[Apple Free] Day 4 - A Brief Announcement
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Evenin' gents o7, I must warn you have come back from a beer festival which may explain the brevity...
After a very difficult month under a wipe I have news that will either bring joy to your eHearts or piss you off no end - that an initial diplomatic agreement with Argentina has been reached. Given how futile attempts have been against them militarily thus far and how harder liberation would be when they get their defence shield, diplomacy was our only real option on having a place to call home again.
I have, under extremely dodgy financial arrangements, loaned myself £50k from the Bank of England to pay for our region back; which I will hopefully pay back within a month or two (buying Gold if necessary). I expect the fact we will have new signups to the eUK again, and the fdact we will get our own taxes back, should be more than enough to work on to rebuilding our economic and societal structures.
Apologies how short this update is (I have spent most of my time correcting my own bloody typing lol). You deserve a much more thorough explanation that I will bang out tomorrow afternoon (hopefully we get our region back by then).
Regards,
Appleby
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Good job securing our territory back 🙂
Buying it back giving the enemy money not good at all.
Argentina is not our enemy entirely. You should be grateful that they even agreed to this. They didn't have to. They could of just left us wiped.
Grateful no really the government are back stabbers
Yay! Well done to Apples, Sambo, and Fatalitax (isn't he in America) with their official negotiations, Jake Lee Blakeway on his unofficial negotiations, and of course ApronChef, Mr Immanual Kant, Aaron Mark Daniels, Rodney, and myself in the giving of peaceful cookies to calm the Argentinians. WELL DONE ALL!
all credit to Mitte for getting them to the table!
Sorry Mitte! I forgot about our special envoy! WELL DONE YOU 😃
Have a cookie.
Wait... hang on... ApronChef being diplomatic? 😉
Possibly accidentally. It was originally a spam raid.
well done for pissing off Ireland Great Job
I'm in the US, yes. Don't congratulate me, I only found out about this after the fact!
Yeah I'd just like the point out Mitte and Apples were taking part in the talks. Creating peace was all their work. I've been busy working on other projects.
And what about eIreland? What miracle will save us now when you made peace with eArgentina?
I'm not entirely sure what miracle we could provide unilaterally I'm afraid 🙁, have bought us a region to have our new signups in but doubt I can afford an Irish region on my own..
How about talking to us before a deal?
Or how about organising coordinated fight against them?
Anything would be better than this.
well when both sides realized how close a shield was about to make everything impossible we had to either agree quickly or not at all.
We have thrown everything we have at them for a month, including when we aren't wiped. But the societal and economical toll has been too hard for us to continue being wiped without a settlement
Well as I understand buying a region from eArgentina means that once you reclaim this region via RW the eUK war with eArgentina will be over. This means that eIreland will be left alone in conflict against eArgentina, and the same eIreland entered that conflict to help eUK (we knew that we will be wiped). As I heard from my Irish friends (members of eIrish government) noone was informed about that deal from the eIrish side, and that makes me quite dissapointed.
Given how quickly an accord had to be reached with the national shields come into place I apologise that this has come as a surprise.
Our efforts for a month have been completely futile so forgive me for assessing practically we can do sod all irrespective of having a region back to live in
It takes one minute to send a message. It takes 30 minutes to write an announcement such as this one. Why not messaging us?
Again I couldn't delay an agreement for any longer than necessary given it would've been pointless as soon as shields were introduced.
You know we had very few people complaining when we decided to go into our suicide mission on eArgentina. When we got wiped after some time someone proposed that we could talk about peace with eArgentina, I said that I am not in favour but that I will not complain as long as we go into negotiation with eArgentina together with eUK.
Here is my message, and my message only because I think that Congress messages should not be shown public but this one I will put here
http://prntscr.com/7qvuk8
When will you Irish learn that you can never trust the English?
Has not the last few centuries taught you all anything?
lol
Ruining everything being accomplished between our two countries in a day. Buying your own regions for 50k? Gosh sounds like v1 of erepublik. Maybe it's time to get back to the good old wars.
I hope there will be some people in UK which has helped us so much lately who will see this deal as a betrayal because that's what it is. Ireland attacked Argentina to help UK and now UK makes a deal with Argentina without even consulting with Ireland. How familiar...
Like Scarfar bought the UK I'm buying Lancaster with the assistance of a few friends. Given 1M in CCs wouldn't have got us the region back I'm happy for the compromise...
Good job for you, but after this we'll never ever going to jump in the hell for ya.
nevertheless I wish you good luck in the next hell you wish to jump in...
lol so lame..
Very lame indeed.
That is out of order Don Croata
I wouldn't say this is a betryal. I did say to everyone we needed to do something with Ireland, however by that time it was too late. The negations were tight anyway. Argentina would of hardly accepted releasing two nations. Sadly on this one you are on your own.
Just don't burn all your bridge because of one event.
Sadly on this one you are on your own
No Ireland the British Army will stand with you!
Bruce, You can't fight for Ireland. Agreement stipulate we wouldn't fight against Argentina, so if you want to lose our only region in record time, stop being butt hurt and sit the hell down!
This is one of the saddest posts I have ever read in this game. I would rather be wiped then to betray some one who tried to help you. COWARDS!!!!
And you end it with a threat about burning our bridges, you burnt the bridge we tried to form.
So, when they didn't wanted to release two nations you've decided like "Alright, just let us a regions pls pls pls" ?
It's a lie that you even mentioned Ireland, if you haven't know many Argentinians are the friends of Ireland, we know how you dealed with this.
Just remember that there are STILL citizens of eUK who ARE supportive of eEire - throwing rocks around just hurts us all.
Rest assured that when the time comes to liberate your territories - we will be there fighting alongside you!
Disappointing and ungrateful move.
Well done UK....
It's a pity...
I hope it works out for ye though.
Great what about Ireland? Giving 50k to Argentina you are a sell out! I would rather have no lands than give them money.
Disappointing
And it is that backwards view which is why you are not President.
Selling out Ireland for 50k is backwards
We did not 'Sell' Ireland out. Considering the original starting price was a million CC we did well to get it so low. The Argentines weren't that bothered about Ireland and don't want to give them up. So negotiating was useless. At least now we have land and therefore can prepare a more uniform approach to assisting Ireland.
Why wouldn't Argentina 'give us up'?
If anything we have the better relations with them, so I don't know who are you fooling right now.
We didn't even wanted to approach them without you, that's what makes a difference.
We're still fighting for Ireland. No one's said differently
We could also fight for UK and not attack Argentina. But that wouldn't be something we'd be proud on or happy with.
We are no longer asking you to fight for us anymore. I don't understand how you are getting so wound up over a single deal. The deal was against the clock as we had only a limited amount of time to set a deal before the shield was raised and the ability to gain a region back was gone for a few weeks at least.
If in the same situation Ireland would of done the exact same thing as it is the only logical thing to do. Between two allies holding no regions, and two allies, with one holding a single region... i would go for the single region anyday.
Besides, Argentina by the sounds of it, has no intention of letting you guys go yet. Negotiations would of been useless.
You are not asking us to fight anymore? What should we do now?
We was in the same situation and of course we didn't wanted to even start talk without UK on the same table. That's what any sane ally would do.
Yes, they have. We are not allowed to directly or indirectly fight against argentina
You seem to have missed some key points about this deal and the fact that it is a NAP.
For those wondering what those points are:
-we cannot start a RW and liberate any other regions
-we cannot air strike any other region
-we cannot fight directly or indirectly against argentina
This basically means that we could be left with only a single region for the rest of the month as well as not being able to help allies (including Ireland who are wiped because they tried everything they could to help us against argentina so yes, we screwed them over).
Not only this but it makes a complete liberation from argentina in the future Mich more difficult as it gives them an easy region to take and hold (because of no determination bonus) to retake regions from.
So for all of this, 50k and screwing over allies we get a single region.
Cabinet was also not consulted before the deal was made.
*help allies against argentina
*much