James XVI

Oh shit totally forgot about the gas trades until now! I guess you/Roz must have sold the invitation for Roz Wei pretty well at the time as I don't remember really having any reservations...no regrets anyway! Feel free to trade gas for steel or whatever, whenever you want 😜

Unfortunately apart from a couple, I don't remember that many names from there, but sounds plausible! Nice to put a potential name to a memory!

Whilst I don't pay massive attention to things, one could argue that this is par for the course, considering the credit reward was at one point $1m or $5m or something. Back during the first few times credit reward value was increased there was a bit of debate between people as to whether it was a good idea or just creeping towards pay-to-win situation. The argument that it wasn't was based on the fact that people selling credits on the market were selling at a much higher value than the redeemable value on the donate page and thus it made sense to increase the donate page value to match this. (The opposing argument was that this will just cause inflation of the credit values...which duh...this is what has happened and is still happening). So this is kind of to be expected, and there is a whole lot more stuff on the market now than previously, with more cities and all, so is the value side of things from that narrow point of view necessarily a problem? The more problematic bit perhaps is the increase of the credit redemption cap from 10 to 20, and the resulting increase in price of the subscription cost etc., and lack of options to do other things with credits that aren't pay-to-win. You could argue that that's an attempt to control inflation but the cynical realistic answer is pffffft, sure 🙄. Mind you server costs must be a thing and all this kind of stuff, and the lights have to be kept on, servants employed etc. in Sheepy Mansion I guess - no real way of knowing exactly if costs/attitude to pay-to-win is based on keeping things alive or not without publishing financial information. But yeah hidude is probably not wrong, hehe

Thank you for your service! congrats on the (I imagine) very similar its been a genuine pleasure! ❤️ I still remember the fun of those Sunday morning calls at some point quite a few years back

As of this time, and maybe a few hours ten years ago, I created my nation in P&W. Now I'm by no means the oldest player around - unlike a few of you I never participated in the Beta or any of that stuff, but I joined on the off-chance after reading a comment by someone (no idea who) on the Green Protection Agency's forum (CN version not the P&W one, obviously ) mentioning our esteemed admin doing some questionable advertising (their words, paraphrased, not mine). Just why I had the time on what seemed to be quite a nice sunny day to be creating nations and playing games online on New Years Eve, I have no idea (my excuse today is it's pissing down like mad and the wind is shaking the house, and it's dark...), but here I am still, ten years later. Its stating the obvious to say that a lot has changed, but it really has. Unfortunately I don't currently have access to my desktop PC which has all my screenshots from over the years on, but everything, from UI to tactics, to features (RIP Alliance Headquarters and countries on the map being perfect circles around your capital), and even Sheepy~ uh, I mean Alex's name has seen some kind of change. Having been in positions of alliance governments for much of that time too, and going from using IRC rooms to conduct alliance business to Discord, and seeing that take over everything, and from manually assigning targets in wars to having nifty automated scripts to save literal hours of staring at sheets and numbers - its certainly been interesting. I've had a lot of fun memories: - starting off my first 8-or-so months of playing taking part in spam games on the DEIC forums - speaking with @Mayor (sorry for the ping, hehe) and Rozalia and joining Roz Wei - a time that still holds some of my fondest memories, from the friends made and the community that came from there, wars fought etc. (being part of an alliance forcing another alliance to give up it's oil and drop it's protector was a fun time) - taking part in @Kastor's (not sorry for the ping 😈) merry bands of alliances, and the genuine fun that was had from those antics - rejoining Roz Wei post-Rozalia and helping to build that alliance up, then co-leading that alliance for a number of years (and early on especially, doing some really fun stuff) etc. etc. etc. - that's like the first 5 years covered. It's a hell of a long time when I think about it, and I daren't think about how many hours over those years I've spent, and seem to be still spending here. Miss a lot of people too - those that have moved on, those that no longer live, but then again someone new always appears. There were some great people that appeared in the latter years of The Wei: @Boris Underground and @Blair4932 to name just two (I can't think how many others actually have forum accounts to name, but if you're reading this and are a former Wei member, I probably like you ) Back in 2014 I was still at university. Now I work full time and live with my partner, and have no where near as much time as I used to to play these things, but it is still fun to log in and converse with people, click a few things and log out again, even if I can't participate as effectively in things like wars as I used to like being able to do. No idea if this game will still be here in another 10 years, and no clue if it is if I'll be still logging in and making the occasional post - I guess we'll see! It doesn't seem like many people use these forums anymore, so I feel I can get away with a rambling post like this now compared to a few years ago. Where are the 30 page long discussions on DoWs nowadays? News servers? EWWWWW. -THE Definitive James (and the oldest, prettiest, most Jamesest etc.etc...just read the signature or something)

Be gentle Now with free shardblade

A noble cause that has garnered support! The campaign is many mere hours old and already has attracted much support. People who will of course go down in history as being the most upstanding members of the community. Would you not want to be part of this?

This observation is correct and noted.

As many of you should know, Definitive James has been the Ad God of Orbis for many years, and the self-proclaimed Mastermind behind many propaganda accolades. Many have complained praised my Deft and Subtle skills in propaganda, and the targeting of audiences for Just Causes. Don't lie, I've seen your comments 😎 Orbis saw many a great advert under my and only my watch which spawned many an imitator, desperate for the glory that only Superior Propaganda Skills can result in. Orbis and Sheepy's pockets thrived. HOWEVER, we have reached sad times. The Golden Days of Adland have gone, replaced with mass-produced, cheap ad-labour crap from overseas. Would you not wish to see a return to beauty in ads? Classics reimagined? Something other than a dull and boring system ad being the 'most popular'? A Renaissance, if you will? My plea to you: bring back the glory days of Innovative and Effective adverts. Fund a poor but dedicated campaigner in their Quest to see Beauty restored to Orbis. Even as little as $1 000 000 or a spare credit would go a long way. Your charity will save (creative) lives. FUND ME! CLICK HERE AND SEND A GENEROUS TRADE! I will be somewhat thankful. Definitive James The One and Only

It's complete Khan-age!

Congrats! The last 8 have (probably) flown by so woo! Another 8 years of pain!

needs more self-aggrandizing WoT Epic story, but apart from that good show.

Still the World's greatest pirate alliance. Keep on Arrgh!ing!

To be fair the best bit about being in Kastor led alliances is all the defensive wars you get involved in. Maybe I'm a masochist but it was kinda fun getting shat on every couple of months for something that had happened.