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WarriorSoul

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  1. 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.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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