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  2. Foreign Policy Statement From the New Polar Order, a declaration of intent

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    21 hours ago, kerschbs said:

    While true, I think most alliances can last a lot longer than they used to. Not sure if due to lack of interest or massive warchests, but wars are all extremely long now compared to historically.

    Back in 2010, still, the average top layer nation could fight for maybe two months before going bankrupt.

    Nations had new things to spend money on and they hadn't yet had five or ten years (or more) of mostly peace to save massive amounts of money for.

    Also, cutting a war short meant to have another chance at building yourself back to the top, whereas now two weeks of war gone wrong mean to forever be mid layer (tech wise), thus there's no incentive anymore to agree to an early peace.

     

     

    7 hours ago, Johnny Apocalypse said:

    MK/Doomhouse successfully beat the snot out of any potential rival and are the only entity that achieved a true victory on this world by leaving behind a mound of rubble in their wake. The failure to prevent any alliance that still stands today from springing back up is owned by the people who stuck around and let it happen.

    Getting on top with the substantial help of others (see TOP, The Grämlins and others), then building their stats on autopilot (Roq), finally exhausting their drive and dissolving, with no actual opposition and just for lack of purpose (which was ingrained in their alliance culture) isn't exactly what I'd call "truly winning".

    Not to mention the number of times they managed to display toxic and cringe worthy (and obtusely bigoted) off character behaviours.

     

    I don't contend that the MK/DH won in their time, and absolutely they were politically, economically and military competent, but their one wasn't that unique, ground breaking ascension or domination.

    Both Orders did much better than that, on all counts and more than once.

  3. Foreign Policy Statement From the New Polar Order, a declaration of intent

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    13 hours ago, kingzog said:

    [...]

    MK made a mistake when they did not forcibly disband NPO and salt the garbage pile from which Pacifica sprang.

    [...]

    The coalition that defeated Pacifica had been possible in the first place because most of them were strongly against the forced disbandment of alliances (and EZI, viceroys etc.)

    As there has never been the chance of forcibly disbanding the NPO, the MK made no mistake.

     

    Besides, the laws of CN don't provide a way to forcibly disband an alliance. One with strong enough a political will to endure can't simply be disbanded, and Pacifica has never been lacking political will.

  4. Bills being paid automatically?

    in Report A Bug

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    On 4/28/2023 at 1:38 PM, admin said:

    Bill are not paid automatically. You logged into the game yesterday 4/27/23 at 7:23:57am game time and your last bill payment was 4/27/23 7:24:02am game time, less than one second after you logged in and afterwards you posted this bug report.

     

    Do you have some kind of script running on your machine?

    I read that as a 5 seconds difference (interval).

     

    On 4/28/2023 at 5:48 PM, Iorek said:

    There is alliance extension in browser running, but that shouldn't be interacting with the controls at all. Certainly nothing that I have created and set up. 

     

    Edit2, bills to be paid manually today. Maybe I have early onset Alzheimer's  or something...

    Maybe you have/had a bookmark/browsing history entry pointing to the "pay your bills" page, you used it to log in and then accidentally clicked on the pay bills button as soon as the page loaded?

    I can't imagine any other way to unknowingly manually pay your bills. (That I can't imagine it doesn't mean that there can't be another one, though.)

  5. Foreign Policy Statement From the New Polar Order, a declaration of intent

    in Alliance Announcements (IC)

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    3 hours ago, mmansfield68 said:

    Congratulations to all involved parties.  :)

    I was going to ask why you always have to be mean with the uninvolved parties (read: me), but then I saw this:

     

    25 minutes ago, mmansfield68 said:

    Damn it, jerdge, you don’t have to be 100% absolutely right all the time. Kinda takes the fun out of the circle jerk.

     

    #killjoyFTL

    Thanks for your appreciation! That 100% is one of the few privileges that come with age... well, not really being right, and not even people thinking that I'm right, but at least... someone sometimes telling me that I'm right! 😆

  6. Foreign Policy Statement From the New Polar Order, a declaration of intent

    in Alliance Announcements (IC)

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    1 hour ago, Morgaine said:

    One might wonder why the leader of an alliance would make such a statement, seemingly unnecessarily ruffling feathers when it would be easier to go along to get along. I offer the following quotes, found in Walford's old signature:

     

     

    Some have said that the New Polar Order is not large nor powerful enough to be making such statements, implying that we should keep our mouths shut, cowering in fear. Anyone who knows us is aware that is not our way. 

    We are who we are and do not care who likes it.

     

    Having served in NONE and the LoFN, I can attest that a small group can successfully resist an onslaught by a much larger gang of bullies. Many demanded apologies and reparations for having the temerity of fighting back in the face of an unprovoked attack. Eventually, their members tired of bleeding at the hands of fanatics who obviously would never surrender, so all the leadership got for their trouble was loss of funds, nation strength and pride.  

    Similarly, the enemies of Polaris have found that it is NEVER profitable to attack us. We will fight, even when the odds are against us. Do not expect us to turtle. The unwary will decide to take us on, only to find that they have gained nothing but damage that will take months from which to recover. 

    Most of the time, I do not know what the political reasons may be for being engaged in yet another war. But I trust our leadership, take pride in fighting alongside members who are willing to sustain more damage than our enemies if that is what it takes to maintain our integrity. 

     

    We may be small, but are fierce. Trifle with the New Polar Order at your peril.

     

    Hail Electron Sponge and our leaders!

    Hail Polaris!

    Roq, Walford, NONE, LoFN (and Morgaine) in one place... my CN day is complete.

    Thanks! 👍

  8. Gravedig rules

    in Question Center

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    Why worry? Just go ahead and grave dig stuff. Even if you manage to irritate some mod, you could also be happy that you managed to wake them from their slumber. If that's possible at all, that's it.

     

    (Yes I'm joking. Don't grave dig stuff unless it's really interesting for others too.)

  12. Cloudflare

    in Report A Bug

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    5 minutes ago, Lyanna Mormont said:

    Silly Crink! I logged in yesterday at reset. As long as it's fixed before 4-6-23 ends, I'll still have never missed a day.

     

    May the Pope of NG bless us all. 

    If there's no day you can't miss it.

  13. Cloudflare

    in Report A Bug

    Posted

    A planned shutdown wouldn't play out like this, thus this is not a planned shutdown.

    Everyone relax, Admin will take care of your daily login bonus, casualties, etc. Worst case, he'll have to fall back on yesterday's backup.

     

    Of course I'm kidding, this is Hell and Heaven, pleasure and pain at the same time. Use this free time you have to finally have that shower, or to eat an hot dog, to stay with your loved one(s) or... whatever. The end of the world is upon us!

  21. Al Bundy did what with who?

    in Alliance Announcements (IC)

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    On 3/14/2023 at 6:40 PM, Kapleo said:

    [...] You [Bundy] are appreciated on this side of the fence. Even if pride currently doesn't let some people openly admit that. [...]

    Who doesn't like Al, anyway? I mean, look at me, even I like him.

     

     

    On 3/14/2023 at 9:38 PM, Stewie said:

     

    cookies.gif

     

    My cookies....

    Make fun of me all you want, but when I was a toddler the Cookie Monster scared the heck out of me. I could watch, say, Space: 1999 all day with dad no problem, but that monster was more than I could handle.

    Now I love him, anyway.

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