Orfeas

I have a natural "tightrope" as you can see and as I commented. It was more difficult for me to find one from just drawing a line in paint. I would like to thank the academy and, of course, Black for this wonderful present!

Case in point, most of our raiders actually profit a lot, besides the retaliations. Personally, I got enough loot for 2 cities thanks to the previous war. By the way, I can name quite many alliances that do not retaliate, but I don't want to make people angry. Go through the war logs if you want to check

Although it was hard to find a natural "tightrope"... although it's not the season for bananas... although unicycles flexible enough for a gorilla don't exist... I present to you Captain Gorilla! P.S. Make me a pirate with NRF. It will be pretty fun.

You are a tough one. 50-50

"... their inactive for 3-weeks, indifferent members". Here I fixed it for you.

I don't remember ever countering for inactives who haven't joined for more than 1 week. Unlike some alliances, we have no purple nations and don't whine about inactive members being raided. And we don't need a pathetic casus belli like this, just to be able to infra-bomb someone because of being war-deprived. By the way, if we do get purple inactives and keep them (because?), please raid them and give us 30% of their loot. I don't expect much though.

Dear residents of Orbis, Due to the recent changes introduced to the game, nations on the color gray no longer contribute to Alliance Taxes. As a result, one of the few reasons to keep more than 10-days inactives to the alliances has vanished. Especially alliances of lower scores which used to have a ratio of actives to inactives more than 1:2 have now lost an important source of income. Fear not my friends. Because Arrgh! is here to save the day! The deal is simple! By allowing Arrgh! members to raid your inactives... you will receive 20% of the nation's loot... (this percentage can be bargained) and of course get any bank loots back. Not only that, but you will also encourage your members to make the huge effort of logging in the game at least every 3 days, so that they will not become a target for such a bargain! Arrgh! members may knock your door and ask for such a deal or may even bust such a door and raid your inactives either way. Ghosts have to be dealt with quickly. However, even in this case you can bargain with Arrgh! for a percent of the profit. Or just counter us as always, losing even more money on mindless wars protecting indifferent members of yours. Profit! Motivation for activity! More profit!

How rude. Coming from Arrgh, I did not only ask for such a "permission" from certain alliances, but also presented a bargain. With the current system, grey nations contribute nothing to the alliance taxes. Keeping a grey, 3 weeks inactive to your alliance, who will obviously not join again, offers nothing to the alliance (except for inflated alliance score). What I offer is this: permission to raid the target, giving back the alliance bank loot and 20% of the nation's loot back to its alliance (the exact % can be bargained). It's a new trade model that you should exploit while you can. Or you can just keep inactives till they get deleted with no profit for none of us. Besides, if you really want people to not get inactive, letting them know that they will not be protected is a kind of motivation. At least a bigger one from, "You can stay here forever, no matter your activity". To those intereseted to this wonderful bargain, please call Arrgh!

What? Am I the only one who was pressing ctrl+A before reading the forum posts?

You cut it at the best part! We demand more details about these good times!

Too short; did not read.

I am sure you have offered a lot to the game too. Considering how it is now in a standstill. But don't worry, we may join you if you beg. Also, at some point, you have to decide what you want in TKR. On the one hand, you ask for a sphere that could antagonize you and blame TEst, Roz Wei and Arrgh! for the recent wars with the nuke bloc, Valyria, etc. which had as a result weakening such "future rivals". On the other hand, you just attack paperless, stating that paperless can BECOME exactly this antagonist you are asking for, and your CB is "hitting before getting hit". So, which is it?

I was as serious as Micchan was... I am sorry this was not obvious.

If you look at Micchan's first post at the same thread, you will see that you are about 4 days late.

Another thread for me? T_T You give me too much credit. What did I do to you to deserve this?

That was a good one. Asking for permission to steal it.

The thing is I used these millions to build my 5 latest cities. I am quite poor at the moment. You can check my bank activity. I don't really know what you want to squash though, since there is nothing left. So glad that you are actually angry about this. Besides, I have come to understand that Alpha didn't beige me because it was too afraid of me militarizing. You should blame them, not me. :/

The funny thing is that they did deal with these individuals, without Arrgh! countering. And AFTER that, they started the war on an alliance's level too.

Yes, when I raid a nation, since I want to profit, I check whether it has military, whether it has team-mates with close NS that have military and whether the alliance is protected. So, I repeat that it's not my fault the nations of Fark, NK and Aplha were ideal. If I remember correctly, I have raided UPN more than you though. You even wanted to destroy my improvements (since you realized there was no infra to destroy) and you say that I have my facts wrong? And you didn't beige me so that you can attack again. I don't see what you really want to say though. Ah, and sorry for sending my stuff to the bank. I forgot this is a tactic you know nothing about. Next time, I will keep them on me so that you can take them. XD Whatever reasons? Bullies? I think I was clear. My only goal is profit and profit alone. Not revenge, not just having some fun. Just profit. I haven't infra-bombed even once, since I don't want to spend gas and ammo on infra that is less expensive than the war resources I have to spend. XD I asked for no help. I just sat there as a good kid to get infra-bombed. But since you got nothing from this, you just wanted to make a generalization and actually use these nukes you are so proud of. That's what I see. And since you attacked Arrgh! as a whole, yep, its allies will help. Like yours do. I see no bullies here. True. Multiple Arrgh! gov members like Thomas, Thomas and... Thomas. You are right, this was a full-blown war against Alpha by... 3 Arrgh! members that got countered fully. XD You infrabombed and nuked everyone. I think you/we are even. No need for reps from our side. By the way, when I first raided Fark, NK and Alpha, I was not a government member.

Oh, and Arrgh!

A post just for me? So happy. T___T I will not say much since you are just looking for a casus belli. Just two things: You cannot expect people NOT to raid you when your war policy is reactive and not proactive. The "I will nuke you" policy works only on raiders who actually have infra. I didn't belong to this category, I ate your nukes and just run with your money. I cannot see how this is my fault. You didn't even transfer your money from the attacked nations to your bank. Just millions there waiting for me to take them and build my cities. Regarding the current raids (these of the previous week, since you mentioned events from some months ago too), if what I did was a declaration of war from Arrgh!, believe me, I wouldn't attack alone... So, since this was my own action, none of the Arrgh! members defended me when Aplha infra-bombed me for 5 days (I am actually surprised you didn't use nukes for my 900 infra cities). So, AFTER the individual "punishment" got completed, THEN you declare war on Arrgh!, generalizing my attack as Arrgh's policy. All in all, I am happy that after some months you realized that you need military to defend. This event alone, made my raids worthy.

Tell that to seabasstion... That was his plan... And he insisted that we should follow it. Do you remember the tables he sent? You see, that's the problem. We write something, you write it then in a different way to make fun of it and then you answer seriously to a statement that you made as if it was ours. Now, you countered seabassstion... It is really difficult to follow the discussion like this. Actually, at this point, I do not know what is even the point of this discussion. Originally, I started commenting to find out what your motives were and what was the great evil we were doing to you for not accepting your flag. I did ignore some of your members' insults or sarcastic attitude that most had for the shake of the conversation. Besides, this may be the tradition of the forum, the roleplaying part of your alliance or your individual members and so on (although I would expect members with high ranks to be more diplomatic and have better arguments than "you are stubid"). I did that in order to learn some things from fellow players as a newer and less experienced one. And I did see that many of you have this ideal of the community, trying indirectly or directly to help even enemies, because some of you want indeed to help, others want to just share the knowledge and others want to look like a smartass. But seriously, this is getting really tiring. Even if you get upset with "idiocies" stated from less inexperienced players, I think that you can keep the level of the conversation high and actually try to gain something from this. If you have something serious to discuss or ask, I will be more than happy to join you again. I don't see the reason to rebatle meaningless posts anymore though.

Thanks for not arguing that your previous post was not irrelevant. I had started having doubts about the level that can be maintained in this conversation. Of course the threat needs quotes. This "threat" was your proposal, remember? Your brilliant plan of needing 4 days for 11 of us to get fully militarized in order to attack 3 of your lowest ranking members. You know. The plan that would change the tide of the war, if your friends had not attacked the players you cannot reach.

Since you answered to my comment, I guess that you were refering specifically to the neutrals that could possibly try to get full military to attack your lower rank players. In this sense, you answered that you were not afraid of this specific "threat", not neutrals generally. The same threat could come from non-neutrals. Glue's comment would be on topic if I have said "you are afraid of neutrals". I said that you could be afraid of a specific tactic (irrelevant of neutrals). Which tactic was proposed by you by the way, and that's exactly why the current turn of events is funny. I hope this is clear enough for you.