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Dormill and Stiura, Athara magarat, San Montagna, Negarakita, and 1 otherAlmorea
I don't think it would make much sense for Noronica to deploy a carrier given his current predicament.
Despite the dozen telegrams I've received over the past couple weeks, and not to mention the person who decided to come on to our region's RMB last week for a few days and bash us for not having enough "democracy" over a series of twenty or so posts, The Western Isles has not given in to increasing demands to burn down our embassy with The Pacific. Why?
First, The Pacific was the first and only game created region to accept our embassy request two years and 206 days ago, as of this writing. We have had no other game-created-region embassies since, and not for our lack of willingness to have more. Ironically enough, their embassy rules don't even allow us to post on their rmb, but hey, at least they were willing to accept it. We appreciate that. The Western Isles has arguably been one of the most active, if not the most active role-playing region on this site for the past few years and, yeah, it's nice that one of the largest regions lets us stack our name below their WFE and we do the same. So, it seems a bit ironic when delegates from regions who have refused our embassy requests try to tell us to break one we have had for almost three years.
Also, The Western Isles has been and still is, largely autonomous and isolationist. The few attempts we have made at involving ourselves in any sort of inter-regional anything have resulted in pure stagnation. It's very difficult to do anything between regions past the point of embassies, which anyone can tell just by reading these "treaties" the GCRs and Europeieieia like to plop out every couple months, where the main points are usually "collaboration" and "communication" and "fairs." The Western Isles has existed in our realm of good solid role-playing, and our community has repeatedly reinforced that this is the niche we do best in and want to continue to excel in.
The Pacific did nothing wrong, and The Western Isles has no qualms against them. Personally, I think coups/expanding to other regions is cool as hell and the best and most entertaining part of the worst part of this website - raiding/defending. The ability to use a little subterfuge and a lot of time to gain control of a GCR or other big region is impressive. Raiding/defending on this website sounds about as exciting as playing with a frisbee by myself, and I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would care enough to take part (which may be why they have to shove fork fulls of digital medals upon the loyal privates who enlist) but I can understand why couping a region is fun. Who among us hasn't dreamed of being in control of a GCR and savoring all of those free, limitless future soldiers region-members? It sure would save on stamps.
All embassies (usually) do is enable some slight inter-regional communication. It's also a nice little way to get some free cross-advertising. That's why when I was President in my first term, a couple years ago, I made sure to accept almost all embassy requests, and plan on doing the same now. Because, honestly, why not? The Western Isles is not some elitist, better-than-thou region nor do we care to be. We seek excellence internally, mostly in our quality of role-playing. We don't try to somehow rise above by only building the crème de la crème of NationStates embassies, which it seems so many other big regions do. "You must apply on our forums for an embassy." "They are reserved only for allies." Okay, all power to you, but don't try to attack The Western Isles' divergent policy of liberal embassy acceptance.
In short, the people trying to get The Western Isles to drop their embassy with The Pacific couldn't give two, or even three, shifts about The Western Isles. Their entire motivation is just to make The Pacific look ever so slightly worse. We don't care. We haven't ever been involved in inter-regional affairs to a significant degree, nor have we attempted to. We have, however, attempted to create embassies with many of the regions now attempting to convince and/or guilt us for having the ever so slightest bit of loyalty to the one GCR that was willing to click the "accept embassy request" button on this website - a website whose primary purpose, at least according to our members, is to answer weird issues and role-play with our friends.
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Dormill and Stiura, Xrevaro, Noronica, Aruia, and 4 othersBelle ilse en terre, San Montagna, Negarakita, and Greater pretoria
Lovely read. Shame it will be buried by downvotes the moment it is noticed by the ones you're spitting fire at.
Vancouvia, Alteran Republics, and Anisiera
Thanks :)
I think it is safe to say that CU is dead now...
Sorry I could not have been more productive.
Three years in, I still don't get this "raiding" thing in NS.
Three weeks in, I just learned about retinues in CK2 that I instantly quit and started a new game.
Razzgriz and Negarakita
Psst, are them hunting rifles still working?
Last time I was talking about stolen artifacts. I think that and poaching could be major issues in Argus.
From 10th to 18th Century, I would have been the guy running North Argus Slave Trade and demanding "exotic animals and artifacts" as tributes. Maybe...
Wellsia's Xiangu Hangate raids (not the war you guys have already done) you frequently (once a year or once every few years to gather tributes to be sent to the Mahang in Hanglaw and also enrichen themselves. Maybe the Khas-Kirati traders you mentioned also paid hefty sums for rare animals or artifacts?
You already have mentioned that my traders bartered guns for zebra skins and rare stones right?
18th Century on, everyone else has overtaken me. I lose major wars one after another (Tea War, First Central Argus War, also Imperial War, etc) and become the one whose artifacts are being stolen upon.
I understand why you'd say 'begging', but the safety net the League provides is one of the benefits of membership.
hey verdon! :D
I think we honestly should a League agency for disaster management.
What's the point of even having the League or Mennan delegate asking the League when we all go "I will send this many ships or this many troops" and treat it like a competition than a combined League effort?
Amen.
Bruh. Youtube rewind 2018 may be the worst thing I've watched.
I'm kind of annoyed you would assume it's a competition. A battalion can be of numbers between 300-1000 personnel. Ruios strives to provide necessary security, humanitarian aid or assistance whether undertaken solo or a joint effort. It's not a competition in my eyes and never will be.
What's done is done.
The Western Isles, like many regions
Verdon, Dormill and Stiura, Noronica, San Montagna, and 2 othersAlmorea, and Cheoju
Reading through the map page just now made me realized how many times I've skimmed over that phrase...
Because it’s such a meme phrase.
Basically everybody says that up until some cutoff point (I think 1945 is the norm) the Real World can interact with TWI, after that and you’d be getting some TGs or RMB messages as to “Why is
this real world countryinvolved in your nation at this time? Don’t you know you can interact with other people on the region if you want to fill your history?”
Your planes will not remain in air.
Your planes and ships will still take up Menna's airports and ports.
That means less space for other nations to operate.
Don't tell me any other reason. You landed there first. You still gave hegemony over occupying these airpirts or ports with your men and items. Had this been a League thing, everyone would have had equal share. You arrived there first and it is not that diifficult to assume that most of these airports are now "technically" your base of operations.
The Indians and Chinese did this in Nepal earthquake - jamming all airports with their planes such that other nations could not contribute. Something similar happened in Haiti.
And that raises other questions. You went there as Ruios not as League. The rest of us will have no other option than to say "Ruios is sending on their own, why should we listen to this League blahblag" or "if Ruios is sending, we will have to send less items".
No matter what you say, it has already turned into a competition of sorts. From what we know Menna Shuli does not have that many airports or ports and are likely to way smaller than that of other nations.
And yeah, this battalion had me confused. To me, a battalion's always been 1,000 strong.
Shouldn't we keep it in league chambers?
Negarakita, my dude.
You know Magtel's proposed Volunteer Corps would've been great to deploy at a time like this...
edit: The way I phrased this sounds really snide, sorry. I mean to elucidate that the proposal is very effective in situations where League intervention is necessary, but a military presence is not.
if vancouvia deploys, vancouvia expects land afterwards
Xrevaro, Noronica, Wellsia, Belle ilse en terre, and 2 othersSan Montagna, and Alteran Republics
Our main problems with that were due to the vague wording, which seemed more like it was in charge of all volunteering in general not rapid and specialised disaster relief, and the centralising of the body in their nation and not the international district.
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