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Arrghiversary Episode 10: New Pirate Order

10 is a really big number for a pirate. They don't really teach advanced mathematical concepts in pirate school. The curriculum is more focused on different ways to smack someone with something sharp, how to haul treasure without breaking your back, proper parrot care. You know, the important stuff. Besides, eggheads who know what the so-called number "Elevene" is usually find themselves at the pointy end of a rapier. For those of us who use the finger method, 10 is really about as big of a number a you can get, so our 10th anniversary deserves an extra special celebration. 

First, let's look back on the two super rad events we did this year. 

Way back in February we did The Wheel of Misfortune. This was the first event I was really at the helm on. Proud to say it didn't flop horribly, something that'll surely be etched onto my tombstone. For those that weren't around for it, The Wheel of Misfortune was a nuke auction where instead of placing a bid on an alliance you wanted us to nuke, you were able to buy a slot on a big wheel out of a total of 100. After a few days, the wheel was spun live in the Arrgh server, with it's winner being our target. We're selling ourselves a bit short with the "didn't flop horribly" line, while slot sales were a bit slow during the first half, the rest of them quickly sold out after the second. We ended up making the maximum possible haul of 10B. Our bar for success was to at least match the haul from our last auction (3B), so more than tripling it was seen as a pretty big W. The live wheel spin went real well too, think we had around 40-60 people watching? That's gotta be at least 5 times the average turn out for most P&W radio shows these days, so we had to be on to something. Those in attendance might remember Kastor's ill-fated call for a "test-spin" which ended up swapping the target from The Immortals to Singularity. Little misfortunate for them, but great for the content.

A little more recently, we have The Voting Game we hosted in November. We called this one a reverse nuke auction (which isn't super accurate but we had to put something in the title brackets) since instead of paying to have someone nuked, people could vote on a series of polls to save an alliance of their choosing from being pelted with nukes. The monetization was simple, in addition to the free vote everyone got, you could buy additional votes for a varying price each round. This one was VERY heavily inspired from almost every modern NAP including lame "do not hire mercs" clauses. Formatting the event like this let people get away with paying us with a clear conscious. Despite a few minor inconveniences here and there, I think it's safe to say this was by far the best event we've ever hosted. Well over a thousand people participated in the polls, with the total vote count across all 3 rounds reaching a grand total of 3,289 votes. As for the loot haul, after taking a few unexpected expenditures into account, we walked away with a total prize pool well over 17B, far exceeding our previous record breaker of 10B. This event was a whole lot of fun for us and, as I've been told, most of the rest of the community too. I'm sure the winner, The Immortals, had a real blast with it (thanks for being good sports about it).

Sadly we don't have a total monopoly on end-of-year anniversaries anymore. TSC, rather inconsiderately, founded a few days earlier than our anniversary day. As payback, I'll be blatantly stealing the whole "individual gov shoutouts" thing they have going on. Or, as we in Arrgh prefer to call it, "blatantly raiding" it. side tangent: ever notice how despite being called "the sword coast" the swords in question are by far the smallest thing on their flag? meanwhile we have way bigger swords and are at least coast-adjacent. what i'm saying is we're stealing your name next year roberts. 

For real though, shoutouts to all the homies that helped make Arrgh what it is in the big '24. 

Vicic - For overthrowing the tyrannical Sam Cooper and being our beloved Red Admiral for most of 2024.

Sam - The sea's greatest coder and problem solver extraordinaire. P.S. sorry i called you tyrannical 4 seconds ago.

Obsiloon - From one of my first pirate academy pupils to the owner & operator of your own academy, you're the goat at turning scallywags into swashbucklers.

Vilktakis - Creator of spreadsheets, reaper of inactives and MS paint master. 

TheDoom - Supreme Pirate Warlord, you're one of the greatest raiders to ever set sail :pray_doom:

Hatebi - By far the most brilliant, indisposable, invalu- okay okay stop booing i'll stop

Zim/Ogaden/Bluebear - Even after all of these years we can still count on y'all to roll up when we're smacking someone.

Shutter - You are a paragon of reliability. If we need a comically-oversized bomb diffused you're going to be the man for the job. 

Wuju - If we ever do make the banking leaderboard you've got to be a contender for the top. 

Shady - For being a huge help with recruitment & internals

El Domo - Even though you've only been gov a short while, you've already made amazing contributions. Few people have the talent for propaganda like you do.

cctmsp13/im317 - Our favourite Yarr boys, thanks for not bullying me too hard when I req 60 aluminum. 

Reading up after finishing that last part and wew, I think we've met out yapping quota for the year. You know the spiel by now, Arrgh rulez farmers drool, join immediately and crack some skulls. Now let's wrap up this year with an extra big...

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I miss the times where Arrgh would give the most epic war names to the lamest micro wars, but oh well. This is the new Arrgh.

I'm glad it's still here. Happy anniversary. 

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6 hours ago, Witch-King Of Angmar said:

Happy Anniversary Arrgh☠️

I look forward to our cooperation via your first treaty 😜

Long live Arrgh and may you plunder and loot for another 10years. 

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Arrgh no longer paperless. What a drag 😕 (Good luck on your endeavor!) 

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