[eUK] Sh*t Tier Alliances. The best we can do?

Day 3,489, 14:51 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by WayneKerr





Dear eUK,

In my time playing this game we have always sat at the big table when it came to Alliances. We never had to settle for anything other than top tier. We had ONE, this was the first Alliance I ever had experience with. The thing I remember most about this time period was the amount of wipes we endured under TUP (or seemingly endured) and the amount of times Papa Poland had to come rescue Junior. Then, after ONE collapsed for reasons I can't remember, we had project TWO. Now don't get me wrong TWO was awesome, but it sucked at the same time.

TWO brought together pretty much the strongest nations in eRep under one banner and just destroyed everything in it's path. I remember fondly the first EPIC Tournament Plato gave us. I remember sitting in IRC chatting with all the waifs and strays the eUK had to offer at the time. Ian Keers, Dan Moir, BigAnt and Dapper sat in the #MoD room with me, Frag and the DC boys, chatting away happily, the previous days animosity brushed to one side while we waited for CoT to foolishly raise the battle to EPIC status. Where the full beast of TWO would be unleashed and that auto-hit button smashed to pieces while we tanked our way to 'free fights', giving each other tanks and food when needed, a true show of brotherhood. It truly was the only alliance that brought the eUK together!

But TWO had a major flaw, it was too powerful, it ultimately had to be broken up by the Leaders. This went on to create the long dead Poland led Sirius Alliance (the ill fated alliance we would become, yet again a full member of), with the still very much alive Assteria, which was Serbia's Alliance, being set up as the antithesis . Couldn't have the Poles and Serbs in the same alliance. Too Stronk! I can't remember the in's and out's of why Sirius died, being shitty probably. That's all I remember of em. With Poland getting fed up of bailing us out and Serbia still smarting over us picking Papa Poland's side, Junior was cast out alone.

But the silver lining of Sirius collapsing was that for the first time in my time playing, eUK was free to pick it's own path regarding Forig Policy. This led to us gaining 100% weapons bonuses for the first time in our history, but not only that, we also reached the Holy Grail of full 10/10 bonuses. This was due to a silver-tongued, deep pocketed little scamp called SerFartsalot and a master forward thinker who can often see the picture others can't, myself. Who together planned, bribed, cajoled and blackmailed our way to provide the eUK with enough tokens in Plato's Resource Shuffle Competition to enable us to create a whole new chapter in eUK's history, a glorious one, one in which we were not shackled to Plato's endless war system searching for that extra bonus. Looking around now, you failed our legacy, but that's for another article.


I believe that eUK has been in another alliance since? From the short amount of research I did on what had happened since my departure to my return, it sounded pretty shit.



Who are Orion?




Number 1 ticked off!




No f*cking idea, I seriously had to go to the alliance page and see who was there! To be honest I wish I had never bothered, it's even more depressing then I thought.


We have eFrance and eCanada, eUK enemies. Whenever eFrance got a border they would NE us... eCanada are no better, half of em think they are French and have tried to GangBang us successfully (not on my watch) on many occasions. We then have the eDutch, a slippy, slimy, nation that I for some reason just distrust, eCuba who, if I remember correctly, have done sod all since their inception in the game and last but by no means least, we have eEstonia. Nowt bad to say about the eEstonians, I often fought alongside them back in the day. The only eCountry in that line up, after the eLithuanian's departure to Assertia that I would regard as true friends and allies, I think we can all agree on that.

Looking at that line up you really do have to ask yourself why the hell did we join this alliance? From a gaming point of view, I can't think of any logical reason. Surrounded by 'friends' or 'friends of friends', with no action and no threat of action in the future. Duller than Dishwater... It's pretty much TW after TW after TW. Does Orion even do offensive wars with someone like AMD running the gaff? number 2 ticked off*

The only reason why, that I can think of personally, is due to laziness. It's the safest option. Those that took us into Orion and those that currently 'run' the country behind the scenes, will not be staying up till 3-4AM frantically searching for damage like Presidents of old. Instead, they can pat each other on the back, stick up any candidate, safe in the knowledge that sheer numbers will see them across the line (all the while having an alliance worth of mobile voters should they require it), while pretending they have reached the top tier of Politics in eRepublik. Why do I say pretending? Because an alliance such as Orion plays second fiddle to it's master on the eWorld stage. You are simply spectators that have got seats near the front of the bus.








So whats the point of this?

Unlike pretty much every CP since we gained membership of Orion, Dish wants to open up debate with the public on what Orion means to an eUKer and what it is we want to see from it. This is your chance to finally have your say. You can either leave a scathing comment on this article or extol the virtues of our membership and why it was the correct move. Or if your really feeling adventurous you could even write your goddamn articles for a change.

Dish is opening up the discussion, I neither know nor care for what reasons, so discuss it. number 3 ticked*



My job is done, now pay me the 10g!






Wayne
Chief Shouter at Orion





REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!