i object to the big brother references

oh mama, you so crazy

nothing beats an even matchup, when individual skill becomes the deciding factor

one-sided battles are boring on either side

you ded as phuck cuzz

looking forward to your next thread when you suicide on some random, low nw country and get killed again

nah pang

this moron actually hit icn

as i said in his previous thread...

maybe I would have stuck around if she had said hi!

those seem like wildly inappropriate ways to address my mama

am I still blacklisted?

lacrosse and powerlifting

good times

not looking good for sof

was hoping this would be a little closer

What else would I say?

your original post was an overreaction but not asking for reps guarantees that this will happen again in the future

did pdm make a thread for every single missile retal?

i wasnt here as recently as last reset, but ill make sure to mock them each time it happens in the future

im sure the dumb evo member would be willing to FA that guy 100k military units

so youre a vet, playing basically untagged on the alliance server, that uses a missile for retals mere days after pdm was obliterated for similar practices, and thinks a single missle is so significant to an alliance that has been around for a decade and a half that you made a thread about it?

i wouldve stuck with the new thing

she didnt even say hi :(

slightly better hpk/hpm by sof

looking forward to seeing how this plays out

can we skip the dance and you just join an alliance?

the dance being...

they retal your missle / continue to farm you
you get even more pissed and suicide
they kill you
you make a restart and suicide again
they kill you
you keep up the cycle until you realize its not worth the time
you join an alliance

went through the AT archive to find out what those threads were about and found these too...

http://atarchive.gotdns.org:8080/...hivepost.jsp?thread=20758
http://atarchive.gotdns.org:8080/...hivepost.jsp?thread=20863

quite funny now, but those were some dark days in moderating history

the "mike is..." names was a weird meme

well it was a little more circuitous than that, h4

the next reset was the big 6 gangbang on elites

i was blamed by fin for leaking the info about who was getting hit (EDge later admitted to being the one that leaked)

scarlet approached me with an invitation to RD if i killed fins country with multis, i turned him down but when fin did get hit by multis later he somehow managed to get his hands on that conversation and assumed it was me (which is why i exposed scarlet...then later founded an alliance with him for the lulz)

this led to fin more generally insulting RD and cheaters on AT, which led to things heating up between ronnie and fin, which led to ronnie making sure ucn was no more

Isn't this to be expected when you use harmful spy ops as retals?

Most people would rather give up 3k tech than 3k land in the first month of the reset; it's an accountability issue. Based on the news, who was hanlong supposed to believe did the ops? If your member doesnt fail any ops and doesnt send a message, how is hanlong to know they are retals? Whats stopping your member from doing 100 ops? Or 1000? The nw change proof is nice but its not lafs responsibility to prove which one of your countries is doing retals if you want to avoid confusion. Additionaly, if you didn't have a policy allowing harmful spy ops, he may have assumed it was unrelated to any hits.

I want to point out that I'm not anti-pdm nor pro-laf, just against a policy that allows harmful ops as retals without even sending a message. I'm glad to see pdm seems committed to changing this. If anything, I'd be anti-laf because they tagged up multiple tks countries to ninja tnw from ucn during my only reset as ucns sec of strat (and then they had anw ninjad by coa, teehee).

cmon rookies

is beth still alive?

someone from pdm needs to put a muzzle on tgd

and why the heck are you laf clowns responding to him

typing mistake free on my iphone because I'm better than h4

braden - use the quote feature you weirdo

my favorite olympic lift is the snatch

I think this just proves why ops aren't (and shouldn't be) considered an acceptable method of retaliation for grabs

are you expected to do this level of research to see if a country/tag has done it's earned retals? the number/type of ops could be standardized as policy but the (near) lack of accountability for succesful ops makes them more harm than good

I think I read in another thread that PDM is aware of this problem so it's all good

now wait a minute

we cant argue that there needs to be a government change because you can predict what a player/alliance will do based on his government and at the same time say its difficult to differentiate between a warring and netgaining country

what things obviously separate the two? immediately coming to mind are war techs for warring and land/stocking for netgaining. could we not then have bonuses that increase missle storage/missle generation/missle damage? that would be a strictly war bonus. the dict spy bonus is another example of one with a very minimal gain to netgaining.

likewise, netgaining bonuses could include something like an additional 1% production for every 5k buildings you have of a certain type (there may be a better way of doing this to involve cashers equally), goods sold on the market receive a bonus in the amount of money returned for every million in the batch, etc

the numbers would need to be played with so that each type of bonus had minimal effects if the player chooses to play the other type of strategy

if we are going the route of changing the governments, then i would prefer a system in which each government has:

(netgaining bonus)
(warring bonus)
(general penalty)

as opposed to a system that dulls the effects of the government through any method

...

They run up to me and quack and bite my shoes.

randomness (things like earthquakes) artificially closes the gap between skilled and unskilled players, which i consider a bad thing

how about hiding the governments of all countries? maybe viewable by spy op, or maybe only viewable by the owner

the stuff based on networth could be obfuscated by increasing the time between nw updates, rounding of networths, or having networths fluctuate randomly within some range of the actual networth

the major problem with landgrabbing is the lack of countries on the server, both legit and non-legit (multis, bot countries). if i were grabbing in the early 2000s, there were a dozen small to mid sized alliances for me to midfeed and pump defense to prevent a retal. there were thousands of untagged/no-name tagged countries to bottomfeed without worrying too much about DRs. it was an art to get as much land as possible from grabs without losing it to retals/suiciders

now? pacted to all or close to all tags, which means midfeeding is going to piss off whatever tag(s) im hitting because i have to hit them over and over. there are only a handful of untaggeds/no-name tagged countries to bottomfeed and they are perpetually in DR. all-explore isnt miles behind grabbing now, which is completely boring and removes a large portion of skill from the game

how does this game recruit? i played e:2025 for years but wouldntve even known ee existed if not for the arizona shootings. is there a facebook page? twitter feed? podcasts (something like what eclisod used to do)? we have seen how much people will spam for a measly few points in game...how about points for recruiting new players?

just some ideas off of the top of my head...may come back and comment/edit later

i resemble that remark

why hasnt this started yet

k

yo hanlong, im really happy for you, imma let you finish but Scrub was the best LaF FA of all time

this will not end well

i want to be friends with robbi heartbreaker jones

if this were on the facesbook, then i would be liking it

mods suicide on people now?

and i thought raves was childish...

settle down its just an imaginary numbers joke

chrome is working fine for me

you guys didnt even last 2i days

hanlong - want me to talk scrub into coming back and easing your (ee) workload? :)

i havent seen any evidence of this

If I link my game login account to this forum posting account, then will people know which country is mine?

where in NC? thats where i live!

icq is the same as always, 81266763, or get my other contacts from my secretary/mama patience

well his email is posted in the contacts thread so its not like that revealed any private info other than his apparent affinity for banana-eating handsome devils