Kurdanak

After KT visited my nation, I've never felt better! Have fun out there, it's a 5-star service for sure - after stretching those muscles and shedding some of that excess infra, you'll feel brand new!

Excuse me Mr. RON sir, why is the mainstream media not reporting on this breaking scandal?? One that totally can't be explained by, you know, relatively common econ practices that I assume would be known by the best A+ economists in P&W history. And maybe a little creative thinking if you're feeling dangerous!

Oh thank goodness someone is finally here to save me from Vexz's tyranny! Quickly, we need to get the others before- OH GOD NO

DtC always:

"!@#$ NPO" is truly the uniting chant of P&W. The current P&W community certainly isn't perfect, but cheers to being better off without that toxic sludge.

It's been a pleasure playing this game with you for the past 6 years, Max! Shame to see part of the classic Max/Tali/Caanite trio go, all six dozen of your alliances live on forever in my heart. See you around on Discord!

Been on a Psychedelic Porn Crumpets kick lately. Yes that's the band's name. And yes they're awesome.

Happy Birthday Aurora! 🎉

My post count is like 50% APR and welcome forum posts/general niceties from when I was active back in the day, 48% shitposting, and 2% actually representing Rose. Interesting spreadsheet! A testament to becoming an alliance leader and only posting when necessary, if you're aiming for that attractive quality>quantity, lol.

Fair enough, hence the "to some extent" - luckily the Afrika Korps problem took care of itself. Clean Wehrmacht myth sort of ridiculous nonsense is an unfortunately a recurring theme, though, yeah. I don't believe there are any alliances still in existence that explicitly theme along those lines, at least, but it certainly perpetuates the problem that there had been in the first place.

Congrats on the merge - good luck together! and happy birthday Minesome, welcome to the crushing reality of adulthood

Congratulations on your DoE! See you around.

In P&W's defense, to some extent, Nordreich did come to P&W as well during Beta in 2013/14 and were promptly banned! CN provided a great case study of what not to do there. (that said, agreed)

Serves me right for believing for even a second that OWR would be lead by anyone other than Sval, eternally. Congrats! (& condolences to Sval o7)

Couldn't wait another four days to retire on your fifth anniversary? Five years is a pretty intense stretch of time to be an alliance leader, enjoy your retirement (but also not retirement)!

Thanks for all the fun over the years as both allies and opponents! Marionette feels like a lifetime ago. Rest easy and enjoy retirement, cheers. o/

Congratulations! I hope to see Atlas around for quite a while. Thanks for taking on the mantle, Jordan! Do me a favour and forward my regards to Max at the Atlas nursing home. obligatory ❤️ Tali ❤️ cats ❤️

posting opsec smh

Also, for a more serious answer re: OP - there was a solid 3-4 year gap where I didn't post much, if at all, and I still don't compared to the first few years of P&W's existence, so most of my reputation comes from said first few years. Like SRD said, that was accomplished mainly just by posting a lot and for long enough to become recognizable (in a positive way, that is). Not spam, just general responses, jokes, and otherwise that are even slightly above average. Be active and opportunistic, but don't try too hard (i.e. making 100 threads). Some posts are hits, some fall flat - but ultimately, it doesn't really matter, I just do this for shits and giggles/my own amusement. If you find intrinsic value in the experience, it's worth posting on the forums. An additional route aside from being a major alliance leader (because only crazy people do that by choice), contribute value to the community in some way. Ripper used to rake in a ton of positive rep from his P&W comics, for example. Your poem thread was also good!

another spot filled on my Star Wars alliance theme bingo sheet \o/ Good luck on the rebranding!

Nuts! or bust hah he said bust and nuts in the same sentence

easy, just catalog high-quality gifs like it's a part-time job

New Still Woozy album on the way 🙏

Replying is way more noticeable than editing your responses into the OP, btw, though I'm glad you at least removed the part about keeping it short. But I'll try to read through it all and respond soon enough.

Okay, so, a few things to work through from this post. First, it's not a random chance at all which resource you can produce. It's based, as shown when choosing your nation location, on continent. See the chart on: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/edit/map/ Also, while the military improvements might require aluminum (factories, also not bauxite) or steel (hangers), you'll indeed note that tanks require steel and planes require aluminum. The unit descriptions you quoted do note state this in itself, that's true, but the "Manufacture Cost" on the purchase screen clearly does. When you put in a number to manufacture, it explicitly tells you what is required next to "Calculated Cost" - I think the layout is pretty intuitive and I've honestly never come across anyone ever mistaking that they cost nothing (because, well, that wouldn't make any sense in terms of balance). I understand the appeal of being entirely independent, but that's simply not how the game works, which I find to be quite intentional. The game is designed to create the need to coordinate with others for resource acquisition and mutual protection through alliances, otherwise the global market and alliances would be largely meaningless. I recommend joining an alliance to learn how to play the game effectively. You're figuring it out on your own to a certain extent, anyone can, but it's much more effective and a far more productive experience to learn from and work with others.