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You're very angry about something but I can't really tell what it is.

tbh this war needs to be named in stages. There's been so many twists, flipping of sides, betrayals, and comebacks that it's hard to find one good name. "100 years war" maybe?

Without PnW I don't think the nationsim genre would even exist anymore. Alex is a top tier bro.

Which is actually really funny because this game's economic system really allows for much more economic customization / specialization / and manipulation. Economic treaties just haven't really been a thing because a lot of the playerbase came from other nationsims where the game economy was basically defunct so all that mattered was military. Additionally a lot of alliances are opposed to taxation and centralized economies so economic treaties become even more difficult to justify.

Why do these threads keep being made

This is to prevent tax farms. No one cares if you get a "little iron and bauxite". This is a step to help prevent swathes of nations being created and farmed in perpetuity generating free income for nations that actually play. I hear what you're saying but you're still painting a picture of inconvenience rather than anything else. This is a solid step in moving towards balancing mechanical dysfunction with the beige system. Disrupting the tax system only disrupts the alliances that are automated with semi-legal scripting anyway. The rest can probably still coordinate and figure out how to operate without it.

How does this kill economy again? The nation just stores the would-be taxes. If they’re active and still want to pay then they can just deposit the difference. It doesn’t turn off the nation’s output.

This is where I take a Jeffersonian approach to PnW. If you're unhappy with how your coalition is handling peace negotiations: take a separate peace and leave. If you're unhappy with how your alliance is responding to peace negotiations: Quietly bow out and leave. This is a place for nations to conduct their business and alliances are a facilitator of that business. They are not the states themselves. Obligations only stretch so far before your morality and destiny are not your own.

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.

We*, comrade.

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.