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We're just now seeing people respond after a week of fighting. Now what do we see? Not even an official acknowledgement but, I will assume, leadership letting a few well-spoken members off the leash to "prove" no one is gagged.

IQ missing the opportunity to spin the meme around and start using a domination victory screen is basically another cultural victory.

top 15% of the game is 20+ cities. Ironically maybe like 30% of the game (within those same parameters) is socially active so we probably don't notice how high most of us are. Plus the fact that like 70% the mid/low tier is gag-ordered in IQ right now.

So does this mean Gorge will stop posting

This war has taught me how to spell Buorhann's name correctly.

This is more of BK than I've seen in the past year

The propaganda has peaked with this post. There is no topping this.

I'd agree with this sentiment. 20+ cities really is whale tier at this point in the game's population.

This is why Strum, Zoot, Shifty, and more have left BK.

I, for one, welcome our new fraggle overlords

Losing your pixels is not the worst fate, by far. Even if you're only looking through an in-character lens. Pixel protection is becoming paramount as the political personalities of our world lose interest and go inactive, but I promise you it is a road already traveled and it's both boring and ineffective. Arrgh's continued existence ensures the later, at least.

And I thought Kayser was acting embarrassingly... Since when did self-defense become counterproductive?

It all boils down to a cultural victory. A lot of alliances have spent so long complaining that the odds are overly-stacked against them that, despite fact, they have talked themselves into losing. The fact that the majority of the game (IQ) has no forum presence should tell you everything you need to know. The silence is deafening.

(Not Just A) Cultural Victory

Abbas would roll over in his grave

People never get the flowers while they can still smell em

Welcome back!

I'll give props to Zodiac for at least having the balls to post anything.

"20 good men"

PnW always surprises me by how consistently DoW threads turn into the attackers giving the defenders war advice. Meanwhile I'm here failing airstrikes.

I'm sure I remarked something similar the last time you posted these, but again I find a couple of trends to be interesting. 1. 69% (ayy lmao) of nations in this game are 5 or less cities. ie - people who are either under 10 days of age or people who are inactive/don't play. - How can we increase our retention rate from a community standpoint? - How can we increase retention via mechanics? - Can we bring any of these people back into the game? - How can we boost influx of new players? 2. The New Pacific Order, unarguably, is a brick wall to anyone in their score range. Cities can't be destroyed so they're only going to continue rising up. The bell curve of city cost is going to make it impossible to escape their coordinated takeover of an ever-higher score range. - Aside from tax rates (which NPO is famous for being at 100%), why aren't other groups following NPO's lead in regards to sacrificing short-term growth for long-term victory? - Does NPO's taxrate directly contribute to their coordinated efforts? Could other groups create such a concerted effort without the harsh taxes? - Have NPO's doctrines truly created the invincible phalanx that they appear to be at first glance?

Government shutdowns, earnings reports, and log dumping... I think the Christmas gift-giving season was delayed a month.

I love well-written posts. Very cool new theme!

I would term the irrelevant as inactive people who either won't or don't know how to get involved with things. Otherwise your relevance can be chalked up to your actions as long as you have somewhat of an alliance backing you. The problem is, every single alliance in the game right now has no inkling of democratic process or member involvement. If they do, they're a freebooting pirate anarchy. So we have the vast majority of people out there disillusioned with a boring game going inactive, then we have the people who consolidated their power in the name of efficiency and opsec complaining because there's the same handful of people making the big calls and shockingly none of them will change their minds on anything. We need new blood. We need new systems.

Yet another hit-and-fade with no response from Daddy... Yes, god forbid we do anything more than two days of war lest we suffer negative consequences.