Popular Post iAlrea Posted January 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 Since my tenure in Rose govt I've been pretty withdrawn from wider Orbis affairs so I have no real idea what's been going on except the major wars, but regardless of my absence, I thought we agreed as a community to stop making superblocs? Does this not remind you of anything? And yet we still get this kind of bs? What is this? Since when it was it socially acceptable for a dozen top 50 alliances to behave like a 2020 micro? Didn't we used to roll microspheres with 30 treaties per party? If I'm being stupid please, feel free to let me know but it feels like we as a community have some kind of selective amnesia once every few years. Why is it that we catagorically pay lip service to the idea of "minispheres" and yet we bumble along like drones when someone decides to bloat their sphere up like they're having a meal at the Heart Attack Grill? 3 7 7 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Knox Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 It may be frowned upon by my peers, but I'm going to say it... I basically agree. Somewhere along the way @Kan0601 seems to have slipped on his goal of making smaller spheres and generating more interesting dynamics in the game's politics, because Midgard right now looks to be exactly the opposite of that. Nothing against Kan personally and I'm loyal to Aurora, but like... just saying. 2 1 Quote Federation of Knox Enlightened of Chaos, Event Horizon QA Team and API Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ToxicPepper Posted January 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2023 I’d like to offer you an MDoAP with Aurora 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denison Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 We call this the shower vs. grower paradox. 1 Quote Janny Larpers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xi Jinping Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Nerd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kurdanak Posted January 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2023 god damn, Alrea targeted Aurora so hard that Kan and Toxic got couped yeah I know that gov change happened way earlier today, still making the joke >:v 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thalmor Posted January 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2023 Tier list: ______ Midgard is pretty thick and girthy, but they don't have any cities. Maybe they'll be a threat if they grow all those dudes over the course of 18 months or something, but that's a problem for the future version of ourselves. Plus the rest of the game can come together to smack them down if need be. I don't think that's necessary though. A true superbloc is one where, if the entire outgroup came together to smack them, that it would still be a tough fight or otherwise uncompetitive. I believe we are far away from that. 1 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iAlrea Posted January 22, 2023 Author Share Posted January 22, 2023 So I think you're correct in the fact that Midgard is not a superbloc but regardless I feel that justifying this by saying "Oh yeah, if the entire game declared on them, they'd lose" is a very unhealthy attitude to have - the likelihood of this happening is very low, unless there was some catastrophic blunder on behalf of MG governments. Midgard still holds a substantial upper tier, 134 nations ranging from c27-c34 according to the chart above. The only coalition that can rival that in that tier is ODOO, who is significantly outmatched in the lower tiers. I feel that this type of behaviour incentivizes cross-bloc coordination to roll a third party bloc, which in itself is a very unhealthy practice. I don't think MG's current practices are game-destroying but nevertheless I feel the habit of having massive networks of chaining treaties can only be detrimental to the community. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Daveth Posted January 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2023 You cropped out the only treaty that matters. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KindaEpicMoah Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 This is a really good shitpost, probably the best one of 2023 if the TKR sucks shitpost wasn't from this year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Payne III Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Midgard bad. You have more allies than me! That's pretty much what I got out of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadin Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 If you think a particular bloc is too big, my recommendation is to gather enough firepower to take them down and force them to split up. I wouldn't expect that a random thread chastising the community for not doing it for you would be especially effective. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzek Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 31 minutes ago, Kadin said: If you think a particular bloc is too big, my recommendation is to gather enough firepower to take them down and force them to split up. I wouldn't expect that a random thread chastising the community for not doing it for you would be especially effective. Meanwhile, I encourage all critics of the EU, instead of discussing and engaging in irl politics, why don't you just build your own union of countries and militarily force the disbandment of europe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadin Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 9 minutes ago, Borg said: Meanwhile, I encourage all critics of the EU, instead of discussing and engaging in irl politics, why don't you just build your own union of countries and militarily force the disbandment of europe? I'm gonna pretend you didn't just try to compare pixels in a browser-based nation game with the lives and blood of real people. 👀 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danzek Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 13 minutes ago, Kadin said: I'm gonna pretend you didn't just try to compare pixels in a browser-based nation game with the lives and blood of real people. 👀 Sphere size is a political issue. Was mostly just trying to mock you since your running theme seems to be that every problem is a nail that can be solved with the appropriate application of military force. Granted you are milcom, so that checks out. I'd point out that building an even bigger sphere to take down a sphere you think is too big is how we got here, but that's blasphemous thinking. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thalmor Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 2 hours ago, Kadin said: If you think a particular bloc is too big, my recommendation is to gather enough firepower to take them down and force them to split up. I wouldn't expect that a random thread chastising the community for not doing it for you would be especially effective. Do you force allies to split after you force their government to change, or is that after? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphinx Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 @ToxicPepper @Kan0601 Why are you guys trying to kill the game? 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadin Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Borg said: Sphere size is a political issue. Was mostly just trying to mock you since your running theme seems to be that every problem is a nail that can be solved with the appropriate application of military force. Granted you are milcom, so that checks out. I'd point out that building an even bigger sphere to take down a sphere you think is too big is how we got here, but that's blasphemous thinking. Oh, don't mistake me for one of those with a legitimate interest in mini spheres and things like that. I truly am a hammer person. It's my style of play to gather power and to wield it in order to impose my will whenever possible. I wear the villain crown with pride. 😘 41 minutes ago, Thalmor said: Do you force allies to split after you force their government to change, or is that after? I know you're being cheeky, but it really depends on what the objective is and how thorough the victory is. This game is made to make it tougher to force people to accept such terms compared to others, so I wouldn't expect it to be the norm at all. Edited January 22, 2023 by Kadin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JadenStar10 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 @Kan0601is the new Hegemon. Praise be. Quote Coal Duke (Imperator Emeritus) of The Coal Mines Diety Emeritus of The Immortals, Patres Conscripti (President Emeritus) of the Independent Republic of Orange Nations, Lieutenant Emeritus of Black Skies, Imperator Emeritus of the Valyrian Freehold, Imperator Emeritus of the Divine Phoenix, Prefect Emeritus of Carthago, Regent Emeritus of the New Polar Order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayor Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 7 hours ago, Kadin said: Oh, don't mistake me for one of those with a legitimate interest in mini spheres and things like that. I truly am a hammer stupid person. It's my style of play to gather power and to wield it in order to impose my will whenever possible. I wear the villain crown dunce cap with pride. 😘 FTFY fam. No one actually takes you seriously. Go off into your corner. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zed Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Ever since people in this game worked out that city tiering was a useful thing to gather around, alliances have looked to form groupings that addressed that question in some way. Either you tried to make sure you had good coverage in every tier (or most of them), or you loaded up across a band and made sure you convincingly won there. This really is just MilCom and FA coming together to figure out something that will project power and accomplish the goals you want to do. The tier list chart posted above more or less shows this at work. Two of the spheres have gone for the many low and mid nations route, but they have almost nothing in the 35+ range. Then there are four groupings that are mostly 25+, although their configurations each have some kind of distinction. There have been times when some configurations have been more broadly criticized; whether any action gets taken or not is a matter for people to decide upon. Quote In paradisum deducant te Angeli; in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Ierusalem.Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cüm Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kan0601 Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 Honestly anyone saying Midgard is a threat to the game is funny, we don’t own c35+ nations we can’t actually fight the c40 tiering wars. If you haven’t noticed this game revolves around the upper tier nations, reason why everyone wants to make super bloc with a lot of upper tier nations but try to justify it by having almost no c30 bellow nations saying their bloc is super small thus it isn’t a “super bloc”. Also I would like to point out without this many nations within your aa you won’t make enough money to push tiering and grow to a mid or upper tier aa, newer aa would always be required to have more nations thus these aa who have similar tiering would sign each other for protection. You can’t sign someone who is 10 cities above your tiering and expect them to be able to help you. Also you can’t just point fingers at Midgard if most of the upper tier bloc believe their bloc is full already and that they only want more c30+ nations instead of any lower tier nations then where does the rest of the lower tier aa go? If the game revolves around upper tier then making a wall in the mid tier to make sure you have protection is the only way to go. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krampus Posted January 22, 2023 Share Posted January 22, 2023 1 hour ago, Kan0601 said: snip Don't worry Kan, we all know your bloc isn't small, it's averaged sized with a great personality!!! 3 Quote Inform Zigbir I have forgotten how to edit the signature field Please remind me how to do it post haste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphael Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 On 1/21/2023 at 7:40 PM, Thalmor said: Midgard is pretty thick and girthy, but they don't have any cities. Maybe I'm illiterate, but they have the most nations in every tier up til c35 in your chart. The myth that an advantage of like 10 c35+ while you completely lack a middle or lower tier to support it is somehow going to beat Midgard is laughable when it's abused to this point. They also have the most cities in the game in total so both sides I don't see what you're seeing at all. They've proven a willingness to roll smaller spheres and now are consolidating every alliance in the game. From personal experience - they don't just blanket beige or go inactive in their wars either like you might think. Underestimate Midgard at your own peril. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacob Knox Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 4 hours ago, Roberts said: Underestimate Midgard at your own peril. Why did this line arouse a small part of me that desires to start a villain arc? But nah... I don't feeeeeeeeeeel like it. 1 Quote Federation of Knox Enlightened of Chaos, Event Horizon QA Team and API Team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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