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    ISIS themed nation

    in Game Reports

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    This is the same guy we banned from the forum ages ago. He's going to claim the same "this is referring to the historical Islamic State, not ISIS" bullshit.

    Yeah, I'll take the warn for posting in in an NDF. Whatever.

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    This is a brave new world we're living in

    in Orbis Central

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    I'm going to have to disagree with quite a bit of what you said, Tiberius.

    Insofar as the concept of minispheres is concerned, both size and isolation are relevant. It was intentioned to be ancillary support for multi-polarity, as opposed to bipolarity, which is where your confusion stems from. A world where there are more than two sides, we call multipolar. That has nothing to do with size or military/economic might - the concept of minispheres propagates a world wherein there are more than just two concentrations of power and that they do not maintain an overwhelming advantage over another. No, they do not all have to be equal, and frankly the risk of expansion from any one sphere in terms of power consolidation was always a risk, which every leader was aware of. Isolation mattered because it allowed minispheres the agency to do so as they pleased - the good and bad came along with that free agency. Isolation does not imply a complete lack of willingness to cooperate and work with other minispheres. It expects that there be no long term relationship between any two groupings that would be acted upon regardless of the circumstances. The most problematic failing of this concept was that it demanded a rapid shift in interpersonal dynamics between leaders, and more specifically, a willingness to set aside the past.

    Cypher is most correct when he says that this war was horrible for this concept. I would not go so far as to say our alliance's intervention led to bipolarity, as I am led to believe both are war time political constructs and not long standing ones, but it did not do good, and the longer this war continues, the stronger the chances of this world coming down to bipolarity become. As for Chaos and KETOG teaming up, that was the single most reasonable course of action they could have taken, and I'm not going to fault them for it. I expect that you will not, either. You would have a point regarding Rose's involvement, but that seems to have been largely overlooked, so I won't bother with that for now.

    As an aside, I know I'm going to be ripped to hell and back for this. You're most welcome to poke me on Discord if you wish to.

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    The current meta and you.

    in Orbis Central

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    Given that wanting change is by itself a personal opinion (you may argue it is group mentality and a 'lack of information', but it remains a personal opinion regardless), I don't see how it can be biased as far as simply the 'poster's side' is concerned, to be honest. You do have an argument insofar as voter % from each side goes, however.

    Edit: I've edited this four five times. I need sleep.

    [DOE] The Holy Grail

    in Alliance Affairs

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    1 minute ago, Sol Slayer said:

    It is just funny bc I forgot

    One.

    1 minute ago, Sol Slayer said:

    we are plenty professional

    Two.

    1 minute ago, Sol Slayer said:

    lmao

    Three.

    Read all these together. See what the problem is? Also, being professional is over-rated anyway. Just try to have fun, maybe kick shit around every now and then.

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    The current meta and you.

    in Orbis Central

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    8 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    we did a speed round before, it was during the testing phases before the "real" game rolled out.  The problem with bumping up maps like that, is you go to sleep, and wake up completely rolled.

    So much this. SRD really hit the nail on the head here.

    Even in the short term, that level of speed requires alliances having players that can not only be hyper active, but be consistently hyper active. And that's just not what the vast, vast majority of people can give to this game. Eventually, you end up with short term curbstomps that you can't feasibly win/enjoy. Which is... not fun. 

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    From New Orleans

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    1 minute ago, Bartholomew Roberts said:

    This is why I think treaties should come in more than just the basic flavors. ODP/MDP/NAP doesn't cover enough scenarios. Conditional Treaties are needed! It's like only ever picking Chocolate/Strawberry/Vanilla for ice cream.

    Or, you know, just less treaties and then everyone can just do what they feel is best.

    Very anarchist of you. 

    ...very fitting!

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    Alliance Affairs Thread Title Tag Requirement Announcement

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    I had a more elaborate post written up as to address the - somewhat valid, honestly - points you made, but my clumsy fingers deleted all of it (and then reloaded, so I can't even CTRL+Z, rip). Sorry for the delay. 

    There seem to be two primary concerns you have:

    • That (primarily new) players who frequent the forums are unable to understand what threads in Alliance Affairs are about,
    • That tags will be used in other sections of the forum.

    While I agree with the idea that the integration of new players in the overall Orbis community is a good thing, I fundamentally disagree with the idea that, most, or even a significant amount of, threads are confusing. If a player were to read the first post, and then the few posts that come after, you would find no shortage of explanations with regards to the content of the thread. Moreover, some threads are intentionally confusing, and forcing players to add tags in their thread title - which, I suppose, is your prerogative, as is my duty to argue for what I believe in - simply make the point of those threads (to confuse and bedazzle) irrelevant. In my opinion, threads that are confusing to new players will largely seem so because they lack in-game knowledge and/or context, not that they aren't clear in their message. 

    Let us look at the past, hm, 15 threads in this subforum.

    1. This thread is announcing the cancellation of a treaty. It says so in its first three lines.
    2. This thread is announcing the existence of a new alliance (it gives a tl;dr too) and the posts that follow make that point abundantly clear.
    3. This thread has some flavour content in the beginning, and explains what it's about in the last line of the post.
    4. This thread is Inst being weird Hyperion announcing their 'bonds' program and giving a somewhat lengthy explanation of what that implies.
    5. This thread, while somewhat hard to understand due to - presumably - the OP's level of mastery of the language, announces fairly clearly that they are recognizing a state of hostilities with BK and are confused as to why this happened.
    6. This thread is a DoW and contains the target's name in the first paragraph.
    7. This thread wouldn't fit your rules anyway, but I am including this to highlight my point about cultural references and why confusion will persist unless players actively attempt to integrate themselves within the community. It's a log dump that is fairly straightforward, however.
    8. This thread explains its contents in the title, anyway.
    9. This thread very clearly explains its purpose.
    10. This thread, yeeaahhh, we weren't  too sure what was going on here either :P (It's a collection of inside jokes and memes that have gone for too long to explain just by the use of a tag, and is meant to be confusing) 
    11. This thread says what it's about in the title. It's also meant to be 'confusing' (if anyone checks the alliance affiliation it would be clear as to what happened).
    12. This thread, while yet another part in a very long sequence of inside jokes/memes, lays its jokes out pretty clearly. This is the sort of funny thing that would be marred, not going to go so far as to say it would be ruined, by the usage of title tags.
    13. This thread was just click-bait. It didn't serve any purpose, as was explained a few posts down.
    14. This thread is hilarious and adds cultural flavour because it's "confusing" (it says exactly what it's about, people just need to read). Also, if you scroll down below you'll see further explanation. 
    15. This thread is Sketchy posting Polaris' failure in guarding their bank. It provides an altered flag, a screenshot of the bank loot, and text to... explain it.


    My point is, the vast majority of the threads that people are 'confused by' are either spam, meant to be confusing (when in reality it takes only a bit of inferring to understand what they're about), or abundantly clear, they just don't say it in their thread title. If new players are confused with what is being said, they should, well, read the posts that come after the OP. More often than not it explains the thread's purpose quite clearly.

    As for the second concern I laid out in the beginning of this (now somewhat lengthy) post, there are three possible outcomes to tags being used out of this subforum:

    • They spam tags, in which case a one minute edit by mods is all that is needed to remove those tags,
    • They add one or two tags, which... isn't actually a problem. Why would it be?
    • They don't use the tags, which is fine.

    Anyway, my point with this all is that it seems like artificial spoon feeding that won't accomplish anything but actually remove the one incentive players have to integrate themselves in communities (to understand what the frick is going on in Orbis).

     

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    Alliance Affairs Thread Title Tag Requirement Announcement

    in Alliance Affairs

    Posted · Edited by Dio Brando

    I am aware that this thread does not exist to entertain my back and forth with you, but let me ask you this. What purpose does it serve? If you believe it to be a solution to disorganization, additional text that needs to be read is just ungainly. What Adrienne and I have put forth will ultimately allow people to sift quickly through all threads with the same tag, and will occupy no space in the thread title itself. 

    It is not a particularly big change, and I fully expect someone to come in a few posts down complaining about me 'whining', but I don't want to add [tag] when I can achieve exactly the same purpose with something far less obtrusive and far more useful.

    Thanks for actively working on the upkeep of forums, by the way. I appreciate that. 

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