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Region: Anarchy

Post by Natapoc suppressed by Duck-boss.

Another aspect of why raiders raid:

Many of the people here endorsing duck boss honestly have no idea that they have been duped.

They received messages like this one the moment they were founded:

"One ring to rule them all!
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✪ Your Name Here, move to The Black Riders!
✪ We are a group of nations that raid
✪ Raiding is how combat occurs in this game
✪ Join us and fight against other players
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The message says that raiding is how "combat" works in the game and leads one to believe that raiding is somehow the goal of the game.

TBR sends this message, in various forums, to every nation that is created or resurrected (they spend quite a bit of RL money on stamps).

They must keep up this high rate of recruitment because of the high turnover rate of the people who they recruit.

The bulk of Black Rider members are not experienced nationstates players who understand the intent and history of the game or who like to get issues or debate politics or role play.

They are people with little experience in nationstates who got a mass unsolicited advertisement to join a raiding region and did so because they think that's how "combat" works in nationstates.

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