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Zed

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  1. Why become a millionaire with a micro, when you can become a billionaire with e$? Pound Sign Free Monkey - Join e$ today AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ
  2. An un-recgonition of hostilities is a first I have seen. I guess we have some activity.
  3. Latin American leagues usually happen in the winter seasons of Northern Hemisphere. Weather is conducive to it, and you're not playing in most of the US anyway at that time. Being an alliance with only experienced veterans who know the culture of the game and about how stuff works is a rarity. Few alliances work on that scale; most majors do some form of active recruiting with brand new players, and that comes with upsides and risks. Elite culture alliances tend to not be large in member count for a variety of reasons, but one of the upsides is that you can be very free and open with members relative to groups that recruit from the masses.
  4. Want to Git Gud? Want benefits beyond what a random micro can provide? #freemonkey and join e$ AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ
  5. Big news coming out of e$ soon! If you want to know ahead of time, you should join today. AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ
  6. Tired old pirates taking a bank? How about that.
  7. Micro moment meets its match... Nano moment.
  8. I know this will be very hypocritical, but y'all please come on - I hope we are not playing CN and NS now. PnW is bad enough as it is.
  9. Do you like money? Pound Sign Free Monkey, and get your Hashtag Free Money. Join e$. AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ
  10. micro moment I am going to start a viceroy service. I will come to your micro and fix it. No fees necessary. It will be a much greater success than any bank.
  11. The Enterprise. Making headlines in Alliance Affairs for almost 5 years. Join today, and hashtag free monkey. AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ
  12. Good luck to all of the brothers (and sisters) on your journey out into the world. May you share the Good News with everyone you meet.
  13. May The Enterprise continue to have ROI and be immortalized in Alliance Affairs. o7
  14. EST? When the official game time is UTC, and most of the places currently on EST will be on EDT and not EST? Is this… amateur hour? Don’t make me tap the sign.
  15. #freemonkey and come and join power through economic dominance in e$. AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ
  16. Ever since people in this game worked out that city tiering was a useful thing to gather around, alliances have looked to form groupings that addressed that question in some way. Either you tried to make sure you had good coverage in every tier (or most of them), or you loaded up across a band and made sure you convincingly won there. This really is just MilCom and FA coming together to figure out something that will project power and accomplish the goals you want to do. The tier list chart posted above more or less shows this at work. Two of the spheres have gone for the many low and mid nations route, but they have almost nothing in the 35+ range. Then there are four groupings that are mostly 25+, although their configurations each have some kind of distinction. There have been times when some configurations have been more broadly criticized; whether any action gets taken or not is a matter for people to decide upon.
  17. If you are reading this post, you should join e$. AA Link: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=4829 Discord: https://discord.gg/B5QBJe6ZCZ #freemonkey
  18. There are many real life analogies for some thing continuing on, and sometimes making great achievements and developments, while yet being stagnated as an entity and/or sundered of their former glory or heights. I think there are certainly things that have stagnated in the game and the meta, but it does not mean the entire game is at a standstill. Here is a different thought - when was the last major change to the meta of fighting a war, in terms of the mechanics used? It certainly has been a few years. And this says nothing of improvements or resources or other things like that - basic mechanics which have a hard reality to them which after some period of time have been well worn and better resolved. Pacifica are also a convenient scapegoat to anathematize. This is why they can be brought up and discussed, even though we are coming up on 3 years without them, and they are not in the memory of a lot of our playerbase.
  19. The thing about democracy in these games is that, unless you have a relatively strong and talented player base, any democratic alliance is going to be beset by demagoguery. Such an act does not represent true ability or skill at the wider game; merely what you can do or present to your own members. The flip side is that democracy can work, but again, you have to have active and engaged players to pull it off. Such alliances tend to be smaller anyway, because managing all the personalities in the room is hard at scale. Charles posted about that idea just above. Some game departments do not lend themselves to having a lot of people involved, and some alliance cultures also constrain this. You really do not need that many people in Econ or Tech; and there is a good chance that in some places the Econ people blend with MilCom or IA. On a different note, while there have been attempts to have a large FA staff in t$, it usually has not been a long lasting or durable idea. This is more down to alliance culture, and the types of people who have led t$ FA, than realities on the ground with managing global affairs. Having said that, there is a relatively diminished scale in terms of working with other alliances compared to what would happen if we had 1000 member alliances and more major powers. You have a much easier time managing those kinds of decisions in smaller groups when you do not have as many people or places to visit. The advent of improved technology, and the blessing to use it in some instances by the admins, has led to some departments needing far fewer staff to operate. Most of our alliances in this game are within the realm of Dunbar's Number, whether the 150 version or the expanded 230 Bernard–Killworth version. That will play into community formation, and how some larger alliances will grow and have something attractive to join, versus a smaller group with more limited resources and less ability to influence world politics. I am very much on record for beating the tar out of micros with skill issues because they are a waste, and I am more than eager to clear them off of the Green color sphere as well. Most of the powers on Green are not exactly the best of friends with each other, but there is a tacit understanding that they will all be better off if scrubby nations are cleared from the color. This is an act of politics that transcends alliance treaties, and it really only one of the few examples of it happening out there. For some reason most alliances feel like they can put their offshore on Green too, which is misguided. This does not change the fact that for most of the majors, there is little need to "participate in the politics of the rest of the world", because there just are not that many alliances in the world which are worth paying attention to. Changeup mentions the same thing above. But this is not some attempt to crack at a historical punching bag like (insert your favorite historical punching bag here) - when you account for offshores and academies, there are not really that many alliances outside of the Top 60 or so worth really dealing with. As I stated earlier, I am more than glad to see them exiled from Green, but otherwise... meh. And for most nations above c20, there would not be a lot to do either.
  20. I in general agree with the sentiment of your first paragraph, although I disagree with the sentiment of the second insofar as the ultimate objective of the game. No one should try to do what Pacifica did, and we agree. I think most of the game agrees. Trying to do some of the politics like they did, with a dominant hegemony, has been thrown out with them. I know we just had a joke term thread between OWR and TKR, but some of those terms would not have been out of the question in ages past. We only really do admissions of defeat, white peace, and memes for terms now. Finding those wars with anything substantially more, like TFP-Arrgh, is uncommon. Now that said, there are probably fewer alliances that play in those alternate styles. Raiders have generally been defanged relative to their previous heights, the number of giant neutrals is mostly zero, and there are probably few relevant banker type players. It does seem like more alliances are either general gaming communities, or variations of a PNW-wide community. Someone like Borg is a good example of an alternative individual player, but that is one individual in a game of groups of players, and there are not many of those types in the game. I think it is possible to have a hegemon in this meta, but you need at least one, and really you need two, alliance(s) with the broad based appeal and power - both soft and hard - to pull off that kind of governance. The rest do not explicitly have to be that, so long as they can all buy in and fit somehow to whatever that central power is. I am not sure if there are any great candidates to lead a true hegemon right now among the major alliances. Moreover, you would need some alliances to get together and drive towards that as a goal, and as of this moment I do not think that is happening. It could happen, but I think you need some slight changes to the current political environment in order to make it look closer to a reality. I do think that there are periods where an alliance can say they have "won", in these games. That does not always have to last, and it does not always have to be the strongest military alliance or the one in the #1 AA rank by score. The threshold for that is relatively high, and I would not give that to an alliance that simply won a global war without the impacts of it lasting long-term. There are probably 3-4 alliances who can say they have hit that height ever in this game, as it stands right now.
  21. The kids these days do not know how good they have it, am I right?
  22. Friend, t$ has a long tradition of referring to others as friend.
  23. I, for one, look forward to The Ketchup Resistance as the next TKR theme day.
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