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It is a brilliant day when the jungle thrives with all sorts of newcomers. Good show.

I rather enjoyed the informative diagram. We really should toss away overelaborate war flags.

Thank you all! By the way, our incumbency rate is currently holding at 0%. Noob moves from Industry to Marshal and Ray from Interior to Chair, but overall nobody's got the same job as last time.

A Dispatch from the Front Recently the Socialist Workers Front completed our third round of elections. New to this round is the position of a sole Chair (rather than two Co-Chairs) with a Vice-Chair to be appointed at a later date. Here is the III Central Committee: Chairperson of the Front Ray Matveyev Marshal of the Front The Noob Commissar for the Interior Rescindment Commissar for Industry MagnusTroy Commissar for Foreign Affairs AngolaThree

In the name of arms races and worldwide tension!

Politics is politics is politics is politics. Even if you want to pin it all on Grub, at the end of the day there are plenty of people that want \m/ to stay dead for much more rational, less petty reasons. Also, I find the moralist label to be about as relevant and useful as 'liberal' is in the contemporary United States. Given that the essay itself was authored by a former Vox member, perhaps the preachiest of the moralist alliances, I don't really see the point here. Moralism is a façade- when Vox disbanded you shacked up with privateers. If anything this seems to prove that everyone nuking each other back to the Stone Age is well-deserved.

Well you either go with a loose, confederation-style coalition in which nobody has real authority and negotiations tend to leave people out due to incompetence, or the more authoritarian route where a few selected standard bearers run the show, and people get left out due to personal feuds. At the end of a day, coalitions all run imperfectly and are made for short wars because both routes suck out loud.

Arise, wretched of the earth Arise, convicts of hunger Reason thunders in its crater This is the eruption of the end Of the past let us wipe the slate clean Enslaved masses, arise, arise The world is about to change its foundation We are nothing, let us be all |: This is the final struggle Let us group together, and tomorrow The Internationale Will be the human race :| In the name of revolution The International was founded, for the blood of workers it persists. Good show lasting a year, many more anniversaries lay in your righteous path.

Bump, in the name of the workers.

That's not really all that relevant to what I said. Protecting your realm doesn't entail being ethically consistent and ending tech raiding- it involves ending both your own tech raiding on your own color (I imagine every time you convince someone on your color to quit at least one person in your alliance loses a trade) and ending raids from everyone else on your color. Certain colors will always remain raid-heavy as they don't have much of a voice in the world, unless say there's a large bloc that decides to come together to end tech raiding (this goes from something I think is logical now to rainbow-happy-funtime territory).

I generally believe there is merit in large alliances like NPO, The Legion, IRON/TOP, Fark/MK, Sparta, whatever declaring their realms raid-free and establishing safe-haven AAs. More people on your team means more trades, more potential members, more connections for tech trading, more goodwill that comes in handy during times of crisis. Granted this hasn't really been tested on a full scale, but in the long run for single-color alliances I think there's a great deal of profit to be made (strange, given that tech raiding is all about profit to begin with) in stopping raiding.

CyberNations exists in an interesting economic realm- generally speaking money will be becoming less valuable because there's no scarcity (infrastructure, technology and land have no global cap; you're supplied with daily money that's not depletable; resources continue to have the same returns). However, there's essentially a price ceiling (or floor, depending on how you look at it), because there is a cap on aid per slot, and there is a very dramatic scarcity of aid slots. Thus while the actual price of tech in a more laissez-faire society would have exceeded its current rate, because dealing in less than 3million/50tech bundles is inefficient, prices remain artificially inelastic.

And in typical CN Left fashion, Jamyl quit today.

To efficiency! Good show World Federation.

We wub you all and hope to chat with you soon. If you'd like to talk with us about something, remember our IRC channel is #cnswf on Coldfront.

This got kind of buried, but we enjoy being a part of Red Dawn and wub its alliances. :3

The universal eyes tell me where to go White line movin' slow Million miles an hour headfirst and alone All I got is tuck and roll Fu Manchu in honor of your agreement. Good show POT and VE.

Yeah, Legion dropping a tier was my fault. I asked an old friend to join me. My bad.

We'll file that away for later consultation. We appreciate unsolicited feedback, really, we do.

In the name of the Revolution! Cue awesome propaganda!

Bump in the name of the Revolution.

I really hope someone makes an Assassin's Order and gives you a run for your money. Also, why would Crusaders kill Spartans?

Bump in the name of the Revolution.

We're having quite the party in #pot right now on Coldfront, jump right in and we'll be groovy together.

Sleep is like Black Sabbath at 1/3 the RPM and with some mad fuzz going on. Smoke it up, brothers! (of course I'm referring to hookah, delicious, legal hookah)