Caladin
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Oh, wow.
I hadn't realized the NPO and IRON had fallen below 300, and the GPA had fallen below 200.
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On 8/12/2017 at 5:42 AM, AlmightyGrub said:
If my "term" was unclear to you in the first place then perhaps you should have clarified with me personally before you began beating your drum.
You know now deep down in your little e-lawyer heart what I meant by vacate. You chose to return to power on the basis of you being the strong leader who could address evil Polar. It requires no huge jump in logic to see the path required to accomplish your election promises.
When coupled with other information received it is clear that the NADC had once again found itself led by someone who had their ability and ambition confused.
I am intrigued that "dissolve " is in your vocabulary but if you insist I,for one, would not try to dissuade you. I doubt this matter is that extreme but I do note that you are prone to hyperbole in all your statements.
Good luck. You know where I am if you want to debate the validity of the word vacate.
And yet you choose not to specify that you meant 'remain off forever'. I can only speculate why that was the case, but the fact is that you did not, and as such it is clear to all that while NADC might have considered to plan to violate your intent of the treaty, they did not consider to plan to violate the treaty, as you chose to write you.
On 8/12/2017 at 11:10 AM, AlmightyGrub said:Berkanstel may well have committed some acts of treason against NADC, but you screwed yourselves when you decided that orange wasn't good enough for you. Blue is the natural home of the NpO therefore not the NADC. Seriously, if you were in doubt, playing semantics wasn't the way forward. You accepted the term in full knowledge of what it meant, right or wrong in your mind is of no consequence to me.
Ah, so we get to the truth. This has nothing to do with the violation of terms or anything like this, but instead Polaris' insistence that Blue is theres and no-one else's.
Thank you for the clarification.
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10 hours ago, The Big Bad said:
So you would wait until they had gotten into a better position diplomatically and militarily to attack them? Because you know returning to blue is going to require tackling that Polar problem and redressing those polar wrongs. And that is not going to be done by talking. At this point you are just being obtuse. Even NADC is not denying what those words mean at this point, they are just suggesting that the people who voted for that platform maybe did not mean in and the just like the candidate better.
Only if Polar had refused to allow them to come back peacefully, with promises to cooperate on blue matters etc etc etc.
And if that is the case, then I still struggle to see why we are blaming NADC.
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49 minutes ago, The Big Bad said:
So if people were pointing at you saying we need to redress the wrongs Caladin has done against us, restore our honor and it is time to tackle the Caladin issue you would not feel the slightest threat at all? You would think those people had good intentions? If you are that naive, I have some swamp land to sell you.
Depends on the context.
In this context, there are reasonable ways to assume that they wish to redress the wrongs committed and restore their honor by simply returning to their colour sphere, and tackle the issue by entering into diplomatic negotiations.Yes, there is room to be cautious, but caution doesn't mean jumping straight into an offensive war.
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Just now, DeathAdder said:
I pointed to my 'fancy' lower .gov title?
Just makes it all the more entertaining.
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8 minutes ago, AlmightyGrub said:
You seem clueless. Maybe you should shut up and nuke someone or jump in and help the poor NADC with their troubles.
When your position is so undefendable that all you can do is tell people to shut up...
6 minutes ago, DeathAdder said:No idea.
Though, you're better than this guy. On the NPO boards he tries to tell people to shut up by pointing at his fancy title. His pixel power trip is quite entertaining.
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You're all still ignoring the fact that even if they had decided to move back to the Blue Team (something that has not been established), they would not have been in violation of terms.
Maybe they would have been aggressive to Polaris had they returned, but the closest you have to evidence of that is 'tackling the Polaris issue', which could mean anything from wanting to initiate talks with Polaris to attempt an amiable return to the Blue Team or something more violent.
We simply don't know, and as such using that as evidence of a threat against Polaris is ludicrous, just as this entire CB is.
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Just now, Jesse End said:
They probably didn't think something so simple and obvious would need to be specified.
Perhaps.
Or perhaps they choose not to implement a period of banishment, as implementing a permanent one would seem tyrannical, and implementing a temporary one would give a clear date on which NADC could return, and went with neither, in an attempt to have their cake and eat it too.
Either way, they didn't include it, and as such NADC is clearly not in violation of the Peace Treaty as written.
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3 minutes ago, Lord Hitchcock said:
This is political correctiveness.
The very fact that they were forced off blue doesn't require much common sense to comprehend that they are not welcomed back.
And yet Polaris chose not to include that as a term. They must have had their reasons back then, and they can't change it now because they wish they had chosen otherwise.
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9 minutes ago, EaTeMuP said:
This isn't about TTK. This is about the NADC election mandate to return to Blue and break terms.
There is a slight issue here, however.
NADC were never under terms to not return to the Blue Team. Look at the original Peace Treaty; all it requires was for NADC to vacate the Blue Team, and in no way specifies they may not return.
Now, I don't know why Polaris didn't implement such terms when it appears they desired them, but that is Polaris' fault, not NADC's.
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19 hours ago, MrGed said:
Oculus ya'll need to split up, have a good civil war and stop picking on random alliances for the crime of not being utterly subservient just because you're bored, m'kay?
o/ The Templar Knights
Hear hear
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Honestly, you should be using HTTPS for everything these days; there is no excuse not to, as it's pretty cheap and easy to do, plus google puts a huge malus on your site in search results if you don't use it.
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3 hours ago, AL Bundy said:
Well I wouldnt consider that running? Thats more like the hug circle I was talking about in a different post.....We all know some alliances wont attack certain ones......but i think have more smaller alliances, will bring more leaders, and better wars
Not really. It's more as if your battalion, squad, however your SE alliance organizes its military units had it's own AA; there is no structural difference.
The thing is, there is nothing that will stop someone doing that; creating multiple AA's to host their entire AA on - the only difference is that it will be slightly annoying to those who weren't already doing it for other reasons.
In general, I see no point to this idea, simply because it won't actually change anything.
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8 hours ago, AL Bundy said:
If you can run two successful alliances in TE then id say go for it, love to see it.
Still this concept would keep the rounds from having 2 major alliances run the show, and give a chance to those alliances that cant get 20-30 people to join. All alliances would have a max of around 12 nations, better fights, and an even opportunity to get awards for their alliance.
Then for those that feel the need to run multi AA's other alliances with dog pile them like they do now when they feel cheated.
Al
I'm not running two. I'm running three or four, but in reality I'm just running one, and that is what the larger alliances will do; it's easy enough to create spare alliances, put an officer in charge of them, and run it as if it was one large alliance with only a slight increase in administrative workload.
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Won't do anything. For various reasons I've run TE AA's with more than one AA before; if this was implemented, it would just add another reason to do that.
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4 hours ago, Blackatron said:
As much as you or anyone else may not like the leadership of SNX, it's pretty unfair to state that they are incompetent in economics; they have a slot usage of 55%, what other non-Oculus medium sized alliances have that?
No idea, and I can't be bothered checking. However, you do set a very specific gate; large alliances, and oculus alliances, face the same challenges that SNX faces in getting their slot activity up. I do, however, understand omitting small and micro alliances; by having less players, getting their slot efficiency up tends to be easier.
However, I'm not really talking about slot efficiency when I say economics - I'm talking about how the nations use their money, wonder order etc.
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2 hours ago, Captain Enema said:
I find this situation more contrary than I did before. Firefox, Calidin, what value do you bring to the community? Do you squat upon it like an old man with the squirts over a hole in the ground off to the side of the road or do you bring something more substantial? From where I'm sitting, its your dirty brown hole is all I'm unfortunately having to look at. You are taking a gigantic loose greasy nasty squirt all over this thread for the sake of taking a few cheap shots at Junka and his people.
So this is what I propose.
I'm going to find another person like Bushwhacker. I'm going to pound them like Miley Cyrus's hind end on fleet week. I'm then going to start an auction for alliances to outbid each other in bringing aid and succor to the victim of my Miley Mark 3 Ravaged Backgate Triple Breakoff flank attack.
This will be your chance to do more than squat on the community. You'll be able to bring real value for a change other than what you've been spinning.
I've lead the alliance that, at the time, was the largest alliance in the game.
I've lead the department that changed the NPO's economic directions (excluding tech) to resounding success.
I've helped out all sorts of random young nations with direct guidance and even more with indirect guidance.
I'm pretty sure I've done more for this community than you have.
Oh, and what Junka did? I'm pretty sure most other alliances would do that if he applied to their alliances. I know I've done it in the past.
To be honest, I really don't care what you think. The only reason I'm in this thread is I hope to get this new player into an alliance that he can prosper in, an alliance that he will enjoy enough that in a years time he will still be playing this game.
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9 minutes ago, Immortan Junka said:
The Imperium's standard rate is $4,500,000-$6,000,000 for 100 tech (150% to 200% of NPO's rate) so we clearly value new nations more than you do, otherwise you would put the money where your mouth is.
I'd also like to note that Bushwhacker is an Imperator and we have accepted his oath of enlistment, please do not try to poach our members who are now subject to the Imperium's chain of command. I doubt you would appreciate if we informed your new nations about techsploitation so please have some courtesy and respect our sovereignty.
You know, you really should look up what "Imperator" means.
As for our 'techsploitation'. Personally, I don't care what you tell our new nations; they recognize that they are in it for the long term gains, not some minor short term benefits.
Bushwhacker, my offer still stands.
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23 minutes ago, Galerion said:
Was it really necessary to stroll in here and bait like this, for you to believe all of what you've said you must be very ill-informed.
Yes, it was. This world is losing nations and I don't want to see it lose more by the new nations joining alliances that will only offer failure and disappointment.
19 minutes ago, Immortan Junka said:Clearly he should join your alliance and sell you tech for 6,000,000/300 because SNX is so terrible and offers compensation at 2x to 3x that rate!
Actually, our standard rate is 100 tech per 3,000,000 dollars. But, many of our nations do volunteer to recieve less money than that per unit of tech as they, and our leaders, recognize that the reason we are the most successful alliance in the history of this world is that we put our alliance ahead of our nations, and it pays dividends - not only for the alliance but also for the individual nations.
Which is why NPO is ranked #1 and has 101 nations over 100k NS, while SNX is ranked #45 and has 1 nation over 100k NS.
However, I wouldn't necessarily recommend NPO over all other alliances; which one you should apply for really depends on what you are looking for in an alliance. If you are interested, Bushwhacker, send me a message and we can go over a few alliances together, find out the one that is most suitable for you.
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It's worth mentioning Bushwhacker that SNX is basically the worst choice of alliance you can make; they are highly incompetent, in economics, in warfare, in foreign affairs.
Take a look at any of the top ten or so alliances, literally any of them will be a better choice than SNX, though some of them may be a bit harder with you on your application due to the wars you launched, but they will likely forgive them - and the reason they will be harder is that, unlike SNX, they have the luxury of not being desperate.
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NPO.
None of the other 'alliances' really count as 'alliances' these days.
Ok, an exaggeration, but not by that much, unfortunately...
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o/ Pacifca!
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Sorry, I don't believe the NPO can accept your declaration of friendship, given that you also seem to be friends with SNX, may admin doom them.
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Wait, the GPA has fields and the NPO only has swamps?
I'm in the wrong alliance; who has the mountains?
In any case, have fun, blow some shit up, and please add me to your list of nations to roll.
My name is Gopherbashi, former Sanction Race Updater and guy who did some other stuff. AMA!
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