jerdge
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I have no clue but nicely written treaty, actually worth reading. Well done to whoever created it.
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If Armen too is OK with it, and if the both of you can promise not to then endlessly publicly brag or complain or bicker about it, then my vote is yes.
Otherwise, no please.
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On 4/11/2024 at 2:55 PM, berbers said:
[...] more damage to the health of the world [...]
There's no health left here, CN has been great like fifteen years ago, today it's a lost cause.
(Some individuals can still get something out of it, one can still pursue some goals... but the collective experience is dead - IMO.)
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8 hours ago, berbers said:
I went out with 22B and I think ended up in the !@#$ tier with around 10B? that 10B could have lasted me at least 2 years based on consumption, but I got bored after a bit more than a year
Beyond a certain point it always becomes a matter of boredom, not of money.
(That's one of the reasons I'd never go rogue, BTW, as my "certain point" of boredom is around the third day... I get distracted easily.)
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On 3/25/2024 at 1:46 PM, mmansfield68 said:
Me too, but every time I try, Krispy Kreme pulls me back in...
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I get weight just by looking at them! That's a picture that should be outlawed... 😉
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On 3/20/2024 at 2:25 PM, Tevron said:
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I agree with my fellow treaty name haters.Well the name isn't the best one, but on the positive the theme can inspire thoughts about sex, inhibition, escape, sociology, philosophy, psychology, economics...
In short, while not terribly artful per se, it can lead one to think about art and how an artistically inclined soul can always cut themselves a shortcut out of a dead end.
(Or I might consider critically thinking about my diet, that's another possibility.)
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I think it's 0,046%:
(1/3)^7 = 0,000457247...
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3 hours ago, kerschbs said:
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That being said neutrals routinely get walloped and I’m sure for many it’s hard to motivate themselves to rebuild over and over again.
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.)
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"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.
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13 hours ago, Johnny Apocalypse said:
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You don't have to tell me how much it sucks leading a large alliance; the tedium of following the lines of the web according to the wishes of the allies of your allies, while your rivals are doing the exact same thing with both parties waiting for the other to make the first move because everyone is too scared to do it themselves in case it backfires. It's no wonder nothing really happens and I can understand why you chose to break away from it all.
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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).
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21 hours ago, firingline said:
The only thing Hakai's post managed to do is remind me that we not only took 10th place from GATO, we took sanctioned status from Argent, and he really shouldn't be flying that flag anymore on these forums.
Time to fix the glitch.
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.
18 hours ago, Johnny Apocalypse said:The OWF is now only to be used for the purpose of measuring dicks using aid-slot percentiles as a metric. Which probably has something to do with how stagnant it is lately, it hardly makes for a dynamic and engaging political discourse when almost every thread has a flock of parrots talking about how big or small their numbers are.
fig.1 - FiringLine
That being said I welcome the creation of this thread from NATO and applaud the prosperity of another democratic alliance on this planet.
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.
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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.
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On 11/24/2023 at 3:22 PM, kingzog said:
I do, but I'm too old for that nonsense now. (To be fair, most of us are....)
I thought you had always been too old for it. (I know I have.)
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3 hours ago, berbers said:
There are still patriots in NATO that know the election was rigged, Firingline ran the best campaign in the history of CN, the polls were overwhelmingly in his favor, you should have seen the size of his rallies.
#notmytrium #stolenelection #firinglinewon
When one stumbles on gems like this post, one can only sincerely thank the author for them.
Thank you, berbers.
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13 hours ago, Sabcat said:
Well done, the terrifying prospect of Firing Line with actual power has abated...for now.
Not saying that FL would be a terrible triumvir, but even in that case he'd still be only 1/3 of it.
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The poll misses the "none of these" option, as such I won't vote.
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1 hour ago, DavidMustaine said:
I actually do have one of these in rl
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.
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11 hours ago, kingzog said:
He keeps his nation small for the sole purpose of being able to run his mouth without consequences, which is exactly what Malannoy used to do.
He's a time-waster.
*blessings upon the Ignore feature, which I just remembered*
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.
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8 hours ago, kingzog said:
Kudos on being about as useful to this place as the late, not-at-all lamented Malinois.
To be fair to David, Mal used to infest the «actually "that guy"» part of the forums.
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33 minutes ago, firingline said:
As a wise man once said:
QuoteBECAUSE YOU DONT TURTLE WHEN YOUR THE BUTT KICKER, YOU TURTLE WHEN YOU GETTING YOU BUTT KICKED....
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.
33 minutes ago, AL Bundy said:Although i don't agree with never having soldier, i want poke fun at the ones that do. I will however make fun of the ones that just quit fighting especially when two had a way greater tech advantages and one was fresh to the war haha.
Al
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.
2 minutes ago, Franz Ferdinand said:Incorrect, you have 1,930,074 casualties, so historically you had soldiers at one point, most likely when starting out / building the nation when it was the 20/25% of all citizens should be soldiers phase.
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.
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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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Peace Works!
But seriously, we don't anymore have the Mongols we used to. Peace?!?!
(But seriously seriously, congratulations everyone involved for they all evidently had a bit of fun and, more importantly, they have been able to enjoy it together.)
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4 hours ago, Franz Ferdinand said:
Don't recall Non Grata declaring war on LSF though, only UCR.
In these situations "no matter what AA" usually means that the objective of going after someone doesn't change with the AA they join, although the means and the approach vary.
Basically, none of you two is entirely wrong.
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3 hours ago, SirWilliam said:
Nice one!
Although I don't condone smoking, especially in the kitchen (but really, everywhere).
Nuclear Reawakening: The Atom Rises Again
in Alliance Announcements (IC)
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Names are irrelevant as long as their meaning is clear. There's nothing bad in calling it almond milk, there's no confusion.
(If you don't like the name... just don't use it!)