Everybody is everybody’s friend

Day 3,517, 00:00 • Published in United Kingdom Belgium • by mittekemuis




Everybody is everybody’s friend

After two years of only pushing a few buttons I came back to a more active way of playing the game. A lot of things changed in those years. The rules for working in your own companies the wages which are gastronomical but also the military model is different with air fights.

Last week I started to have a closer look at the map and analyse the current alliances. Our president asked congress about MPP’s and I owed it to myself to at least give an answer with some knowledge of the current eBalance of the world and where I see my own country.

At the time I left the game the world saw two big alliances with Poland and Serbia on opposite sides. That came after a boring but prosperous time of the TWO. I was at the heart of the break down from TWO and forming of Asteria and Sirius. I forgot about the little satellite alliances who had a pro status. It was never really going to be a long lasting situation as the of dividing Poland and Serbia in to different sides was forced upon people for the sole purpose of creating more fun battles and didn’t take into account that economically speaking both countries would bare consequences. The struggle to get Greece in either camp was legendary. The Serbian side won the battle for Greece and Poland by that mathematically sirius was doomed. I guess it happened somewhere in the two years I didn’t pay attention.



MPP stacks

MPP’s schematic

If you look at the MPP stack of the UK we see that we have MPP’s in both Orion, which is our own alliance and Asterie the linked Alliance. We also have a few neutral countries signed due to long standing relations more than anything else. Yesterday we also signed one with Lithuania and I suspect we will be seeking out one or two more within Pacifica to add to the list.
It would be the most logical choice if you see most of the others countries who can afford it. Their MPP’s are of 3 major poles, Their own alliance plus the two other major ones and sometimes even a fourth.

Based on the MPP’s and the consequent wars I see appearing there isn’t much conflict going on. Except a big surprise for me to see Greece and Romania divided. Once they were tightly linked with Argentina. Another surprise to see is that Croatia, Turkey and Spain don’t belong anywhere. Although I can see Greece protecting Croatia and Spain having their usual MPP’s secured in Poland as well as Serbia.
Two countries, Greece and Argentina having the most active battles even with old friends. All other wars are battles over resource occupation by the big boys or training wars to give their people something to do.



Lack of real war

I say that lack of real wars is a bad thing for the game and people’s spirits because there is nothing to lose or to gain.
- there is no common goal
- people create infighting because malcontent
- there isn’t much to write about in the media
- mediocre CP’s arrive because the good ones getting bored of sitting on their hands

I sincerely hope that over the course of the next month's the major players in the big alliances are going to sit across each other and talk about this. I realise that over the years citizens, countries forged bonds that are not easily broken and with the game mechanics how they stand now it is not easy to get a whole nation to fight a certain way but if we don’t want to die of boredom something needs to happen.
I also wish for the UK to be part of these talks. We may not have the military power to brag but we still have a few decent tacticus amongst us. If the internal politics don’t get messed up like they usually do in this country it should be possible. Hell in the past the UK was at the heart of breaking and building alliances. If anything we have past experience.