Ever seen a Mod get planked?

Ever seen a Mod get ejected? I can now say I have. Just before update Friday TJR’s Guv’nor in Sweden had the distinctly unique opportunity to plank Mod Puppet.

# 2 minutes ago: The Kookin de Yummie Yummies of Oscar the Kitty removed The Wandering Ne'er-do-well and DEAT Distributor of Mod Puppet from the regional ban list.
# 2 minutes ago: The Wandering Ne'er-do-well and DEAT Distributor of Mod Puppet departed this region for The Rejected Realms
# 2 minutes ago: The Kookin de Yummie Yummies of Oscar the Kitty ejected The Wandering Ne'er-do-well and DEAT Distributor of Mod Puppet from the region.

Well, we certainly hope they were really there to play, or we may be short a Cap’n soon.

The Mt. Everest of raiding has fallen

With no less than 3 unsuccessful raids in the last 6 months there is a region that has truly gained the reputation of being one of the most unraidable founderless regions in NS! Sweden, one of the most carefully guarded regions in the name of fending finally fell on Wednesday’s update.

“World Factbook Entry: ARRRR...Welcome to Sweden. This region is under the control of the fearsome pirates of THE JOLLY ROGER!

The Mt Everest of raiding has finally fallen!

Many thanks to the DEN, DHB and our new friends from the Russian Raiders for making this possible”

The Fearsome Pirates of The Jolly Roger, teamed up with any and every available raider, consisting mostly of DEN troopers, the Russian Raiders, a few mercenaries, and even a neutral or two.

With a slow build up and a few endorsements added at the last minute before update, we were sitting pretty until right after the update cycle started. One fenda, then two then three, and we no longer had the edge. Calls were put out to all raiders available, and we added two or three more ourselves and we were on top again. Once again another fenda or two and we were tied. One more try, more raiders became available, and it was a toe to toe battle for sheer numbers. But in the end the raiders prevailed, and stood atop the peak of the most daunting raid in recent NS history.

2 days short of the end of his first term as officially elected delegate of Sweden when deposed The Concatenated Cantons of Binzer was undaunted:

“Good to know that we were the "Mt. Everest" of invasions. We'll be taking it back soon, though.

See, non-invaders.

I warned you, but you didn't listen!”

-Alan, president of Binzer, elected but just-deposed UN representative for Sweden

“The region that fendas said would never fall
The toughest region to raid of all,
Has fallen to the Svejk and the pirates
So lets have a party you scurvy rats”

-DEN Trooper Jargongrad

Chaos Triuphant once again

Once again the diligent hand of Chaos has spit in the face of the ever waning presence of Control….

DEN HQ was, for months and months, under the control of The SLS, to keep us from using it to spread our “evil” across NationStates. Well, like The Red Factions, maybe this guy needs a better calander program to keep track of the nations he has sitting around as founders, about to CTE.

Needless to say DEN HQ is once again under control of The DEN, with refounding assistance from The Invisibles.

The influence of The DEN within the armies of chaos is once again on the rise.

One more fenda invasion

One of our recently invaded regions, Uberia was invaded again by fendas, with MCWG Battle Forces acting as point.

This is the WFE we left…

This region was held by The DEN for the last 4 days of September ’05.

With 16 out of 17 invading fendas taxed, and FallingDonkey’s speeding tickets paid, we may still have enough left to get the new stainless steel pourers for the bar.

It is now just before update on October 2nd. The DEN is now leaving Uberia in peace.


The DEN,
because we can

http://www.ubersite.com is the kicker of all ass.

With an accompanying RMB message:

2 days ago The Democratic Republic of The New Style

day 4 and we are out. the bit of native interaction was indeed pleasant. i bid you good gaming Uberia. all invader UN nations have been ejected, and i will be leaving shortly. as we leave i would like to remind all invading fendas that any attempted “liberation” at this point is actually an invasion performed solely to save face. Lt. Colonel Invisibles College

And just over a day later this is on the RMB:

22 hours ago The Armed Republic of MCWG Battle Forces

We came to restore the WFE to indicate only your link. Please consider having a Delegate so as to prevent invasions and the subsequent liberations. If you really don't like it that's pretty much the best way to prevent it. Have fun

MCWG…..It doesn’t matter what your justification is about raiding (at least that’s what fendas keep telling me.), its still an invasion when you install a foreign delegate into a region with 100% non-native endorsements.

My contribution to the public conceptualization of Raiding

This is something I have been working on and may edit it as I see fit, but this is part of why I have a problem with the general view of raiders and raiding.

http://www.white-wolf.com/worldofdarkness/index.php?line=intro

This link provides a good primer for understanding the basic concept of The World of Darkness.  

How I correlate it to NS…Well, in this multiple game RP format there are quite a few factions you can choose from to create your character.  There are 2 separate factions, (not to mention like 9 clans) of Vampires, I believe 2 sects (and multiple tribes) of Werewolves, different houses of Mages, Mummies, not to mention vampire and werewolf hunters, and regular humans.  So, upwards of 30 different factions with 30 or more different goals, all of which you can choose from when you build your character.  

That is the basis of my argument.  Here in the Aider/Fenda game we only have 2 separate factions (with multiple allegiances and alliances within), and the regions.  

Now, when you go to any role-playing convention you will find a WoD game going on with players from nearly every single separate group.  So, whatever kind of character you choose will have goals that will in fact directly contradict the goals of other characters in the game going on, maybe even contrary to one of your allies goals (trust me in this extremely intricate game it is highly likely).  No matter what you do you are gonna piss in someone’s front yard, does that mean you are a bad person, or even that you made a bad choice in choosing your character.  And does that mean you should go get the other players game notes, and character sheets, etc, and completely destroy them?  Absolutely not, and since region crashing is specifically mentioned in the NS FAQ, you cannot say you weren’t warned that your front yard may get pissed on!

A brand new day

Ok, with NSn defunct, and me having no outlet to put “pen” to paper anymore, I decided to start this blog.  Contained will be my take on NS, and eventually I may start a news service here.  Blogger appears to have a decent functionality for the needs of a decent NS service on the invasion game.