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So once everyone gets out of peace mode it'll be a staring contest to see who actually makes a move.

Forgot to add that TPF's slots expire tomorrow as well.

So once everyone gets out of peace-mode, we're going to wait 5 days until everyone attacks each other?

They're trying to play the moral high ground. For the most part, everyone will be getting out of peace mode next week. Great time for a DOW.

Why post here when you can update the wiki.

You mean when CC put all their below 85K NS nations into peace-mode, so they could use their 85K+ nations advantage, which was countered by those alliances putting their top NS nations in peace mode?

The Great "Peace Mode" War has begun.

Majority of both sides are sitting in peace mode because of the chess games early this week.

Seems they're trying to grab the moral high ground. Good luck.

Seems like a convenient time for them to get revenge from last weeks events.

This is chess on steroids today.

They're basically saying there's two wars. #1 is already in progress and #2 could be started if IRON wants to retaliate on the spying clause which creates two different "sides" for each war.

Not really if you're just putting money into war chest. PM is only a -3 happiness drop.

Well either way we won't be seeing any DOWs until next week imho because that's when everyone gets out of peace mode and can fight on even ground.

They want to concentrate the fight with their upper tier advantage because they're so heavily outnumbered in the mid and lower tiers. It's a good strategy, looks better on paper, and is easily countered.

They physically can't Blitz with the force they have now because their initial move of putting their below-85K nations was thwarted. They can only fight on equal terms, which means fights with the nations that are currently in peace mode.

Would you want allies that took 4 days to play chess?

In the long-run, TPF will either have to surrender, or their allies will have to fight on equal terms at a disadvantage. Both results come with huge PR loss though.

Well, NPO and allies got baited into War last-time and took a beating for it. I would assume they don't want to charge in unless they know they have a chance. It's more pixels > friends strategy. >_> Peace mode doesn't hurt your income that badly unless you sit in it for 20+ days.

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It's an interesting shift of strategies. I guess Karma taught people about the trap card. I just think it's a strategy that is too easily countered and will work better on paper. You'll likely always be eating a nuke everyday which cuts down your NS low enough that those smaller nations can gang up.

What else is there to post about. Took me 2 seconds to figure it out on my own looking at stats.

TPF is the only one that gets screwed in the long run.

Forgot to mention that.

So apparently the reason the war is taking so long to grow is because TPF's allies believes they have an advantage in 80k+ nations so they're sending everyone below that range in peace-mode. Now the "other-side" is doing the opposite with sending every 80k+ in peace mode to !@#$%* the strategy. Just take a look at every alliance involved. So now we have two-sides staring at each other in peace mode in a likely stalemate.