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A-Rod Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:02:38

1 Ichitaka (#72) 397 $25,292,459 HG
2 C C C P C O M M I E R O C K E T (#87) 500 $22,145,175 H
3 Battle chess (#82) 14,358 $21,581,625 CG
4 five day plan (#61) 14,841 $21,324,350 CG
5 Jossica (#12) 11,088 $18,195,595 HG
6 x (#6) 16,042 $18,104,838 CG
7 a BiG flaKEy craCKer (#33) 11,442 $17,190,578 HG
8 BigPinkBear (#102) 6655 $16,402,142 DG
9 Iron Man (#62) 9825 $14,833,538 R
10 Trigger (#44) 11,389 $14,563,425 RG

NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:03:05

lol@the idiots who wasted their turns on the early jumpers to make it possible.

enshula Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:04:11

any of those theos late conversions?

i was ichitaka, theo cash

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:04:48

figured that was you.

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:06:40

Eh, i played theo/cash..got ab'd to hell yesterday and gs'd/missled today..
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starstalker4

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:14:34

well done enshula congrats
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A-Rod Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:21:37

pretty respectable t10

locket Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:24:10

8th with a not so great first attempt at the server :P

Navisis Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:45:33

Not to sound like a prick, but, what would early jumpers being suicided have anything else to do with ending NW of other counties ? Are they not separate independant events?

NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 0:51:53

Navisis - only that if it weren't for those suicides, the top 10 would have likely been 8 or 9 theos. Sorry, worded my last post poorly....was kinda distracted.

Slagpit Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:12:44

Theos really don't finish over 21 M NW that often...

starstalker4

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:17:24

thats why the new rule was put in though right slag
so that it will happen more often?
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Aug 10th 2010, 1:21:13

what new rule?
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Slagpit Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:30:27

What are you yapping about now?

starstalker4

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:34:35

the tpt rule
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Slagpit Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:38:20

Ok, I understand that you're new to this game so I'll help you out. Usually it's possible to guess with a high degree of accuracy what strategy a country was playing simply by looking at its news and final NW/government.

1 Ichitaka (#72) 397 $25,292,459 HG - theo casher
2 C C C P C O M M I E R O C K E T (#87) 500 $22,145,175 H - theo casher
3 Battle chess (#82) 14,358 $21,581,625 CG -CI
4 five day plan (#61) 14,841 $21,324,350 CG -CI
5 Jossica (#12) 11,088 $18,195,595 HG - theo casher
6 x (#6) 16,042 $18,104,838 CG -CI
7 a BiG flaKEy craCKer (#33) 11,442 $17,190,578 HG - theo casher
8 BigPinkBear (#102) 6655 $16,402,142 DG - demo techer
9 Iron Man (#62) 9825 $14,833,538 R - rep casher
10 Trigger (#44) 11,389 $14,563,425 RG - rep casher

If one of my guesses is wrong and the player who ran the country wants to correct me, that's fine.

It looks like there was one techer in the top ten and zero theo techers. Let me reiterate that for you: ZERO THEO TECHERS.

starstalker4

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:38:35

why do i know more about this server than the guy who is supposed to be running it?
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Uticant Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:48:50

Slagpit is right. Techer kinda blows on this server.

locket Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 1:59:55

starstalker, it is because you are a fricking idiot. Slagpit is right about #8 and 1 ranks. And likely as not the rest too. Some may have had tech starts but im sure they were cashers. If you werent a bigger idiot you would know that the tpt change actually makes techers worse if there is the same amount of techers as before. Techer does suck on this server. I was the demo techer at rank 8 obviously, and people are idiots with their undercutting and the prices drop so fast its stupid. Also you have to be online so much its awful that way. With my techer the more I was on the better I did.

starstalker4

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:04:23

look at the history of the tech sales
i watched it throughout the set

slag is guessing he didnt spy on these guys
so he does not know
i did


he did not even know there were two new rules this set
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Slagpit Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:07:50

Gift to the express forum: 24 hours without starstalker4.

enshula Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:08:31

well i was theo cash and i was ichitaka

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:22:20

thank you for that gift

what we would really appreciate though is a mod who knows when the rules change
i mean seriously thirty percent more tech in the game and slag doesnt know that????

Slagpit Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:25:38

Enjoy your IP ban.

Mars UP Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:27:16

Originally posted by Slagpit:
Gift to the express forum: 24 hours without starstalker4.


Hey Slag, your going to have to ban Lae Recruiter and Lincoln too, or he is just going to post under those.

Nevermind, Thank you!

NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:30:47

Originally posted by Slagpit:
Enjoy your IP ban.



he just did :-)

So much for gregg's theory that we're all too stupid to see through a thinly veiled set of aliases.

Mars UP Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:36:25

I bet 10 bucks that he will go to a library or starbucks and try to continue his stupid little antics.

enshula Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:38:58

theres three factors:

1) what techers can afford to sell for, early this is perhaps 3k, late set perhaps 1500

2) what people are willing to buy for, this has risen over time and varies on the server, in express you know competition will increase over time to sell, you can hold a lot of turns and its easy to do tech starts, currently people expect to buy tech at maybe 4k like previous sets but that should drop to 3k

3) supply vs demand, supply per country increased 30% so for overall supply to stay the same techers need to drop by ~26% (slightly less if a country changes to non techer in relative terms, or 26 in absolute if those countries no longer play)

simply because of the size of the server its not possible for 10 really good techers to all make t10 as easily as it was previously, it would now be 7.4 if that was possible before

NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:40:33

it's ok - Slag just essentially confirmed that starstalker and lincoln have the same IP - the rest is simple inference....well, that and in conjunction with his sequential posts in another Express Talk thread.....

What's sad, however, is that whenever he gets back, he'll still be too arrogant to accept that everyone knows full well they're aliases and that he isn't fooling anyone.

I'm sure he'll have a new alias shortly after the IP ban expires.....unless the mods feel like trying to get folks back into this server, in which case I don't think anyone would complain if it remained permanent..

Navisis Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:41:28

im pretty positive that #2 was a theo casher as well

NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:43:22

yes, it was - his SPAL was pretty low, so it was easy to check.

So far as I know, slag is right about at least 6 of the top 10.

Mars UP Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:45:11

Originally posted by NOW3P:
it's ok - Slag just essentially confirmed that starstalker and lincoln have the same IP - the rest is simple inference....well, that and in conjunction with his sequential posts in another Express Talk thread.....

What's sad, however, is that whenever he gets back, he'll still be too arrogant to accept that everyone knows full well they're aliases and that he isn't fooling anyone.

I'm sure he'll have a new alias shortly after the IP ban expires.....unless the mods feel like trying to get folks back into this server, in which case I don't think anyone would complain if it remained permanent..



Part of me thinks he thinks it's funny, like he is the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz. We figured out he's a fraud, but he still doesn't want us looking behind the curtain.

enshula Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 2:45:31

navisis was #2 nowep :P

A-Rod Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 3:38:52

right on 7 too

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Aug 10th 2010, 3:48:21

Originally posted by NOW3P:
I'm sure he'll have a new alias shortly after the IP ban expires.....unless the mods feel like trying to get folks back into this server, in which case I don't think anyone would complain if it remained permanent..



I made it so that it's a slightly more...punishable offense to be IP banned.

Whereas the typical nick ban lasts 24 hours, the IP ban lasts for...say, a year or so?
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Mars UP Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 4:42:00

Originally posted by NukEvil:
Originally posted by NOW3P:
I'm sure he'll have a new alias shortly after the IP ban expires.....unless the mods feel like trying to get folks back into this server, in which case I don't think anyone would complain if it remained permanent..



I made it so that it's a slightly more...punishable offense to be IP banned.

Whereas the typical nick ban lasts 24 hours, the IP ban lasts for...say, a year or so?



Can we call the new IP ban the Gregg's rule? Or you just been Gregg'd?

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Aug 10th 2010, 4:46:18

I vote for the latter.

I can already hear the conversation:

"Hey dude welcome back. Where have you been for so long?"

"Man it was totally crappy, I was minding my own business acting like a fool and basically being a jerk to every one on the forums and next thing I know I got Gregg'd."

Too funny.

NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 6:33:03

now that's funny right there.....

a video in remembrance of Gregg Lincoln, LaE Star:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9jhGiIAFM

Pain Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 6:44:10

now if we could just get a mod to come here and openly admit that gregg is starstalker/laer/lincoln that would really drive gregg nuts.
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diez Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 7:24:01

we should really get "gregg'd" into urbandictionary.com lol :p

diez Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 7:24:33

Eh, and to enshula: congrats man, 25m NW is fantastic! Never saw that coming :p

Mars UP Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 7:28:16

Originally posted by diez:
we should really get "gregg'd" into urbandictionary.com lol :p


If that happens, I'm copy-writing it then. lol

Havoc Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 13:11:24

Heh, I don't think he deserves that immortalization/recognition..
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NOW3P Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 17:20:17

Pain - starstalker got a 24 hr ban; then lincoln posts and mods issue a IP ban which is normally used for folks evading forum nick bans.

Unfortunately, that's the closest you'll get to a technical affirmation, I suspect....but who really cares, was there really any questions in anyone's mind that they were all the same person?

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Aug 10th 2010, 17:50:43

This thread makes me so happy I think I just messed in my undies
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bore Game profile

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Aug 10th 2010, 17:56:00

can we have starcricket4 instead?

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Aug 11th 2010, 16:51:24

and here i thought it was gonna be a fluffty day cause of rain :)
all praised to ra

A-Rod Game profile

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Aug 11th 2010, 18:20:45

has anyone else noticed how quiet it is here now? g=)

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Aug 11th 2010, 19:08:21

**crickets
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Slagpit Game profile

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Aug 11th 2010, 23:43:52

his IP ban wore off a while ago