[It's Been A Long Day]

When you're on the frontier, in the vanguard, leading the way, life is never easy. The first brave Acadians were among the few to stride across the newly born world, and make it their own. They excelled, dominated, left an indelible mark on history for all time. All know who we are, and what we have done, what great works have been wrought. No man, no nation, no army could defeat them. Unfortunately, some enemies lurking in the deep woods are far more than mere men.

Strikingly absent from the "report" cobbled together by the crook calling himself our admin are details. Details of how he maliciously manipulated the facts and game rules, and treated NPO like dirt while lying to their faces. This was not even his first offense, no, but merely the bloody crescendo of a vicious campaign to drive them out of the mess this world has become. We have seen this, and more in our time here. 

NPO are not those first dauntless few, they are not our oldest friends and allies, yet they were among those few who supported Acadia at our lowest moments when friends were in short supply.
When news of this betrayal reached us, the Colonial Council gathered, and reached one conclusion. 
The great work must be abandoned, we cannot go on. We cannot in good faith continue to enable the toxicity, cheating, and worse that has doomed so many today.
Change will come to Acadia, beautiful and deadly in all its many forms. 

Many of us will be embarking on the next ship away from here, to boldly go on a new adventure wherever the winds will take us.
Some of us will remain to keep the lights on, and my final request is that we be left alone to sort out our business. 

Our discord will remain open forever for all Acadians and allies to gather and share a few moments together. 
Acadia endures, good luck to you all.

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On a personal note, I've spent a fair chunk of my life here with you all, met a lot of people, and had a lot of wild times - good and bad.
I'll always treasure that, if nothing else about this mess. Been thinking about it for a while, so now is as good a time as ever.
Far too many people to thank for making it worth sticking around, and PnW doesn't deserve such a fine community.
I'll be around here to finish up some things and then on Discord if you know where to find me.
Always remember why you're here, and leave some breadcrumbs out if you have the time.

- TheNG 

 

[Peace]

56 minutes ago, HeroofTime55 said:

My understanding is that the vast majority of GPWC members are there because NPO provides something along the lines of Manga translation in exchange for their participation in the game as resource farms.  That would be an exchange of in-game resources for real-world goods.  It's amazing it has been allowed to persist as long as it has.  Props to NPO for always finding creative ways to break the rules in their favor.

New players: *Join the game, an objectively good thing.*
Also new players: *Happen to align with NPO*

Col A Players:

The sheer, abject terror Col A players experience at the thought of new players joining the game and not kowtowing to them never fails to amuse. Just say you'd rather they'd all delete, it'd be more honest. That said, I do quite like the sound of the NPO Manga Trading Conspiracy, it'll join other classics like the NPO Steel Conspiracy, the NPO Stats Conspirac(ies), the NPO Bots and Baseball Conspiracy, the list goes on.

[The game must be reset back to 1/11]

7 minutes ago, Messi said:

That's not enough. Alex need to reset the game. Delete all nations and alliances. We need a new start.

In the words of under's own (ironically deleted) RoH;

"Destroy them all, Sheepy will recognize his own"

[War slot filling]

As the accused once again, I can confirm that there was zero coordination with BK involved in that particular war. 
https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=71842&display=war
You'll note that while there was one active war against a BK nation at the time I attacked, Magnicia also had three active wars against nations belonging to New Pacific Order and aNiMaLz, which is a subsidiary of GOONS I believe. NPO in particular requested that I attack that nation, and I coordinated with them and the additional GotG nation to make good the attack. At no point was BK involved, and any "relief" to the attacked BK nation was purely incidental. 

The continual lying, exaggerations and false reporting done here by a number of players is extremely distressing, particularly when a much larger volume of similar wars (between North Point, The Syndicate,  and Rose among others) are concurrently taking place, and the same players "calling out" mine and Acadia's wars are seemingly unconcerned or even directly taking part in their own wars. If I am cheating, then so are all of you. 

[Give us our RoH back]

tl;dr:

James goes full Scarfalot, doesn't even read the thread or realize that Farksphere is not in fact BK before reporting it anyway.

Hey mods, I think warnings for false reporting are in order for this disgusting attempts at censorship by Coalition A. 

[War slot filling]

This has been explained already in previous threads, but thanks to the actions of our other allies TCW, Acadia and Black Knights have ended up at war, as the DoW several days ago should be more than evidence of. In addition, since you mention our treaty with GoG, it is non-chaining and isn't particularly relevant in this case. 

It's amusing that you're saying I'm not fighting back when I've made a number of attacks against all three nations and will continue to do so until they're defeated. Just because I'm not running continual airstrikes doesn't mean these wars aren't real. It should be obvious, but I'd rather my valuable infra not be blown up, by them or anyone else, and particularly by beiges. 

While I obviously have no idea what strategy the BK nations are using, it appears they're doing naval attacks to take advantage of the fact I can't really build much navy without it being destroyed by them or the other wars I'm in. You'd have to ask them. Besides, using navy in wars is hardly a sign of slot filling, otherwise you might need to ban Arrgh and one-ship attacks too.
Deliberately misrepresented reporting by a VM nation with an axe to grind is hardly a firm basis to make judgements off of, I would say!

 

[Slot Filling]

I'll repost some of my response from the other thread where these wars were reported, as the alliance leader of the nation in question with some knowledge of these wars at least from Acadia's end. I obviously can't speak for BK here.

In this case, although my DoW thread was erroneously removed, a state of war does exist between BK and Acadia and we have no ingame treaties (nor have we for more than a year).In addition, both sides have actively made attacks, the BK members are blockading my member and annoyingly preventing resupply, while my member has made several ground attacks to secure ground control and gain money from the nations attacking him. He's running dreadfully low on resources due to the blockade, and likely didn't use munitions when making the ground attack, combined with a bad roll. It looks like both sides are trying to win the war to me, and are actively fighting and doing damage to one another. In addition, there's only been time for a few attacks.  I eagerly await Alex's decision here, but it's fairly cut and dried to any non-biased and malicious individuals. 

And of course, if you were just making this report out of spite in the knowledge that the wars would be upheld and simply intending to try and use moderation as a weapon, I must say that would be very unfortunate. Just because BK and Acadia are also at war with you doesn't mean that we can't all be civil members of the PnW community...

[Slot Filling]

I'll repost some of my response from the other thread where these wars were reported, as the alliance leader of the nation in question with some knowledge of these wars at least from Acadia's end. I obviously can't speak for BK here.

In this case, although my DoW thread was erroneously removed, a state of war does exist between BK and Acadia and we have no ingame treaties (nor have we for more than a year).In addition, both sides have actively made attacks, the BK members are blockading my member and annoyingly preventing resupply, while my member has made several ground attacks to secure ground control and gain money from the nations attacking him. He's running dreadfully low on resources due to the blockade, and likely didn't use munitions when making the ground attack, combined with a bad roll. It looks like both sides are trying to win the war to me, and are actively fighting and doing damage to one another. In addition, there's only been time for a few attacks.  I eagerly await Alex's decision here, but it's fairly cut and dried to any non-biased and malicious individuals. 

And of course, if you were just making this report out of spite in the knowledge that the wars would be upheld and simply intending to try and use moderation as a weapon, I must say that would be very unfortunate. Just because BK and Acadia are also at war with you doesn't mean that we can't all be civil members of the PnW community...

[Slot filling]

While I am not one of the accused, I am an alliance leader of the nation attacked. 

As has been pointed out here and here

 

and in multiple other threads by Coalition A members defending alleged slot filling, one does not necessarily need to do air attacks in a war to win it..
In this case, although my DoW thread was erroneously removed, a state of war does exist between BK and Acadia and we have no ingame treaties (now have we for more than a year).In addition, both sides have actively made attacks, the BK members are blockading my member and annoyingly preventing resupply, while my member has made several ground attacks to secure ground control and gain money from the nations attacking him. It looks like both sides are trying to win the war to me.

If these wars are slot filling, then it would almost be the logical conclusion would be that all the NP wars attacking Col A members with the dec reasons of "free beige" are also "slot filling". Huh, how about that? I eagerly await Alex's decision here, but it's fairly cut and dried to any non-biased and malicious individuals. 

And of course, if you were just making this report out of spite in the knowledge that the wars would be upheld and simply intending to try and use moderation as a weapon, I must say that would be very unfortunate. Just because BK and Acadia are also at war with you doesn't mean that we can't all be civil members of the PnW community...

[Dial Up War: Propaganda]

Coalition A justifying their slotfilling be like:

[[Vote]How we're doing awards this year]

1 hour ago, Prefontaine said:

Not at all. No Awards, never again.

Shut up shut up shut up! You will not keep my award from me!

[A plea to consider Co A line members]

17 minutes ago, Curufinwe said:

On the upside, if the game does end, think about how much free time we'll all have.  I plan to take up bird watching (by which I mean staring creepily at @TheNG)

[Something to consider]

3 minutes ago, HannaH said:

This has already been addressed. If you find specific instances, @ArcKnox has said to let him know and he will be more than happy to remove any that were overlooked. 

No it hasn't. 

If you take a walk through the raw logs, you'll find plenty of OOC convos and RL information from myself and others posted in a private channel. 
Archknox has posted only IC excerpts, which is fine, but in no way excuses the fact that a bunch of people are apparently fine with spreading around unscrubbed logs with personal details in them as long as they also have Roq saying mean things about KETOG and Chaos. 

Thanks though, I hope a few weeks of shitting on IQ is worth this. 

 

[Something to consider]

Oh boy, I sure am glad to see RL info and OOC convos from me and others posted on the forums for everyone to read. Couldn't even be bothered to edit that out, eh?

Glad to see that Gorge's "convictions" about ruining the game for people don't apply to him. Thanks a bunch. 

[[NPO][FA]Imperial Decree - Regarding BK]

16 minutes ago, Buorhann said:

You honestly didn’t have to make a post about this, lol.

 

1 minute ago, Do Not Fear Jazz said:

How long have you had this made?

I made it in five minutes after Leo posted the link to this lol

[[NPO][FA]Imperial Decree - Regarding BK]

tfw when all of KERTCHOGG has four months of nightmares about IQ, but they finally wake up and it's so much worse.

also when they form IQ 2 but forget about you:

[[Treaty] Turns out Ayyliens and Whales don't mix.]

If it's any consolation to the shattered dreams of Coalition A, I really wanted the civil war to happen too. ?

[Dial Up War: Propaganda]

Inspired by the peace talks thread... ?

[A message to Orbis: Calm it down a bit, will ya?]

I can't get through the day without at least once
a) being called a toxic shitlord by Thrax
b) ruining someone's game experience

You will not take this from me. 

[peace talks]

So this thread is a prime example of why letting your idiot members go on deranged forum rants is rarely a good thing. Never go full Scarfalot kids. 

I'll just bring this bad boy back out since it amusingly still applies.

[Tremble. For the chosen one has risen.]

9 minutes ago, Buorhann said:

 

EDIT:  TheNG pointed out his reply to Smith to me.  LOL, thought it was a simple mistake, honestly.

 

 

1 hour ago, TheNG said:

An easy mistake to make! That arrow is actually pointing to my incredibly stylish jeans, woven from the finest guinea-pig fur of a thousand GPWC nations, and which are perfect to wear during a fulfilling day of granting minor miracles on the forums and transforming infrastructure into war stats! 

It is interesting that your mind went to my wang, but worry not. It is only natural to be so impressed, when gazing upon a superior lifeform!

?

[Tremble. For the chosen one has risen.]

16 minutes ago, Smith said:

So uh it really looks like you have an arrow pointing to your wang that says "Kid-tested, Roquentin approved"

An easy mistake to make! That arrow is actually pointing to my incredibly stylish jeans, woven from the finest guinea-pig fur of a thousand GPWC nations, and which are perfect to wear during a fulfilling day of granting minor miracles on the forums and transforming infrastructure into war stats! 

It is interesting that your mind went to my wang, but worry not. It is only natural to be so impressed, when gazing upon a superior lifeform!

[Tremble. For the chosen one has risen.]

1 hour ago, Prefonteen said:

Droll, dull, disappointing. Simply what I would expect of a snake....

Who among us had not been challenged and seen in that moment their chance? A single opportunity, burning bright as the Sun, amongst the meaningless drudgery of their lives in which they can step up and make a difference. Change the world, improve their meagre lot and that of those around them. Many let this chance slip by, unable or worse unwilling to grasp it and dedicate their full strength to seeing it through. But what of those who do, those dauntless few who know it is their time and seize the moment, striding forward to claim their destiny no matter what awaits?

When the moment comes, the awful truth burns them to the core:

They never had a chance at all

The universe does not care for the lives and struggles of insignificant insects, and neither do the greatest of its inhabitants - those who weave with the fabric of humor and snuff out forums with but a thought. Perhaps you will learn this lesson when so many have not, and when your moment, your chance, your opportunity comes, will you take it? I hope not.

[[NAP] The Best Deals, The Greatest Deals]

 

Sometimes the greatest things can begin as beautiful accidents.

Take this afternoon for instance. R&R was just going for a walk, when they fell down the stairs right into the BK slave pits. 
After taking stock of the new labor, it was decided this is not a rollable offense. 

Thenceforth, Coalition and B and R&R are proud to announce they have signed a Non-Aggression Pact.
The length of this NAP shall be the remainder of the present war plus six months.

 

Let the celebrations commence, and please check your downvotes at the door. Thank you for your cooperation!

[[MULTIPLE] GOONS On Vacation]

35 minutes ago, Spaceman Thrax said:

Happening to share a coalition with certain people after fighting them is not the same as signing people who have gone out of their way to defend an alliance that basically doesn't have an identity outside of being cheating nazis.

So... let me see if I've got this right. "Anime Nazis" are now worse than "Nazi Nazis", since the latter are your best buddies. You heard it here folks, straight from the man himself!

Make sure not to leave your uniform behind when you leave VM Thrax! Honk Honk!