Max Power

I'd be up for a round no holds barred with you, Sigrun. Max "Dreaming" Power. I like it. This.

On the most recent thread thing, this appears as Pacific News Network Intern... I was really, really hoping for an internship announcement. Congrats nonetheless.

What I got from this thread is Go Jays!

Good job Methrage! [OOC]You don't know? If you're using Chrome, right-click "Search Google for this image". Besides, it was 1996, so the beard isn't really "unsuccessful" in that context, and how didn't you know your own gov-mate is a metalhead?[/OOC]

What happens to the MCXA-NADC DMT? Does it become a SNX-NADC DMT or does it convert to a MDoAP? (Or a MADP?) BRB, merging with Kashmir and Doom Squad.

Have we unearthed the real mission of DBDC? I'll second this.

Congrats, guys! I especially like the value placed on an ODP. Also, interesting... 2/5 of CCC's gov is named after Magic cards, Alpha originals no less. BRB, naming something Dark Ritual to be thematic. It seems kinda like the old BN-TIO treaty that way.

If you'd told me a year ago that someday ROMA would be protected by Nordreich, I'd have spit whatever I was drinking all over my screen. A crazy ride indeed.

Bravo. Someone finally solved the mystery.

What I get from this announcement is that there's a bunch of ass going around. I can get behind that. You are as long as I say you are, tbf.

We dealt with the rogue attack. There was no need to escalate so we didn't. We're boring, etc. What's the line from earlier in this thread again? tJL: Worse than Continuum? So much <3. WC's recent coining of the phrase "duel membership" is fitting because she has lots of membership and DBDC likes to duel.

Things have been addressed in private channels. Ideas have been thrown around, wars have been averted, and all is well (enough) in the universe once more. Glad you all were entertained, though.

Here's a radical idea in that vein: make PM no longer available to nations that have purchased the Manhattan Project. You want to be nuclear-armed? Fine, but don't dare call yourself a peaceful nation. It could even lead to a few nations intentionally staying non-nuclear so they could be stagger dummies. Long-term PM has forced entire wars into stalemate. I do like the idea of being able to hold nations in reserve for a second blitz, so maybe some kind of reserve function is a decent compromise? Like a max one week in PM thing and then no more PM for the next month.

Roquentin is great. He's the one non-ex-BN who actually understands this crazy shit.

Glad this is done and glad Franz has such an aesthetically pleasing casualty count.

Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia (ROMA) is an entirely in-game neutral: http://www.cybernations.net/alliance_display.asp?ID=10091

Congrats! Nice to see my allies consolidate their part of the web.

Congrats! It's been great talking to you this past most of a year.

Javahouse's Kashmir agreement is technically an "Other", and we also now have an ODP with Doom Squad. This is useful. Thanks - don't think I've ever told you that before so I am now. :)

This is a quality alliance.

Been winning plenty and enjoying it thoroughly. I like what xoin said about definitions of winning, though.

Congrats, Letum! All the best to Farrin. Good job getting out of terms. Looking forward to a revitalized NPO.

I've been associating this song with NpO for years. Glad to see the OWF's finally caught on.

As someone in a micro that's been fairly successful recruiting randoms, there's plenty to offer. Like big alliances, you can get the person a TC and tech deals, which don't exactly require 300 slots each. Unlike big alliances, the recruit actually gets to deal with high government on a regular basis, whenever s/he wants. It's like working for a small company versus working for a large company. Only in the small company does the entry-level guy actually get to chat to the CEO. Unlike in real life, though, the aid cap means the big alliance can't pay the recruit more to join it. It's virtually impossible to have more than about 4-5 treaties when you don't have the alliance size to have a dedicated FA team. When you have one person who's, say, MoFA plus some other government position, you're inherently pickier with things like how often you're on IRC or how many embassies you have. The bigger alliances end up with way too many treaties (Polar having 24 of them in 2010 being the most egregious example that comes to mind offhand) because they have the resources to do things like delegate different alliances to different FA representatives. Unsurprisingly, that can also lead to fractious FA because an alliance that treaties one of these behemoths might know a few diplomats really well and the other FA people not at all. I think by "actual established alliances" hakai was poking fun at the words people use to discourage micros, not creating an established/micro dichotomy. The first paragraph I've quoted here is spot on. The idea that people in large alliances have necessarily never interacted with some people in their own alliance is baffling to me. Micros have to deal with spreadsheets and treaty webs too. The spreadsheets only have 1-2 people making them, although they are smaller so they're easier that way. The treaty web concerns are wonkier because you're not dealing with a bunch of people who at least kind of get the idea their big alliance will be dragged into a conflict, you're having to sell a bunch of people who are playing the game specifically to be away from the treaty web that your ally, who they like, is justified in immolating itself thanks to the treaty web but that such a situation merits your micro's intervention. Internal power struggles are relatively easy to deal with in CN because of how easy it is to splinter. You don't even have to do anything about the amount of land anyone controls.

Happy Belated Happy Belated Birthday, Kashmir.