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[quote name='Lanore' timestamp='1335404680' post='2959408'] I'm not entirely sure how to feel about something when Brehon, Xiph, Roq, and Darth are all happy about the same thing. [/quote] How about... fear?

Congratulations on an end to revanchism.

Sooo... Mad Dictator 101?

o/ CCC This feels familiar...

[quote name='Rayvon' timestamp='1317701932' post='2815551']Finally Legion, finally.[/quote] Considering you guys blitzed them almost an hour ago: Finally, NSO, finally.

[quote name='New Frontier' timestamp='1306105582' post='2716776'] Do you not feel that the governance of an alliance would full under the same Biblical principles of church governance, those being decidedly undemocratic? [/quote] The CCC is a political structure, not a church. Indeed, the rulers of each nation in the CCC have their own churches under which they submit themselves. Anyhow, the Bible does not actually elevate any political system above the rest--democracy is just as (in)valid as autocracy.

[quote]8. The New Pacific Order will give The Federation of Armed Nations one pretzel.[/quote] This is the most outrageous instance of revanchism that I have ever seen!

To be honest... he could really use the trade circle. =\

[quote name='VenetianBlind' timestamp='1300697182' post='2672078'] If you believed that apology was an attempt to 'trap' anyone, well... [/quote] Still, you got to admit that the only thing that would fail harder than this would be if someone actually fell for it.

Just a passing observation. GOONS: 49 Mushroom Kingdom: 84 Umbrella: 4 Shouldn't all of Doomhouse come out of PM if they want to issue demands that all of NPO come out of PM? I mean, I understand Umbrella doesn't like to sit on its hands all day, but is Doomhouse is unsure of whether they can actually win this war exclusively in the low tier?

These look like really good terms. Way to hang in there, Polaris. o/

[quote name='Falloutboy' timestamp='1299464113' post='2654919'] Why would Xiph want to disband UPN. We aren't even at war with them. [/quote] http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=97361 You sure fooled me with this DoW...

[quote name='Crymson' timestamp='1297991995' post='2637107'] Doomhouse could easily have waited until after the NpO front was complete, at which time many of NPO's allies would have been battered to hell anyway, and then hit NPO on whatever CB and had the support of many of those alliances currently tied up against NpO & friends or rebuilding from that affair. It would have been an absolute curbstomp. As such, your point has no substance. That said, the above is precisely the reason why so many people were sure that the NPO would enter this war if the correct circumstances arose; it would have been suicidal in the long run for them to have stayed out. Whereas they would have had a small chance of winning if they entered at the right time, or at least of fighting the war to a scorched-earth stalemate, they would have had absolutely no chance if they stayed out and allowed so many on their side of the web to be effectively obliterated. The best available argument people seem to have against the claims that the NPO would have entered is "The NPO says they weren't planning on entering." Do you truly expect us to simply take at complete face value whatever the NPO says? The memories many have of the NPO are not nearly so short. [/quote] I doubt that most of the alliances currently fighting NpO would be comfortable (or capable of) supporting Doomhouse in a totally blatant attack on NPO after concluding a global war. And yeah, I doubt the NPO would have sat this war out. Still, it does not justify Doomhouse's actions (from neither a moral nor a pragmatic standpoint).

[quote name='Feanor Noldorin' timestamp='1297489388' post='2630047'] Where did I complain about how evil the NPO was in my post that you chose to quote? Viceroys and disbandment are generally considered to be the worst terms that you can give to an alliance. The NPO has done those things in their history. Saying that is not trying to spin something one way or another, it's fact. The members of DoomHouse have never done those things. [/quote] Yet.

Does Anarchy itself penalize tax collection beyond not allowing you to select another government? Or is it only the nuclear anarchy that decreases tax collection? EDIT: Further question: By what figure does nuclear anarchy decrease happiness and income?