[CyberNations Talkshow Ep. 5: Happy War Time GO!]

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[Seriously, Polaris?]

Shut up, MVP. Shut. up.

[Hey Bob Janova]

This was surely worth knocking Kingzog's blog off the front page.

[Whose hunger for war was insatiable?]

This is the second time that Impero has used this trick. A few months ago, he had a VE member (MrMuz) give the admin of CNtel his VE forum password. Once the admin logged in, they ran his IP. The guy had joined CoJ without our knowing, and rather than approach us with a sting operation scenario (which is what it was), Impero came baseball bat in hand with veiled threats.

This is VE standard operating procedure. Create a spy, create a CB.

[First War-Related Blog Post Goes to Me!]

As is Nordreich, depending on how everything progresses.

Pick early.

[More offtopic posting (for Bob Janova, Hizzy, GOONS)]

Yeah and that was still months ago, and we haven't had any "incidents" since, nevermind the fact that we were completely justified in our actions regarding UOKMB given that they declared war on us.

Giving this one a puh-lease. You raided a 100+ day old member of UPN at the same time.

[First War-Related Blog Post Goes to Me!]

Still cranking out Vox ideology, eh?

[Hello there long lost emails]

I emailed you about an extreme matter in 2008, never heard back, took it as a good sign.

[oh my god help me]

I was just watching The Last King of Scotland, and Forest Whittaker's character had this problem. The doctor had him sit on a foot-stool, got behind him and put a baseball bat across his chest, pulled to put some pressure on his stomach (sort of high up but not on the ribs) and then had Whittaker stand up while he kept the pressure on. He ripped a funk-nasty fart and said he felt immediately better.

[People that i ran into while visiting Digiterra and that i remember fondly.]

Thats between him, those that will pay and those that cared for Ghosty.

Ah. Well, he was in #cybernations a couple weeks ago.

[Dear gentlest peoples of Digiterra:]

Each nuke against that nation is worth hundreds of RL dollars.

Do you think so?

[People that i ran into while visiting Digiterra and that i remember fondly.]

Why does Ghostlin need to be avenged?

[Questions: What is Your Type?]

not stupid

emotionally intelligent (possibly the most important thing on this list)

able to logically work through disagreements

big !@#$ are a plus

tolerance for weed-smoking is a necessity, weed-smoking is a plus

independent

big !@#$ are a PLUS

since I'm likely not going to make a lot of money, a high earner is a plus but they definitely can't be dependent on me financially

no red sox or cowboys fans

eagles fan is acceptable if they are from Pennsylvania

nonreligious

big !@#$

Baby, I'm your's!

[Nations or Military–Industrial Complexes?]

Make an argument.

[Community Service Position Available; Apply Within]

With the multi polar world were living in at the moment I think think your seeing a lot of quiet (and not so quiet, nods at MK) realignment. When war comes as it inevitably will I think we will see players with ambition grabbing power but just in different ways.

We're living in a multi-polar world?

[Dear gentlest peoples of Digiterra:]

dodging wars gets you that

OBR was for all intents and purposes a neutral alliance until just over 2 years ago, and since then has only had 1 or 2 military treaties, so it's not really a matter of dodging wars.

[Community Service Position Available; Apply Within]

I planned on extending the blogpost to include a section on the MDP Web and dealing with it, but it can all be boiled down to one thing: it needs to be trimmed in order for any of this to be a reality. Not only that, people need to start having genuine issues with each other, which completely goes against the norm of diplomacy. We may have achieved world peace here. This would be admirable in real life where people die in war, but in a game where war used to keep everyone interested, it kind of bogs things down.

I guess what I'm trying to say is "Sure we can solve our cyber-issues with cyber-words and preserve our CyberNations, but is that really cyber-interesting?"

It's an ambition problem. All these complacent leaders willing to sign away sovereignty and potential in return for a comfortable postition in a tie for last place where no one wins or loses anything. Hope they're happy.

[Community Service Position Available; Apply Within]

The problem to your call is the problem that creates your call. Who's going to press an envelope when they're all treatied to each other? Push the envelope agaisnt who? Their own MDP partners?

The fear-mongers tried to tell the world that a successful Vox Populi would impose its will on a crippled world. Its too bad we didn't.

[A Response Interview with Sardonic]

I don't really see what the point of this was; Sardonic already said what he said in his thread. If anything, heart of the whole thing is right here: <Sardonic[GOONS]> Still, I'd definitely do it again, I didn't want to just say nothing and let the treaty slip away. Yeah, no duh, you didn't want to miss your chance for a dig at Xiph. I would'v been mad, too. Still, more of what we already know.

[Throwing in the Towel]

Not aware of which thread you're talking about, but as a person that doesn't get riled up by (realworld) politics, I find it pretty ironic that [meh whatever]

[Five Years]

[Pick My Alliance]

I'm too dumb to vote, but we miss you.

Also, doing the polar opposite of what Schatt says is usually the right thing... and being on the opposite side of the fence of Misr has never felt wrong.

This is the mental giant that thinks I RP an "evil vampire" so he's probably correct.

[Pick My Alliance]

There's only one Vox AA in town

I'll go with Zog and BAPS if you must. Please, Jesus, not VE. edit: Unless it's to take over.

[ATTN Buyers: Tech Bonanza]

bwah?

The supply of available techsellers is not effected by the price of tech. The supply of available techsellers is determined by the number of new nations. If everyone stops buying tech tomorrow, the number of techsellers will not be effected; if everyone started paying $3m for 2 tech tomorrow, the number of techsellers will not be effected. If short-sighted people get smart tomorrow and everyone begins insisting only on 3/100, there will be a temporary reluctance to sell at that level by sellers, but their number will not be effected and if they want free money, they will sell at 3/100.

[Five Years]

And the worse thing is that I still enjoy every day of it

People who understand that this is a nationsim/political game will always enjoy it for so long as there are othe people playing (or until they get tired of the gameplay itself). People that misunderstand CN as a war game will be bored out of their minds and either bear down and be bored for months on end, or quit and go back to Duke Nukem and Civilization.

In 4 years, there've been times I didn't like the politics, but I've always had fun.