Sphinx

Seeing these arguments between you and AK (Basically whose entire gov is former Pantheon low gov) brings back memories of those massive debates back in Pantheon's gov discord channels with me as the only Olympian for a period of time with you, Skae, Avien, Rainbow, Edgeworth, Ren etc all as Deities. Dysfunctional times but they were still fun times. Don't have anything against AK personally, (Apart from trying to kill my grandfather from 1940-1943) but its good to see you aren't trying to get your hand in all the cookie jars. If you tried to keep t$ and have BK as protectors it would reek of being incapable of mounting any sort of defence. Also just because, here's Monty: @Shiho Nishizumi

You realise you're actually harming your alliances FA reputation when you make low-brow insults against sphere leaders. Plenty of people who've made a fool out of themselves on the OWF have never been able to recover from the damage to their rep from that. You'll find the majority of people who voice their opinions aren't this "on-dimensional hive mind" that you and others seem to think is out to get people. I've had times when my posts have been upvoted by IQ, EMC, Vanguard, t$, Arrgh, KT/TGH etc, and times when people have down-voted them. People of course have different views but if you actually post something that's funny, gives people some insight into the wider politics or just helps the discussion advance people will take notice of your impact on the forum. If you post ill thought out rubbish that doesn't contribute to the discussion, is completely off-topic or on the odd-rare occasion do so out of spite then you will get downvotes. Yes the forums can be a volatile places from time to time but that's what makes the politics of the game the most enjoyable, with the clash of agendas, goals, conflicts personalities etc. You're correct that not everyone uses the forums, but the vast majority of the player-base don't dictate or direct the flow of foreign policy between alliances. You'll find around 100 or so influential people (With an even smaller amount of very influential people) on this community who are the real cogs behind the politicking between the power blocs, the OWF is just one place where this takes place. Just because someone doesn't post doesn't mean they don't stay engaged, I read the forums regularly without posting for over a year, and I know many many others who read OWF announcements, treaty signings etc but just refrain from posting. Despite being in TKR's sphere for over 2 1/2 years I quite like KT/TGH, our war we fought made me respect the hell out of them and I have built up many friends from both KT/TGH. TGH deserve mad props for creating a top tier alliance in less than one month that never gave up in the lop-sided war they fought against us. They actually put a lot more thought into their up/down votes than you think and influence wise they certainly punch well above their weight in global politics in this game.

Why both?? Surely this is more suitable for AK:

The irony of you Shiho, with your entire nation themed on GuP, attacking an alliance themed on GuP (With a hint of Rommel). Which reminds me I need to watch Das Finale, and the OVA's as well. At the rate you're going mate you're going to give Element85 a run for his money in number of downvotes.

Wow... mate I was wondering back when I first heard BK's old anthem from 2016, where they got the "Ayy Lmao" phrase that kept on repeating whilst they said the names of the BK gov at the time: Lord Sturm, Yosodog, Tiber, Shifty Stranger, Natinator, Jose Rodriquez, Zoot. Shame BK doesn't have that old anthem anymore, IMO I liked it better than the current one. Still happy 4th birthday BK, onwards to your 5th anniversary you crazy bastards, may you grace us with years more of memes to come!

If Goro eats a few more nukes from Grumpy and Guardian then you'll be 1st in score pretty soon. 2019: Fraggle world order!

Welcome mate. Couple pointers on city design and general tips 1: You have nuke plants in each city so no need for the extra 2 coal power plants in your first city. 2: Don't buy farms until you have 2.5k-3k land each city. Just import food as its more efficient that way saving you valuable improvement slots. 3: Max hangars regardless, and as Blitz said drop some Tanks. Swap some of the farms/barracks for more hangars. 4:I also don't recommend Uranium mines as Uran is still pretty cheap and you'd make more money with other resource improvements (Say Iron mines) than with the Uran mines. Just import Uran as you need it. Try to make sure you have at least a 7 days supply of Uran. 5: Keep all future cities at 1.5k Infra until at least 10-12 cities. After then 2k is a good limit until you have 20 cities. 6: Raid, Raid, Raid. Providing you follow your alliances rules on raiding you can make an excellent profit and help turbo charge your growth if you raid often, most alliances will have guides for that or just ask around if advice if you're a little unsure. Edgeworth can confirm that. ;.P Don't worry too much about that. PnW has a lot whole of different personalities so some will clash time to time. I admit when I joined this game almost 1,000 days ago I doubted I'd enjoy it yet I've met some pretty awesome people and IMO the community aspect of it is the best part of the game. Also judging by your profile pic I assume you like Anime, tCW's discord server has quite a few of you Weeaboos (Unfortunately ;,P), so you're more than welcome to join. So if you're down for a chat just give me a shout in game "Sphinx" or on Discord Sphinx#0497 - Sphinx

You guys realise that unlike Girls und Panzer you don't have plot armour right? Attacking Arrgh is basically like the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, they'll just drag this out as long as possible and just because you want to call it quits doesn't mean they'll leave you alone. Still good luck to you both.

57.7 years left for me, if I just hang in there I might still be around when the stats aren't down for maintenance.

Clearly Roz spiked the punch and everyone's hallucinating.

Even the bastard lovechild of Partisan, Roq, Ripper, Nizam, Buor, Pre and Roz all rolled into one couldn't bring world peace despite all that influence, so obviously you're off to a flying start. Also I call dibs on tCW's spot.

He should've just named it "Egyptian Empire: Public Relations Suicide"

When the stats aren't online for 6 days now. I promise to sacrifice a small animal to Roq if he updates the stats

Hey I did that once and TGH made a meme out of me. EDIT: Found it, I wanted to click timeline... >_> @Hodor https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/23445-propaganda-time/&do=findComment&comment=373448

I'm very sorry to hear this scumbag has taken to doing such a reprehensible act. As others have said get in contact with your local police, hopefully they can help. I didn't get to speak to you much apart from peace negotiations with UH-DU, but I found you to be a very reasonable person, who is willing to be flexible if necessary a sorely needed trait in this game, which will be sad to see you go. UH has been growing quite well so take pride in what you created, many new alliances struggle past their first few months but UH is in good hands so hopefully what you created can continue on onwards and upwards. I hope you and your GF are alright, and this Idiot doesn't contact you anymore. I'd also suggest letting others know who these people are (Public if you want), people who dox others should be named and shamed in public.

Take all the time you guys need. These stats are exemplary and a massive help to see how each of us are going, looking forward to seeing the improvements.

We have a winner! All of our expensive Infra was lost weeks ago, but we still have plenty of stuff to kill on our enemies side. I see a few whales with 2.5k Infra for example that need an EMC visit.

Your Wikipedia skills are amazing if you ever get to University you should make sure you reference them in every essay you do, I hear Professors love that.

Got nothing against Arrgh personally as they are pirates its what they do, (And they're good at it too) and its annoying when you or your friends are being raided by them. But if someone is stupid enough to allow a successful raid (Providing it wasn't due to circumstances beyond their control) then they deserve to be looted. Cough Polaris, @Akuryo Raiding just isn't my play style but Arrgh are still a good alliance as they do shake things up and keep the bankers and hoarders on their toes. But if you're good at the pirate's play style then you can certainly make a motser with doing coordinated raids. Ripper, Boyce and Bluebear can certainly tell you how lucrative raiding Plebs is.

Attacking Arrgh is somewhat like the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, it could cost you a lot more than you would gain from dealing with them. So whenever Arrgh hits we just roll the attackers only. This is mostly for the normal odd raid here or there. But if they launch of bunch of simultaneous raids that's when I think you should fully roll them, as you don't want to kowtow to pirates as they make you a regular target.

I understand quite clearly that we lost this war, and it was good fun regardless especially fighting Rose who did very well in locking many of us down in perma blockade cycles. Yes IQ has every right to want to take action but once again they cannot force TKR to remove their bot much like any of our sphere cannot be forced into doing something by your coalition. While I'm not in the peace talks, if our negotiators want to walk away like they've done once before or come back to the negotiating table then they have my full support regardless. TKR doesn't endless target Arrgh, only when Arrgh harasses its members or its allies members does Arrgh get rolled. If they expect to be given a free pass whilst raiding others with impunity with the knowledge that a counter from TKR members will only come if TKR is hit, then they are wrong.

When I first heard the peace terms I was 100% opposed to any peace and I still am (If our peace representatives choose to accept them, I'll respect that wish but my own thoughts on this peace are so follows) I've got no problem with Article's I - IV, but Article's V on-wards are complete rubbish. I'd like to tax the war-dodgers for as many days as they spent in VM not fighting, now obviously you don't want this as it will go to help our rebuild. So instead of writing elaborate posts trying to explain this "logic" behind your reasoning you could've just summarised it as your side wanting to inflict as much punitive damage on our sphere as possible, whilst hiding behind a veneer of "punishing the war dodgers", and breaking our so called "monopoly". Additional many of the so called "War-Dodgers" are in VM for legit reasons, I understand that you wouldn't know the exact details of why a person is in VM, but to tar all of those in VM as "war-dodgers" isn't acceptable. From tCW's perspective with -$45b in net damage we've been pushed down the stairs and now you just want to stab us to make sure we're as dead as we can be. Likewise Article VI is probably the most illogical article in the entire "peace treaty", as its babysitting IQ for when they make mistakes. If Alex ok'd the bot then stop complaining and just maybe you should teach people to double check their trades. I've personal messed up trades and had others take advantage, but what I do in that case is message the person to see if they would be willing to refund both parties, if not (entirely within their rights to choose to not refund them) then I must eat the loss. Article VII is probably the most egregious of all, since you don't get to choose our FA paths and whomever in our sphere chooses to sign or not sign with. And that Arrgh article is also garbage. If you hit us in a pirate raid expect a response which may or may not include assistance from other alliances in our sphere. I'd really like to know what kinda drugs the person was on who wrote that article.

Every time I read one of Dumb's posts I fear I need to make a range of sacrifices to whomever deity I can think of just to hope I don't lose any brain-cells from reading it.

Are you sure that wasn't your damage received? As in you got damaged so badly your nation ceased to exist?

When you Nercomancy a thread so badly you get booted from your alliance