If we assume that beq (whatever that is) is in the usa, and all players in this game are American then .0000033% of the populace plays the game.. now let's do 800 occupants * .0000033% = .00264 people in your building play.

Granted, some of the assumptions aren't exactly true, but you get the point. If you happen to live among 800 and one of them plays earth without you having some knowledge about it, I'd be amazed.

I think you're safe :p

One year ago today, alliance server went live and we all were saved from the imminent doom jolt/omac cast upon us by killing our baby, Earth 2025.

Today, we can all be happy that a community which some of us were a part of as long as 15 years ago continues on today thanks to the dedication of QZ-Jul, Pang, Slagpit, and all the Wiki, forum and ingame mods.

In the last year we've finally got to experience this game under proper management and with a large amount of innovation, of which, many were player based suggestions.

And while express did go live two days prior, and beta happened even before that, I value Alliance as the true breadwinner and community staple.

So to everyone that's played a country, contributed an idea, recruited someone new, and especially pang, qz and slag, thanks for extending the longevity of the game we all are hooked on and can't walk away from.

Happy one year anniversary!

Murf is obviously trying to hide his true feelings as he rushed his post to defend himself, using "your" when "you're" was proper.

Tssk tssk. I've caught you Murf. No need to hide any longer.

Kemo is indeed in SancT :P

more reason to join us!

Come play in Sanct!

http://collab.boxcarhosting.com

If you want me to send you some info, let me know :)

Let it be known that Murf wants two men in this thread.

And they both play for me... coincidence? Doubt it.. I think it's fair to say that Murf wants at least 3 men in this thread ;)

Come to SancT/Collab!

http://collab.boxcarhosting.com

Let me know if you'd like me to contact you to give you a little info :)

lol @ Thomas' reaction.

Says the man who has to poke gentlemen to get his rocks off.

If it helps any. My package is indeed better in both ways :]

Weee I've been thinking about some of these all set!

Havoc, Monks and SancT were the same size, not to mention SancT was also a "netting" alliance at that time.

So a netting alliance of the same size kicked his clans ass off the server (this was 4-5 years ago btw).

^is what I would say with sincerity if you were Steven Tyler.

But since its you, that was all sarcasm.

Still, glad to see another old timer come back, even if you used to be a tool ;)

Oh JJ23! You should have joined back up with us at SancT!

I'm excited to hear about how many Lambo's and Ferrari's your current garage has.

Not to mention which one of the 100's of super models you've dated you ended up marrying!

GOSH. I can't believe a living rockstar like you has come back to join the likes of us!!!

-Your Biggest Fan.

Guess that says something about you if your former alliance was pushed out of existence by a mediocre alliance. Hey, you know another thing that'll eat you up.

You're all talk SMz, all talk. No one respects you. People respect those around you like Martian, Murf, Ivan, Aponic... but you? Please. You're the short kid who stands behind his big friends shouting threats. Grow a pair why don't you.

lol.. SMz, you're just a nobody.

You're still angry at SancT because we beat the fluff ouf of your crap alliance for sets until you ran and merged into TIE. fluff.

I feel bad for SOF to have to put up with you. I can't wait til you mouth off to someone like Ivan and he puts you in your place.

Detah to whoever gets him besides Sanct, we protect our investments! :P

Yeahhh thats pretty gay. Arma was allied to one of our top techers all set.

SOL contacted me about it to, but it was decided that there was no foul play.. at least on the Collab side.. and that's all I can really comment on for sure ;p

"No such action has been taken by netting alliances to curb ritualistic farming of untags."

Technically we did try to do that last set by dropping pacts with 90% of the server. We hoped casual grabbing between alliances could be done without hostilities getting too out of control. Instead, even RAGE threatened to war us, even though we had very very few grabs going back and forth in comparison to other alliances. Granted, things settled down once you came back from vacation, but there were quite a few people lamenting that RAGE would FS us over some LGs.

You don't want netters to grab untaggeds, but they most certainly shouldn't grab alliances either in your opinion.

If LCN had done this to you guys, you can damn bet I'd be saying the same ish to them and even more cause they're larger. Partially because of the same issues you FSing them this late has but also partially because I know you've been putting a lot of time into bringing RAGE back up from the shambles it was in a year ago. Simple differentiating fact is that you decided to make it your course to hit them instead, outlining what's probably gonna take quite a lot of presence and commitment on your part in an upcoming holiday set to keep RAGE what it has grown to be again.

Then again, deep down I think we're all looking for that one shattering event that will push us into quitting the game, maybe this is yours ;p

Actually Thomas yeah we did, and I came out and admitted it happened once I found out it did.

We did however apologize to Evo (one of their members was the one that finished 11th) and the community for it though cause I felt bad that that happened under my presidency. I would have forced him to drop out of the top 10 if I had known about it prior to the end of the set.

For the record, he wasnt even the highest ranked of our countries either heh.

It was fords country? Cause enough! ;)

bread of wonder? or was that killroy?

Slag must not know our road record for FFA, Thomas ;)

Technically, that did carry on for three more sets. Someone obviously didn't pay attention. And if you want, you can probably even extend it into a fourth set in a minor way.

Oh dear, Preator is schooling someone in English?

Check outside, I think the sky is falling! :D

I'll be suiciding less than 16 of slags countries for lying to me.

Oh thats amusing, beat NA in war, then resort to their *old* tactics that everyone hated them for.

Hah.

That one made me laugh a bit.

I dont think he got FAed...?

One of the countries that benefitted from a buyout most likely ;p

While I'd like to agree to your theory, Dragonlance, common sense tells me thats not the way it goes.

Problem 1 arises from the fact that it takes both alliances to say "hey we're gonna squash it after this set," and so far, only RAGE has said anything about that.

Problem 2 stems from the action itself being one of which starts grudge wars. You waited until the final week of the set to hit an alliance that otherwise would have peacefully netted it out with some good finishes. That leaves a bitter taste in their members mouths and they'll want to kill you next set for it.

Problem 3 is that every alliance since I've come back (only a year ago) to hit an alliance in the last week of their net set, go spanked incredibly hard the next set.

Based on that, I'd recommend ya knock on wood, throw some salt over your shoulder and bring your A-game next set or you might watch what you've been patiently building up and stabilizing the last three sets go down in a blaze.

Then again, I could be wrong and LCN could roll over for you guys. Personally, I'd put that hope in the same realm of possibilities as me bagging Daum triplets.. in the same night.

I think thats a compliment! Thanks!

Still, don't think the move helps the game any when you could have waited til next set, but mehhhhh *goes to play in his own sandbox*

Classy... not.

(see what I did there?)

Hey guys,

SancTuarY FFA will be starting up for this set of FFA.

I know Kemo has begin seeking out pacts for us. However if anyone is interested that has not been in contact with Kemo, feel free to message myself or Thomas.

My contact is in my signature and Thomas should be along one of these days to post the same :)

Toodles~

I hope Ravi doesnt leave LCN :(

It'll be like the time he turned down playing guitar for Snoop.

PS Collab and LCN hate each other. Please no one misunderstand that. The only thing that keeps us from FSing one another is that the server would quite possibly implode from all the hatred strewn about.

Only reason SancT came back strong for awhile was i had personally saved two members lists, one from early 2005 and one from late 2006.

You can gain members back for awhile cause they're like "oh yeah that game!!!" - Give it 6 months and they'll remember why they quit.. that seems to be a lot of the reason we're seeing a downturn in membership.

Don't mean to be glum or anything, but its true heh.. at least of us.

have DL message me :D

All things considered, FIST was the only start-up of EE.. Granted the name is old, but they were the only alliance to start up in the EE era that did not result in the death of a past alliance/name (i.e. EEVIL was a start up, but resulted in the death of Regen, RD is a start up, but spawned off the death of EEVIL; and thus a net of 0 new alliances).

Kind of sucks that the one alliance which did start up on its own without killing off an alliance it spawned off of (no pun intended) is going to be saying goodbye.

Hope you guys end up sticking around, or at least become a traveling division or something~ Regardless of anyone's opinions about FIST, the game in general loses out on this one; losing users in total; and some pretty skilled ones at that.

So uh FIST, stick around. At least do a ninja vanish and randomly AB the eff out of people you don't like next set. That'd be fun to watch .. so long as its not us ;)

Aponic - Only offer of the sort I saw was on AT, and it wasn't well thought out at all. All things considered you'd be taking a war battered SOL, add in a killed NA and have us. In turn, LAF would counteract NA, then you'd add in Imag, who was fully warprepped at our size, then SOF, who is still in its prime after the short-lived NA war.

There would be an abundance of breaking power on the SOF/Imag front in comparison to just Collab breaking on our side. 90 breakrs vs 30... thats the big offer? I mean, I think we're a pretty capable group at warring, but I think you might be giving us a bit too much credit there ;p

It'd be nice to have you in Collab for a set or two Foog. You're always rather thought out and I have a feeling Collab would benefit from your presence. Hopefully you would as well, playing in a different setting where we're equally happy netting or warring and try hard at both.

If you wanna, flip me a message .. or take it a step further and just apply here: http://collab.boxcarhosting.com

:)

Bahaha technically I don't think that was an actual SancT member that hit RD, just someone passing through. But yeah.. Hope we get jackets for being in that group!

Now now you two, stop puffing up your chests.

The big boys (soviet and I) handled this already in private. If you two wish to continue jerkin each other off, I suggest you do it in a similar setting~

Have a swirvey day.

New Monsters was born on Halloween? Never knew that.. pretty cool though.

TAN - You also could have seen a completely different situation in the fact that we focused 90% of our effort at killing off Imag. If that were PDM instead, could have shifted the activity/togetherness of Imag.

And on the BR thing, you guys were only able to take advantage of it because you had been stocking so long while our stocks were depleted, so many countries had to sell off military, making it easier to be BRed.

Once you have a hardcore straight-on "war set" I think you're love of jets will be lowered ;p

llaar for best AT poster this set!

By logic, that makes me the commander of m0m0.

dance m0m0 dance!

I'm the dance floor commander. Does m0m0 dance?

Maki - it's more that I know our guys get burned out easily, as almost none have started playing more recently than 6-7 years ago. If we're trying to have a net set, I don't bug them to play as much if they really dont want to be bothered by it. Gives me more leverage in war sets when we need more members; we can think of it more as giving them a vacation from their duties :)

And if it so happens that we get FSed during a net set such as when SOL hit us, it just riles everyone up that much more to come back and defend our home. It works in plenty of ways :P

You guys didn't ruin our reunion set. We jumped into war first ;p

We didn't wanna net our reunion set.. so it's more like thanks for making it interesting ;p

lol your signature is perfect. Wouldn't exactly call it conducive to the game but meh.

People leave the game sometimes, ish happens. Truth is we only had 30 actives last set and still outkilled you and Imag.. who had 60, heh.

I spelled it right in the body of the post llaar.

And unless a person is too incompetent to understand the point just because of that misspelling, it shouldn't matter. :)

I assume you understand the point though since you posted. Either that or you were severely confused to the point where you had to dictionary.com "awarness" to find the correct word and then make a dumb post about spelling it correctly. *shrugs* I'll assume the former because I have faith in humanity, yourself included, llaar ;p

You failed at the trend or you would have quoted me dumbass.