Rache Olderen

Democracy. That is what we get for inviting the mob in. That and if you view the DNC and IQ EMC and IQ as political parties, which for this they might as well be, IQ simply mobilized their voting base better then EMC and their time here doesn't matter considering they fulfilled the eligibility for "citizenship" (registering on the forums being the equivalent of registering to vote).

Listen as a RL Monarchist I agree democracy is bad and secret ballots are awful because it doesn't allow you to harass the people who vote differently than you like but no need to say it publicly. Makes you look like a sore loser really.

Listen as a RL Monarchist I agree democracy is bad and secret ballots are awful because it doesn't allow you to harass the people who vote differently than you like but no need to say it publicly. Makes you look like a sore loser really.

Our scientists are still debating that matter.

Or is it that how Zoot perceives reality disagrees with reality itself?

Pretty much what I have been wondering. Why keep doing something when the point of doing it no longer exists?

bitte

I give you points for honesty.

In no particular order. Might add more later. Best Rookie Alliance: Avanses Best Declaration of War: Roz Wei's DoW https://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/21584-yo-the-roz-and-his-friends-return/ Best Villain: Roquentin Most Honourable Alliance: Polaris Most Improved Alliance: The Fighting Pacifists Best Forums: Black Knights Most Controversial Alliance: Knights Templar Alliance Most Likely to Fail in 2018: Charming Friends Best New Addition to the Community: Ripper (them comics) Best Economic System: The Syndicate Best Propaganda Staff: Rose Most Entertaining Discord Channel(Please don't include Slack): Orbis World Leader Summit Best IC Poster: Fraggle

I was going to vote Duat for that, I had forgotten they existed again until they came up (no offense to you guys).

As the last resource war that had happened was Arrgh and co. rolling Phoenix and (I believe) GPA when we plunged the world into famine during a world war I do see your point. It would be interesting, especially in a post global war situation when you are trying to get your nations functional again.

Care to elaborate how this would give the politics more political value? I am having a bit of a hard time seeing it.

Thalmor is going native. Too much rum on the mind I'm assuming.

Not nearly enough black lines. It fails to capture Roq vision properly.

Problem is reading the logs I would say it is by the large not too suspicious, especially if it is a link to an old gov spreadsheet, though Jack just told me it is a dummy spreadsheet. That is if I am understanding the logs right. Heck sharing something old and ridiculous like an old economics log would be something I would do (without hacking of course, I barely know how to use a computer). Heck if I had the old logs on hand I would pull up the time we accidentally added too many zeros to a rebuilding aid package from two years ago. I'm blaming Russia Syndisphere like any good Democrat IQ member would.

Yes, rampaging tentacle monsters would be so entertaining. Whenever Duat gets enough slots open or immediately after this fight ends and they are still here.

Slack has its uses, but not for something like PnW as much. Me personally yes, by this point I am down for us simply waging wars in other games (total war, etc.) if it is too cost prohibitive here just to have something to do. But I can't speak for the government because democracy is such a pain.

Ah I have missed RW's DoWs.

Something like "Must have a similar amount of members (within 5 or 10 member difference for example), must have a similar average score, majority of members (barring poor tiering on behalf of one of the alliances) must be in range of a majority of the members of the other alliance, any other kind of matches must be taken up with the consent of both alliance leaders". That works too.

Would be an interesting idea to work on. Would just need solid rules and ideas and alliances willing to burn their pixels and warchests.

That introduces a new problem when it comes to score. Example: CS and NK both have the same about of members (not counting anyone in VM since I didn't bother looking at that) so we would be in the same cup. But NK's average score is over 2000 higher than CS. As someone in CS' mid tier I would only be in range of 7 of NK's members with a majority of the rest being higher than my range as is. Then there is a matter of win conditions, what would be the condition of victory? If the condition is making the other side surrender some alliances will probably last for while so the tournament would be needlessly dragged out by a few holdouts holding everyone up. Perhaps the most damage done in a single round would work but still would have reservations.

Oblivion can do it. We believe in them and that it is their destiny to do this.

While it is an interesting thought the problem is two fold, there is no incentive for either side to do so and artificial splits would not work because the friendly FA is still there, meaning that it would be expected for the NPO bloc and the BK bloc to cooperate with one another if war happened, same with the TKR bloc and the Rose bloc. If at least to balance out the other side and for security concerns. So effectively it changes the scenery of the starting line but not moving anywhere past said line. Example: The TKR and Rose bloc team up to roll the NPO bloc (something I can fully see happening). The BK bloc would most likely find it in their best interest to help the NPO bloc because they do not want to be next (something a bit less likely but also very possible). Of course the Nuke bloc and KT bloc could add a theoretical dynamic to it but at most it boils down to "Which one will go with who" in the above example (placing my money on them doing nothing as it is effectively an EMC-IQ war now). Now you are right on the t$ thing of course, though, if you ask me, unless t$ rallies the paperless or another bloc to fight along side them I can't see t$ solo running any alliance in the other blocs because the other alliances in said bloc would of course declare war, it is twofold as t$ would not be able to cover the entire score range of a bigger alliance effectively and they would need the extra manpower to actually suppress them and force anything they want. Now if Alex tried changing the game mechanics to enforce artificially separate spheres to break us up that would work. And Alex if you are reading this please don't do that, please.

Wasn't that tried about two weeks ago and only resulted in a 16 page long forum post over in Alliance affairs concerning HW and TKR?

My sense of humor is a bit odd I do admit so that does happen a lot, my joke about rolling BK/CS was planning for war against BK that I made last year was taken seriously by some after all. But I will say for the first time it sounded like a joke to me since to me I wrote it with a lighthearted tone in mind. The second time (this time) is probably a bit of a combo of joking, my sickness speaking (this season has been bad for me), and general annoyance about the constant IQ bashing, the screams of consolidation (even if the treaties were signed simply out of liking the other alliance as you noted), and having the alliance I have been in for the past two years being called an "irrelevant sidenote alliance" and treated as a dog in those remarks. Cornerstone is the sole reason I stay in this game and community so it would naturally grate on my temper. Not that I don't admit CS does indeed have problems, I highlighted them a lot in my term, but something like that causes my temper to flare up. Yes, it probably sounds pathetic but still, I owe a lot to CS and its community so that is how I feel about things. As for the SK thing when isn't Mensa annoyed or pissed off at someone/something? But in seriousness good to know thank you for the enlightenment (and yes I am being serious).