Benfro

Is that why you chose TKR to join when you returned to the game? And worked hard in low gov and were contributing to our community? Before you became delusional and left to save an already failed alliance? Fist, we were once friends. You literally brought me into this game. Do yourself a favor and either come back, engage in the community, and share insights or stay in VM forever. There’s no place for you to chime in after years of having your head in the sand while sitting in VM and having no idea the context of your words.

There's so little activity in this thread today other than a Fist sighting to pour gas on someone's fire, but TBD whose? Where did all the Hedge/TCW/Swamp/Rose apologists go?

So the response is for the rest of the whales in TCW to VM also? Because we are up to 7 other than Sphinx, at last count. I'll await more info about why these wardodgers were necessary, given that you are on the significantly larger side of the conflict. For the record, nobody is painting Sphinx as a fool. We are responding to an active threat, one that has been confirmed by actions and words, about a coalition of the entirety of Orbis organizing a dogpile on Quack.

TBH, there could be a significant indictment of Swamp here, given that Immortals and TFP are both Top 5 mainstays, and then bringing on TCW who is #6 actually gives them even more lift. There is real balance going on with Orbis if you stop and look at the numbers rather than just the characters behind them. Even Rose and Camelot pairing has nice lift too. Edit: And yes, I'm just going to stop dancing around it and say TCW is Swamp for all intents and purposes given Tyrion's use of "us" and "our" describing them.

May I direct you to this post which is only a few above yours in this very thread? Unless you are accusing Ronnie of not knowing basics as a leader of another primary sphere in your coalition? Also, tag, you are it! When TCW signed with &, we were repetitively told it would be temporary, not formally part of Swamp, etc. You wanted to give them time to rebuild after you smashed them. But now it is "our treatied ally." Huh. We approached you after Rose all but confirmed their intent to enter, partially out of respect, and partially to keep you abreast of our plans. Which is what we promised we would do. Again, providing information and trusting one another. Something about balanced wars and new metas, instead of dogpiles and namecalling. Good to see we are back to the old way so quickly.

Also bookmarking for post of the year awards. This is the quality I come here for.

Bookmarking this post for end of year award nomination thread.

Welcome to the party. Hope you have fun.

I'm also legit happy to see this. Prots out here having fun and being involved! Go Oceania, we love you!

Love you guys.

Welcome to the party.

This scroll is beautiful and you guys are too.

@Benfro: Look in the mirror, tell me what you see! @GoldyHammer: I see Goldy. @Benfro: You see Goldy? Well, let me tell you what I see. I see pride! I see power! I see a bad-ass mother TKR who don't take no crap off of nobody! And with that, they were off! TKR waging war against their nemesis, Hedge Money. To Hedge, you parody-sphere name scoundrels, peddlers of Surfs Up propaganda, and closed door coalition creators of silent coalitions, we acknowledge your plotting and planning and preempt your intentions. The spears shall clash against thee. With the considerable competition among the whales of Orbis, we seize this opportunity to propagate new Stormlight material and spread it far and wide among the Children and the Grumpy, and the Errors, Guardians, and Knights in between. Behold our Rhythm, our Rhyme, and our War! “All I'm saying, mon, is if we walk TKR, talk TKR, and *is* TKR, then we sure as hell better fight TKR.” "Cool Runnings" means "Peace Be The Journey." GLHF. TL;DR TKR declares war against Hedge Money.

Congratulations to @Lord Vader and @TigerFire for their excellent leadership of The Imperium, and congrats to the TEst team for finding a great new home. Looking forward to working together!

I was unaware of a poll, but with 27,000 nations currently in the game, is 93 votes really statistically significant?

Gee this one will be highly entertaining.... Have fun, y'all. Can't imagine it will last too long.

Incremental changes are your friend, @Prefontaine. Your most recent comment is welcomed (adjusting the post to what people are concerned about), but your logic of "we can see if it needs a little more or little less down the road" is exactly the issue with what you are proposing. Walking back changes that are made is expensive and reduces trust in the admin/development team. Which is basically the point here - the last round of war mechanic changes have not been tested thoroughly yet, spare some light raiding and a mini-war. Before making another round of changes, let's see how the current system actually works in a drawn out conflict. As usual, I'll note concern above from a variety of spheres and political powers. Same as our conversation regarding spy changes, please note that there is a massive effort toward de-politicization of suggested changes, except for a few holdout parties. The collective we are working to improve the game together; however, one of the parties that you are taking significant input from is @Prefontaine, who is not part of that crowd.

Neat anthem. Ripper turns out to be the true capitalist here, always looking for a reason to extract more funds. (Have fun guys)

Congrats on your progress Imperium! We are so glad to be working with you.

Welcome to the least productive corner of the gaming world. Hope you enjoy the lunacy.

Our children! All grown up and having fun. love you all.

I appreciate that your YouTube link is a .wmv format. That is all.

Does UPN still drop loot like they used to?