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ORbis Global Alliance Standings Memorandum. Orgasm?

Pretty sure this is going to result in Pre marching over to Max's house and beating him up.

No, have been in DHaran Empire, Rose and OOS. ...praise dio

[insert tightrope using ur imagination]

I have a free slot, I'll take it

*takes notes*

Be gentle pls

o7 Frosty

inb4 wave of comments saying "DON'T POST IN MY PRECIOUS ALLIANCE AFFAIRS BOARD"

Next season...

Hail Labes... to the last :'< o7

tldr of OP's post: TEst's fighting with GoT/ Nuke bloc et al. left them without any viable allies and they will likely be forced to abandon paperless. Well written post, and also correct from the perspective of military campaign. However I feel you managed to sorely miss the point. TEst are suffering not from a failure to make allies, but from their own ideology. In order for an alliance to ally with TEst, it is not TEst who must convince the other alliance, it is the other alliance that must convince TEst. Pre has high standards for allies and only competent leaders are worth working with. You can probably see that the policies of those outside of Syndisphere do not appeal to those standards. This exclusivity is the fundamental ideology of TEst, and you can see how well it has worked for them, remaining as the most prominent non-Syndi aligned entity. I believe that deviating from this line of decision making would have ultimately surrounded Pre with more conflicts such as Rose/ Valyria and Mensa/ SK, and any potential conflicts that may arise with NPO. So with that in mind, you can see exactly why TEst has suffered in this war. The lack of allies is not attributed to the failure to court them or rally them, but for the potential allies' failure to prove competent. Side note, the paperless sphere hasn't died, this conflict just means they lose a war, but that doesn't equate to total failure. They made some questionable decisions in fighting everyone outside of Syndisphere, which has partially contributed to their rolling. But it is their independence and ideology that leads them to those fights, and the current war, as with every war, is not a result of policies themselves, but of specifics. Lordship and Pre falling out was what actually triggered this conflict I believe.

So the summary of this message is basically "get together and do something about it". I want to ignore this and comment on topics with more to talk about like your paperless argument, but it's impossible to do that. It is unthinkable that anybody would even suggest that the "rest of the game" can match Syndisphere. By all quantitative measures, that fight is automatically a Syndi win. "The rest of the game" acknowledged that fact after Ground Zero war, as they faced the new situation of no longer having equal or comparable numbers to Syndi. The last frontier of this "rest of the game" is being stomped out by us as we speak. The paperless alliances are respected for having good knowledge of mechanics and high activity, but that only matters when a fight has close numbers, but this one doesn't. So now the paperless guys suffer a default loss. In the current state of affairs it is impossible for "the rest of the game" to rally a force to defeat Syndisphere. Anybody who suggests otherwise simply doesn't understand just how numbers work. The incentive for the rest of the game to fight Syndisphere, knowing they will lose, is zero. This should not even be up for debate, period. The day Syndisphere surrender and pay reps to the nuke bloc, GoT sphere, the paperless sphere and the remnants of tC I will &#33;@#&#036;ing reroll. What I believe is a more productive discussion is "what does the rest of the game do now?", which I get the impression you were alluding to anyway tbh. As I've established, military campaign is out of the question without major change in allegiances. I'd look at Rose and VE as two exemplary cases of the extreme responses to hegemonic life. Rose imploded and joined up with their former arch-nemesis. VE just showed the rest of the game a middle finger and have done literally nothing at all since then. Another response is to form a bloc. Valyria and SK managed to rally a significant number of people to their cause, which was great, but in classic Syndi style, we took exception to their bad leadership decisions and now their community is crumbling. In an ideal world, GoT sphere would have become a nucleus for an opposition to form around. There were several unfortunate circumstances such as bad leaders, questionable objectives and poor calculation of FA moves which prevented this however. The same bloc formed under better leaders would probably make a gradual rise to prominence, and would also create a gravity that might sway peripheries of Syndisphere to join them. But this is not an ideal world, this is a world where we no longer need to justify conflicts, where nobody cares about the reasons for war anymore. It takes minimal provocation and causes the ground on which communities are built to shake. More than a dozen members left GoT sphere after last week, and no matter how you look at it the CB is weak. To clarify my thoughts on this, saying "do something about it" is dumb, and so are the people who criticise Syndisphere for killing the game. Syndi have no reason, incentive or even the means to make the game fun for the rest of us. Members wrongly accuse Syndisphere of killing the game anyway, all it means is politics and the state of affairs are now different. Most of the world thought the Ottomans would never ever ever ever fall, but - spoiler alert- they did! The wants and needs of dynasties change. The wants and needs of Syndisphere change, and with time that change will grow to cause problems, which must be answered with solutions. The simple cycle of answering problems and incidentally creating new problems will unavoidably lead to disagreement and divide. It is only a matter of time before the inevitable migration of players away from Syndisphere happens. It won't happen quickly, and it might even go largely unnoticed. It could take years to even start to happen, but I say again it will happen. So I say to you all, be patient. Things always change.

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It's only small but I need a 70m grant pls, sketchy is a tyrant with his money letting

wtf lol, 10/10

What ever happened to putting flags in alliance announcements? I swear Max is carrying the whole game on that front smh

Oh, dee pee.

Cool idea, I've been wearing Christmas jumpers every day for like 20 days now.

Animated flags. Nice.

I don't know how viable this would be for Alex to make, but private servers would be great to implement this on. Like you set up a group with a password to join so you and a group of cooperating players can test things in pre arranged scenarios.