Jump to content

Midkn1ght

Members
  • Posts

    425
  • Joined

  • Last visited

About Midkn1ght

  • Birthday 07/29/1981

Contact Methods

  • Website URL
    http://
  • ICQ
    0

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male

Previous Fields

  • Nation Name
    Midknight DLP
  • Alliance Name
    Global Order of Darkness
  • Resource 1
    Sugar
  • Resource 2
    Uranium
  • CN:TE Alliance Name
    Fark

Midkn1ght's Achievements

Newbie

Newbie (1/14)

  1. [quote name='Gopherbashi' timestamp='1333855958' post='2949794'][*]I've kicked the [color=maroon][i]Global Order Of Darkness[/i][/color] out of their streak position - they're at 71 days right now, but it's time for other alliances to share the glory of what they've accomplished. I'll make sure to tell you whenever they drop. [/quote] Awww but I enjoyed seeing us up there, lol
  2. I haven't been able to be around most of the last year and a half for ooc/irl/ooc reasons, but I've known most of you for 7-8 years, and the last 5 on CN have been a fun trainwreck of lulz. O7
  3. I want to say so much more, but the beauty of the bacon roses has me all choked up!
  4. [quote name='Beefspari' timestamp='1304224166' post='2702946'] I thought the "point" of the GOD cancellation was more for political reasons or to prove a point [/quote] This. We have no problem with GOONs, and still think highly of them. Sard had a right to be peeved, but the whole thing went a bit overboard in the cancellation thread after awhile. I think highly of both alliances in the OP, good luck bros!
  5. I get a kick out of people who think they need to spy on us, whether in the past, or rumors that we could expect some heading our way. We're fairly blunt about where we stand with everything, hiding how we feel or what we'd like to see happen, isn't something that's in our playbook. You want to gain as much intel on us as you could with a spy? Read our embassies or just ask, we tend to be pretty forthcoming people. Same info, less risk/effort.
  6. [quote name='Penkala' timestamp='1299789761' post='2658950'] Luckily, not everyone is into "calling out" their friends, so I'll just let it rest. [/quote] No kidding Penkala, I started reading waiting for a certain bomb to drop, I'm surprised, impressed, and confused at the same time how folks are keeping their traps shut, that never happens anymore. Good luck RoK, hope in the end this works out as well for you as you think will.
  7. Rawr! Poor Enigma, forgot to check and all that stuff wasted =( Happy 4th ppl
  8. [quote name='Liz Girard' timestamp='1298180813' post='2639160'] It's why his hair is so big. It's full of secrets. [/quote] Nah it's not in his hair, he's got a whole chamber for his secrets. Congrats Liz o/ Approved by Xiph pic
  9. [quote name='King Charge' timestamp='1298168504' post='2638870'] [IMG]http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z371/King_Charge/WhySoSerious.jpg[/IMG] o/ Gotham o/ RIA[/quote] That is the most awesome flag I have ever seen O.o o/ Gotham
  10. [quote name='Maelstrom Vortex' timestamp='1297813584' post='2634835'] Play victim card? We didn't start doing that til we were made the victims! We were keeping our nose in our own business! I believe this is what people had been fighting for wasn't it? [/quote] Have you actually read a chunk of NPO's posts since they got peace? Anytime someone says something negative about them, they roll out the "you're just as bad as us, you were lying about morals in Karma, you just want to hit us again, you want to force us to fight, etc, etc" constantly. [quote]There was no higher morality in Karma, except in the hearts of a few, it was simply a sham. Many of the alliances who were aligned with you were disingenuous. They were more evil than we.[/quote] There was no morality. Only a few people on the Karma side have claimed that, ever. Mostly it's been the other side sitting there going, "you fought for a better world, but you're not acting like perfect little angels!" Morality and Karma have become some sort of talking point for the other side, while most of us who fought in Karma couldn't have cared less. [quote]it will come back to haunt you. [/quote] I honestly, honestly hope so. I hope you get to experience the lead up to that moment like we did. The panic, the fear, the nonstop bickering among allies. It was incredible and the absolute most fun I've had in an environment like this. [quote name='Baldr' timestamp='1297813929' post='2634843'] In other words, they started after they paid their reps. And one of the terms of their surrender was to drop all treaties and do no diplomacy, no new treaties, until after the reps were paid. You're blaming them for following the terms of surrender that they agreed to. [/quote] Nope. NPO came out of terms in May 2010. They just started a few months ago branching out and talking to people outside of their comfort zone afaik. If they'd have started mid to late 2009, they'd be in an entirely different spot right now. Notice how the surrender clause doesn't say anything about they're not allowed to conduct diplomacy. [quote]VII. The New Pacific Order will immediately cancel and dissolve all treaties with military clauses. The New Pacific Order will not sign any new treaties without the approval of the victorious coalition until these terms end. All cancellation clauses are considered waived. [/quote] [quote name='WorldConqueror' timestamp='1297818848' post='2634949'] And what exactly would you mean by 'reorganize our alliance from the ground up'? I mean it sounds good, but it doesn't actually say anything. There was substantial change in the NPO since Karma, but whenever it's brought up it's always shouted down as not good enough, or too little too late. I'm not sure that a proclamation like that would do anything except draw cries of 'ALL TALK AND NO ACTION', which they still get now even after significant change. [/quote] Retraining military so if you did get hit, they could actually put up a fight. NPO always ran with huge numbers, and we found many of their members had a pack mentality. They could cause great damage in huge numbers against a small amount of targets, but with an equal or larger amount of targets against them, they folded, hard. Many of their members in Karma going off their coordination and nation stats, flat out didn't know what they were doing. I'm really trying not to be offensive with that comment, but we saw tons of war chests of larger nations with a day or two of bills, nations without nukes in the top 5%, WRC nations with lower tech counts then you'd believe, I mean you name the screwed up military description, and many of their folks would of had it applied. Other stuff like working with new up and comers and getting the old guard out of their entrenched spots, which I'll give them credit for this, they were working on. Completely retooling their FA, new friends, new faces, an embassy blitz, stuff like that. Just sitting there for their entire terms + 6 months or more and only talking to what are essentially viewed as yes-men didn't do them any favors. [quote name='Roadie' timestamp='1297829346' post='2635162'] What happens after that I can best describe as bunker mentality. Just get together with those close to you and stick together. That's it. No desire to get involved with politics at all. Now, making happy with other alliances would be common sense and ultimately much better protection than a couple MDPs with alliances that have no political power, but lets face it, all interactions with other alliances are political to at least some extent. Because of the political hangover and the bunker mentality, it makes interacting with other alliances, I don't even know how to describe it, something you shy away from almost instinctively. In my opinion, people are ready the signs that NPO signed some MDPs completely incorrectly. Either that or they're simply suffering from confirmation bias. [/quote] That's an awesome explanation Roadie, never thought of it like that. As for the confirmation bias, I think I can agree with that as well to some extent. I just hope when after this is over, Pacifica will see that it's an uphill battle to change perceptions of them, if they actually want to avoid a situation like this in the future. You can't just sit there and hang out and wonder why people don't suddenly change their views of you.
  11. [quote name='zzzptm' timestamp='1297823521' post='2635059'] The matter of hostilities between NV and GOD is something of a degree more advanced than rubbishing allegations, so it's prudent to not act on that information if it arrives via a non-government member that is perhaps taking the idea of rubbishing allegations too far. [/quote] We have hostilities? When'd that happen, oh right, when you made the OP. I thought a few of our members just didn't like NoR, we didn't really feel one way or another about NV from their ship with VE afaik, but hey, learn something new everyday. [quote name='Biff Webster' timestamp='1297826786' post='2635120'] Then why did they leave? If CSN is soundly defeating DT, why would anyone feel the need to desert? Especially when there could be free reps in staying? Is the promise of reps an attempt to retain members leaving over some unrelated issue? [/quote] Ask them? We lost like 10 members, 5 or 6 of them upper midsized, total from a few days after this war kicked off to early today, haven't checked since a few minutes after update, to inactive deletions. Just because they lost members doesn't mean they left due to rep objections, but I realize suddenly where I'm talking at, logic has no place here.
  12. [quote name='MaGneT' timestamp='1297811411' post='2634795'] Just a question. Do you take issue with optional defense pacts? Because it seems to me that you would have defended an alliance that you have no treaty with based on one of their treaties with VE, who you do have a treaty with. I could be misinterpreting though. [/quote] I don't have a problem with them at all no. Then again I don't personally have a problem of people doing whatever they want, for any reason they want. People elawyer stuff far too much.
  13. [quote name='Maelstrom Vortex' timestamp='1297755908' post='2634271'] You expect after we come out of Karma, that we would radically want to make friends of our former foes? No.. we kinda did appreciate being left alone after the imposed looting. Kind of did enjoy the isolation and careful selection of our friends after massive betrayals. How else would you have had us be? Gullible? Quick to act and slow to think? [b]You will never get that out of Pacifica[/b].[/quote] No one would suggest you go suck up, but you should have/ and still should, starting right now, set your FA game on 10. You just recently started to reach out before this war, a year to a year and a half too late to make much of a difference. After the beat down you got, you should have sat there and thought about why the whole world suddenly flipped on you, instead of spending a year+ playing the victim card, and then when you did finally reach out wonder why folks thought you were full of it. [quote]The alliances who were victors in Karma had the opportunity to prove they were benevolent in their intent and they have failed. They had the right to prove they were better than us.. instead they have proven themselves a mirror image, if not worse. They are certainly worse now.. for we have changed.. while they are like dogs having returned to the vomet of 3 years+ ancient politics and warfare. [/quote] Why do people take the very small minority of Karma who wanted to white knight, and be all super goody goody as how the whole side was? We got tired of being beat down, we hit back. We didn't hit back to sit and have powwows and campfires with everyone, we fought to play the game how we wanted to, just like you all were doing. [quote name='WorldConqueror' timestamp='1297798882' post='2634595'] Well, first of all I don't think Pacifica was ever trying to project an image of neutrality. Minding their own business and staying relatively out of the limelight sure, but not being neutral. Personally I think it's pretty bizarre to expect that any non-neutral alliance is suddenly going to proclaim themselves neutral. And even if Pacifica had decided to do that, I don't think it would have worked as you say. The reason that the neutrality of GPA and the other neutrals is respected is because they have a long history of neutrality and have shown they are committed to and can uphold that neutrality. Pacifica doesn't have that, and furthermore because no-one would believe that the NPO planned to stay neutral forever, it would simply be seen as an attempt to use a proclamation of neutrality as some kind of unilateral global NAP that everyone else is expected to uphold, while NPO hides behind it and builds up until they feel strong enough to return to 'their old ways'. [/quote] WC, they've flat out said that they were trying to project neutrality, constantly. In our embassy, in most of their posts on here where they play the victim card and insist they want to be left alone, it's even mentioned a few times in here unless I'm wrong. By mdping up, and then withdrawing into themselves so hard and barely talking to anyone, it appears they wanted the cover of neutrality/political isolation, but the option of discarding it and rolling tanks. You just can't have it both ways. You're right, maybe it wouldn't of worked for Pacifica, but they wouldn't know unless they tried. I know if NPO came out of terms, and said... alright we just want to be left alone for awhile to reorganize our alliance from the ground up, no one I know of would of touched them. I've floated the idea to multiple folks, and they all agree it would of shocked them to death to see such a huge beacon of change being shown. [quote]This is kind of my point. There was never any outreach (at least successfully) to change this perception in anyone. There was never anything accomplished that changed the public view of NPO as being the enemy. They'd been beaten once but the expectation remained that if they could they'd go right back to business as usual. No outreach, no new friends, no working on downgrading enemies to at least a neutral state.[/quote] I'll be fair to them Typo, they did literally just start it, but way too late, and only after the rumors started that Polar, and probably them, were going to be hit again. They made a lot of headway, but they waited too long, and appeared to only make the effort because they were forced to.
  14. Oh god this again? Look if we wanted to hit NoR that bad that we'd waste our time trying to set something up, we would of done it easy on the day you declared on a VE ally. Sure we don't like you and have been known to joke on you in other discussions, but your "side" is the only one who keeps sitting there going, "Theres a plot! They're coming for us!" Get over yourselves, if we wanted to hit you that bad, we would have already. As for GOD controlling CSN, that's laughable. CSN doesn't like DT, it's that simple. They won, they get to decide what to take, not nonstop bawfests in here. Our stance on reps internally has been since Karma that they're not worth the logistical headache or the chance to let the loosing alliance hold your slots hostage the way NPO did to us for months. We wouldn't wish large reps on anyone, they're a nightmare and generate enough pains in the butt to make them not worth it. All the chest puffing in the OP is mind boggling. I do find it amusing however that the minute rumors started being discussed in back channels that we might need to go in to save WF from you all, that NoR surrendered to an alliance they were absolutely beating to death in their wars with hardly any effort, but yeah we're terrified of you all! If they hate us so bad, think we're trying to set them up so bad, and yet you still think they could ruin us, they'd of been better off sitting there taking a small bit of damage from WF and just waiting for us to come and lauching a strong counter offensive. Instead they ran away from what they and their allies keep saying would be a sure win fight, for what? That's beyond funny. We're not the ones making endless posts about you. You all need to move on, even if a few folks on our side haven't yet, the only thing your constant conspiracy theory threads do is make you look paranoid.
  15. [quote name='Maelstrom Vortex' timestamp='1297754364' post='2634258'] No one appears to think that an increased isolation is a symptom of change. [/quote] Your own leaders would disagree with you. I've been told you all didn't need to claim neutrality, but you were actually neutral, despite MDPing it up. I'm fairly sure it's been said in this very thread, that you all wanted to be left totally alone and not bothered, and that showed you changed. So your own alliance's goal to show it had changed was to be isolated.
×
×
  • Create New...