RevolutionaryRebel

Let me know if you find any more. Given AE is built and bred on 'newbs' yes still keeps slot usage above 60%, I'm sure we can get such nations in order.

The aviation gods must be crazy!

I've seen stupider things taken seriously. Then again, I suppose maturity is overrated.

Necrophilia is bad guys.

It's entirely evident that such an attitude isn't confined to a single alliance.

"Ok, I'll give you all of my members if you give me a fancy title" Quality leadership right there. All the best to Nirvana's members, regardless.

How do you stop new, active people from being 'noobs'? Teach them properly. How do you kill CN? Treat new people as inferiors. Simple equation, guys. Never confuse being uninformed with idiocy. Problem solved, in any case.

Rebrand yourselves as the Senior Women's Action Group this instant. You won't regret it.

So. Anyone up for FCO 2.0?

I'd treaty that.

You'd think this lesson would have sunk in by now, but given events during the last war, apparently not.

Given the directions both are going in, it makes sense. Better to cancel now than draw it out, or have it blow up in your face during wartime.

Thanks but the TPF acronym is already taken by The Phoenix Federation. Congrats on your DoE PillowFort.

Damn straight. Hopefully we won't be the only new alliance from 2013 celebrating its anniversary this year, but it's nice to be one of the first.

RIvets are overrated. Welding is where it's at. But, yeah. We did the thing and made it happen. And it continues to be a thing.

Yes, we got there in the end. The Empire began on April 13th, 2013, the birthday of the Alliance. At least officially. Unofficially, there was a rigmarole that played out, starting from late January, when its founder (me) happened to rejoin CN just as a Global War started up. Rather than try and join an existing alliance (a rather suspicious thing to do with a new nation, given the timing), a decision was made instead to try and start something new. Friends were contacted, forum posts were made and having somehow managed to garner a decent group of people, what began as a casual idea along the lines of 'hey, wouldn't it be cool if we did this?' actually managed to work. Sort of. While the organisational period was rather straightforward in some ways, choosing a protector was the next challenge. And, having been outside this realm for so long, there were of course mistakes to be made. One of our first ports of call happened to be a certain dinosaur-themed alliance. I'd share stuff from our foray, but I keep getting database errors for some reason... In any case, while a hypothetical protection arrangement was thought up, it was eventually canned. Other ports of call were explored; Non Grata actually came the closest out of the others to being our protector, but I never pressed forward with it, mostly out of concerns for our compatibility and definitely not on their quality (which is still impressive). I saw them as great dudes (still do), but a call had to be made... So, we went with TPF in the end. Don't get me wrong, there have been some ups and downs, but to their credit, their attitude towards us has been friendly and we definitely could have made bigger mistakes. Perhaps being the protector of bronies had desensitized them to wacky themed alliances. Perhaps we shall never know. They did their thing, and when we needed their assistance, they were more than welcome to provide it. Well, granted we were on IRC at the time time. But yes; we made our DOE. We made some friends, some of whom were kinda !@#$%* in hindsight and some of whom don't exist any more, but it was a learning experience all the same. Apart from a continuing struggle to retain those we have introduced to this Cybernations thing (I blame Admin) and a recent predicament involving ex-members, we have been headed primarily in an upwardly direction. In any case, We'll be happily celebrating this very important milestone and with luck, we'll be able to do so many more times before this world eventually ends - whenever that may be.

It was fun rolling Hydra back in 2010. Good times. On the plus side the MSPaint skills of its members has gone up.

DoomSquad's chequebook is far too large for me to compete with them this year. Ruining the game, and all that.

HoT has a background in destroying alliances, he must be right. That would either reignite colour politics or bog down the treaty web further. Do it.

Nordreich, you how have less than three degress of separation from the ponies. Congrats.

These remnants of the last republic are now officially their last remnants. Way to make it even more confusing, guys!

I guess Nirvana is no longer In Utero.

Sounds like fun, but I have a feeling this may encourage less savoury alliances to make an appear along convergent lines. Watch out for Belgians.

Guys, I think you forgot about Gamma. Rush less, think more and we can get along just fine.

This was on the cards since forever. COMECON certainly made things harder for themselves in getting protection, but now that they have it, they'll be able to eventually outgrow their current state of mockery. I hope. They'd have to protect themselves first. :smug: