NationStates

That there are no winners in nuclear war, and there is no radiation in Ba Sing Se.

What have you all learned this day?

I learned that Comrade Posadas is right after all.

Even though I've been neutral the whole time, I learned that bigger factions are bigger targets in general.

that having a positive score gets you nuked more

the only winning move is not to play.

"Greetings, Professor Falken. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" -- WarGames

Broader Confederate States wrote:the only winning move is not to play.

This too.

Union of Catgirls and Magical Girls wrote:I learned that Comrade Posadas is right after all.

Of course he was.

What have we learned? I alts always win!

Nantoraka wrote:That there are no winners in nuclear war, and there is no radiation in Ba Sing Se.

What have you all learned this day?

strong, well-armed alliances founded on patience and trust win. Divided and disarmed have the same result.

Today I learned to target the Horsemen.

Baby Chipmunk wrote:Today I learned to target the Horsemen.

Same. I learned that teamwork does, in fact, make the dream work.

What's gonna work? Team-work.

I learned that factions with lots of alts may get many early leads, but their inherent weakness is the user behind the accounts. Like any human, they have lives, they require food, sleep, and other such things. A faction composed primarily of alts has huge weaknesses when many of these super-users log off to go to sleep or do other things. Then they get nuked into oblivion.

Didn't bring any of my alts into this (honestly couldn't be arsed to), but I joined the Horsemen, which had a lot of alts. Now I'm gone and so is most of the Horsemen, when those alts were all offline.

Much as people may bitch about alts in games like this (and rightly so), the strategy is not without serious flaws. A more balanced faction that isn't overly reliant on alts for its success is more likely to come out on top.

Hope everyone has been having a good N-Day.

There is in fact a limit to how many regions you can glom together before it gets too unwieldy. Too many cooks and all that.

Mukuro Clan wrote:I learned that factions with lots of alts may get many early leads, but their inherent weakness is the user behind the accounts. Like any human, they have lives, they require food, sleep, and other such things. A faction composed primarily of alts has huge weaknesses when many of these super-users log off to go to sleep or do other things. Then they get nuked into oblivion.

Didn't bring any of my alts into this (honestly couldn't be arsed to), but I joined the Horsemen, which had a lot of alts. Now I'm gone and so is most of the Horsemen, when those alts were all offline.

Much as people may bitch about alts in games like this (and rightly so), the strategy is not without serious flaws. A more balanced faction that isn't overly reliant on alts for its success is more likely to come out on top.

Hope everyone has been having a good N-Day.

You underestimate gamers

You can be doing perfectly fine and even ignored and then smashed into the ground out of nowhere.

Disgraces wrote:

Mukuro Clan wrote:I learned that factions with lots of alts may get many early leads, but their inherent weakness is the user behind the accounts. Like any human, they have lives, they require food, sleep, and other such things. A faction composed primarily of alts has huge weaknesses when many of these super-users log off to go to sleep or do other things. Then they get nuked into oblivion.

Didn't bring any of my alts into this (honestly couldn't be arsed to), but I joined the Horsemen, which had a lot of alts. Now I'm gone and so is most of the Horsemen, when those alts were all offline.

Much as people may bitch about alts in games like this (and rightly so), the strategy is not without serious flaws. A more balanced faction that isn't overly reliant on alts for its success is more likely to come out on top.

Hope everyone has been having a good N-Day.

You underestimate gamers

No, I don't. I saw this very thing unfold on my own in the Horsemen. When I went to bed, Horsemen defenders were shooting down almost every nuke headed our way. When I logged back on, we were no longer at the top, most of us were nuked to oblivion, and it didn't take much longer for me to get nuked to oblivion.

The balance of power changed because the super-users had to log off sometime, and when they did, they could no longer shoot down the thousands of nukes that had been heading to us nearly every few seconds. While some more extreme persons who happen to have the luxury of being able to stay up and logged on for the entirety of N-Day may choose to do so, that is not most people, or even most gamers.

That at the rate I ran 125 puppets this year, I can run 250 puppets next year!

Kaedijork wrote:welcome to the aftermath

We no longer live in a society.....

Today I learned that potatoes thrive in radioactive environments.

Mukuro Clan wrote:Like any human, they have lives, they require food, sleep, and other such things.

I think you underestimate how far some of us are willing to go to win an argument on the internet.

I learned that one of my living near-relatives is older than human-made positrons.

Apparently I learn different stuff than you people.

I learned that nuclear war still requires diplomacy, to avoid getting nuked en masse by the rest of the world. Let a certain faction remember this.

Mukuro Clan wrote:

Disgraces wrote:You underestimate gamers

No, I don't. I saw this very thing unfold on my own in the Horsemen. When I went to bed, Horsemen defenders were shooting down almost every nuke headed our way. When I logged back on, we were no longer at the top, most of us were nuked to oblivion, and it didn't take much longer for me to get nuked to oblivion.

The balance of power changed because the super-users had to log off sometime, and when they did, they could no longer shoot down the thousands of nukes that had been heading to us nearly every few seconds. While some more extreme persons who happen to have the luxury of being able to stay up and logged on for the entirety of N-Day may choose to do so, that is not most people, or even most gamers.

Actually a decent chunk of the puppet horde masters did actually just stop trying in there (rather than log off for RL reasons), not really wanting to be endlessly shielding themselves over a slow decay