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Names are irrelevant as long as their meaning is clear. There's nothing bad in calling it almond milk, there's no confusion. (If you don't like the name... just don't use it!)

I have no clue but nicely written treaty, actually worth reading. Well done to whoever created it.

If Armen too is OK with it, and if the both of you can promise not to then endlessly publicly brag or complain or bicker about it, then my vote is yes. Otherwise, no please.

There's no health left here, CN has been great like fifteen years ago, today it's a lost cause. (Some individuals can still get something out of it, one can still pursue some goals... but the collective experience is dead - IMO.)

Beyond a certain point it always becomes a matter of boredom, not of money. (That's one of the reasons I'd never go rogue, BTW, as my "certain point" of boredom is around the third day... I get distracted easily.)

🤩 I get weight just by looking at them! That's a picture that should be outlawed... 😉

Well the name isn't the best one, but on the positive the theme can inspire thoughts about sex, inhibition, escape, sociology, philosophy, psychology, economics... In short, while not terribly artful per se, it can lead one to think about art and how an artistically inclined soul can always cut themselves a shortcut out of a dead end. (Or I might consider critically thinking about my diet, that's another possibility.)

I think it's 0,046%: (1/3)^7 = 0,000457247...

I can't speak for other neutrals, assuming there are some, but AFAIK in the GPA nobody is really interested in rebuilding anything, or in actually "playing the game", for that matter. Should one's nation get destroyed, it won't be intentionally rebuilt, it would just hang around long enough for it to come back a bit. I guess we're horribly boring. (Case in point: I buy tech but I don't really care how much tech my nation has, to me it's just a way to have a connection with other players.)

"Regardless"? That's the point. CN mechanics don't prevent nations from being in range of too much stronger ones, and having to fight too many simultaneously, and seeing literally years or decades of work, to build up their firepower, hopelessly erased in a very short time - some weeks, sometimes a few days. Nations interested in having any military meaning in the medium or long run can only do so by establishing allegiance with the biggest and strongest group in the pond. Which is where we are. Since around 2008, I might add. As I had hinted at, this horse had been beaten to death so long ago that the people that knew those that had any memory of those originally beating it, have also mostly left this realm long ago. Edit: for completeness, now we have few enough nations that a tight group of experienced, Wonders equipped, medium-low NS nations can do something meaningful, even without comprehensive links to the net of allegiance (and thanks to those links being somewhat loose, in fact). It can't shake up everything, or anything meaningful for that matter, but they can have a bit of the fun they like, at least. They just need to avoid any real challenge and/or to poke a true bear and they'll be OK. (I'd still be bored by the lack of true challenge but hey, I'm not CN's universal role model...) Also edit: for all I know 99% of the big alliances might be almost completely dead and unable to pull even a fraction of their weight... but keeping nations around and showing up once or twice a year isn't exactly demanding, thus they find it too easy to preserve and use their firepower. Which is another flaw of the mechanics we have, BTW.

Neutrality Is waaay simpler, but it doesn't really work any better at providing action, unless you just directly create it by attacking others. Which would basically be suicidal. It's the mechanics, not the politics (but that horse is long, long dead).

Now that I think of it, your posts too could become great satire with only minor tweaks. You may want to consider the idea. I still love you even if you don't, though. IMHO the OWF has last been great to read over ten years ago. I don't even think that it's just that I'm old (and yes, I'm too old for this stuff). That said, it is for anyone here using it as they see fit, I welcome alliances presenting their stats and bragging about them, and I welcome people bragging about their achievements and making fun of each other's. We could use a bit more of variety and of irony, anyway, one can always hope for it.

Though somewhat unoriginal, this... Stats Nerd Pride Week came with a lil bit of Hakai satire. Overlooked, yes, but still thumbs up from me. Thanks to everyone involved.

I thought you had always been too old for it. (I know I have.)

When one stumbles on gems like this post, one can only sincerely thank the author for them. Thank you, berbers.