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Update: UK and Ireland ... oy vey!
Update: the UK withdrew from the battle early this morning. The President of Ireland told me that this was an exercise to test military readiness. The President of the UK has told me nothing which makes me wonder how our relationship as allies will fare in the future.
This whole situation has freaked a lot of people out. Fortunately Nithraldur had given me a heads up so I could calm my Military commanders down. Other nations who are supposed to be allied with the UK (including the US) were apparently told nothing. This was a mess and created a lot of chaos and confusion in the world. None of us are an island and we must consider this when acting as our actions tend to have a ripple effect. I hope that relations can be shored up. I can say that the relationship between the USA and Ireland remains strong. Unfortunately, I am not sure I can say the same about the UK.
Hey ... look over here.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/103138/the-nitnaa-agreement/1
Can we all calm down now? Apparently not as there is now an impeachment vote up against Ireland's President, and friend of mine, Nithraldur.
Nithraldur has been a good President for Ireland and a good friend to chat with one President to another. He has helped us host our War Games for the last several months and he knows that Ireland is a strategic ally that we would defend against any invasion because of how much they have helped us with little benefit to themselves in having 15 MPPs against them.
So let's calm down. Yes, it looked like a bad idea and I told him so. But what's done is done and it's my hope that our War Games can get started again over the weekend (indeed I had been trying to get those going today until this came up). This is a mess of a situation and it has been very inconvenient for everyone who freaked out about it today. I don't advise doing it again for anybody.
This whole situation has freaked a lot of people out. Fortunately Nithraldur had given me a heads up so I could calm my Military commanders down. Other nations who are supposed to be allied with the UK (including the US) were apparently told nothing. This was a mess and created a lot of chaos and confusion in the world. None of us are an island and we must consider this when acting as our actions tend to have a ripple effect. I hope that relations can be shored up. I can say that the relationship between the USA and Ireland remains strong. Unfortunately, I am not sure I can say the same about the UK.
Hey ... look over here.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/forum/topic/103138/the-nitnaa-agreement/1
Can we all calm down now? Apparently not as there is now an impeachment vote up against Ireland's President, and friend of mine, Nithraldur.
Nithraldur has been a good President for Ireland and a good friend to chat with one President to another. He has helped us host our War Games for the last several months and he knows that Ireland is a strategic ally that we would defend against any invasion because of how much they have helped us with little benefit to themselves in having 15 MPPs against them.
So let's calm down. Yes, it looked like a bad idea and I told him so. But what's done is done and it's my hope that our War Games can get started again over the weekend (indeed I had been trying to get those going today until this came up). This is a mess of a situation and it has been very inconvenient for everyone who freaked out about it today. I don't advise doing it again for anybody.
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help the irish haha
someone needs to fix the code :p
its fun fun fun fun, til daddy takes the t-bird away.
And of course PEACE are the first 3 votes on the article. Makes me wonder if this was all part of the plan...
UK the attention whore ^o^
Note: This is a training war being disguised as a real war. If you spot this contract please do not spread the news until the battle is over otherwise the fun will be spoiled
WOOPS
OH OH OH Im PEACE NOW Yuppy
>And of course PEACE are the first 3 votes on the article. Makes me wonder if this was all part of the plan...
did you not get the fact that i retired?
at least call me a regular troll, not a PEACE one
i have one question... what if UK were to not follow through with the agreement.... do the admins step in ... or would ireland just be screwed on that one ?
The US Military is deployed as well as others. Ireland will be protected. But I don't think it will come to that.
Whats up with all the PEACies in the U.K?
We voting your article first is somekind of big plan?
Spain already sent 4 divisions to Ireland to assure those are just "wargames". Strange wargames...
this is all so confusing. Im gonna go have some beers, be back when you guys sort through the bs.
Oh, sure. It's always fun until someone puts an eye out...
Instead of war games lets just get PEACE in thier place, no? I think so...
>it's my hope that our War Games can get started again over the weekend
Cool. I was just telling kumnaa that their battle would have been much better if they had it over the weekend, but this makes up for it
It was fun to watch the panic and chaos unfold.
PEACE at home,PEACE in the eUK!
This was planned to test the UK's and Ireland's readiness 'you shouldn't do this again' will go unheeded, as tests for war readiness will occur when ever the hell us and the Irish want them too.
Also it wasn't inconvenient, it was MEANT TO BE THAT.
What country is PEACE from? We need war games there- in order to prevent them from being a threat in the future.
damn. i left a nice job in the US for a war game. crap. :S
lol its only a bit of fun. and lefty PEACE is most of the world and if we put all our forces against PEACE in an out n out battle, PEACE would win atm.
This is SO stupid, I feel used. A pox on both their houses. You suck eIreland & eUK. Now I got these shiny new weapons and no wargame to use them in. DAMN!!!
i was the one who proposed the impeachment and he failed to tell the congress of his plans so he lost mine and alot of people confidence
While you guys are having fun with jokes like this fake attack PEACE is passing by you on the fast lane. They usually get their battles every single day with very-very few gaps.
So we need to attack, they wont wait to be caught up with.
i think you've failed to realise that PEACE doesnt want the UK or Ireland dead so were fine although it doesnt like the US. have fun with that, either way Padraig, grow up it would of destroyed the whole point of nobody knowing. duh.
"Big steamy piles"** on every individual who doesn't do anything/everything they can to gain eUS dominance in eRep.
**word articulation due to self censorship
OK, seriously? I really can't feel too bad for the Irish President if he gets impeached.
Sure, he got a laugh ****ing with everybody, but if he didn't think there'd be consequences he's an idiot.
Just another reason for lines to be drawn and alliances formed.
A noobies perspective: it seems that some people simply are looking for an excuse to make someone else look stupid, and others are simple looking for an excuse to go to war.
THAT damned impeachment was started by some geezer thats ran off to Hungary. Great.
I too almost took the bait richboy803. I was set to quit my job, had already bought weapons and was about to buy a moving ticket when I thought about it - why would this happen? Why haven't we heard from Scrabman on orders? I then searched the news and found this under-the-table contract saying that it was a "readiness drill." Why on earth would they do that? Looks like the news got leaked out and the drill accomplished nothing while leaving alies out of war games this Friday...
It was to test our readiness, dont cry if you weren't involved. All you needed to do was send a friendly inquisitive PM to find out what was happening. That and it wasn't actually the best kept of secrets.
Congress where informed, padraig should learn patience.
The reason the public werent told was to get them more interested in the game, and make things more fun. It worked.
Glad eIreland is safe, but they shouldn't forget the story about the boy who cried "Wolf!"
Hang on to your weapons on to your weapons Boys and Girls. Stuff always happens!
The country who cried Wolf........
It was a practice to test our military abilities. If we'd told the whole world then everyone would have known!
And also if congress were told, the cover would have been blown. There was a contract in the in game forums if you had been clever enough to realise
"It was a practice to test our military abilities. If we'd told the whole world then everyone would have known!"
If it was to test YOUR military abilities, I'm not sure why WE needed to be involved in it. Next time pull the wool over your own ecitizens eyes and leave the rest of us out of it.
Whoa, impeachment? Heavy words there. Not the best of ideas. I'll admit I was freaked out too until I read that it was planned but that's no reason to go impeaching the man. He's done a good job in Ireland from what I've heard and one screw up shouldn't cost him the seat. I think we should just all calm down and reassess the situation.
Duping your citizens into thinking they are being attacked can have a lot of negative consequences ... and not just within your own country.
I get these comments from idiots all the time saying that they want to have "real war" instead of silly "training wars" or even get mental midgets who say things like "war games are retarded". Well, there are risks with "real wars" (as much as anything can be real in eRep) so I tend to ignore these people and focus on the objectives. Thus, my two major engagements (FER and Central Greece) haven't ruined our economy like French Toast and Taco Bell did (which were both inspired by the "real warz" people).
Not to mention the effect that having real wars have on your allies. I think that we've seen quite a large ripple from this little excursion.
well, this whole thing was retarded. Duping your allies just for the lulz is going to piss a lot of people off. Apparently, the wargames aren't enough for these guys.
sounds like a PTO in the works.
Harrison was told two days before the attack.
Propoganda works both ways, senor dictator
I heard from Glorious Failure that Harrison, was informed? comments?
If I weren't such a poor, weak noob, I might've emigrated. Fortunately, I couldn't/wouldn't making the whole episode a valuable lesson in being well informed and doing a your own research before making a hasty decision.
Hmmmm...who woulda thunk it?
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The US were informed.
>>I heard from Glorious Failure that Harrison, was informed? comments?
Informed on the 16th of this month, at 19:50 BST.
i went over to ireland that day they seemed to of think it was pretty real. The one thing that threw me off was them saying to conserve weapons in the fight. Which made me think they were going to have a counter. Next day nothing. Which makes me believe it was set up by irish