You joined a tag formed by a person with no charisma or comunication skills that traded on nostalgia to poach a few guys from more active places. NA is a big tent, we'd welcome you too.

NA, at one time the largest tag in 1a, lost most of its membership and eventually just stopped due to being attacked every single set for years in a row by SOL.

I don't believe so, there is in Classic and Express only, to the best of my knowledge.

I am the one whose style is impetuous and defense impregnable.

I've been off my naming scheme for a few sets though.

Man, I missed this set's action due to being otherwise engaged. I'd have definitely KRd you.

*impugned

And now we had 4 70M and a 67M cutoff for the t5, you have to go back to the end of 2021->2022 reset to find a t4 remotely in range of this last set, and even then #5 was a huge falloff. The t10 this round is crazy strong.

Ha! Called it. Nice win Z. Congrats to all, the scores to make that list are climbing, t7 all over 50m. Nitell with a typically solid finish, ugo and cat both crushed it.

Report him for violation

of your country

😂

This has always been their thing though? Silliness and soda sprays.

Ask RedtardX why he lost his mod powers, and how many times he had to use that particular F slur for homosexual people publicly before he got in trouble for it.

Top 8 all had over 53M, that was a huge scoring set. 35M t110 cutoff is also very high for recent rounds. Good to see.

Thanks! GG everyone! Lawrence squeaked out a PB as well, joining the 60M club officially for the first time after missing by a frog's hair last round.

Cool, cool. Glad you are happy with yourself.

Remember when you tried to get everyone to call me an NPC, and it didn't work? LMAO That's because you're the real NPC and everyone could sense the inversion 😂

I take it back, we have Clowns here and they are amusing. Turd X doesn't even rise to that level.

Turd X strikes again, haha what a clown

I think the declare peace link is bugged anyway, almost every time I click it I get sent back to the portal page and have to go back and do it again.

Freaking banger man. Excellent news.

Do you think they will trade Crosby at the deadline? Do you think they should? As a fan do you prefer to get a return for him while you can, or would you rather he played out the string and retired a Pen?

Indeed. Schedule's a little weird, it's about 60% road in the first half, obviously flipped in the second half.

I don't think they're actually as bad as they looked last year. The big key is Zibanejad. If he can find something like 80-85% of his past game, then suddenly Center flips from weakness to strength. I think the Gavrikov signing will give htem maybe the top D pair in the League between him and Fox. They got an absolute haul for Miller (who will fit Carolina's system and suddenly look better but was a disaster here), if Morrow pans out then they might challenge for the division.

Ultimately, they still can't beat Florida.

How about your boys?

So Express style GDI rules is what you're asking for?

2 sets in a row! Lawrence is killing it lately.

Yes, very nice Kingme, congrats on the PB!

If oil would be on the market consistently, I would never build another rig in my indies, cashers, or techers.

You carried too high a NW for most of the round as well.

The only possible solution is to load 46 of you into the smallest car possible, drive around in circles, stop, get out, rearrange yourselves, and get back in.

My new plan for beating him is to trick him into breaking GDI and stealing all his tech and stock. That should work right?

That's how long ago we last had two 70M+ countries.

Unsurprisingly, Nitell won that one too, Skol was the other 70M+ country that time.

Seemed worth noting.

Anyway congrats to Nitell on the win, congrats to Lawrence on the PB, and congrats to all the t10.

It's funny, because you don't have to actually post for the bonus any more

1) NHL
2) category error

NHL is king

I forgot to log in, nw looks like none of you guys had too much stock to spend on PM though

w00t, weedylar4life

Damn, I want a bio and an announcer now too

On cooperation I'd rather not even get the bonus acres. On Primary I could see benefits to this suggestion.

Happy 4th yall!

Any board game enthusiasts in here? I've recently gotten into Arcs, a space combat/economics/politics game, it's really fantastic. There's basically three separate games with the base game, the advanced game, and then the expansion. Incredibly well thought out, conveys the feeling of fighting over something vast and chaotic. Can't recommend it enough. I play lots of board games so I don't make this recommendation lightly. Not for dabblers, this is a hardcore gamer's game.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359871/arcs

Why remove the "always purchase from the public market" option? I've used that quite a bit in some rounds, for various reasons.

I have come around on Ratski, sure he's a dope but I appreciate his "eff you I do what I want" approach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj_e9UcJD34

So I just looked at that dude's profile, seems like he won basically every server once and didn't really have great finishes otherwise, got purpled twice on every server, and stuck around for only a short time. What was his deal? Seems like a real chaos agent.

The list of countries will be a great add. This looks like all upside from my angle.

6 years for Marchand is wild

If the Rangers lose Cuylle to some stupid offer sheet I am going to be freaking heated

How has nobody mentioned the Huge Alliance of Nations? HAN was massive.

Will these changes be implemented for the next change set for each server?

That's quite a venn diagram of crazy 😂

Buffalo traded Peterka for peanuts

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This change was made to avoid there being an advantage to be gained by perfect timing of the bonuses I believe? As long as you log in every day and do the bonus things once every... 48? hours, then you get your points daily at the change of day (game time).

He took a roundabout way to answer my question. He could have just said "very" and moved on.

Celphi, I see at least part of the problem. You're implicitly insisting that every strat should have an equal chance to win - i.e., that "balance" between the strats is somehow optimal for fun or enjoyment. That is categorically incorrect. The best games never have perfect balance.

Look at video games - Hades won everybody's GOTY in 2020. It has 24 weapon aspect options and modular difficulty from 0-64. The weapons are not equally optimal to maximize the difficulty, or for speedrunning. Some are just better than others. And that's a single player game. Nobody would argue that every role/strat is equally effective in COD or Minecraft either.

Look at TTRPGs. D&D has been around for 50 years and a slew of editions now, and it has never once been "balanced." Wizards are always OP. And yet, it remains the world's most popular RPG.

Look at board games. In the modern board game scene, there are too many to look at. Take a popular one like Splendor. Perfect balance in a vacuum - but as soon as you lay out the board and see what nobles and cards are available, it's completely unbalanced, and it's a race to capitalize on scarcity. Take Arcs, the spaceship game. Unbalanced out of the gate (pun intended because I'm not a coward) due to the layout, and even more so if you use the advanced rules. The Dune board game, which has been popular since the 70s, gives each player *different victory conditions.*

In summation, your basic premise (that the strats must be balanced perfectly) is intrinsically flawed, as games with perfect balance are actually boring.

Toronto is always part of the speculation. We'll all find out together I reckon.