[New Journey To Undertake]

I firmly hope you beat this thing.

[The Sanction Race is ending]

You've done this community such a good service for so long Gopher, and you have our thanks.

[On Politics on Bob.]

Politics has been dead around here for longer than half of you have BEEN around here.

[Unfortunate implications and coalltion war treaty chess]

Coalitions have assembled and fought this way since the beginning of CN. What's changed, is now we've progressed to a new chapter where some alliances don't look just for a win, but to win and to see others do the heavy lifting for them.

Okay, and? Why exactly are we opposed to alliances doing whatever they can to win at a minimum cost to themselves? They don't exactly hand out trophies for Pyrrhic victories.

[Unfortunate implications and coalltion war treaty chess]

If you have allies on opposite sides of a coalition, that's a problem. It is also often a problem of your own making.

[Unfortunate implications and coalltion war treaty chess]

This is why I always led TLR with a willingness to hit allies of allies once committed to a coallition... it does not enable the other side to play use my allies on either side to play treaty chess.

At a certain point you have to be willing to tell your allies that you can't refrain from picking a side just to preserve their allies, so GG to you there.

[Unfortunate implications and coalltion war treaty chess]

I tend to agree. What's the value of a treaty you can't or wont activate?

[Unfortunate implications and coalltion war treaty chess]

I think it can best be summed up as thus: That some of my allies are friends does not mean that all of my friends must be allies.

[Unfortunate implications and coalltion war treaty chess]

Treaties are political tools, first and foremost. I've been beating this drum for what seems like an eternity now, but this is not a friendship simulator. If you want one of those, go hop on facebook and play some words with friends. CN is a game of war and politics, and the people who actually engage in the kind of treaty maneuvering that you describe are the people who actually tend to win at the game.

[Quality of topics lately?]

The number of people using the OWF has declined, which naturally has had an effect on the signal to noise ratio. As to the gameplay side of it, well, that was !@#$ years ago and is simply a different kind of !@#$ now.

[OOC Stuff]

Sorry you are going through this Hal, the internet just seems to bring the absolute worst out of some people.