El_Azz0 Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 I haven't involved myself in politics since 2010, but why is this just on us (the community) to revive the game? Is the game not advertised anymore etc? Mobile game seem to be the craze at the minute, why not develop an app, and entice more new players to join? Seems like the "new" players of late, aren't new at all, and are like me, returning for a front seat to the apocalypse. Did I miss something? Do we just sit here and argue about why we're in this mess, or try and fix it? This may seem a very ignorant misinformed reply, but it's sad to see it in it's current state.. I just want to know why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmightyGrub Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 14 hours ago, El_Azz0 said: I haven't involved myself in politics since 2010, but why is this just on us (the community) to revive the game? Is the game not advertised anymore etc? Mobile game seem to be the craze at the minute, why not develop an app, and entice more new players to join? Seems like the "new" players of late, aren't new at all, and are like me, returning for a front seat to the apocalypse. Did I miss something? Do we just sit here and argue about why we're in this mess, or try and fix it? This may seem a very ignorant misinformed reply, but it's sad to see it in it's current state.. I just want to know why? The game is as it is because the reality was there was only ever a few handfuls of people actually driving the masses around the board. Many of those people have left, or retired to the point of almost inactivity and there has been very little interest in taking their place. There was a lot of talent here, most of it is gone. The run of the mill alliance player was never good enough to make things happen, and so they sit here and contemplate why the community is as it is. Too many stupid people, with a complete lack of comprehension of what drives the game, having input into driving the game for their own agenda rather than the global community effectively killed whatever resistance there was. Here we sit, waiting for someone to do something and the people who could, after careful contemplation, couldn't be arsed anymore. For me personally, everyone I wanted to hate me probably has at some stage hated me, everyone I wanted to kill has been killed and as far as I am concerned, I have SFA left to achieve that is remotely interesting to me. Therefore, unless I get inspired, I won't do too much too often.... and unfortunately I am not alone in this regard. Face it, the game was won a while ago now, we are just waiting to turn off the lights. Please sweet lord, turn off the lights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Apocalypse Posted June 27, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 (edited) 13 hours ago, AlmightyGrub said: Therefore, unless I get inspired, I won't do too much too often.... and unfortunately I am not alone in this regard. Hold my beer.... For the record: I hate liked you, you were never really on my 'side' but you always did opposition/aggression well when needed. You pushed the buttons, and even if it didn't end well at least you pushed them. Ironically, there's quite the lack of initiative to do so these days Edited June 27, 2019 by Johnny Apocalypse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmightyGrub Posted June 28, 2019 Report Share Posted June 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Johnny Apocalypse said: Hold my beer.... For the record: I hate liked you, you were never really on my 'side' but you always did opposition/aggression well when needed. You pushed the buttons, and even if it didn't end well at least you pushed them. Ironically, there's quite the lack of initiative to do so these days If you are going to push buttons you need to be reasonably confident of what happens when you do. The world is so asleep I bet I could attack a single alliance, no one would defend them because they wouldn't notice or care, quite probably including the alliance attacked, threaten them with all kinds of demands up to an including moving color or disbanding and then peace them out when I felt like without really achieving anything. This is the real issue for me now, what do I do that achieves anything? Everyone has a treaty with everyone else or at least an ally of someone else, and the OWF is a cesspool, so there isn't even the minor joy of getting the Trollmaster2000 fired up. Hard to find motivation to be an evil attention seeking arsehole when no one notices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrash Posted June 30, 2019 Report Share Posted June 30, 2019 (edited) Complains about people being asleep, joins Oculus. You can't complain about everyone being treatied to everyone when you are part of it. There are no sides anymore, your AA put the nail in the coffin on that. The other problem is the whole not calling people in to defend them. F that !@#$. Missed out on so many wars because we were told to sit out. Edited June 30, 2019 by Thrash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmightyGrub Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 17 hours ago, Thrash said: Complains about people being asleep, joins Oculus. You can't complain about everyone being treatied to everyone when you are part of it. There are no sides anymore, your AA put the nail in the coffin on that. The other problem is the whole not calling people in to defend them. F that !@#$. Missed out on so many wars because we were told to sit out. Not complaining, observing. There is currently two clear sides, one just lacks the fortitude to do what must be done whilst the other sits waiting for them to make their move. If you want to do something however, you actually have to commit to it. That means you have to take a risk or two but those with courage and vision are long gone from ''Side II''. If everyone from ''Side II'' dropped their external treaties they would have a proper shot at the title..... but no one is giving up their ties to Oculus anytime soon, both because they are lazy and because they know the end result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jerdge Posted July 1, 2019 Report Share Posted July 1, 2019 (edited) On 6/27/2019 at 7:25 AM, AlmightyGrub said: The game is as it is because the reality was there was only ever a few handfuls of people actually driving the masses around the board. Many of those people have left, or retired to the point of almost inactivity and there has been very little interest in taking their place. There was a lot of talent here, most of it is gone. The run of the mill alliance player was never good enough to make things happen, and so they sit here and contemplate why the community is as it is. Too many stupid people, with a complete lack of comprehension of what drives the game, having input into driving the game for their own agenda rather than the global community effectively killed whatever resistance there was. Here we sit, waiting for someone to do something and the people who could, after careful contemplation, couldn't be arsed anymore. For once I mostly disagree with you here. In CN old times we had a few talented leaders, sure, but there's no reason for talent not to be present in the new leaders as well. For several years, maybe up to ten years we actually also had a total of probably hundreds of good and excellent players spread across dozens of acceptably competent alliances, each of which had a lively pool of active top and middle level management that ran things internally and externally: there's no good reason to think that the random (stochastic) loss of a talented few explains the death of CN. Why did we decline, then? Honestly I don't know for sure - it's obviously much easier to hint at the (big, anyway) flaws in your explanation, than to develop and to present an alternative one. In general, every society is always at risk of decline, often an irreversible one. It can be that its (power) structures become unable to continue to solve its problems - the internal dynamics explanation - or that its relationship with its own environment degenerates or it simply reaches the point at which it can't be sustained anymore - the external reason explanation. Or both things! The (political) power structure of CN may have become too fossilized, regardless of the individual will of its components, or the dynamics of CN statistics might have reached exhaustion - or both - and the players' enjoyment simply declined, thus players left. In my view, political unipolarity, the game involution towards (only) war dynamics, the tech/money(/land) "inflation", all contributed to frustrate the politically-active players, all those that didn't just want to play "just another war game", nation builders and others, by stifling political and statistical competition. The game wasn't any more the fun it used to, many (most) active players left, alliances died and here we are. On 6/28/2019 at 2:24 AM, AlmightyGrub said: The world is so asleep I bet I could attack a single alliance, no one would defend them because they wouldn't notice or care, quite probably including the alliance attacked, threaten them with all kinds of demands up to an including moving color or disbanding and then peace them out when I felt like without really achieving anything. This is the real issue for me now, what do I do that achieves anything? Everyone has a treaty with everyone else or at least an ally of someone else, and the OWF is a cesspool, so there isn't even the minor joy of getting the Trollmaster2000 fired up. Ha ha I 100% agree with all of this. Well said. Edited July 1, 2019 by jerdge Removing part of the first quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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