Gopherbashi
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4 hours ago, Stewie said:
Join NG
I'm sometimes tempted to reactivate my nation and see if I'm in bill lock yet
I'm also sometimes tempted to delete my old nation and start a new one just for the experience
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8 hours ago, jerdge said:
Gopher! It's lovely to hear from you!
Good suggestion, although just ignoring their invitations requires much less effort...
Yes but it's so much more enjoyable to actively toy with their emotions.
6 hours ago, Van Hoo X said:There's ... an application?
Also: Didn't you eventually join MI6?
Did I?.... Or was it just an incredibly involved fake application? 🤫
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On 2/14/2021 at 4:45 PM, jerdge said:
I do.
Once I would have also been again amazed at how handsome I must seem to others, as they try to have me join their alliance despite my history of being a mostly useless vocal troublemaker that isn't even nice most of the time. But now I understand that many people desperately want any new moderately alive member no matter the rest!
(Not to mention that vocal troublemakers not really very nice are also probably a good fit for NG... 😜)
Jerdge, you just have to do what I did when MI6 wouldn't leave me alone.
Troll them with fake applications.
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On 8/16/2020 at 3:22 AM, Ch33kY said:
I don't think people play CN so much as we just exist.
I just check in every now and then to see if someone's posted how many nations are left.
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Now there's an idea - the fall of nations. Not a global reset or time limit, but a randomly-generated event chain that simulates a nation's fall. Military failure, crumbling infrastructure, population upheaval. You can't predict it, you can try and fight it, but sooner or later it will happen to you. Could end up being very frustrating if executed wrong, but could also allow for some decent mobility for younger nations.
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On 9/20/2019 at 8:14 AM, kingzog said:
EDIT: Even the Mods are too busy to pay attention most of the time. Once upon a time a person who posted without having a nation would find themselves banned within minutes.
Yeah but all the cool mods like me
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On 9/20/2019 at 3:47 AM, jerdge said:
After all, you posted again: that is in itself enough a reward for this thread, at least in my opinion.
I like to come back and poke this place with a stick every now and then. Seeing if it still moves and all that.
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sup jerdge,
You wanted to know why people left CN, and I'll respond with a question of my own - what more did we hope to get out of the game? What more did we hope to accomplish, and would it be worth the time & effort required to achieve it?
All the big names who have left would probably have seen everything the game had to offer. We'd won wars and we lost wars. We'd (hopefully) bounced back from defeats, and we'd been knocked down after victories. We'd probably done every type of work imaginable within an alliance. We'd optimized our nations, built to optimal infra, amassed warchests that would put Google to shame. If we were lucky, we found a tech and trade circle that didn't fall apart every month - and those who were really lucky found someone with five brothers to be part of it. We'd had countless arguments about dumb, inane things both within and outside our alliances, and seen the RL/CN line crossed far too many times. We'd stayed up until 1 AM just to hit F5 forever and then have 25 nukes blocked in a row.
So, I ask you - what more did the game have to offer? What else would we want to achieve, knowing that most things had already been done, and the things that hadn't would require far too great an investment of time and effort for even a minimal chance of succeeding? At a certain point, you know that you don't have any more goals or any more experiences to get out of the game, and logging in every 20 days becomes a futile exercise.
You also start to realise that, even if there were things you wanted to accomplish, your time spent on this game can no longer be a priority. Everyone is in the same boat - we're all a decade (or more) older than we were when this started - and our ability to commit the required effort to accomplish our goals reflects that, especially when there's a diminished payoff because no experience is new anymore. There may be a small hope that someone else will take up the mantle, but we lose interest if no one does.
In all honesty, I feel like you (ironically) summed this up quite nicely in your OP:
On 8/9/2019 at 11:44 AM, jerdge said:I for one am certainly not going to be the prophet.
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It's all Chim's fault.
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On 5/12/2017 at 6:22 AM, The Big Bad said:
Why leave now? What kept you here this long?
The "Hey, you're at 21 days" email was a good trigger. Might as well just accept it.
I have a trade partner from 2008. Wanted to keep that going just because I could.
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On 5/12/2017 at 5:21 AM, berbers said:
Did Mi6 give you a few extra years of activity or did it not make a difference?
Probably gave a few extra years of activity - gave me something to do in this game rather than log in and collect taxes every few weeks.
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On 5/10/2017 at 10:22 PM, Lord Hitchcock said:
You were so active in maintaining awesome stats, why did you play the middle-of-the-road character during your tenure? I almost think you played the 'neutral' card more than you wanted to... I mean, if you're going to go out, get some loads off your chest. I know there has to be some F-bombs lurking in there somewhere...
Because I'm far more of a bureaucrat or administrator than a diplomat - I never had the desire, patience, or skill to play the political game.
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My nation is probably at around 27 days inactive by this point, and I don't think I'm going to log in to save it this time. My apologies to Power, who has been my trade partner since 2008.
Since I've been around for a long time and have done (way too much) stuff here, some people might want questions answered before I leave. Feel free to ask whatever you want and I'll see what I can remember about it.
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On 5/1/2017 at 0:35 AM, smurthwaite said:
It is so easy:
TBC transcripts
Members - we're bored. Let's attack somebody.
Gov - OK, who?
Members - Lets list every AA that has ever slighted us individually, personally, metaphorically, spiritually, absentmindedly, politically, psychologically...
Gov - um...
Members - Let's continue our list...irritably, self-righteously, asininely, morally...
Sounds like my cat, all right.
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The Purge of Maroon.
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Why is NADC being forced off of blue?
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On 7/31/2016 at 3:26 PM, MrGed said:
Yay Gopherbashi!
I left a question for you on the MI6 forums.
It would help if I knew what my password was
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AW YEAH FAN
I WAS PULLING FOR YA BUDDY
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Liga Mundo is a fantasy soccer league exclusively for CN players where you can create, manage, and challenge others with your very own soccer team through Xpert Eleven.
We're currently looking for two people to join the league & take over existing teams for the upcoming season, which starts in mid-July.
If you're interested, please contact either myself or Botha. (Even if you don't think you'd be good, I guarantee you'd be better than a computer opponent)
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I think I've heard of 17 or 18 before, so I wouldn't be surprised with 20. I think my personal best (worst?) is around the 12-13 range as well.
Honestly, if I miss the first two, I'll try someone else or click around a few screens for a bit (just in case there is some "reset" that happens). If I don't get it within a couple of tries after that, I normally hand it off to someone else or just give up.
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Or he's trading with people not on orange.
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Hi all, looking for someone to fill this trade again.
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Thanks lover
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Message me if you can help.
Anyone around from the Old Days?
in Open World RP
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If that doesn't boil CN down to a single statement, I don't know what does.