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  1. Tevron

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    Personally I would look beyond the top 20 at this point for Leadership.  The top 20 are mostly run by players who have only ever been IA based leaders, and honestly with the current treaties between each of them.  Bob will just remain a stagnant world.

     

    We're getting to the point where large swathes of the player base are doing nothing apart from gathering stats and losing capacity to do anything.  At the same time you have super tier nations who are too apathetic to defend themselves if someone like the doombirds come calling destroying years of tech/infra growth.  And the leaders who could "do something about it" can't convince their upper tiers to blow themselves up either.  At the other end of the sphere size as well, there's a growing group of players who just ignore the current power spheres.  There is literally no reason, for any alliance who wants to be entertained in game, to grow above 130k NS, as the minute they "do something" they would immediately get knocked down by nations 3x their tech level.  So you then have the types of war that DOOMHOUSE used to play.  Each alliance peace out a certain band of nations bit by bit.

     

    CN is a nation simulator, which makes perfect sense for people and alliances to grow their nations to super large sizes.  But at this point, as mentioned with the top 20 basically all being allied to each other, it means that anyone outside that sphere who "does something" can easily get rolled by a ready made coalition of 10-15 alliances who do have nations in range. 

    SEE: NG vs FTW being a fun war that would have scratched an itch for a few months, and then getting embroiled by Oculus hitting us and keeping us in war for a year.

     

    NG has been the one alliance over the last decade who has made the most dramatic FA moves (see leaving PB, see signing NPO, see LoSS & Valhalla treaties) - not saying all of those FA moves were the best moves to make in hindsight.  But it made the game do something.  IF NG hadn't left PB, at this point we probably would have been on NPO rolling number 10.  You want inertia to get the world rolling, I am afraid it may need something that dramatic once more.

     

     

  8. Keelah

    Moderation Team Blog Opens!!

    in Moderation Team Blog

    A group blog by Moderation Team in General

    Posted

    Is there any scope for Moderator Identities to be public if they also have active nations & in fact, require that moderators use their IG personas as moderators/ game staff.

    Most other online games don't hide forum mod identities and it would mean better transparency of decisions, which in the past, have been accused of being politically driven.

  10. ChairmanHal

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    Want to be a mod, then you should be a public mod. People will know who you are.

    Hell in a ton of games I've played IG mods can't edit nations. They can just warn accounts it will be the admins who do the warning. It would also allow transparency of people being able to face and discuss with their accusers.

  15. Rush Sykes

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    Non Grata - Just a fun bunch of folks. Loyal almost to a fault, but they are developing a little bit of what ODN has (over-analysis of ALOT of things.) They are politically astute though, much moreso than most people give them credit for. They are still my favorite alliance in this game. They have almost as perpetual a target on their back as NPO does in this day and age, yet they thrive in the environment. If you have not taken the time to get to know this fine bunch, and just base your opinion on OWF rhetoric, shame on you.

    That's just steve. Rest of us are happy to go with the flow!

  19. arentak

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    Power corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

    There are various ethically orientated leaders around. I'd say I was ethically orientated. Only issue is that as I'm in a traditionally "lulz" alliance I get tarred with the same brush as everyone else.

    I do sometimes have a joke but I try and maintain the IC/OOC divide. I didn't like, for example, the Biodad saga that MK had. Parts of that just got downright nasty and there needs to be an IC/OOC divide firmly in place not only for members' sanity, but also because some people RP like this to get away from Real Life. It's like griefers in MMOs. Not everyone is like that irl but they can do it in a MMO because they are given free reign to. They like testing the limit of social and cultural borders. The fact that over time the social borders in CN have migrated echo the political and social climate in the rest of the world. Nowadays people are more authoritarian than liberal. It's very rare that active political debates are held, instead those with the power influence the entire world.

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