raiders also were probably attempting to deliberately get themselves rolled as well, and the "moralist" factor is not a "cultural" thing, but rather a structural thing; raiding, warfare, etc, these are all part of the game. I recall a rather "carebear" alliance that migrated from a more sedate game. They got rolled repeatedly, then their descendant ended up being populated in part by aggressive and offensive !@#$. And they are probably winning as a result.

I motion that everyone declares war on everyone else for eternity. All those that approve?

Tell me, Akuryo, are you at all disappointed that this war didn't escalate?

Except when conspiracies do exist and are executed in a game that is in part a political simulator. The trick is plausible deniability, as always, you can't pin it, you can't know. Hence the "possible" I keep on using.

So you've confirmed publicly that Empyrea acted on its own, without the support of the broader sphere, and when people screamed at them, they backed off. Congrats.

Told you. Vanguard couldn't counter, IQ would rather use the coalition to avoid SynDIQ breaking up, TGH-sphere was only willing to send its least strong out at a Vanguard protectorate. Or did Empyrea act on its own? In either case, TGH-sphere can still go for an all-out attack on Vanguard, to which it may even trigger a Syndisphere counter for trying to screw up the larger war. Or, even better, it can do so just after IQ finishes demilitarizing post-war, locking IQ in war for longer than Syndisphere.

Diplomatic solution is diplomatic~

Inb4 TGH hits Vanguard claiming preemptive attack.

It's not like reporting a planned blitz is going to end up cancelling the blitz, is it? Or is it TGH-sphere's plan to hit Vanguard instead?

This constitutes a CB, right?

Hence September 2018, they cancelled mid-war. If you wanted to nitpick, I said Empyrea when I meant Oblivion. Just fixed that.

Sorry, I spent all my money on fighting Pantheon.

Sad thing is, I like Rick Astley.

I don't see what's fundamentally wrong with it. Barter is superior to cash trade when both parties can agree upon a price. At the present rate, if I want to trade coal for uranium, I'd have to convert it to money (at a loss) and the money to uranium (at a loss). It would improve the efficiency of the marketplace. IRL, the Japanese and Chinese used barter-type aid deals, i.e, they'd be paid back in loans via oil or metals, denominated at a specific price. This reduces the possibility of embezzlement throughout the deal. In a PnW context, it'd require less steps and has a lower likelihood for something to go wrong (sent to the wrong person, etc).

Gieb proper link, I couldn't youtube or lyric search the song.