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  1. Sad to see you guys go. :( Never fun to see our allies depart this world.
  2. Always a shame to see an ally go, and I've seen too many. Farewell GOONS.
  3. I think Satan's given up with how many times Hell has frozen over, and it's now permanently a frozen wasteland.
  4. I honestly didn't think we'd see this day after all that's happened. But our allies kept insisting you guys were good people, and then you actually came to us civily to hash out our differences. I still don't completely trust this, but I trust it enough to proceed cautiously. Here's to hoping this is the real deal.
  5. Just commenting to say that Cap is my favorite comic character, so this is awesome for me. Thank you.
  6. Took the words right out of my mouth. Always sad to lose an ally, but at least we won't be losing the members too.
  7. Thank you Goldie, and I look forward to continuing the good times with the new gov.
  8. I tried to highlight the major coalition in each of those wars. PB was a major force for two wars, and then fell apart. DH (which my alliance is not a part of) has clearly outlasted it, and I acknowledged that. As for the SF comments, we had long ties with the bloc that only ended between the last two wars, and I felt the falling apart of SG was worth mentioning. And the comment about Equilibrium staying together, all I'm saying is that coalitions (and most blocs for that matter) don't have lasting power in this game. Most of the coalitions seem to fall apart or turn on each other. Some blocs simply outlast others. And yes Eddy, the war against Umbrella failed. The war against Umbrella's allies (including VE) succeeded tremendously. Kudos.
  9. Hmm ... let's work through all the major wars starting with GW1 (mainly because earlier wars mainly consisted of one-sided NPO beatdowns of other alliances, and where's the drama in that?). GW1: The Orders stand (mostly) alone against a large coalition of other alliances and face defeat for the first time. This war focuses their FA efforts for months. GW2: The game spills out into real life, when the real government of Norway objects to NoR's use of their national anthem in a NoR recruiting video because of implied Nazi themes. Fark.com reports this on their site, which leads to the formation of the FARK alliance in-game. GOONS, due to a longstanding Something Awful-Fark.com rivalry, decides to attack the new alliance. LUE, still confident from their victory in GW1, objects, even over a possible NAP to prevent conflict. A short, though major, war ensues, where the remnants of the CoaLUEtion from GW1 are defeated, and LUE is abandoned to a long war with NPO's allies in the Initiative. GW3: The Initiative, acting on the opinions of the then-leader of GATO, attacks GATO in order to try to draw out its allies. A few days later they respond, but in a longer war than GW2 are thoroughly defeated. At one point /b/, sensing defeat, spams the boards with inappropriate conflict and hack the game. Many of their members are banned, and the game is left in limbo for a few days. There is rampant speculation over whether the game will even continue. Ultimately the game does come back, and /b/ disbands. Several other alliances on the AEGIS side are forced to disband, such as NAAC, which had been a constant opponent of the Orders almost since the beginning of the game. Others were forced onto different teams, such as LoSS. The first alliances also started leaving WUT as the war drew to a close. UJW: Former Initiative allies faced off against one another. This was a death knell for the bloc that had ruled the game and been on the winning side for the past two major wars. GOONS disbanded, and NPO began working behind the scenes to take down NpO for its actions in this war and for its efforts in reinstating a former Emperor atop NPO. WotC/NoCB: The culmination of NPO's efforts came to a head as NpO was isolated and then hit by a large coaltion of alliances that NPO hoped would become a new base of loyal allies. A lot of doubt was spread among the various alliances though that if NPO could turn on NpO, it could turn on anyone. Karma: For the first time since GW1, NPO tasted defeat. That large coalition it had built for WotC had proven to not be as closely knit as its previous blocs. The famous "Coalition of Cowards" thread had shattered the image of the invincible NPO. The coalition arrayed against it would last for longer than Q, but not forever. BiPolar: NpO's conflicting ties would eventually lead it to switch sides in the middle of a war it had started. There would be rumblings that it had been a set-up to begin with. A major TOP-NpO feud started (or by NpO's words, had simply lain dormant since WotC/NoCB) that would shape the next couple of wars, if not more. PB-NpO: Allegations of spying would spark off a war featuring the first time the new bloc PB would fight together. A separate coaliton involving DH (which included two PB alliances) would strike NPO on the suspicion that they were either waiting to strike themselves or were sitting out to avoid conflict. While the war was a success, it would eventually sow the seeds of PB's disbandment and the rise of the next major power. Grudge War: The culmination of the TOP-NpO feud. TOP had wished for revenge for BiPolar, and now it finally had its chance. Duckroll, built around TOP's ally IRON, now took its turn at the head of a major war, with PB supporting (though with cracks appearing). Now SF found itself on the losing end for the first time since its victory in Karma. Dave War: MK and C&G finally come directly to blows with SF, officially ending the unoffical SG (SF and C&G) coalition that had been in place since Karma. Equlibirium War: A large-scale attempt to bring down the strongest alliance (in terms of upper tier anyway), Umbrella, fails, but in the process many of Umbrella's allies are dealt a big blow and as a whole surrender to the winning coalition Equilibrium. Only time will tell if it will stand together.
  10. You're probably thinking of GOP. Nice to see you join us MW. Have fun out there. ;)
  11. I'd like to thank our allies for joining us in this fight. We all look forward to fighting alongside you on the battlefield.
  12. My reaction to the title is more accurately summed up by this gif than any mere words: [img]http://i.imgur.com/2VzmC.gif[/img] That being said, congrats Umbrella.
  13. [quote name='Mr Vicarious' timestamp='1346279328' post='3026471'] Smooth is on record as to intentionally torpedoing that Q&A due to his own dislike for the idea of joining SF. That may or may not be true, but it is his claim. [/quote] Honestly it wouldn't surprise me. But I do think it wasn't at least entirely intentional. [quote name='Krack' timestamp='1346297903' post='3026550'] This is an excellent accounting of what went on. I will add to it, however. There was an "informal get-together" between SFs' leadership and VE, which began with Smooth saying (paraphrase) "Well, we planned this meeting because we heard FARK didn't want us in SFs. So what's the problem?" Things were on the wrong foot from the start. Then we in FARK provided VE with its one and only test for admission in SFs: We asked what would happen if a SFs alliance was at war with another VE ally. VE flunked the test when it said it would "never allow that to happen".* Prompted more than once, the answer never changed ... even after we said we couldn't let an alliance into SFs with that stance. Smooth just kept becoming more abrasive.This "informal" meeting went soooooo well that the FARK government who was at the meeting suggested letting Smooth talk to FARK's general membership (in Q&A format) - because prior to that meeting the membership had been slightly in favor of admitting VE. We figured it was easier to show the membership for themselves than try and explain it to them. And in spectacular fashion, Smooth flamed out in front of the entire membership - turning what had been a pro-admitting-VE crowd into a "we don't want to have anything to do with them" crowd literally overnight. Any notion that FARK had an antagonistic posture towards VE prior to this Q&A is simply inaccurate.The posture towards VE (and GOD) became antagonistic when Xiph came in and decided to basically insult the entire FARK leadership because of the denial of SFs membership. As I remember it, prior to that tirade, the alliance had a "they seem okay, but we don't want to be tied to them until they prove themselves in a war" attitude towards VE. That was the attitude I had.[size="1"]* Had Smooth said "Of course, we'd defend the SFs alliance 100% however we're asked," there's a good chance VE would have been in SFs by the end of that month.[/size]Here's why ...--------------------I believe that you believe this, but that doesn't make it accurate.This is the first time I've ever heard this, but I honestly don't believe he's capable of intentionally doing as poor a job and wrecking a budding relationship as he did. It had to have been unintentional. Either that or he deserved the Tony award for that year. [/quote] I'll admit we screwed up with regards to FARK, but mistakes were made on both sides. At this point it's all water under the bridge anyway. As for the parts in my quote you highlighted, the "whenever possible" part still resides in nearly every war we've fought in. GW2, UJW, WotC, Karma, BiPolar, and the last two we defended our allies, as well as countless smaller conflicts. The major wars that were the exceptions: GW3 we were jumped by two alliances and outnumbered, and PB-Polar we were defending ourselves against a spy attack (or aggressively attacking NpO, depending on your perspective). As for "we simply tried to get the rest of our allies out of the war" we did so by actually fighting against various alliances attacking our allies and forced peace. We even called it the "Viridian Surrender Tour". I don't know how that could possibly be construed as fence sitting. The last point is admittedly your best one, "we tried to politically defend GOD while trying to please our other allies at the same time" and the only defense I have for that is that we had promised TOP that we would not join the other side, so we kept our word. We did our best to limit the engagement politically, and when that failed when NebX attacked GOD we intervened directly with military force, though only on them alone, again, to keep our word. TOP were still angry, and technically they had a right to be, but we didn't abandon GOD there. As for the last point, about me not being accurate, we'll have to agree to disagree as it's nothing more than an opinion for either of us.
  14. [quote name='Ogaden' timestamp='1346268207' post='3026419'] My god Cornelius why on earth did you step down. o/ the good old days [/quote] The daily grind got to me. When you're in charge, you're expected to do a lot every day for months at a time. Eventually after all the dust from Karma settled and I looked around, I realized that I would have to keep doing it for who knows how long. There's no end to this game, after all. I decided to let some fresh blood work in the brave new world we all found ourselves in, after all they'd be as experienced in it as I was. In short, I was burnt out. 2010 was basically an off-year, 2011 I was head of FA for a while, now I just kind of hang around and help where I can. [quote name='Hereno' timestamp='1346272313' post='3026435'] Something is missing here. [/quote] Please, if you have a question, ask it. I don't have a lot else going on.
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