MaineGOP

My apologies in my haste to post I neglected to thank NoR for their excellent work in tying my other loose end up. Bye bye Methrage seems another lifetime we served in government together, but you lost your marbles and I would have liked more of a hand in taking you out but my friends in NoR did a great job! Maine

As those who know me know I recently resigned as MoFA of TTK. I still bleed Templar though and there are some dishes best served cold. You all may remember a war last year that started within days of my entering TTK. Our former member Ghostiepie had gotten himself in some trouble with logs that involved "PLOTTING". Well most don't know the other side of those logs were a dirty little commie named TheRedSoviet. He gave the logs to Don'tdoMethoryouwillturnoutlikehim(Methrage) who it is our contention edited them before passing them to Caustic and the rest is history. I would forgive TRS passing the logs to an ally, in fact it may be considered the right thing to do, we don't believe he edited them, but he couldn't stop there. He decided to troll us in our public channel throughout the war. Remember TRS was the FA mouth of UCR. He trolled us, bragged about getting us rolled. In essence went from a fairly innocent participant to an enemy. Now I had some previous history with TRS and knew that he had/was trying and plotting to take over UCR. It was his stated goal from the beginning. He wanted me to coup Taco's Aevrum and he wanted support in taking over UCR. Ghost can confirm that he had similar convos with TRS about taking over UCR. Fastforward to the last month or so and TRS under his new alias Pr0xy as usual was running his mouth in TTK's public channel this time to Terminator the MoD of Polar. He decides to question as to whether or not Terminator had been raped before, repeated this a few times. As many know Term rightfully took insult to that and had a member of UCR attacked. TRS got removed as MoFA and from UCR for these actions. TRS then applied to NoR and was recently rejected, I had hoped to catch him between AA's but unfortunately he was on a new AA in 30 seconds (pending of course). i decided I could not let him keep AA hopping to avoid justice for his actions. I mean no disrespect to The Prussian Empire or TTK's allies and TPE's protector Knight of the Round Table. I ask that they both allow me to enact justice upon this miscreant. This will be my last action in this world, so let it be known there are consequences for your actions. Honor above all, Justice always comes. Maine TL:DR - Snitches get Stitches

yes and no the past is to be honored but some of the problems in CN are people clinging to old alliances how many are left that have maybe 2 active leaders and a shell of inactive members, if they all merge together you get a group of active players large enough to at least help corral the rest of the new alliance, the truly dead players get left behind but you get teh ones who can be ressurected.... As someone who loves CN history, the past is the past and its time to let go. come together, smaller active alliances have a place now, lets have some fun

Can we add some FCC to that TOP?

Indiana Jones and the Templar of Cats - ODP With uncertain times and pilgrims to protect from sand fleas, the good Catholic cats of the jungle and Catholics of Solomon come together to ensure a shining future of protection and to protect. Apocalypse Meow and The Templar Knights hereby sign this Optional Defense Pact in mutual agreement. Terms of Engagement: In the event that thar be war, it is preferred but not mandated that the attacked party be helped by the other party. Foreign aid, military contributions, diplomatic intervention; these are all acceptable forms of assistance. Neither signing alliance should hold hostile intent for the other, neither in spirit or in the physical. Both parties agree to protect the interests of the other in good faith and solidarity and to maintain communication channels to assure clarity and comfort in both times of peace and war. In the event of communication breakdown, we ask that the delinquent party writes a 4 paragraph fanfic based on the leadership chapter of Robert Heinleins novel Starship Troopers. Signatures for Apocalypse Meow: Razgriz24 (aka Nord), First Lieutenant LandofFreedom, First Sergeant Signatures for The Templar Knights: Merick - GrandMaster Maine - Marshall of Foreign Affairs Double B - Marshall of Recruitment Mandystalin - Marshall of Members Rustikus - Marshall of Defense Konstantine - Elder Council King Irwin - Elder Council TheSlamAnderson - Elder Council

But there is still a choice there All what you say is true. The members still choose to join an alliance where they are just a number, funneling tech to the top nations. The structure you talk about would collapse if nations didn't choose to join it. I could tomorrow choose to join an Oculus alliance, become a cog, and claim victory. But how is that fun? I would know the victory has nothing to do with me. I have no issues with what you all do as alliances, of course we all use the mechanics to our advantage, that was the whole idea behind Citadel, we were 5 of the highest average NS alliances, all focused on growth and efficiency. Clearly that is not what I take issue with. I don't understand the cogs. I don't understand that mentality. I mean I'm the same way in real life politics though, I don't understand sheep.

I completely agree. I hear all the time the mechanics around tech mean that no one can compete with the top.... Well yes when all the top tech nations are allied or those who aren't are one by one picked off. Those are choices made by certain alliances. I've never had any interest in joining a large alliance or one tied to the "winning" side. To me thats not fun. I mean to each their own, i'm not saying how others play the game is wrong. I just have no interest in it. I came to this game in 2006 with a group from another forum and we founded the FCC, for a long time we had no entangling treaties until we formed Citadel with Umbrella, Gramlins, OG, and TOP. We fought in Karma. I had some short stints at Gramlins and Onyx Hand during that time. Then when I returned I knew I wanted to be in a good group of people who were mid-size. I made a great choice at TTK. and I say that with the knowledge that I joined days before we got rolled. I fought over 30 wars in 3 months, only went to PM once for the minimum time. That was fun, being rolled isn't the horror people think it is. I would rather that possibility than sign a bunch of treaties out of fear and run around rolling other people just because. Anyways, my point was these are choices that are made. Own the choices, don't blame mechanics.

I agree there are clearly pockets of good activity, alliances bringing in new members and growing, and then there are dead husks where there is no activity. I feel bad for the one or two active people left in those husks, don't be a slave to history, have fun with the rest of the game, make new stories to tell.

quit kicking people! I mean at this point i'd rather have an army of multis then have the game shut down...

So weird because we are up around 20 nations from our low point and we aren't losing many of the new members, we might have gone up 25-30 and are up around 20 right now.... over the last couple of months. New members are joining and if you keep them active and interested they stay... At least so far

Which is why if I owned it I would open a second server, I would maintain bob for those who want to conitnue teh legacy and large nations. The new server would be a fresh start..

ruin a dying game? I think some long-term players who understand the base mechanics and have programming chops could do a great job, if they were willing to give up their nations and loyalties. Though I do think managing perceptions of bias would be tough..

the game is so devalued a group of players should purchase it on the cheap and implement stuff

He just insulted my Patriots and Tom Terrific, did they really avoid it

Congrats to some awesome wolves!

^^^^ This times 100 I'm having as much fun as I did back then. Frankly you can make your alliance as active as you are willing to be. There are new members joining CN. The issues is there are two many husks of alliances being run by 1 or 2 people, consolidate, bring in new blood, be active. Quit saying its dead. If you think so, leave, if not get active.

Agreed. It always amazes me how many people scream about it being dead but still sit here. some of us are having fun playing till the lights go out. in some pockets there is activity and growth, you get what you put into it.

I hear they have disbanded

EEjack, you know i've been trying to reach you guys on discord

Don't make me sick jazzy on you!

Damn it's dropping faster than normal it seems.... We need to do some external recruiting....

*wishes he was just starting his age with a 3* Glad to hear about this coming together o/RIA o/ Holy Ruler I was also in college when I was the leader of my first nation here... 2006 seems so long ago.

o/ WAE o/GATO To those of us who remember the early days, GATO will always carry a spot in our hearts.

Quit smoking METH....

Because I didn't just have the most wars in TTK (including the most offensive) in our three month war with Oculus....