[SYNDICATE, INC., ANNOUNCES CFO $UCCESSOR]

 

Investor Contact:

Vemek

 

Media Contact:

WANA

 

SYNDICATE CORPORATION (NYSE:SCC) announces a series of changes to the corporate boardroom, effective immediately. 

The Syndicate announces that Chief Financial Officer Vemek has elected to retire from active corporate governance and retire to the position of Executive Emeritus. Vemek has stewarded the finances and growth of t$ to new heights during his tenure as Economic Executive, and t$ is proud to send him on his way to an undisclosed beachfront compound with a new exclusive timepiece. New economic heights were reached under his care and despite early setbacks against competititors, the Syndicate’s long-term projects in the whaling industry have begun to prosper. In his place we now welcome ɯɐɹǝʞ (Keram), former Vice President of Corporate Investment and head of the now defunct Investigative Committee into Corruption, tasked with exposing any dishonest or fraudulent conduct amongst the top brass of the Syndicate. 
Despite being imminently qualified to leave t$ and start a new business venture, as so many economic advisors of t$ have done thanks to being the leading financial hegemon in Orbis, Vemek merely asked that he be allowed to quietly retire and only requested the summary incineration of a series of documents in relation to reports of bribery, intimidation, whale trafficking and a misallocation of funds in the [REDACTED] region.

SYNDICATE CORPORATION strictly denies the veracity of recently leaked video tapes purportedly captured whilst the former CFO was escorted out of his high rise executive office in Nassau, which detractors claim depicts him lunging at his successor whilst screaming “!@#$ that aussie”. The Syndicate’s team of legal advisors would also like to note that any individuals or companies propagating the falsified video will be met with charges of libel and slander and that it has begun an investigation into the identities of those behind the doctored footage.

SYNDICATE CORPORATION also announces new additions to the acquisition and security offices as Allend Goodblood has been promoted to a Vice President of t$ whilst Odin will be taking over his position as Director of Security in the Enterprise branch.

 

ABOUT SYNDICATE, INC.,
SYNDICATE, Inc., based in Nassau, the Bahamas, is the world’s premium gasoline, aluminum, and munitions manufacturer and distributor for a wide variety of peacekeeping and humanitarian activities. Wholly-owned SYNDICATE, Inc. subsidiary brands include the Enterprise, Orbis’ foremost talent scouting and management agency; the Charlie Group, premium asset management firm; and Charming Friends, bringing syndicalism to syndicates. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact WANA, Chief Global Strategist.
 

[A Syndicate Foreign Affairs Update: Recognition of Hostilities]

[People wanted me to write a thread.]

3 minutes ago, Avakael said:

I wasn't banned from the server- I was banned from the CoTL embassy. I was in that embassy at the request of the CoTL government. I left the server after I was removed from the embassy. There was no further point in me being in the server if I was no longer going to be granted any form of diplomatic credentials.

The person that removed you isn't in tS and hasn't been for a long while. I don't think you should be pinning this on us two years later 

[People wanted me to write a thread.]

17 minutes ago, His Holy Decagon said:

I see dates and times in my log. Sort of tricky to say which was first, but it’s also hard to get around “what if Clock hits Rose”, “that would alleviate concerns”. 
Maybe I am wrong, it’s legit hard to tell without dates and times

The date on your logs are 12/12/2021 which lines up with when the war began. Wana's logs mention a swap to full mil which means that conversation came first.

Now, I ask you my initial question again

[People wanted me to write a thread.]

2 minutes ago, His Holy Decagon said:

“We need help” vs “we will hit rose if it helps you”

Do you dispute the initial logs in which Keegoz's first suggestion is a request that we expand onto Rose with you? 

[People wanted me to write a thread.]

Clock: reee minispheres fair wars

Also Clock: >asks BW to dogpile rose alongside them

[Proposed Beige Change]

If #1 and #3 are both implemented people may as well be guaranteed a full rebuild regardless of what you do and the value of the blitz factor ends up being greatly diminished.

This would largely shift the decisive factor in wars to be the size of an alliances stockpile rather than skill, coordination or general military performance since I'd imagine evenly matched wars would devolve into both sides counter blitzing each other until somebody goes broke. (also rip the milcom people who'd have to organise this lmao). 

Wars would end up being a lot less frequent with alliances spending large amounts of time in peace focused on rebuilding their stockpiles and people would also be a lot more reluctant to fight wars on even terms knowing how damaging it can be. Putting an emphasis on stockpiles also greatly disadvantages newer alliances needing to push nation growth and simultaneously front the costs of an increased stockpile whilst lacking the extensive reserves or strong tax bases of the older and larger alliances in the game.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

2 hours ago, Etat said:

Not mad my friend, but quite reasonably interested and concerned about where this development will take us all.

Also comparing this t$/Rose thing with anything TKR has done is IMO a flawed approach.  TKR doesn't throw a tantrum and refuse to play on equal terms.  TKR doesn't opportunistically hit opponents already heavily engaged in a global with no CB.  TKR doesn't hold on to Orbis damaging personal grudges against alliances of <40 members who can't reach the majority of players.  TKR doesn't generate massive responses to appeals such as HC's post.  The difference between us my friend is not our actions in and of themselves, but in the driving forces behind them.  You are most certainly blind to our differences.

This is not a personal attack mind; I am certain you are all wonderful individuals, but collectively you guys are like a 6'4" toddler who thinks they're in charge of the game.

I'm unsure as to the point being made here. You are justifying a sphere containing TKR-GG-TI and simultaneously discrediting a rose-t$ tie on the basis of.... morality? Cool, you guys are spotless (lol) give yourselves a pat on the back.

The core complaint I have seen has hinged on tiering which has been discussed to death and the common consensus seems to be that HW and Ro$e are largely equal. The other complaint I've seen is the idea of ro$e having too many 'drivers' of politics in one sphere when both GG and TI are in your sphere. GG is already a major driver in politics and they could very well lead their own sphere to be a 'mover and shaker' to the same scale as t$, TKR, Rose, Cata etc if they so wished but instead choose not to do so.

Your entire point of 'syndi man bad' is irrelevant to either of those two issues being discussed and I don't even know what the first two things you're talking about are. 

[[Peace] Make Love Not War On Valentine's Day]

[[ROH] Here we go again]

I appreciate the counters guys!

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

57 minutes ago, Denison said:

Can we stop arguing about RON and DNN, Armenia and Turkey for just once? We all know how Krampus is, there's no point demeaning a trash character anymore than he has done it himself(deleting all his infra). Turkish is not a race it's a culture stop miss-using the term to spin the topic away from t$. This is all pointless dribble used to construe the point of the original poster, please stay on topic and behave accordingly. That means everyone. 

I’m not going to sit here and say there is no merit to some things lined out in the post but its telling when you’re more concerned about denouncing the political implications of something rather than someone saying “can’t say Turks have much of a backbone or moral integrity”. 

The point being made was that HC was using retired gov members combatting a narrative in discord servers to push the idea of us supposedly being rife of toxicity. The parallels are clear to see when his gov not only posts toxic responses like this but also then double down on it. How are you preaching to others about toxicity whilst various gov and members from your alliance are doing worse. (lol as if Turkish being a culture excuses this) 

57 minutes ago, Denison said:

This is all pointless dribble used to construe the point of the original poster, please stay on topic and behave accordingly. That means everyone. 

Even when the original poster is publicly endorsing people as his gov whom are doing exactly what he is critiquing others for?

This was not brought up by us, if you are able to criticize others for it you should also be able to deal with it internally in your own alliance and the way you have responded indicates the opposite. Thus far the response from HoF has ranged from indifference to outright supporting what was said. We are pointing out the discrepancy between the attitude from all of you and HCs message. I don’t know why you are trying to spin this into us moving away from the topic when it is a valid critique of your argument.

[[DoW] The Dance Card]

10 hours ago, Justinian the Great said:

You've spent the last [insert number of months, I'm bad with time] villainizing Grumpy and Guardian for existing, decrying hollywood from its inception, and generally trying to manipulate the rest of the game into constantly fighting each other rather than trying to get involved yourselves unless it's an extremely one-sided war.

I am genuinely curious, at what point since Brawlywood have we even brought up the threat of GG or HW for that matter? GOB wanted us as revenge for the past few wars as they said themselves, good for them. Don't manufacture your CB out of thin air lmfao.

 

10 hours ago, Justinian the Great said:

generally trying to manipulate the rest of the game into constantly fighting each other rather than trying to get involved yourselves unless it's an extremely one-sided war.

...We manipulate the rest of the game into constantly fighting each other rather than getting involved ourselves? Which war was this?

[[RoH] Lean Wit Me]

2 minutes ago, Cooper_ said:

@Agent W in September: "Being mean is a valid CB"

@Agent W in January: "Your CB for taking serious our sustained campaign against the existence of alliances in our sphere is petty"

 

As a crusty retired FA who had no involvement in this war or its planning, I have to say that this set of events seemed pretty obvious when you acted as you did in the last global.  It's coming up a bit shallow when you claim to be able to dish it out but not take it back in return.  

Good luck folks, and let's see what the next generation of folks have got.  

 

TIL a major leader in one sphere threatening to hit another = being mean.

[[DoW] A Grumpy Old Bastard's Declaration of War]

While you're at it could you get Guardian to wake up? I think old age must be getting to them because they fell asleep mid blitz 

[City Score Changes and Attack Ranges]

The cap doesn't really help with downdecs in the tiers where they are impactful, a C17 being capped to C10 downdecs is not impactful in any way when at the same time a C40 is capped at declaring on a C21 and anything above. The cap as it is proposed is not decreasing the power of downdecs in a meaningful way unless it's scaled differently.

Given the downdec cap in it's current proposed state is redundant I also don't think the decrease in city score is warranted either, especially given downdecs are still alive and well so I don't see an 'issue' being solved or an improvement of gameplay in such a change.

[Tax Bracket based on city count limit]

You're unable to add people above C35 to tax brackets based on the number of cities they have, I assume because it wasn't expected people would reach that city count. Could we get this extended up higher?

[2021 PnW Academy Awards]

Best Milcom/FA/Econ/IA departments, submitting them all together since it wouldn't make sense not to.

Also lolwtf 4 extra categories really aren't enough to fit all the actually good categories that are missing.

 

 

[SYNDICATE, INC., ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE $HAKE-UP]

3 minutes ago, Majima Goro said:

You forgot an s here

you forgot an $ here

[Unable to move nation from one tax bracket to another]

When attempting to change a nations tax bracket as an officer, the following message pops up:

This wasn't the case a while back and I'm still able to change the rates of the tax brackets etc, just not able to move individual nations from one bracket to another. (Last I checked, though that might not be the case either) There is also no customizable permissions option to allow officers to change member brackets as the only two available are 'Can View Bank' and 'Can Withdraw From Bank'.

EDIT: Leaders can’t change tax rates either 

 

[[DoW] I Mean It]

4 minutes ago, Azazel said:

If you wanted to truly unwind / deescalate, you would have less cryptic, especially regarding a time frame. Your essentially yelling at someone for missing a deadline that was never set. 

....You mean the deadline oasis set on themselves, which they then passed well over and only cancelled 3 hours out from our blitz? Mayhaps you should consult your allies before spazzing out on here lmfao

7 minutes ago, Azazel said:

Once again your obv think a smaller sphere (Minc is outnumbered by Clock in every tier) should just take the L for others amusement, being from Syndicate this is a completely normal opinion for you to have, it comes from your roots.

ahahaha lets not get started on roots 

[The Cataclysmic Failure of Swamp]

Just now, Mutedfaith said:

Fam, Im not in oasis.

ur bloc flags too ugly and outdated

[The Cataclysmic Failure of Swamp]

21 minutes ago, Zach LaVine said:

Come on guys he has a point, didn’t you learn anything about asking for consent? Make sure the other side is okay with you warring them before you do anything, be sure to be explicit, if the answer isn’t a resounding yes you can’t declare.

[A Treatise on the Current War]

5 hours ago, Etat said:

The notion you've expressed that TKR might have avoided this war is clearly nonsense.  It is apparent that you've fully intended to act against us from the beginning.  You complaining that we didn't advert to you our plans after you issued your intent to exit our sphere is ridiculous.  Retrospectively it is quite apparent that not keeping you informed was the right choice; the importance you've assigned to your own designs for the whale/upper tier is apparently to be achieved by any means, even burning your capital with TKR.  That you care less for this speaks more of the value you held for our relationship than it does against TKR, and suggests a systemic pathology in your reasoning and mindset.  You may take note of this and reflect, however I guess most megalomaniacs are blind to the signs everyone else can see.  It follows that by TKR not occupying a subservient role to you, not bowing to your apparent expectation to respect and facilitate your plans against Grumpy, and finally by hitting Rose against your wishes (the final straw it seems) that yes I can see now that war was at least on the cards.

Jfc it's not that complicated. Intel clauses work as long as the treaty is active. The treaty was active when you guys planned a war and signed into a new sphere. We were not made aware of this. 

5 hours ago, Etat said:

Regarding your long standing opposition against Grumpy; you are dissembling when legitimizing your actions using terms like 'hegemon' and 'whale tier domination'.  Your PR is a veneer thin disguise over what I believe to be the real issue(s) evidenced in the tone of your subsequent posts: probably interpersonal, maybe justifiable in a historical context, but mostly a seeming desire to dominate (or more charitably, to at least not be dominated by) the whale and upper tiers.

t$ PR claims contained in your treatise including 'Game Health', and security concerns engendered by the counter militarization of HW should be considered well and truly debunked.  Not only are the actual numbers and the nature of the game meta contrary to your claims, the explicit messages, tones and themes contained in your responses here give falsity to your official line.  Ben's attempts at communication were in vain because this "war was inevitable".

I guess however you guys are taking steps to resolve the political stagnation that irks you so.

This is literally just saying "you're wrong, we're right" except it's wrapped up in a bunch of unnecessary wordage.

We have elaborated heavily on why GG has a stranglehold on the whale tier, I must be dogshit at this game because I don't know what 'actual numbers' and 'game meta' you're talking about. People on your own side have even elaborated on why the war mechanics are ill-suited to deal with GG's whale tier. 

If the best point you can argue is 'ooooo you lied to us' (which in and of itself is false), then you ought to find a better point because all it boils down to us saying we didn't and your side saying "no I don't believe you". There's nothing to argue about there, it's all just your word against ours.

also lol at you calling us megalomaniacs.

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

2 hours ago, Charles Bolivar said:

Like what is there to counter? Grumpy have specialised their Econ so as to be able to recover pretty quickly. They only have larger nations to rebuild, and it's well known that larger nations can rebuild themselves a lot quicker than smaller nations can. Plus grumpy don't have to worry about rebuilding an alliance full of smaller players. 

None of this is exactly news.

Plus, GG having half the whales has nothing to do with previous wars against other spheres. Whales naturally gravitate towards GG, grumpy in particular, because of the specific economic policies in place within these alliances which are more beneficial for whale growth and post war rebuilds.  An alliance that specialises in whales and implements Econ policies designed solely for whales somehow attracts and grows whales. Shocking stuff I know.

If you want to become more competitive in the whale tier, implement economic policies which not only grow whales, but attract them. It's pretty clear that going to war over it isn't going to help address this disparity because it's the 3rd or 4th time the same CB of 'they have too many whales' has been used. Yet the disparity still exists. 

Imagine the reversal of this, if GG declared war on alliances which actively recruited newer nations and geared their policies towards building up newer players,and somehow justified it by saying all these recruited nations outnumbered GG's own much smaller count of new nations. It would be utterly ridiculous.

🤷‍♂️

Your argument is nonsensical because nobody is asking GG to give up their whales or anything of the sort. All we’ve done is point out how dangerous the GG tie is due to the combination of a dominant upper/whale tier and Guardians ‘competence’, so I don’t know why you are bringing that up.
What we are doing is hitting you to prevent your whale tier from consolidating even further and to atleast partially dispel the invincible reputation that attracts a lot of whales to GoB. 

The whole ‘fix your economic policy’ argument is shifty because changing taxes to 0/0 will do very little in attracting whales, (look at TC) because anybody who’s looking for a 0/0 alliance is 9 times out of 10 looking to farm and grow. Joining any 0/0 alliance that isn’t on GoB’s side is counterintuitive for these people because if they do then all that they are doing is signing up to eventually be rolled by GoB because of the fact that their whale tier dwarfs any other, which means they won’t be able to farm and pixelhug very well if they sign up to a rolling every time their alliance faces GoB.

This means that going to war is literally one of the few things you can actually do to close the whale disparity since:

1. It slows down growth and shaves down the stupidly expensive infra levels so many GoB whales run because they’re barely touched.

2. It helps to atleast somewhat mitigate with GG’s reputation of being untouchable and the #1 place for unaffiliated whales to go.

2 hours ago, Charles Bolivar said:

Imagine the reversal of this, if GG declared war on alliances which actively recruited newer nations and geared their policies towards building up newer players,and somehow justified it by saying all these recruited nations outnumbered GG's own much smaller count of new nations. It would be utterly ridiculous.

I don’t think anybody could have proven how little you know of the war and econ mechanics than you yourself did just here lmfaooo.

[The First Snek on The Moon (No Whales Allowed)]

9 hours ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

whoops cant forums.

 

Don't worry friend, there is more than enough of me to go around! No need to be so clingy!