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I'm completely blind and I read it fine.

Is this an act you're playing or did you fail reading comprehension? I said all the high tier, excluding Tyrion. He got his money by playing the market

Really? I was in TI for months, and idk if I was on an especially bad program but the top grant was around $45m. Yes, there was a reduced tax rate for over 20 cities, but that's rather common among alliances. Neither TI nor Camelot have a large collection of whales with significantly higher city counts, although they do have a few large nations. So to focus on TI, because I'm less familiar with Camelot, who are the top tier that they apparently exist to fund? The two highest city count nations, excluding Tyrion, joined TI with those city counts or very similar ones. The same is true if you look at the rest of their highest tier. If they're led with the objective of funding the top tier, they're doing a piss-poor job of it.

Was this why when the TI offshore people were sleepytime and I'd just broken blockade it took me about 2 hours to find someone who'd send 1k alu my way so I could buy some planes?

The last few pages seem to be what happens when the whales suspect T$ isn't there for them anymore. T$ might wish to remedy this, unless they begin to believe nobody loves them, which I suspect would make them sad.

Good luck Camelot! You definitely have my vote for most honorable alliance this year.

Let us take a moment to pay respects to the lower tiers of COTL and E404, led to their deaths by whales they thought they could trust. Oh...and rnr, who are probably wondering where the hell WTF are with the counters. Why do people insist on reminding me that UPN still exists? I was having such a nice day.

You are aware that over the past 100 days, the alliance that has done the most damage is outside of the top 40, right? We're KT, we're untreatied and we're here to stay. Look at TI. They started as a tiny micro that people laughed about and have grown into one of the largest and most successful alliances in the game. The reason is pretty clear, they have a great community with some very good people, and they care about keeping the alliance moving in the right direction.

Congratulations to CoA, winners of the Fark memorial trophy for not defending your allies and prots. I wonder which member of their gov will come up to give the acceptance speech?

There's a difference. Arrgh raids useless nations. KT performs a public service to the community by ridding useless alliances of their infra and resources.

Are warnings being given out here not public, or has a moderator just gone onto a thread which involved one guy repeatedly making flamey OOC attacks against other users and just told everyone to get on topic? I'm not sure how many warning points should be in the last page of Kosmo's repeated flaming but I'm reasonably certain that it is more than none.

I once had a reputation for terrible puns. They won many awards, the revenue from which I used to buy a great collection of treasures. Alas for the days in which I stood as a radiant beacon of light in the punning world are over, and I fear now that my former reputation will not stand me in immortal fame. But I must make this last attempt, lest my aur(or)a of supremacy fade into the dust. For if I am no longer the alpha of the punning world what can I do? Grow cranky and become a grumpy old bastard as some new order of a million micro-punners crushes my legacy beneath their uncaring heels? This cannot be. I will not allow this to happen. I will make a great new pun once I've finished counting the rose of burning pixels I have created.

It's weird honestly. I join alliances that I think I'll be a good fit in, and usually you can tell if I still think that's true if I log in every day. Strangely I can say that, even as a non-Christian gay disabled man, I find kt to be a far more fun experience than I found Fark when you were leader, having experienced both. Do you have any idea why that might be?

I never really knew you and we found ourselves on opposite sides in this conflict but I hate to see active players leave a small community like this. I've had my struggles with mental health in the past, and I know how much it can suck, particularly when a game like this is pressurising you. Good luck in whatever rl brings you, and I hope to see you back some day, hopefully under happier circumstances.

Since this is a 'clarification' on kt, I'd be interested to know which categories we all fit into. Namely, am I a sycophant (if so for who), a basement troll, an edgelord or a common garden troll? What I think happened is that I left TI because I wanted a change of scenery, joined kt and enjoyed it, and I'd rather my time not be spent countering for people because there are people in this game who cannot accept that others have differing opinions to them. I will though, if that's what I need to do, but really if we could all act like we're above the minimum age to play then that would be preferable. In short: KT not all nazis, don't attack kt because I want city 29.

Sit tight and I'll tell you how KT has been cheating throughout all its history as an alliance. Ready? We'll begin. A long long time ago, a kt member whose name has long been lost to legend realised a simple but highly important thing. He knew that if you are expecting a war to start within the next five minutes, a good thing to do was hit refresh once every five seconds or so. When a war was detected, particularly if you knew that the only people who could attack you either had far fewer cities or less military than you, you can do a ground attack without looking if you can be confident that you can do it without them being able to build enough military to prevent it. That is how you have all been cheated for so long.

I love receiving tribute, rose sphere has given me $120m since Thursday. It's so nice of them don't you think?

To offer credit where credit is due, when Rose did finally blitz parts of it were well-executed. I won't have ground for very long for example.

oh no sounds scary

I'll give you a satisfactory. Rose does defend its allies, but unfortunately it waits until both of them are on almost zero first, which prevents it from achieving a higher rating. With more frequent testing however I am sure it will improve.

How bad of a protector do you have to be to willingly get your protectorate's infra burned? I would have thought that Rose had better fighters who haven't passed war training than rnr had in general but I guess you need them

Are you trying to give us ideas? I doubt any of us mind if you're desperate.

I'm unsure why you were attacked first, Pasta. My personal theory however is that the group who were tasked with attacking you and another person were very quick. If it had been my call, two different people would have been attacked first. Shit happens, I guess.

I don't mean to sound too impatient but are you guys planning to activate your o-level or not? I'm bored of waiting and some competition would be lovely right about now.

Scientists have long wondered what happens when WTF gets into a war that wasn't a massive dogpile. The scientific community is patiently waiting to see how long it takes for them to draw up surrender terms.