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That auspicious day when 7 becomes 15!! Keep up the good work

Typically enough to ROI on the rebuild from the last war. Wars are more fun when everyone wants to participate too, though at least you've picked the right people to antagonize! We will fight despite being caught on the back foot, which is more than some will do. Tbh this whole scenario is akin to my 6yo daughter waking me up to play at 5am on a Saturday morning. There is no ability to reason with her or go back to a well-earned sleep, which the easiest thing to do is join in and wear her out ... maybe we'll score a daytime nap to recharge later hahaha.

Who said CB’s were a thing of the past?? Though I have no clue about any of it, I love the effort you’ve put in here 👍🏼

Happy birthday! It is refreshing to see such a milestone depicted as positive thing 😀

All the best friend!!

lol we all choose to stay here despite the clear sociopolitical bias from Alex and the mods. You don't have to give this nonsense the oxygen it craves though.

I'm rooting for Nash!!!

4.5 months of fertile harvests it seems. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your "water" wherever you wind up🍸

Lets see if we can get this misplaced, nonsense post up to 3 pages!!

I don't even have to read this post to know it is pure quality and the reason I log on every week!!

I'm gonna have to start liking you guys all over again!! Lucky I'm a fickle sort

I mostly agree, though it is worth remembering what happened lest history repeat itself

Consider it a metaphor; you only appear on special occasions and everyone seems to partake 😉

NPO showed us how to ruin a game and failed in the process. @Arthur Wellington For the record TKR has always been a close knit community despite NPOLT or anything else. That is not to say a few didn't hibernate at the time, or we didn't experience any degree of attrition. As for the term hegemony, it is used flippantly these days, and no one group of us has come anywhere near the excesses of NPO (which is why they're so commonly referenced btw). Also from my perspective Partisan is a potent turkey, that is all.

Happy birthday NW!! Here's to another 2 years I know I've had pretty much nothing to do with you guys, but I love you lot anyway!!!

@Hes_A_Dictator I mean the real crime here is that you are messing with the neat and orderly forums. Missing tags, wrong threads etc. Your content is about on par, though with 1000% more enthusiasm. You'd do well to redirect that enthusiasm into your alliance's discord server (not Slack thank god)... I'm sure they'd love that

No I'm not talking about the $$ or infra losses. Please correct me if I misinterpreted the theme your original post, however I would not naturally think that someone with 0 losses to their name was due to their exceptional warlike ability, or the incompetence of everyone they've ever fought. It is hard to say what I mean without coming off a little belligerent, but I assure you that is not the case. IMO most people with 0 losses have only ever been active raiders and/or been a part of easy dogpiles. I do not know of anyone who's been genuinely challenged in the grind of a global where you conduct your wars strategically for the good of your allies involving accepting, or even orchestrating losses - baiting beige time etc. Basically I'm very much saying that your war record is highly unlikely to be wholly the result of incompetence of others, but rather that of circumstance and/or good fortune. I'm almost certain you will lose a war at some stage GLHF.

It is not normally transcendent brilliance as a warrior that leads to numbers like yours my friend, though I can see how the glare from your mirror might obscure this point for you. I guess for some it takes a little longer for the penny to drop heh??

This reads like one of those painful, contentless weight-loss videos full of posers. No-one is angry except you it seems. There does not appear any breach of trust here, just a breach of your underlying grudges against TKR. I'm so glad we dropped you when we did!! Additionally the assumption that eclipse has come in because of cata joining has yet to be qualified to those of us not in the back channels. Reasonable this assumption may be, it'd be interesting to have something more solid than circumstance to support this, or some other reason.

From a certain perspective it is very similar to going from 0 wars to 3 wars while tending one's farms hahaha

What they're all the same person??

Honestly, you folks take this stuff way too seriously! I love that people put the effort in @SleepingNinja AND @hidude45454, respect to both of you and the many others for all your contributions. If it wasn't for people like you making the effort many would have quit the game. I mean really, in and of itself PnW just isn't that interesting. Also differences of opinion give the game fuel, so I'm not saying get along, rather that it'd be a real shame if you stopped putting the effort in based on some dumb disagreement instead of truly no longer wanting to. Personally I don't have the stamina to maintain an IC persona indefinitely, that takes a human of better parts than I. Loved the cow person when they were around though...bloddy brilliant The old IC/OOC blurry divide I think contributes to the very beige political situation we experience now. In this context we just cannot safely simulate all aspects of real life for both some very good, and some not so good reasons. Imo (in this game) this has led to a dependence on the few, truly creative people (not me so much) who play that are capable of contriving political scenarios/narratives while avoiding the problems inherent irl. Like Cooper pointed out, t$ managed this well with their GG and whale tier narrative. Like many slippery/enigmatic things we strive to control, the harder we squeeze the more likely the thing is to slip out from between our fingers (or choke it to death). FYI that last bit was in no way a reference to a recent war

PnW is a sim in so many interesting ways!

I do not think down declaring is an issue at all. It seems to me the position that supports nerfing downdeclares is biased (or hoodwinked) to some extent by the profile whales have in debate (which is corrupted anyway) and by the unfortunate prevalence of people being unwilling and/or incapable of fighting wars. We shouldn’t force everyone to play a sandbox game a certain way for the convenience/benefit of a minority.