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[quote name='ironchef' timestamp='1286598878' post='2479402'] Something that was known from the day PnR was made. Reading it here just makes it that much more sad. Sorry to see you go OLFC, unlike some other split off alliances you had a true goal to be something more. Good luck to all of you and I hope you are happy in your new home. [/quote] Probably makes you really sad that we succeeded. I don't know why you're moralizing about our motivation, we wanted to do better than the group we splintered off from. I don't think that made us bad guys, and hey, they're still around and GGA folded, I guess we were better than some of your compatriots who delighted in backstabbing each other every other week. Anyways, not the point of this announcement. Shadeybob, Mydogti and Rstat set up a really cool alliance, I hope everyone had fun in it.

Wouldn't be surprised to see lots of the GGA Splinter groups start to close up shop. I know in PhR the main motivation was to stick it to them and show we were better. The joy in leadership really went away when they started completely and utterly going down in flames. Anyways, sad to see you go etc. etc. etc.

So much for the whole "two friends sharing a beer, we might be canceling but we still love each other for reals" vibe UPN was going for. What a mess.

Always nice to have great new allies.

Awesome, more NOIR is always good. 'grats.

[s]How could you !@#$%^&* coup SirDog?! I will avenge-[/s] Congrats on the new Gov!

Can't speak about OG, but I know Symphony to be pretty awesome allies. So congrats!

While respecting that many players sincerely want to keep CN prosperous, I think it's a difficult road to travel. What was fun one year may not be fun the next, people move on, new things replace the old. If the overall mechanics and experience aren't someone's cup of tea anymore, then nothing short of an incredibly huge revamp will save it, and the revamp itself will probably turn off a large portion of the existing community. Maybe a reset, maybe moving from a once-a-day update to some sort of "action points" system that replenishes a bit every hour or so would spice things up, that's just off the top of my head and may not be feasible in the least. I for one will enjoy CN while it's here and appreciate the time spent without sadness whenever it should end. Let's not spend too much time fretting over how awful things are (not this thread in particular, just a general attitude towards this entire issue of "OMG LOSING PLAYERS!")

Some of the facts that have come to light about the voting process are almost forcing me to think that this "Poll" is some sort of fun irrelevant diversion instead of universal supreme truth that will inevitably force it's winner into a humiliating disbandment. FOR SHAME MK.

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[quote name='WildeKaard' timestamp='1280855349' post='2399607'] Oooooo yeah, and then promptly left the alliance and stuck us all with the fun afterbirth. [/quote] I think Andre is right and he was smited from the cyberverse. He was more active in his latter days and ran for the Templar position if I remember correctly.

[center][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Vasnetsov_Ioann_4.jpg/200px-Vasnetsov_Ioann_4.jpg[/img] [i]I passed Russia's first laws restricting mobility of the peasantry so I can appreciate the cold-blooded ruthlessness of Nemesis membership.[/i] -Ivan the Terrible, 1565 [/center] Become a serf in Nemesis today! http://www.cn-nemesis.net/index.php

[quote name='Fernando12' timestamp='1280501335' post='2395007'] Great minds think alike, NSO has many. On the other hand both your alliances combined don't make up one. [/quote] Cool. So have anything actually interesting to say? This tough talk from everyone is lame and bores the hell out of me. We're all boring noobs at Nemesis but I thought NSO was supposed to be exciting. Do better.

[center][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/1590_or_later_Marcus_Gheeraerts%2C_Sir_Francis_Drake_Buckland_Abbey%2C_Devon.jpg/180px-1590_or_later_Marcus_Gheeraerts%2C_Sir_Francis_Drake_Buckland_Abbey%2C_Devon.jpg[/img] [i]I love Nemesis almost as much as I love hating the Spanish.[/i] -Francis Drake, 1568[/center] Choose the alliance that Zombie Francis Drake would choose. Choose Nemesis. Join here: http://www.cn-nemesis.net/index.php

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New treaty for Nemesis! http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=89794&st=0 Don't you want to be part of a group that can write such incoherent treaty clauses and still be taken somewhat seriously?!?!

It's about damn time. Glad to have Dark Fist as allies.

I'm sure that's true, and from the few interactions I've had with GGA members since this broke it did seem quite out of the blue. That one explosion of events could disband the alliance says quite a lot about the kind of precarious state it was in however.

[quote name='Byron Orpheus' timestamp='1280195341' post='2390607'] Also, let me take this moment to say how much we ex-GGAers all appreciate the vultures that have been messaging us with recruitment letters: The Conservative Underground MCXA Tetris Guru Order TORN Those are the ones I have received. Stay classy. [/quote] Maybe you shouldn't have led the GGA to a point where it's disbanded and "the vultures" could get at them. Considering it's not a merge people can go wherever the hell they want. Also, join Nemesis! Tech deals a-plenty plus deputy elections!

What's really sad is that this could have been avoided....I don't know maybe 100 different times in a 100 different ways if people could check their egos (this goes back several coups so it's not a slam on anyone in particular) But yeah, sad it wasn't, RIP GGA blah blah blah.

[quote name='Crazy Crazy' timestamp='1280168570' post='2389872'] Rickyman FTW. [/quote] This. Sad to see this cancellation, OFLC has some great people in it.

[quote name='Byron Orpheus' timestamp='1280137241' post='2389552'] Are you referring to our steadily growing strength and score up until the recent leaving? [/quote] http://www.cybernations.net/stats_alliance_stats_custom.asp?Alliance=Grand%20Global%20Alliance 6/26: 897,211 Nation Strength 7/25: 883,794 Nation Strength /me scratches his head

Throughout the life of our great world, it seems as though the tides of history are turbulent, ever shifting, ever changing. I for one would like to thank the GGA. Both in my long career there and afterwards, it has remained a constant. Never have I been left in doubt over whether or not we'd have another in a long line of moments that made you question how there could be acts so irrational or self destructive. With every "I'm happy to see Mr./Mrs. X returning the GGA to what it should be, I'm really noticing changes!", I grow worried. "Perhaps it may actually happen, perhaps these leaders won't needlessly squabble and break apart" I say to myself. But like the humble servant of consistency that it is, I am always proven wrong. Thank you once again.

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