Lone Wolves United - February 2021 Update
Mar 8, 2021 22:10:34 GMT
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Post by Haitianstates on Mar 8, 2021 22:10:34 GMT
February 2021 Update
Diplomacy
First the big news. One of the most high-profile R/D actions taken in the past month has to be the raid on Embassy. As a reminder of what the Embassy is, here's an analogy. Us humans like to collect stuff. Some collect stamps. Some collect baseball cards. Some people collect vinyl records. Old coins. Weird knick-knacks. And somehow, in the NS-verse, someone collects embassies with regions. That is supposed to be what the region Embassy is about. With more than 3500 embassies, the region did present a juicy target. So we raided it, as part of a coalition led by Lily. The raid sparked major controversy and resulted in the first Security Council Liberation in months, with 10000 Islands telling us from atop the molehill of morality that we were wrong for raiding while refusing to make an attempt at saving them.
Some people will say we're evil or unethical for raiding and closing the embassies. Thing is that it's a game, and raiding is an established part of that game. Safe to say, it is here to stay, whether people like it or not, and there are plenty of ways to prevent a raid. Some will point out that the Embassy had a password to opt-out, but that's irrelevant when you share it freely. The moral of the story is that handing out passwords to people you don't know too well makes them somewhat useless.
Tl;dr: LWU aided in closing down 3500+ embassies. TITO complained about it. Nothing's changed, except that now there's 3500 embassies less. But then they were so spammy that they broke the game for several updates, so we don't feel bad in the slightest.
Some people will say we're evil or unethical for raiding and closing the embassies. Thing is that it's a game, and raiding is an established part of that game. Safe to say, it is here to stay, whether people like it or not, and there are plenty of ways to prevent a raid. Some will point out that the Embassy had a password to opt-out, but that's irrelevant when you share it freely. The moral of the story is that handing out passwords to people you don't know too well makes them somewhat useless.
Tl;dr: LWU aided in closing down 3500+ embassies. TITO complained about it. Nothing's changed, except that now there's 3500 embassies less. But then they were so spammy that they broke the game for several updates, so we don't feel bad in the slightest.
More Foreign Affairs
Another day, another raid.
LWU, with the assistance of Balder, the Land of Kings and Emperors, Caer Sidi and the West Pacific Armed Forces went out to raid. A region with some RP, but also did mark themselves out as a gameplay region. Fair game then. Raid went smoothly. Update came. People jumped. Region was taken.
For about five minutes.
Somehow, despite the founder having CTE'd a while ago, they revived the very same update, just after the raid, and retook the region. That was probably one of our shortest success stories then.
And yet, that was not the end of our story.
Even though they managed to reclaim the region without too much long-term damage, for whatever reason the founder decided to do the following:
LWU, with the assistance of Balder, the Land of Kings and Emperors, Caer Sidi and the West Pacific Armed Forces went out to raid. A region with some RP, but also did mark themselves out as a gameplay region. Fair game then. Raid went smoothly. Update came. People jumped. Region was taken.
For about five minutes.
Somehow, despite the founder having CTE'd a while ago, they revived the very same update, just after the raid, and retook the region. That was probably one of our shortest success stories then.
And yet, that was not the end of our story.
Even though they managed to reclaim the region without too much long-term damage, for whatever reason the founder decided to do the following:
...they opted to quit the game. Despite having retaken their region without any damage done. At the time of writing, D.E.E.R. is still uncertain how the natives arrived at the conclusion they did, but we will report back when we know more.
The dankest of stale memes in NS R/D, here, only at LWU.
Further Adventures
Apart from those two operations, LWU has remained active.
Ah yes. The observation of members of the order Strigiformes. An important part of American culture. That's what the superb owl is about, no? To celebrate Superb Owl Sunday, what better way to celebrate the spirit of USA by reminding the Brits of 1776? That's why on this monumental day, LWU decided to take a journey to the New United Kingdom.
Apparently they were some flavour of dictatorship too. Time to bring freedom™ and democracy™ to them then. For the small price of being raided. Special thanks goes to The Black Hawks, Osiris, the Joint Task Force and Karma for their support.
To round things up, did we mention we like puns?
To round things up, did we mention we like puns?
Usea was taken swiftly with the aid of Kantrias. With no defenders in sight, solid turnout and a decent update, everything went well.
...until the founder woke up. Shortly after update. Again. We're not sure what we did at this point, but it must've been pretty bad. Interesting to note, however, is that the founder did not cancel the embassy with Lone Wolves United - instead, they joined LWU. Cursed with founder returns we may be, at least there's some good thinks that came out of our adventure on the stormy Usea.
More news
In addition, there's a couple things we're too lazy to write a paragraph on. In no particular order:
- Following a brief lull in recruitment, we shot up from 75 nations at the start of the month to 105 at the time of writing. Which is good.
- We got around to writing dispatches for once. If you have an embassy with LWU and you're still left wondering "Lone Who United?", a guide can be found here.
In summary: we raided places, we recruited people, we made bad puns, we brought back several founders and we wrote a wall of text about it. Now go read it.
Brought to you the Department of Established External Relations.
