Lord Boris

While I don't particularly give a hoot what terms or if terms are given to NPO, something about this poll struck me as intriguing. Given how expansively slanted PR is against NPO on the boards these days, the fact that the results of the poll so far are within about 10% difference in the two opinions seems interesting, and lends itself to one of two things. Either Pacifica still has significantly more support than what has been expressed in the last couple months, or Karma is becoming out of touch with its own moderate elements.

LSF wins this hands down, I think.

Good idea, and best of luck to you.

I think my head just burst into a million pieces

Yeah, the new wording clears it up a bit better than what you had initially.

Was that supposed to come out like that? Seems a bit... self-defeating.

Then send out PMs in event of an emergency and set-up emergency back-up boards somewhere (invisionfree or another free host)

As a member of the CN community for as long as he's been, he's entitled to his opinion. It may seem overly cynical and unnecessary to post it, but it's his opinion and his right to post it. Sometimes it really is better to accept that no thread or thing will make everyone happy all of the time, and just accept that people have their differing opinions. Given the fact that he and I usually have differing opinions anyways, I'm not too concerned, and neither should you be.

Thank you for the kind words, all. Also, I'd like to take this moment to give a big thanks and shoutout to Canik for the flag work.

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RSF merged with some folks to become LOUD, iirc, so that one was dead for a reason.

EDIT: Accidental double post due to bad wireless connection

Greatest alliance error ever? Any time anyone has signed a treaty with ODN. On the slightly higher bloc level of blunders, anything involving CoMA comes to mind, as does CDT admitting Dark Evolution after all past pieces of it that had been in CDT previously turned out to be complete disasters.

Meh. History with Maroon seems to be a path of repetition. There always seems to be one alliance on the sphere that the rest of the sphere can't stomach (even if they deny such a state publically). Maroon is rarely a united sphere, so much as a mostly united sphere. Sadly it seems as though the lone wolf on the team is now USN. Best of luck to them.

Pretty well expected, but congrats nonetheless.

HannaH, definitely

Congrats on the awards, folks.

After I finish dying laughing, I think I'll save this little bit for a rainy day.

Pretty sure you're right, although I haven't had my mandatory pot of coffee yet, so my mind is still a little cloudy.

Thanks folks. Hopefully will have some more stuff coming out in the upcoming days. Also, cookies to the first person who points out the flag basis (that hasn't already had to have it explained). EDIT: Looks like the cookie offer was pre-empted by Uralica

Wow... as though we needed another CoMA. Any wagers about how long it takes this one for one signatory to team up with a few other micro-alliances to attack another signatory or create some other generally stupid situation?

OOC: This type of thing usually goes into the 'Player Created Alliances' area, I think.

This pretty much sums it up. That said, though, signing with GDI was probably the first mistake.

Very close race between Kobi, cool3, and RyanGDI

Order of Defensive Security -> Elite Nations Alliance -> Fellowship of Elite Allied Republics -> Rising Sun Federation -> The Order of Righteous Nations