Just do a printout of the forum's userlist and call it a day...

I tried that already...

Pedro, check your forum inbox.

Not trolling; just giving an example. I've no reason to troll here, since I don't play FFA. But, my point still stands.

To elaborate, say you're having a party with your friends or whatever, and this swarm of flies comes in, and lands on your food. Then, they do whatever they do to food whenever they land on it, then fly off. Your party is essentially ruined.

A couple hours later, you find this same swarm of flies, only now, they're having their own little party, on a nice, fat dog turd (which is probably where they were before they landed on your food, yummm!). You have two options: wait until the flies leave their party before killing them, or going ahead and stepping on those flies, getting them all in a single stroke, but with the small side effect of getting doo on the bottom of your shoes.

You, Ivan, along with the rest of your membership, are the flies, and the turd you're partying on is SoF in FFA. The act of you landing on the food at the earlier party is the act of SoF coming to FFA and trying to enforce what FFA apparently considers an unacceptable retal policy. The people at this earlier party are the rest of FFA. The person having to make the decision on whether to terminate the integrity of your alliance's countries now or later is, of course, the alliances that have been, and currently are, fighting and destroying SoF and its allies.

Level with me, Ivan. If the situation were reversed, and an alliance came to 1a from FFA, and tried to enforce what you considered an unacceptable retal policy on SoF, would you not do the same thing? You wouldn't wait to kill them at all.

Because let's face it. Dog doo is actually quite easily washed off the bottom of one's shoes if they do it quickly enough.

I'm pretty sure I am. Just ask Rainbow or Snake (not SolidSnake) if you can find them...

Yeah, ppl usually ask each other how it was AFTER the sex...

And just think: all of this thread could be summed up in this post:




Ivan stepping in a pile of dog doo to kill all the flies that were bothering him earlier, smart or dumb?

Heh, yeah...make it so that if a country places an order, and it dies before that order being fulfilled, the country that sells to that order get a message, something like "You sold 230,000 turrets via standing order! Unfortunately, because the owner of the order is now dead, the check they wrote to you bounced in your local bank, causing a cash loss of $23,485,234 (or whatever price + market commission)! Also, all items in the affected transaction have been repossessed by the Global Defense Initiative Defense Fund!"

I think it has less of Orkin being a good troll and more of other posters not using their brain cells before responding.


Could just be me though...

It gets even better. What I actually posted was much more professional than what your dying brain cells interpreted it as...

http://forums.earthempires.com/...mp;z=who-s-panlv-s-police

So...almost exactly 3 hours ago...

I just said that...

If the goods sell, the money goes towards paying for the dead country's funeral expenses.

Whatever doesn't sell gets thrown in the country's coffin just before burial.

I see what you did with those diminishing returns there...

Retal isn't even an English word...it's not even a proper abbreviation of an English word. It's a community-based shorthand version of an English word (retaliate, which itself is borrowed from 2 Latin words ("re", which means 'back', and "talio" which means something like 'exact payment').

It's very similar to someone using "turrent" instead of "turret". One of my friends used to do that all the time, and his first language is English. So language has very little to do with what's going on here.

And, I'm not trying to be mean or anything. I'm just letting someone know that they're typing it wrong, is all.

reTAL. Short for reTALiation. Not reTAIL...

You're not walking to the nearest supermarket and picking out the juiciest landfarm you can find in the produce aisle. You're fueling up some jets, throwing them over some dude's country, dropping a few bombs, and calling it a day.

Do I HAVE to do everything by myself?...

The day when self farming becomes the norm is the day that netting becomes pointless. Even though it's not against game rules, it does go against the spirit of the game itself, by taking out the fun and competition required for a game to be playable.

But, I guess it's slightly better than having 20 countries all camping for the split-second an untagged country starts coming out of DR...

http://atarchive.gotdns.org:8080/...vepost.jsp?thread=1067075

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That's like...3/4ths of the entire Express reset!

Plus, there's always that chance of your spies defecting to the other country...

Can't FS someone that's already FSed you, remember?

Perhaps the set afterward, but never in the same set!

Bah...who puts the word "Reliable", in cursive, on a line sinker? What's so reliable about a chunk of lead? "Oh, I'm guaranteed to make your line sink into a body of water." What?

I dunno; it's kinda heavy. I'm seriously thinking it's a line sinker. It's about 4 inches long, and I think it's too heavy to be a shell.


http://i25.photobucket.com/.../c70/NukEvil/whatisit.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/...c70/NukEvil/whatisit2.jpg

Lord knows we need another one of those...

Then again, it may be some sort of line sinker...dunno really.

I was digging a trench to bury a cable, and I found what looks like a spent rifle bullet. It seems to be in all right condition, despite however long it was in the ground.

It has two small, oval-shaped holes in the side of the surface of the bullet, one under the other, and I can see what looks like lead cylinders behind the holes.

I brushed it off with an old toothbrush, and I found these inscriptions on it:

"Reliable" in cursive writing, then under that:

"CAT No 81" ( the 81 may or may not be a partial number)

then "8 SOL"

then the numbers "050" which I assume measures the caliber of the bullet.

As you can tell, I know very little about guns and bullets. I'm wanting to know what gun this bullet most likely went into, and the meaning of CAT and SOL. I know if I can find a major in nuclear engineering in Earth's IRC, then I can find someone who's into weapons.

Thanks.


EDIT: I just noticed it has some sort of grooves in what I think is the front of the bullet, but these grooves aren't spiraled; they go straight down the bullet. Not sure if a gun barrel with spiraled rifling produces straight grooves on the bullets they fire or not.

In alliance server, countries are never deleted for inactivity, afaik.

Oh, you mean Patience? Umm...about that...

I gave it a detour on Pervert Pike.

It's always nice to know that we can tell when two earthers get married by the type of safelist they suddenly start requesting...

http://atarchive.gotdns.org:8080/...hivepost.jsp?thread=97375

Ahhh, yes...he's that ex-mod that banned all of RD from AT because he couldn't ban them in-game lol.

I think TOM was in RD...or had something to do with RD...

I figured that leaving behind a small notification that it was moved, rather than just moving it and leaving everyone else to guess what happened, would be beneficial to everyone involved.

The notification only lasts for 12 hours after the thread is moved. After that, it doesn't show up on the forum it was moved from.

Not even troll-worthy.

hmm...STILL can't get it to count the number of posts deleted correctly...


oh well.

Your cruise missile killed 12,654 military units, then took a dump in the nearest lake!

http://i25.photobucket.com/.../c70/NukEvil/longhard.jpg

Sums it up quite nicely, methinks...

Meh...like I said, it's not that I don't like gregg. I just think having multiple forum accounts with the express intention to hide your identity while posting something accusatory/derogatory is lame. I've outed other posters in the past.

You mean Godwin's Law? Because that sounds sort of like it...

meh...I just can't see the point of hiding behind a different forum account to say the same thing one would have said had there not been the ability to create a different account to say the same thing one would have said anyways.

Probably had like 10 browser windows open or something.

Hello, LaE recruiter, aka gregg, aka starstalker4!

No offense, but did you REALLY have to create 2 posts just to say the same thing, on the same thread, one right after the other?

The "Edit Post" link is there for a reason...

Wow, someone has a real warped sense of history, there. We weren't trying to influence policies, or enforcing some crappy agenda. If you were paying attention, you'd know we were simply fighting for our survival. Because, remember how, back then, we were still playing that Jolt game, and it really didn't look like anything was going to change the game back then? And, remember how SoF wouldn't stop topfeeding us during our little war with TIE? And, remember how SOL FSed us for no reason whatsoever at the end of the set after?

But, I suspect your problem is less about bad memory and more about bad lying.

I also like how SS keeps bringing up stuff that happened in the old game, while bragging about the one single time in his entire Earth career he actually had the tiniest impact on someone else's political situation. It seems that's all he has to hang onto when there's nothing else going for him.

Just ignore him, and he'll soon disappear back into obscurity.

So this means you won't be posting anymore of these anti-Israel, pro-Muslim/Arab troll threads?


That's nice to know.

...and now we all know why I moved this thread, along with many similar threads, to GT. AT has more than enough activity without pointless troll/political threads festering amongst alliance-based threads.

Besides, GT needs more activity. Enjoy.

Heh, k. A 'delete all' button, with a javascript confirmation, has been added to the Message Center's inbox and outbox.

Test it out; see what happens.

Not until we link forum accounts with game accounts. Which wll take some time. We are planning on it tho.