JoshuaR

Congrats, guys.

You can't just use score. I think Umbrella alone with about 80 members had 42 score before anti-BIBO iirc.

Umbrella strives as ever to become more like the New Pacific Order.

I support this fine document.

Grats guys. For the most part seems like an okay group. :P

Sweet. Didn't know there would be aid slot changes in proposals.

Do you have a link to the final bracket of the first one?

I didn't even notice until I read this post. I wonder if that means it looks good or... that it just didn't matter.

"Pshh, our exposure will be next to nil when we PM all of our high-NS nations!" -certain "exposed" alliances from past war history

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because he's greek.

Olympic Games A group of nations within the Black team sphere have submitted an initiative to host a series of Olympic games for the color sphere. Proposal: These games will bring in a great amount of business for the Black team sphere at the cost of increased crime. +$2.00 citizen income, -50 crime prevention score (I love that Hellas voted yes on this one.)

Cool. Nice work.

There have been at least a few that would have made me money had the senators passed them.

For some reason I never noticed the offset when the rankings go from single to double digits. Now I'm wondering if it'd look weirder with 01, 02... or an extra space between the parenthesis, or just waiting until I forget there's an offset.

Yeah, if I had gotten one of those I would have joined MI6 (you know, if I weren't in Umbrella)

New players aren't discouraged because they will never have as much money as me. They will. At one time I personally probably had one of the largest warchests in the game outside of literally a handful of neutrals. Now I am probably more on par with the upper tier fighting nations (not the super-tier savers) because I have fought so many recent very expensive wars. In my tier I no longer have the advantage of a super warchest. And if you look at nations that were behind me in warchest but didn't fight in the last war? They've caught up and possibly passed me. But what does that matter? My advantage as a bloated whale (I agree with you on that point) is not in my cash reserves, it is in my TECHNOLOGY reserves (and my wonder complement). Warchests can be grown to a suitable level quite quickly. There is no technology plateau, however. More technology is always better. It always costs near the same amount, and technology growth is linear. New nations don't look at my nation and mope about how they'll never have as much useless money as I have. They'll look at my nation and mope about never having the technology, at least until I get knocked about a few more times. The only way to fix that is to eliminate technology trading or enable a mechanism for newer nations to obtain technology at a faster rate. With regards to wonders, I think it's fair to add a NS value to each wonder, as was suggested in this thread. In such a way, a nuke turret will outrange an empty-wondered new player and prevent that discrepancy. Without that, the game is still fun without being a top nation because you still get to enjoy the fight in your own tier. My point is in agreeing that there are class discrepancies, but a warchest adjustment won't solve the biggest issues: technology and wonders.

One of the big reasons for joining alliance for me is the forum community it houses.

Seems like it. I don't see how warchest caps would help the game. Don't we all WANT more frequent (shorter) wars? I spend a few billion dollars every time I go to war, and if I knew I'd deplete my mandatory small warchest every time I went to war, I'd care a lot about avoiding war. That's the problem we already have with tech. People are afraid to lose months or years worth of work in accumulation and avoid war. Capping a warchest would make that situation even worse.

Whoo now I can insult people again without it being policy. Proud of our fantastic lineup.

We just sat there kicking the ball into our own goal because we pitied you.

All I'm seeing is roll MI6 and roll DT.

I used to play bridge with a friend who had traveled to Australia and had a deck of cards with Australian animals. I always knew when someone else had the queen of hearts because they always smiled and let out an, "Awwwwww." The queen of hearts was a wombat.

You send an alliance tech. The alliance sends you money. Everybody grows faster.

Money > Tech > Infra > Land > Honor > Honour > Casualties. Am I doing it wrong?