Avakael

Bring it on, the best roller coasters are the ones that scare you.

By post, I mean topic. My bad.

Sorry Wally. We hit propaganda midnight a few years back. :(

Umbrella has filled the majority of slots against big SPaTR/MONGOLS nations since this post went up, so unless an expansion of this fight is expected, I'm not sure what the worry is.

Live footage of hartfw's nation

The amount of off-topic butthurt by MI6 in this thread is rather amusing, now. Get it right, eh.

YOU KILLED AN ENTIRE TYPE OF TREATY D:

Jerks. That was probably the last pure MDP in existence.

We deserve each other.

RIP Gopherbashi, we will miss you.

Mastabadey hasn't been an MI6 member in some months.

I'm not prone to dumping on people, but sometimes you have to set the record straight.

Hey- that's fine by me. I don't even slightly dislike you for it, I've done the same plenty of times before in your position. I don't dislike Doch either for his post in here. I hope the Bear Cavalry does well too :)

I don't like arguing with other alliance members in public, but you've drastically missed the point. I don't disagree with the notion that we have a victim complex on a wide range of FA matters (non MI6 observers will be curious to know that it's been the majority opinion within MI6 for much of the last year), but this is absolutely not one of those matters. There was no "massive dumping spree" on Shurukian, unless you consider a single frustrated post from each to be a "massive dumping spree". Just as there are a group of people who are fed up with drama and just trying to have fun (and personally, I'm okay with that), there's another, equally large group of people who are pissed off at the total lack of confidence from the people leaving in the ability of the new government to try and make things better. Confidence that you don't seem to have either. Not only that, but every time someone posts a resignation, it adds to the feedback loop of existing drama, and makes the problem worse, and helps push other people to resign. I think Chimaera, Mergerberger and Gopher held back on a lot of what they could, and perhaps should have said at the time. There's a difference between choosing to no longer spend money on hosting a board and paying for an IPB license for a group of people that you no longer want anything to do with (okay, fair enough), and chucking a tantrum and deleting the boards without warning. He could have given us some kind of handover period; he could have given us the backups to the board; he could have given us the domain. Those actions would not have required future financial contributions from him, and yet he did none of those things. He acted with the intent of ensuring we'd never have access to the contents of our forum again. My understanding is that we only got the backup because Shurukian decided to help us and actually tricked Sargun into getting us access to those backups (for which we cannot thank her enough), and I further understand that Sargun is still pissed at her for doing that. The rest of you think the use of the word "malicious" is laughable, but the use of the word is correct- Sargun acted with the intention of hurting the alliance. If we hadn't been able to get the backup, we would been spectacularly screwed. The alliance would have lost a lot of guides, the contents of our embassies, years of general forum content, and dozens of other documents that would have required time and effort to rewrite and replace. My personal experience in communities completely losing their forums (an INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATINGLY -LARGE- AMOUNT OF EXPERIENCE- BY THE WAY, $%&@ A DOZEN DIFFERENT PEOPLE I'VE MET ON THE INTERNET OVER THIS KIND OF HORSE!@#$) tells me that what's left of the MI6 community would have never recovered, and probably closed down within 12 months. I'll 100% blame Sargun for the loss of the forums. He chose his actions. If MI6's government is to be blamed for anything, it is for not realising that we had a bloody toddler for a root admin and moving forums sooner. Sargun has repeatedly temporarily locked off our access to the forum in the past, and has also used his access as root admin to interfere in the 00/M private forums. He's also ragequit and deleted his nation at least once during the war. I can think of at least two different occasions in the last 3 months where the need to urgently move forums over this crap was raised by Chimaera (which we put on the backburner over the inconvenience of having to move everyone to a new board during a war), and last term I was instructed to make my own copies of various important alliance documents in case this very thing happened. tl;dr- no hope for MI6, this is all Salajol's fault.

I like Sargun. But it's hard to look past the malicious destruction of our forums. I doubt our government will, that's for sure.

If he does, we still won't want anything to do with him.

After a brief interruption due to an emergency cross country flight, here's an update on where the IIHL is at this season. R2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1dt3khz6c7vafpt/S4R2.xlsx?dl=1 R3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o39ju7pj09obrtd/S4R3.xlsx?dl=1 R4: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zp52ghxc3emf1xg/S4R4.xlsx?dl=1 R5: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dshy2vp28thnj6q/S4R5.xlsx?dl=1 It was surprising to see the season start by seeing the Calabrese conference kick so much more butt than Valenti, especially considering which teams in Heckman got sorted where, and how far Hamilton and Fort Wayne have fallen. But it's also nice to see New Orleans and Seattle (formerly San Diego) look like genuine cup contenders this year. With Sodor and Darwin going backwards on where they were last year, and other teams like Alexandria and Irlanda jump up as well, there's never been more teams with a legitimate shot at the championship than ever before. I've also come up with some competitive analysis data, which can be found at http://cn-mi6.com/index.php?showtopic=3989(I'm gonna save your screens the pain if you don't wanna see it). No further rounds until the 28th, so people get a Christmas break.

R1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tao0s4ck45uf5k9/S4R1.xlsx?dl=1

Went from going through quotes in the liners, To being known from the shows on the fliers, Playing packed rooms, heading to the back room, To cool down my face with some ice from the rider, Looking out to a crowd full of lighters, And the day those lights don't inspire us, You'll see me walking out, I'm a ghost, I'm gone. Wish I could have been more active this war, I'd have put up a better fight and some of the people that hit me deserved that. See you some other time, Oculus.

I can only assume that the other side didn't want to make a big deal out of this war.

***SEASON FOUR*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mujf5kKSBMw&hd=1 Preseason Round Robin 1: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2atzddpi8nyrup/S4P1.xlsx?dl=1 Flynn City Riders Bucks County Stags Monroeville Zombies Fort Wayne Minutemen Darwin Crocodiles Sodor Tank Engines Preseason Round Robin 2: https://www.dropbox.com/s/atlmiq4w97w0d8a/S4P2.xlsx?dl=1 Cuban Missiles New Orleans Grenadiers Portland Lobsters Goldshire Lions Irlanda Celts Barkly Rovers Preseason Round Robin 3: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5rjzadh48z3j4ld/S4P3.xlsx?dl=1 Seattle Metropolitans Huntsville Storm Svalbard Ice Ducks Hassassin Cobras Alexandria Aces Hamilton City Highlanders Season Begins: THIS WEEKEND.

This thread has taken a strange turn.

Jeez Gibs, why not just appoint Chimaera outright instead of using his lackey? I expected better from you.

Alright kids. After a month long radioactivity + thesis induced break, we're back! Season 4 will be commencing very soon, and some of the preseason rounds are ready to happen right now. We currently have 3 teams that are looking for new owners, all 3 of them with pretty good chances of contending for a cup within 2 seasons. If you're interested in taking one over and learning how to play, come contact me in #iihl and I'll set you up with one.

Makes sense to me. Time to watch bombs fly. Somewhere else for a change!