The Mad Titan

When it’s a bipolar world you can go on the offensive on the forums since sides are already known. It’s more fluid now so most politicking has moved to back rooms rather than the forum. Now the only times it’s super aggressive is during wars.

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Alright gotta admit this did not age well.

Yea I don't think it should be tied to score or age. However I do think it should be raised. A million a day would encourage far more activity then the current bonus, and the new player bonus could be changed respectively, and perhaps elongated.

Good we’ll be able to war for years with prices this cheap.

Do you happen to be a re-roll by chance?

This would only delay wars more though? If whales can get out of war by giving 1% of their income to some mid tier nation to fight a war they'll take that deal. This doesn’t even work at a rl level since big players use proxy wars to avoid conflict themseves.

I mean he only spent that much cause he lost the war. There was pretty much zero resistance to the winning side meaning alliances were using 10-15% of their stockpiles. High prices benefit whales more so if anything this is better for new players this way. Additionally I know several large alliances don't even interact with the market at an alliance wide level which depresses prices.

Yea it’s pretty interesting honestly. Given its widespread military usefulness you’d figure more people would make attempts even if it’s not full NPO level.

I want to clarify here... No one gets lower taxes.

BK only makes 30 mil a day at 80/80, please show me your superior econ ways.

Best of luck to all involved!

This concerns me.

Just like the game did for secret treaties!

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This why they’re a scam. Another popular tactic I’ve seen is take investor’s money for shares and the founder giving themselves a bunch of shares without any money being put down. Of course when it’s liquidated a month later they still pay themselves out for their shares.

There are three actual banks that aren’t get rich quick schemes. Almost every micro bank has shady practices like this.

Gorge consenting to not consent about consenting to consent grabbing Bigboom’s ass.

Glad this is finally up!

This won't end well for you.

All is right in the world.

Well they needed it changed because they backed themselves into a corner. When you tell your members "we will never accept the terms", what are you going to do when you actually have to accept the terms? Thus changing wording helps the cognitive dissonance of folding and having all the initial terms be accepted and being able to tell their members that holding out was worth it. I personally don't have anything against sharing the logs, but that's not a unilateral decision on my part. However, this is the very first thing said during the first peace discussions: SRD 11/18/2018 Finally cracked 200k infra damage done, with my goal met, we can now end the war i dont know what the hold up here is tho, white peace for everyone, and we let IQ go tear a path of terror thru all of orbis. So yea that's the tone it started off with. The no-show/fake treaty is being conflated a little bit. Essentially they were arguing to extensive lengths about how being called a war dodger is derogatory blah blah blah till we finally just put forth the exact same term with every instance of war dodger replaced with war-hero. It was more to highlight how the wording was irrelevant as long as the effect is the same, which it is looking at the first terms and the current ones. The no-show incident needs a little context. Essentially the talks had a repeating cycle. We would meet, they would try to to talk down the terms, we'd say no. They'd walk away for times that would get shorter and shorter each time. However one time they set up a meeting time and no-showed their own meeting, and then trolled our side when we asked if it was still on.

SRD started the trolling, and really set the tone for what peace talks would be. Throughout the entire treaty talks it was apparent that EMC didn't have any leverage, but you might have thought they were winning the war based on the way they talked. Coalition A was ambivalent to ending the war in December, they gave the terms then, and if peace was signed it was signed, if not oh well. As you can see there was no real change in what they signed from what was originally given to them. These factors all tied into the trolling they received, since frankly, they deserved to be trolled based on their behavior.

This works too solves the same problem

Alright here's a few QoL improvements I thought I'd suggest, others feel free to add their own small changes. Nothing suggested should change major mechanics of the game. 1: Get rid of decimals from infra. Makes rebuilding a pain in the butt. Either just round up or down from infra damages. 2: Get rid of decimals from resources. Keep everything to even numbers just makes it easier to deal with. 3: Remove VM nations from alliance stats. Makes the alliance stats a more realistic representation of the alliance as it currently is. 4: Bulk Buy infra to a certain level