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jerdge

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  1. Dragging you back into activity would be a good thing. Well, maybe not for you.
  2. ITT war names should be funny and also have content - like BiPolar - Herogasm is ok on the fun part only. Tevron's alternatives aren't very funny. I'll go with WC that we can wait for a couple rounds and then see.
  3. I think that my opinion about the greatness of others being super irrelevant is something we can universally agree on, I'm puzzled as you are.
  4. I agree with you even more than you do, I don't really care about those facts either. If a random comment of mine sparks outrage and gratuitous unintelligent hypocrisy I can occasionally muster enough attention to reply further, but you already knew this bit too.
  5. There's a difference between experiencing an healthily challenging experience and fighting an hopeless battle against unchecked cheaters, but you wouldn't know because at the time you were firmly on the cheaters' side - that's what you call survival on your own terms. There are no fake tears involved, sure people leave any game for a variety of reasons, but in this specific case: when the multies scandals emerged, years ago, there were clean players openly saying that they were leaving - or they would have left if things hadn't been properly addressed - and which since actually left, and you were personally there, replying to them and trying to convince everyone that it was just petty stuff that had happened totally by chance, etc, the kind of stupid defence we're again reading in this thread. Spare me your absurd stories about anecdotes of people leaving for this or that reason, it's not what we're talking of. Talking of why we're still on the subject, I don't know why you people still think that is a good way of defending this crap. It's not that I or anyone else spends their days posting about it, it's just a yearly post, at most, when I stumble upon someone admiring Steeldor's "greatness". Just look the other way, avoid quoting my posts, ignore me and stop making this relevant, nobody actually cares anymore. It's not baseless speculation, Steeldor had around 64k tech levels erased overnight in a period in which some mod had found/been presented with damning evidence about his tech. His tech having been erased is recorded. It's fact. It makes no sense to report it again as the mods already acted upon it. It's cringe worthy that some people gets overly agitated about this stuff, go around taking of "insinuations", "suggestions", "speculations", try absurd defences of totally unacceptable unfair play. We're talking of established facts, just say that you're OK with all that or, even better, don't post at all on the subject and let it be forgotten again.
  6. Let it be said completely OOC, it's too bad that your unsurprising consistence and persistence across the years is no virtue. You were posting some of the worst clumsy hypocritical crap then, attempting to justify the unjustifiable, it's no surprise that you're still trying the same now, in this instance also selectively quoting my post. Surely the countless nations (players) that were hopelessly raided out of the game thanks to illegal massive tech levels wouldn't be impressed by your defence. And again, I'm not "suggesting" anything, I rather explicitly made my point, plain and simple: there's no glory in the way Steeldor climbed to the top spots, his nation will be forever stained in my eyes. Think and say about it whatever you wish, I have no interest in further debating the details, that horse died several years ago.
  7. That was a good one, +1 to Canik for humour.
  8. This is a rude comparison, if I ever saw one.
  9. Is this supposed to defend Steeldor's glory? Listen, although I actually like you and the way you go about CN, I have no time or interest to discuss the details of this, even if it's you. Peace. EDIT: I didn't "insinuate" anything, anyway, I said it, plain and simple.
  10. I have nothing negative to say about Steeldor"s interactions with me: in the one or two occasions we had to do one with the other, eons ago, he's been nothing short of a gentleman. Nonetheless, I never drop an occasion to remind everyone that Steeldor had 64k tech erased for having received it from multies. Heavens know how much other ill-acquired tech he had and still has, how much his now disappeared mates of the time, which had the same tech farms, also had, how much tech and land they could raid also because of that tech, how much money Steeldor then made thanks to all that ill-acquired land, in the following many years. 'Glorious' isn't the word I would choose.
  11. I wasn't talking of this conflict specifically. Doom's DoW on the planet didn't change the way they operate, they were already raiding whenever and wherever they thought they could get away with it. At most you can say that their DoW clarified things. I would have said that the DT was part of Doomsphere.
  12. The evolution of CN is driven by the will of the rulers, no more, no less. You now have inertia because most of the rulers that remain want to stay inert. The little politics and the even smaller infighting you have are almost exclusively in order to secure a position in which the people involved can then stay inert. IMHO multiple factors led to this. Among the most prominent ones I put: the mechanics insanely favour seniority, discouraging new players from staying - senior players moved on and get their entertainment somewhere else, but some of them still keep and maintain their nations with no specific goal or ambition (count me among these); some people wanted to climb to the top to then stay there admiring their pixels forever, they could do so also through outright cheating, which wasn't addressed despite multiple occasions to do so, discouraging older competitive players from staying; there's no inbuilt attrition mechanics effectively slowing down or hampering successful nations and groups, and allowing new nations and groups to catch up; war at the top is exceedingly punishing for the weaker side, which inevitably has literally years of development destroyed in a few weeks, while the stronger side is barely scratched, or even gains. If you think of it, it primarily boils down to a very few things: the tech deals dynamics, the tech damage WRC bonus, lack of feedback mechanisms (downsides) for land. You can continue to complain about inertia for years and until you are out of voice, we're exactly where the mechanics and the (lack of) policing brought us, and we're not going anywhere else.
  13. You have no idea how many people need to be repeated stuff over and over (and over) before they get it, and you have no idea how many never anyway get it, neither you have an idea of why you have no idea in the first place.
  14. You're only jealous. I didn't take part in the actual fighting with Kushmir but the rest was pretty a good experience. We can have nice things and still and stuff.
  15. Hakai is the only ruler whose posts you can truly enjoy even though you painfully hate him with passion. (You don't really need to painfully hate him with passion, but if you do you can still... etc, let's not be too didactic.)
  16. When deploying did you get any warning? My nation has 0 troops and my citizens are "happy" (not completely happy, but no anarchy). If I bought 100 soldiers and deployed 1 soldier my nation would go into anarchy. AFAIK deploying (or disbanding) your soldiers triggers a check on your soldiers count, if it's too low you get anarchy, which basically works as an event: after three days you can switch to another government without having to buy any soldier first. You don't go into anarchy unless something reduces your soldier count.
  17. I absolutely love this style, it reminds me of... really too many years ago, when undoubtedly most of you hadn't even been born.
  18. Going back to this (just out of boredom) I'll point out that dictatorships can be and, quite often, are absolutely moralistic, at least in appearance. Fairness in international warfare is irrational, not moralistic. In fact it's even quite immoral, in that a national government finding itself at war, arguably has the moral obligation to maximize the damage dealt to damage taken ratio. Anything else would be folly and a betrayal of their own people. If instead CN was a sport then, yes, fairness in war would make sense.
  19. I can respect the effort made to present it, though the treaty itself is pretty standard (no offence meant), but professional at least. The conversation is admittedly more entertaining, or enough it anyway, and I didn't yawn this far! No ground has been broken, it's not like anyone took any significant risk... sometimes I wish you all treaty junkies went neutral, for a change. But who am I to ask? Congrats etc.
  20. I believe that, as of today, nukes have been "just another weapon" for well over a decade. (Your and mine age and arthritis permitting, high five to those of you that, without looking it up, can recall what major alliance enacted a war time policy in subversion of the then popular anti-nukes stigma.)
  21. The Legion should try be consistent with its own regulations (and they might be doing it, as far as I know, I didn't check). If they instead decided not to care anymore, well, that might hint at how bad this game has become. In other words, as Lucius is suggesting, it's maybe better to look for another, better game.
  22. DS and then DBDC evidently joined to help their allies and to get some action, maybe also to loot something (The DBDC people didn't loot anything and they probably knew it well in advance). They called it "defence", I see the point in challenging that choice of words but ultimately what matters is that alliances are free to do whatever they want and to call it however they want: what happens on the ground, and the consequences of it, matter more than the label slapped onto them. (In this specific case war was effectively recognized when me and Bundy found ourselves agreeing, in a private chat, that we were at war with each other. The GPA public recognition of hostilities came after that. Anyone can do whatever they want with this piece of information.) The GPA retains some capacity to defend itself, some of us indeed have a significant amount of money and enough stubbornness to use it. Just so that the next time people won't need to do spy ops to find the "obvious", my nation for one has enough money to fight until the lights of Bob go off, however far in the future that may happen. I don't however think that any of this influenced anyone's decisions, I imagine that our opponents didn't want to keep us in a prolonged fight we were not interested into, mainly because at this point everyone knows everyone, and nobody wants to be too dickish towards their neighbors/acquaintances/friends. Also, they're not that active either, they could definitely do something else with their time. I agree with JA that the general entertainment would benefit from stuff being properly announced, however most of us don't see the point anymore / are lazy/uninterested... it is what it is. Last but not least, Neutral Menace ITT.
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