kingzog

Eternal war is the same as an attempt at disbandment. To the best of my knowledge, few alliances (FAN being the most notable example) can withstand the pressure. Then again, they've always been well-connected.

I apologize for being so late in responding to such a handsome, well-groomed statement. I owe a long-ago debt to Polaris, for it was Polaris that provided the initial protection to Nordreich when we re-appeared in 2009. As far as Pacifica goes, my time in Vox and my stint on the Red Senate are hints of my feelings toward them. Those feelings have not changed. For example, in my experience, the easiest way to tell if a Pacifican is lying is to see if their lips are moving. MK made a mistake when they did not forcibly disband NPO and salt the garbage pile from which Pacifica sprang. Anyway, please carry on.

*takes notes* After 17 years imma figure out this game.

Contractual obligations. It's all in the treaty, man.

DT are good people. Obligatory 'lolcommies'. You've found a good home.

Here's hoping your garbage alliance goes the way of RAD, Prototype, and any other alliance you've belonged to that has since gone into history's dustbin. *waves* Better? It's early here, so I'm not at my hostile best.

Hello, Hakai. Hope you are well.

Death to bivalve molluscs! Be they raw, breaded and deep fried, or made into a stew! May they and their crustacean 'brethren' suffer the eternal Hell of lemon, butter, garlic or whichever garnish is appropriate to the occasion! [OOC]And yes, to be clear, as someone who spent the first six years of his life in Nova Scotia, I have it in for lobsters as well.[/OOC]

Topic was a lie. This looks like it was pretty easy.

I could tell you when I *stopped* calling myself a libertarian, but OOC and all that. Also....Sigrun, ugh. What a disappointment.

Oro is Nordreich's leader until he decides to leave or until I successfully orchestrate a coup, which is unlikely to succeed since I've just revealed it. So take your 'rules', fold them 'til they're all corners, and cram 'em.

But did you shave your legs?

Special SI Swimsuit Edition: 'Relics of Planet Bob' Sign me up! (But let me find my Official NoR Singlet first.)

Yep. That's him. The greatest player in the history of the game.

I always thought the last nation would be someone from an alliance like NEW (remember them?) who didn't speak English, didn't visit the forum, and was content to log in once every two or three weeks. Winner by default.

Remember Frans Josef's one-nation crusade against FAN?

I support this Announcement or Declaration.

Hitlarious.

According to the religion of my people, Bob looks like a deflated balloon. Your idea is contradictory to ours, and is therefore heresy.

Hey.

Historically, people stop being allies with "that kind of alliance" because, along with being in-game cheats, they are RL snakes who ultimately turn on their erstwhile friends. (And yes, this is me kind of saying 'I told you [NG] so.....years ago'.) Twenty-five years ago I ran a NUTS talker. (If you know what that is, kudos. You're old.) What I learned from being admin there was that people, whatever their online persona, eventually turn into themselves. The dickstain pretending to be a nice guy eventually reveals himself to be a complete dickstain. The unbearably nice person who wants to be seen as tough and mean can't help being unbearably nice. Some of this game's most heralded players were (and are) incredibly !@#$%* people. Actual, RL frauds who cheated both here and in their offline lives. Now they (or at least the ones who haven't died, whether literally or figuratively) and their pals stand atop their pile of lies and declare themselves the winners of something they've actively worked to destroy. (Think of the Warner Bros. cartoon where Daffy tells Marvin, "This planet ain't big enough for the two of us. So....off you go!" And then he pushes him off the tiny rock that used to be a planet. That is the current state of CN.) The only logical conclusion to be reached is that these people must be the only ones left who are financially supporting the game. They get away with it because the business model means that 'the winners' are the sole source of steady revenue. (Think of what happened in another online game when its admin tried to deal with rampant cheating.) And so the game is irrelevant. What matters is the income relative to expenses. As long as the same group continues to pay, nation count doesn't matter. In fact, a lower nation count means less bandwidth and other associated costs and, therefore, greater profit at the margins. It's actually not a bad business model, I guess. Enable cheaters, take their money, and ignore everything else. Finally, the only ones left are the cheaters, their sycophants, and those who are unaware. The only funny part in this is that, as Jerdge pointed out, every now and then the frauds pop out of their holes to commend themselves on being winners, unaware that they're being used themselves. Big wheel keeps on turnin'....

"Hey, Buddy. That thing you're saying never happened" "Yeah, well, apart from all those things that are a matter of record, you've never done anything." Ummm....ok?

Filed under: Things That Never Happened.

Obscure. I like.

We are individualists! We are individualists! We are individualists! Voice in the back: I'm not. Shut up and chant!