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Milograd
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Postby Milograd » Wed Apr 17, 2013 1:47 pm

Vakolic wrote:
All Good People wrote:
Yeah, Facebook....bleh. What a time waster and trap. Why make data mining so easy for corporations, governments, and employers? People use to be smarter about their personal data.

And Cybernations....yuck. Robbed alot of good players from NS.

Don't even mention statesmanship...the rp boards would be far better if it wasn't for that acursed site.

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Dorlania
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Postby Dorlania » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:42 pm

possibly b/c of boredom of the game?

idk, i mean its a bit of cycle i'd imagne, old players leave, new players arrive.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:43 pm

Dorlania wrote:possibly b/c of boredom of the game?

idk, i mean its a bit of cycle i'd imagne, old players leave, new players arrive.


Good idea.

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Postby NERVUN » Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:55 pm

Aging Kings Who Look Good wrote:
Vakolic wrote:The reason people are retiring is obviously because we have lost our reasonable degree of control over their small minds.

We must begin rolling out our social life-suppressing drugs once again, my friends, to perge the masses of any degree of want to leave the game!

((Oh shit! Zhe evil plan ist now public! Oh no...change of plan...change of plan. How about beer? That always encourages people to stay...combined with the drugs, of course.))


Who invited this asshole? :eyebrow:

The flaming, knock it off.
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Postby Riemstagrad » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:38 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Dorlania wrote:possibly b/c of boredom of the game?

idk, i mean its a bit of cycle i'd imagne, old players leave, new players arrive.


Good idea.

I'm gone.



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Veskaland
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Postby Veskaland » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:43 am

I "retired" during my college/university years. But now I'm back, somewhat.
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Postby TaQud » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:43 am

Todd McCloud wrote:ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

people get bored of the game (probably because of their attention span is my guess)
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Postby Kandorith » Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:52 am

All this talk about retirement.... perhaps I should retire too! I'm getting too old to run this entire nation by myself!
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Postby Tramiar » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:14 am

Kandorith wrote:All this talk about retirement.... perhaps I should retire too! I'm getting too old to run this entire nation by myself!

Nah, you're practically still a baby. You're young, you can do it! Retirement is for quitters. :P
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Postby Kandorith » Thu Apr 18, 2013 10:40 am

Tramiar wrote:
Kandorith wrote:All this talk about retirement.... perhaps I should retire too! I'm getting too old to run this entire nation by myself!

Nah, you're practically still a baby. You're young, you can do it! Retirement is for quitters. :P


Yea... more than enough land still to conquer! Or something like that.
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Postby Fotar » Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:37 am

Perhaps part of the reason people retire is all of the bitterness there seems to be in what should be a fun game.

I know that is why I left for a while...I just got tired of it.
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