landtrading is idiotic in its current form. it would be far easier if everyone just landtraded within their own tags. It would be easier to organize, and there would be less FR issues. I hate the idea of trading, even if it's with allies. I mean, the only people I'm not competing against are my own tag, so they are the only ones that should benefit from everything I do.

A) mehul designed this game in a pique of boredom in 96 I believe. It took him 6 weeks. He didnt have high speed internet and thus couldnt stream porn.

If you played 1a he got rid of missiles on the market in 97 and added tags in late 98. The theo govt was added in 99. Basically everyone on these boards started in 97/98. I think the only new players from since then are named vingthor or play ffa.

b) this is bullplop. I hope rage trolls lcn for the next year. If youre gonna blindside someone do it to make it fun. Post fs rage is outnumbered what? 23 to 8? Thatd be like laf blindsiding lcn. Thats just a lopsided week.


now if laf blindsided md and sol THAT would be brilliant fun.

Tl;dr
-rage should troll lcn, hard.

I get where sam is coming from. Landtrading is lame already combine that with low def and you got a recipe for lazy victory.

but by redistributing acres as he did, specifically by gifting 25k acres to one of the server's most active land traders its not like he disproved the weakness of the strategy. All he did was piss off a bunch of people.

internet trolling 101

LaF is the best alliance at both netting and war. A good chunk have been in the alliance for atleast a decade. As someone who has played maybe 15 sets im a newcomer to laf.

Though ive played this game on and off for 16-years. More then half my life.


Regardless of the strat you want to play we have the people to show you how to rock it. Though the fast tyr-tech market whore is a specialty of LaF. Though because of its difficulty we dont normally have new people play it.

all alliances openly recruit. I think we still interview, but no one turns down news players out of hand. Not even LaF. And, as I said before, we are the best.

apply at http://www.lafamiglia.org

You guys are aware that imag likes war, right? Even if you beat imag you wont be retal capable and are going to be farmed into the ground.

In most situations Angel I agree with you. But all the Canadian cellphone companies are scumbags. They hold you to their contract, but will never follow it if they can get away with it.

they will lie, cheat, steal, overcharge, under deliver, and then divert you to a dozen different customer service levels. On the customer facing side they don't care remotely about customer service. Within the retail and customer service framework the customer has absolutely no leverage besides paying massive cancellation charges and buying the exact same contract from the guy across the hall who charges the same price for the same service and will treat you the same way.

The telecomm industry in Canada is much like the banking and credit industry in much of the states. Widely reviled as a corrupt evil monopoly that cares only about the bottom line.

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Though that doesn't sound like the real issue here. I always thought cellphone sales in Canada are primarily through dealers. Like buying a car. Sounds like the salesman told you one thing about the rules to close the sale and the actual rules are different. Or, when you tried to return it the agent accepting the return told you some other BS to run out the clock to save the other guys' commission.

My best bet would still be to bomb social media and the email of a bunch of executives. Even though it isn't their fault they will just give you a refund to end the issue and save potential embarrassment. It's not like accepting the return should hurt them. They probably just send it back to the manufacturer.

from a legal standpoint you are the winner.

but the barrier to arguing your point is higher then the $200 you paid.


though even if you had paid with a credit card you probably would lose a chargeback because you agree that you agreed to the purchase. most companies would brush this off as a merchant dispute and refer you back to the service provider.

I agree with Symac though. Your best bet is always an executive email carpet bomb. It's one way atleast to guarantee an actual response.

Though don't discount regulatory complaints. I used to work in the financial/credit industry. A complaint received through the BBB and the regulatory agencies counted harder against agents and middle management then lawsuits did.

lol no

probly

dd from cwg, or dd from boa?

also, did either of you have dreads?

also, am I making both or either of those people up? My memory is getting hazy in my old age.

haha. I love the idea of a new alliance coming in and breaking the rules.

however, there is an old saying. Something about sowing the wind.

pizza al taglio. in some parts of italy they have 'pizza' that is kinda like a mega foccacia cut into takeaway strips which they sometimes dress in the weirdest toppings, but more often then not only serve with tomato sauce or olive oil.

oh torontonians, how quaint. pizza nova and pizza pizza are ontario-only chains, aren't they? And they're both terrible.


that said, I have a local store that puts a half pound of bacon on top of their meat lover's pizza. And because I'm not in Toronto where these chains hate their customers these guys will find a guy to drive it to me no matter where I am.

I didn't read most of this thread, but:

Pizza Pizza is freaking awful. there's a reason they really don't operate in BC. we don't like eating cardboard smeared in ketchup.

to the americans: Dominos is garbage. But compared to pizza pizza it's fine dining.

and

In Victoria I live in a small suburb that's considered out of town. I get delivery coverage from all the major chains and a half dozen independent pizza places. One panago closed for renos near me so for two years I was covered by one a 20 minute drive away(just googled, it really is 12-16kms depending on route). And never that soggy end-of-run stuff that people complain about. I tip well and it always arrives steaming.

xin lies.

once you get over 120 it does. it's a cheat I had qz put in for me.

try it, you'll be amazed.

69th you ask?

looks like no one has shotgunned a beer, or traded tequila for beer, cowards.

though I did enjoy bill's voice modifier.

the highest province(NS) actually has a min wage of 10.40 I think, though ontario goes up to 11 this summer. Alberta has the lowest at 9.95.

Unlike the US, servers don't get screwed too hard. I think the lowest a server can make anywhere is around $9/hour and even that is changing.

Some additional curious info I learned while googling this:

-About 2.4% of employees in western canada earn minimum wage overall
-about 5.8% of employees in canada overall earn minimum wage overall

to compare that actually means Canadians are more likely to work at minimum wage then americans. Though about 60% of canadian minimum wage earners are under 25 whereas half of american min wage earners are under 25. That leaves the numbers over 25 basically the same.

also these percentages do exaggerate the numbers. Offhand I think less then half workforce are paid hourly at all.

It's all perspective. A one bedroom apartment in Victoria runs you $700-1500/mo. But a room in a house costs a fraction of that.

That you barely got by on $1200 a month in Edmonton is a testament to your living standards. Not to the ability to prosper on significantly less. I once spent close to a year in a government funded group living volunteer program that traveled around Canada and had a per person living expenses budget under $400/mo to cover everything(accom, food, utilities, transport, entertainment etc etc) and we prospered. My group spent 3 months living in a suburb of calgary within those constraints. We couldn't afford to buy bread(we made everything by hand), but we lived well. This was while everyone was engaged in 40 hour unpaid volunteer work weeks. And they operated on the same per person budget up until two years ago when their funding was ended.

Now this isn't meant to be an example of how to live, but for everyone who says $1600/mo would have you on the street I like to point out that $400/mo had me kneading bread and arguing marx.

EDIT: I never argued marx. But we had 5 francophones and 6 RoCs. We argued separatism till the sun came up.

And I do agree with you qz that minimum wage is obviously insufficient for a single mother. Reputable licensed non profit childcare will likely cost as much as someone being paid minimum wage earns. But then you're back to fixing a loose screw with a sledgehammer.

I can't find a source I would consider reputable. But the right wing think tanks that come up in google seem to think between 5-10% of all people earning minimum wage are single parents. Definitely not impetus to retool a large part of our economy.

That's ridiculous. A one third rule is for writing a mortgage and is a pretax income measure. And besides that you can EASILY get a place to crash in Seattle for $535 a month. Just look it up.


I was a student just a few years ago and I lived off of $700/month. $350/mo on rent $200 on food and $150 or so on booze and laundry. I had absolutely no financial security, but it was survival and cause I was healthy, it was fine. Just for comparison sake, I don't know how best to measure affordability but if you look at median household income in 2011 where I live(Victoria, BC) was $70k/year USD as opposed to Seattle which is 80 miles away where it is $52k(city of seattle)-$65k(forbes)/year.

Stupid google couldn't pull up US census info for most accurate household income in seattle and I'm too lazy to research it.

Hmm, I kind of run a kind of small business.

on a store level we spend about 45% of gross income on salary. Our worst staff earns 50-60% more then minimum wage(min wage is $10/hr i think). But if minimum wage were doubled - unless it led to an immediate increase in sales - we would lay off staff at best, or at worst be forced to shut down entirely.

We just aren't large enough to push the new costs on to customers. You can mock our business model, but we currently turn a profit and pay our new staff enough to live and provide a good paycheque to all our experienced staff.

I stopped reading after the first 50 posts. In general, I disagreed with everyone.

Is it just me, or is everyone overreacting a little? One side says double the minimum wage. Another says abolish it. And a good half are saying fluff poor people, make em dance. dance monkeys dance.

Is the sky really falling? In my part of Canada, BC, minimum wage is $10/hour. I don't now about mot of the states but I know in BC vs WA, or Vancouver vs Seattle, $10USD in the USA goes a lot further then $10 CAD in Canada. But for most demographics, including that 29 year old average age demo $1600/mo brings home around $1300/mo post tax. The only demo I can imagine that not being a survivable wage is single mothers. If that is the real issue, then just hand out some child care vouchers and birth control pills. Why fix a lightbulb with a sledgehammer?

My recommendation is to play Alliance with a good alliance(see: http://www.lafamiglia.org)

learn some good strategies, get some advice from people who have played in primary before, and come back next set and grind some other people's gears.

least favourite part of the game: top 100 arena bonus requirement

bonus

everyone is so trigger happy end of set.

missiles! pew pew!

were i you, i'd try joining , THE MIGHTY CLAN [DANGER!]

under the stipulation your name would become DANGERBOLT

thing is the best netters tend to be the best at war as well. It's about being able to follow instructions and show up regularly.

if anyone decided to ruin the sets of half a dozen alliances(betraying pacts to do so) they would need to be prepared for a while of not netting.

Omega

After a while you get used to spotting the fake ones. At a hundred I was at 70% and probably getting 80% of them right.

internet acrony1ms, references to flavour, charginos and simple titles are mostly fake.

Neorage

haha, idiots.

you missiled me during the day.

I haven't played in two sets.

that said, I always considered the retal window the whole set. And I always warred anyone who RoRd. And I carried a safe amount of missiles.

gonna need the poundage to guesstimate.

my wife is stoked that you guys stopped using me as a missile dump.

getting texted every hour from 2am-6am that I was being attacked was pissing her off. she actually 'accidentally' punched me in the throat.

does this mean no more werewolf?

for an enemy I like the cut of your jib.

though you didn't get him. if you need his country number PM me.

Yup.

And here I thought all the crazy had left over the years.

you speak of war, but all I can think of is gnocchi.

I'd fight over gnocchi.

SOL sucks

well, to quote the most recent update from CNN from SUV driver's wife:

"My husband was forced under the circumstances to take the actions that he did in order to protect the lives of our entire family," his wife said.

"We know in our hearts that we could not have done anything differently, and we believe that anyone faced with this sort of grave danger would have taken the same course of action in order to protect their family."

It was Lien's wife who made the last of three 911 calls the family placed during the incident.
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Apparently a member of the group that chased down the SUV driver was an off duty police officer as well.

blargh.

I thought missiles had no effect on DR. Didn't know it hit ghost acre DR.

with prices sky high for everything I kinda figgered this set would be a writeoff. Dunno who would pick a fight with someone who has double your spal and 20 missiles though.

Seems reckless.

I'm very impressed that you've deigned to take the time to correct my obvious incompetence with your insight.

See, here's the thing. I've read about a dozen news articles about this. Everyone - EDIT: everyone related to Mieses - is claiming that the paraplegic guy was protecting the man who had his leg broken by the SUV driver in the initial accident.

I'm under the impression that Christopher Cruz, the man charged with causing the first accident, was the person who was in the first accident. No reports of his leg being broken. In fact all news articles seem to agree that he caused the accident and was entirely uninjured. As do the police who have charged him with crimes but allowed him to walk out on bail. Feel free to check the AP's photos of him yesterday. He looks fine.

All we have is edward mieses claiming he was helping someone with a broken leg. No reports of any injuries besides his own and the victim with the slashed face.

Is that incorrect? You have insider info so obviously you're unbiased and know everything.

I'm a pretty chill guy irl.

But if my wife is in the car and I have people pounding on my windows, people standing in front of my car to block my escape, and I hit the gas and consequences can be damned.

add in the fact that these bikers had knives out and were slashing his tires. AND that he had a 2 year old in the car.

I can't imagine rolling down my windows to politely ask people to leave. Even if my wife isn't in the car, what am I going to do? Politely ask people not to slash my face?

Takes a lot more balls then I have.

buncha scrubs/nubs

way too early in the set to midfeed.