Altheus

For my favourite aliens at Team First Contact 👽

This might sound strange, but thank you for attacking us! The sides are close enough to make it a challenge

Broadly in favour of the changes. Ultimately city counts need to be squeezed closer together for the good of the game. A minor point, but just to agree with what's been said on this thread earlier Gold and Bronze are a mistake because they're too similar to other colours. Lavender and Teal are good because they're distinctive, so to replace Gold & Bronze, have you considered maybe Dark Blue (Navy perhaps?), Pale Green (Mint perhaps?) or Pale Orange (Apricot perhaps?)

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Is there a list anywhere of all the possibilities for the tricks and treats?

Yep. Loved it. Been a great bit of fun 👍

Lol. Maybe Camelot are just making a subtle reference to modern American democracy.

The addition of some UPN flag ears and Voila! P&W themed pumpkin

With a slight delay, due to the recent global war (thanks to friends and frenemies alike for all the fun) it's my pleasure to announce the 42nd government of UPN. A particular shout out to Abdur who after many, many years of retirement is back in government! Leadership Prime Minister - Naaro Chair (Foreign Affairs) - Cora Chair (Internal Affairs) - Matt Ministers Minister of Foreign Affairs - Malichy Minister of Internal Affairs - Abdur Minister of Finance - Matt Minister of Defense- Sealteam Minister of Development - Hyacinth Bucket Minister of Communications - Altheus The Sovereign Senate of UPN Abdur, Cora, Hyacinth Bucket, Matt, Naaro, Noreen & Sealteam

For what it's worth it would be nice to have some more even-sided wars. The trouble is that they're two conflicting "games" going on in politics and war, both of which are valid, but act against each other Politics, in which the objective is to be on the largest side possible, so as to win. So dogpiles are desirable. & Wars, in which even-sided wars are both more fun and also better at proving your alliance's skills at co-ordination and activity levels Other than suggesting an annual tournament were we put politics aside and deliberately fabricate an even sided war I'm not sure what the solution is

Liquidity Crisis causes run on the Syndicate. Breaking news today as a rapidity approaching liquidity crisis causes shares on the syndicate to plummet. World markets are in shock as investors too late to sell off their remaining stocks stand to lose billions as the Syndicate index value nears zero. The three major Orbis credit rating agencies, Pixel & Hugger’s, Whale’s & Sheepy’s have all newly valued Sydicate’s credit rating as DD, sadly not an indication of breast size, but dreadfully depressing. This rout, as previously reported, has been triggered by a liquidity crisis as Syndicate stock brokers have been seen chased through the streets by armed Pentaforce Commandos, who are rounding them up before further damage can be done. Pentaforce declares war on The Syndicate + Legion (+ assorted hangers on)

In favour of the colour bloc council because there is so much you can do with it. I think a balance should be aimed for in which it actually provides an income advantage for larger alliances to have smaller alliances on their sphere, but against that they have to keep in mind that the more alliances that are on their sphere the more they'll have to share power on the council (as their vote will be diluted). Could create an interesting dynamic (and therefore politics) with larger alliances incentivised to create networks of smaller alliances on their sphere Also in favour of a sphere being stronger for alliances donating resources to a central sphere fund. The co-ordination and trust issues that could generate sounds like great politics

It's a surreal pleasure to announce the 41st government of UPN, seventeen years after the 1st one. Yet here we are. With new faces and old wise heads alike UPN's high government from now until six months hence will be: Leadership Prime Minister - Naaro Chair (Foreign Affairs) - Cora Chair (Internal Affairs) - Matt Ministers Minister of Foreign Affairs - Malichy Minister of Internal Affairs - Matt Minister of Finance - Noreen Minister of Defense - JayJay Minister of Communications - Altheus Departments Minister of Development - Hyacinth Bucket Minister of Entertainment - Sir Bananas Defense (North America Specialist) - Sealteam The Sovereign Senate of UPN Cora, Malichy, Matt, Naaro, Noreen, Sealteam & Sir Bananas

Oh, sweet Syndicate how my heart yearns for thee! If only you would hold me in the warm embrace of an MADP. What adventures we could have together. What treasures we could take. What wonderful wars we could start! Deep down I know you feel the same. All this anger, this rage, this vehemence cannot hide our feelings forever. True love’s tender kiss awaits if only you would claim my lips in treaty. Your city count makes me giggle in admiration. Your score makes me swoon in delight. Your GDP makes me gasp in wonder! Take me Syndicate, take me this very Valentine’s night for I am yours!

I'd actually like to see the opposite of what's currently happening with colour spheres, with the incentive being to attract new alliances to your colour rather than push them off. However it can't be a straight forward biggest sphere gets a economic bonus otherwise they'll be a congregation of alliances all onto one sphere. One subtler answer might be that only the three (or however many) alliances on a sphere benefit from an economic bonus, creating a dynamic that they would be looking for reasons to attract smaller alliances to their sphere, giving the smaller alliances an extra political tool to trade for protection, support, cash incentives etc. They'd be some movement with mid-sized alliances changing sphere to grab themselves a top three position but I'm not sure it'd be a bad thing as a culture might develop between loyalists (who stay on a sphere not matter what) and nomads (who jump spheres frequently depending on personal benefit), with potential fault lines between the two. You could imagine wars being fought over such a thing. One downside would be promoting further growth for the biggest alliances so I'd caution against limiting the number of alliances that receive an economic bonus to too small a number. You'd probably be wanting to include any alliances that typically would be too big to be a protectorate (training alliance aside) so top 3 (i.e. 3*14 colours spheres= 42 alliances getting a bonus) would be about right