2011-03-14 VE-NpO-NPO DoW chart (finale !)
Notes: This is a Declaration of War chart, tracking the date of declaration and the alliances involved. Where an alliance has peaced out, the alliance's icon is vertically-shaded with white, the icon border colour gives the date of peace, and the DoW attack lines are dashed. Alliances which have declared for 'both' sides are horizontally-shaded, with their central colour based on their earliest declaration. 'Micro' alliances are not included, with that definition being subjective, and usually based on the total number of nations in the alliance. The grey alliances are currently bystanders. Design priority in this chart has been to minimize x-overs to enhance 'reading' clarity. (and now the only one that still includes alliances that were involved, but are now at peace)
also see Seipher's NS-related and nuke-related maps:
http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=97656&st=35
and Jharius' most popular map* that includes colour spheres and separates the 2 fronts:
http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?app=blog&module=display§ion=blog&blogid=627
and shadoz is keeping his updated too:
http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?app=blog&module=display§ion=blog&blogid=623
*as voted on by readers of the Amazing Sanction Race who voted in gopherbashi's poll:
and for those who requested the removal of all the peaced out alliances:
since the original VE-NpO front has now closed, i will stop updating this chart. i've learned a bit about my charting software (SmartDraw for those who are curious) and i salute the other DoW chartists listed above for their valiant attempts to keep this global conflict visually transparent. as a member of an independent alliance, i have learned enough about CN politics to be glad that i picked the non-political alliance that i joined soon after signing up. in the memorable words of marshal samuel gerard, "I DON'T CARE !"
unlike mr. hayward, i do get to have my life back so, farewell to all of my loyal readers over the past 7 weeks, and i'll see you in the sanction race and moon wonder fora !
in honour of the peace, here is a list of 10 anti-war quotes from: http://quotations.about.com/od/warquotes/tp/10_war_quotes.htm
1. R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete or men are.
2. Eleanor Roosevelt
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
3. Issac Asimov
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
4. Herbert Hoover
Older men declare war. But it's the youth who must fight and die!
5. Jeannette Rankin, First Woman Member of Congress
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
6. General Omar Bradley
In war there is no prize for the runner-up.
7. Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
8. Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.
9. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
10. Ernest Hemmingway
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
for anyone interested in carrying on for the Doomhouse-NPO front, i've generated the following chart that will supplement what Jharius did in his - Gopher still needs *something* to put in his warstats posts:
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