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Nicely written treaty.

I would keep your suggestion as is, +1 happiness and 1% reduction in infra upkeep cost.

I purchased 5 Bunkers just to check the population issue, it did nothing to my citizen count. Are you sure it's not something else? You don't have Border Walls, which to my knowledge are the only Improvements that negatively affect the citizen count, but maybe you did something that affected your Environment, you switched to another Government, you had Events?... The Fire Department idea looks good to me. Although I disagree that "we don't have a lot of improvements that gran unpenalized happiness": we already have Churches, IAs, PHs and Stadiums. In fact the infra upkeep reduction is a much better selling point for your idea, as there are literally no improvements that grant an unpenalized infra upkeep reduction, and even the Wonders (without infra requirements) that provide it are only two (the Interstate System and the Moon/Mars Base, which in turn however require the Space Program).

Good job Stewie!

Don't draw lines, erase obliterate them.

Before the trainwreck this thread has become meets its deserved fate, and as I got myself involved into it, I want to point out that personally I've always been against bringing any outwardly stuff to determine choices in CN. To be 100% clear, I'm against taking any action against (or in support of) any one that behaved exceptionally bad (or good) elsewhere. There's nothing moral about this stance of me, I'm simply a purist. Of course, I'm fine with any and everyone else having different standards, and they're absolutely encouraged not to frequent people that they don't like, for any reason. I do the same. What I find unacceptable - which is why and when I might intervene (assuming I'm awake and caring...) - is to further trash the level of discourse by openly and explicitly bringing extraneous diatribes and feuds into this forum. It's stupid and it leads to terribad results, as it immediately showed here. I'm annoying and pedantic, I know, people here tell me that since (at least) 2008...

You'll kindly leave any Out Of Character diatribe strictly outside of the In Character sections of this board. Thank you.

One man's nice is another one's horror. The horror.

The Day Today has been by far the best publication for the last several years, I'll really miss it. On the other hand I'm glad that you get to enjoy the retirement that you need and deserve.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Make Peace, not war. Also make love if you feel like it (not necessarily with firing line ofc).

You don't understand, nothing can compensate for the effort!

Gopher! It's lovely to hear from you! Good suggestion, although just ignoring their invitations requires much less effort...

Did You Know? 93% of the statistics I and Hoo come up with are totally made up. [/derail]

I do. Once I would have also been again amazed at how handsome I must seem to others, as they try to have me join their alliance despite my history of being a mostly useless vocal troublemaker that isn't even nice most of the time. But now I understand that many people desperately want any new moderately alive member no matter the rest! (Not to mention that vocal troublemakers not really very nice are also probably a good fit for NG... 😜)

Your third screenshot about the Global Economic Stimulus reads "Proposal Expired". The effects of passed proposals last for 30 days at which point they will expire. That one was passed on Jan 13th, the 30th day after Jan 13th was Feb 12th, didn't it expire at update between Feb 11th and 12th? (Jerel ATM has an open aid slot, which I don't know if it helps you or not.)

"Immediately". It's not about democracy, it's inertia - plain and simple. I'll go for six as well: no, thanks.

But the moment I left the GPA to become a NGer you wouldn't be my viceroy anymore, thus I'd immediately be free to go back into the Agency!

For the third or fourth (or fifth?) time, thank you but no.

This, I was thinking this.

I meant that you don't care if you have a fishing pond or not. I don't rule out that you care for others in general or for specific others, one way or another, and in fact that's what I'd expect from you - although I don't really have an idea of your current whereabouts. You've never been a real jerk.

You don't really care.

The discussion was about what you do when Alliance #1 accepts them back, not about what you do when you're Alliance #1. And if you mean: it's Alliance #1 that should... (do stuff) - that's great! - when you're not Alliance #1, how exactly do you go about having them... (do stuff)?

Defending ourselves was totally compatible with neutrality. Trust me, inside the GPA I have always been considered one of the less orthodox about neutrality - and I probably was, TBQH - but no one even thought to raise that issue, in that situation. For everyone it was clear that our self defence was totally a neutral thing. I wouldn't say we have been another victim of Doom either. In the end they walked away and they didn't harass us until it didn't really matter anymore. We even signed a NAP (which I obviously campaigned against, why trust them on anything regarding us?) and everything was fine and dandy for a long while... also because I hadn't been involved in anything about them. To be clear: IC-ly I hadn't really anything against the DBDC and at their rise I also thought they were good for the game. But their success was based also on flawed mechanics (land and tech), not to mention the exploitation of ill-acquired huge tech levels (to beat again this dead horse: 60,000 tech levels later erased from Steeldor's count, when Cuba and many of the tech heavy Doombirds had already left the arena - what about them?) Their way of trolling in the Suggestion Box to discourage any possible fix was disgusting. Their in-game threats over OOC stuff would have been ridiculous, hadn't people took that seriously. I suppose I can console myself with the notion that, at least, their silly personal insults were not totally unamusing, albeit ultimately pointless. They did almost all that could have possibly been done to be hated on an OOC level, short of going straight in criminal territory, but despite that I never hated them. Now I would have knowingly allowed any OOC aversion to influence my IC behavior towards them. When they threatened or damaged the GPA I simply pushed (for the little I could) for action to be taken to counter that, as I would have done with any other threat.