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  8. eyriq

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    The funny part being, every alliance's leadership knows that's how it works. When's the last time anyone called in a non-chaining clause, ever? The default for a tie is multilateral - that it branches out - and almost everyone will acknowledge that [at least privately]. Why that's never translated into public policy is beyond me. And yes, I took ribbing, and yet that's not the first or last time, so I couldn't really give a damn. :v:

  10. eyriq

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    Diplomatic work is much more than answering the question "Do I like these guys", it is "Do I like these guys, and their friends". Each alliance is a synthesis of their friends, of all the forces tugging at their interests, you either accept them holistically and make room for them in your agenda, or you turn the blind eye via a non-chaining pact and get swept up in the inevitable tide.

    That's sig worthy.

  11. Xiphosis

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    Understand that you are destroying an immensely valuable, and to some family somewhere, beloved person forever.
    What I am doing is removing a threat to the existence of what I value. If your moral code says it is wrong to celebrate human accomplishment, there is something wrong in your moral code, not mine.

    It's not a matter of morals, it's class. I find it classless to publicly celebrate when you kill someone. I don't care if you do it in your head, but it really is unbecoming-as-hell of someone if you're literally throwing parties.

  13. Xiphosis

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    Since when have we been better then them? Just because we pretend to be doesn't mean we are so I'm not even going to say I was shocked by the crowds of people. I just hope he suffered.

    Just because we weren't yesterday doesn't mean we can't, and shouldn't be, today.

    /sounds like sappy thing Liberal Arts professor would say

    //still true

  15. Xiphosis

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    Indeed. A man who contributed to the death of some 3000 innocent civilians is dead, and I will not weep for him. Perhaps someday the hundreds of thousands who died in Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, and Vietnam (partial list) will see justice, too. Of course, when that happens, I'll advocate for a trial instead of a summary execution in the dead of night.-Craig

    Indeed.

  19. Xiphosis

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    That is basically the way I figured it. You all simply didn't have that many nations who weren't already in nuke anarchy or at least engaged with nuclear nations, nor did you have large PM reserves (which wasn't surprising, you are GOD afterall.) Based on this knowledge, we figured that despite being the most combat prepared alliance we were fighting (by far,) you did not pose the biggest threat because of the limited engagement possibilities.

    We still had no answer for Midknight and the nations he was teaming with though, which was extremely frustrating. GOD had the ability to selectively hit our top 3 nations without much fear of being countered because we were already engaged for the most part at that NS range. Had the war gone on longer, that would have presented a big problem for our top 10 nations. The other alliances we were fighting (RIA, TTK, CRAP) didn't have nearly the firepower in terms of tech that you guys did, kudos for that.

    Yep, I hear you on all counts and that's very logical. I just wish Kublah's post was half as so, because calling us 'infra heavy, tech light' and saying we took just slightly less damage than GATO did is just a joke.

  20. Xiphosis

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    UPN hardly offensively declared on GOD throughout the war, we concentrated on iFOK, but did declare on R&R quite a bit too. Frankly (after the initial attack) GOD hardly declared much on us either so we spent most of the war fighting the other three (which was plenty)

    Not for lack of trying. In my range [60k or so] all but you and Tecumseh were in peace mode for several weeks on end.

  21. Xiphosis

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    I don't know why Kubla made his post, but I don't really agree with his numbers. GATO honestly devoted very little attention to GOD at any NS range, and I doubt GOD reciprocated. The majority of GATO's offense wars were against RIA originally, and then TTK once they dow'd us. I don't know the numbers, but I assume GOD relished the opportunity to engage UPN, and focused primarily on them.

    We were concerned with relieving RIA as much as possible but you're right, by the time GATO entered we had a lot of nations already engaged with UPN so it was a bit limited as to what we could shift over.

  22. Xiphosis

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    To be fair, the other alliance you were fighting was UPN. I would say that giving UPN credit for even 60% of the damage is a bit generous.

    And FHU, who if I'm honest were much better than both of the two, as is usual with smaller AA's [AB > Echelon > NPO > GDA in Karma, for instance]

  25. Xiphosis

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    well this is all well and good but you forgot to include RIA for GATO as well as RnR, iFOK, and CMEA for UPN.

    Didn't forget, just don't have the data. All of this is from an internal war stats thread that was never meant to see the light of day, but it quite clearly shows that this is a load of horse !@#$.

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