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  1. On 6/21/2017 at 6:09 AM, The Big Bad said:

    Now Sparta you have keep it together at least long enough to aid those did fight for you.  Never have so many owed so much to so few..

    I will never get used to seeing you as a member of Polar.  But I understand that our permanent war against Pacifica was not everyone's cup of tea, so best of luck in Polar.

  2. On 2/26/2017 at 10:05 PM, Caustic said:

     

    And that makes it OK? You ditched out when you were needed most, and then threw a tantrum over getting dumped for it. I'm all for righteous indignation when it's deserved but your martyrdom is just tragic in the worst way.

    Even most of our enemies don't question how loyal we were to NPO for years and years and years.  Some claims toward us might bother me, but this one doesn't it's just so totally off base. 

  3. 10 hours ago, Lady Red said:

     

    It's not a new problem.  People figured it out then, could have figured it out a year ago, and could still figure it out now.  Find a new excuse. 

    It is a lot more work than anyone around here seems willing to put in, let along a relatively small alliance like TPF, so your criticism isn't really anything to do with TPF, but of everyone.  And we do live in very different times now where the majority of this place is tightly aligned, which wasn't the case in the past you are speaking of.  I don't see what you speak of a a very viable possibility, but theoretically it could be tried.  If that's your concern with TPF, I'm fine with that.  We're enjoying fading away and getting a little payback for things we see needing payback.  That's more than I see most folks getting who depart.

  4. 32 minutes ago, Lady Red said:

     

    I'm well aware.  Apathy though.  Gov laziness.  Those were factors.  I'm just extremely disappointed in the TPF swansong. It's possible I never mentally left 2009, but I always thought you'd make more of a dent on your way out. 

    The swansong of this entire place is disappointing.  Given our numbers, I think we're making a decent dent, but I'm really not sure what we could do to make more of a dent.  Nobody is make much of a dent these days, despite some folks having lots of tech, etc.  I'd rather go out the way we did than just put up an announcement and that's the end.  Of course in the last MI6 curbstomp when NPO was all over TPF, we lost most of our nation strength.  I dropped a good 20k tech plus myself to NPO almost exclusively.  Didn't see a reason to spend the time to rebuild 20k tech to be curbstomped again by our old ally. 

  5. 5 minutes ago, Lady Red said:

     

    Had TPF Gov decided instead to put the work into taking advantage of that situation, you might have actually done something in the last year worth talking about. Instead you pissed away nearly a decade of effort by some of the most loyal people I've ever seen. By all means, get your jollies in however you like.

    Yes, there is so much to be accomplished around here.  I'm one of those loyal people, as are others that remain.  Loyalty wasn't an issue on our side of things.

  6. 9 minutes ago, Noctis Lucis Caelum said:

    I think they need a better PR approach than valentine hearts to convince anyone in Oculus it's worth trying to roll NPO. So I agree this isn't going to make it happen.

    Not what we're up to, though it would certainly be the most interesting thing to happen around here in a very long time.  But, hey, when nothing ever happens, I guess people need to engage in idle speculation.

  7. 3 hours ago, Mogar said:

    You have to acknowledge they at least have more spirit than the majority of your enemies, since rather than ally you they're actually fighting.

    A fundamental problem has always been that few folks like an actual knock down drag out fight and that problem has only gotten worse in recent years.  As each day goes by I'm more pleased that I'm not part of the stagnation that is choking this place off.  Will we change things in a major way around here or knock NPO off its perch?  No, of course not.  But we're having fun and there's something more to do that accumulate pixels, which is more than most folks can say in recent years. 

  8. On 2/2/2017 at 11:20 AM, Blackatron said:

    You are remembered, you and Mongols&co have made the war screens interesting when stuff has not being going on over the last year or so.

     

    You and Vol Navy seem to be the only ones in TPF declaring max wars whenever you get the opportunity, so Kudos for that.

    After almost a year of constant war and little else going on, people's interest and warchests, among other things get hard to maintain for many.  I have to say it's been fun to just fight and not worry about there being nothing more than a curbstomp once in a blue moon passing as something interesting.

  9. 2 hours ago, Vol Navy said:

    Once again, you pre-empted us with something like a 1000-50 nation advantage and are involved in a similar war right now and you want to cry about picking on people who can't defend themselves? You're damn right I'm hitting every person I see throwing tech up the chain, wonders or no, well built or no. The hilarious thing is there's a ton of very well equipped nations in my range but RnR nations keep having to fill my slots for the most part with nations who aren't equipped to handle me either. But all my nukes have NPO painted on the side and that's where they all go. Right into the tech so you have to buy it twice. Right into that precious 4999 infra you get those tasty tech slaves up to. Tech so nice you have to buy it twice to get it sent. 

    It is a bit shocking that NPO has had tons of nations within range with pretty full sets of wonders and almost none of them come to the defense of their alliance mates (kudos to the few who have), but rather it's mostly other alliances with nations in the same range that come to the assistance of NPO's lower tier. 

  10. 12 hours ago, Auctor said:

    There are no Marquess of Queensbury rules in war. I'm perfectly comfortable with making my curbstomps as complete and efficient as possible. It's not as if you guys didn't embrace the exact same philosophy back when you were in a position to do so.

    When the odds are so overwhelming, a preemption means little.  If the odds were more even, then preemption might have some strategic meaning.  In the case we're talking about, no.

  11. 2 hours ago, Auctor said:

    This argument that we didn't "need" to preempt TPF is stupid. Doing so gave us a great tactical advantage. No one forced TPF to treaty MI6 as far as I'm aware - they chose where they stood and we took them at their word.

    A great tactical advantage in a curbstomp of that magnitude?  That's patently silly.

  12. 8 hours ago, stoyanovp said:

    So now that we've come to the conclusion that TPF is not going out with a bang but with a !@#$%^ move to target low tier procurers I'll leave you with a promise. I may not know much of Pacifica's past and may be I can't relate and understand this old grudge of yours. But I will stand here for the new members of NPO and as long as you keep terrorizing nations under 15k NS I will be there to keep as many of you as I can in anarchy and to keep you from attacking young unprepared nations.

    I had 26k tech before last war when NPO stripped off about 20k tech.  You knock us down so all we have is small nations left and then complain that we fight those at the same level?  I fought your large nations when I was large.  I fight your small nations now that I'm smaller.  It isn't really that complicated.

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    That's a bit of a shallow interpretation, personally I think 3,999.99 infra is where one should cease to be a tech farm (once they've built up enough economic wonders to finance 5 tech deals every 20 days, plus a wonder every 30 days, plus more infrastructure and building up a warchest), however lots of people have different opinions on the matter.

     

    Nations that years old should have quite a few wonders, it is fairly bad that many nations in some alliances only have a handful, however to say that everyone should stop being a tech seller above 3k infra is very narrow-minded, different people have different long term goals for their nations, and different alliances have different ideas on how to build up younger nations.

    Most of the nations I've fought have started out well above 3,999 infra and most had very little tech.

  14. NPO

    Tech: 3,577,870
    Infra: 2,412,092

    TPF

    Tech: 68,630
    Infra: 50,171

    Yep, it's clearly because NPO hasn't been working hard enough on that 1:1 tech to infra ratio over the last couple years. Another great point made well..

    NPO's tech is heavily skewed toward the higher nations, not the nations we're discussing here that are within range of us.  Their lower tiers are largely bereft of tech.   Our numbers are obviously a small fraction of what they were prior to the MI6 beatdown.  I believe we had a better ratio prior to that event.

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