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  1. Helios
    Congrats to all.
  2. Helios
    Congrats you two. That is one wacky text.
  3. Helios
    Why is your title Midget Napoleon?
  4. Helios
    Congrats to all on peace and a hard fight. The thirst of Khorne may be temporarily satiated by every one of those 12,364 wars. o/ Doomworld coalition
  5. Helios
    Congrats to the coalition on the elimination of another combatant, and congrats to RIA on achieving peace and a NAP.
  6. Helios
    Saoirse, what are you doing to this poor fellow?
  7. Helios
    150k is an arbitrary figure. What about "my" own 50k nations, who also have the benefit of 6/200 or 9/300 deals? My 40s, 60s and 70s? Seriously, if any alliance followed the ridiculous 9/100 tech plan, after the following conflict the only tier they'd ever be relevant in again is the lowest, unless they altered their economic policy. You again harp on about this "tech denial strategy" like it's some newfangled, brilliant concept. I've said this already elsewhere: you'd not be doing anything to tech sellers that wouldn't ordinarily happen during an extended conflict. And in any event, due to the pre-existing policies in place aren't my people already equipped with large quantities of tech, more than enough to blow away the puny amounts your people have collected? Let's be honest here, your heavily biased points pretty much equate to: - Fuck you R&R - Fuck you DBDC - Fuck all you upper tier nations As to your final point, well, it depends on the alliance. I'm sure your view of "fair tech compensation" is as equally skewed as your hatred of upper tier nations.
  8. Helios
    Hmm, I stand corrected then, if only partially; 54m for 600 tech is not a fair transaction. You talk about dominance yet you consistently fail to regard or otherwise deliberately ignore, the advantages of technology, specifically that it is the second prime warfighting resource after money. The ultimate use of tech is that of applying a destructive effect to your opponent. In a conflict between two nations, the one with the greater amount of tech almost always wins. How does a nation acquire more tech than the enemy? By performing advantageous tech deals. You can argue all day about whether buyers and sellers see each other as nothing more than tech/cash cows, it is ultimately irrelevant because it's based on individual interactions. You also overestimate massively the value of a robust lower tier- everybody has a lower tier that can be robust, everybody has the potential to disrupt tech production. What not everybody has is a technologically powerful upper/mid tier.
  9. Helios
    There's a reason warchests are so huge: necessity. Alliances fight wars based primarily on how long their warchests can exist for; no money in the bank means no weapons for the troops. Assuming a buyer with a DRA were to buy at a rate of 9/100, sending 54m on a regular basis- every twenty days or so- will eat into the warchest, especially at sub-100k levels. All in return for, what, a paltry 600 tech? Whereas a buyer purchasing tech at 6/200 effectively doubles his/her return, while 9/300 adds on a further 600 tech. To put this in perspective, at an income of 600 tech per month a buyer would expect to accumulate 3600 units over six months, while a buyer on an income of 1800 tech per month would expect to end up accumulating 10,800 units of tech within the same time frame. The fact that it costs so many millions to buy tech manually for oneself doesn't mean it's somehow reasonable to charge ridiculous prices on the market anyway. If sellers are scarce, it's because they grow too quickly and become tech buyers themselves within a few months of starting out.
  10. Helios
    Not really. He makes no attempt at creating a rational argument, he's just crying like a pathetic child who just realised the world doesn't work the way he wants it to.
  11. Helios
    Anybody with a brain, which from the looks of things doesn't include you, would realise that losing 12m NS is not a victory. But by all means, continue to act deluded, I will continue to be amused.
  12. Helios
    Fixed, seeing as you've also taken close to double (and in some cases even quadruple) the total damage of any other alliance, in addition to having more than half (182) of your membership at 10k NS or below.
  13. Helios
    Nice, congrats to all on peace.
  14. Helios
    You're still not getting it. The value of a 160k nation isn't necessarily in the NS, it's in the fact he/she can lob out a couple hundred million and only make the faintest dent in the warchest. Can they do more in the same time frame than a 60k or 6k nation? No, obviously not and that's a straw man because you know full well the limitations in place. But 60k nations don't typically have a couple hundred mil to spare to spam out, certainly not during a war where they're likely to be facing a very large quantity of opponents of similar size. Whether or not a 60k nation is willing to give more to his alliance is based purely on personal preference. Your experience of that may be tainted but it's worthless as an argument. In a war of equal numbers, for all the reasons I made clear previously, my side would win. If you had heavy numerical superiority the war would simply go on for however long my middle and lower tier people were willing to fight it, within reason. With my upper tier unopposed, they can fund a lot of the fighting in the pit and hopefully secure a stalemate in an effort to collect a white peace, because there is no substitute for heavy numerical superiority and therefore victory is unlikely. The damage inflicted on you would make it a pyrrhic victory at best, moreover we'd rebuild faster because the upper tier is untouched. Look at them now eh? Some irrelevance. It will certainly be interesting to observe Polaris post-war.
  15. Helios
    Funnily enough, my own alliance at present comes quite close to that description. I understand the concept perfectly, adapt to survive, I get that. But we both know it's a massive step down from what you were before, where the goal was to flourish and not just survive. This is just moronic, even for you. A 160k nation makes a damn sight more cash than a 60k or 6k nation ever will and would be extremely useful in replenishing the cash reserves of lower tier nations, both during war and more importantly, after it. Money is responsible for rebuilding efforts and it's how wars are won, combined with a little willpower and politics here and there. Hypothetically, if you come at me with a large force of sub-160k nations, chances are my 160k guys will hammer you down to the 90k, 60k and 30k meatgrinders. Once that purpose is fulfilled, they can spam cash to the other tiers week in week out while you have nobody who can do that, except perhaps allies, only they'd still not have the same freedom because they'd have their own issues to deal with. Granted, you'll likely have a wonder advantage the further down you go and you'll win a lot of combat when you hit rock bottom. But I have similar assets and over time, your only option becomes extended, heavy use of peace mode to preserve what few nations you have that still possess significant reserves of cash. Meanwhile, my guys are constantly rotating in and out of hippy with replenished nukes and are 54m to 108m better off. You could certainly opt to fight for a long time in some kind of low-tier crusade but so could me and mine, only we'd be doing it with a completely unhindered upper tier. You're not doing anything to tech sellers that wouldn't ordinarily happen anyway. As for your warchests, haha yeah I don't think so buddy.
  16. Helios
    It's a great shame to see this gentlemen, your assistance has been invaluable. I would like to apologise for regretfully not spending as much time striking up a conversation with you as I should have. Farewell, friends.
  17. Helios
    I don't play nice. I also don't believe a single letter of anything your alliance has uttered over the last few days about not giving a crap about pixels. It's been said before and it'll be said again but everybody knows it's !@#$%^&*. I'm not entirely sure where you got the idea of me being frustrated from, I'm simply calling you out on account of the sheer amount of !@#$ that's being thrown out there by representatives of Polaris wait I forgot there's a blockage of the thick and long variety up there so you can't reach it. Well you get the point. Hello AlmightyGrub "DBDC are not engaged with us and are now completely irrelevant almost forever to us". Did you say that with a straight face? Yeah, I couldn't either. I also don't think Polaris being out of range of Doombirds to be suspicious at all, it's obvious what you're trying to do there and I don't think it'll work either; it'll be tougher to market yourselves as the "premier permanently low-tier blue-team alliance", am I right? Might wanna throw in a "seriously guys, don't grow above 90k NS kay?" with those recruitment messages. And what of your allies? Going to subject them to the same treatment? All the posturing at the moment is coming from you and yours, nobody else. I'm amazed at how warped you people are with this "behold my commitment" crap to the point that you express yourself as being very happy with getting kicked in the teeth. Fortunately I know better, so I know it's crap. I also observed many public expressions by Polaris at the outset of this war and boy did they sound everything but happy. Yes the world and the people in it will change. AlmightySherlock should be your new name if you ever opt to change it. Go back to cooking your meth in the corner quietly young man.
  18. Helios
    All this false bravado tells me that Polaris couldn't be more butthurt if it had a nine-inch, Doombird-engraved dildo stuffed up its ass. Which, incidentally, it does.
  19. Helios
    Happy birthday Doombirds. o/
  20. Helios
    It may well be a reasonable decision but I'm having trouble seeing the military utility in it. Not only could Smontag's slots be put to much better use elsewhere but these nations will be rebuilt very quickly. I mean, if this is about principles or face-saving or hell maybe the Fark guy needs a holiday from the real fight then fair enough but I just don't see why there is a need to go to all this trouble, especially when it's unlikely to change WFF's views on whom they sell tech to.
  21. Helios
    Congrats on seven years guys, here's to another seven. o/
  22. Helios
    You scorpions did well enough for the weight of firepower that was applied to you, and you've earned my respect for not whining about it out here. Congrats to all on peace.
  23. Helios
    Paradoxia always pays its debts eh. Good hunting, all.
  24. Helios
    This is hilarious considering the sheer amount of whining coming from certain characters in your camp.
  25. Helios
    Good hunting GLOF. QFT
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