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Jun 18th 2010, 14:55:01

<- foresees a lot of Fascist-oiler restarts in a near future.

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Jun 18th 2010, 1:57:17

Test for yourself, Titanium... plenty of dead for you to hit ;)

Edited By: BP on Jun 18th 2010, 1:57:30

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Jun 18th 2010, 1:52:21

Guess my restarts will be Fascist oilers then :p

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Jun 18th 2010, 1:48:36

Top-feeding is a none issue with the new formula for gains, rewarding mid-feeds, giving a heavy penalty to top-feeding and making bottom-feeders untouchable.

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Also rename it "Attrition" or the like, so 70% Readiness equals 30% attrition.

Full effect when attacking, half effect when defending.
Makes the whole concept easier to understand, especially for the new players.

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Jun 17th 2010, 19:21:19

Not once you've ground down the defences it didn't.
Changed when the LG-formula was altered to reward mid-feeding and punish top-feeds (while incidentally premièring bottom-feeders by making sure smaller countries can't do jack) it happened.

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Jun 17th 2010, 2:14:51

If I don't ask how you got to know that in such detail, will you PLEASE not disclose it???!

Edited By: BP on Jun 17th 2010, 2:15:00

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Jun 17th 2010, 1:43:57

Smooth around the bend you say??!

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Jun 17th 2010, 1:43:31

Hey, excellent idea, NOW3P!

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Jun 17th 2010, 1:41:47

By counting like Swords, NOW3P...only the number of tags are of importance :p
Too bad Bahzel isn't here to explain the finer details of it...he was always a good one spouting hot air in the desert hehehe

Anyway, SoF was tag-killed since they didn't have a single country alive out of protection between this morning and the IMP FS :)

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Jun 17th 2010, 1:09:21

I prefer Thermite, but each to each own...

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Jun 17th 2010, 1:06:58

Hm... kill the countries that already spent their turns and stock, or kill those fully loaded... tough call!

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Jun 16th 2010, 22:51:53

Hence, I will commence my FS on SOTA :p

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Jun 16th 2010, 7:01:06

Nah, but I suck at treehugging :p

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Jun 15th 2010, 0:27:19

Corrected the post :)

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Jun 15th 2010, 0:18:43

This far:
IMP says no
LaE says allowed but not encouraged
FoCuS says no
PANLV says no?
ESD says no
Has to be more clans out there!
Have to say the bias seems to lean towards "no" though.

Edited By: BP on Jun 15th 2010, 0:22:38

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Jun 14th 2010, 23:08:53

You recall MPE in 1a?
What I described happened there several sets.

A couple of tags took turns hitting the top countries, then the other tags would nail the retallers. Within a week or two, the retal capacity was gone, and the original hitters could farm at leisure meaning they got a couple of brutal retals early on in order to ensure a steady landflow later in the set.

Of course, they did offer pacts, but not until the damage was irrevocable, and first after they've gotten back the acres lost to retals with a rather steep interest.

Edited By: BP on Jun 14th 2010, 23:10:15

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Jun 14th 2010, 22:48:01

Retals are not to be retalled anyway, are they, Despie?
That means they aren't in the equation for reverse two-stepping (probably more known as stripping the land before hitting :p)

Killtargets? Eh... You landgrab killtargets??? Thought you just farmed whatever you could from them before the acres are wasted lol

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Jun 14th 2010, 20:15:17

Cripp, if you check the news for SOTA, it's the same story there.
Obviously though, there are very few clans able to toe to toe with LaE, which basicly mean my original statement stands:
"The question at hand is to establish if there has been a change in attitude and policy towards twostepping or not."

Untagged countries never had much of a right other than to give up their land :p
The real difference is that in the old-style FFA, the untagged you just had a go at might be one of some 150 run by the same player, and said player just might have taken offence and make you pay for it.

Still, the issue at hand is twostepping.

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Jun 14th 2010, 16:16:37

MrCobalt, whether you twostep untagged or tagged countries is totally beside the point.
The question at hand is to establish if there has been a change in attitude and policy towards twostepping or not.

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Jun 14th 2010, 6:30:23

In this case it was LaE, but what I'm interested in the server policy regarding the scheme as it's intended to circumvent the retal-system.

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Jun 14th 2010, 6:03:37

Just to illustrate what twostepping is:

Manchester United (#2486) grabs a bunch of countries.

Mr Cobalt (#2476) then farms Manchester United (#2486) before any retals can be done, ensuring that not only Manchester United (#2486) will be heavy into DR, but also that there aren't any land to regain.

In the old FFA, this wouldn't just not be tolerated, it was cause for immediate killing of all countries involved, without the need for FA-contacts beforehand.

However, this isn't the old FFA, wherefore I'm asking for the general opinion in the current server regarding this.

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Jun 14th 2010, 5:43:32

"1. Protecting our netters from being grabbed. Gotta tell you. This is weaksauce."

Well, you have to consider the saturation-factor as well.
Since you only can take so many retals per day, you need to make sure your clan isn't simply over-whelmed by the sheer amount needed.

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Jun 12th 2010, 2:58:40

I do hope you weren't running a casher, DruncK! :p

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Jun 12th 2010, 0:22:14

*waves*

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Jun 10th 2010, 12:41:09

Donny, Goliath was the leader of TLV... Pandora's Hellraisers were lead by Chameloid and Surak :)

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Jun 9th 2010, 23:30:06

No JAT, MM came to PANLV through TLV, not PHR :)

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Jun 9th 2010, 22:56:16

Jadå, herr blå, jag talar svenska utan större problem ;)

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Jun 9th 2010, 22:16:19

That would have been set up by Dalamar or Petch in that case..I was mostly bottomdweller at that time lol

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Jun 9th 2010, 21:49:21

I was one of the founders of TLV, merging my tiny Swedish tag with Dalamar's Danes.

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Jun 9th 2010, 21:40:52

Well, the normal practice was to farm-kill all involved countries as soon as it was discovered, no FA-contacts needed.
Since my resources are somewhat...limited for the time being, I settled for delivering a little message instead ;)

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Jun 9th 2010, 21:14:24

Just informational really :)

Two-stepping is an unacceptable practice for which the countries Box of Crayons (#2542) and 000 (#2543) will be killed.

You may want to inform your member that if any of the other countries he uses show up in my news again, they too will be killed.

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Jun 7th 2010, 23:49:18

No, that would be me.

/JAT

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Jun 6th 2010, 14:22:31

Very true, Warster.
However, killing without a D(eclaration) o(f) W(ar) is generally considered suiciding, and dealt with accordingly.

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Jun 6th 2010, 13:46:59

FFA-style means you post the DoW at the same time you start the FS, while the 1A ppl post it when the FS is over (if they can be bothered)

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Jun 6th 2010, 13:21:08

Ivan, reason FFA got shut down was bsnake's and hungry's massive bot-running, not a general cheating.

Oh... forgot you had them too... if RD has a familiar ring to it? :p

Edited By: BP on Jun 6th 2010, 13:49:39

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Jun 6th 2010, 0:37:49

Sure thing.

*kicks Thunder in his nuts*

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Jun 5th 2010, 23:56:29

Actually, I've been tagged TLV, DoL, PANLV, Europe and a few others as well :)

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