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    Discord Question

    in Game Discussion

    Posted

    Welcome back. Discord works on basis of servers that may not be found unless a user has the "invite" link. 

    This holds most Discord servers within Orbis. Also, if you were to go to an alliance's page, they have a helpful link in front of, "Discord Server". 

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    And the Great Khan said: "Learn!"

    in Orbis Central

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

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    In the name of BuorKhan,

    The Great Khan of Orbis, Heaven's Appointee, Guardian of the Seven Plains, Ravager of the Faithless, Protector of the Believers, Most Honorable, Seducer of Women, God Emperor of Man and Hippo Kind;
     

    It came to His Hipponess' attention recently that the manuals sent to IQ had not been let in by authorities who seek to defy his rule. Thus, with the help of his most loyal aides, and purveyor's of Truth, he began working upon the re-education of the IQ host. 

    First, as an extension of the Olive branch, he extended his Knowledge towards BK, by offering them excellent advice:

     

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    Along the way, as His Hipponess wandered through IQ controlled territory, He came upon oddities of nature:
     

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    Such living, sentient beings were fit in some strange contraption made of tin, in which they would experience outlandish notions of excellence in relation to war, paired with the occasional boost of self-esteem.

    He paid special attention to the denizens of Black Knights, who were the possessors of unusual notions of competence:

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    In His adventures, He also came upon a very peculiar being, who actually wished to be part of Black Knights' navy (which had previously been decimated in a large extent by maneuvers coordinated by TjEst forces):

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    Finally, His Hipponess would like to address Orbis as a whole, by pointing them towards a single manual that would undoubtedly free many of the trapped from their shackles, and shake away the cobwebs of ignorance embedded within certain radiant groups:

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    As a final note, He caught an IQ associated anchor in an argument, during which He with His superior Hippo genes, and higher-ranking intelligence, brought to knees many supporters:

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    Here, you may see an entrapped man break as the Light of His Hipponess' Words reached him, (Colorised, 2018).

     

    Stay Tuned  for further entries of the Hippo Manifest! 

    Brought to you by the dedicated efforts of:

    Partisan,
    Sketchy,
    Abbas Mehdi,
    Vack,
    LordStrum,
    Rickyy,
    rapmanej,
    Arnout,
    Countless others

    And the Great Hippo Himself:

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    The God Emperor Wants You!

    in Alliance Recruitment

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    When met with a seemingly unstoppable horde, a force of gargantuan size, these loyal sons and daughters of the Imperium remembered the Litany of the Adeptus: "How can a man be happy if he cannot serve his lord with his whole heart?"

    When the dust settled down, and the flames reached high, there was not a man or woman to be found who regretted his decision to act in defense of the Emperor. In the words of Helem Boesch, "Contact with alien races always renews one's faith in humanity. It is my belief that foreign travel narrows the mind wonderfully."

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    Joint Declaration of War on Arrgh!

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    19 hours ago, WSxPhoenix said:

    The alliance known as Arrgh have preyed upon free and orderly alliances for too long.  Too long have they pillaged innocent nations from without our protection. They have hounded us without end. (1)Yet no one in the world has deigned it appropriate to respond to their unprovoked and predatory actions, until now. We, the undersigned alliances, hereby declare war on Arrgh for their crimes upon our nations. We jointly declare war (2)as disparate alliances, knowing that not all of us share neither a treaty nor a history of working together. Some of us have, at various points in history, even been enemies. We do declare war here and now on Arrgh not only because it is the right thing to do, but because even alliances with little history in common can work together toward a common goal, should the cause be a just one. We will wage war on them, we will exact vengeance upon them, for all that they have wrought. We will strike at them with all means at our disposal, without reservation. (3)We shall do what all free and sovereign alliances that have been hit by Arrgh ought to do. The seeds of wrath have been sown, and now comes the harvest. May it be bountiful. 

    The undersigned agrieved alliances hereby declare (4)a state of war shall exist between them and the nations affiliated with Arrgh, until the debt has been paid:

    AlmightyGrub, signing for Polaris

    TheCreepyLurker, signing for TKR

    Boki, signing for Cerberus

    Therana, signing for TUE

    (1): Try looking at Arrgh's war history some day, and glance at the amount of counters they receive. You are not doing anything new. This is not revolutionary. What you are doing is the exact same thing as you have been for the past x months, the only difference is that now you've begun saying you're doing that. 

    (2): Clearly you are not 'disparate', seeing as you bundled yourselves in the same group in the preceding sentence.

    (3): Most of them have.

    (4): And it didn't already? Or are you intending to say that the numerous wars you have declared upon Arrgh! in the months before this post do not count as a state of war, and that for a state of war to be present a recognition is a must? And then, are you intending to say you are — due to your subpar cognitive capacity — so late that it takes you months to recognize that hostilities have been initiated against your nations?


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    For the thread as a whole:

    While there are many detractors in this thread (including myself with this post, I suppose), and it is a tad bit hard to follow, there seem to be two general trends with posts here. One claims that this action (the declaration of war) isn't doing anything significant w.r.t the given narrative (dynamism), the other is generally a counter to that. Then there are the "We don't care" posters, and the subsequent, "But you do care!" people. 

    Let's review the first:

    First, let's establish this: mechanics wise, this is not new. Nothing you have done here in-game is something out of the ordinary, or a disconnect from wars declared on Arrgh! that existed before this "Declaration of War". You were unwittingly co-ordinating with each other prior to this as well. What is new, however, is the apparent attempt to openly, intentionally coordinate with each other. That is what I like, the fact that alliances did approach TKR (an alliance they are not connected to) for a joint-exercise against pirates, an entity that has been raiding them all. My issue with this narrative is when people begin to overplay what they actually did, and what the significance of such a thing is. That said, if this is your choice of war allies, and this is your choice of a war target to display working together... I'm not impressed, and maybe what's missing here is magnitude. I digress, this is as stated by someone previously more symbolic than anything else.

    For the "I care not" and "But you do" posters:

    If you do not care about launching an economically unsound war that could have achieved the same result as you preferring to keep your defenses up, you're an idiot. Plain and simple. You wanted release? That means you're going on the offensive because you really want to, and thus the narrative for "We're defending" ends up falling flat on it's face. For the "But you do" posters, let us assume for a moment that they really don't care about sustaining damage/loss in income for an objective they could have achieved through other, more viable means. When they post to tell you they don't care, they aren't saying, "We care about (making dumb ass decisions and thus) eating nukes/missiles", they're saying, "We care enough about posting to let you know we don't care". xdxd.

    3 hours ago, Micchan said:

    (1) Arrgh is a poor paperless alliance who was just dogpiled by the evil TKR or Arrgh is a pirate alliance who averages 3-5 raids per day on TKR and allies and therefore Arrgh deserve to be always at war and dogpiled? Which one?

    (2) TKR dissolved the strongest bloc in the game trying to change the status quo or TKR is trying to sign IQ because IQ is the new super strong hegemony (who just had big troubles dealing with Jest and lost all the previous wars with EMC) because TKR is coward and want to stay with the strongest? Wich one?

    You have to make two choices because those things can't coexist

    (1): Deserve to always be at war? They already are always at war, and they are dogpiled 24/7. No real change here aside from a declaration of working together. (Kind of slow on the uptake of the fact that y'all were already coordinating, eh? xdxd)

    (2): And that is exactly the issue people have. They're saying that the breaking up of EMC only left Orbis open for a new "hegemony" (I wouldn't agree with this, Inq isn't entirely a monopolistic bloc/sphere) which TKR is now attempting to join. Your narrative could've been that you weren't joining Inq, but when you leak as much as the Ajka Alumina Plant you shouldn't expect people to accept that narrative. The underlying assumption of-course is that you dissolved the strongest bloc, and now afraid, look towards attaching yourself to Inq/keeping them happy. 

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    What is TKR's goal?? Can anyone explain?

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    5 hours ago, Partisan said:

    I thought you didn't want to deal with politics anymore ;)

    Politics calls the best (worst, for some I suppose) of us back from the grave. We may not be involved in it (we may have gone for a long hiatus and not even had a nation as is w.r.t this case), but ultimately we will return, even if for a moment. Or try to.

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    For my friends in IQ

    in Orbis Central

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    1 hour ago, MoonShadow said:

    How much resources do you guys think you have gotten ?

     

    53 minutes ago, Buorhann said:

    That's actually a good question.

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    $586,040,901.00 is the total value of the loot you (and not TjEst) got. Calculation is @ these prices:

    Steel $5,536
    Gas $4,589
    Aluminum $3,028
    Munitions $2,676
    Uranium $4,390
    Iron $4,401
    Coal $4,620
    Oil $4,312
    Bauxite $4,156
    Lead $4,326
    Food $129
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    Stats v2: The Electric Boogaloo

    in Orbis Central

    Posted

    You have destroyed in Dio’s name. You have shed blood in Dio’s name. You have stood alone on the precipice of irrelevance and greatness — you crossed it, spectacularly, at that. Today, we raise our banners in the name of Avakael; he gives to Dio as Dio gives to him. 

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    Stats v2: The Electric Boogaloo

    in Orbis Central

    Posted

    Update happened. Rankings can be found using common sense. Avakael’s crazy war history made me go mad. Ripper took 5/6 top positions, the only one he missed was infra destroyed where he’s ranked at third. For the ones from Arrgh! wanting their names to be included, give me some time — compilation is hard as is with these overperforming steroid-taking Killing Jokers. Rest assured, the final stats will come :v 

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    Stats v2: The Electric Boogaloo

    in Orbis Central

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    To the people that requested an update to the previous statistics compilation, here. Again, discrepancies are due to any changes that may have been made, between the starting of the compilation, and the end.

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    Rankings:

    Top 3, Infrastructure Destroyed:
    Avakael, with 60,978.44 infra destroyed.
    Ripper, with 55,720.48 infra destroyed.
    Lene Hau, with 46,893.05 infra destroyed.

    Top 3, Soldiers Killed:
    Critters, with 1,071,818 soldiers killed.
    Partisan, with 793,051 soldiers killed.
    Avakael, with 775,901 soldiers killed.

    Top 3, Tanks Destroyed:
    Ripper, with 52,071 tanks destroyed.
    INH, with 43,065 tanks destroyed.
    Critters, with 41,081 tanks destroyed.

    Top 3, Jets Destroyed:
    Ripper, with 7,439 jets destroyed.
    Snuffles, with 6,350 jets destroyed.
    rapmanej, with 5,401 jets destroyed.

    Top 3, Ships Destroyed:
    Tim Armstrong, with 628 ships destroyed.
    Ripper, with 620 ships destroyed.
    Partisan, with 536 ships destroyed.

    Top 3, Cash Looted:
    Ripper, with $113,845,905.12 cash stolen.
    Robert E Lee, with $95,170,700.56 cash stolen.
    Avakael, with $79,964,28.06 cash stolen.

    I believe a special note should be made of Ripper, who has 3/6 top positions, and is in 5/6 Top Three's. We must also consider Avakael, with the most infrastructure destroyed, also holding a position in 3/6 fields. You guys should check both of these guy's war history out; the amount of wars declared by them, and declared on them, are amazing to see.

    I collected stats two days ago, and since then, this is the overall change:

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    Notes: I will be compiling beige reports later today; that just adds upon the stats already provided.

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    No shade (but some legit questions from a mere pleb)

    in Orbis Central

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    5 minutes ago, Holton said:

    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. ;)

    I never stated pixel protection was/is the wise choice.

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