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.

When people decide to play again. Right now all of the top alliances have decided to call it a 30-way tie (See sig). Imagine getting together with your friends to play Halo, Risk or any game you like and all of you deciding to not make any moves just so no one has to lose. Sounds insane and defeats the entire purpose of playing a game but this is what passes for "politics" here.

This wouldn't really change anything, just a (very transparent) way to try to lose the negative stigma of ZI/PZI/EZI/etc. Just keep killing the game and quit trying to hide it with e-lawyering. PoP? Give me a break.

How does my posting here implies relevancy? By that standard Vox and MCXA are the two most relevant alliances on Bob.

It doesn't really help. Now Q not only looks like it was weak opsec but also like it's extremely paranoid of Sponge's "masta hacka" skills. Next thing they'll suggest Sponge snuck into Dilber's office (OOC: room) and got on his computer.

Valhalla is not doing a good job educating their members. Sponge clearly hacked Q. Evidence? Vladimir speaks on behalf of the Emperor and The Emperor's word is inherent truth. Cased closed.

NPO only associates with you because they have a liking for submissive little meatshields. (OOC: Ghosting, btw)

I don't question his friendship to both. I question his desire to associate himself with garbage.

Why LoSS, New Reverie? From anti-NPO hero-then-disappointment to NPO cheater-in-chief and now protectorate to one of the more irrelevant Pacifican boot-licking group of sycophants on Bob AKA the trash can. Pathetic.

My personal guess is that this information is spread by some Q higher ups in one of those "social" channels. )): #Cupcakery )):

I'm not sure why they're pushing this hypothesis. In the "Spy in the top 3" scenario Q is the victim of either a traitor or a very well orchestrated infiltration. In Vladimir's scenario, in which there's a proliferation of Q classified information to people outside of that top 3 then Q suffers from systemically bad operational security, which Vox simply exploits. A traitor or a skilled infiltrator can eventually be removed, if your organization is just plain leaky then it'll be really hard to stop the flow of information. Also it speaks very badly for the character of Q leadership since presumably they're not supposed to be spreading classified info around to people without access and who could potentially leak it to enemies. OOC: If the issue is one of hacking the boards, multiple people accessing an account or some other breach of forum security, I would assume it would have been a one-time thing since whoever owns the board generally has the information available to trace such things.