[Peace in our Time]

how dare you take steps to protect against a thing that we very notoriously did six months ago

[...]

Say what you want, these micros are doing more for the OWF than the old guard have done in years

[Ideals are Dying]

Respectfully, I think anyone complaining about how stale the current state of the game is has never actually played in a stale meta. There are currently four larger/substantial spheres, two of which have formed out of others in the last few months. There is also a handful of other notable spheres. Two of these spheres are currently fighting each other, which makes it the sixth different combination of alliances fighting each other in a significant war within the last year. Obviously there is some overlap in those wars, but that’s probably as dynamic a meta as I have seen in a nation sim in a very long time.

Of course there is always room for improvement, but to look at the current state as the same tired old dynamic when, in reality, the game is quadri-polar (tri-polar at a minimum) strikes me as letting the perfect become the enemy of the good.

[[DOW] Get Clocked]

where’s that detective fella when it’s time to snuff out the Mysterious HW Leader

[War Name Threads Angry Rant]

I think this has been brought up before, but the nature of the way the in-game nomination/voting goes means the first people to make nominations have a significant edge, even if they are just the worst possible names available. Why would you name a war based on events of the first day? That's how you get horrible names like Error 522.

NPO's Last Time was called Dial Up basically until the last possible moment, which is just a horrible name when compared to NPOLT. Bring the nomination and voting threads back to the forum - a place where players have to create an account to even finish the tutorial - and save us from the horrible in-game forum discussion thread UI.

[Getting spied while in Biege]

Given the war system and the espionage system are separate entities, I see no reason to make one dependent on the other.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

36 minutes ago, Gaius Julius Caesar said:

but as we saw in the most recent war, there was a large gap in strength between Blackwater and Hollywood

How can you even make this assessment when BW just gave up a couple days into the fighting? If anything, it represents a gap in fortitude, not a gap in strength.

39 minutes ago, Gaius Julius Caesar said:

Like I understand the response and belief of every sphere that this move is directly because of them and this is a sign that Rose and T$ are going to attack them because everyone knows Rose and T$ have been such aggressive and hostile alliances in the past, but that's just not the case. We can address this as reasonable people with logic, but you saying this means T$ wants to attack Grumpy and Guardian and force them to split up because T$ and Rose and our allies joined to remain competitive is just an argument in bad faith, and I honestly expected better from you.

Except this isn't an argument in bad faith. Like six months ago Rose and t$ got together for the express purpose of rolling HW. Obviously in games like these, narratives shift and relationships change quickly, but it's not like we're talking about ancient history, we're talking about something these alliances just did. Waving this off as a bad faith argument because "no trust us, Wana said he doesn't care about G/G anymore despite the historical stance of t$ over the last X number of years!" seems awfully naive to me.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

23 minutes ago, JaxTeller said:

one L and you signed TI.  Ya'll are getting lazy with your PR.  Someone do a halfway decent job at least.  

babe i do IA. i'm just here to shit talk and mix it up. don't lower yourself to the amateurs' level

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

1 minute ago, Redarmy said:

t$ didn't sign Rose comrade, they got a CBA with ASM. 

 

 

7 pixels in the whole image dam

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

Just now, Darth Ataxia said:

I wish I had the ego HW has to think everything is about them. You guys must get all the girls.

 

one L and you sign Rose. actions speak louder 😉

[I was looking in the freezer and found this old treaty]

Is this 2010?

 

 

 

 

grats

[[RON Exclusive] Automation And It's Risks]

1 hour ago, darkblade said:

And while having a recruitment bot is great, you are more likely gonna have bottom of the barrel players apply to your alliance, who only applied because they saw your message first or just glanced over it. And if your goal is to get players in your alliance regardless of whether they care or not, then congrats, your membership is gonna be dead soon.

Nice post. This is really my primary area of disagreement. Basically all new players are like this. Finding a naturally good member who suits your alliance who is also brand new to the game is a total crapshoot imo. If you land one of those, you should consider a trip to Vegas, too. It's the responsibility of the alliance to cultivate players who "want to join because they like your alliance culture, style of gov, community, etc."

If we take as given that it is the responsibility of the alliance to cultivate new players in this way, then I don't think there's any downside to a recruiting bot.

[UPN: The Lavender Years [birthday]]

This makes me feel old. Feliz cumpleanos.

[My thoughts on bots and a plea to blanket ban all third party automation and develop the tools inhouse]

13 hours ago, Kosta said:

I find it hard to accept that in order for an alliance to be successful in this game they need a full time programmer to run a bot that does almost every task for their alliance.

the pro move is to have a handful of part-time programmers :serious:

[Return to the OWF, fellow Orbisans]

This is a good and correct opinion. Obviously you can't expect a paradigm shift overnight with respect to the use of forums for conducting those kinds of discussions as opposed to Discord. Generally what it requires is just for people to write shit, which will, because this is (for better or for worse) a community with the ethos of b*tchy middle schoolers, provoke discussion, debate, what have you.

I think there's proof positive of the if-you-post-it-they-will-come mentality w/r/t forum discussions, given that just about anything from the fairly innocuous meta discussion posts to the fairly inflammatory mid-war posts provoke pretty robust discussions. These kinds of games have (and likely always will) draw the kind of players who want to engage in these sorts of public discussions, and the community would do well to enable rather than stifle it.

[War Propaganda Thread]

On 1/26/2022 at 12:34 PM, alyster said:

 

the war for hearts and minds is, after all, the most important part

[War Propaganda Thread]

check out wasowned.net for Real News(tm)

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

1 minute ago, Krampus said:

NPO would be a useful pointer for shaping your own behaviour

it's honestly pathetic how you've taken this line out of context, and your fixation on this line in particular literally goes to prove his point

[War Propaganda Thread]

dumb

[[DoW] The Dance Card]

8 hours ago, Deulos said:

only one token downvote. you fell off

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

11 minutes ago, Justin076 said:

I think our justifications for our previous moves were quite rational, and in response to rhetoric and/or actions from GoB. Duck Hunt was a preemptive strike, we didn't swing and miss, we put our hands up before we got suckered. 

Nonetheless, I really can't be bothered to dig into the history or go back and fourth on who's the bad guy. I can appreciate GoB giving some insight upfront as to their motivations since it seems some are still lacking on that (TKR). If it's revenge, in this case the second revenge war, since Duck Hunt was more or less justified by GoB for t$ hitting them during NPOLT I really don't know when it ends. The line has to be drawn at some point. The Syndicate made efforts since the summer, and this is the response we get. The actions speak loudly that GoB simply isn't ready or willing to move on.  

The last war we fought was t$ hitting HW because G/G man bad. How can you credibly say that "oh we'll let bygones be bygones, as long as we get the last laugh"?

 

You don't get to unilaterally decide to bury the hatchet. Feels like the fine folks at the Syndicate would have the social aptitude to understand that.

[[RoH] Lean Wit Me]

2 minutes ago, Leopold von Habsburg said:

My comments apply to his IC persona, I know hes now your ally but I dont see any reason why you should die on this cross for the likes of him lmao.

is this a roman joke

[[RoH] Try a nice cold can of Dr Pepper]

1 minute ago, Evernt said:

No can do, but we can tell you why the Californians are evile.

but i'm not asking for that. i'm asking how you can take Carbonated Water, Sugar, Colour (Caramel E150d), Phosphoric Acid, Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Flavourings Including Caffeine, Sweeteners (Aspartame, Acesulfame K), and a Source of Phenylalanine, and turn it into 23 magical flavors inside 12oz of aluminum. 

 

don't give me proprietary blends, don't give me 'secret formulas'. give me the truth.

[[DoW] The Dance Card]

7 minutes ago, darkblade said:

is this the dancing y'all wanted?
 

 

unironically yes

[[RoH] Try a nice cold can of Dr Pepper]

how do you cram those 23 flavors into that one little can? you will tell us by the end of this.

 

glhf folks