please be aware that if your retal policy has a L:L clause then monsters will use the terms in your policy to make their retal.

we don't necessarily mind being grabbed, but fair's fair, we expect a certain degree of respect and we aren't very happy with some of the grabs that have been made recently.

with that said, i need to speak to wharfed about my grab on sanct.

grabbing is an act of war.

I thought grabbing was an act of flirting. Hmm could explain why im not getting any country to country love.

Bonus

*goes to grab ladygrizz's bum*

Marshal, you cut that out, lol

Sounds like you two need a camera man. lol

lgrizz: why?

p.s. kingy: you won't be that.

I'd grab Grizz's bum and that's not all I'd grab.

lol@ravi

i think you'll get smacked.

Grabbing a bonus post.

...

*grabs ruthie*

*glares at dazed and king*

*grabs boltars butt-cheeks*

yum yum

see what happens when you let me in your alliance, grabs against the tag increase exponentially.

take a guess who has been getting hit the most in monsters?

at least this has helped insure that this will be a one reset only return. thank you so much for helping me come to my senses and realize this is an asinine waste of my time.

thanks for farming me

i understand your frustration fingolfin because i remember landgrabs didn't exist back when you last played

totally new game mechanic

Fingolfin got a super nice target?

Play a dictator with 165% weapon tech + defense bonus and no one will mess with you :)

Took a quick look at the defending news for Monsters in the past 3 days, and I see no countries getting farmed.

well, it's just fluffing annoying, if you have a well run all-x country, maxed tech, already stocking, decent land and then you get grabbed by a horribly run country with less than 50 k tech in its essential techs and you cant even take your land back, despite having 125% mil strat, because this asshead is just too small in nw (and dont come with that "get more def" argument, at this time of the set, every country that is built to play turns can be broken)
/rant
just leave our reps alone, they want to log in for 5 minutes a day and press the explore button

Earth resembles real life in that way... :-)

MD, When I get home I'm going through my ICQ logs,

but it was my undestadning we had more than a NAP

I even had it listed as such.

I'm not going to say "get more def" but get enough defense to stop countries "too small in nw" from grabbing you as easily. There is an equilibrium with having some defense but not too much to cripple your economy.

Just out of curiosity how much defense did you have and how many acres of land did you have?

You can't expect to run on virtually 0 defense, you still need some.

Probably
300k tur
14k land :P

I love hitting 0 spal, 25k turret countries.

I love hitting those who hit 0 spal, 25k turret countries. I also love oreo cookies and my mummy.

+anon

we had landgrabs in the good old days but the only reason i agreed to play this set was that could sit and hit the cash/explore button for my 5 mintues a day and say hello to people that i remember

i had the most turrets in the alliance i believe at the time.

love the people in this game, always hated when some dummy hits out of the blue and you cannot get your land back. if all explore would have worked way back when i would have tried to do that in ucn

i love hitting Kya, LOL

ucn farmed the fluff out of me and my friends, 11 years ago, when we first started playing. the attacks were always accompanied by "join us or we will farm you" :P

Yeah, join UCNxBoot or die

that's not true at all. in UCN we never hit tagless or small clans more than twice per country. everyone was instructed to politely say sorry for the land grab, if you'd care to join a stronger alliance that can protect you and help you learn the game please consider joining UCN. you can apply at ucn.ezclan.com, though i think our earliest version was e2hq.com/ucn

lol i found a copy of one of our recruiting messages we used on 5/19/2000 to game countries

The United Councils of Nations has about 250 members if you include our Bootcamp. We have been in existence for nearly 3 years now. Fingolfin is our president and has led for a full year. The UCN typically finishes each reset as one of the top 3 ranked allainces in membership and total networth

We use two different sites. The EZCLAN site is our home and the gamerstowndatabase gives us a technological advantage over most alliances.

What do we offer new members?
1. A very intense bootcamp. When a member joins the UCN we assign you to a mentor who for two weeks teaches you strategy, site usage, our foreign relations, our landgrab policy, and many other items.

2. A tag that prevents a large percentage of landgrabs. the UCN is known far and wide and a strong alliance to deter grabbers.

3. A fun experience. We have an area of our site devoted to member biographies and pictures. Over 75% of the alliance has posted a biography. What a great way to get to know people with similar interests.

4. Regular chats. We use an IRC client to host regular chats about earth2025 or just fun talk.

There are many other reasons to join as well but this ought to get you headed in the right direction.

If you are interested in giving us a try out please go to ucn.e2hq.com and apply. Use my name as a reference.

Hope to see you soon.

Fingolfin

liar!