Rush Sykes

For the same reason you are in Republic? I may be foolish, but we are at peace, so the 10% attacking spy strength you get really makes less sense than my -5% wonder and upkeep cost, and since neither of us are in monarchy like we should do, why are we having this discussion?

If you could see my events, you would know about my crime rate. Also, my slots have been dead roughly 1 cycle, in which I had much going on IRL, anyone who knows me knows I use my slots. In addendum, I am not looking for nation building advice, I probably forgot more than most people will ever know.

Well, I have decided that now is the time for to move on to the next chapter of my CN career. I want to thank all of my friends in TLR, especially Kestral, Elorian, Mendellav, AirMe and JGoods for all of the utterly amazing times. I hope some, or all of you join me in this move, but I will understand if you do not. Now , on to free agency. Yes, I have a list of alliances that I lean towards, but I am also open minded, if any of you would be interested in me, take this chance to convince me. I give you the only thing I can give you, my word, that I will not outright dismiss anyone based on who or where. If you are not interested in me, who could blame you. I am , after all, a surly, combative, loud-mouthed, opinionated, angry old school player who sometimes holds too tightly on to the past,. This is not likely to change. So there you have it. Let's see what happens.

A micro led by BMTH getting into a squabble because they picked a bad raid target? Impossibreu. If your damned charter says the raiders lose their ability to be defended, then WTF would they need to come talk to you before defending themselves 1st? Lets be honest, you absolutely did not mean that line of the charter. But I look at the cast of characters, and I am 0 shocked.

Further, I request Brehon and Mary be Ole and Arn Anderson.

Please, please let me be Jim Cornette and give me someone awesome to manage.

Things like this transcend the game. I wish you a speedy recover my old fri....nemesis.

Member of WTF telling people that if they dont play to win, why bother playing. Seems legit. Has it ever occurred to you that your alliance, which has given nothing to the community for years, made 0 contribution in any way shape or form to the "game", does not have one single member that has the standing to tell ANY of the rest of us how to play the game? You chose a do-nothing, play-nothing alliance, you did nothing, you played nothing. Enjoy the "fruits" of that, I do not care if DBDC and all their allies leave smoking craters of every WTF, GPA, OBR, or any other non-player in politics. I simply do. not. care.

This is a win for Polar. And all the current Valhalla apologists should be ashamed of themselves.

While what you say, in practice may be correct, I just want to point out that Thriller did not "handle the heat." They tucked tail and disbanded. So coming from you, it really is ineffectual commentary. If you do not practice what you preach, do not preach it, memories are long.

CN is a little less !@#$%* with you back. Also, I personally am very proud of the changes you have made, it has been my privilege to be close enough to watch the changes.

I literally love all of those people. Good looking crew.

So, to fulfill an outstanding debt, I am here to finally finish the last gift delivery , albeit very late, of Santa Rush for Christmas 2014. Kashmir - While nobody will confuse these guys with any of the power-players behind CN politics, nearly everyone is profoundly aware of who they are. Possessing one of the brightest creative and political minds in CN history (SirWilliam), these guys have been a refreshing change since they arrived on the scene. Many alliances have strove to be "new and different." Nobody, save these guys, have successfully accomplished it. Whether it is ticking off central members of the previous power sphere by sticking to their guns and sharing all official discourse with their entire membership, making cute elephant signatures that I personally consider homage to me (even though they are not) or simply just celebrating the fact that they are indeed different, they have achieved a status based on principle without forging the official bonds that all alliances immediately set out to forge. Most of their membership, save the esteemed SirWilliam, who will always hold legendary status within C&G gov channels, have been largely unfamiliar to me. As such, I have watched and observed for the past several months. They have a few luminaries, Margrave and Master Hakai for instance who actually do a very good job of representing and defending both what Kashmir is intended to be and what it actually is (and both are pretty damn close to the same thing.) To me, they appear to be a group of people that basically decided and acted on the philosophy that we all agree on (that this game is broken and continuing to play it the way we play it breaks it further.) I doubted, and I told SirWilliam as much, that paperless could be successful long term. He was right, I was wrong. Anyone who knows me knows that is not an easy admission for me. These guys SHOULD serve as a model to the community that trying something truly new should at least be given a chance. Sadly this community, and myself included, probably lacks the drive and energy to trailblaze, and their existence will remain as both testament to what they have set out to do, and trolling the rest of us for our lack of courage to be different. Margrave, I hope you find this suitable and worthy of what you expected from me. Until next Christmas, Santa Rush bids you all adieu.

Good luck to those who end up on my side. Burn in a fiery death to those who end up on the other side.

Within the political confines of Planet Bob, one does not need X to happen to play the political game based on the belief that Y is a fact.

Wrong is relative and subjective, I base my opinion on empirical evidence, embassy posts , past conversations and history. Leopards and spots and such (I chose this analogy for a very specific reason, not my words.)

Well at least we now know GOONS will forever support a "Roll NPO" agenda with Mr. 2007 as Co-Pilot.

As per the title... Moments that unite us.... anyone who was in any form of gov position in C&G the night that noCB kicked off, will tell you, that was a moment unmatched in this games history for the sheer spirit, loyalty and comradery that was born that evening. One of the worst rollings any group had ever endured, was still a night that will be forever regaled for the bonds that it forged.

Just what Planet Bob needs, another alliance.

9 years and still you do not boot Joracy? You never learn.

I have pretty mixed feelings here. I find DeathAdder to be a pretty decent fella, though I do not much care for Sparta. I have more friends than I can count to in Mi6, and I think very little of them as well, but looking at this as an observer, my guess is it went something like this: Between the last 2 wars, Sparta was, for the 1st time in their history, trying to make meaningful moves to cement the sphere they were a part of. They were met with tons of resistance by everyone they approached, and their treaty with Mi6 was a LARGE factor. They resigned themselves to their perdicament, fought the losing war, decided to move on. In some ways, this is to their credit. By the same token, over the course of the last several months, the folks in Mi6 have had an epiphany, and realized they needed to change their image, this too, is to their credit. There should be no reward or brownie points given to the fact that Mi6 defended them, paper and broader coalition strategies led to this much moreso than anyone in Mi6 going "Sparta needs help, lets go help them." You 2 both seem to be better off without one another, and for that you should both be happy. I, for one, am happy to see some vitriol in this cancellation, not because of my personal feelinsg towards either alliance (honestly), but because treaty cancellations need more honesty about them... and all of the "well wishing" and the "we still love you, best of luck" posts, are a total detriment to the political game. When moves are made to change political directions, you are basically telling people "we are really better off without them" and this SHOULD create more political drama. Kudos to both of you, in this case, for not honor-sucking and for letting honesty and reality flow. (I really truly do mean this to both of you)... well played.

1) MK 2) NPO 3) Valhalla (quite by accident, the noCB war was the end for NPO and friends as the community stood up and said you cannot tell people they cannot play the game) 4) LUE 5) GOOONS v1

You had played the political game shrewdly and admirably up until this paragraph. Now this paragraph does not detract from all that you have accomplished, but it does show what amounts to you taking an "honorable" and a "noble" stance that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Since the inception of planet Bob, this has been false. Every time someone with an axe to grind has those same personal and private conversation that can be spun to a political whim of their own choosing... it is only a matter of time until they use them. Using these is not a betrayal. It is a divergence of philosophy. Nearly every war in this game has begun with someone telling someone something that was never meant to be shared. The community has ALWAYS been accepting of this from day 1. You would be better suited not to give the impression that you are taking an almost "moral" stance based on political agendas and how to achieve them. I do not know what is and is not real or true about any of this, nor do I care, but your assertion here quite simply is, has always been, and will always be, incorrect. It is only despicable if you are the betrayed or close to the betrayed, and it is also only celebrated when you are the betrayer or stand to gain through the betrayer. We have ALL, without exception, been on both sides of this coin.

You must have missed Equilibrium, When the losing side , for 3+ months MASSIVELY outwarred the winning side for the only time in CN history, if you think THIS is the most poorly conducted beatdown.

One thing that has defend the great leaders in Planet Bob history, is being able to convince others that they should do something that they would a) normally not do and b) do not particularly want to do. As I said, there is no really good leadership in this game today, but Cuba and TB outclass literally EVERYONE else.