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I'll concede that certain abstractions have been made for the sake of simplicity/playability, and certainly I've played games in the past that would put most of the people here in the fetal position with math anxiety and bore people into comas with page after page of text and charts in rulebooks, but I'm not seeing a simplicity or playability rationale for doing things so inversely from what is true in the real world.

Idea 1 - Military technology makes equipment more expensive, not less, over time. That's a simple real world historical fact. The trade off is that while soldier equipment, tanks, planes, and ships become more expensive, it also becomes more capable. So I don't see how making things even less realistic is an improvement. Idea 2 - This is a player problem, not a mechanics issue. Maybe if alliances didn't fight such long, drawn out wars, they wouldn't require months to recover and insist on lengthy NAPs to ensure they can do so in relative peace. Also, nation growth =/= stagnation. It's entirely possible to play the game, enjoy the game, want to spend RL money on the game, and not fire a single shot in anger in a war. This isn't a first person shooter. Idea 3 - There is not actually a problem here--or that is, not the problem you think there is. Cities *should* be a factor in the size of militaries. Urbanization and large, highly capable militaries go hand-in-hand. The consistent problem has always been nations with a significant number of cities and little to no infrastructure being allowed to have too large a military force. Example, Germany 1943 versus Germany 1945. As Germany's infrastructure was destroyed by Allied bombing, its ability to produce large numbers of tanks, planes, artillery, and even small arms was also reduced. The penalty for having your infrastructure in a given city reduced to say under 1,000 should be dramatically increased.

1,799 now. No longer growing like kudzu.

You have 1,785 nukes and 122 members as on 6 July 2025. EVH has 125 nukes. TKR has 728. TFP has 337. TI has 416. We can discuss whether or not you are actually going to cap the number of nukes your nations hold (seems highly unlikely), but there can be no question that the number you hold now is significantly above average and noteworthy.

Rose says many things, and have actually lied to your face before, causing you to declare a war on TI that got you into major trouble until you pivoted, but to some of the members of the coalition (Myr especially), whom you should have been fighting along side and coordinating with, it was an unforgivable error. You further compounded it by going on a beige spree and taking away potential targets, angering Myr and KT particularly, and annoying others. Ask yourself why I would suggest a viceroy. Oh by the way, in that entire channel, and I searched it, the only mention of a viceroy was by BigMorf, and he was against such a thing, and only brought it up in the context of things that used to happen on Planet Bob (CN). That quote you have a screenshot of in context was about encouraging those who would pursue war against you to decide upon realistic goals for how a war involving Camelot would end. The conclusion of that conversation was that trying to force you out would be futile. So I simply left it at, "then you have a decision to make." It's not for me to set your peace terms. It's for the people who are fighting you to set those, and for you to accept them, accept them in part and negotiate for better terms on the other points, or flat out reject them and fight on.

You meant this to be insulting I think, but in reality, war is for burning pixels, and we've shown we aren't afraid it. Actually, we enjoy it. Saving this image for a more appropriate time. Everyone at World Task Force will get a kick out of it.

I'm just trying to figure out where the profit is in buying debt of an alliance you intend to financially sabotage, knowing that if you were successful they'd be unable to pay back the loans you just bought. I mean, that works if this is Wall Street (it's also evil as hell), but on Orbis, you just screwed yourself. If an alliance defaults on a loan, you don't get to take them to court, you don't get to seize their remaining assets and dissolve them, you're just out of luck (and in this case billions in cash). Oh sure you can make it so the alliance can't get loans any more, but so what? Why are you running your entire alliance on a long term line of credit? That's stupid. Also, why would Rose want a CB, assuming that defaulting on a loan is a CB, on Camelot they can't use for months? Especially when they already have one. But hey, Epi thinks I want to throw him out of power and install myself as Viceroy over Camelot, so clearly, I must be conspiring with Rose...or something. 🙄

We were very clear why you were placed under political and economic embargo, stop making up shit. There was nothing about "regime change". You aren't in any position to "punish" anyone at this stage, fight the enemies in front of you, there are more than enough. If you want to keep making threats though and give us a CB for later, then by all means, we're listening. But please bear in mind, when we come, we won't come alone. We will bring hell with us.

Make sure when your birthday rolls around, or perhaps the December holidays if that has already passed, you ask your mom for a device that tells time. They make wearable ones now. You should totally get one.

I appreciate the kind remarks. Yeah, new era, new World Task Force. I was on the front line and in leadership with Acadia during NPOLT. If he got screwed over, it was before my time here. I *do* recall having a couple of dances with him on the battlefield though WAY back in the day. Not a name one forgets easily. heh

Who exactly is that directed toward, because I was never in alliance leadership in a 'TC'. You confusing North Atlantic Defense Coalition (NADC) with North American Confederacy (NAC)? I was in charge of NAC, we merged with DEIC to form Acadia.

I sent the money and the gas to TFP. They were surprised but grateful. If you have more money and resources you'd like to send to them, just have someone send them along.

Mocking me won't get you salvation.

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