[Blah Blah Map 23-01]

I find war maps essential to trying to work out what's going on. Thanks!

[The BiPolar Myth: What I Should Have Published 174 Day Ago]

Thanks for this. Excellent read. I actually left Polar after the war because of their conduct and this all re-enforces what many rank and file thought was going on at the time.

[why is 99% of the fun only going to 1% of the gamers?]

Just the way the game works, and most games like CN work.

Frankly if there is an 'elite' willing to put the time and effort in and i'm not, they deserve to have the fun, and i don't. Of course yeah it would be nice to know more, but i'm not willing to put that sort of commitment in.

[Surrenders]

I always thought it was interesting how few people surrender. When you think about an alliance of 200+ people, they can't all be that convinced of their alliance's plight.

That's a bloody good point, but one of the unique things about CN is a large player base, large alliances and only about say 2% of the players actually having any influence. The rest of us choose an alliance based on RL friends / the colour scheme / becuase they asked first and just go along with what they say. Once your in and that, leaving seems pretty bad. Plus as we all know once you lost a few hundread infra losing the rest ain't so scary.