William of Cobden

I've already mentioned my belief that getting people to join and remain in active standing with an alliance by offering them exclusive content doesn't clearly break the trading of in-game resources for out of game resources. And if it does the rule should be be re-written to clearly include that scenario. Keeping quiet about or hiding/destroying evidence doesn't prove anything either as it's clear that any such information could be twisted and used by enemies (and apparently even possibly admin) to create a narrative against you. Also ... I've never even heard of any of you until a couple days ago. I wouldn't have known a NPO member (or whatever that Guinea Pig alliance is) from a any other of your alliances. I had no idea who was on ColA or ColB, still don't really. I guess my alliance was on NPO's side? I log on every day and do my own thing. I've been playing this game for years, and very rarely get involved in any of this crap. I can see now that is for good reason. I'm so glad I benefited from months and months of this endless war and the constant re-building after attacks from nations twice my size.

The problem is his integrity has seriously been called into question. And the more I hear about it, and the attitude of most of you here, I'm starting to believe the narrative where he chose a side and created a narrative that would reach the endgame that was desired.

The old "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" argument ... I would argue that they had seemingly cause to believe that they were being targeted by their enemies, which they would say now included the admin of the game. As such they were protecting themselves from that attack in the only way they knew how.

I charge every alliance in the game of taking money from inactive nations (who have no intention of ever playing the game again) into their bank, and "funneling" it into their active nations. Alex please investigate.

I completely understand that your biases make you blind. I'm starting to believe everything I'm hearing from the other side. That "whataboutism" clearly highlights a "catch-all rule" that can be conveniently pulled out as ammunition to punish anyone you want at any time if you want. That's my point.

It's still not a direct trade of in-game materials for out of game materials. It's incentive to join the game and remain in active standing. Those are two different things. I find it hard to believe every top alliance isn't doing something like this on a fairly regular basis.

I agree that the rules where not clear. Giving members access to a restricted area of your discord server or website where content is available in exchange, and as incentive to, join/stay in your community and remain in active standing isn't clearly an exchanges of real-life money or goods for in-game materials, including but not limited to: in-game money, and in-game resources. I'm also kind of shocked by this response: Not quite sure what to make of it ...

This is the most interesting comment in this thread ...

Did all members of GPWC receive access to this translated comic, and as long as you kept an active status you kept this benefit? Are their any other benefits they or other alliances use on their websites and discord that are similar to this, encourage members to stay and maintain an active?

I just googled "Emperor Jonas". That's funny. I mean just for a short while. Let both sides cool off, and it would help negate, even if partially, any perceived advantage either side has gained from either cheating or the punishment administered by admin. Once the cool off period has ended then the sides can decide whether they want to renew hostilities or go a different route maybe ...

I think the ability to declare new wars should be disabled for the time being.

I actually hope they will take the opporunity to make a more robost war mechanic. Where you formally declare war against other alliances and you have a progress meter that swings back and forth until one side crosses the line on their side to win the war. Or something along those lines. Have strict game rules about what alliance you can declare war on based on size and frequency. Alliances could even enter into challanges from other alliances, or the admin could post challenges with prizes/rewards for the winners. etc. etc. So many possibilities.

Also, is there a post somehwere in the forum where a narrative of all of this is posted by someone representing the admin? If so can you link it here. If that doesn't exist then I think it'd be helpful if it did.

So there are alliances offering people a Raffle where they win prizes if they sign up to play P/W? Is this a one-time Raffle, or are there multiple raffles if people stay active? They have to join a specific alliance I'd assume? They play the game like normal? Or do they also sit in a tax farm alliance? Then you have other alliances offering basically a monthly subscription to a translated Manga comic in exchange for them signing up to sit in alliance and be taxed 100%? All these people aren't actually playing the game? How many people we talking about here? Can someone with the ability to answer these questions without bias or insults would be welcome.

Can somebody tell me more about this "Raffle" I hear about some other alliance doing? I hear it being compared to this translated Manga thing a lot ...

Clearly that shouldn't be allowed if that is indeed what was happening. As someone that has just found out about all this, I'm having trouble distinguishing what is real and what is propaganda. I'm sure I'm not alone ... Really the only questions I really left are 1)Is everybody cheating except me? 2) Is this the kind of stuff all the "top" alliances are engaging in order to "compete"? 3) Is discipline being handed out evenly and fairly? 4) Am I too old for any of this?

Just remember, there are tonnes of casual players in alliances that have no idea about any of this. I'm one. I just settled into an alliance and come to check my nation every day. Got a crazy message in mine, so came to check out the forums (which I never really check anymore) and find all this stuff here. Never heard about any of it. Thought I'd share.

The war changes sound like they are for the better. Resistance meter and additional wars adding an additional 2 days to beige are welcome changes. Thank.s

Hey, My name of William of Cobden and I belong to an alliance called Odd Squad. For those just starting out it can be rough, and if you don't join an alliance other nations will attack you once you come off the color beige. It's important that you join an alliance before that happens. For veteran players, please consider Odd Squad as your alliance of choice! Personally, I have been with them since I started playing this game, and they are a laid back group that don't have a tonne of rules. But they'll always have your back if someone starts going after you... Notices: - Odd Squad does not require an alliance based forum membership for entry. - Members are accepted immediately - The official religious beliefs of Odd Squad is Dioism. Treaties and Protectorates: MDP: Socialist Workers Front Raider Assistance Agreements with: UPN, Magister Mortalis, & SWF Odd Squad is protected by Viridian Entente Policies: 1. Do not raid nations in alliances with more than 10 members or alliances that have protectorates. If you would like to raid an alliance with more than 10 members, run it by leaders. Raiding inactives outside of an alliance is always acceptable, raiding inactives under an alliance is not. 2. Make sure to stay active. This means to try to login daily. If you plan on being inactive for more than 3 days, please message me and let me know what's going on. Nation’s that go purple will be kicked. Vacation Mode is always an option as well 3. Don't be afraid to ask us for stuff. If you need money for your new city, commerce, w/e tell us. We're more than happy to assist. If you need advice, feel free to ask us. If your request has not been processed, or you have not been granted your new city, etc, without a response within 24 hours, message Ansom and we'll take care of it over the message. Programs We grant up to your 5th city In addition to 5th city grants we now offer help with funding for 6,7 and 8. We grant 100% Commerce to these first 5 cities. This means if you need resources to build your banks or stadiums, please tell us. Members are not required to use our forum, but we do have one under construction. Members are not required to join the forum, and applicants do not have to sign up to it to be accepted into Odd Squad. Our Tax rates are almost always 10% Revenue only. Taxes will never go higher than 40% Revenue only, and very likely aren't ever going to get that high. If our alliance is at war taxes are will be 0-5% revenue only. The first and third Sunday of the month taxes will be 25-40% for 24 hours. When a nation has been here for 30 days, they get the loyalty bonuses. The current loyalty program we have is when you have 5 cities with 1000 infra in each of them as well as having your commerce maxed, you are eligible for a Free Nation Project* We offer interest free loans up to 2 mil. (This is the current maximum to a loan a member can take out.) If a member wishes to take a loan out they need to provide their daily income, a specified time to payback their loan, and possibly other questions. If you do not get a response after submitting the loan request, feel free to send me Ansom message and we can address it there. *The Free National Project we offer free of charge do not include the following: Nuclear Research Facility International Trade Center Vital Defense System If we are the alliance for you or your looking for a relaxed place to start, Join here

Missile chance to hit/damage lowered, but action points needed to launch also lowered. In reality it's not hard for someone to fire a missile, it shouldn't take alot of action points. What's hard is making it hit it's target ...

There should be an option to get rid of a treasure if you don't want it, or block your nation from accepting one in the first place. Unless you are in a top alliance they are just a big target on your back and an excuse for small alliances/nations to get rolled by bigger ones. ...

The option for transparency if an alliance so chooses? Alliances sometime want to keep the totals within their bank secret to prevent spy nations from potentially getting a hold of the intel and passing it on to whoever. But at the same time members of an alliance, the one's who are paying the taxes, may like to see what the resources of the bank are being used for and where they are going. Currently blocking the bank totals, also blocks being able to see transactions within the bank page of the alliance. It'd be nice to have the option to separate the two for those alliances that wish to hide one, but not necessarily the other. Pretty simple little change I would think.

It would be useful for alliances to be able to block/hide their bank totals from members for security, but still allow members to see individual bank transactions from within the bank page.

Reset the game ...

Correction, this game has turned into a cluster!@#$ ...