Abaddon

Its real.

Why is this pot calling my kettle black?

Nobody deserves this.

Singularity is the biggest villain, literally worse than NPO

Watch out Sketchy, @Darth Ataxia is slowly but surely writing his comeback.

Alright, IA-man reporting, I guess I'm gonna use these forums for something and reply to these one at a time for the 3 people that are gonna read it. (Except for Roberts because he never replies to the replies I make on his posts) That isn't true. You being in Rose should know better than anyone that Rose and other majors began the raiding meta eons ago, tracing back to 2017 and 2018. That is the meta everyone followed for the last 5-6 years and one that got pushed because it was inexpensive and required less effort, not because it was profitable. The post 2020 meta didn't become overpowered when people noticed what it could be, it got abused because the admin allowed a bad line of code. C3 raiding was never meant to be that profitable and nobody suddenly discovered a new tech. Again, all of these statements aren't entirely true. People repeat this narrative and take it for granted because it was popular for the last 2-3 years, but it isn't true anymore. It is currently a sub-par way of growing your low tier because post C20 timer removal, you get higher ROI simply bulk-growing your C3s traditionally through grants. Raiding has been relegated to being a test of commitment more than anything, just as it was before the 2020 bug was introduced. The alliances that still utilize the post-2020 raiding meta do so because they run low taxes, and neither can afford the necessary investment nor will see the return on their investment because they can't appropriately tax the members they fund. ie. they're slow to adapt and need to git gud. To those that don't pay attention, alliances like The Coal Mines and Camelot have adapted to the new system and have built massive c16/c20 walls using high taxes and EA micromanagement in their low tiers. That also isn't true. If anything, retention rates have gone up since the C20 timers have been removed and that isn't the main issue we're currently having. The issue we are having is a lack of new players registering to play the game as those numbers have been going down steadily since the beginning of the year. In September, they hit record lows. Not only that, but less and less players are willing to use discord as a platform of communication as time goes on. The reason for this is that the majority of users that register for discord tend to be adults between the ages of 24 and 34, and the majority of new nations created are of individuals between 14-18. Thus, micros that recruit non-discord users see higher recruitment rates than almost all majors with the exception of Rose and SIN. The way to raise retention for new players isn't a secret, it's something we've known how to fix for ages, but the issue we're having is that we're more concerned with tweaking the war mechanics and thus IA/Econ discussions rarely see the light of day. Nowadays I leave my suggestions with Alex and the people on the design team directly, because convincing the active player-base on this issue isn't gonna happen since the bulk of the communication in RON is comprised of high tier raiders that are out of touch.

Happy 7 years House Stark!

Welcome back buddy

dnn

Legion when they wake up and read House Stark's peace offer