How were they all so certain? calling her "Esme": they knew she was Esme when she did not know, who she was or who Esme, if both were the same, every moment, when they were there, or when she was alone, both she. But she could not deny that they were right, for who would be making that denial? and if who could not be no one, it must be Esme. She thought now of undressing; and the thought was too much to bear, to undress alone, and stand there naked alone; with nothing, even shadows in this bare room, to cover her.

I completely agree with LATC.

mmm so much free money. I can't wait for ppl to start stocking.

lol are you the one doing all the stealing last set? I got it hard haha.

I rather not be hit again losing to ops... I have a better spal this set so I doubt anyone could nail me as hard as they did my techer

I guess the "mini food crash" was due to this:

2014-04-19 16:04:49 PS Bullet For My Valentine (#24) BlackCobra (#232) 3051A (4589A)
2014-04-17 23:16:59 PS BlackCobra (#232) Bullet For My Valentine (#24) 1202A (2180A)

He jumped from 13m to 27m NW for the retal. I was wondering why food plunged to $57.

And the crazy food prices is letting Phreaker2014 run away with the reset. 65k now!

It's insane... Nothing can stop him now. I dare you to try. :-)

Err so would it be coordination if I joined the war against #8 right now? Dude's stole like $1bln from me and I'm sick of it.

Lol looks like he's already being annihilated but if he's stolen $1b it seems fair to have the choice to attack him. I'd say it's all good but you never know, PM a mod first and clear it maybe?

Just don't talk to the other guys about it and heads up redX

Wow, Xin outed him as the runaway winner and 7 hours later this happened:

2014-04-19 23:07:13 PS Ang Pagbabalik (#317) Phreaker2014 (#150) 4798A (7533A)

...and discuss

That's not a retal. He got a lot of land too despite being only 60% of Phreak's size

To be able to break a 40m net country with probably a godly amount of defense and weapons tech + def allies, I really wonder if you've gotta be all jets or what. Of course being a dict helps. I really think he probably just hit the top guy to be a fluff. Like hey this guy is having a great round, he's gonna win, so I'm going to fluff with him.

well, he'll still win

I have a bad feeling about tomorrow...

Just some more variables lol

Looks like the guy has people that hit him that he could have retalled.

I agree but it is what it is.

Wouldn't you feel bad about doing something like that? Like, someone's having a great round, in first place, looking for the win, in a set that takes two months each round, Bam! I know, y'all will tell me I don't feel bad for attacking newbs or whatnot, but really. It seems like this guy isn't even trying, he went over a week between hits at one point recently, but now this.

Give it a rest blid

Lol no. If you wanna disagree and think it's all good hitting the best guy just for the sake of it, feel free, but just telling me to give it a rest is silly. It JUST happened 2 hours ago, it's fair game for me to talk about it.

Just really tired of it. My opinion has been written. AND barfed on!

What else are we ever gonna talk about

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Baked Beans are off? Can I have spam instead?

Here you go! Spam: http://youtu.be/M_eYSuPKP3Y

#179 =(

joins #138 in being demoralized by a sudden onslaught of grabs

sharks smelled the blood in the water....

Pretty much. When good targets have dried up, it seams everyone watches to see who others have found to be viable targets. Then try to get in on it before the getting is gone. It's brutal, but I guess it's part of the process of the final push here.

Dropped to 2210 acres for an insane SPAL. Looks like everybody who hit him should make sure they have very little on hand for now

HEY AT LEAST THEY WEREN'T TOPFEEDS AMIRITE? :-D SEE, Y'ALL NEED ME AND MY ILK TO KEEP fluff LIKE THAT IN CHECK.

HA!
BILL

What are you keeping in check? Do you think you're stopping people from single tapping grab targets?

I doubt his plan was to do a bunch of ops but you never know he might entertain the idea if he reads this thread haha

Hey BILL, saw you crush a beer through a straw in the 1a forum. Props!

That was funny LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE

HA! GLAD YOU ENJOYED IT! *UUUURP*

2014-04-23 18:05:15 PS 2 minutes to Midnight (#27) Imaginary (#99) 6054A (8647A)
2014-04-23 03:08:25 PS Imaginary (#99) 2 minutes to Midnight (#27) DH

That sucks for #99.

Well, it wasn't a smart hit to grab someone's been stocking for a fortnight. Soon as I saw that DH I was like that's gonna bite him.

Dont make bad grabs 10 days left in set, knowing I quit gaining land and stocked due to lack to targets and accepted I wouldn't finish great. but I wont be grabbed without retals if I can retal. Theres one top feed (when i was top 25 and he was t20) left to take on another player but I to make my retal worth it as he hit me had less land at the time of the grab.

Play your own game ill play and I'll play mine but I do retal most hits on this server.

I missed the point :-/

So last week I had 1200 buildings lost to 2 earthquakes.

3 days ago, I had another 550a earthquake. Today I had another 1050a earthquake.

This game hates me, random luck has decreed that my finishing NW will be 2.5m NW lower due to this.

I still maintain earthquakes hold no real meaningful gameplay value, and is a frustrating game mechanic since you cannot mitigate it.

They should get rid of earthquakes and bring in tornadoes. Instead of wiping out buildings they would wipe out citizens and food unless you construct a certain amount of storm cellars. Ya that would be sweet

Sweet for the rainbow in 500th place.

That would be me

Agreed, get rid of earthquakes and make this game more about skill than luck

BRING IT BACK TO 1999 regulations. YAH BABY !

Use mehul great coding while you are at it. A lot of people are old school

This is an idea that is better than the current random earthquakes. Because you currently cannot mitigate earthquakes, but you CAN mitigate tornadoes with storm cellars, so there is an element/mechanic of risk vs reward: Do I build Storm Cellars?

When I talk about game design, this is the kind of thing that I always think about, does adding this mechanic bring additional gameplay value or additional options to the player? Or does it just frustrate the player? Or does it only make a mundane task even more tedious? Does the mechanic open up additional possibilities that did not exist before? What if Storm Cellars could also protect against some BR civilian damage since they can be used as shelters too?

Earthquakes currently do nothing but take away choice from the player, instead of giving the player more choices. Now you have less money because it is 99% of the time better to rebuild the acres immediately, an obvious choice is not really a choice. That is nothing but frustrating. It terms of game design, something is not considered a choice if it is not "interesting", if choice A and B both have no drawback, even in the long term, but A gives better rewards, then the choice is mundane, games want to avoid this.