Yevgeni Luchenkov
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A smart move. The era of large blocs is over.
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My reaction to this has already been leaked.
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Just seems a bit silly to have a trial process if you caught the guy red handed. If on the other hand there is a presumption of innocence, why are you inflicting damage on a nation that hasn't been convicted of a crime?
Bob has spoken the truth but I'll reiterate:
We have considerable evidence that he was the spy. Enough to justify preemptive action on his nation. Had we confronted him first, he could have done two things: escape to (OOC: peace mode) or attack other Paradoxians. The damage we have done so far is limited. This is a very complex case. Suffice to say, we now consider our forums secure.
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[/center]This is simply to inform the world that our election cycle has concluded and that, since no one has leaked the results or the platforms (obviously evil stuff), we have noticed we would have to do it ourselves.
Here is the new government:
Grandmaster: Yevgeni LuchenkovGrand Chancellor: Centurius
Grand Hospitaller: Salajol
Our Heptagon goes as follow:
-Bob Ilyani (elected: June 2013)-Bodvar Jarl (elected: June 2013)-Deus (elected: April 2013)-Lum (elected: May 2013)-Maladieshie (elected: May 2013)-Megamind (elected: May 2013)-SiCkO (elected: April 2013)Before I forget, we have recently had a problem with a most devious character. On June 6th, a first wave of screenshots was leaked. We took a few measures that we had hoped would solve the problem. On June 7th, another wave of screenshots was leaked. The measures we took on the 6th permitted us to find the backdoor account that was used on the 7th. There was some speculation that we still had a spy in our midst because he continued to leak screenshots for a few more days: to the best of our knowledge, nothing published after June 7th 1400 EST was leaked. We have found the culprit, our government and membership have been presented with the evidence and, since we are not entirely evil, we have given him a chance to present his defense while we maintain him in a state of anarchy. He has done so and we are now investigating his claims.Long live Paradoxia, -
Starfox, the only reason why we use Platysphere is because it is a much easier designation (and we also love all things related to the Platypus) for our group of allies than 'all of our allies'.
By the way, we also include MK and Umbrella in the Platysphere.
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Shinra, a few points.
1)It is not much harder for larger alliances to have good aid slot usage, it is as easy, if not easier. The reason why larger alliances have bad slot usage in general is simply because they generally have bad policies in place and rather incompetent government members.
2)The reason why it is easier is because most large alliances have many members in the tech selling range. Organizing internal tech selling means you get two slots filled everytime you match two nations.
3)It also means you have many people who will likely receive aid. Sending aid is easier than finding tech sellers: when rebuilding, a lot of alliances will go to 70-80% aid slot usage. The reason is simple: being told to send money to another teammate doesn't require your member to follow up on wether or not he will receive anything or if the money will be accepted.
4)NS, especially in a post-war period, grows much faster in larger alliances. Since NS growth is linear, it's much easier for your 300 members to get to 4k infra and more rewarding than it is for our 100 members to get back to 12k infra to compensate. After they reach a certain infra limit, our nations also only grow via tech. Yours grow via tech and infra for a while.
For those reasons, NS growth and aid slot usage are imperfect tools. If you want a better idea of how an alliance does, you need to look at the growth of tech per nation for a given period of time. For the month of May, in the top 20 alliances, only MK grew more than TOP in tech per nation.
I'm not calling the ODN bad. I have no problem with your alliance, aside from its needlessly hostile leadership. I think you seem to be a decent bunch, who's in the higher tier of mass membership alliances, along with Pacifica and Polaris.
Sidenote: Our aid slot usage fluctuates from 35 to 55%.
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The Platypus hungers.
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You're still around? Calling someone irrelevant when they're part of the group of AA's you're targeting to get into your sphere-
I know it's an habit for you but confusing member posts with official policies is not exactly something to be proud of.
I know you're really gleeful that we tried to get close to your alliance to the point where we offered you a treaty and now you can be all smug about it. You refused the treaty before this. Before this leaked, we were already not looking to treaty you anymore. So no, this obviously does not apply to you. We do find your alliance competent. We also hav mutual friendships. We share active embassies, where our members are seeing eye to eye on several subjects.
Gee, it's a surprise we tried to treaty you. You can now go back to making a joke about how one of our members said that you were ex-TIO jerk offs in one post in a private room in March. Or another forced joke about how we're controlling you via the Toposphere because we totally control people we try to sign ODoAPs with. That's really more relevant than months of good relations. Our entire membership was informed of our cunning and devious schemes to control you and they all joined in to act when we interacted with your members.
Seriously, I know you disliked us in specific, bc, but try to curb your enthusiasm a bit. I expected that level of schadenfreude say, from D34th or Polaris. You know, people we actually brought down in the past. Not people we liked to the point where we wanted to build a sphere with.
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Well, nice to see TOP isn't holding a grudge or anything.
I don't think it's called 'holding a grudge' when we were at war with each other about two months ago.
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Two things are funny to me about the leaks- they have a leak and can't even fix it (their admin is away on a trip or something) and the AA's/blocs they think they can make part of their Toposphere. Their have some grand delusions.
We're pretty sure we have fixed it after removing two accounts, one being a backdoor. However, the only sure way to fix it will be to have our forum host make sure it is. And that will have to wait, yes. I'm not sure it's that funny but hey, schadenfreude is always a welcome relief I suppose.
As usual, you seem to think of us as evil masterminds/imperialists. We refer to a possible 'Platysphere', not as a sphere we would dominate but as a sphere of people we hoped to call our allies. We've always had a smaller group of allies that we called a Platysphere, it dates back to the politics of 2007. This is nothing new.
I didn't think I'd have to specify this but here it goes:
The only new thing is how some people seem to selectively attach a lot of importance to what is being said in some posts and not to others, of seemingly equal value. Incase you have missed it, virtually all of the posts that were leaked were from our Chancellery. Over twenty-five Paradoxians talk in that hall. That's where we debate our FA future, short and long term goals. Many of the posts you see here are not policy, in fact they run contrary to what we have decided to do. Why? Because we generally talk about all possible scenarios, talk about the pros and the cons openly and set on a course. Some of those posts are members advocating one thing. Others contradict that. Many more others, never leaked, paint a different picture.
What seems to be the shocker, to me, is that some alliances don't actually have that kind of debate among themselves or seem to think their private posts, if selectively exposed, would be all nice and dandy.
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That's usually how NG builds coalitions...
You know, Stewie, the last time you did it, we did accomplish great things.
What I'd really like to see is TOP's response to the MK/Umb cancellation.
We're debating making our forums public.
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I think what's most sad about this is that politics have become so predictable that this is not really surprising. Back in the day, this would have had potential to be a war worthy dump.
War by whom? SF/XX taking an initiative?
Not likely to happen but hey, if they want to, they have a CB right there and we won't even deny it.
Hi Xiph, rare to see you around these days.
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It's obviously Ardus. All of his agendas get leaked. All of them.
Thanks D34th. This is a much better place to discuss our plans to take over the world.
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Pansy was a fantastic player, loved across the board.
I can't say I knew Ryxeria much.
Farewell to both. Never good to lose players.
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You've never been my cup of tea but six years is an accomplishment, no matter who it is. Congratulations and happy birthday, Invicta.
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The presence of Dilber saves the publication.
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So IRON is connect to TOP again.
As was pointed out, it already existed but yes, we're "connected". That is if you consider a MDoAP --> ODoAP --> ODP a connection. That makes us connected to quite a few people, actually.
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Yeah, terrible treaty name but fine looking treaty. Congrats to both of you, gents.
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May this new project be even greater than the sum of its parts.
To you, friends.
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It is our honor to count you as friends and allies. One could not hope for better company.
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Paperless wouldn't further anything, but stagnation and the occasional curbstomp. We have had some of the closest wars this world has seen in its history and they have happened because people were able to maneuver an existing treaty web that gave them the knowledge of who they could count on if they were able to secure X and Y tie.
People go to war because they know they have good odds of winning it. Nobody would risk a war in a paperless world: too much uncertainty. Even with proverbial spies, you'd still have half the world in the dark and that's for the well informed.
Plus, you go paperless and I'm afraid half the alliances around here would disappear, with their leaders having nothing to do, now that they cannot sign treaties.
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Ahh yes, the standard Pacifican denial tactic. :smug:
I said to a few people as the war was winding down that we'll see where NPO's strategy gets them. So far no closer to C&G, lost the IRON treaty, and AI, who stood to be a loyal spear carrier for you, semi-imploded and your man there fell from the Triumvirate. Not well so far. But hey, the post-war is young and people are distracted by other targets. You can still salvage things...maybe.
The day after the war was always gonna be their peak. They navigated their FA to temporarily unite groups that would have never been united otherwise. When war came, the delicate balance became tougher and tougher to maintain but they did their best. After the war - and literally in the last days of it - you saw signs that it was going to implode.
On the other hand, this "fall from grace" might be a paying move for the NPO, as it appears weaker and is less likely to become the next target. Staying at the top, juggling with several spheres of power, would have definitely painted them as the new kings. It's not a good position to be in.
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Everyone freaked out. It was a strategic blunder, and one that shouldn't have been made, certainly not without informing the coalition.
Now why is the TOP front getting blamed by Brehon? I would love to hear the reason...
All threads must become about TOP, even indirectly.
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Ok, glad we're not hiding that.
I mean, if people want to know who is responsible for why things happen the way they do, this post is the end all be all.
Are you just typing to type? Thank you for stating the obvious. I don't understand why these sentences were even necessary to the message you're trying to send. You can talk about how you took into account everyone's desires, but at the end of the day, every log I read pointed back to top/tlr/mk controlling coalition discussions and manipulating the web in their best interest. Yeah, other alliances appeared to be involved, or at least in the chan during coalition discussions: IRON, NG, Umb, etc, but it's undeniable it was all about you three and you three only as you just ~admitted. Clearly, you didn't take everyone's opinion into account if IRON was infact so upset about it.
It was NG, MK, TOP, IRON. Then TLR, Umbrella and others. There was a TOP-MK-IRON-NG govt channel for ages. It was even used as the initial coalition channel. I'm not sure why you're trying to be obtuse: the name of the war is the [i]Grudge War[/i] (Revenge War for us but semantics). It's obvious as to who the main concerned parties were. IRON and ourselves started a war of aggression against Polaris. It was clear as the day. Why you are acting like it's a new demonstration is beyond me.
You are correct, that would be foolish. But if they told you a few weeks in advance that they didn't want reps anymore, and then you guys go ahead with pushing for reps (the full amount that you wanted in the first place in fact), it looks as if you are completely disregarding their wishes. You surely didn't believe that we would take your first offer, so starting off as high as you did even after IRON was out of the reps talk seems unnecessary. It seems like it would slow the entire process down and keep them at war longer than necessary.
Don't get me wrong, I completely see your position here in the fact that reps were the long term plan, but at the same time, you have to look at what your allies are saying. We didn't listen to STA as well as we should have, and we paid for it. We lost what much of CN considered to be our closest ally.
When IRON changed their mind about reps, did you guys change how you went about demanding them? If you didn't, it gives the appearance of you ignoring what they want, and just going about what you had planned and what TOP wanted. If the answer is no, then whether you made the conscious decision to not change or whether it just happened, it looks like you are ignoring IRON from an outsider's perspective, and I would imagine from the viewpoint of IRON as well.IRON made it clear before the war that [i]they[/i] wouldn't take reparations but they also made it clear that they were perfectly fine with us taking some. We agreed that we wanted the ammount to be anywhere between 100k and 200k. When we opened the negotiations with you, no one was asking for an end to this war on our side. It went normally (high end offer <---> low end offer) until IRON decided that the war needed to end [i]quickly[/i]. We adjusted our demands, went with a less confrontational approach. Peace was reached rapidly. There was an unfortunate delay in gathering the signatures: Random was tough to get ahold. I imagine it was done on purpose, as you saw our negotiating position weakening quickly and probably thought about exploiting it a little bit. That's fair.
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But you didn't plan the war though. I mean, that would make it sound like you manufactured it to fit your interest at the expense of everyone else.
Not really. We planned the war. We talked with IRON and others about it for a while. We made sure other wars didn't happen. Your trap isn't one. The Grudge War served other people's interests too, not only ours. People had rivalries and wanted to see other alliances dead. Unfortunately, many treaties prevented many people from hitting who they wanted. It led to another global war not too long afterwards.
Planning a war and executing it are two entirely different things: I'm sure eQ had vastly different plans as to how the last war was supposed to unfold.
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I might have to revise my opinion of R&R if you keep doing things.