Shadowthrone
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4 hours ago, HeroofTime55 said:
Now, some thoughts I had, since Baseball has such an impact on the game, I think that baseball should be impacted by the game as well, if we're going to keep it. How about allowing planes to target baseball stadiums, spies to assassinate players, damaging the mechanic through war? That could be interesting, instead of leaving it as an isolated moneymaker. That, along with reductions in the daily games limit (maybe 100 home games per day, or even better, 10 home games per two hour tick) would help balance what is currently an unbalanced mechanic.
I mean I feel like a lot of y'all overestimate the impact of baseball solely because you're too lazy to put in any effort in playing it/joining the communities that play it. It may help to git gud and you know actually allow different play styles to exist, rather than trying to hegemonise your views in such a manner, to solely suit your political objectives. Threads like these are basically folks who've failed at their political outcomes, trying to force admin to step in and help them. It's absolutely hilarious at some level.
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25 minutes ago, Kaz said:
wait, it’s been 229 days....
Here's to another 229 days of war!
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1 hour ago, Akuryo said:
The point wasn't that I'm not an !@#$ mate, it's that you keep bigger ones next to you constantly.
Doubtful. I think you take the cake along with your friends who enjoy slot filling/ using security breaches to screw with AAs. At least you've given up on attempting to slot fill for now. I look forward to a Christmas truce!
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Glad to see ya'll giving up on the slot fills. Enjoy the nation strikes.
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On 1/22/2020 at 9:12 PM, Pasky Darkfire said:
Wait. Do you want the score sheet first, or do I just get to come in with a list? Because, ya know, as much as I flirt with you and tibbers on being my favorites, You're all still woefully behind Keshav. And I don't want to hurt your feeling TOO badly.
Hi there, I was called for. I’m missing your reactions to all my recent posts. Please keep up ❤️
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Keno could be brute forced and was cheated around. Baseball its quite hard since finding a botter is easy.
There's a community that has been built around it, and folks are willing to play/click and do the work involved. Still don't see any argument to nerf it, other than EM is too lazy to baseball and therefore its broken.
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8 minutes ago, Comrade Marx said:
The Immortals informed us in diplomatic talks that they would be attacking us. Instead of allowing them to complete militarization, we struck first. Given the circumstances, I would not expect anyone else to behave any differently when informed by someone that they intend to attack you. A pre-emptive strike was the only sensible option.
Get out of here with your facts. This is a no fact zone since Coal A appeared.
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41 minutes ago, Syrachime said:
Just imagine what you are feeling now continuing on for 7 months straight without end. That's how we've pretty much felt.
Here's to another 7 months!
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24 minutes ago, Canada2 said:
Do you read what you say before you post it ?
One more blow to the house of cards that is your collective cognitive dissonance.
I mean we literally have logs from your government discussions with OD regarding the subject matter. I'd suggest you either go back and talk to your government about it. I'd posit that Roquentin probably has more information regarding the situation than you do as well
4 hours ago, Cooper_ said:Its shameful really how desperate things have become. Shame on everyone who wishes to instigate this dynamic and allow for reps to be a vehicle for personal piggybank, and I hope you don’t have to experience it as a taste of your own medicine.
Shame on EMC indeed
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58 minutes ago, Chief Wiggum said:
All reports pass through at least two moderators and are open for all moderators to discuss. There is no room for biases. Only for collective human mistakes.
If you have concerns about the structure of the moderation team, feel free to make a report and state your rationale behind them.
The fact that you've let tS RoH exist on the boards, despite nation strikes being given to multiple NP members, while selectively hiding UPNs. I didn't know you or the second moderator were the leaders of UPN to decide who they can or cannot fight, and announce it to the game accordingly. You've clearly made a mistake here, the least you can do is correct that mistake, rather offering flimsy excuses and deflections.
Stay out of the politics or you're opening yourselves up to reports regarding bias like under's post here. I strongly urge you to correct the mistake in withdrawing UPN's RoH or anyone else's because you deem it a troll, without consulting the leaders of said alliances, especially when you are selectively applying the rule book.
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3 hours ago, Chief Wiggum said:
Most of the time, the posts get nuked, actually. Personally, I do remove just some offensive/rule-breaking parts when they offer nothing to the discussion but the whole post does offer something.
We do not dictate how politics should run, but we are following politics, else keeping the Alliance Affairs subforum clean from spam/troll threads would be impossible. This has been done in the past (e.g. see fake war declarations on The True The Polaris or meme declarations following repetitive patterns).
If we had kept the threads up, this would also De-Facto pick a side at the current war argument: the side of the ones posting the threads. There is no escape for the mods on that part.
Regarding the legitimacy of the wars per-se, Alex's current (numerous) actions of negating in-game wars based on the aforementioned "DoW"s kind of proves our moderation call was not a wrong one.
P.S. / off-topic: Camelot's DoW is back, after careful re-examination of the DoW per se.
By that logic, Alex strikes against NP/tS RoH should be nuked as well.
let’s face it you’re letting your in game biases seep into your moderation and it’s a terrible standard to set. UPN posted a RoH recognising a war with whomever they wanted.
If you’re going to continue to be biased and pick sides I suggest you either resign as a mod or I hope Alex will replace you.
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1 hour ago, brucemna said:
I miss Jack
RIP Uncle Tarr. By far one of the finest players to grace any of the worlds.
2 hours ago, Charles the Tyrant said:So tiering came into place three and a half years ago ( after NPO's first time which is called that for a reason), 8 months after NPO's founding and yet somehow you disagree with it being a pretty old innovation that hasn't had long term effects on attaining your own whale tier? That's 3 and a half years ago I might add, long before whales became a major issue.
Whales have always been an issue. Their city range has just constantly increased as the game has progressed. NPO's tiering being across the board while facing sustained threats from EMC, ensured the necessity of self-reliant Econ. One can't just switch over and do what Alpha did with Wampus, if it harms our WC and has no military effectiveness. It's such a silly assumption.
2 hours ago, Charles the Tyrant said:You have had 3 and a half years to rectify that issue and with the huge wealth at your disposal through 100/100, you surely should have been able to attain some level of parity in the upper tier, particularly when considering you have been taking billion dollar loans (20 billion dollar loans I recently heard) to boost your own growth.
Boosting one or two members at the cost of everyone else is surprisingly a stupid idea. There's no point having one member at 30 cities if we can't afford to maintain a war. Our military will always be dictated by economics. We're competing with alliances that have never lost a war till this one, who through the years has rolled multiple alliances, and grown a war chest that's not only crazy, but surpasses what most others on the losing side of a war ever could imagine. 100/100 doesn't magically induce huge wealth, especially when spread over 130 nations. Again seems like basic understanding of 100/100 or externally induced tiering does not seem to be your forte.
2 hours ago, Charles the Tyrant said:Granted attaining resource self-sufficiency is a worthy goal but my point is, you can't point the finger at coal A using their possession of whales as justification for continuing the war when the lack of whales in your own coalition is due to your own internal decisions.
I enjoy this tangent but that's simply untrue. TKR et all had unimpeded growth for years and were able to spend extra cash as they saw fit, while we simply did not have that luxury. Mind you, between ToT and (what 16 or 17 months?) did not really have much of an economically taxing war. We fought AC to a stand still and also had certain upper tier/ higher infra members get hit right after building that thanks to TJest, which threw a whole lot of money invested down the drain. The peace between AC and KF we were playing catch up, and within months after KF, here we are. Unlike a tonne of alliances on your side that had 10-15 months of peace to build, we've always been under the threat of war, and fighting wars/raids all of which costs way more than most of you have had to face in this game. So its really disingenuous of you to even try to claim otherwise. Maybe if y'all didn't keep focusing on damaging the NPO for years, this war would have taken a different turn.
2 hours ago, Charles the Tyrant said:If you really wanted whales, you would have some. If it requires a slight change to your Econ system then surely it is worth it. And to try claim I don't know what I am talking about is laughable when there is one top ten alliance still using a tax system I implemented over two years ago to help grow its own upper tier with proven success. Granted they lost a few whales through a few beatdowns but the system itself is proven to work though granted I believe TKR have modified it slightly since then in certain aspects.
Also I'd prefer no one having an untouchable tier ever. I'd rather ensure all tiers are held down and take damages so that everyone is at the same starting point at the end of each global. To do that though, we have to invert the present structures to ensure those who have had the economic capital so far are knocked down a peg or five, to ensure at the end of this war, we are at similar standing points.
It's great some fancy Econ system you suggested has a great upper tier. Maybe if all the upper tiers weren't in one consolidated mass for years, it'd have been less effective. Here's to hoping more upper tier damage and attrition
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1 hour ago, BelgiumFury said:
If zev made them (but that would have been before he was a leader), he never implemented them, we do not script infra rebuilds, and that I can guarantee.
My reaction may have been overblown, but, one can get annoyed if people state their own facts for their arguments.
I don't think you liked it when people said you automated "everything" when you disputed that claim earlier.I mean that was literally his shtick. The point I was drawing out is Rose/ most other major alliances run scripts/bots for a myriad of activities. This isn't a NPO only thing, and of most major alliances I've always believed we're the most manual of the lot (though I guess its about even.)
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15 minutes ago, Charles the Tyrant said:
And no they wouldn't have, take it from someone who spent years talking to them almost daily whilst being a member of the same alliance after they left NPO (NSO if you are interested) due to their opposition of what NPO was becoming. Were you even around back then?
Why yes I was
15 minutes ago, Charles the Tyrant said:Which war did the tiering system come into place at then and when did NPO first implement 100% taxes bearing in mind that 100% taxes would have been the first requirement necessary for tiering
100% taxes has been there since inception since Frawley specifically designed our original economic idea, since it was the most efficient. Tiering came into place after GPW (NPOFT) as a necessity. Given that as Roq pointed out, we were designed to fight BK, and imagined it would be BK v NPO for the foreseeable future. We then redesigned it for TKR and tS' midtier to a greater success in ToT. Post ToT, other alliances started implementing tiering systems without 100/100 and it came to be advantageous during AC/KF and here. If anything tiering as a military strategy has worked.
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2 hours ago, Charles the Tyrant said:
So you agree the economic disparity between the two spheres is a result of an internal decision made by NPO? Plus, that tiering decision wasn't made after being rolled war after war, it was made very early on, perhaps after your second war or shortly after your first perhaps iirc?
Nope. We came in later than the others, got rolled a bunch of times and were under constant threat of rolling. The necessity of tiering overtook the idea of laissez-faire growth. The economic disparity that began with the alliances being undefeated for years, including the TI shenanigans, and really never having their upper tier damaged are all things you conveniently ignore.
2 hours ago, Charles the Tyrant said:No they wouldn't actually.
They actually would have.
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6 minutes ago, Prefonteen said:
I don't though.
If the dude wants to protect and allow a certain member who reneged on a deal they signed, James can very well pay those dues for it. Maybe it'd be a better idea for James to not protect certain individuals who renege on previous deals. The term literally states that.
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2 minutes ago, Prefonteen said:
7 god damn billion roq. How do you justify this?
If you read the term, you'd understand how
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11 minutes ago, Arathorn said:
Because just as if you worked as an opening manager for your local dollar store and was given a set of keys to be able to open up shop every morning, yes you were approved and authorized at that time while you were agreeing to work for them. Additionally, having those keys doesn't authorize you to go in any time you wish and take any and/or all items you wish. And had you resigned from that job and still had the keys because there wasn't a chance to return them yet, using those keys to get in is now quite obviously unauthorized, as the day you resigned you relinquish your employment and rights to access it. Even without the keys, if you discovered the door unlocked in the middle of the night, you'd still be charged with breaking & entering, because surprise surprise...the door being unlocked is not necessarily granting permission or authorization for you to go in.
Don’t bother. George admitted he did it with his hypothetical cop out above and EM is Still defending him.
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3 minutes ago, George said:
Alliances who want to force people out of the game shouldn't exist. I never admited to anything
Someday NPO will burn, i look foward to tht day
I look forward to that day as well. Doubtful you'll be around to see it
By your conditions, Demacia should not exist. Since you just attempted to force BK out of the game, and mass-kicked their alliance via security breaches. Enjoy your high horse for a while longer.
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4 minutes ago, George said:
I already have one? lolz
Im not about to give a shit about what the "lets kill alliances and force them out of the game so we can never have to worry again" squad. thinks or says
Kicked out is lolzy, i basically offered to leave and was planning my exit for over a month. Like gtfo out of here with you high asnd mighty bull, your a POS and nothing more. Id be more than happy to have you and Roq quit or get banned.
Pot calling kettle black. You literally tried killing those who called you their own for years, and gave you a community to work win. I look forward to ensuring you pay for your attempts to screw with BKNet after pretty much admitting you just did.
And hey at least I don't have to resort to cheating or breaching third party softwares, to do what I have to do ICily. Guess you can't win a war or play the game without being a cheat. Enjoy.
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1 minute ago, George said:
Cute, but no
There is no "real-talk" regarding bots, outside of your politicking over it. Go build your own banking software if you're that salty over being caught embezzling stuff and kicked out for screwing over a community that trusted you. I do enjoy your terribly partisan attempts at it. I enjoy your breaching of third party programmes though, quite cute.
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3 minutes ago, George said:
Did not kick anyone or "hack". Hypothetically in such a scenario all id have done was clean up after the person responsible, after the dmed me and told me wht they did when i inadvertently pulled up a PW doc on my pc when screen sharing . Of coarse thats hypothetical and i maintain innocence.
"Hypothetical." I enjoy your bullshit George. But this thread is in essence your attempt to screw with BK more and nothing else.
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10 minutes ago, George said:
#2 Alex cleared me of breaking any rules
No. He cleared you of breaking into Leo's nations in-game. The BKNet abuse though is another matter though, which folks with admin control with fairly certain confidence, did state you were the one behind it. So lets face it, this conversation is nothing more than another attempt of yours to mess with BK. Enjoy it while it lasts
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3 minutes ago, George said:
I never kicked any member or hacked anyone
as ive been saying
That's not what was written above.
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The House surrenders to Goons
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Both of which you were a supporter of, and imposed yourself on the treaty. Good going mate!