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  1. Declaration of We have arrived at Bob (existence). Declaration of War. The Flying Kiwis.

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    Judging by their NS - specifically, their tech - it'll be a while before they're in our lower tier and they're going to hit every branch on the way down.  It won't take long before they're re-buying infra to keep in nuke-purchase range; it's the piles and piles of tech they have that will take the longest to remove.  And when they do enter our lower tier - they won't pose the threat they do now, and it is neither expensive nor difficult for Polaris' mid and upper tiers to keep lower-tier nations in the fight monetarily.  Our new recruits are in the least danger (the average new recruits is 1k or 2k NS) from these guys.  It also probably won't be hard to find nations willing to sell down on some infra to feed the Kiwis nukes when that time comes, but we'll cross that bridge when and if we get there.

     

    Wes the Wise will reach your lower tier pretty quickly...he'll probably be down in the 25-30k range within a couple rounds. However, are few alliances with the sheer numbers of small nuclear-armed nations that NpO possesses; you could have 2-3 nations on him in that range for months without any one nation fighting him for more than a round, if so desired. 

  7. Sengoku, have some honor.

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    You do realise that after provoking MI6 and then having Myth openly spy on them that it is Seppuku who will look toothless if they do nothing?

     

    At times like this, let us all remember that the power to heal is within reach of all of us. An eye for an eye leaves everyone without cruise missiles. 

  8. Sengoku, have some honor.

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    In before random people start spying MI6 and Sengoku in order to make them think each other did it. 

     

    I rely on the honour of the global community to leave my cruise missiles alone. It would be a travesty if, say, my daily allotment of spy slots were filled with 'destroy CM' attacks from now until the end of this world. 

  11. Building Bridges

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    [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_bread_mold]Rhizopus Stolonifer[/url].

     

    First, the name itself is excellent; using classical languages never goes out of style, and Rhizopus Stolonifer has some seriously strong syllables to boot. Rhizopus Stolonifer sounds like it either ignites or crushes a slave rebellion. Rhizopus Stolonifer suggests that it has debated with the greatest philosophers the world has ever known, and bested them. Wave your magic wand and cast Rhizopus Stolonifer and the evil warlock will be banished from the lands forever. Rhizopus Stolonifer just does work.

     

    Second, because it's the name of a substance that already represents much of what SNX stands for. Like SNX, Rhizopus Stolonifer is generally harmless but unsightly, and you are probably best off limiting exposure. And ultimately, once both have gotten their roots established, you're probably best off throwing both away and starting fresh. 

  20. Wars Ought To Have Meaning

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    RP and the treaty web weren't really connected concepts long before DBDC. It's weird to say they're destroying it when it's been dead and buried for years now. The fact of the matter is the reason things like raider/antiraiding divide never really took root was because they in themselves weren't self sustaining enough to generate two full sides. A large enough pool of participants just did not care enough or find it interesting enough to perpetuate. Antiraiding alliances were always willing to sign treaties with alliances that did raid. Alliances that were against harsh terms were always willing to support alliances that imposed them.

     

    I don't know if that's a failure to RP so much as a failure of RP. As a community, we've always chosen political expediency over grandiose principle. Alliances that make that choice win wars and get to decide how to continue imposing their will over others. Natural selection has taken over.

     

    On the raiding/antiraiding thing: grew up in an alliance that had a staunch anti-radiing bent, and that's precisely the reason why we discovered that it made for an inadequate raison d'etre; alliances don't sort themselves by ideology in this game, but rather by more immediate interests. Raiders ally non-raiders; 'serious' alliances ally less restrained ones. Looking for a grand overarching narrative for any given war is purposeless, because most coalitions are comprised not of two dichotomous ideals of the world, but rather several dozen narrowly-focused short-and-medium-term goals. 

  21. Wars Ought To Have Meaning

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    You are confusing front DoWs with the war writ large. Each DoW need not have a meaning, because it's impossible (and pointless) to have a coalition war in which each individual front need have some greater truth attached. That's like looking at an individual piece of a jigsaw puzzle and bemoaning that it's just a few splashes of colour, without recognizing that it's in fact a part of a greater whole. That greater whole is probably Scooby Doo's left leg or something, but the point remains. 

  22. TSC front peace

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    Where can I see the stats of this war?  Also, congrats to all the parties.

     

    ~1.3m damage taken by TSC, 826k damage inflicted; both very high numbers relative to their size and the duration of the war; stuff got blown up good. As always, damage ratios don't tell the whole story; TSC didn't have the benefit of picking their targets in the first round, and that first round accounts for the vast majority of the gap in damage taken and received. 

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