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Best timed Vacation (mode)
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Congrats friends!! And... 4 MORE YEARS!
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4 hours ago, Roberts said:
I really miss politics being intricate and interesting. I feel like leaked discord logs of sphinx have moved the world for two years now and it's boring.
OPSEC used to be a skin-tight thing that allowed complex plots to form - leaks happened but were rare. Now it seems that anytime someone receives a DM it gets forwarded straight to Partisan. Do better, PnW. Queue "back in my day"
Is OPSEC being a skin-tight thing a part of a (newish) pirate's code?
The pirates I used to know would steal, plunder, lie and leak secrets on a regular basis.
Do better, P&W pirate! Another one for "back in my day" 😉-
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Which doesn't mean I didn't make mistakes or learn.
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5 hours ago, The God Emperor of Mankind said:
Now this is the hot steaming pile of bullshit that got me to spend 30 minutes figuring out my user name so I could get my password and make a post.
You had no meaningful role in that. (...) Ive seen you lie about shit (...) full retard over minor shit (...) By all common moral standards, you are a piece of shit. (...) shit (...).I had forgotten how much you can curse at times - never really liked that. Nor do I like your ancient grudges. Not exactly sure why in my case, as I helped maintain your alliance for 8 months as your right hand man for FA and whatever else needed to be done, while one player after the next fled your chaos, fury and vengeful nature. Until I was kicked from the aa at night and a 60 or so day old nation was asked to lead Pantheon. Until he became inactive after 6 weeks or so and coups and more trouble followed. Either way, nice to have made many friends back in the days: at our protectorates, former government and protector t$. In your case I hope you find peace in life and stay in retirement. As for "you had no meaningful role in that". Our ancient convos disagree.
I suggested I'd approach TFP. I spoke with them. Explained they didn't want to fight.
You were trigger happy and didn't trust it. "They are going in". I explained it would be madness for them to go in. You told me a treaty tied their hands. I explained there are no game mechanics forcing an aa to follow up on a treaty. I said they weren't going in. You said they might be waiting for a few days. This besides what I discussed with you in other channels back than. I held us back because TFP was signalling they didn't want to go in.
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Hi @Harry Flashman, @Lord Tyrion, @Richard Payne III,
I don't think it's a secret I've been close to alliances in Swamp for years. I gave GodFury (precursor to TLE) a protectorate, worked on my coalition not rolling TFP (Knightfall), helped the Federation get a protectorate with TFP and Alexio's Frontier Records after the Nova Riata merger turned into a disaster and worked with Alexio several times. I've complimented those of you (Immortals, TFP, Fark, TLE) who stayed in the war, when numbers and moral support mattered and others fought alongside IQ or dropped out the war against IQ within days after entry. The appreciation for that stands.
Given our ties and the rumors building up I've been pretty quiet on the Forums and sought you guys out in DMs. Your words have been pretty clear: we had no plans to hit Quack. It's annoying and a shame the case that Swamp has approached other spheres about dealing with Quack, has just been building.
I'm not going to rehash it all here. After months of regular remarks by several players on the OWF, Immortals FA James most clearly voiced his opposition on the radio about Quacksphere being waaaaay to large and scary. After a friendly convo in DMs I tried a "Let me know if your concerns develop into something more than that... or if you simply feel like a chat XD" but apparently to no avail. By incorporating TCW Swamp has grown to give-or-take the same size as Quack. I'm looking forward to a radio show on that and let's drop the "maybe TCW or other alliances will be cut when we re-evaluate" - TCW is Swamp now, obviously. And with TCW you embraced an alliance with plans to hit Quack.
I have to hand it to SRD: he doesn't owe us anything and I'd understand it if he held some grudges against t$, but at least he mentioned (it was presented to him that) Swamp approached HM about hitting Swamp. You can't just say maybe "I'm out of the loop with my sphere but you just prove it" . Can't you Ask Alexio (part 2) instead? Why should we? We can't ignore HM putting this out there.
I get it when one of the two largest spheres wants to take out the competition and prepares for that. It's P&W, not Politics & Kumbaya. I also know at times sphere leaders have middlemen. That old ties and fresh assurances get forgotten in the process is... annoying. That a Duckpile was deemed necessary is a shame. But at least own up to Swamp discussing an attack on Quack with HM so we can all move on. I promise I won't call your sphere IQ. Yet 😉-
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Sphinx’ Duckhunting Vacation? Leaky Sphinx Duckhunting (LSD)?
Global Orbis Duckhunting Tournament?
Game of Thrones - Duckhunting Edition?Given the two main spheres in this war: Duckhunt in a Swamp. Or Ducks into the unkno(ooooooooo)wn:-
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Take care Sphinx, I enjoyed the history conversations (both Panth history and real history) and I'm sure we'll see you return here.
Congrats Putmir - it's not easy when you suddenly get the job like this, best of luck going forward.-
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Jacobite restorationists (OWR), northern secessionists (HS) and Carthaginian revanchists (Cart).
Good luck overthrowing the old order and introducing a new one 🙂
Have fun friends -
A well de$erved break after $ome excellent work for the alliance. Enjoy your time off Leo, it wa$ great to work with you!
And be$t of luck Adam - good to $ee $uch a talented friend in this po$ition!-
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Het beste vrienden van TEST.
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Congrats Starksphere friends!!
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Enjoy the rebuild!
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Congrats on peace guys.
Too long in the making indeed.-
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Congrats with peace (and what Partisan said)
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3 minutes ago, brucemna said:
Yes the game is breaking Charles no doubt now. Seriously thiughball this accomplished is more resentment than moving forward. I remember another realm where Rose itself was cheating or at least a few members where and the players handled it not the admin. And as well we attracked people to the game regardless of interpretation. The only thing that will be accomplished is who would want to donate or attract friends or other communities to the game if it is going to be considered cheating. Personally I wont donate now and why should I. I remember when Sheepy created this game and it was to let the players play with admin to sit idle and only do the upgrades. U know funny thing is aside golf itself depends on the players to police themselves. Personally I am not sure or aware of any cheating going on ... but I am aware that players do bend the rules looking for technicalities to get ahead. ON ALL SIDES. And for some to be casting the stones right now will help karma come back on them.
"And as well we attracked people to the game regardless of interpretation."
Farmers who:
- weren't talking to anyone outside of GPWC/NPO
- didn't build anything but resource improvements
- didn't war
- didn't trade
- logged for 1 min every so often to feed your alliance with login money and taxes
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6 minutes ago, Tiberius said:
Except that it is okay to have 1000 farms, unless you can magically find rules against that?
I thought you knew this rule against farming (getting ingame materials) in exchange for real world stuff:
Real-World Transactions for In-Game Materials
Politics & War has a limited donation system to prevent the game from being "pay-to-win." In addition to limits on Credit usage, it is against the rules for players to make exchanges of real-life money or goods for in-game materials, including but not limited to: in-game money, and in-game resources. Examples of this type of behavior would include: sending someone real-life money for in-game money or in-game resources, purchasing someone a Steam game for in-game money or in-game resources, sending someone a gift-card for in-game money or in-game resources, and any other sort of real-world trade for in-game goods.
The punishment for real-world transactions for in-game materials will be a complete nation reset upon first offense, and a permanent ban from Politics & War upon a second offense.
Just fyi: A gift card or a steam game are just examples.
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1 hour ago, Tarroc said:
I mean, it has become evident that the Admin of the game cares nothing for what he says and keeping the game fair. He makes a decision, then decides he no longer cares for that decision, bans multiple people who have done nothing wrong, deletes billions of dollars of revenue from the game, and deletes billions of dollars of resources from the game, clearly favouring one side. This comes days after the decision was made to increase the cost of aircraft, clearly designed to punish the side who uses aircraft more. This is an idiotic decision, a clearly biased decision, and a decision that was made with malicious intent in mind. I imagine a number of alliances will refuse to continue playing the game, if this is how the admin decides to treat the game as a whole, and abuse his powers in such a horrific manner.
Tarroc, instead of complaining on the Forums, deal with the fact that breaking the rules, making $100-150 billion by using 1000 farms isn't ok.
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1 minute ago, King Olafr of the Faroes said:
I'm not re-writing. Alex is.
As I've said previously. I'm pretty sure every alliance has at least one channel, that you need to be part of the alliance to get access to.
What if it was "You have to join P&W to get access to this debate club channel"?
I realize now, that I should've went all Cato the Elder on this shit from the start.
1) I don't condone of what has happened.
2) Alex, by his complete lack of action and "my stomach feeling"-statement is the only one to blame in this. He could've said "No bueno, stop this immediately."
3) This is bullshit. But at least it makes it easy for me to leave the game. He killed my reason to play the game and I get to keep BK community.
This day is a win for me, personally. I get to leave this shitshow of a game and keep the people who made it the slightest bit interesting.
Ok, this is interesting:
1) I don't condone of what has happened:
Good, I think we can agree something bad has happened than.2) Alex, by his complete lack of action and "my stomach feeling"-statement is the only one to blame in this. He could've said "No bueno, stop this immediately."
So you think Alex should have acted sooner and should have said: "No good, stop this immediately."
Sure, I would have liked GPWC shut down mid September. I guess he had
3) This is bullshit.
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27 minutes ago, King Olafr of the Faroes said:
I joined the game to be a tax farm. I'm still a tax farm.
I was stupid enough, not to get people to sign up for another game or the likes, but that's on me. Getting access to something like a comic is the worst BS I've ever seen. And yes, I've looked at the report (didn't bother looking at 23 pages of screenshots).
When Green was banned, he was paying people irl money for in-game money. With this, you're basically saying that we, as communities, can never ask for anything in return or offer anything in return.
I'm a 1000% certain, that you could find that comic in another way if you wanted.
So you're rewriting the rules as follows:
giving people irl money for ingame money: against the rules.
giving people comics for ingame money: ok with the rules.
Is for you anything other than irl money allowed? Farming in exchange for steam games for instance?
Or farming in exchange for an online subscription of the Economist?
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9 minutes ago, Zaurg said:
As far as the tax farm claims go me and Kris compiled literally the entire bank history of GWPC to demonstrate that the interaction between NPO and GWPC was less than 10% of just the monetary value GWPC moved around internally. It was clearly an appropriate relationship for a protectorate and feeder alliance
Compliments, that's very original: it's appropriate to cheat, as long as enough money stays in the protectorate.
Hilarious.
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2 minutes ago, Dalmasca said:
Why waste your time with baseball when you can just get the game banned
Do you care at all about the rules of the game?
Is your excuse "free Manga doesn't count as a commercial good"?
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26 minutes ago, Do Not Fear Jazz said:
II. GOONS membership is hereby ordered not to post on the official Politics & War forums.
V. GOONS no longer diplomatically recognizes alliances
Is this all effective immediately?
And what does "no longer diplomatically recognizes alliances" even mean for you? @Do Not Fear Jaz
Retirement And Likely Departure
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It’s been quite a journey. You’ve been around for most of my 1000 days in the game. I was happy to have you by my side in our early days running FA. Loyal, tough and outspoken. Dedicated. Good FA insight. Welcome sanity in a politically unstable aa. Not always very diplomatic
lol, but great to have by my side. And we had fun 
In BK you showed them the same dedication, loyalty and further developed your toughness and outspokenness. I disliked that Tarroc. Since those days you’ve redeemed yourself. It was good to see the old Tarroc returning and FA in t$ was a natural fit.
As Putmir nicely said: I’m only a message away. All the best as you focus on your family - my thoughts are with you and your family.