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Good news everyone! I've fixed the treaty web. Even better news, the treaty web will now be automatically configured based on in-game treaties! What should you know about in-game treaties? They are not enforced. The only slight exception to this is that for two alliances, if they have any kind of treaty between them, members from either alliance will not be allowed to declare war on the other. This does not prevent espionage, it does not, prevent leaving the alliance->declaring war->rejoining the alliance, and it does not prevent existing wars from continuing. You are limited to a set number of options based on what the Treaty Web had before. If you sign a treaty that is not included in one of these options, you can either mark it as one of the options, or choose to not include it in-game. There is nothing requiring you to list treaties in-game. Treaties expire automatically after a set period of time. The maximum length of time for a treaty is 6 months. The reasoning behind this is to (even if only slightly) encourage the use of expiration clauses in treaties so that the political dynamics of inter-alliance politics will be less static. Only alliances above a score threshold (currently 35,000) will show on the treaty web. Only up to the top 50 alliances will show on the treaty web, if there are more than 50 with greater than the score threshold. Only treaties between two alliances both on the treaty web will be listed on the treaty web. The treaty web now has its own link in the sidebar, and can be found here: https://politicsandwar.com/alliances/treatyweb/ You do not have to use the treaty web or in-game treaties. They are an entirely optional mechanic, and if for any reason you are unhappy with this mechanic, please feel free to ignore it. I will re-iterate again: I will not be doing anything to enforce treaties, and I will not be forcing anyone to list treaties in-game. This is for the ease of automating the treaty web. Treaties can be proposed, cancelled, and approved in the Alliance Control Panel. Officers, Heirs, and Leaders have access to the Alliance Control Panel, and so anyone in those positions can approve, cancel, or propose treaties. I may change these permissions in the future, but for the time being, you should be aware that that is how it is configured. You cannot have more than one treaty between two alliances at a time. This is to reduce spam and clutter. For Protectorate treaties, the one who proposes the treaty is considered the "Protector." I believe that's the most important information, if you have any other questions please ask below. I will do my best to update this post with common questions to make everyone's lives easier. Lastly, I just want to say, that having no treaties looks pretty cool. You can see the bare treaty web (with no treaties) here: https://i.imgur.com/F7kKygQ.png

The Discord @everyone ping was extremely necessary

Congrats to Rose on being protected by UPN!

I'm sick of this. How they are treating people. Thinking they can just declare on who they want. It's time for someone to take a stand. #Arrghlivesmatter

Oh boy, I can't wait to see this abused.

Damn you... Will have to find a new trick now.

Is this an elaborate advertisement for Pirate Insurance?

Some suggestions: directional option for protection treaties make the scaling not entirely dependent on aa size so you can actually see more than the top 10 without zooming make alliances clickable add mdap

I do love these cute attempts by you to make the game interesting Alex!

But in the eeeeeeend It doesn't even maaaaatteeeeerrrrrr Now look at this magic

Using 'gay' as a slur is homophobia. Onto the list you go.

Why do I have a feeling this is the mods' punishment upon us? Underrated post. Person X: "There is gun violence in the OWF that needs to be addressed." Person Y: "I agree." Person Z: "I haven't seen any. Care to show us some examples, since I haven't seen any?" Person Y: "I didn't state it, I only agreed." Person X: "There is gun violence in the OWF." Person Z: "Any particular post?" Person X + Y: "You're -ist!"

Arrgh recognizes the "Recognition of Arrgh's 23rd Great Cycle of Raids against Valkyrie". Actually... it could also be 13th or 45th cycle of raids... The rest of the admiralty was too drunk to give me a proper briefing.

Seriously on page 9 of this? This was the wrong way to go about any of that. First you know what edgelords want? More air time. Now you got the normal people agreeing with these idiots. Well, this made it worse if anything. Sexism doesn't end now, certainly not here. Just leave it be and shun them. Don't give them any time. Not worth it.

Frankly, I'm surprised you bothered with the thread.... Isn't it a routine matter by now?

There are all kinds of pirates, my lady, like people. Your statements though couldn't be further from the truth in general. Always talking about pirates in the Caribbean, pirates were socially very liberal. For example, they openly welcomed homosexuality and even had their own form of gay marriage. Ships were also egalitarian and democratic procedures were used. The Captain was elected. The Pirate Code included basic ethics around equal distribution of wealth, democratic group decisions, honesty to comrades, and loyalty (and revenge). Piracy was not just an "easy" way to make money. It was a path to liberty. The dream of Nassau is a characteristic one. And, oh, look here. Arrgh is following the same path. Trying to provide a haven to players that are tired of taking commands from others, being used as tax farms and being forbidden from doing war, building their own economy, posting on the forums or anything else. In any case, do read some history before getting your facts from Hollywood movies. Although, I am not surprised by this kind of propaganda coming from the Acadian navy.

Bol to all involved.

We here at Valkyrie feel that it's finally time to stop bending over to Arrgh! - This feeling, of course, has come up after Arrgh!'s recent never-ending string of attacks against us. So yes, we recognize this as a declaration of hostilities and ask that anyone else who's ever bent over backward to Arrgh! to join us in this fight. /-)ndrew

Can treaties also show up on the alliance page and not just in the web?

or scream VALID CB an start a war

Could you add in a feature where we would be able to remove old treaties from the control panel?

or save time and grow some skin.

Hey, IQ already did that. No further effort required.

We need to get all the alliances onboard to make a pentagram. 'Tis the season!

A great update!

Fantastic

"Gun violence is bad" is a lot different than "gun violence is rampant on the OWF and we need to create a list of people to combat it." I could've said "misandry is rampant on the OWF." Would you also agree with that statement with no specific post/evidence to back up the claim?

Woah man now you've gone too far

I'm surprised the forum mods haven't interfered with this topic yet.

Playing the victim. Gosh you see my Facebook messages when I post this stuff. Sadly this is taking that same path. Yet that's not the issue. I put yet another example and got called a "victim" A. I am a victim. Just not of owf abuse. Or whatever someone might call this if they made such a claim. But yes. A victim of sexual abuse. You want proof? How about I post pictures of a 300 pound man attacking me when I was 2.... B. Proof isn't needed to agree with a cause. It's not longer if it's true. It's that we as a community should not let it become true. Also confused on how standing up for women not getting sexually assaulted isn't standing uo for the cause of equality. That's like saying I hate fast food. While eating McDonald's. It's a contradiction thus untrue. C. You've read the article Orbis News posted. You've seen it's claimed by a woman. Yet you haggle me for the proof.. Have you tried asking said woman? Just an idea.

When I saw Jodo and Prefontaine post, I seriously thought this was a necro'd thread. As for the topic, all alliances should perceive Arrgh as a permanent opponent, lol.

Everyone criticizes Thorin, but it was thanks to his efforts that TFP got a Discord and is now somewhat known on the world stage. #neverforget

The fact that you, someone who is claiming that sexism exists, either 1. can't be bothered to take 5 seconds of your life to copy paste something, or 2. can't find it because it's not as rampant as you say it is. Again, you're not answering JP's point about the lack of evidence... I'm going to cite a book against this, Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell, a book with hundreds of sources written by an expert, against your ad-cluttered website that has next to no citations and which has some random unqualified journalist as an author. "...it is as misleading in the economic area as in other areas to think of [American ethnic groups] as "minorities" who fall below some "majority", or national average, in socioeconomic terms. A number of ethnic groups exceed the national average in socioeconomic status. Many factors are responsible for these economic differences among the various groups. Age is a major factor that is often overlooked..." The book then continues to describe how education, culture, and fertility also contribute to the skewed statistics. Ignoring the fact that most gamers tend to be males regardless of gaming due to the toxic communities usually attributed. This game seems to actually have a higher percentage of females in leadership positions than other games. There have been females on our side... you just haven't noticed them.

How the !@#$ is this thread still here? Considering the stupid shit mods here have locked when they really shouldn't have, I would assume this would have been killed on page 1.

i don’t get this whole “all female players agree with this thread” because i’m pretty sure some female players have come out against this thread... even if female players didn’t come out against this thread, i see no reason to treat female players any differently than male players...of course, this coming from a person (myself) who treats female players no differently than male players to begin with

The classic 'asking for proof just shows your a sexist' argument. Clearly you've defeated us and shown how Uber evil we are. If it's too personal for you to post in here, then there's nothing you can do to show us there is this proclaimed 'epidemic'. So I'll tell yiu what; go to the alliance leader of whatever aa they're in, report it, and let them take action. But telling us you don't need to show proof making baseless accusations, and then making a moronic blanket statement about everyone disagreeing with yiu, because they disagree with you, just shows that you aren't an adult. I suggest you take a step back from the comp.

No thanks, I'd rather kick retarded autistic edgelords on my OWN terms. I don't need a stupid petition to do that, do I?

Quoted from the link you posted above "The report says that this discrepancy can be attributed to the fact that women tend to pursue fields that pay less than fields pursued by men. College majors that have high reported median earnings, like those in the STEM fields, consist of far more men than women, based on data taken from the National Center for Education Statistics and the US Census Bureau. By contrast, jobs in fields like education, social work, and nursing are largely female-dominated and pay substantially less than fields that are male-dominated." K, so people who work in different fields get paid differently? So do women in the same field get paid significantly less than men for the same work? The answer is no, and even if they do it's nowhere near 72 cents to every dollar, that's just ridiculous. The reason women "earn" less total is because they will usually take a long time off from work when pregnant and will usually look after the kids while the man works (e.g will go to part-time so she can pick them up from school or just quit work altogether and stay at home). While obviously this isn't always the case and the man can be the one to look after the kids while the woman works, it's not that common. Also a woman's preferred field can just be paid less, so it's also about what job field they wish to pursue. Anyway all you posted was one link which isn't even really academic which dosen't even say that women earn less compared to men because of sexism which is what many claim today, when it's really just economics and people's personal choices. I would post some sources I have but I'm in a bit of a rush atm so I will bit later. Btw, sorry if I came off as rude or nonsensical in this "rant" since I'm in a bit of a rush atm, and I did skim through parts of the article. I'll go over it again and edit if needed to fix anything dumb I said. Thanks

@Kynlo @Greene I found another racist for you guys to add to the list. But no, in reality, congrats to TFP for coming this far. Here's to another 1,000 days.

Did you guys have to vote on rather or not you would recognize hostilities?

I think we're already there, m8

Did you ever think that this life has had no puprose? Well I've had that thought many times. It's not unnatural or werid to have such thoughts either. The purpose of life is finding the purpose of life!

Summary of the incident: TKR is put on the hotseat, they decide to do nothing. NK is working against their ally because they think they’re wrong. Nuke Bloc wants to use nukes so they’re baiting TKR. Hogwarts ran from TKRSPHERE to avoid getting rolled. TKR still hasn’t done anything.

Here you have Italian version

I guess I will answer accordingly.

Their name is an oxymoron, they'll figure it out and probably disband after their first war

Well, looking at the current politics, the only way to get a war now is to go into the old, classic "girls vs boys" conflict we all faced during the elementary school. I suggest @Lordship leads the boys and @Micchan the girls. The idea behind this petition would be a good theme for an alliance by the way.

Ads = game ruined No ads = poor ads people No adblock = I see ads, this is bad! Adblock = I don't see ads, poor ads people, this is bad!