[[Merge] The Fall of the Phoenix]

Criticism of the merge in this thread is so fever dream that I can't tell where the jokes stop and the salt begins

[What do you want out of PnW (Poll)]

I just want out

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

On 3/19/2022 at 5:25 PM, Eumirbago said:

Cut from the same cloth that you used to lead betch 😘

I don't encourage comparing t$ to MI6.

[Official Johnsons Surrender Thread]

8 minutes ago, His Holy Decagon said:

Cataclysm appreciates this gesture and whole heartedly is grateful for the opportunity to surrender with our pride, and nations, intact.

As the MoSTa of Cataclysm I confirm this surrender.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

I spent a week in Rose, it was basically just t$ with chess tournaments. This bloc makes perfect sense to me.

[Proposed Beige Change]

16 hours ago, Prefontaine said:

Wars that can last over a month being decided in the first day where the winning side doesn't win the physical wars and has to sit there doing nothing is not a good system, nor is it fun. 

Your sentiment is correct, but the way you intend to fix it won't actually make anything better. The winner will still be decided within the first round, because there'll be nowhere near as many nations rebuilding their way to try again from beige than there were nations available in the first place. You're just making the process more tedious and expensive for everyone involved. Otherwise you wouldn't be including points 4 or 5 to compensate, because both of them go against your stated intention in this quote- why would you, for example, make your military units 10% less effective when you come out of beige early, when a counteroffensive with everyone choosing to exit beige early at a specific time is the only tactic anyone would have available to try and re-take control of the war?

In reality, the issues with the PnW war system run vastly deeper, and won't be fixed by tweaking individual components like the beige system. It should be rebuilt from scratch- not just MAP and beige, but wars themselves, military units, etc. PnW made things interesting over CN by splitting infrastructure, land and improvements out from a single national pool into individual cities- why not think about how to do the same for our armies?

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

Just don't bring back Utmos.

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

I will add something here because I was one of the very, very few then members of t$ who actually wanted it to happen. The Syndicate sought to sign the NPO for the specific goal of shaking up the game and breaking the monotony of fighting the same war over and over- which we had done at least 4 times in a row before Knightfall and risked doing again due to how poor relations were between t$ and BK, for example. If you go back to the roots of t$ membership in the alliances we came from in the prior game, you can actually add yet another 3 or 4 major wars against the NPO (or coalition allies) in a row, going all the way back to 2013. For us, that was a montony well beyond anything this game faces now.

[[DoW] A Grumpy Old Bastard's Declaration of War]

12 hours ago, Placentica said:

Stop your crying you huge bag of pump and dump breastmilk.

Imagine being so pitiful that you have to come all the way to the next war, with completely different parties involved, and project your feelings onto other people there.

[TFP Yeets Camelot]

Great! Now cancel Thunderstruck as well.

[[RoH] Lean Wit Me]

Wait, TKR actually let Malal in? Do you like being acrimonious with t$?

[[DoW] IRON Burns some Roses]

On 12/30/2021 at 6:10 AM, Changeup said:

Let this be a reminder that PnW IRON is your average shit micro, and does not share anything with CN IRON other than a theme.

I would argue that almost all of the import alliances are just average awful micros and a shadow of their former selves. I'll except GATO, because I wouldn't call them an awful micro, just a normal one. I'll also except Legion, which is wild, because historically, Legion had a legitimate, long term and deadly serious claim to the Worst Alliance Ever crown, and now they actually look kinda competent. I hope all the others feel crippling shame that they've been leapfrogged, though.

EDIT: Also, Ampersand gets a pass because they got pwned by hackers while they still had 150-200 members, so they were never going to become what R&R was.

[Clock Coming in Clutch]

4 hours ago, Prefontaine said:

Depicting TEst as a Space Marine? If @Jodo was around to see this day…

Scrolled down to point exactly this out. Good video otherwise, though.

[[Alpha] Time is up.]

Quote

The past days saw your carefully constructed web of lies pierced by reality. As your net of deception goes up in flames, so burns the foundation upon which you have built your house of cards. And the avalanche which follows from the resulting collapse shall sweep away those nation rulers who had placed their faith in you. Your groveling and slithering will not absolve you to commit your crimes again two months from now. You will pay, and the threat you pose will be neutralized.

 

[Clock and Swamp Backroom Deal]

[[PEACE] Time is up.]

12 hours ago, Arln said:

Glad that is over. I don't know who was worse this war. Cataclysm backstabbing us or Oasis being wishy washy and indecisive and impossible to work with.

It was Oasis for sure. Nothing wishy washy or indecisive about a backstab! 💪

[[DoW] I Mean It]

7 hours ago, Leopold von Habsburg said:

How shortsighted and elitist of you to not realize that lower-tier consolidation is just as important an issue as upper tier consolidation. The elitism present is your world views is extremely off putting good sir. Small nations matter too.

No they don't.

[The Cataclysmic Failure of Swamp]

17 minutes ago, Azazel said:

I think Ill decline to toss a source under the bus for your amusement and gratification. At the end of the day you admitted / proved we were correct (at least in part), asking for evidence is just a silly tactic to try to take away from the overall picture of the bs narrative your peddling. Ill be over here for you to wake up from whatever day dream your in. 

So your own government says that screenshots don't exist, and you say they do, but when you're asked to show the screenshots, we're just being silly and we should just believe you? Is that you, Rudy Giuliani?

[[DoW] And So The Petal Falls]

[The Cataclysmic Failure of Swamp]

6 minutes ago, Mutedfaith said:

Because that was obviously all we did yes.

Some elaboration might be interesting.

[The Cataclysmic Failure of Swamp]

"Alexa, roll a d3".

[[Treaty] Mystery in the Oasis]

The fact that there's 9 alliances and 1500 nations in this new arrangement isn't even the biggest crime. The biggest crime is that they're absolutely hot garbage. They're signing this thing because both groups are completely hopeless at leveraging the resources they already have.

...and signing each other won't save them in any 2 on 2 scenario, either.

[[Treaty] Mystery in the Oasis]

Petition to exclusively refer to this grouping as "White Chicks the bloc™"

[[Bloc] Tik Tok]

One O'clock, Two O'clock, Three O'clock bloc.

[mission succes]

34 minutes ago, DaveyJ said:

"There's no micro drama anymore." -probably someone 2021

If the micro drama is unintelligible to all who aren't directly involved, is it truly drama?