[Merge, Ally, Blitz]

1 hour ago, Eumirbago said:

In the spirit of the thread lmfao:

Merge Acadia, Ally Polaris, Blitz UPN

Mensa HQ, SK, Guardian

Merge Mensa, Ally Guardian, Blitz SK (very sorry tho!)

Camelot, BK (current), The Immortals

[Are we willing to forgive?]

2 hours ago, Azazel said:

So is Camelot guilty of some stuff? for sure, we do not think we're innocent of all guilt. Early on Camelot was definitely a catalyst, Epi ran around defending IQ. At the time NPO informed them T$ and others have asked to roll Camelot so really Camelot felt it was not really left with any alternatives. 

I'm just going to sidestep the fact that our MDoAP ally was leaking sphere opsec to you guys (because I don't think that's a shock to anybody at this point).

However, I can't help but drill in a bit here since t$ was explicitly mentioned. It's not like we really made pains to conceal the fact that we had a bone to pick with BK (and Camelot by extension). It was a bit of an open secret. I just think it's pretty obtuse of you to omit the numerous examples of antagonization we were experiencing from BK (directly and by proxy through Camelot). 

Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy if you want but don't try to sweep important context under the rug while simultaneously cooking up excuses for your behavior. 

 

And as an aside, that's all water under the bridge as far as I'm concerned anyway. What bothers me the most is what I observed when you were on the winning side of the war (and by you I mean UPN and Camelot mainly, at least as far as alliances still in the game are concerned).

Your lot became drunk on power and acted in obscene and absolutely despicable ways, none of which any of y'all have thoroughly or genuinely addressed in such a way that I would deem truly meets the standard for proper forgiveness beyond sheer benevolence on our part. 

[Are we willing to forgive?]

45 minutes ago, Thalmor said:

Grudges are dumb and there's no utility in them, though.

I disagree. Grudges are good. Seething anger is the most effective way to retain members like me. 

29 minutes ago, Abbas Mehdi said:

Rose allied camelot as they were the only alliance on the other side of the war that lobbied for our peace and was talking to a brick wall while trying to get us off the hook. 

Well, Camelot depending on you is a better look than you depending on them in a world where IQ didn't implode in on itself at least. 

8 minutes ago, Hodor said:

If they were really trying to sue for peace or move the needle in the IQ coalition channels, you'd think they'd have realized it was useless after a time and actually acted courageously on their convictions. 

But acting on ones convictions is hard.

And one would actually need real convictions in order to follow through on them. 

[Are we willing to forgive?]

If I tell you that UPN is unforgivable so long as they continue to follow their deplorable and morally bankrupt leadership and that for this they deserve nothing other than complete destruction, you might try to use that information against me. 

So I won't tell you that UPN is unforgivable so long as they continue to follow their deplorable and morally bankrupt leadership and that for this they deserve nothing other than complete destruction.

[5/14/2020 - 4 New Projects, Nation Score Change, and more]

Just now, Prefontaine said:

145-12. I'll take it. Well one of them was Alex putting in the down-vote so others could click on it, so technically it's still at 11. I'm sorry you're so upset about this game update. If you're so invested I would recommend becoming more active in the game suggestion/discussion area. I don't see any threads of yours there on a quick check. Best of luck. 

I don't have to be involved in the development to tell you that your half-baked projects and the new mechanics are shit. 

And me being more involved doesn't mean they aren't shit. 

My counter suggestion is that you do the responsible thing and remove your involvement from development moving forward, because you're shit at it. 

[5/14/2020 - 4 New Projects, Nation Score Change, and more]

1 minute ago, Prefontaine said:

Were you one of the 11 discord downvotes? Can't make everyone happy

No, so that's 12 dissatisfied people and counting. 

The projects are like lip gloss on an worn out old whore. They make it a little better, I guess, but don't substantially improve anything. Meanwhile Alex just knocked one of the foundational mechanics of his war system into oblivion. 

[5/14/2020 - 4 New Projects, Nation Score Change, and more]

1 minute ago, Prefontaine said:

I'm not. I made the Projects. 

They're all pretty much shit too. 

[5/14/2020 - 4 New Projects, Nation Score Change, and more]

37 minutes ago, Prefontaine said:

Sweet, you can't pin someone down forever if they have the means of fighting back? That sounds pretty fantastic considering you could lose the war while you were asleep. Thanks!

If you get 0'd in the old system you could only fight back by missile/nuke turreting regardless of score ranges and if you had the resources to rebuild or not. Unless you mean coming out of beige without military and a 10-25 city advantage on people and double buying to hit them. Again sounds fantastic that massive down declares have been nerfed. Thanks for the congrats! 

Oh cool, you were in the meetings and privy to the things considered and discussed. 

You don't sound emotionally invested in this trainwreck of an update at all.

Losing in your sleep doesn't justify making it practically impossible to lose a defensive war.

This is a very complicated and obtuse attempt to fix a minor problem by not accomplishing anything remotely effective. 

 

[5/14/2020 - 4 New Projects, Nation Score Change, and more]

And just when I was starting to believe 2020 couldn't possibly get any worse. 

[Global Alliance and Treaty Organization - Declaration of Existence and Protection Treaty]

Finally found a place to be safe from NPO, I see. 

Welcome. 

[Did the miners all leave?]

22 hours ago, dtc justice said:

From my experience, these markets just slow the low tier down and make the rich, richer ?

Sure, but just imagine how much worse it would be with the classic self-sustained manufacturing builds from before.

[Did the miners all leave?]

Seems like it's doing exactly what Alex wanted it to do: favor smaller nations who produce raws and compel whales to dump loads of cash on them. Slowing down the whales and encouraging quicker low tier growth. 

Also gives raiding some more viability which is nice as it encourages variety of playstyles and gives more active players in that range something to do besides playing farmville. 

[$yndicate Businessweek Update: Foreign Affairs Update]

Here's to a renewed and more vibrant future for The Syndicate!

[Syndicate-TEst contractbeeindiging]

3 minutes ago, Prefonteen said:

while others sat around eating crayon.

I told you that in confidence!

[Come To The Light]

The darkness is all around us. 

All should strive to find the light. 

At first it may be blinding, but if you seek it out...

 

You will see.

 

Congratulations guys! I'm really looking forward to seeing what you accomplish with The Enlightenment!

[Back to the Eastern Steppes]

Happy retirement! Congratulations on everything IRL and a good run in game with TGH! 

I'll miss you, hippo.

[Back in Black]

Ayyyy Lmao

[My Video On Golbal War 14]

Judging by the bottle in the background, this is very clearly TCW propaganda. 

[Administration meta interference]

I, too, loaned billions to BK and NPO.

Where do I sign up for this free hand out? About 15bil should cover up my poor investment strategy. 

[Name the laggy global war]

23 minutes ago, Avakael said:

I think we'd be best off trying to name the three rough individual stages of the war before trying to name the overall thing. Makes sense that the first chunk retains "Dial Up War", the second chunk, when t$ re-entered against Coalition B, gets another name, and the third chunk, when tCW flipped and Immortals/Fark and friends entered, gets a name like "NPO's last time", and then we think of some other name entirely again to name the entire 8 month affair.

Part 1: The Phantom Menace

Part 2: The Clone Wars

Part 3: Revenge of the Sith

[OWR Official Apology for Malicious Intent]

1 hour ago, namukara said:

You have no sovereignty. You, like the rest of our allies, are mere agents through which the Immortals game domination masterplan shall be exercised.

Don't make us force our allies to attack you.

[OWR Official Apology for Malicious Intent]

1 hour ago, namukara said:

Though T$...don't force your allies to apologise if they don't really mean it. Sometimes, it is appropriate to do bad things, accept that you did bad things, and decide that bad things were worth doing, or were actually not that bad when you get down to it.

Do not you ever undermine our sovereignty by even suggesting that we should respect the sovereignty of our allies. 

[New Era]

2 hours ago, George said:

While I can see the concern with going to mini spheres, the issue I see is the same as this time. If this opportunity is blown, it won’t be possible for quite some time, the annoying truth is if we move to bipolarity, moving away is 100x harder.

People hate giving up a major power lead, the simple fact in my opinion and based it off other games and the events of this game, if we keep bipolarity, the chances of mini spheres just won’t happen, someone will gain to much power and won’t want to give it up 

I think you misunderstood me. 

It's not about asserting bipolarity or maintaining a huge power center so much as it's about all of the major powers putting the time and work into building enough independent and resilient communities in the game to make bipolarity near-impossible to establish. 

Minispheres will naturally occur over time if we invest in new players and communities. 

Sidenote: It should be a lot easier to maintain a more varied and complex dynamic now that the main alliances determined to force bipolarity as their core strategy have been defeated and/or disbanded though. We can work on both aspects in tandem.

[{PEACE} End of Alphabet Soup Coalition]

NPO would need an actual player in leadership in order to sign peace. 

[New Era]

I think we should all make a firm commitment to ensuring our rivals have as unenjoyable experience playing this game as possible. 

 

On a serious note though, I believe it's every major alliance's responsibility to reinvest on the community by supporting and teaching new alliances how to grow and get involved in the game. 

If we all have that mindset we will naturally see different and varied spheres of influence mixing things up and cultivate a longterm experience for new players and old players alike. 

That's why the Syndicate has almost always believed in SyndiCare and invested a lot of its time into guiding its protectorates. 

 

I'm not sure we'll get back to minispheres in a hurry, but it would be good to cultivate as many diverse and interesting communities as we can.  Alliance rank 10-50 has a lot of potential to swing coalitions and really make things interesting if you let them.