Master Holton

Basically this is the beginning of the NSO and NpO rivalry. Vae Victis.

I knew Hereno would make this happen.

Just need you here on the dotted line... and a couple drops of blood. For our files, of course.

o/ kylo ren

Let the world [s]tremble[/s] guess!

Interesting choices being made by Doom lately! Congrats on steak.

Alliance of the Year - Pacifica Most Powerful Alliance - Pacifica Best Military - Polaris Best Rookie Alliance - The Bear Cave Most Powerful Bloc - Oculus Best Flag - Polaris Most Active Alliance - MI6 Most Honorable Alliance - STA Best Diplomatic Team - Polaris Best Economic System - Pacifica Best Recruiting Staff - Pacifica Best Propagandist - SNX :ehm: Scariest Alliance - DBDC Best Alliance Growth - Pacifica Best War Flag - NSO Best Forums - Atlas Alliance Most Likely to Succeed in 2016 - Polaris Most Immoral Alliance - TPF Most Controversial Alliance - Monster's Inc, just to differ from NPO on one category Player of the Year - Holton Most Powerful Player - Frawley Best Alliance Leader - Eatemup Most Controversial Player - Mogar Best Player Sig - Best Player Avatar Best Poster - Holton Nicest Player - Holton Funniest Player - Holton Most Active Player - Holton Player Most Likely to Achieve Greatness in 2016 - Holton Best New Addition to the Community - Lord Hitchock / Minc Most Hated Poster - Immortan Junka (no offense) Best Declaration of War (Alliance Topic) Best Declaration of War (in-game war screen) Best Wall of Text Best OWF Topic - A statement from MI6 (MI6 surrender thread) Biggest Controversy Funniest Event Most Entertaining IRC Channel #thebearcavalary Best Treaty Announcement Worst Diplomatic Move Best Player Quote Best IRC Log Largest E-Peen Best Villain Most Missed Player (Player that has gone inactive/quit) - Gopherbashi Best WaterCooler Thread Worst Alliance Worst Sphere Worst Poster Most Annoying Poster Biggest Mouth Biggest !@#$ Quietest Power Player Most Glorious Leader - Holton I have no nominations for the blank sections.

These always end up as "Best/worst X in recent memory" rather than the year. No one cares about January power moves.

IC didnt last long :/ congrats

Without trying to further fan the flames here - I agree with you but not because I think any given Oculus member is incompetent. Rather, over the past two years or so our world has begun to accelerate its own doom and we've seen the disappearance of many active players as well as active alliances. MI6 did it in the form of an alliance - Pulled away active people who were helping hold up their respective alliances into one group causing instability in multiple groups inadvertently. Oculus and Doom both did it in the form of the current treaty web - Pulled the majority of the active game into one clustered group of alliances. Even Polaris or "Polarsphere" is not blameless here but we are much less attached to the main grouping than the rest of the game. It's not some failing on the part of Pacifica, or Doom, or Umbrella, or any one alliance that the treaty web has become a black hole - collapsing under its own gravity via a lack of any (viable) outside competition. It's simply a problem that has to be fixed one-by-one with each alliance. Many still play this game like we have massive numbers to play with, we don't. I would point to other [ooc]games[/ooc] where there are maybe 1000-2000 nations in the largest comparable worlds to CN and how their politics work. The treaty web must split apart by necessity or risk strangling the political piece of the game, thus losing the overwhelming majority of players.

Glad the forums are back up. Sorry about whatever internal issues are happening.

Oculus OPSEC is clearly slipping!

Wow VE attacks our ally and we don't get reps? :P

Based Shuru

My name is mentioned twice? You have successfully appealed to my need for attention. I approve. o/

Ironically I wrote this while on the OWF, blackout.... :ehm: :ehm:

Twas the night before Christmas and all through Bob, not a nation was stirring not even Tenbob. The government positions were chosen with care, in the hopes that St. Rush would soon be there. The players were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of a real war danced in their heads. When on IRC there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my WoW raid to see what's the matter. Away to the keyboard I flew like a flash, tore open the queries and joined in the clash. When what to my wondering eyes did appear, a troll in the public channel calling me queer. With a WPM and insults so quick, I knew for certain it was a false nick. More rapid than eagles his reinforcements they came, and he whistled and shouted and called them by name: "Now Mogar! Now Chim! Now Tywin and Italia! On Frawley! On Rab! On Baltus and hades!" To the topic of the chan, to the bottom of the brawl! Now troll away, troll away, troll away all! Up to the housetop the coursers they flew, with a sleigh full of nukes and St. Rush did too. As I drew in my head and was turning around, St. Rush came onto Skype with a sound. He was dressed in slacks way up to his chest, and told me to bring him Pepto as his behest. He was chubby and plump, a right jolly elf. And I laughed at him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, He nukes all the trolls, and turned with a jerk. And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight— “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!” I got lazy towards the end yet I tried my best. Now I can't seem to stop rhyming, I don't even jest! Warm wishes, happy holidays, and peaceful new years going out to all of you from the New Polar Order. Stop by #polaris if you need some company during the holidays, we're happy to chat. Just don't bother hades, he might just snap.

Thanks for making this community something a little more special. I guess I can volunteer to help with occasional updates, as I'd rather not see the Sanction Race go defunct. If no one else stands up to take over, I can confidently say that I could provide monthly updates at the minimum. Being honest, I'll never be able to do daily updates on a consistent basis so maybe warstats will need extra hands.

Call the burn ward...

Congrats on peace errybody! We've been waiting on this for days now... DAYS!

These posts would go better had you not spent so much time before this war turning the world against you.

I think you mean to say that, at present, no one is capable of doing something about it. Assuming everyone honors all treaties, which is a massive assumption these days.

I feel like this war attempted to have a small backbone with the whole "we dislike you and you're annoying" theme.. But we've had plenty of wars coming from Doomhouse or other parties with similar reasoning and the propaganda flowed.

Did we really not have any propaganda the entire second half of the war? :(

He who shall not be Stupid