Sphinx

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

Bake em away, Toys! I agree that a 'Blackjack' game is just a waste of resources that could be better spent with implementing features that actually effect the game. Still waiting on those Perks... >_>

Voted for my boy @Radoje, but hope Kev can take the lead from Roq. I'm just glad I dodged the bullet of being called TGH's princess...

The whole premise of banking is for you to entrust someone with your money and ensure they deliver on a return for your Investment. I too was suspicious since Azure bank has many "@ Everyone" pings with a revolving door of board members, frivolous annoucements, alongside poor record keeping. However this just confirms that. Not all banks are dodgy. Without trying to self promote we've always strived to provide a service that delivers returns to our Investments and offers generous borrowing schemes for our lenders. (We are still a business though so we are trying to make a profit, but we don't rip people off as its poor business practice) Its sad that the actions of some taint the reputation of a sector that has many good people in it. Orion isn't the only bank that IMO, has a great reputation as there are plenty of good banks out there.

Finally a micro DoE where I recognise the names and they aren't complete nobodies. Wish you guys the best of luck, Bad Company are top blokes so I reckon you'll do great together.

I've changed alliances again. https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/id=5135

Damn that makes it harder to resist....... Also don't think I confirmed going to TGH, but its pretty likely regardless that I will move onto a new alliance. Where that will be I don't know just yet.

Why did your warranty on Kastor expire?

This is the kinda thing where a simple upvote doesn't do enough justice for how excellent this tracker is. Also thank you for including my little AA.

I think I lost a few brain-cells trying to get around that broken English. That micro is the noobiest of all noobs I've ever seen, those guys are probably the bastard child of SK and Zodiac.

If they still say "Fark" when they fail a Blitz, then they are way too hopelessly optimistic. At this stage they should use to being cannon fodder.

I joined BK in April, 2016 was never the same again. 10/10 Would get Probed again, Ayy Lmao. BK Stronk PS: Bring back Stummy,

If anything their should just be a Pleb colour for all micros to stay on. At least you can use those lettuce leaves to wipe away those tears.

Don't worry I'm sure the next Revolution will work, this one wasn't real Communism When fighting SJW's, make sure you are kitted out in the right stuff.

sarcasm /ˈsɑːkaz(ə)m/ noun the use of irony to mock or convey contempt. Shlappa, Reaganomics, Fezza and myself are all Australian, so we're naturally going to take the piss out of one another, its just banter mate. ?

Also, \o/ I stared in a video. You should realise Shlappa is the dodgiest c**t around, and trusting him is like trusting Bill Cosby to make you a drink, whilst Jack the Ripper gives you a haircut. ;.P

Yes its not like those were the only wars Cakey and Shlap were fighting, obviously you killed someone with 7 more cities than you with ease.