lilweirdward

Reset blitzing an inactive alliance and then posting about it is certainly...a decision. Oh well, something something casualties and all that.

Really excited to see this made official! Easily the best DoW of the year too. o7 FTW o7 TPF o7 White Team

Congrats! The world needs more new, upstart alliances. Do you guys have a discord or anything?

Always interesting to see new blood in the political scene. Best of luck in shaping your own path for TIE, Tankobite!

It's the best tool anyone's ever made for this game, and it's not even close. The entire community would suffer if it got taken away. Honestly I don't even think anything needs to be added to it; just being able to access so much historical data is a game-saving feature for me that can't really be beaten.

Congrats on peace! Glad to see an amicable end to this war.

Serious answer: Article VI describes optional defense, and KoRT has never signed aggression clauses before (I don't see one here), so I'm pretty sure it's an ODP.

Really exciting to see two more allies join forces together. Everyone involved are excellent people and I'm sure will make fantastic allies for each other. Congrats! o7 KoRT o7 Sparta

TL;DR: People miss arguing about CBs, and this is a very nice, legitimate CB to argue about (citation needed) (disputed).

I'll add another voice to the choir echoing this sentiment. Good on you Lucius for acknowledging the situation and accepting the current consequences. Hopefully this apparent repentance is taken into account and this war doesn't become punitive.

I knew I'd get a lot of fun replies, but I appreciate your honest answer. This is the answer I was looking for, thanks Wory.

Congrats on your return! I don't think we ever had the chance to formally meet, but I've always heard good things about the folks in Sellswords, especially from my friends in Sparta. Hopefully we can get more acquainted as fellow new participants in White Team politics

How much tech do I have to pay everyone to stop replying to Junka? Every day I check the forums and see another response in these doomed threads is another day we stray further from god's light.

Can someone do me a favor and tell me if this is a serious DoW or just an excuse for LH to provoke COBRA? I guess what I'm asking is if @Woryand thinks this is worth going on the Global Wars wiki or not.

This was a good read! I've been looking forward to this entry for a while as I obviously have a lot of interest in seeing how my sphere is viewed from the outside. I kind of figured it wouldn't be very complimentary since there's frankly not a lot about us to compliment these days, and it certainly wasn't lol. I see where you're coming from on most of these points, but there's one that really stuck out to me that I have some thoughts about. Maybe this is where I should've challenged you more about mergers and the like, since I agree that this is a serious problem in our alliances (obviously, I'm still trying to help lead one of these alliances into recovery from it), but barring random strokes of luck like CCC and Sparta have had, I'm curious how else you think this can be solved. You even made a more damning statement later that really gets at the heart of why these alliances are in such a failed state. Again, I actually mostly agree because I witnessed this from the inside. Often these alliances already had memberships that were disengaged - that wanted to stick around with the community that they'd made deep connections with, but couldn't be bothered to contribute anything to actually keeping the alliance afloat - and so the people who led these alliances did their best to keep the communities in existence while their energy for doing the actual hard part of running a functional alliance became more and more limited. The only thing I disagree with is that you are criticizing and demeaning them for it. What would you have done in this situation, should GATO have had the misfortune of falling into the same depression of a once-vibrant community wanting to continue existing but no longer contribute to being alive? You've condemned mergers as an almost-always wrong approach, and disbanding all the groups of 10-40 people who are literally only here because they have a sentimental tie to some friends they made 5-10 years ago is a surefire way to kill the game immediately, so obviously that's not an option. What else is there? It's to do what most of these alliances have done: keep the lights on until the game either finally shuts off or one of the old guard comes around and jump-starts things again. Honestly, if you have a better solution or approach that these people could have taken, I would genuinely love to hear it. I understand why people would write our entire sphere off - I almost did last year - but there are still people in these alliances that I'm sure would love to see their communities up and running again, were it only for someone else who had the answers. I mean, to be fair, I think this mentality is exactly what he's criticizing. It's not rocket science that this is a horrible approach to politics for the sake of politics; you don't get to the top by fighting all the people twice your size, you do it by picking winnable battles until you're big enough to not have anyone twice your size anymore. That's exactly Tevron's criticism: our sphere wasn't playing politics for the sake of politics, but for the sake of real friends that we would die for. You can argue that this made us better allies than most, and I would agree, but it certainly didn't make us smart political players of Bob, and it's easy to see how it prevented us from ever gaining any real power. A better question we should be asking is how this contributes to the death of politics on Bob. It's an easy and a fair criticism to point a finger and laugh at the people who went to bat for their friends instead of undercutting them when it would have been beneficial, but a real vibrant political sphere needs this sort of element to it. If no one trusts that anyone has their back when things get tough, what point is there to even making friends and alliances? And it doesn't always fail: look at CCC and TTK defending their allies against NpO with the threat of the greatest superpower that the world has ever known looming as a consequence, and it actually worked! Maybe it's not the move that geniuses like Moldavi and Moo would've made, but does that mean it's killing politics, or is it just a different approach to keep things interesting?

I should've never told Woryand about the wiki in his blog post 🤦‍♂️ Congrats on the treaty! Fark were professional fighters and I respect the way they handled themselves in the war.

This wouldn't have been a good NG-RFI thread without some fun edgy insults. Glad we (hopefully) got that out of everyone's systems now.

Good to see extended peace! Also that is a slick flag. Looking forward to seeing it in everyone's profile pics!

Over half a decade after surrendering our senate seat on the Blue Team and going sphere-less, the Christian Coalition of Countries is proud to announce that we have officially claimed a seat on the White Team senate, electing @A1ph4 0m3ga to serve as our senator. As such, the CCC also completes its move to becoming a White Team alliance, and looks forward to many years of prosperity in our new home. I would like to give a shout out to our allies in FTW for welcoming us into the sphere and helping us achieve this goal. You guys have all been better allies than I could have asked for. A special thanks to Canik and Smitty, who suggested the idea and worked with us along the way. Cheers to the CCC and White Team unity!

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If you're looking for a storied alliance with an active community and thriving economy, look no further than the CCC. We welcome all new members, whether you've never played CN or been here since the beginning of the game; whether you're looking for an active community with lots of open gov positions, or a place to grow your nation in peace; whether the idea of a channel dedicated to apologetics sounds fun, or you're not even sure where you stand in your faith. The CCC strives to be an inclusive home for everyone, centered on the wholesome foundation of faith, and designed for you to really enjoy CN, both in game and in the community built around it. Join the CCC today and see what we're about! https://discord.gg/EF2SGXt

He means in his dumb game that he somehow hasn't been banned for constantly advertising. He literally just has a nation so he can pretend to post "in character."

This new Polarsphere seems to be coming along quite nicely! Nice to see some real political moves these days.

Wow, this is interesting. Congrats!

This is literal cancer. Someone needs to put a stop to it.