malazar

Congratulations to those awarded and those not awarded who fought the good fight.

You aren't the only one who was afflicted in this way. Anyway, go us! Don't worry, Yohan, I will get a Hidden Nuclear Silo some day soon to raise the number of nukes.

Go us! Alright, alright I get the hint. I started buying nukes again yesterday, Yohan.

It was fun having two rounds of war with you, Hizzy. At any rate, congrats to TPF on finally getting peace. I am glad to see it.

I am glad to see this announced finally! Good luck guys. I am sure the alliance will develop nicely under your guidance. o/ ZH

Well, we have nothing left to lose so why not?

I can't speak for Emperor Italy, but I do know that he just surrendered within the past week, so he is still officially a POW. It is hard for me to understand why people have stayed in for over 30 days or after the existing POWs were released a couple weeks ago. I will be out of this place as soon as I am allowed.

o/Karma POW Long live the new emperor! We are a forced to be reckoned with now that we are up to 5 WRCs!

I, malazar of Jinnailand, resign from TPF and the current wars and surrender to the forces of Karma.

I am very glad to see that this mess will hopefully be able to be put behind you once and for all.

I am very glad to see my good friends in the AOD Brigade joining P.E.A.C.E. and having closer ties with your purple brothers and sisters. I miss being purple myself and have a bit of purple envy.

Glad to see this announced. I hope you have good luck and a wonderful time with the new alliance, YouMaka.

Congrats to the new government.

I have often wondered why that wouldn't be a viable strategy, but surrendering on an individual level has such a negative stigma that for the most part people seem to rather avoid that as a whole even if it would be smart for alliances to advocate their banks or large nations surrendering early. In my alliance we have a zero tolerance surrender policy and I imagine NPO probably has something similar. Hypothetically, since there is nothing preventing this in the individual surrender terms outside of a possible 30 day POW period without the ability to aid, I wonder what would happen if those top NPO nations all did such a thing. Would then the war come to a close since the peace mode argument would disappear?

Nice work by all involved parties. We may be at war, but you have my respect PC in being willing to work out a solution to this problem.

A friend and I used to have "Protected by zoomzoomzoom of conorea" in our bios and no one ever bothered with us or the rest of our micro alliance due to our frightening 1 man protector!

I can't speak for the others but I never implied that this raid was Karma's fault. I just found the double standard applied by some posters to be interesting. Certainly others from Karma alliances already expressed their disapproval, so I would never paint the whole group of being guilty for the actions of one the misfits from Poison Clan. From what it seems like in reading the recent pages of post, it looks like Karma has handled the situation well if it is on its way to a resolution, so cheers to them on that.

Most of our biggest nations, with a couple exceptions, have already hit or been extremely close to ZI during this war. Of our current top 20 nations in NS, 5 of them I can remember being in the top 20 before the war. Of those 5, 3 of them are at around 1000 or less infrastructure, one is around 2000, and one seems to have been hiding in peace mode since after the first round of wars ended. Sorry sir, but this idea is a myth. People go into peace mode for their 5 days or so if the enemy gives them the opportunity so that we can come out and declare offensively where needed at that point. In a war where our nations are constantly dog piled, it is the only option to have any initiative on the battlefield.

What I believe is irrelevant to the issue. It is simply a matter of consistency that I am questioning.

Well, if those of us in certain alliances are painted with a certain negative brush due to past wrongs of previous governments that haven't been in control for 9 months, isn't it only fair to hold Karma to the same sort of standard in regards to what a Karma alliance is doing? You don't get to have it one way when it's convenient and then ignore your logic when it comes home to roost.

Why? Some alliances don't have aspirations to be large. There's nothing wrong with being a perpetual protectorate in those circumstances.

I wasn't too fond of Kingzog having tech sent to one of my opponents, so I had to blow it up.

You keep coming up with this peace mode stuff and claims that we are afraid of damage, but it just isn't accurate. Out of our top 20 pre-war nations, outside of a couple surrenders, most of us are at or well on our way to ZI. No one has been ducking battle here.

It has only been a bit over three weeks.

I don't think most of us in TPF really care if another 10 alliances declare on us since we will likely all have 3 defensive wars at all times anyways. If anything, most of us find the number of alliances against us more amusing than anything else. That being said it doesn't seem like bandwagoning to me either.