[Peace in our Time]

36 minutes ago, Etat said:

Who’s trolling??  Also have you peaced out yet?  You’re still moaning so I guess not…

Lmao

[Peace in our Time]

I like how you (HWR$) all make it look like Clock is the big bad guy making it look like a big deal, when the last time a Clock representative spoke in this thread was 3 days ago. We know you love us, HW & Ro$e, and that this move is 100% "because" of us .. but you could at least nuance your words, I wouldn't exactly be proud of myself and actively "troll" Clock when I signed a - I'll be careful - temporary MDP de facto creating a temporary hegemony just to allegedly stop us.

Also, I find it curious that some of you used the word "pragmatism" to refer to this move. I wouldn't exactly define a move that shows you in shameful way and gets the entire game angry for legitimate reasons as "pragmatic", but you do you. I know you guys only sees Clock because we have a few whales, but the rest of the game exists too, and yes, they disagree with your move. You're not going to convince anyone else of the opposite ..

(and props to HW members downvoting their own post in the past few days after the storm to allegedly discredit the other 130 downvotes, that's some honourable sacrifice)

[People wanted me to write a thread.]

6 minutes ago, Charles Bolivar said:

Ironic to criticise others for promoting self-interest whilst simultaneously promoting a vision for the game which happens to promote one's own self-interest.

This game is governed by self-interest. Always has and always will be.

When your self-interests lead back to bipolarity, or even one would argue, to the formation of an hegemony whenever it suits them de facto killing the game, I think you should start putting yourself back in question.

[Peace in our Time]

Lmao

[[RoH] Space and Time]

We're doomed

[Ghostbusters (Johnsons/HM) Propaganda Thread]

Hope you like my "meme" too.

[A Very Grumpy Announcement]

A tragedy indeed.

[Proposed Beige Change]

7 minutes ago, Prefontaine said:

Again, reacting to team concerns regarding it being too easy for a defeated side to come out of beige coordinated and counter blitz. If the members of the dev team who had/have these concerns want to address them I will let them. 

If any alliance/sphere can put an efficient counter-blitz after losing the first round, it should be rewarded, not penalised. It's certainly not "too easy" (to not say close to impossible lol) to counter-blitz efficiently and turn the tide of a war when you lost the first round.

[Proposed Beige Change]

1 hour ago, Prefontaine said:

 

1. If a nation leaves beige early, their units are 10% less effective in offensive wars for 12 turns.
2. If a nation wins a war, that nation can produce an additional 25% units for the remainder of that day. This number stacks but is always calculated off of the base 100% unit production levels.

 

Why ? These two just look dumb and favour dogpilers. Extremely bad.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

1 minute ago, Prefonteen said:

HW as an entity is incredibly restrictive to the political meta due to the sheer unassailability of its tiering by any one single grouping

And now you have done exactly the same to an even greater extent.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

42 minutes ago, Prefonteen said:

Why are you bemoaning tS and not hw for being a catalyst in the first place?

But I thought this sphere had nothing to do with HW ? Oh wait ...

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

3 minutes ago, Big Mac said:

Yes, yes. Because 2 spheres holding over half of the c40s+ in the game definitely is not bipolarity.

 

Cmon Pascal, ironic isn't it?

There are around 400 c30s+  in the game, about 50 c40+.

Try again with points that make realistically more sense next time.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

19 minutes ago, Agent W said:

What we have now is tripolarity. You very well know that had things remained the same, Rose/BW would have been the 3rd and 4th most powerful spheres to Clock/HW. I understand that you're mad that this move makes your job harder, but spare me the moral grandstanding.

Yes, yes. Because 2 spheres holding 65-70% of the c30s+ in the game is not bipolarity.

Tripolarity ? You're just trying to consolidate the upper tier to make yourself unkillable in that tier. As if Clock could stand any chance to beat Ro$e or HW at c30+ by being outnumbered over 2:1 by Ro$e or outtiered by HW, so spare me your moral grandstanding.

26 minutes ago, Hwan said:

Of course, it's only a multipolar world if GOB is by far the strongest sphere, right?

I see you as the kind of guy who tries to fight fire with fire.

[[Sphere] Fate Lies in the Stars]

Congratulations on becoming the very thing you swore to destroy.

And here I thought we were done with bipolarity.

[The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire]

Literally 476

[House of Fraud by waffle House]

Ok that's cool & all but who ?

[City Score Changes and Attack Ranges]

8 hours ago, MBaku said:

If you reduce city score the effect will be to make down decs easier, and without a hard bottom the effect will be literally the opposite of "help[ing] to create less down declare huge gaps." 

Am I missing something? 

Score from military units deeply needs to be increased (something similar to the old score meta) to counter-balance it at the same time and punish idiots sitting on max military for no reason. But I guess that Alex, Prefontaine and the rest of the community will need a war to realize their mistake, as usual.

It's the entire score formula that needs to be reworked, not just city score. 

[An Appeal to The Syndicate]

1 minute ago, Emperor Adam said:

snip

Adam u quit stop being a loser and checking forums

[[DoW] The Dance Card]

8 hours ago, Justinian the Great said:

Then it took only 2 spheres from THE ENTIRE GAME to beat us

*Two spheres including Rose, Syndicate and TEst (Company at the time) aka 90% of the non-Hollywood whales in the game. So yes, it kinda took the entire game to beat HW in gw19. While it would have likely (certainly) been possible with a lesser amount of whales, the main reasoning behind the dogpile was that beating GG right away was literally impossible with one sphere at that time.

8 hours ago, Justinian the Great said:

Then clock formed and now have a whale tier to rival ours.

1. You still have more megawhales than us (22 vs 17).
2. You have more than double our numbers at c31+

Your made-up rivalry is one-sided. BW or MHC  have a much better chance than Clock does against HW in the upper and whale tiers.

[GW20 War Naming Vote Round 1]

gw21 naming poll when

[Sanctuary Pulls Out]

1 hour ago, HeroofTime55 said:

I dunno, in this world, it's a good question.  t$ dropped us because we refused to drop our other allies on their whim. 

Best FA move of 2021 🙏

1 hour ago, HeroofTime55 said:

I guess the preference is for a world where nobody is actually loyal to anyone else or has any honor or decency?  Y'all a bunch of monkeys flinging poo, and it shows.  Just look at the utter mess that passes for a DoW posted by f***ing anybody for the past year and a half.

You literally allied cheaters & defended them bro, despite everyone knowing for years. You used them at your advantage in wars. Alpha even literally attacked it's own sphere allies during gw16 lmao, nice "loyalty". Clearly you're the one flinging poo here.
Are you now unironically going to use loyalty as an excuse ? Bullshit.

Being allied to the same people for years also leads to stagnation, makes the game less dynamic and thus boring by extension. Clock is trying to change that and we attempted to launch new dynamics, but in vain it seems.

[Sanctuary Pulls Out]

4 hours ago, HeroofTime55 said:

This is one of the most utterly pathetic things I have ever seen.  Why would anyone want to be your ally?

Why would anyone want to be CoA's ally ?

[The Eclipse of The Future]

You good bro ?

[Arrgh first ever MASS RAID AUCTION!!!]

lol

[[DoW] Quest for the Holy Grail]

24 minutes ago, MinesomeMC said:

Coalition B is what we refer to as NeoIQ. 

Coalition B isn't IQ. IQ is BK/NPO/GoG (+ GOONS which made OD later). T$ and a shitton of other alliances (way too many) were part of Coalition B but were never part of IQ. In t$'s case, it was only during like 2 weeks at very beginning of gw14.

gw14 lasted 8 months because of IQ/OD and only IQ/OD is to blame for that, it's in no way because of Coalition B.
At the very best, you can also blame alliances who fought for OD until the very end (Polaris, UPN, Camelot etc) which had some of their leaders (presumably people like Malal, TheNG ...) who were aware of OD plans. So tbh i'm not sure what narrative you're trying to spin here.

Honestly, many alliances would have considered allying NPO pre-gw14 when NPO and BK ""splitted"", you can't blame t$ for doing it and ending up in that awkward situation during gw14.