Ogaden

I'm CN-old enough to remember when 20 days of bills was considered a decent warchest lol

I've been here for 5 years and I don't know who that is hahaha

good luck Rey

Congrats to our friends in IRON and also hi SOM

You don't have to leave, just stop posting threads every day. Start one alliance, recruit people (not here, recruit your friends or message new nations to join), create tech deals and trade circles, grow to be a significant force, make significant political decisions, achieve some measure of military readiness and relevancy, then maybe people will actually listen to you.

From the sounds of things, a lot of these alliances should be protectorates themselves, not signing protectorates. If you can't defend yourself from a raid, you're not ready to be out in the world on your own yet.

You sold your honour so cheaply, all for a little bit of infrastructure. I feel sorry for you. Infra is Fleeting

Frostbite returns

I thought GOD was cancelled before that? It also allowed them to extricate themselves from C&G without the acrimony usually associated with leaving a bloc.

Spheres are intellectual constructs that are the manifestations of uncountable personal relationships of trust between alliances and individual leaders of those alliances. Ultimately, every alliance is their own sphere.

Well there goes the one reason to have offensive improvements

The extra damage from munitions factories is only to infra, and bunkers only protect from infra damage, so these are a bit useless but whatever The Forward Operating Base could be valuable to raiders, since it effectively increases their loot by 25% with all 5, especially combined with the propaganda office which makes it easier to get past soldiers.

Cybernations is serious business, where is the 11 on the scale

"The board administrator is no longer accepting any new registrations at the moment."

Obvious to you and I perhaps, but you would be surprized

I just figured it out, Loki is the CN equivalent of the Sovereign Citizens. "I don't need to show you my drivers license, I don't recognize the US government"

So, human nature then

And what system would that be, people defending each other? Tech deals? Not deliberately losing wars?

Imagine for a moment that all treaties worldwide were cancelled, and there were no treaties compelling action between alliances. Thus, we have removed the treaty web! Now wars should be fun! Into this void, Alliance A decides to attack Alliance B. Alliance A is much larger than Alliance B. Alliance B, who have known alliances C and D for years, will most certainly lose the war, and Alliance C decides that Alliance A are being jerks, and declares war on Alliance A for declaring on Alliance B. Alliance D decides that Alliance C was right and also attacks Alliance A. Alliance A also has old time friends in Alliances E and F and agreed that Alliance B deserved to be rolled, so they declare war on Alliances C and D for attacking their friends. So we have an escalating alliance war. Perhaps it won't escalate as rapidly or orderly as one from treaties, but it's looking pretty darn similar already. The "treaty web" is actually a web of trust and relationships that exist between alliances and have for donkeys years. The difference is that in CN, we publicly announce our relationship with other alliances rather than it being a private thing, so war is somewhat more predictable and manageable. Removing the treaty web would not actually make wars smaller or prevent them from escalating so quickly, but they would make wars more unpredictable with a higher error rate in coalition planning. Wars escalate because alliances expect their friends to defend them when they are attacked. Almost every modern treaty has a non-chaining clause, so in these hugely escalating wars, the treaty web is not actually causing the escalation, since all those escalated declarations are effectively optional defense, due to chaining. They defend because it's their friends, not because of the treaty. The reason why wars are so lopsided is very simple. No-one sets out to start a war they will lose, before pulling the trigger and starting a war, coalitions try to ensure victory before it starts, otherwise why on earth would you start the war. Making the situation more uncertain and unclear just means that coalitions will now "factor in" the uncertainty, and the only wars that would occur are ones where it is a complete curbstomp. The reason for this hesitancy is that losing a major war can set your alliance back years, sometimes never to recover.

The CN world is constantly changing, just not the way you want

I liked it, props dude I look forward to the next episode

I remember when you and I started together in Alpha battalion 5 years ago. Our paths took us in very different directions, man. I always respected you Farrin, I hope Emeritus treats you well.

Isn't there already one of these?

Guys, I suspect foul play with this alliance tbh

Someone bought 9k infra and 7k land, that'll do it