Tim-Opolis wrote:Speaking as someone who was one of its primary leaders for most of its relevance...
This is simply not true. You’re entitled to your opinions about my leadership, but you’re not entitled to your own reality.
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by Unibot III » Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:40 pm
Tim-Opolis wrote:Speaking as someone who was one of its primary leaders for most of its relevance...
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by TheKeyToJoy » Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:46 pm
by Tinhampton » Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:51 pm
by Serdequre » Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:10 pm
All Wild Things wrote:Osiris 21 Sep 2003
*Reads mottos, reads RMB. Regrets learning to read.*
Good detective work! Spotted your dispatch too.
Only 7 messages on that RMB (which would show max 10, so must be entire history to that point), so it must have existed on 12 Sep, since earliest post is "9 days ago"
Some of those nations have Wayback entries, all but 1 are which are from 23 Sep.
Apsos was 45m population then, the largest of them (17 days old? - working out from Amerion's thing). All of the UN Nations had endorsed Apsos except Republic Persons.
Boneyard shows Apsos last active on 14 Oct 2003. Presumably CTEd 28 days later with the 337 pop. Again, check vs Amerion population guide to figure out if that's consistent.
The Midget Clan was in a region (not on Wayback) GOOLWAS ARMY on 4 Sep, and had 12m pop at the time. So older than Apsos by a few days?
Nice find!
Edit: worth noting the difference in Boneyard between "last activity" and "CTEd". If last nation was "last active" on 31 Oct, then region may have been around for another 28 days, or however long the nation lasted before CTEing..
by The Thaindom of the Shire » Fri Feb 03, 2023 3:24 am
by Jewish Underground State » Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:20 am
The Thaindom of the Shire wrote:What regions are the successors to Layem and Sanctum? It would be interesting to see how the presence of these ex members has effected regions today.
by Quebecshire » Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:54 pm
Jewish Underground State wrote:The Thaindom of the Shire wrote:What regions are the successors to Layem and Sanctum? It would be interesting to see how the presence of these ex members has effected regions today.
Kartakis and Divine Mandate of Sanctum are their successors. I know nothing on how DMS is doing and its been a bit since I caught up with Kartakis. When I last checked up with Kartakis they were loosing a lot of members due to disagreements in leadership. Its safe to say these regions just keep to themselves.
Benevolent Thomas wrote:I founded a defender organization out of my dislike of invaders, what invading represents, and my desire to see them suffer.
Pergamon wrote:I must say, you are truly what they deserve.
by New Makasta » Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:08 pm
by Goobergunchia » Fri Feb 03, 2023 4:59 pm
Tinhampton wrote:Historical Resolution #83 is called "The Eon Convention on Genocide" and authorises the UN to establish "The Pretenama Panel"s. Were Eon and Pretenama important people, places or roleplayers in the world of the 2004-era United Nations, or were those names selected for more arbitrary reasons?
TilEnca wrote: While most of TilEnca's history is full of hugs and puppy dogs, there was a period where The Church Of The Lords (the central religion of TilEnca) was corrupted by a fallen Lord (one of the divine beings) named Lucinda. She worked from inside it to make sure she became undeniable ruler of TilEnca, and the other realms of the world (Ellian and Morana). During her reign of terror she engineered the massacre of several thousand people - mostly magic users and clerics, and then anyone who opposed her point of view. It is the darkest period of TilEnca's past, and the only genocide to occur with in our history.
Near the end of her reign, a group named EON was formed to generally be a gang of heroes. It was founded by Nickolas and Toriella, and the members generally went around helping people, fighting monsters and making life better. A good comparison from other countries fiction might be Robin Hood and his Merry Men.
Eventually EON came in to conflict with The Church, and through Tori and Nick's hard work, Lucinda was overthrown and banished to Encana (more or less Hell).
In memory of their work and sacrifice, the President of TilEnca takes their name (Nickolas for men, Toriella for women) and this proposal - an attempt to ensure that genocide never happens again, or at least those who commit it are properly tried and punished for it - is named after their group.
The end.
If you are curious - that really is where the name comes from. Even though this is an international convention, the people of TilEnca hold the memory of Tori, Nick and EON in their hearts, and we thought this would be a nice name for a convention to stop mass murder, torture and general badness in the world :}
by Yokron pro-government partisans » Wed Feb 08, 2023 11:48 am
New interest in Olympia galaxy by businesses and government as preparations for the new mapping expedition, the Trivac - 24th holy claiming well underway, 20,000 systems undergoing initial colonization - 14th century galactic remap being prepared, new challenges with inter-galactic holdings - Fringe system,"Gallan," collapses, now contested - Itzgari counterstrike, Coalition unveiling new superweapon, and a Yokronian fleet being lost: Itzgari war ramping up?
by The North Polish Union » Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:09 pm
Yokron pro-government partisans wrote:When did the practice of raiding and defending begin? I was under the impression that it was a relatively new practice, maybe dating back to 2015 or something, but perusing the forum has made me re-think that.
Also, could someone give me a VERY general timeline? Like, no elaboration or anything, just names of the events and when they happened IRL. I know its still a big ask, but I don't know what in the heck happened
Hakinda Herseyi Duymak istiyorum wrote:keep your wet opinions to yourself. Byzantium and Ottoman will not come again. Whoever thinks of this wet dream will feel the power of the Republic's secular army.
Minskiev wrote:You are GP's dross.
Petrovsegratsk wrote:NPU, I know your clearly a Polish nationalist, but wtf is up with your obssession with resurrecting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?
The yoshin empire wrote:Grouping russians with slavs is like grouping germans with french , the two are so culturally different.
by Jar Wattinree » Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:46 pm
The North Polish Union wrote:There are still a few active players from that era that still play. Potentially one of them will see this and be able to provide more of the 'gory' details of how those early days of raiding and defending worked
by Reploid Productions » Wed Feb 08, 2023 10:51 pm
[violet] wrote:Maybe we could power our new search engine from the sexual tension between you two.
by Reventus Koth » Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:16 am
Xanthal wrote:Only raiders can win in this war- a defender can keep them from winning one region, one update at a time, but there will always be the next region, the next update, and the next, forever.
by Lord Dominator » Thu Feb 09, 2023 10:11 am
Reventus Koth wrote:1 Infinite Loop often used to say that he and Ackbar were among the original five people from Fark.com that first came up with invading. Does anyone have any insight on who the others in that group would have been, even if it's just their names?
by Numero Capitan » Thu Feb 09, 2023 2:53 pm
Lord Dominator wrote:Reventus Koth wrote:1 Infinite Loop often used to say that he and Ackbar were among the original five people from Fark.com that first came up with invading. Does anyone have any insight on who the others in that group would have been, even if it's just their names?
The Bruce has said that a group called "Evil" I believe it was was actually first - I suspect however that much of it either way is pedantry and that raiding (and probably defending for that matter) was something "invented" independently a number of times by individuals/groups.
by Blackbird » Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:57 pm
Reploid Productions wrote:Jar Wattinree wrote:I summon Reploid Productions.
FOR A THOUSAND YEARS OF SLUMBER I HAVE LAID DORMANT BUT NOW I HAVE RET-- Oh it's you.
As NPU states, raiding existed almost from the moment the site opened to the public in late 2002. It was a fairly established thing when I joined in March 2003. Way back then it was purely for bragging rights (and vandalizing the WFE), as neither founders nor regional border controls existed. Things quickly turned into a colossal headache when regional controls were added, because that did enable raiding to "grief", or completely destroy communities. In those early days we didn't have the Influence mechanic, and the mod team was stuck in the extremely untenable position of trying to police raiding in a way that allowed it to exist while also protecting communities. It really sucked for literally everybody, with the pre-Influence griefing rules basically as follows:Of course, with no Activity page and limited space in the regional happenings, it was functionally impossible to accurately enforce the above, catching raiders, defenders, and even a few innocent natives in the crossfire. Nobody was happy about it.
- "Native" = "anyone that was in the region before you arrived".
- No kicking out more than 10% of the natives.
- If you password the region you must give the password to the natives.
Then after loads of hand-wringing and angst about it, we got Influence added, getting moderation out of raid-policing entirely. The pre-Influence period left a "mods have defender bias" chunk of grudges and bad blood that lasted for years. There was a lot of angst over Influence "legalizing griefing" at the time too, but that eventually passed.
Ugh, I do not miss the hours wasted trying to detangle who was in the region first, who kicked too many natives, was that a defender or was that a raider, did they REALLY send out the password etc etc etc.
by The Church of Satan » Fri Feb 10, 2023 3:52 pm
by Unibot III » Mon Feb 20, 2023 9:04 pm
Reventus Koth wrote:1 Infinite Loop often used to say that he and Ackbar were among the original five people from Fark.com that first came up with invading. Does anyone have any insight on who the others in that group would have been, even if it's just their names?
Unibot III wrote:7. While not a complete list, the Farkers included: 1 Infinite Loop, ABCNNBCBS, Ackbar, Architeuthis, Backgroundnation, Casus Belli, Feynland, Hilarity Ensues, Jaffa, Jolinar, Laurencia/Laurencie, LeWonkatania, Lotlanthanderamore, Nothingg, Southeastern Canada, Stalingradski, Stimpland, Tommasi, WeirdVille, and WheatonCurtistan.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Shwe Tu Colony » Wed Feb 22, 2023 1:43 am
by Almonaster Nuevo » Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:41 am
Falafelandia wrote:What happened to August?
by Improper Classifications » Thu Feb 23, 2023 8:50 am
Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:What can I say? I do know how to improve this out of all measure though. Firstly, print out your draft on some nice paper. Secondly, take your draft out for a healthy walk in the country. Next find a field of cows and feed the draft to them. Finally just wait - the improved end product will come out of their ends so to speak.
by Sedgistan » Thu Feb 23, 2023 10:15 am
Improper Classifications wrote:What happened to Nephmir's original account? IK it got deleted but I was curious of the circumstances.
Sedgistan wrote:Nephmir was guilty of being bloody stupid and dishonest, but he's not and never has been a malicious actor in the vein of Frak.
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