Jake Erics

Just like NTO wasn't /b/ right? When Carpe Diem plasters these forums with shock images "for the lulz" NSO will look rather silly for allying with them.

Bad choice, NSO. Allying with /b/ 3.0? Insane.

Vladimir is dead wrong, it's not that nukes are a deterrent is that they aren't. Countless alliances have unloaded their arsenals and the targets took it in stride. The NPO has been a victim of the two best coordinated nuclear wars (MK, FAN) yet here they are, all nukes do is slow down the winner a bit. If nukes were a true deterrent then all sides would have to play politics, since even an outnumbered opponent could take you down with him.

HRT is a sell out, pusher of unfunny memes and an all around waste who takes orders from an ephebophile. Any questions?

NEWHAWTNESS sure loves tech raids.

Nukes are not a deterrent because alliances who shoot them then get on their knees and take it from the alliance they just nuked. See: Pulling an Archon. If Citadel is ever rolled I expect them to cause hundreds of billions in damages then promptly pay a million units in tech as reps.

Order shall return.

The formation of The Initiative. It gave us the model for the hegemonic bloc, the dominant institution of our time. It ended the multi-polar world and from its ruins we got the Pacifica/Polaris conflict and The Continuum.

OOC: I mentioned nothing OOC in that post. Last time I checked BigWoody and The Emperor of the NPO only exist in the IC realm. IC: Calm down, Chicken.

TORN is easy, offer BigWoody some teen girls. NPO... may his Imperial Highness have mercy on you.

JB is my broker.

I hope so. I'm not expecting you guys to be some grand crusaders or take anyone down. But I do think you have the unique opportunity of showing Planet Bob a new way of doing things. You have leaders in your ranks that when they speak people listen, chief among them is Ivan Moldavi but many more.

Yeah I was on the edge of my seat wondering who'd win that war. That aside, Vox's purpose, tactics and goals have change and evolved just like any other group.

What? Seriously, what? So the root cause of the stagnation is the fact that certain leaders no longer like posting on OWF?

NSO is a very interesting experiment. It's full of very successful leaders (OOC: players) some of which held a lot of power then eventually lost it, others who simply walked away from it (See: Heft). My theory is that they achieved this power by playing the suck up tea-party politics that have been imposed by folks like Dilber upon us. A style that I would be shocked to see Ivan Moldavi follow. Perhaps I am wrong and these folks really did get their former power and titles on merit and NSO will succeed. If not then I can finally proclaim with total confidence that in CN the factor that determines success is how big an $@! kissing conflict-avoiding suck up to the hegemony elites you are. I hope I am wrong and NSO prospers and perhaps shows us an alternate way of doing business here on Planet Bob.