Piece of advice, I am sure you can still read this even though you have a 48 hour time-out now...

1. Stop being such an abrasive repugnant douche to everyone around you. Especially those who attempt to give you —good advice— you should be taking. This will go a —long way— towards rebuilding some of the respect you've already lost so far.

2. Instead of setting up another forums handle, and coming back under a new tag and trying to play it off like you're a —brand new player— and get everyone to let down their guard around you, until you pull something stupid and suicide/attack someone... join an established alliance, change your name, stay quiet on the forums unless you're making idle chatter or responding to something that bears any relevance to the alliance you're in. And if it doesn't have anything specifically to do with you, let your superiors handle it. Do NOT make any foreign relations issues worse with your attitude.

3. Learn to play the game —not to say you don't know much— but there is —A LOT— you still do not know, and joining an established alliance, dropping your know-it-all attitude and learning from others with an open mind will go a —LONG— way to helping you become a more experienced player, and hell depending on how you progress you can even become a skilled killer or a netgainer. Hell, you may even find yourself in an alliance of friends who would be willing to defend you.

4. The world doesn't revolve around you, and to that effect neither does the game. You can't go around pulling stupid fluff, and expect everyone to negotiate with you afterwards like you're some kind of James Bond movie villain. Take responsibility for the things you do, take your lickings and learn from it.

5. If any of this falls on deaf ears, then you've got to be the most stubborn jackass I have came across in at least a decade. Get out of your own way and take the advice you've been given. Any one who has initially given you good advice had not done it with the intent of being condescending, and was meant to help you. Next time, just thank the person for their advice and apply the knowledge given.

Beyond that... I don't believe there is much more I can say to you.

Nice

For much of 1999-2005 in Earth: 2025, I was in his shoes once. While I'd picked up enough skills to be a decent solo killer, I ran my mouth, raised hell all over the place a lot and spent dozens of sets getting landfarmed into the dirt and killed repeatedly. After Earth Empires started up, I decided it was time to drop the attitude, and take the very same advice I gave him above. Out of my $15 billion All Time Total Networth (which isn't much to brag about now, considering in the near two years I was absent from the game, I'd slipped from 29th to 42nd), six sets where I'd netgained account for more than half of it.

Hear Hear!

^^ as she said

You forgot to mention that there's a lot more to playing this game besides plugging numbers into fields to make your country "better"

LOL yeah