OK this is straight up unfair

[Neo-Western East Korea]

Is it unfair when a larger nation steamrolls over a smaller one IRL?

Maybe, but that won't stop the larger nation.

That makes it so that only the big factions exist.
Nothing else does.

then try joining a bigger faction

[Kors]

At least I'm being avenged

[Wapistan]

someone is legit ddosing my internet its taking ages for NS to load

[Asouzu]

まるでこの世界のように :'(

[The Dragonoids]

Just had two military ones named Guy 173 Guy 174 Send 90+ to me so you call this fair when they allow puppet nations to join, ruins the reason to even have this event when its getting destroyed by them who want to be play by their own rules, not the sites.

[Nebulan Republic]

There is like 5 alliances ganging up on me, and even with East Asia and the Pacific Islands' help, I can't ward off that much nukes. I am like consecutively getting 300-400 bukes fired at me at the same time. This is very unfair

Lol, that happened to our alliance too. There are five powerful alliances, three of them were pretty major if i remember correctly. One of them nuked us at random, we retaliated, and now its just a couple of dunces holding out the best they can. I feel your pain. It is indeed unfair.

[Rogue River]

The potato people just nuked us into nothingness, pain felt...it is N-Day however.

[Neu Engollon]

Yep, the two biggest bullies allied up to take out everyone else. Sucks all the fun out of it.

Thought we'd last longer than 4 hours, but I'm not gonna cry 'unfair'. It was always a possibility that if we got any points we would pop up on the big guys radars, and we knew what we were getting into. Of course, if the two biggest factions with all the card farms annihilate everyone else that quick, I don't see much of a future for N-Day after this one. Hardly anyone is going to sign up again for that BS.

Doubt I'll watch the shoot out between Potato and Crabs. But if they don't try to take each other out at the very end and they keep the truce, this will be the lamest N-Day ever and I hope the last.

[Deadmask]

That makes it so that only the big factions exist.
Nothing else does.

then try joining a bigger faction

If everyone joined a bigger faction, there would only be one faction. Hell there's basically only 2 right now. Even last year it wasn't this bad. Not a day to look forward to anymore, sadly.
I'd say make it so only members of a region could join a faction, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly popular idea. It seems people would rather just let N-Day become irrelevant.

[New Japari Park]

then try joining a bigger faction

If everyone joined a bigger faction, there would only be one faction. Hell there's basically only 2 right now. Even last year it wasn't this bad. Not a day to look forward to anymore, sadly.
I'd say make it so only members of a region could join a faction, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly popular idea. It seems people would rather just let N-Day become irrelevant.

The top two factions have an alliance together, and the third faction is barely even a third the size of either. It's ridiculous.

[Nebulan Republic]

I have to say, it was pretty fun playing as an underdog, holding out against much larger opponents. Honestly, this was a great experience. We managed to pose such a threat that the interdimensional nuclear defense command alliance specified for their guys to attack us

[Gandoor]

N-Day isn't even fun tbh. I decided to try and participate in it this year after having last participated in like...2018 and yeah I couldn't even do anything before all my accounts got destroyed.

Y'all can try and justify this all you want, but it's plainly obvious to me that having a minigame where you pretty much can't even participate unless you join one of the large factions (because otherwise you'll be a target for one of the large factions) demonstrates perfectly how much of a complete failure N-Day is as an event.

I hope this is either the last N-Day or the admin team think long and hard about how to fix this issue in order to actually make N-Day fun for everyone again. And I'm being sarcastic about the latter part, since a pretty damn easy solution to the problem of mega-factions would be, I dunno, limiting the number of players who can be in a goddamn faction. Maybe even do something like 'The higher a faction's score is the more players can join it' to make the points actually mean something instead of just being a high score number.

[Gonswanza]

There are 3 factions dedicated to taking down a pacifist alliance
Wapistan's weird region, Wormfodder and DGES's

Clowned on MK2 Gang on top

Brave words for a group getting nuked to dust as we speak.

Alas, its not like MK2 even made a dent in the leaderboard this time around.

[Picairn]

I'm in the Potato Alliance and yeah, this N-Day kinda sucks. I miss last year, when we made an epic comeback from oblivion.

[Mubata]

I'm in the Potato Alliance and yeah, this N-Day kinda sucks. I miss last year, when we made an epic comeback from oblivion.

oh boo hoo. Seriously? You want to try to rally from behind, then start targeting your buddies in Crabs and see how that turns out.

[Lord Dominator]

then try joining a bigger faction

If everyone joined a bigger faction, there would only be one faction. Hell there's basically only 2 right now. Even last year it wasn't this bad. Not a day to look forward to anymore, sadly.
I'd say make it so only members of a region could join a faction, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly popular idea. It seems people would rather just let N-Day become irrelevant.

Only nations in a given region would just return us to Horsemen domination, but worse

[Sweitchland]

superfactions are the game working as intended

It's still incredibly unfair to smaller factions.

Best not participate in N-Day then if that's the case.

[North American Imperial State]

I'm in the Potato Alliance and yeah, this N-Day kinda sucks. I miss last year, when we made an epic comeback from oblivion.

oh boo hoo. Seriously? You want to try to rally from behind, then start targeting your buddies in Crabs and see how that turns out.

Yea, and stop picking on smaller regions that did nothing to you and we're just trying to have fun, and then using overkillmessures to completely destroy them *Cough* JoJ *Cough*

[FNU]

Are we really going to devolve to petty squabbling over a once a year event?

[Gonswanza]

I'm in the Potato Alliance and yeah, this N-Day kinda sucks. I miss last year, when we made an epic comeback from oblivion.

oh boo hoo. Seriously? You want to try to rally from behind, then start targeting your buddies in Crabs and see how that turns out.

>Mfw crabs is already doing that

[Filipinn]

Yep, the two biggest bullies allied up to take out everyone else. Sucks all the fun out of it.

Thought we'd last longer than 4 hours, but I'm not gonna cry 'unfair'. It was always a possibility that if we got any points we would pop up on the big guys radars, and we knew what we were getting into. Of course, if the two biggest factions with all the card farms annihilate everyone else that quick, I don't see much of a future for N-Day after this one. Hardly anyone is going to sign up again for that BS.

Doubt I'll watch the shoot out between Potato and Crabs. But if they don't try to take each other out at the very end and they keep the truce, this will be the lamest N-Day ever and I hope the last.

You had an hour?

[Kingdom of the Indus]

The potato people just nuked us into nothingness, pain felt...it is N-Day however.

Yeah, they got rid of my faction as well.

[Sincluda]

oh boo hoo. Seriously? You want to try to rally from behind, then start targeting your buddies in Crabs and see how that turns out.

>Mfw crabs is already doing that

There are a bunch of rogues on both sides.

[Mubata]

Are we really going to devolve to petty squabbling over a once a year event?

Says a Crabs guy.
Squabbling or pointing out that you guys and Potato pretty much sucked the fun out of an event that a lot of people look forward to?
The only reason to join next year would be to join one of the big factions like yours so you can say you were part of squashing all the others in the first couple hours. Yay! Not really appealing to many.
Also, those numbers are vastly inflated with card farm puppets.

[Reploid Productions]

Are we really going to devolve to petty squabbling over a once a year event?

I mean... it is sorta a Nationstates tradition to do so.