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  1. Since when was Al Qaeda, or any other terrorist group considered a nation? They don't play by any "rules", and so they don't get treated with the level of consideration that soliders and civilians get in more formalised conflicts. I disagree with Xiphosis though, I think it is mostly a human thing to take joy in killing. Animals don't act that way.
  2. [quote name='OsRavan' timestamp='1304285618' post='2703381'] [color="#FF0000"]1.[/color]Also, while we are clearing up misconceptions and CoJ propaganda. There are a couple of misconceptions that seem to be widespread for some bizarre reason. First off, Schatt supposedly offering to 'surrender' to ODN multiple times before he launched into his recent questionable tactics. What he fails to mention, is that he was trying to *only* surrender to ODN not our allies. He was informed that unless he was willing to secure peace with our allies in MK we would not be leaving the field. When ODN entered this war, we decided we would not leave ANY of our fronts unless our enemies secured peace with our allies as well. Schatt was very eager to get peace with ODN. He was much less eager to get peace with MK. ODN had no interest of accepting his limited surrender so he could turn his attentions on to our allies. If Schatt (or anyone else) doesn't like that? Well too bad. [color="#FF0000"]2.[/color]Another misconception. That somehow we have not been informing our applicants we are at war. I don't know why or how that rumor started, but all of our applicants have received multiple messages throughout the war letting them know what was going on. Nor have we made any attempt to keep applicants who wish to find new homes due to the war. Just to preemptively clear that up before it comes up again (ive been seeing it a good deal.) [color="#FF0000"]3.[/color]In sum, for the long list of questionable actions taken by CoJ during this war (and believe me it is quite long) we have asked for a simple apology. I consider that a fairly lenient position. No reps are being asked, no one is trying to ground CoJ under our heels. Considering what is actually being asked, this is imo a relatively minor issue being blown up. [/quote] (^I added some numbers to your text to clarify what I am replying to) 1. Not leaving your allies on the battlefield is fine and quite admirable, but using that as an argument against CoJ makes me laugh, I am sure MK & fiends are just shaking in their boots at the thought of CoJ not being held down by ODN any longer. 2. Of course your applicants got messages. Your probably sent some yourself, then Schatt sent some, then you probably sent some more in response to him sending some. At this point they are probably drowning in them. 3. Oh, I like this third point a LOT! You originally wanted an apology for CoJ treating your applicants so "heinously"; that didn't seem to fly so well, so now you are trying a sideslip with a nice vauge & all encompassing rationale without any specifics attached. This is such a neat maneuver it just might work. Nice job!
  3. [quote name='Zoomzoomzoom' timestamp='1303965988' post='2700888'] I think the general consensus is that TDO should disband and refer most of its members to GPA. The more active ones willing to experience a real alliance should be referred elsewhere. [/quote] I disagree, TDO is the only truly neutral AA out there, all of the other so-called neutrals either favor one color, or hate them all(Grey Council). If I were ever to go neutral it would be TDO all the way.
  4. [quote name='Mogar' timestamp='1303618808' post='2698230'] the environment is entirely different, everyone takes politics and morality way too seriously now more than ever before, and it has since Great War II edit: I bought my first nuke at 5500NS [/quote] Odd. The impression I have always gotten was that players took the game more seriously back then, not less. I wasn't there though, so maybe I wasn't interpreting their posts correctly. Your point about the nukes reminds me that the MP is one of those things that has helped kill the game, just a little bit. People used to have to jockey for position all the time in order to get nukes; now everybody can have them, with just a couple months work in a really good economic alliance.
  5. [quote name='Ardus' timestamp='1303532081' post='2697395'] The sheer length of it is impressive enough. I mean, you have to stop and ask yourself how much time goes into writing something like this. I'd pin a medal on them just for the entertainment value. [/quote] Seconded! I don't know why people are complaining it is too long, it is just chock full of comedy gold: [quote] While we would be ignorant to claim that we haven't taken great damage, we have doled out tenfold what we have withstood. I think Schattenmann wants to destroy GOONs, VE, and rule Planet Bob, in that order, and he's going to use us to do it. While I have no disagreement on the first two, his role is not to be king of the world, and Pacifica does not need to share power with someone who tried and nearly succeeded in destroying her. Umbrella has taken major damage as well, VE, however, wouldn't have the support of the rest of PB, as the majority of those alliances don't like Xiph and GOD. If we can find a way to do that while we keep our victorious defense against DH and FAN going, It will not be easy, but if anything I have full faith that our Diplomatic Corps are the best in the entire world and our military strategy is far superior to anything the other side can muster. People want to back a winner for their own satisfaction and their own safety, and once we show that we are what we thought they were, they will come and throw themselves at our feet. And one last, last note, we should reach out to the neutrals and let them know that we will be taking no action against them. I'm sure they still harbor resentment against us for the Woodstock Massacre and will be wary of a rising Pacifica. We need to assure them that our resuming control of the world will not hinder their existence in any way. Besides, while we've all been fighting and rebuilding, GPA and the like have been able to grow without restrictions. [b]We're not going to be able to do anything about them until we've vanquished everyone else.[/b][/quote] I can't see this as being written by a Pacifican; it's got a jab at virtually everyone mentioned, including the neutrals tacked onto the end. I agree with whoever said the author tried way too hard. [quote name='King Baloneous' timestamp='1303541649' post='2697570'] this isn't at all the correct use of the word 'pedantic'. [/quote] The person who wrote this misspelled 'commode'. [quote name='Daeryon' timestamp='1303563140' post='2697682'] I'm just amazed that someone would spend all that time writing that only to get so many things wrong. But they got one thing right, TPF rocks. [/quote] Wait a minute. TPF is just about the only group that isn't denigrated or insulted in this entire piece. Also the author took the trouble to take a swipe at Peggy Sue...we might have a feathered fiend on our hands. [quote name='Letum' timestamp='1303580744' post='2697843'] I'm regretting just skimming through this on my first time through. Every time I look at it more carefully, I get more gems. Uh oh, looks like I'm in deep trouble [/quote] You missed this one: [quote]I want even mentioning the name FAN in private to be punishable.[/quote] THOUGHTCRIME!!! I'd pay the person who wrote this $3M and 50 tech if they write one for the other side, MK,VE,whoever. This was wonderful materiel!
  6. Be careful Sparta. First you let all those harmless looking people into your feast halls for a cup of wine; the next thing you know all your rank & file members will be shouting,"REPUBLIC! REPUBLIC!"
  7. [quote name='Chief Savage Man' timestamp='1303516552' post='2697181'] The problems here have nothing to do with how its played. [/quote] Agreed. Everyone keeps trying to find some mythical Great Issue that is the cause of this world's decline, when it is due to many different reasons, all working together. Many of them have already been pionted out in this thread. I don't know about the rest of you, but this is about the longest I've ever been involved in any one game, and by far the biggest. 20K people who can all interact directly with each other with only peace mode and NS range restrictions makes for one hellish amount of pressure. Every little move that gets made is gone over until the bones have been picked clean, and most likely people will remember anything major for years, if not forever. This os one hostile environment. [quote name='Londo Mollari' timestamp='1303517235' post='2697193'] As to NPO, their main problem was that they did not check their aggression properly at acceptable levels, and achieved such a degree of power that a coalition had to come together to stop them, which, due to the culture of terror at the time, had to be done violently and permanently. I do not believe in unchecked aggression, but I do believe in aggression. I just don't think that the current state of nature, which turns into a curbstomp for the aggressor every time, except in rare cases where the aggressor is well prepared and then thus feels the need to prosecute his aggression to an overly brutal conclusion which drives the defenders from the game... is a good or healthy one. [/quote] NPO never did what they did alone. They were the quarterback of the team, and they unfairly got more of the credit and laer the blame then t=hey deserved. That is the nature of the system I guess. Personally I wish there were less blocs, or rather less ties between blocs. After Karma was fought there were around 4 or so "sides", maybe only potentially, but it could have happened. It didn't pan out though, and now you have two unequal groups, and not enough on the fence to make a difference. You can destroy every last pixel a person has, and still not be able to force them from the game. Trying to do so in that situation is quixotic and going to cost you far more then such a tiny little nation is worth...yet people still persist in trying. If it were possible for people to be driven from the game, then HoT55, Batallion, Methrage, and quite a few unpopulr people would have been done for long ago. There seems to be a lot of people with large nations that have forgotten this somehow. [quote name='Max Power' timestamp='1303572860' post='2697757'] -Wars are too expansive. Not every war needs to be 24 on 17 or whatever. This problem is caused by (a) the massive number of treaties alliances hold, (b) everyone's shuddering fear of losing a war due to aforementioned huge reps and the like, and (c) since there's no actual regionalism in the game, anyone can declare on anyone. One of the things that makes real world politics so much more interesting than CN is that there are strategic rivers, mountain ranges, etc., there are different types of terrain in which wars can be fought, there are countries that don't bother allying because the logistics are a mess, and so on. In CN, you can actually have twelve alliances hitting one, which is almost unthinkable in the real world. [/quote] I like this. Imagine if you could only fight nations on your color team. It would definitely break up the politics somewhat. [quote name='Rambo' timestamp='1303590415' post='2697947'] A lot of people debate why the game used to be more interesting. It's no doubt true, personally the time before and around the first Great War was my favorite part of this game, and I know many others will agree with me.[/quote] How many Methusalahs like you are still playing? Seriously. It's because of people like you that I still feel like a kid here, even though I've been here 3 years and change. The only difference between then and now is the nations were smaller, so were more important individually, and they said there was a period of Cold War before your fights actually started. Maybe they don't do that anymore?
  8. [quote name='Finnish Commie' timestamp='1303477489' post='2696483'] CoJ have been acting like a bunch of thugs trying to bully our new-to planet Bob protectorate. Although all in all, CoJ is very good at talking the talk but they have no means of walking the walk. [/quote] That protectorate has 4 times as many nations, and all they have to do is pick up the phone to ODN if they feel threatened and ODN is quite capable of dealing with this. The only people saying CoJ is bullying them are ODN members. [quote name='Ubermeir' timestamp='1303501148' post='2696893'] They bullied the newbish nations, not ODN, but noone really missed that. As with the messages, yeah funny, funny as in they had no real meaning because they couldn't be backed up, so really pointless. I am laughing at the fight to back that up as meaningful. Hey, carry on whining about how awful the terms are because we don't see it that way. Fill up pages and pages about it have fun. In the end...light terms is light terms no matter how you try and misrepresent...well just about anything that is ever said. Ha! Light terms is terrible. [/quote] No one has said the terms are awful. It's ODN trying to rewrite the diplomatic playbook to suit them that is the issue. Wasn't NSO attacked over a measly pair of aid packets? There have been many cases where diplomatic pressure was applied or nations even attacked just trying to complete tech deals with a nation whose alliance found itself at war. If ODN chooses not to do so that's great, but not everyone follows that path.
  9. You got most of the useful stuff already, I am just going to throw in a few points: The nice thing about being a micro is no one expects very much from you. If your goal isn't to grow into a larger alliance, you can slack off on that FA/IRC time a lot. You said you enjoy being in Rok, which is a decent sized AA. If that is true you probably WON'T enjoy being a micro, since they rarely get as heavily involved in the play as larger alliances do. You will usually have very few treaties, and you won't be shaking the pillars of heaven any time soon. A few have made a mark on the larger stage, but those are exceptions, not the rule. Trying it out in TE sounds like a good plan indeed.
  10. [quote name='OsRavan' timestamp='1303180234' post='2693049'] Other then that, im not sure what Schatt hoped to accomplish with this. It is not going to change our stance that CoJ should apologize for their treatment of our protectorate and our applicants. The goal of that apology was not to publicly humiliate them. But apparently they want to make it public. So be it. I don't think most people will find this half as interesting as CoJ thinks they will. [/quote] Your internal workings are your business, but I would still appreciate seeing some evidence of why you think the Cult did anything wrong in their dealings with your protectorate and applicant AA. I know he has only presented his side of the story here, but ODN has not provided any evidence to the contrary. [quote name='King Charge' timestamp='1303185659' post='2693163'] I'd like to see HoT's logs with TFE. We all know that he was probably really respectful and not threatening at all. [/quote] HoT55 is 64 Digits, not CoJ. Maybe you are lumping them together, but what he did should not have any bearing on peace terms that CoJ has to agree to. [quote name='Il Impero Romano' timestamp='1303194650' post='2693396'] [i] Super awesome double great amazing read as always, Shattenman!!!!@@![/i] ... [/quote] If I ever have my factories start making dart boards with Schattenmann's face on them, I know who my best customer will be... [quote name='darkfox' timestamp='1303272764' post='2694271'] [b]All I see is CoJ being rude to a protectorate[/b] who mind you is composed of nations brand new to this world, and then complaining about a private apology. Maybe ODN should have demanded tech and money. Darn you ODN how dare you be so immoral. [/quote] re: the bolded text: Where? [quote name='Johnny Apocalypse' timestamp='1303324307' post='2694749'] Also, how would you respond if an alliance which you'd not had any contact with before approached you and asked you to stop your means of obtaining cash from your ally because it's hindering their war efforts and because of "tradition"? [/quote] I would stop the deals, or make other arrangements. I guess it comes down to whether your alliance honors that tradition or not. I know mine does, but being a micro you just don't engage in behavior that might easily get you blown apart. TFE could very easily have ended up being attacked in this situation, and frankly CoJ and the others were very nice not to do so; those nations would very likely be poorly prepared for a war compared to ODN nations, and thus would be a much softer target. I imagine that since CoJ and the others want to wind this war down, they avoided what would obviously be an escalation in ODN's eyes.
  11. [quote name='HeroofTime55' timestamp='1303409467' post='2695687'] Obviously, none of this is true. I still lead 64Digits, and that will not change until I specify otherwise. Those terms are of course not accepted. That said, some of the responses to this thread have been golden. [/quote] Even without this^, how could anyone think that HoT55 would ever offer to surrender with those terms, or that MK would accept or offer them in the first place? I know they don't LIKE HoT55 much, but this is obviously high comedy. My congratulations to HoT55 for drawing this much ire, not bad for a fly weight.
  12. [quote name='Richard Rahl' timestamp='1303232978' post='2693681'] I love all these people that were not there for the months that we built up friendship with MK before signing telling us the real reason for our treaty. [/quote] Legion members have said for years that they honestly like the NPO now, despite the wars and the Viceroy period; you're just getting a small taste of what they have had to deal with.
  13. [quote name='Ardus' timestamp='1303107254' post='2692484'] We're at least two or three X's removed at this point. They're just plain Hopeless now. [/quote] I'm confused. According to MK's DOW, NPO alone was this great big significant threat. In between then and now, several DH officers including you kept yammering about how they had to be taken down now before they rose up and crushed you all(or something). Did they suddenly pass some magic NS threshold where they aren't a threat now? [quote name='SADeki' timestamp='1303108754' post='2692496'] This new Hopeless Coalition party line is hilarious. Like anyone is going to take [b]You[/b] serious about someone else being a lapdog. [/quote] Given how often people on both sides of this war have told him to shut up and he obviously isn't listening, I'm not sure how you can consider HOT55 a lapdog. [quote name='Sardonic' timestamp='1303108839' post='2692498'] If your coalition is balking over there mere idea of efficiency clause (the oh so bad change which we are requesting, literally the only thing that needs to be finalized for peace) you obviously have no intention of paying in a timely manner. The efficiency clause should be a non-issue if you intend to pay within a reasonable time frame, as TCK has said you intend to, but your coalition is dragging it out for seemingly no reason other than to balk at something. Perhaps if you hadn't balked but instead actually negotiated with us on it the war would be over by now (for everyone who wanted it to be on your side sans NPO for three weeks). [/quote] What happens if they fail to keep up with their payments as set in the efficency clause? [quote name='pezstar' timestamp='1303147878' post='2692699'] Seriously? Is this what war has come to? After two months of fighting, folks are sitting in back channels negotiating exactly how much NS needs to come out of PM and for how long in order to achieve peace? Do you think anyone is going to respect you for that? If so, do you really want folks who can defend that as your friends? Here's a clue. At the beginning of the war, we had a couple of opponents who didn't really care for us all that much and a few who didn't know or care enough about us to form a real opinion. We threw everything we had into fighting and didn't stop until signatures were on the peace terms. We ended up with what was essentially a white peace. So did nearly everyone else on the NpO front. The folks who didn't weren't given anything ridiculous for terms. None of us spent the month and a half we were at war in peace mode, nor did we spend it nit picking NS. I wonder if the peace and the lack of being completely ridiculous correspond with one another. Really. Fighting and being picky about the amount of NS that needs to be out of PM. It's almost as though you deserve to be smashed a little more. [/quote] I would think someone as smart as you would have considered the possibility that you only got white peace BECAUSE the NPO front had developed the way it did. If they had all come out for an easy smashing you would probably be paying reps right now. It made perfect sense for your opponents to end that front ASAP in order to let C&G redeploy, and try to put pressure on the NPO front. Treating you leniently might lessen the fears of the AAs fighting on the NPO front that DH & allies would be harsh with their peace terms too. You're the direct beneficiary of the NPO & allies intransigence, and you are in here cutting on them?
  14. [quote name='kencojenko' timestamp='1303094333' post='2692210'] Don't expect too much in the way of a blitz, we don't have much to hit. [/quote] ^After seeing this line in the OP, I had a questions, but I see Letum beat me to it: [quote name='Letum' timestamp='1303095144' post='2692241'] What, precisely, is the point of attacking an alliance you can barely even fight, in the midst of it finalizing a peace deal? You can do limited damage, and cannot really effect the outcome of any peace. [/quote] There isn't even a single TOP war on Legion, so what was the point of this? If Legion did come out of peace mode you could just as easily have declared at that point, right??? I know I must be missing something here... [quote name='kencojenko' timestamp='1303096690' post='2692299'] And if we'd denied the request of our treaty partner, we'd be called cowards. [/quote] That only happens when your treaty partner is on the losing side of a war, and you refuse the request for whatever reason. That isn't the situation here.
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