Icewolf's musing on the cyberworld

So this is about the treaty web and the fact that so many alliances have conflicting treaties. Which people complain about. A lot. If you are not aware of this, welcome to the OWF, I hope your first time is not too traumatising.  The thing is, everyone has either very very few treaties or treaties that might seem to clash. Yet lots of people bem...

We have seen an attempt at Sparta. We have seen an attempt at GPF. We have seen what may or may not have been one at BFF. This has been a month of coups. A series of aggressive and determined attempts to change the leadership of alliances.

This blog is not endorsing this method of government change. It will not take responsibility for such efforts or the...

Why then is there a constant battle over the meaning of defence?

Because it does matter. In this world of war and turmoil people must still seem legitimate. And in this world legitimate and lawful action has begun to share the meaning of the word defence. Why? Well that is obvious. There are almost no mandatory aggression treaties left. All mandatory...

So I've spent some time think about alliance charters. They seem to be around a lot, and are generally considered vital to what people consider "an alliance." Yet at the same time they rarely seem to make much headway in the world and for the most part we don't really think of them.

Ultimately, they seem to be a strange document. They...