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Please try to keep it on topic! We could fill an entire thread discussing your ineptitude (muh spreadsheets), but that's for another time and place.

Everybody will get their chance soon. But this is all quite off-topic. As of now, the polls are quite clear - 82+ percent of people want this duel. Certainly that cheese-eating surrender monkey Armen won't back down now?

I didn't leave NATO. I was kicked out.

Turtling has wrecked the past 5 rounds. OP objectively turtled heavily, and advised others to do the same. Foreign aid at least made this round somewhat interesting. There's literally no reason to not at least try to abolish turtling for a round or two and see what happens. Again - I understand you're adamantly opposed because this introduces real, actual competition to the round. You 'solved' the game of TE and found a way to never lose. It can be pretty uncomfortable giving up that security blanket But the only way to keep TE relevant is to make it competitive again, and the only way to make it competitive again is to kill off turtling as a successful strategy.

Sure seems like you are, though.

Who are you again?

It wasn't autocorrect.

No, they make perfect sense. You just don't like them because turtling is a crucial part of OP's strategy. Right now, for OP, it's "Heads I win; Tails you lose." If you're able to win, you win. If you aren't, you turtle and rebuild stronger. That is bonkers, and no other game (including the SE version of CN) works that way. Again, it's super telling how hard you're fighting these changes. TE is a short round. A temporary thing. There's no reason not to experiment with things, and turtle-nuking is objectively a problem. But you don't want to even consider changing that dynamic, because then you'd have to compete in good faith, and that's just not something you're interested in.

I hope SCM's parasite finds a home inside you next.

If Armen wants that to be the terms, I'd be willing to agree to that!

Comrade Armen threw a bit of a tantrum about wanting me to attack him yesterday. What does the cultured CN community think - should he agree to a duel? I'd be willing to let him set the time limit. Armen — Yesterday at 6:46 PM @firingline why wait til max nukes. What are you scared of Armen — Yesterday at 6:50 PM WEAK Y u so scared To add some context, I've provided an intel report from his nation below. Last Tax Collection: 3/31/2024 5:24:24 PM Last Bill Payment: 4/14/2024 3:27:18 PM Desired Religion: Christianity Desired Government: Capitalist Threat Level: Low Tax Rate: 30% Number of Spies: 800 Last Nuke Purchase: 9/16/2023 2:12:54 PM Last Wonder Purchase: 3/26/2024 Total Money: $953,463,377 Technology: 200.40 Levels Trade Partners: Queensland, El Dorado, Thuru, NeoNation, Incar Secret Aid Sent To: None Military XP Ratings: Army XP: 4, Navy XP: 7, Air Force XP: 5, Intelligence XP: 16 Assigned Generals: Air Force XP Level 410, Army XP Level 71, Intelligence XP Level 84, Navy XP Level 45

That's not very realistic given the static nature of the game today.

Bishop laid it out pretty clearly. Peace was established, then CLAWS broke the peace agreement by nuking. Seems pretty simple to me.

CLAWS certainly deserves all the nukes they'll eat for breaking peace terms.

They absolutely do not. The turtling mechanics I describe allow you to turtle for a round or two of war and rebuild stronger afterwards. You can't do that in SE.