Yevgeni Luchenkov
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there we go, so HoT is in the ok by RIA for attacking EvU, albeit by stretching the situation.
I think we should all learn from this and use mass team colour sanctions as a real part of war. Just for the entertainment of the fallout.
I'm sure RIA can post a proper declaration of war if it is the case.
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Two solutions, HoT.
1)Ask your government to do a formal recognition of hostilities with EvU, on your behalf.
2)Assume the fact that you are a rogue.
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Agree with Salajol. For me, it was BiPolar. For the game, possibly Karma, as it was the first massive, complete and abrupt change of power. For newer players, Equilibrium is probably their much less satisfying version of it.
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I'm just saying that it's silly of you to say that you're kicking ass in the lower tier considering you got knocked down there pretty hard.It's not silly. I'm kicking ass in the lower tier. I got knocked down hard because of an anomality: at 50k NS, I got DoWed on by a guy with 13k tech. Alone, he is responsible for 90% of the damage my nation received and that includes 11 other opponents.
When I got out of PM, I also expected to go down to the lower tier. That was the plan. To fight where I knew I'd kick ass. But hey, even on the first cycle of wars, when I got DoWed by that 13k tech guy (with all of my 3.4k tech), I did exactly 74k damage and took 37k myself (34k of that coming from Link's nation). Look at the damage I'm taking at the moment. Your guy asks how we doing in the lower tier. Not how I did in the middle tier.
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Oh, and your $1B warchest and your over 50% tech loss. Yes, please tell us more about how well you're doing.
Right. But my nation never grew above 45k NS, so to speak, I started this with 1.2bn. I beefed up to 50k NS when I first DoWed and I lost all my tech to this gentleman above you, Link, who DoWed on me with 13k tech, an anomality that wouldn't have happened normally (but I grew 7k during my first days of war) so he was able to down declare on me.
I still see you got a raging one for us, though, Otter. Hopefully this war gives you a chance to evacuate all that pent up rage that you got regarding TOP. You know, for all the atrocious crimes we've committed against Argent, or something.
I'm still doing quite fine. A billion, at 15k NS, lasts for months. I don't really expect to see another 13k tech nuke turret DoW on me at this level (I still outdamaged my opponents during that war cycle because of the six to one ratio of nukes I could drop, including 4 SDI-less targets). Also, 3k or 1.5k tech, the difference isn't exactly massive. In terms of damage, it's probably even better that I am at 1.5k tech because the folks countering me got no SDIs which really maximize the damage I do.
It was more of a tongue-in-cheek comment because we don't really have a lower tier to speak of but hey, feel free to really get angry about it. :)
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I'm doing fine, thank you. Could wage war for another few months without turtling. I do appreciate that you guys take time to throw me a few SDI-less nations every cycle. It's real cool.
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At least Rush's thread is relevant.
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Could you provide examples of active (read: fighting) nations with WRCs who are close to 500 tech or less?
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quite true, if people are unwilling to put forth the communication revenge seems to be the only way to fix things.
Think of it this way: My little brother was a pest. I could try to talk things out with my little brother - which generally ammounted to nothing - or I could beat him until I felt satisfied and no longer angry. Digiterra is a lot like that.
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did you ever consider talking to, well, just about every single alliance that is currently in Eq, in order to try to fix all the bad blood you've caused? I mean talking with your allies is understandable, but I'm actually surprised you didnt behave more proactively to try to prevent this.
At some point, there is only so much you can fix. War is, by far, the best way to mend broken relations on Digiterra.
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Why are people bashing GOONS for prefering to keep their alliance as a lower-mid tiered one? If your argument is that wars aren't won in the upper tier, they aren't won in the middle tier either. Keeping a lower tier AA can be useful - and has been very useful, indeed. It's not like your side isn't doing it; many alliances on your side prefer to have their new members do tech deals rather than send them aid, creating the same kind of gap.
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In the declaration, yes, of course. Which I'm still okay with, because then we're Tormund "Look at my massive member" Giantsbane and Mance Rayder. Both of whom are better than the Baratheons, who are fat (Robert), prickly and unlikeable (Stannis) and of course, flamingly homosexual (Renly).
But throughout the thread the references have been more towards Targaryens.
When you have mammoths and giants at your disposal and can't even win battles, it's time to retire and let the real men play the game of thrones.
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I'm extremely torn on your alliance, EvU.
As a principle, I am opposed to MLP-themed alliances, as I hope TailsK has relayed. However, you do seem to be at least somewhat competent and HoT is calling you traitors.
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Welcome to the battlefield, Hooligans!
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I never said it'd be that great of a fighter. I said it could do it.
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How many of those times did you immediately buy back up. How much tech did you have each time.
Keep in mind -- You could very well have been engaged over 60-70% of the time in unfavorable conditions in the past 4-5 global war (although highly unlikely,) and you would still be the exception to the rule.
It's not difficult if you manage to keep your nation alive and have an ounce of dedication once every ten days for 4-5 years. I wouldn't say it makes someone better than someone else for simply existing and having developed under more favorable conditions with more tools.
I still find it humorous that some people have the inferiority complex about them about having to defend their large nations. Congratulations! Universally recognized game mechanic problems allow you to do an obscene amount of damage and then buy back like it was a mosquito bite after the way down.
I just wouldn't expect people who have been sitting at 100-300k ns for the past several years to be able to deliver the greatest insight on how you can go from 0 - 70k ns , 16 wonders and a billion dollar warchest in a year and a half, and if you can't, you might as well not be playing - you're terrible etc.
The last part was from me. I didn't say you're terrible. I said you were probably either making the choice not to grow or probably lacked the discipline to get tech deals every 10 days religiously. There is also a part that plays in how you build up your nation, even though people seem to say everybody got it all figured out. When to buy which wonder, etc. I've seen many models and they're definitely not all the same or as good as the others.
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I'm getting a kick out of Yev as he disses anyone who doesn't have a lot of tech and brags on his nation development skills. He is 1500+ days old, with 1800 tech and all aid slots empty.
You can go back one page before and read, from my own posts:
"Some people choose to voluntarily stay small."
I'm one of them. I fought to ZI in the LSF-NoR war, not very long ago. I'm also fresh out of PM. I couldn't use my slots before, as I was in PM. I can't import technology right now. My warchest, while more than decent for a 20k NS nation, is around a billion.
I understand you have no experience of prolonged warfare as any kind of commander - or experience as anything but a moralistic mouthbreather - but if you want your nations to fight for a long time, you need to prepare for it. If you had made the same argument during peace time, it maybe would have mattered. Unfortunately for you, save for episodes of inactivity because of RL, I never leave my slots open.
My nation is small because I like it that way. I like that I'm able to fight in every conflict. That I can go on a crusade if I want to, rogue at my pleasure and still rebuild easily.
Now, back to your hole.
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Hail Dilber!
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I was under the impression that you guys were invite only? So you invite noobs and build them up from day one?
It's a very sweeping generalization that you make, but are the vast majority of the nations in the "Competence Coalition" native to their respective uber alliances? I'm not taking anything away from those individual ruler's nation building abilities, or even the efficiency of those same uber alliances to accelerate the growth of an already motivated and experienced member, but to put down the majority of us that play a less regimented game is a pretty broad brush.
(I'm someone who has stayed small throughout my entire CN career, first because it was part of the deal in an MP program we had, but then because it seems like rogues tend to be small and I like to fight. Just to fill in your impromptu survey.)
I never implied my generalization applied solely to your side. There are plenty people bad at building nations, hell even among our own ranks in Paradoxia. Elite alliances do attract the best (large category), as a general rule, but it's by no means a sure thing. Since BiPolar, we've been really less than spectacular in slots use, to my great regret.
We don't recruit, you're right, but we do invite friends and esteemed adversaries to join our ranks if they seem interested. We also have several rerolls joining us. Back then, we had people from the Paradox Interactive forums. We still get a few per year.
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Uh. No. That's completely false and ignorant.
When you have nations who have full wonder sets at 5k ns fighting nations without MP's, SDI's, you can have years of work erased in a couple of rounds of war.
Did you even read what I wrote? I added a part that said: "unless you're less than 500 days".
In 500 days, you have the time for 16 wonders. I don't know how you build your nations but the way we do it in TOP, not a single one of those months is wasted. Wonders every month. What you mean is that a 500 day old nation, sitting at around 70k NS, might get wrecked AND might not have the warchest to rebuild what was lost. It'd be a shame if he didn't have a billion or so saved up by then but it is possible. Then again, my point was simply to point out that people (e.g: most alliances out there, save for a few) have had the conditions to build upper tiers. They're just not dedicated OR make the choice not to go above a certain mark.
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Your slots are limited.
Agreed. I keep referring to IRON :P
The only reason you have tech bloated nations, is because you've avoided full blown war forever.
When this war ends and everyone begins to rebuild, I know for sure alliances such as my own will bounce back to the top because we know how to really rebuild (see karma, bipolar). Can the same be said of your side?
We have many nations above 10k tech. We would have many above 15k but our people got lazy. We didn't dodge massive wars. What's your point?
There are three reasons why you cannot get above 70k NS (sort of top tier) at this point:1)You voluntarily stay small, prefering to fight in the lower tiers, never buying too much infrastructure.
2)You are new on CN (less than 500 days or so but you can reach it within a year, I assure you).
3)You are either incompetent or lazy, lacking discipline to get your tech deals going.
Most of CN falls in the second and third categories.
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to the underlined, you don't really grasp exactly how hated DH is.
I do grasp how hated Doomhouse is. You don't seem to grasp how inter-bloc dynamics work in a multipolar world. I also outlined various reasons for why the enthusiasm for this war will wane: inter-alliance politics, the desire to move forward in a different world (other alliances' FA are generally stuck on 'we'll see post war'), alliances not fighting hatred opponents, the damage inflicted being less and less significant, a sense that your objectives have been met, etc. If this war was nothing but the initial five vs Umbrella, you might have a point.
My bet would be that by the end of April, we'll be at peace.
@Branimir: I may have quoted you but I was actually using a broader "you", addressing some of the talking points used by your coalition, not necessarily yourself. I apologize for the confusion.
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Never thought I'd see the day where I agreed with AlmightyGrub.
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We have been more then clear about our grievances. They are well documented. I wouldn't say we were dicks to you, if not for anything else then for the simple fact we couldn't even if we wanted to, but coupled with the fact you didn't listed one incident caused by us in this relationship.
Yes, oh we have a grudge but it literally has nothing to do with "karma". As I already painfully clearly put it, we have allies that were on the other side in that war. Why would we be picking specifically you to held on a grudge from that time and not all the rest. You weren't our arch enemy from that time, not the primal instigator, not the main player, MK was. There is nothing special why we would hold a special grudge against you over "karma", while with others trying to mend things and moving forward. It makes no sense, even as a propaganda talking point when standards are naturally low.
This war was started by an incident involving AI and you. Not us and you. This is not an NPO started war. We are not the only ones pointing out your behavior towards others and ultimately taking a stand.
But as said, lets go back to talking about numbers and shooting at stuff.
As I already posted, and as it is clear to anyone looking at the situation. This war is complex, sides not monolithic, specially not the one which is larger. Resulting in various fronts, with different realities attached to them, different visions and different reasons.So, alliances here in play, on both sides, are there for many a other reason then Umb. For many, Umb isn't an issue at all. They aren't there for 7k tech minus per day for Umb. So what you bring out is irrelevant. They have their own reasons.You needed to formulate that, if other reasons people have in this war are satisfied, people fighting this war over Umbrella actions may be left to peace out.But there are some propaganda mistakes here made. Like calling your side Competence. Keep trying to rub in peoples faces your supposed superior quality over the other side. It just makes the other side more persistent to fight you, to deny you that claim if from nothing else then out of spite.Ultimately we will see how this will play out.People are at war because of opportunities and treaty obligations. To take down Doomhouse - especially Umbrella, for some of you - was one. It seems that others wanted a piece of Non Grata. Others yet came for C&G. I'm sure a few would have loved to take a shot at us in Paradoxia but I doubt they're actually fighting us. Maybe TPF, who knows,
What I am saying is that I don't think anybody hates their current opponents enough to justify several months of continued warfare and treaty obligations work a lot like favors. Currently, many of them are doing one for you. But the time will come when more and more of them will start telling you to find a peace settlement. Maybe because they're tired of the war themselves. Maybe because they see new opportunities. Maybe because you're not really damaging your enemy anymore and it all seems pointless. Probably a mix of that.Again, if you think we'll still be in this war come september, you're deluding yourself.
Upper Tier Tracking Thread
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Thanks for the numbers, Shinra.
Argent did its share of fighting on our front, they just have the luxury to cycle and let others hit us, except in the very upper tier (or what's left of it) where there's just not many nations left period. Normal strategy, there's only so many slots to go around.