Mikey

This was by far the hardest scroll I’ve had to make. It’s been a wild 10 years in this alliance, and while I’m sad to see our time here come to an end, I am happy we lasted this long. Even at our lowest points the community was always active and having fun. Before our recent decision to pull back from PW, very few of our members had ever left for other alliances, a testament to the strong community he built. Unfortunately many, including myself, felt themselves pulled away from PW altogether. It’s been a true honor playing with everyone over the years. I may have started SK, but it was our members who truly built it into what it is, and I am eternally grateful for that. I hope we can keep the bad together even as we leave this particular game. O/ SK its been fun.

The man steals the credit for my scroll and DoW title, and can't even do a forum spoiler properly 🤦‍♂️ If anyone wants to actually read the scroll or view it full size, you'll need to open it in a new tab if you aren't on mobile. I don't know why, but the forums don't let it take up it's full width anymore and always scales them down heavily.

Sure thing! I look forward to seeing which of your predecessors you will be channeling. The brash one who got himself and his family slaughtered? The know-nothing who was stabbed to death by his own subordinates, revived by a crazy witch, and then walked right into the very trap his top generals made him swear he wouldn't walk into? This time there won't be any Knights of the Vale to bail you out... Or maybe it will be the the wise one - a true king who recognized the hopelessness of resistance and, with a single act, bought centuries of peace and prosperity for his people. Be like Torrhen. Assume the position.

Keep these pledges coming! The Iron Throne can always use new swords.

On the one hand, I can get behind overthrowing Squeegee. On the other hand, when I retake my rightful throne, any remaining rebels might do well to remember what happened to the last few "Kings" in the North...

It came my friend.

We would have to consider ourselves a tiger in the first place

It may be redundant, but it was an excuse to make a new scroll, so I'll allow it. Plus the humming is fantastic, new anthem for sure! It is ironic though that we put the most work into presenting a treaty that already existed That is definitely the exact same thing though, let's be real.

Given the context that this apology is coming after Cam's behavior was savaged in the other thread and on Discord by nearly every other group, effectively backing them into an FA corner; and given the context that high profile members continue to defend past actions; I think it's fairly reasonable that people are skeptical. Look, you guys fricked up hard last war and a lot of people are rightfully pissed off about your actions. It isn't the first time an alliance has found themselves in that position, and it won't be the last, though it may be more heated than most. Take it from an alliance that has been there multiple times before - take the L and move on. It's not unreasonable to want to hold them accountable for their actions in some meaningful in-game way, such as say rolling them in a short war. With time, most people will move on if you will. T$ in particular, which seems to be singled out by detractors here, has an entire history of doing just that. The fact that we can exist on the same political axis as them again proves it. We - the various divergent alliances that made up col A - are not IQ. We don't hold permanent grudges over past behavior or past governments. Every single alliance of meaningful age on our side has at some point made friends out of enemies, enemies out of friends, and back again. If you truly change you will find most people's attitudes change with you, but you're going to have to face the immediate consequences first. Whether that's a war when the NAP ends. or just several more threads of people !@#$ing.

I agree. I think it's good to play to win, but in a king of the hill kind of sense. You know you are going to get knocked off eventually, but your goal is to get a solid group together and then try and see how long you can last at the top. Once you get knocked down, re-asses your FA, maybe meet some new people, and try again later against new kings of the hill. There were blocs vying for dominance for years without trying to sign everybody and their grandmother and strangle the game to do it. Hopefully we can get back to that.

Those 2013 and 2014 rankings are a huge wave of nostalgia! Thanks for putting this together. Looks like the 2017 image is of the current leaderboard though.

Were you never a trium in Guardian? For some reason I thought you were in the beta.

I mean, the whole point of the color mechanics, however poorly implemented, was to add another axis of politics. I can't really fault them for trying, especially when other alliances also act to defend their colors to varying degrees. Whether they went about it a good or blusterous way, idk, I skimmed the screens so I can't speak to their tone.

This could be the first color war in 6 years! Interesting. Personally, I think the color bonus is pretty marginal and poorly implemented. I mean, if 20 Grumpys joined maroon, that would also tank the color bonus I'd say the claim that Clover is violating the NAP by marginally reducing color income is a bit flimsy. But then I also think NAPs are generally a poor idea - we had years of conflict where people didn't jump a recovering alliance, without the need for them - and it's too long in any case. So I wouldn't have any qualms, personally, if Camelot 'violated' it in this instance. If we are going to be stuck with these as a common feature of peace terms (please god no), though, this and the recent drama between TCW/CoTL suggest we might want to better define what, if any, legitimate grounds there are to break it. Or to consider it void between parties.

Sorry, I'm just curious, the % air destroyed is based on your rebuy amount? The way I read it, higher tier nations do more damage than lower ones, even with equivalent militaries. If I am fighting someone with ten cities more than me, their rebuy is higher. Thus even if we both have 10,000 tanks, if he has GC, his 10000 will kill more aircraft than my 10000 would, if I had the GC. Is that right?

Very first alliance I joined in any nation same, over a decade ago. Welcome to Orbis!

True, we cannot dictate how Alex enforces his game rules. Though we might suggest that he start actually doing so if he cares about the health of the game. What is our right, however, is to enforce the norms of the community. The player base can take action for whatever reason it wants, including punishing individuals they feel have wronged the game - or defending them. My point is that talk of rights is largely pointless. As long as it is within the game rules, anybody has the right to do anything they want to anybody else - in-game, anyway. Most of the talk, outside the mod thread, has been political in nature - what other players should do, and how everyone else should react to their lack of doing it.

Nobody, as far as I can tell, has suggested they do not have the right to defend whomever they please. We have suggested that perhaps individuals caught breaking game rules, who escape with laughably little punishment, ought not be defended by alliances of good standing. A radical concept, I know. Besides, the whole muh sovereignty thing runs both ways. Just as they have the right to defend EM, we have the right to be critical of it and form our opinion of them based on it. And those in range of EM have the same right, as sovereign nations, to attack him.

In addition to the fact that many producers of refined resources import their raws, it is also possible no to be able to produce enough even if you make both natively. I have a bauxiteworks and max aluminum refineries, and even with max bauxite extractors I still have a net negative usage.

Why not just make a rule against spam ?‍♂️ In other circumstances I might also suggest an in-game solution to the issue where we deal with them ourselves, but I think they're too out of range of all concerned parties.

I've had a lot of success eschewing bots altogether. Instead I take the time to get to know them as a person. use bits of PIE to track down RL identities, find addresses, and send a hand-crafted message. I like to be funky and make it a collage, just to seem extra friendly welcoming!

Ask Alexio

Little do you know, we have Discord server where we translate GoT episodes into Mongolian. When converted to PW manpower we will be unstoppable!

Gather around my friends and plus one's. First our children grew up and hell has frozen over. Now something truly no one expected. It is by command of the joint alliances of the Seven Kingdoms, The Knights Radiant, House Stark, and The Syndicate; that I present to you the Inquisition! Lyrics: We, the Inquisition, come together in full manifestation of our friendship and solidarity. Committing ourselves to these accords in agreement with full promise of mutual prosperity and strength; with a greater understanding to be shared between us. I Mutual Defense A direct attack on one signatory is considered an attack on all signatories. In the event that one signatory comes under attack through providing military support to another ally engaged in an aggressive war, said signatory is not considered to be in a defensive war, and the response of the other signatories are not dictated by this section. II Optional Aggression All member alliances shall reserve the right to support each other in an offensive campaign. III Support We stand together in the shared security be any means. Information, aid, and diplomatic resources are all encouraged of each of member alliances. Our support for each other shall not be limited to a list. Yet we agree this agreement shall take precedence over all others. IV Sovereignty While unified, we remain sovereign. V Admission A prospective alliance may petition any signatory for membership. If sponsored, admittance will be a unanimous decision of the conclave. VI Withdrawal Any signatory that wishes to leave the Inquisition after diplomatic measures have been exhausted will have 72 hours before nullification of the member agreement. Should a member violate the spirit of this accord, a unanimous vote may expel the offender /s/ Seven Kingdoms, King - Squeegee Blackfyre High Septon and Kings Hand - Eld Fen Caron Grand Maester - Bradley Qoherys Lord Commander - McMaster Targaryan Master of Whispers - Mikey Tyrell /s/ The Knights Radiant Queen of the Heralds: Adrienne Prince of the Heralds: GoldyHammer Herald of Foreign Affairs: Benfro Herald of War: Blink Herald of Growth: Schirminator Herald of Internal Affairs: Wizel16 Herald of Fabrials: Talus /s/ House Stark King in the North: Zygon Hand of the King: Darth Ataxia /s/ The Syndicate Chief of Strategic Planning: Prefonteen Chief Operations Officer: Leopold Von Habsburg Chief Financial & Security Officer (Econ & Milcom): Theodosius

Alternately if enough of you are sticking around, I would encourage the BK members to create a new alliance and keep the community alive. If you enjoyed your time together, there's no reason you can't open a new chapter. Otherwise, I'm sure all alliances would welcome new members, but its certainly an option worth considering.