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Space Race

September 4th, 2009 This is a list of all the Sanction Race alliances in order of space wonders. Ties go first to the alliance with more Mars wonders, and then to the alliance with more Space Programs. Should there be a tie at that point, then to the alliance with more score. Independent Republic Of Orange Nations: 22 Bases, 2 Mines, 1 Colonies -> 24 Bases, 3 Mines, 1 Colonies (+3) 7 Mars Bases 1 Mars Colonies 15 Moon Bases -> 17 Moon Bases 2 Moon Mines -> 3 Moon Mines 110 S

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Haflinger

Roleplaying

This is a concept foreign to many CN players. Let me summarize it for you. Roleplaying is where you pretend to be someone else while playing a game. For example, members of the New Sith Order pretend to be Sith, or followers of the Sith (I hate the prequel films and don't really understand the whole Sith idea because I haven't watched most of them) from the Star Wars universe while playing CN. They are not actually Sith. This is roleplaying. Recently, there was an incident where the allian

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Haflinger

Red Team non-NPO nations

I've been tracking Red nations not flying the NPO AA for a bit now. April 18th: 1592 June 11th: 1288 June 17th: 1259 The debate is on as to whether Revenge and Moldavi, both now effectively suspended, were good or bad for the Red Team. In OOC terms, I actually have no opinion. You'd expect something of a reduction anyway, given that the number of total nations is dropping pretty fast at the moment. But still, tracking the numbers might prove interesting to some people. This kind of person

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Haflinger

Hostility on the forums

This is remarkably common. My feeling it is due to the rather hostile environment that the forums have become. When I first started playing CN, in the summer between GWIII and the Unjust War, the forums were not terribly difficult to keep up with. Mostly back then I read them to keep up with Valhalla's antics; that was the summer of Wedgie's reign of terror in Purple. People argued, but there wasn't that sense of incredible bitterness that permeates the forums now. Back then, there were plent

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Haflinger

The Undefeated

I see this little confusion has flared up again, in the Sanction Race no less. The name Invicta, which is Latin for "undefeated", doesn't mean "never lost." It's the OOC motto of Kent, which is the home of one of our founders. If it really meant what you think it means, we'd have had to give it up the first time an Invicta member lost a ground battle. Which I lost one of, I think, in the SOLID war last year. Wikipedia has a lot more information on our name. I will note that a conditional sur

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Haflinger

TOP and Purple

Megabyte, you closed the thread. You fiend. Of course your reasoning is quite correct. This statement is the lol. When TOP entered, everyone in Purple was doing what we wanted to. Our large nations were operating with no defensive wars all over the place. TOP changed all that. If it hadn't been for their intervention, the peace terms I would have been going for would have been white peace for Orion. The rest of the Invicta-NebX-Orion peace deal would not have happened. And yes, that's ri

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Haflinger

The dramabomb appears primed

Now might be a good time to remind people to play nice and hopefully we'll all still be around in a month or two. Maybe then we'll have a few cold beers together and laugh. To that end, I suggest that victorious alliances try to avoid imposing terms that require: alliances to give up members or leadership positions of certain members; the payment of punitive reparations; the disbandment of alliances. We've all got communities here. Maybe you don't like some other guy's community, but

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Haflinger

Scribd vs. Pastebin

For all you logdumpers out there, or just people in general needing to transfer text anonymously: PLEASE DON'T USE SCRIBD. Use !@#$%*. It's way better, because it doesn't lock the text inside a Flash applet. You can just copy and paste it.

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Haflinger

Bloc vs. Block

A political grouping with a number of different actors in it is normally referred to as a bloc. For example, a voting bloc. A block is quite a different thing, and much easier to explain. This is a picture of three blocks. Please stop confusing the two.

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Haflinger

The measurement of success

Different people play this game with different goals in mind. I just saw someone criticizing a member of IRON for being happy that his alliance is #2 in score in Cybernations. The implication was that only being first counts, and he shouldn't rest until he'd achieved that. Now, it's entirely possible that there are members of IRON that have that goal in mind. Certainly they're not that far away. But why should that be his goal? Take me for example. I'm quite proud of the fact that my nation,

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Haflinger

The IC/OOC line

This is an intriguing statement. Offline, I play and run roleplaying games of the traditional sort quite a lot. Sir Quote's claim here that the point of having an IC/OOC line is to prevent people from using knowledge gained out-of-character in-character runs into all sorts of difficulties in actual games. Several of the people I play with refuse to talk about games out-of-character for fear of learning things that their character doesn't know, because it's too hard to play knowing the context t

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Haflinger

ZOMG OOC ATTACKS

This is getting out of hand. For what it's worth, very few people in CN have much of an idea what I'm like offline. A geopolitical simulator/wargame/whatever this is is not a very good environment to get to know someone well. 'course, since I go by Haflinger in other contexts, it's possible if you feel like a stalker to figure out more about me. But I doubt anyone has. Anyway. When I criticize your character in Alliance Politics, it is by definition not an OOC attack. I am IN CHARACTER there

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Haflinger

Nuclear lipstick is bad!

This ... is rouge. This ... is a rogue. Please do not get the two confused, or I will be forced to start producing images that combine the first image with pictures of nuclear explosions to go with the next time I hear someone discussing nuclear rouges.

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Haflinger

What is the New icon for?

If you click the word NEW by a blog which has new comments on it, normally you expect the browser to jump to the new unread comments. This is not what happens. Instead, the blog marks all comments in that blog as read and leaves you where you are. I find this disconcerting. So instead, in order to read new comments, I have to bring up the blog list for that user, and click on the little square with a slash between the two colours for that blog entry.

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Haflinger

Ramblin'

I still have some regrets over how Coldfront appears to have become the standard IRC network for Cybernations. Not because I liked Esper, well, I didn't. Both networks are tiny. It seems to me that if we were going to put in all the effort to get everyone to switch networks and all, we could have tried to find a larger IRC network, one less prone to netsplits and other such problems. I'm also not really a fan of Chanserv. But we could all be using Dalnet, and the Chanserv dependency of many CN

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Haflinger

Optional military clauses and bandwagoning.

I have noticed that there is a universal distaste for "bandwagoning," however, the definition of this phrase seems to vary from individual to individual. Some people use bandwagoning to mean the exercising of optional military clauses to aid another alliance in wartime. Some people use bandwagoning to mean attacking an enemy which is already under attack without a treaty requiring such attack. Some people use bandwagoning to mean joining a war late, after the initial round of attacks, even if

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Haflinger

The word "protectorate."

The word protectorate means a small alliance that is protected by a protector. Do not use this word to mean the opposite: a large alliance that is protecting something. This is backwards. Do not say "protectee." That's not a word, which is why Mozilla's spellcheck just underlined it on my screen. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Haflinger

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