Be the Thorn not the Petal
Day 1,976, 05:03
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by Rylde
In all my time playin this game I never attempted to sugar coat or talk down what should be the obvious to intelligent players. To any player in general even if your a rep from a group of retards that I feel the only way I can get my point across is with hand signals and a pop up book.
They know who they are
http://www.erepublik.com/en/party/clan-wolf-3805/1
I can't really say that I've been with you for this war. One would think that since I put us in this situation through bold vain moves of wanting to prove our worth that I would be there for ya. I say vain openly because I am vain.
My true weakness though was wanting Canada to be more than it was. We have few oppurtunities to be the fist to face that over the years we get to see but not be. I craved being the fist nothing more. Maybe I shoulda been American. There in much need of some balls.
Straight Shootin
Obviously most know already that we can't win this war conveniently. Hell we prolly couldn't even win it unconventiantly. Yeah I spelled SH@t wrong whatever. I also have bad grammar and use Capitals in the Middle of sentences get over it.
Don't forget Your paying back all the thousands of dollars in SAF to point out these thing on the internet. If your not you shouldn't give a F@ck.
I won't be there to tank for you, I won't be there to supply for you and I won't be there to buy millions of damage in mercs for you. Hell you'll be lucky to get a DO completed from me in your cause. Been there done all that in the end the reward isn't worth the cost. Canada is like a vampire that will suck you dry and look down upon you in arrogance and superiority if you let it in your moment of weakness. I'll admit I let it and now this is me.
But and as usual I started a new paragraph with a butt. Caanda has a long storied history to maintain. No matter how many times wiped and occupied you as Canadians never give up.
The game changes but that is the only constant over the years as a small proud country that we have always stood behind.
Surrender is not an option.
Be nice to see who the first Canadian president is that lays down all arms and signs an agreement no one in this nation will ever honor.
Pro's
We get punched in the face till we look like Jared Leto from Fight club.
Cons
Our bonuses sucked anyways and Because You were obviously here to make money in the first place.
In the end I'd rather you be the thorn not the petal.
The prick of a thorn lingers longer than the scent of a quick sniff. In the end the rose is still dead.
Course this is only the opinion of an ex-warmonger that watches you all struggle.
Well back to my new and old hobbies of World of Warcraft, Magic Cards, Dungeon and dragons, Jerkin off and f@ckin.
Win a 2 gold prize if you can put those 5 in the correct order of first done to last.
I doubt even my eWife could do it.
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Jared says, 'That was a good fight, man. We should do that again someday'
o7
thats a trick question because you jerk it while WoWing and frack during DnD?
no..?
"Canada is like a vampire that will suck you dry and look down upon you in arrogance and superiority if you let it in your moment of weakness. I'll admit I let it and now this is me."
I don't think eCan is like that, I think that eRep is like that. I empathize Rylde, good article.
*Good content in the article. Rylde's grammar can always improve. (; trololol
"Cons
Our bonuses sucked anyways "
I don't agree that it sucks economically to be wiped. Admin seems to permit 2 cent offers for raw when a country is wiped. I see plenty of 2 cent raw when we are wiped but none when we have a region. When you can buy 50 raw with 1cc as opposed to 33 raw with 1cc then you are getting 50% more raw (17 / 33) for your money which is a 50% bonus, or 50/50 if you include both types of raw. This is better than having 40/40 bonuses, or four regions. When eCan has ALL of its territories, it only has 60/40 bonuses, which nets to 50/50.
It is not a bad situation, economically, to be wiped.
Sounds like a better deal for high Q company owners or slavepit managers that need to buy a lot of RM off the market. If you're a new player trying to earn cash selling RM or just to self-supply with tanks and food, the lowered production and lower prices are of less benefit. Is there a way they can make good use of the 2 cent RM?
If you are selling raw for cash, exporting to a big market would be my recommendation. eUS is the most popular market because that is where a lot of eCan MUs locate their commune networks and those networks require raw. Selling raw to raise cash is a tough business in the best of times because the competition is so high. Unless you have a contract in place, the open market will take forever to buy your offer. If you really need cash, you are likely dumping it for two cents to beat the three cent offers. You can always dump in a foreign market where the prevailing price is three cents to keep the two cents you were going to settle for anyways. Just dump it in a foreign market with low import taxes and you still net two cents.
The bigger opportunity, even for low Q producers, is you can actually make money selling low Q weapons with raw at 2 cents. Take a look at the eRussia market, which is my export market of choice with a high volume and only 1% VAT and 1% import tax:
Q1 = 0.34 / 1.02 = 0.33 > 0.20
Q2 = 0.68 / 1.02 = 0.67 > 0.40
Q3 = 1.47 / 1.02 = 1.44 > 0.60
Q4 = 1.84 / 1.02 = 1.80 > 0.80
Q5 = 2.12 / 1.02 = 2.07 > 1.00
Q6 = 2.69 / 1.02 = 2.63 > 1.20
Q7 = 5.82 / 1.02 = 5.71 >4.00
You can actually afford to hire people in eCan to make these weapons for export!!!
At a raw cost of three cents, the margin practically disappears.
I've noticed that as well Addy, wasn't sure if it was a weird coincidence or not but i've observed it for a while now
I figured it's because our markets are cut off so nobody but eCanadians can buy our stuff.
Without foreign buyers, the offers get backlogged and nothing sells so people drop their prices.
I was buying up everything at 2 cents and dumping into the US so that prices would be higher for the new guys trying to scrape by on RM production. But nobody seemed to like that idea and preferred to have cheap WRM for their factories, so I stopped dumping our surplus.
Don't forget the Warhammer!
It's almost depressing how hard Rylde was pushed down, best of luck with your new hobbies.
Stop whining and get back in your tank.
Im torn between giving you a thumbs down or a standing ovation
If Homer decides to call it a day and not make it a hat trick itll be an interesting election to see who steps up and what they see as eCanada's future, to be the thorn or be the pedal.
Roses are meant to have thorns.
I'll take a stab at your games. You got sucked back into WoW, so that tops the list, then you like Magic: The Gathering second most, then DnD. But next week, your cousins will drag you further into DnD so that will top the list, Magic will stay second, then WoW will be third.
Ofc, you regularly play WoW, Friday is DnD night, and Saturday/Sunday is Magic night.
Silly woman, I have both petals AND thorns.
Mary you forgot to put jerkin off and f2ckin into the timetable
I'll take the thorn every time.
Stop fighting? No, sir, you have no right to stop fighting for Canada since you got us into this difficult situation.
Look who just reemerged from the dredges
Indeed.
I was a Rylde supporter since the first election, and to be honest I would vote for him again. Sometimes this game needs some excitement, after all it is a game..
Rylde has only ever gotten us into trouble. You can thank the Spanish occupation on him, and also all the diplomatic blunders of Canada for the past year.
Don't be so pessimistic, he also did the honourable thing, he defended our allies. He united the country against a common cause, I have no doubts he also spent his hard earned money supplying tanks for our fighters. Everyone has some flaws and mistakes, some more than others, yet should it be up to us to ridicule him for it? No, he knows what hes done, should we have to be reminded of it everyday? Move on.
He didn't unite the country, he destroyed it, you either love Rylde or you hate him, and I belong in the latter camp, he is great at being the loudest guy in the room, but look at what results he gets, he is quite possibly our worst president ever.
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Well I guess we'll have to agree to disagree there.
Love him or hate him indeed. Those who are neutral don't know him at all.
I'm not saying he's an angel, we all know hes definetly not that. He has handled some situations incorrectly, but everyone makes mistakes. Put yourself under that pressure. I'm pretty sure almost all of Canada was screaming for war. Yet when the outcome is not as expected suddenly he's the whole reason for it? No, we are all in our own way at fault for the position we are in right now.
There has been better...
Your main weakness is not that you want eCan to be better. It is that when you were given the chance to redeem yourself and show us that you could lead the country you got piss drunk and got us in this war.
YOU and you alone are the reason eCan is in this situation. You could have stepped up and done the right thing but you mouthed off and got the country in its current state.
You failed as a leader and you failed as a person that could be depended on.
There were 2 people I actually did not like in this country. You and Rolo.
Rolo redeemed himself in my eyes during his term in office.
You went so far off the deep end I cannot begin to start.
I am happy to see you leave and I hope you grow to be a better person. You brought the worst out of me and I am happy this is finally over
You think Rolo redeemed himself just because he was President? That's an odd way to look at criminality.
Rolo will always fail to understand the game and this community, just like he did when he stole.
I think he came around a bit to show he isnt pure evil. At least enough so I dont hate him lol. Also he isnt a criminal. The Canadian gov pardoned all his crimes so he is a free man with no bad history 😛
I don't think a pardon erases history, it just normalizes someone's place in society. His criminality, his "evil" acts and tainted history will always be something you have to judge him by.
And you get a massive MASSIVE thumbs up for that statement. i guess my sarcasm needs a little work if I came off serious about the second half of my last post
So you admit that your irrational behavior as Prez got us into this current mess, then say to hell with us, you are not gonna help us clean up your mess, oh but Canada has big balls and never surrenders. Charm us, piss on us, then try and charm us some more. Passive-aggressive much?
Tootles dude, go whack off to your Magic Cards.
T thought that with the Jared Leto reference, Rylde said he was Jack's inflaming sense of wanting to destroy something beautiful.
http://youtu.be/-STTHR4ZRzg
Not many others have so drastically re-shaped eCanada in so few CP terms.
the silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
IDGAF what anybody says you'll always be one of our finest
go slay some trolls
Unless I remember things wrong congress backed the war with the UK. That war is the reason Spain wiped us.
Yes, Rylde mouthing off at the Spanish MoD gave Spain an excuse to lengthen our wipe, but anyone who has dealt with Borj will know that he is a complete and utter dick and wouldn't need much of an excuse for such behaviour.
It is my honest belief that even if Rylde hadn't had his run in, that Spain would have eventually come after us anyway. After all, there are only so many countries small enough for them to bully.
Rylde wears his heart on his sleeve and because of that it is difficult to find any middle ground. As many have said, you either like him or hate him. The unfortunate side of that polarisation is that many people only see the loud, drunk and in your face Rylde. They fail to see the effort he put in behind the scenes, from buying mercs to supplying tanks to Canadians and allies alike to tanking himself at important times.
I will always consider Rylde one of the great characters of this game as well as one of the better CP's we've had.
Hey, I questioned why we were invading the UK before I voted Yes.
Yeah but in the end you voted yes!
It was really, really, really hard to say no. Especially since I would've been the only one for the 240th time.
@ Oinyo Canada craved a war and action so I gave them one for a honorable cause of defending a small nation against a big one. Things didn't work out When spain came in. Although I did everything possible military wise leading a small country against a super power. Sorry for you I'll never be truly gone just on the fringes.
@Dozer I still fight just not as hard as I used to.
@Quimbie Muffins Going to the defence of another is not irrational its the same thing spain did for one of its allies. About caanda never surrendering and having big balls I'm just pointing out the obvious that the majority would never bend over for Spain. A mess occurred but I feel many like yourself aren't worth the extra effort required anymore to play this game full throttle like I did.
Rylde yer a dick. Nothings changed there. More cynical hypocritical but still a dick. ... btw the 5 I'm goin with warcraft jerkin d&d fu**in magic. That order. .. oh and get your wipe causin ass back on the lines bitch. Put yer balls where your mouths flappin rather than just flappin...flappin lips are nothin but an invite to stick some balls in. Drink a 40 strap on yer panties and pound some spanish ass fu**er! You claim to have made the mess well you can fu**in well help fix it. o7
Clan Wolf occupies so much space in Rylde's head we really should be paying him rent.
Well, I'm still here fighting.
keep fighting we don't surrender
Shoot, Rylde doesn't like me. I guess I should quit the game. *boo freakin hoo*