Machiabelly

I can't believe there are still five or 6 sanctioned alliances that I have been part of. And two that sent me to zero infrastructure. Temp, not permanent, although since I figure I haven't logged in to my nation in five years, probably more. Man, i joined FAN to fight the NPO when FAN was sentenced to permanent zeroing. Good times. I doubt there are 5 people on here who remember me.

Unlike a lot of others I will try and stay at least a little on topic. Welcome to the family TFE. Happy to have you on side.

I am proud to serve with you nomnomnom nation killer. I want a call out thread too, but I never got anyone to delete. I still miss GOLD...is that enough? That was an alliance that was destroyed by NPO back in the day.

[quote name='Schattenmann' timestamp='1298399982' post='2641831'] Is OsRavan saying that because MK declared war on CoJ, that now they're defending MK from us? Man oh man am I glad I don't have to spin crap like that for elections. [/quote] I am pretty sure you are glad you don't have elections period. Unless the people who would be voting are fans of repetitive stale PR.

Another 400K Prince Edward Island soldiers dead and 2K infrastructure destroyed. Southpaw of Transnistria and Roughrider of Devildog got their licks in. Oh, and if visiting my fair nation I would not drink the glowing green water

Well here we go again, more Prince Edward Islanders marching off to war. Good luck to my allies and slightly less luck to my enemies. And a special shoutout to Southpaw of Transnistria who I think will put me over the 4 million casualty mark in his next attack...and who is also a very friendly opponent thus far.

No, but you didn't worsen my life, so you got that going for you

Everyone must diet. Orange Roll. Something like that

I am tired of all this grey, everyone must dye

[quote name='Azaghul' timestamp='1295078107' post='2575896'] I wouldn't point out a correlation with direct NS, as leaders get special focus in wars, and also tend to fight a lot. But there are other indicators, buying (or selling) tech with all their slots, keeping stable trades, growing their nation and building up their warchest at the fastest pace that wars will allow. I would however, hold it against an alliance leader when they at least don't put in a good effort to build their nation up and use it effectively, and who doesn't have a solid understanding of the dynamics of nation building and in-game growth. For one, a solid understanding of in-game dynamics can be important, especially when planning for wars. An alliance leader ignorant of his alliance's real standing in-game can make mistakes, overestimating or underestimating his alliance in comparison to others and not have his alliance assigned well in a war. They also won't be as good at effectively monitoring and appointing their economics and war ministers. They may initiate and/or approve unwise and inefficient nation-building, war preparation, or deployment strategies. They may do a poor job at the negotiating table at wars end getting the best terms for their alliance (or writing good terms for an opponent). Another thing is that an alliance leader who just "doesn't care" about his nation isn't being a good leader, in my opinion. Why should his members care about their nations if their leader doesn't? An alliance leader should lead by example, in that respect. If they don't that could contribute to a culture of laziness that will hurt the alliance. Alliance leaders tend to be some of the oldest nations and (if not rogued on a lot) have greater potential to have a large nation. Leaders can make a small difference with their nations alone. For example when I was in MK high gov (around noCB through Karma) all the gov were in the upper ranks, especially in tech, and made up a reasonable portion of those ranks. [/quote] I do agree with this, The onmly time I was overly concerned with nation building and doing it correctly, was way back in the mists of times when I led an alliance. Now I was never high enough profile to get much in the way of drive by nukings, so I did not have that issue to deal with...so I tried to lead by example and tech deal, have a solid trade circle...things like that.

Someone thought of the children

Well really, if they did all that, then they do deserve the awards. Well done, MK you weren't nearly such an evil genius when I was there

W_A_R of Vijar and Count Rupert of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick are not big OWF posters, but both incredibly solid rulers who would be a huge boon to any alliance and who have always been very stand up in any relations I had with them. Mpol for keping FAN together deserves admiration Pingu would make my list Oh, and Vladimir Stukov II for quite a few reasons, not the least of which is having the good taste (or more likely long memory) to mention me.

Iron and Marble on black...go go go

Itsacow has oil and aluminum and is purple