Blackatron

I don't think there is enough orange in your recruitment poster.

Good luck on the transition, and agreed that it makes sense for you to be a purple alliance. But why does VE have someone in the Purple senate?

And LC just gained 300K NS from somewhere, I wonder who that could be...

Hopefully unlike the RIA one the MI6 treaty web doesn't give my browser a seizure...

I'm not the biggest fan of NG(not to say I like COBRA or Kashmir), but I must admit that the DoW here is pretty amazing.

My post was not meant to be a quip at NSO's expense, I was simply surprised that supposedly only 2 NSO nations are considered permanent tech sellers. I also happened to know that NSO buys a bit from TTK, and from a couple of other alliances. If your table is accurate then my assumption was incorrect, just goes to show that anecdotal evidence doesn't mean much.

...you end up buying a fair amount of tech from other alliances.

Is this really new information to you? Some people remain as sellers for years, many prefer the lower and mid tiers, others just like providing tech reliably for their alliance. I suspect some would like to start buying tech, but if all the old mid tier tech sellers started buying instead there would be nowhere near enough sellers for everyone. NPO recruits a lot, but it can't expect newbies to be reliable or to hang around for too long, so obviously keeping older nations as sellers is a must. I just looked at NPO's nation listings: 1st WTF!!?? You guys have like 100 ghosts! Either you approve people really slowly or you need to start booting people. 2nd It's harder to tell with some many nations near ZI due to war, but it seems like of their approved members there is about a 1:1 split between buyers and sellers, which is what they want.

I'm sorry, when was I licking NPO's ass? TTK doesn't exactly have a history of that, and it's not something I'm hoping to start. I said upthread that I don't really have a here side, and that I hope you guys have fun. Maybe TPF is/was an exception to this, but most of what you and others have said about NPO's tech:infra situation could apply to almost all alliances, having more nations means it is more difficult for the leadership to try and get everyone tech trading/growing properly, which potentially means plenty of mid tier nations who haven't built their nations in the best way or who aren't the best prepared for war. I understand the desire to make fun of your enemies during war, but when someone who is neutral comes along and points out logical flaws in what you have said it doesn't mean they are for the enemy, just that that can be a fairly critical, cynical person. I did essentially the same thing to an NPO nation on this thread who was arguing the other side illogically.

I don't know much of any of them except Chunky Monkey, but it seems like a decent lineup, good luck to the new NADC government. And Congrats for reaching 5 million strength.

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.

Say what you will, I don't really have any strong feelings on this war one way or the other, other than thinking Oculus is too big a block that is. All I think is that TPF seems to be having a lot more fun than most of Planet Bob right now, which in the end is the point of the whole thing.

That is what war is though, no one is claiming to have "God-like button clicking skills", they are simply claiming to be doing disproportionately well, which they are, no doubt they would accept this is because their nations are better built and they're leading more better prepared attacks. There is no "skill" in launching attacks, it's all down to luck and how well your nation is built, it is the second part which all alliances like to boast about during war, because that is literally all there is to it.

Poor work by Oculus here; 24 hours later and one of them still has a defensive war slot open. :P

Were there a couple of raiders in a two man low tier AA called "Hell" attacking them a couple of months ago? I remember said 2 man AA going up against a much larger alliance and kicking their arses (or at least their lower tier), but I might be mixing SNX up with someone else.

Well there is at least one grammatical error in the US constitution (that I don't believe anyone has ever bothered to fix), so all things considered I don't think it's too big of an issue. It's good of you to apologise though.