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I think it depends on the political situation at the time. No neutral alliance in any world has ever existed purely without conflict. That doesn't really mean they're not viable or not neutral. Neutrality brings up its own question though - how do we define neutrality? No treaties? We've seen paperless alliances a-plenty. No wars? Then even GPA didn't count. Perhaps a general non-involvement in world politics? Do micros count as neutral then? It's an interesting question to answer. Do I think alliances can exist in a vacuum and never have war brought to them? No. Do I think that overall neutrality can exist and thrive in PnW? Yes. The proof is in the pudding, actually. Fark, R&R, WTF, and The Immortals are currently neutral and haven't been involved in a global war since... whenever Fark last got off its ass. Probably years? All four are top ten alliances. Neutrality mostly means you would rather keep your nose in your own business rather than someone else's. Some people want to drag your nose into their business but that doesn't make you nosey.

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I much preferred the Socialist GOONS to the "everything we post is a joke" GOONS

It said it was targeting non-chrome so I assumed GOOG We're discussing upgrading to the newest version of captcha. It's supposed to be much better at detecting bots and much easier on the end user (players) because it's not an image verification thing.

Good. Rather Google dominates the world than some of these other choices...

Games aren't meant to be fun

You gonos got me so good. I actually believed what your FA guys said and posted as an announcement! Very good troll to ruin your own trustworthiness like that.

100% agree @Alex could we implement recaptcha v3?

It doesn't necessarily matter if he's better or "worse". It's the continuation of leadership turnover that matters. It's the only way this game moves forward.

Why are you even arguing this point? There was real tension developing between TKR and KT during Surf's Up - your NPO propaganda people were literally making memes about "having so much fun in this war" while TKR and KT were salt-posting. You decided to hit them and give them a common enemy but that still doesn't make TKR "pro-KT" or vice versa. It just makes them both dislike NPO. Small side note - NPO has already burned enough PR this war via its own actions. You really don't need to start defending Kosmo's posting to add to it. @Shadowthrone please become Emperor ASAP. We need your shining light to lead us from this darkness.

OO2: Electric Boogaloo

“Edited by Shadowthrone” im going to assume rather than correcting a small grammatical error or typo that you actually edited out your real response indicating your impeding hostile takeover of NPO. unfortunately the mods are all NPO and can see your edit history. RIP.

As a matter of fact, it’s about time Roquentin retired to “shadow gov” as well.

Please re-ascend to the throne or make Tiber emperor. Or Taco. Or literally anyone else. I was outraged and upset at some moves BK made when under other leaders. But they were just an alliance that “opposed” my friends. I grew to hate BK because of Thanos/Leo.

He was in TKR but I think he deleted

Not sure what honor has to do with anything. You got cancelled on mid-war by the ally you chained into the war with. This very announcement is talking about how they manipulated your alliance into the war in the first place. Closing off the BK-supporting front of the war if not withdrawing entirely would be a sensible next step.

I'm glad that despite cancelled treaties, drama, and revealed motives that GOONS is *determined* not to be pawn for BK... but will continue fighting their "manufactured war" nonetheless.

Yes, who could've foreseen poor FA choices coming from BK? Their track record has been above reproach until just this very moment.

Where do you get your math from? I just quickly did 120 x my nation's income and it's less than half of what you're claiming for NPO. There's only 600bn in the game according to the data sheepy tracks. There's 200+ alliances. Divide that out and 10bn is a big bank.

It's a seasonal thing at this point.

Good thought but tbh I think the easiest solution at this point would be to extend the down-time of the game at update. Give the server time to process everything and basically limit the actions of players during this time. So rather than 7:59-8:01 have "Politics and Snore" start at 7:55 and run til 8:05. That way certain people don't update faster than others and it's not such a "sprint" on the server-side of things.

It's definitely a grey area that's been abused in the past to avoid "no matching nation" warns. People create a nation and then go into VM for years just troll the forums. I think a good compromise would be that you can't post things in the in-character forums but you can still read them if you're in VM. I generally agree that discussions shouldn't always resort to "well if you say this then you'll be rolled" but that should be a culturally enforced thing by the playerbase. VM shouldn't serve as a "safe space" for active players to hide until their attackers lose interest. At the end of the day, these are forums for a game - if you're not actually playing the game then... I don't want you in the in-character portions (at least).

The OP seems like a cancellation but the comments made me doubt. I'm confused @Redarmy what's happening

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Arrgh, unlike many others, has never wanted or attempted to force their opinions on others. I'm pretty tired of defending Arrgh on the forums after Deulos digs himself into a hole though. Enjoy arguing with him, I'm sure it's rewarding in its own way.