Brad the Tyrant is BACK

[New Bradfordsburg]

After a seven-year layoff...I'm back. And, I got my old nation back.

Ahhh...Civil War can be SO distracting. Ah, never mind that. I wish to announce myself to NationStates and pull a classic "Do you know who you're talking to?!" with all these mass-spamming recruiters.

I'm Brad the Tyrant...and I STARTED this whole player-generated region bullcrap. Okay, maybe a little bit of an exaggeration...but I pretty much defined griefing in 2003...when I got the ax from the game by the mods for resolving a political crisis with a strong hand. They were just no fun.

I have a new region, called Dux Milan....and I've posted a link to my profile on NSWiki from back in the day.

http://nationstates.wikia.com/wiki/Brad_the_Tyrant

And for a little background....here's some information about the Region of Sparrow...which is now a floundering ghost town. Too bad. Oh well!

http://nationstates.wikia.com/wiki/Sparrow

I'm looking to set up something in Dux Milan that was quite similar to Sparrow. A constitutional republic inside of a region, complete with all the interactive facets of great gameplay and the energetic players to help provide it. Who's with me?

Brad

[Unibot III]

Welcome back. Moldavi is still around.

[Milograd]

Interesting.

Welcome back.

[New Bradfordsburg]

Welcome back. Moldavi is still around.

How do you know Moldavi?

[Milograd]

Welcome back. Moldavi is still around.

How do you know Moldavi?

Who doesn't know Comrade Moldavi?

Personally, I'm a resident of The Pacific and he is a Senator there.

[New Bradfordsburg]

Is he?! Wow.

Can't believe he's still going strong. Good to hear.

Seems that a lot has changed since I left the game. I can't believe the volume of recruiting telegrams....they just pour in, one at a time! So what are the dynamics of this new NationStates? Which regions are the players? Maybe somebody could give me a brief synopsis of the lay of the land. I know there are thousands of regions but there are really only a few you need to know about...

[Kazmr]

Is he?! Wow.

Can't believe he's still going strong. Good to hear.

Seems that a lot has changed since I left the game. I can't believe the volume of recruiting telegrams....they just pour in, one at a time! So what are the dynamics of this new NationStates? Which regions are the players? Maybe somebody could give me a brief synopsis of the lay of the land. I know there are thousands of regions but there are really only a few you need to know about...

As for TGs, there are two reasons for that. First is that they implemented a 'stamp system' basically to keep up with the costs of the site. You can buy stamps (pretty cheap) to send mass TGs, which when used for recruitment are basically queued just so all 20 don't come at once. People have also created TG sending scripts for recruitment, though there are limits on how frequently they can send. Of course, the enormous volume of recruitment TGs has led some to believe that they aren't effective simply because new players get overwhelmed and block them out. A few big plus sides of that overhauled TG system include expanded TG features (with sent TGs and a larger inbox) as well as the ability for delegates and founders to send free mass TGs to their region (judging from what I read on the wiki, I'm sure you would have enjoyed that back on the day )

As for the big regions, I'll leave that to other people, since I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to international relations; tend to stick to Lazarus, where I'm in the regional government. I can say that the GCRs are still politically politically relevant (there are a couple more of them than there were before; two new resurrection regions), though the real influence varies by region.

I will say that there have probably been a LOT of political and style of play changes, though I'm sure you'll find some familiar stuff in there as well.

[All Good People]

Welcome back. I think Tygaland is still around too.

[Fire]

Is he?! Wow.

Can't believe he's still going strong. Good to hear.

Pierconium is Moldavi. I'm not sure if he took that name when he was in Sparrow or not. He ended up becoming Emperor of The Pacific in 2006. I'm not sure if you were around when Sparrow joined the ADN, but a few from the ADN are still around like Crazygirl and Ananke II and Westwind.

Um, as for a run-down of what the political landscape is like ... the major powers are Defenders (The United Defenders League, The Founderless Regions Alliance, Lazarus, 10000 Islands, Spiritus, Mordor, The Rejected Realms), Francoists (The Pacific, Lazarus, The East Pacific), Imperialists (The New Inquisition, Albion, Land of Kings and Emperors, Balder, Europeia, The West Pacific), Invaders (The Black Riders, The Black Hawks, Osiris) and Independents (Equilism, The South Pacific, Osiris).

Not all of them are what I labelled them as (and they'll bitch about the association ) -- but that's the spheres of influence. Defenders have fairly good relations with Francoists now -- while Invaders, Imperialists and Independents largely associate with one another.

[Bradfordsborough]

Wow.

I am so very surprised that many of you know about Sparrow.

We were quite a region in our day...swelling to more than 400 nations in the infancy of the game. Many of the principles for region building are the same, even though the game has changed.

Sparrow did not start or grow with mass recruiting telegrams. They proved to be ineffective and brought in nations which soon went inactive. The way we grew was through networking with other active nations. Once you made a good connection or two with active players, it just kind of snowballed from there. We got people to believe in something, which really stood apart...and we only focused on active players.

The most remarkable thing about Sparrow is that for most of its existence it was a WA only region. There were laws which booted inactive nations after 15 days as well.

As for the names that are mentioned above...I'll refrain from speaking too much about them because I'm afraid I wouldn't have much nice to say. Above all, Borogravia Moldavi was a horse that rode in during the Political Crisis of 2003 and used the drama to usurp my position as Founder after befriending a moderator.

The craziest thing about that whole situation? While I was ejecting nations I deemed to be destructive to our region I was removed from that position by the moderators...for exercising a power I had every right to. Now, I don't know what's gone down in the 10 years since that but when it happened....it seemed to be for the first time in NationStates history. My nation was also deleted.

I will always disagree with that decision. The moderators intervened politically in Sparrow...sending it plunging into a political vacuum. Admittedly, a few friends, allies and acquaintances of mine continued to harass members of New Sparrow for the years to follow. I even went as far as being elected UN Delegate (after I'd been officially written out of the Constitution) in New Sparrow three years after my mass-griefing...I re-griefed the region. Met by the same result.

It almost didn't matter. Things were never going to go back to normal after the moderators intervened. The region would always be polarized...divided and embattled. Perhaps New Sparrow was doomed to fail at that moment...I believe it was. If the moderators had stayed out, that little spat in 2003 may have never been anything more than that and Sparrow may have worked out its own issues.

Now, I noticed Sparrow has been recreated to celebrate the 10-year mark of the 2003 Mass Ejections, which will be on Christmas Eve this year.

[McMasterdonia]

Um, as for a run-down of what the political landscape is like ... the major powers are Defenders (The United Defenders League, The Founderless Regions Alliance, Lazarus, 10000 Islands, Spiritus, Mordor, The Rejected Realms), Francoists (The Pacific, Lazarus, The East Pacific), Imperialists (The New Inquisition, Albion, Land of Kings and Emperors, Balder, Europeia, The West Pacific), Invaders (The Black Riders, The Black Hawks, Osiris) and Independents (Equilism, The South Pacific, Osiris).

Not all of them are what I labelled them as (and they'll bitch about the association ) -- but that's the spheres of influence. Defenders have fairly good relations with Francoists now -- while Invaders, Imperialists and Independents largely associate with one another.

TNP doesn't even rate a mention?

[Red Skull Prime]

Welcome! Good to see old players returning.

[Solorni]

Um, as for a run-down of what the political landscape is like ... the major powers are Defenders (The United Defenders League, The Founderless Regions Alliance, Lazarus, 10000 Islands, Spiritus, Mordor, The Rejected Realms), Francoists (The Pacific, Lazarus, The East Pacific), Imperialists (The New Inquisition, Albion, Land of Kings and Emperors, Balder, Europeia, The West Pacific), Invaders (The Black Riders, The Black Hawks, Osiris) and Independents (Equilism, The South Pacific, Osiris).

Not all of them are what I labelled them as (and they'll bitch about the association ) -- but that's the spheres of influence. Defenders have fairly good relations with Francoists now -- while Invaders, Imperialists and Independents largely associate with one another.

TNP doesn't even rate a mention?

In the words of Unibot, it's just crapaganda

[Evil Wolf]

Unibot is an expert and leading authority in the subject of making himself look important. Beyond that, his words should be taken with a beach's worth of salt.

[Unibot III]

Um, as for a run-down of what the political landscape is like ... the major powers are Defenders (The United Defenders League, The Founderless Regions Alliance, Lazarus, 10000 Islands, Spiritus, Mordor, The Rejected Realms), Francoists (The Pacific, Lazarus, The East Pacific), Imperialists (The New Inquisition, Albion, Land of Kings and Emperors, Balder, Europeia, The West Pacific), Invaders (The Black Riders, The Black Hawks, Osiris) and Independents (Equilism, The South Pacific, Osiris).

Not all of them are what I labelled them as (and they'll bitch about the association ) -- but that's the spheres of influence. Defenders have fairly good relations with Francoists now -- while Invaders, Imperialists and Independents largely associate with one another.

TNP doesn't even rate a mention?

I don't think TNP has been very active as a power interregionally since the height of Evil Wolf's transitory term, it's played a role in many different events (like, for example, the Milo coup and the fall of the Kemetic Republic), but it's in a process of re-positioning itself and thus, as of result, isn't making any concrete motions interregionally as of late.

Academics who think they can put a label on TNP for more than a few weeks are completely wrong. TNP isn't Independent or Neutral; it isn't Defender or Invader or Imperialist. It's too decentralized and fragmented to have a single identity. Analysis suggests TNP slips and swings around ideologically like a wet snake. I think that limits what TNP can do interregionally because other powers aren't necessarily sure they can trust to invest in TNP when TNP's Assembly is pretty fluid -- it's not necessarily a bad thing, but membership changes often and how TNP collectively thinks on a lot of issues changes deeply like every few weeks.

[Charax]

TNP slips and swings around ideologically like a wet snake.

I... Uh... what?

[Solorni]

TNP slips and swings around ideologically like a wet snake.

I... Uh... what?

Yeah, that's a really weird image.... snakes don't swing and I can't imagine them slipping

[Tim-Opolis]

Unibot is an expert and leading authority in the subject of making himself look important. Beyond that, his words should be taken with a beach's worth of salt.

Truest words in this thread.


Good to see you back, regardless.

[Feux]

You can come talk to Moldavi here if you want: http://ns.npowned.net/forum/

[Frattastan II]

So, you griefed your region twice. Pretty low.

[Dalimbar]

You would be surprised how many of us were around for that period of time, and stuck around. I suppose welcome back is in order.

[ProGamingSPY]

More invader orgs on the block? I won't protest. Welcome back, and best of luck with Sparrow ^_^

[New Bradfordsburg]

If anybody is interested....please check out The Region of Dux Milan and our new regional website. We will be accepting new members until scheduled elections on January 15, when the region is scheduled to choose three nations to serve on the region's Board of Selectmen.

We are also holding a landgrab for our regional map and first-comers will get first choice with map placement.

For more information, contact me or visit our shiny new regional website below!

http://duxmilan.wordpress.com/

[Consular]

I... Uh... what?

Yeah, that's a really weird image.... snakes don't swing and I can't imagine them slipping

Yeah, that... I don't even know. Whatever else he was trying to say became irrelevant as soon as I read that line.

[McMasterdonia]

TNP doesn't even rate a mention?

I don't think TNP has been very active as a power interregionally since the height of Evil Wolf's transitory term, it's played a role in many different events (like, for example, the Milo coup and the fall of the Kemetic Republic), but it's in a process of re-positioning itself and thus, as of result, isn't making any concrete motions interregionally as of late.

Academics who think they can put a label on TNP for more than a few weeks are completely wrong. TNP isn't Independent or Neutral; it isn't Defender or Invader or Imperialist. It's too decentralized and fragmented to have a single identity. Analysis suggests TNP slips and swings around ideologically like a wet snake. I think that limits what TNP can do interregionally because other powers aren't necessarily sure they can trust to invest in TNP when TNP's Assembly is pretty fluid -- it's not necessarily a bad thing, but membership changes often and how TNP collectively thinks on a lot of issues changes deeply like every few weeks.

I don't agree with your assessment. The Government of TNP has made our opinion quite clear on recent events, but I admit that we don't like to make a screaming fuss about stuff like some regions do. Also given that we have a number of strong relationships with many of the regions that you listed, I don't think that demonstrates a lack of interregional trust or desire to work with the North Pacific.

The assembly is relatively fluid, but I don't think that the fundamentals change every few weeks as you would suggest. The events during Blue Wolfs transitionary term (I assume you mean his take over from me) was the closing of UDL relations, which was an appropriate response to an inappropriate action.