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    Gorgeous Perfect Alliance!
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  1. I think it's 0,046%: (1/3)^7 = 0,000457247...
  2. I can't speak for other neutrals, assuming there are some, but AFAIK in the GPA nobody is really interested in rebuilding anything, or in actually "playing the game", for that matter. Should one's nation get destroyed, it won't be intentionally rebuilt, it would just hang around long enough for it to come back a bit. I guess we're horribly boring. (Case in point: I buy tech but I don't really care how much tech my nation has, to me it's just a way to have a connection with other players.)
  3. "Regardless"? That's the point. CN mechanics don't prevent nations from being in range of too much stronger ones, and having to fight too many simultaneously, and seeing literally years or decades of work, to build up their firepower, hopelessly erased in a very short time - some weeks, sometimes a few days. Nations interested in having any military meaning in the medium or long run can only do so by establishing allegiance with the biggest and strongest group in the pond. Which is where we are. Since around 2008, I might add. As I had hinted at, this horse had been beaten to death so long ago that the people that knew those that had any memory of those originally beating it, have also mostly left this realm long ago. Edit: for completeness, now we have few enough nations that a tight group of experienced, Wonders equipped, medium-low NS nations can do something meaningful, even without comprehensive links to the net of allegiance (and thanks to those links being somewhat loose, in fact). It can't shake up everything, or anything meaningful for that matter, but they can have a bit of the fun they like, at least. They just need to avoid any real challenge and/or to poke a true bear and they'll be OK. (I'd still be bored by the lack of true challenge but hey, I'm not CN's universal role model...) Also edit: for all I know 99% of the big alliances might be almost completely dead and unable to pull even a fraction of their weight... but keeping nations around and showing up once or twice a year isn't exactly demanding, thus they find it too easy to preserve and use their firepower. Which is another flaw of the mechanics we have, BTW.
  4. Neutrality Is waaay simpler, but it doesn't really work any better at providing action, unless you just directly create it by attacking others. Which would basically be suicidal. It's the mechanics, not the politics (but that horse is long, long dead).
  5. Now that I think of it, your posts too could become great satire with only minor tweaks. You may want to consider the idea. I still love you even if you don't, though. IMHO the OWF has last been great to read over ten years ago. I don't even think that it's just that I'm old (and yes, I'm too old for this stuff). That said, it is for anyone here using it as they see fit, I welcome alliances presenting their stats and bragging about them, and I welcome people bragging about their achievements and making fun of each other's. We could use a bit more of variety and of irony, anyway, one can always hope for it.
  6. Though somewhat unoriginal, this... Stats Nerd Pride Week came with a lil bit of Hakai satire. Overlooked, yes, but still thumbs up from me. Thanks to everyone involved.
  7. I thought you had always been too old for it. (I know I have.)
  8. When one stumbles on gems like this post, one can only sincerely thank the author for them. Thank you, berbers.
  9. Not saying that FL would be a terrible triumvir, but even in that case he'd still be only 1/3 of it.
  10. The poll misses the "none of these" option, as such I won't vote.
  11. The concept of people with an ordinary nature is - as you may guess - only a concept, a category of the mind, an idea useful to interpret things and to efficiently exchange ideas. It models a part of something that's real, but it's not real itself. For these reasons you're correct, you're not ordinary. Nobody is.
  12. David runs his mouth only or mostly in the game, that's a huge difference. (Now I don't want to defend David, actually, it's more about recognizing that Mal's shenanigans were forgettable too, but less so.) Besides, consequences are illusory, anyway... But I digress.
  13. To be fair to David, Mal used to infest the «actually "that guy"» part of the forums.
  14. If one's objective is to ensure that their opponents don't get any loot, and/or that they earn as few casualties as possible, and/or that they have as little fun as possible, having no soldiers is good practice. I'm in the first group, there's no way to earn any stat by attacking my nation. It makes sense to me, as I'm totally not interested in war and, according to my experience, most if not all high end raiders are absolute pixel huggers. There's basically no downside, either economically or tactically (I can declare war with no soldiers, if need be, and in fact I've done it in the past). Had I any inclination for war, things would be different, ofc. Well I have no knowledge of your conflicts with those people, and the general situation you all were in, I'll just trust your judgement on them specifically. Maybe half of them were collected in very old eras, in which warfare was very different and high end nations hadn't any easy way to profit over raids. My position in this world was also quite different. The other ones were collected mainly against Cuba. I don't have much to say about that conflict as my nation had been revived to defend the GPA, and it was being sat by someone else.
  15. Congratulations everyone involved for your peace/win/loss/however you call it. Thanks for the amusing variations over FL's name, gotta love polite irony, they made me smile. Nothing personal FL, I actually love your contributions to CN. Random reminder that 5 DAs in 14 seconds tell two things, at least: 1. Al is really quick with that mouse! 2. All of his opponents had very little or no soldiers at all, obviously. As the ruler of a nation that never has soldiers in the first place I'll certainly won't be the one making fun of #2. (In fact I'm absolutely qualified to explain why it may actually make a lot of sense, depending on the objectives one set for themselves.)
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