hope

changeup i hate to break it to you but u aint the first how do i charge royalties?

Everyone is playing for their own type of victory but I clearly remember many alliances in this thread (!) basically consolidating power at one point or another to come to some type of total victory, even if it wasn’t game over they were the king of the hill. Only thing is “game over” isn’t really possible bc eventually someone will get bored and want to be the only person on top. People thirst for power, it’s natural, and even if people in IQ took it too far it’s been a scenario repeated multiple times in this game. Hegemony and the fight against hegemony is THE driving force in this game, and it’s why minispheres are balls as all conflicts [that matter] in this game can only be two-sided without it devolving into a hegemonic state.

What does forgiveness mean? Forgiveness is just letting go of the anger that you hold towards people in this community who have wronged you. Nobody is asking nor is anybody expecting all of these relationships to go back to what they were before the war, and I don’t think they should. But, as a community part of moving forward is recognizing how we were wronged and then changing our behavior in the future to make sure that the same mistakes are not made again. The predominant figures who orchestrated the last war have mostly left the game and I think this anger we hold towards those who have remained needs to be put into perspective. My only concern is that we take out this anger that we’ve pent up during this NAP and unleash it onto the wrong people/alliances or we are too punitive and harsh towards those who were responsible. At the end of the day, the claims of moral superiority (some of it “””true”””) and moral grandstanding (all of it bad) from certain individuals and alliances last war has put a lot of expectations to treat and engage enemies in the fashion they claimed they would last war and it will be interesting to see what it happens. My only fear is that it will end up turning into a witch hunt, some of which has already started happening and won’t stop until members of the wronged alliances are satiated.

thank you all for letting me know who i can trust to keep information private and who’s going to leak it all as soon as it’s convenient for them politically now back to your regularly scheduled programming

aaaaaah merge TKR, ally OWR, blitz Solar Knights Next Poster Vanguard Bloc, Spectrum Bloc, Nuke Bloc

Going forward if you’re making a post apologizing for something maybe tell your former and current members to shut the frick up and not respond to this thread

Well I guess we already know how the next global war is shaking out. Where is the fast forward button in PnW?

Short post here as I’m at work right now. I will say that as a micro alliance leader who had been in talks with both during this period of time my perspective is a bit different than everyone else’s. Couple things: I have only nice things to say to Adrienne, Partisan, Lord Tyrion, Zygon, and especially @Sval during this war. They were always incredibly accommodating during the war (and especially the stretch between December and when the war ended) and were always willing to talk to me and work things out. Of course we (HG) had ended up tying GOONS but that was simply because they were doing FA things that lined up better with what I had wanted. I do need to clarify that I and ASM had no knowledge about the cheating scandal and GOONS later planning on disbanding. If I am to fault GOONS for one thing during their time in PnW was that they completely left their protectorates at the time out of the loop, and that ended up being fairly damaging long-term in regards to our FA and other things. What I think people still don’t understand (and perhaps that ties into the forgiveness aspect) was that there definitely comes a certain difficulty in being a outspoken leftist in this game and what GOONS did for me at least (I won’t speak on behalf of the folks in ASM) was provide a space and political unity, both irl and in-game. It was a risk tying them and it pissed off a ton of people and ruined some friendships both for me and ASM gov. It ended up being a risk that didn’t pan out but at the time it was the best option for me moving forward with HG. I think for those who spoke to me and other GOONS satellites, you’d know we were really only allied to them. For starters, I hated NPO and BK and wanted the war to end as soon as possible along with I’m sure many others on that side. I was shat on all the time on the forums by people in OD leadership (see: PnW academy awards). What I ask though is this. If you have beef with GOONS still, don’t let that influence your thoughts on alliances that were once allied to them. anyways idk if any of that made any sense but when im home i can adjust this if need be

hope this sentiment is shown in your actions moving forward

cope

unironically an expansive tutorial made by players instead of a tutorial and 1 youtube video by alex assuming that new nations will be joining alliances with good guides is not a bad idea

in elijah’s memory here are some of the most kind things he’s said to me perpetually kindhearted and loving and self aware, that’s the elijah i knew

I don't see what's wrong with the name suggestion @Corpsman. You're already following the tenants of communism pretty well already by letting GOONS live rent-free in your head 3 months after they quit