The Black Hawks | Still Winning

[Klaus Devestatorie]

Glad Rolamec wasn't pulling a Yauna.

[RiderSyl]

Love the pic.

[Serboro]

Love the pic.

<3

[Bhang Bhang Duc]

So what did Westphalia do to piss you guys off?

[Lord Dominator]

So what did Westphalia do to piss you guys off?

Existed, founder came back and undid last years destruction of the same.

[Aclion]

seems kind of pointless

[Indo-Malaysia]

The uber-boring occupation region is gone, long may it live as a trophy.

Funny how last year, it was like the big event of GP at the time, and this year nobody bothered

good work

[Felt Karpit]

nope

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

seems kind of pointless

I’d say it’s rather pointed, really.

[Glen-Rhodes]

Congrats on adding nothing of value to the game y'all. I'm sure you had a fun 35 seconds refounding, at least.

[Lord Dominator]

Congrats on adding nothing of value to the game y'all. I'm sure you had a fun 35 seconds refounding, at least.

I had more fun booting people personally

Burning regions I'm not in is quite fun to watch/do

[Felt Karpit]

nope

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Congrats on adding nothing of value to the game y'all. I'm sure you had a fun 35 seconds refounding, at least.

“Adding nothing” is refreshingly neutral compared to your usual.

[RiderSyl]

Congrats on adding nothing of value to the game y'all.

This is like a tiger insulting a zebra for having stripes.

[Lord Dominator]

Relatedly, I'm pretty sure we raiders mainly exist to subtract things from the game, nor add them.

[Blight-Bane]

Relatedly, I'm pretty sure we raiders mainly exist to subtract things from the game, nor add them.

Probably the best argument for eliminating raiding that I've read yet (from a raider no less ). Really, how many raiders are there? A couple hundred maybe? Even if y'all had a hissy and quit the game, would NS suddenly CTE? I doubt it.

[Cormactopia Prime]

Even if y'all had a hissy and quit the game, would NS suddenly CTE? I doubt it.

Gameplay has all but ceased to exist, in part* because defenders prefer to complain about raiding in Gameplay rather than defending. Raiding coming to a halt would put an end to what little gameplay is left, which I suppose some people may like, but as a gameplayer I'm not one of them. Because when gameplay isn't happening, gameplayers don't quit NationStates or find other things to do here, we just get OOC nasty with each other. Good times.

If you don't like gameplay anymore, you're free to go do other things. But the people who don't like gameplay yet insist upon continuing to dominate gameplay regions are part of the problem, and they actively need to be asked to leave this sector of the game. Gameplay regions for gameplayers.

In other news, West-phailed is obviously a better pun than West-fallen.

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* I said in part. There are several other factors, but they're not relevant to this thread and I'm not interested in threadjacking.

[Zizou]

Yay

[Lord Dominator]

Relatedly, I'm pretty sure we raiders mainly exist to subtract things from the game, nor add them.

Probably the best argument for eliminating raiding that I've read yet (from a raider no less ).

I'm perfectly capable of acknowledging the arguments of my (apparently) mostly-dead opponents.

Though of course, I do hear R/D used to inspire all sorts of activity back in the day, when there was more than one side and moralism was a thing.

[Blight-Bane]

Gameplay has all but ceased to exist, because defenders prefer to complain about raiding in Gameplay rather than defending.

So defenders are to blame for the decline of gameplay? Good one.

Raiding coming to a halt would put an end to what little gameplay is left, which I suppose some people may like, but as a gameplayer I'm not one of them.

Gameplay might be better off without it. Couldn't hurt to find out.

Because when gameplay isn't happening, gameplayers don't quit NationStates or find other things to do here, we just get OOC nasty with each other. Good times.

Really? We're back to OOC gripes? Change the tune already. Lack of GP activity does not lead to asshattery. That's all on you.

Though of course, I do hear R/D used to inspire all sorts of activity back in the day, when there was more than one side and moralism was a thing.

Those days are long gone. Live in the now.

[Cormactopia Prime]

Gameplay has all but ceased to exist, because defenders prefer to complain about raiding in Gameplay rather than defending.

So defenders are to blame for the decline of gameplay? Good one.

You literally removed the words "in part" from the quote, and ignored where I explicitly said there was more to it than that.

Not going to bother replying to the rest of your post, because if you're just here to be a bad faith nuisance, it isn't worth my time or anyone else's.

[Le Chasse]

So when gameplay is dying out, we turn to bickering about why to keep it alive? Interesting tactic.

[Blight-Bane]

You literally removed the words "in part" from the quote, and ignored where I explicitly said there was more to it than that.

There's a reason for that. I'll hightlight it for you:

* I said in part. There are several other factors, but they're not relevant to this thread and I'm not interested in threadjacking.

Not going to bother replying to the rest of your post, because if you're just here to be a bad faith nuisance, it isn't worth my time or anyone else's.

No problem. Your time is precious. I get that.

[Borovan entered the region as he]

Lol

[Armaros]

Congrats on adding nothing of value to the game y'all. I'm sure you had a fun 35 seconds refounding, at least.

They didn't add something good to the game, they removed something bad from it.