sammykhalifa
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It's pretty much a given that Beer-FF-Construction is the best combination (almost) no matter what the situation. It will make you money, which lets you get bigger, which gets you more military things.
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I agree with that, Bob. I guess it comes down to what someone wrote in this thread, that there are a few dozen people in CN that make all of the "relevant" decisions. Like you said, it probably needs to be that way. But what I find a little insulting is the accusation that if I'm not in a major alliance, I'm not helping move along the game; while the rank-and-file members of big alliances are but a pile of stats themselves--and unimportant in the grand scheme of things--just like I am.
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If 99% had no say in what happens there would be 1% of players left. If you don't like you situation, make it a better one. Nothing is holding you back, not even the ebol NPO.
It has nothing to do with the "Ebol NPO." (However, good job pigeonholing people you've never met.) Do you question that only a handful of people make the decisions in most alliances? A lot of players are just fine with logging into their nations once in a while, seeing their messages, and following what the people who are on all the time have to say. At least, they are okay with it for a while. Then they stop coming.
Others decide to make it a little more exciting and go off on their own. Then they get ridiculed for it.
Personally, I feel as if I've done plenty recently to make it exciting for myself, but that's neither here nor there.
But the majority of those not in the top 40 or 50 are completely irrelevant, and even a lot of those within there also irrelevant politically except for simple NS.eh, maybe I'm overly critical.
Well, I guess it's a good thing for those people, then, that they aren't playing this game for your entertainment but rather their own. :/
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Have fun.
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Because a single entity carries more power than the same amount of NS divided into fragments. Plus the fragments often represent a waste of people's time (both their own and others) and attention when they fail to do anything significant and merge/disband 3 mo. down the road.
Ah, I see the problem now.
Not all of us feel the need to impose our will on others. Some of us like to try something new with our friends. Doesn't seem like a waste to me.
I'd say that my NS would be going to waste if it were just more thrown in the pile of a larger alliance, so that a select few at the top can entertain themselves.
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Might as well just have a single 10 mil NS alliance rather than a 9 mil plus 5 protectorates (totaling a mil.) who follow the same path.
Why? Why's that "better?"
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It's quite tragic, actually. I think I remember the number of nations was around 32,000 when I joined CN, and now it's at, what, 28,000?
That's because about 99% of the players have no say in what happens.
But anyhow, I totally see how players have a hard time keeping track of the new alliances and such, but I fail to see how it hurts them or the game in any way. We need to remember that we had a giant war about 3 months ago, with players locked into the losing alliances for that time; so many of these new alliances have been in the works for months. There are a lot now because it is the first opportunity for many of them.
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don't start that debate! it will only end in 20 pages of round about arguing.
Also, im of the opinion that all the new alliances arn't needed, most are just there because some player wanted power and 50 lame alliances doesn't equal 1 good one.
Funny. I was just thinking that it was the players in the large alliances that feel the need for power.
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I'm looking at you SammyKhalifa
Heh. Suddenly I have lots of friends.
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I agree with not being able to send aid, but it would be nice to have the ability to sell it back or just eat it.
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As somebody who was "Small" with little political power. I had for more enjoyment of the game back when there were fewer alliances.
It's hard to explain to people who weren't around back then, but it really was much, much more fun.
I've been around long enough to know some of it.
But I don't think it's less fun because there are more alliances.
I think there are more alliances because it's less fun.
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I'm speaking as an observer, Sammy.
I spent 5 months as an unligned watching politics back when there were 10 notable alliances max.
Now? There's close to 50.
I hear you. Could it be that the average player feels lost in the larger ones? Maybe people felt like they were no longer playing for their own enjoyment but for someone else's.
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Perhaps the question should not be why we have more and more small alliances, but rather why more and more players are choosing to not join the large ones.
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Because tons of little alliances makes the politics of this game suck mroe.
Many of the rank-and-file of the larger alliances have no say in the politics of this game anyhow.
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Have your eyes been open? It's the cookie-cutter effect. You can churn out fifty alliances that are all nearly-indistinguishable and bring nothing at all new to the table, only depersonalise interactions between alliances and provide the big boys with some cannon fodder.
You know, I respect a lot of what you say. But what's the difference between that and just joining an existing alliance of several hundred? Is having one or two alliances of a thousand people really better than having many alliances of just a few people but doing things the way they want? Would it really be more "personal" if everyone joined a big-box Wal-Mart alliance? You might be right about the dozens of nearly-indistinguishable alliances, but is a player in one of these alliances more or less of an individual than those players that join random top-20 alliance x?
I guess it's what you want to make of it. Personally, I don't feel the need to sway hundreds of others, or be the center of attention or whatnot. I'd rather be in a group where I know and care about everyone as they hopefully do me. To me, that's not bringing nothing to the table.
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This is the greatest thing to ever happen in the history of things.
Congratulations to TCB!!!
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if they want to make a real change, no rerolling, if you quit your done. this will stop the people who reroll every time they get beat down.. I know of one person who rerolled with 7 nations.
Um, why?
They want MORE people to play. Not fewer.
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TriCom's been busy.
Excellent.
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Keep an eye out for cardboard pirates:
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GO BOXES!
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It seems to me that if the larger alliances don't allow techraiding, it's because there's no need. They can get the blood lust out of their system from the curbstomp wars, and at the same look like the good guys when they say they don't allow tech raiding. Smaller alliances don't have that option.
I don't like the practice myself, so I'm glad they don't. I am a big fan of "Live and Let Live," and I don't like the idea of ruining someone else's good time if they don't want to be involved in that sort of thing.
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TriCom is good people.
I wish I had known about this before, though. :/
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Haven't made enough threads lately, have you?
Troll.
The post was entertaining. That's what I'm normally looking for in--oh, I don't know--a GAME.
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What would "my" or "our" agenda be then? I'm trying to play the game while having fun and trying to remain respectful to everyone. This doesn't mean i (or the GGA) agree with everyones opinion, or that i (the GGA) is a behemoth which crushes everyone who doesn't agree with them.
Well, "your" agenda would be to remain on top, of course (sorry to lump you in with anyone else that you associate with ingame, but you know what I mean). Nothing wrong with that. I'm not going to say that GGA is a puppet or any of those things because it isn't true. You're forming your allegiances to further alliance.
You have to see how the presence of such a giant bloc of power as you're in doesn't exactly help anyone outside though. I'm glad to hear that you try to be respectful of everyone and I believe and respect that, but I'm sure you see that not everyone that speaks and makes decisions for you does. Your group can and does impose its will on the rest of the world--and in this case, I'm part of "the rest of the world." And besides, CN would be a heck of a lot more interesting if we had several factions duking it out instead of what we have now.
Regarding Vox Populi and why you fight
in Open World Forum
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This thread has taken a decided turn for the stupid. It was more entertaining when discussing the OP.
Anyhow, nice speech. It was a good read. It's the same sentiment that most warriors have while going into battle, though. Very few fight wars thinking they are the bad guys.