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    BREAKING: Terminal News Hour goes underground!

    in Orbis Central

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    On 10/5/2019 at 3:55 AM, Leopold von Habsburg said:

    The house of Habsburg is spreading our reach from dominating the entertainment industry to now taking over the media.

    It's a glorious time to be a Habsburg!

    Glorious, right? It would be a shame if.. something.. happened to it.

    I'll be in my assassination hunting shed.

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    Dial Up War: Propaganda

    in Orbis Central

    Posted · Edited by Theodosius

    A hamster poem

    they share a name, cute af are both,

    wolfy leo is my feisty betroth

    he likes me and i like him back well enough,

    world domination i left behind to kindle his fur fluff

    but one day, when we were walking around town, 

    a familiar silhouette walked past down

    i turned around and caught a glimpse,

    and i was quite certain it wasn't a Sphinx

    my heart jumped like it has seen a knife,

    oh it can not be, but it surely was

    never forgotten, the first love of my life.

    a sudden emotion took my body ablaze,

    too late to hide, my betrothed caught my staring gaze

    TEsting his patience, he said -- oh the words felt like a noose,

    we need to go right now or all hell will break loose.

    but there i was, i just couldn't move

    and kept staring at the love i've thought i've said long ago -- adieu

    he turned around and gave me a wink,

    and it's all it took to have my engagement bethink'd

    fluffy was furious, but it was already too late

    this fortunate encounter wrapped my fate.

    cracking a villainous smile he pushed my fiancee away,

    hugged me and whispered - our love will never again be led astray,

    they'll all bend the knee or be a hunted prey!

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    [Peace] In our time

    in Alliance Affairs

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    Just now, Akuryo said:

    That's impossible because i spend half my waking hours ruthlessly roasting mhearl even if he does not know it. The true power gap between us would never make such a thing possible.

    Now if you said it was abbas chaining me up that might well be the case, i'm pretty he could kill me with a well placed voice chat. 

    Mhearl is just the gatekeeper that brings you food, Abbas is the real chain perv.

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    [Peace] In our time

    in Alliance Affairs

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    1 minute ago, Akuryo said:

    Meanwhile Big Brother Rose showed up at my Purple Heart and Silver Star award ceremony. Saluted with the whole tear in the eye and everything.Beautiful life moments. :P

    That's a nice story and all but it's a widely recognized fact that smelly Mhearl keeps you chained up in the basement of his uncle Abbas.

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    The Offshore Culture and its Side Effects

    in Game Suggestions

    Posted · Edited by Theodosius

    9 hours ago, Epi said:

    All this does is restrict the number of new alliances. 20mil, 50mil. 1 credit, 10 credits. 45 days, 100 days.

    These things don't matter to the large alliances. If we implement this TKR, BK and NPO will set 3 gov. members each to be semi-permanent bankers and they'll rotate the bank around beiges. And again, smaller alliances won't have to, because most of them store their money with the chief member of their sphere.

    Also the time restriction is rather pointless, as i'd just have one of my members form the alliance. Even if i can't be leader, i could set banking perms to member. ?

    Another consequence would be storing banks with neutral spheres/alliances. Sure it might create politics if they're caught, but knowing the risks it'll be unlikely.

    The issue rn, is we have a handful of banks holding all the wealth in the game and being virtually untouchable. That's not gonna change, we can find new ways around any impediments we create except a cap on bank contents. Forcing us to bank for ourselves. Forcing us to actually risk our savings when going to war.

    If Sheepy's trying to end the era of swiss bank accounts, it might be a good idea to let him ? 

    The idea behind my suggestions is to make offshores economically unprofitable, not outright impossible. If an alliance is willing to pay 150M for 3 offshores, then have those offshores blockaded and slotted by Arrgh only to be forced to make another offshore, that is their prerogative. Is it possible? Yes. Is it profitable? No.

    The second point has been addressed on the 1000 score abuse-prevention ideas. Also makes no sense as the cost of creating the offshore would still fall on your shoulders.

    The third point, I see nothing wrong with that. Some alliances have been doing that for years before offshores were made a possibility. The idea is not to make prevention of bank looting impossible.

    The ideas I've brought forward induce a way of natural decay of resources, through minimal inconsequential bank loots that would happen upon beiges. It would also bring forward a difficulty to defend offshores, creating new raiding possibilities. Bank caps are an artificial way of handling this problem and they would require constant changes and balances as the game grows.

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    The Offshore Culture and its Side Effects

    in Game Suggestions

    Posted · Edited by Theodosius

    Hi y'all. In the light of bank shenanigans we've been recently witnessing with the cheaters, along with the fact that ever since it was made possible to create alliances super easily -- therefore practically keeping your bank untouchable, and after seeing @Alex's bank caps suggestion going down in flames, I've had some thoughts on how to handle the issues that have surfaced and decided to share it here.

    Some of you may know me, yeah - I'm that guy that loots offshore banks. So why the hell would I want anything changed, you're probably asking yourself now.

    As someone who has been juggling bank funds for the past few months from offshore to offshore, I dare say I am enough of an expert on it (and as any kid from elementary would quickly be able to claim their expertise on the subject as well), to say we gotta face the facts and recognize how gamey this deformed feature has become. You declare your wars, get your 8 slots filled, send the bank away, remake the alliance, voila, you are safe again. Not a penny lost. It's OP and it's gamey, and I believe we need to change it. So, here are my suggestions on how to effectively make offshoring obsolete, but still possible, without removing bank looting or any other mechanics, along with other suggestions that could help prevent shady or rule breaking bank shenanigans in the future.

     

    • Forthwith, one nation can make a new alliance every 45 days. This eliminates the never ending cycle of declaring wars and remaking your offshore immediately. The purpose is clear and it can not hurt real alliance creation in anyway, as I doubt anyone except Sean Anthony is going around and making new alliances every 2 weeks.
    • Further, for all nations one year or older, creating a new alliance should cost something. Lets say, $20M cash. The profitability behind remaking offshores in an endless circle of several government members functioning outside the alliance would be questionable, at best. I've included nation age so we do not impede on micros. (could be exploited as pointed out by ArcKnox and Dryad, better to make it a universal cost) And for an actual, real alliance creation - if you are not ready to invest $20m into your alliance creation, you should probably not make a new alliance. Also the actual figure is just an example, if the consensus in the thread deems it, it can be easily increased to 30, or 40, 50m.
    • To prevent this from happening, as you must have 1000 score to make a new alliance, the same principle should exist for promoting leaders of the alliance. So, 1000 score for creating the alliance and 1000 score for being eligible to be promoted to the leader of the alliance. Further, to prevent abuse of setting wide bank usage permissions to circumvent this mechanic (ie, someone 1000+ score makes an alliance, invites a 0 score nation over, sets member, officer or heir-wide bank perms and leaves), if you are the only member of the alliance and you are not the leader, you should be locked out of using any bank mechanics.
    • If there are 2 or less members in an alliance, and you are blockaded, you should not be able to use the bank. But alas, salvation would still be at hand - you can invite someone unblockaded over to help you send the funds away. This further makes offshoring complicated and creates more offshore hunting possibilities, but I can see why some people would not like this change.
    • Nerf the bank loot formula. For example, on a bank worth $10b cash and 5m resources each, if on an average nation max looting was up to, say, 0.005-0.01% ($500K-1M cash and 250-500 of each resource, on the aforementioned example) of your entire bank, in the face of increased difficulties of maintaining offshores, your average alliance would see this loot as inconsequential, and they would likely move their bank operations back to alliance HQ. Current bank looting formula is (RAND(0, (player score/alliance score)))/3, which can be easily adjusted.
    • However, on one man alliances, I believe the 33% max loot should still stay. You could still offshore, but with increased risks of being blockaded and completely pauperized by good raiders, etc.
    • As the bank looting formula would be severely nerfed, the compensation towards raiding is necessary. The best way to do this is to increase nation cash beige loot percentage from 10% to 15%.

     

    I believe this is all easily implementable, it only uses already existing mechanics, and most importantly, it does not eliminate any existing mechanics, meta or impedes on players in anyway. The goal of these suggestions is clear - make offshoring obsolete by making home banking the most viable option, while *still* allowing offshoring and saving every penny at an increased risk.

    Tell me what you think and share any insights you have yourself. I believe there should not be any loopholes in my suggestions, but if there are, kindly point them out.

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    Kingsglaive Recognition of War

    in Alliance Affairs

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    1 minute ago, Prefonteen said:

    Are you sure you want to put them gloves on friend? I swing at anything with gloves on. 

    Friend, he is the King's Glove. Tread lightly.

     

    Can we all just gonna take a moment and appreciate the fact we witness this infra go on its merry way

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    Remove Alliance Bank Looting & Cap Alliance Bank Amounts

    in Game Suggestions

    Posted · Edited by Theodosius

    Side effects:

    - No incentive to kick people out of the alliance, instead increased incentive to keep inactives and randoms in to boost bank caps.

    - While caps will force more stuff onto nations, everyone will just shuffle stuff to allies and it will be horribly confusing.

    - No bank looting means incompetent bank handling becomes irrelevant.

    - Further raiding nerf without any compensating measure to raiding gameplay aspect of the game, which is crucial for its health.

    However, I know your mind is set on removing this game mechanic, and we can't really do anything about it. So along with my criticism and imploring you one last time not to do this, I will also offer fixes for the problems these imminent changes to the game will cause, and try to remedy them.

    Fixes:

    - Keeping inactives/small nations in the alliance to boost cap: Make purple and VM nations not count for the cap. Bigger city counts should bring more bank size than smaller ones. 

    - Shuffling banks and resources: Aside from making bigger city counts bring more banking size, introduce to the cap formula of every resource an adjusting measure that is tied to the total amount of that resource in the game. As the game grows, so should the bank caps.

    - No fix for this one. This suggestion can simply not punish incompetent bank handling. (see the edit below)

    - Raid nerf and no bank looting: Only thing that comes to my mind is increasing nation loot gained from beiges. If I recall correctly, cash loot used to be 25% before the last nerfing update. Bring back cash loot to what it was, and boost the resource loot by a few percentages.

     

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    - Another problem is what happens to taxes once the cap is reached, or cap goes down due to kicking/losing members. I suggest those funds should be automatically sent to the leader of the alliance that reached its cap/fell under the cap. Should make an interesting, opportunistic game mechanic (hello blockade rush) and makes incompetent bank handling punishable by player action, and yet also easy to fix (sending bank funds away when you know the cap will go down, etc).

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