tl;dr


"Your brain is small.

"No, YOUR brain is small"

"NO! YOUR brain is small!"

"NO!!! YOUR BRAIN IS SMALL!!"

"NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

If I log in again this weekend, his country will be obliterated one way or another

I WAS COUNTING ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!

No matter, PreFlop will die, and that's all that matters.

I don't know why i tried farmer :(

Please note the message in parenthesis!

Just clicked the link in the original post and laughed heartily (see how gross that is?)

Adverbs are an atrocity to the written word.

where did this come from? nowhere?

As an impartial observer, the server community has benefited from rogues like Delphi. Autocorrect changed 'Celphi' to 'Delphi', instead of fixing it I wrote out this elaborate explanation instead of fixing the simple typo. Beer.

Come out to Worcester and learn me to play good.

or we can just get drunk and watch the sox (lose)

Well its definitely not gonna be #14, who nailed me for 900 acres even tho I have 360(100+) turns,

lol

Yea - pretty sure this guy plays this way every time he plays this server.

And sure enough, every time he gets flattened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dkWqf1Ikz8

I might suicide all the commies for being idiots about their pricing, then blow myself up.

Thin market with jets selling at $154, only like 20k available.. 1 hour later, over 1 million available under $140

TEAM is a lot of fun.

You will get killed randomly though.

But its fun.

Ford vs Celphi is awesome lol.. PS I like you both

Whack him once now with a 'retal' message, he will be dead later this week more than likely

Take what I say with a grain of salt, I've finished 2nd with 33m networth, but I've never won.. If I give false info I trust the gurus to correct me, but what I post has worked for me.

I also batch explore (at 1920a only) because of target selection.. I don't really hammer the bots as much as others do, grabbing at 2k as opposed to 4k means theres 10+ additional countries I'd have to hit.

first of all, if you go all explore, listen to ford.

it isn't always a question of playing 'slow', but rather playing more efficiently. I have saved a ton of turns in the first 24 hours of this reset, because I refused to sell my turrets for $105 each (which is where they were for a while) Instead I put them up at 150+ and stored turns til they sold. Now I can buy some cheap tech, build up unused land, and store more turns until my next batch of turrets sells.

Doing this, I will be playing more turns with the benefit of indy tech than i would if i was just simply racing to play all my turns.

It doesn't put me in the top 10 right now, but playing this way should put me up there when it matters on Sunday (unless i abandon my country on Friday, which is likely)

I explore up to (just under) 1920 acres, then build up all my land, then save turns and explore with all available turns. It usually takes about 40 or so turns and will leave you with 3800+ acres.

I usually start grabbing at that point.

All explore commie might get you an occasional top 10 depending on market conditions, but you won't win doing that.

You are ahead for now, probably because you have spent more turns than grabbing commies.

Yea, I don't have the capacity to try and get away with something like that. He was a young kid probably home from college working for the summer, not that the 'who' really matters, but i've been that kid before, and $600 is a lot of money at that age.


I might think differently about it if it was the bank that took the hit, because F banks, but im not naive enough to believe that.

I went to the bank with $600 to deposit after selling 3 cord of wood that I harvested.

I didn't have my account info available, so i asked the teller to provide it to me. He did. As I filled out my deposit slip, he went on his obligatory speech about the benefits of all these different programs/accounts. I humored him by feigning interest and took home some literature. Towards the end of our conversation he gave me a receipt and I went back to the office.

Upon returning to work, I looked at my receipt showing the deposit of $600. Then i looked in my wallet to find $600. He processed the transaction, gave me a receipt reflecting the transaction as complete, but never took the money from me!

Fortunately for the bank, I have morals and I immediately called the bank explaining what happened and that i couldn't get back there today before they closed, but i would be back in the morning with the money.

If I hadn't said or done anything, would this kid have gotten fired? Would I be getting a phone call from the police?

What would you have done?

How true. The arrogance of it! Illiterate Essayists.. perhaps i should try to bring them back next week and see if they've learned anything.

LOL

I know for a fact there are untagged countries that play every reset, they have found a way to play here just fine. id1028s and Brigg, you seem to have a common philosophy about the game and this server in particular, that is a great start to forming a team.

I would start by:

1) Not caring what people on a message board think of you
2) Going with the flow until you have the strength to enforce your own style of play.

You are admitting and embracing the 'new/rusty returning player' schtick, that is well and good. But as ford mentioned, people have been playing this game off and on for 20 years (myself for 18, although admittedly more OFF than ON) It is silly to assume the server will cater to you.

You are allowed to disagree, but you won't be convincing anyone on the message forums. Develop your play (I will help you if you want strategy tips) and form a team that will give people cause to second guess taking aggressive action. OR, carry over some of the distaste you have from a previous reset and make a FS of your own. Enforcement via in-game action goes a lot farther than whiny message forum posts. I have enjoyed being on your team, its fun to see you having fun, but posting here like you have been will not get you anywhere.

There is always option 3:

Go play Express and Join GDI.. you can be attacked but not killed unless you are the aggressor.

thanks bud!

Thunder - For the record, I haven't uttered a single word of discontent! I will assume your post is not directed at me.

EDIT: And to be honest I 100% agree.

On a side note, i never really had a TEAM on this server and have been playing untagged for a few weeks. It is growing on me though, perhaps I can give it a more serious 'go' next round.

thats all this is, no one is telling you how to play, and no one can tell others how to play, either.

You stole tech and did other spy ops to random countries, which is entirely acceptable, and if you want to continue to do it, no one can stop you with words on a message forum. You are playing within the rules. Some OTHER random countries focused their turns and killed our team; Again, entirely within the rules. The damage isn't equal, but the behavior is. The appropriate response would be to:

A) Make netting intentions known, and do not instigate and fights
or
B) Coordinate our attacks and fight back. (Our tag is a SPAM tag by definition.. I created the tag and password, then sent it out to random untagged countries, i don't give us a whole lot of chance at winning a war)



Express is a fun server because if something like this happens, you usually have a ton of turns on hand to retaliate, and if not, the game only lasts a week. Just chaulk it up as experience and create a new country the next week.

TEAM is nice because the games are relatively short as well, but with formal alliances being allowed, this kind of thing happens.

My poor excuse for a country isn't dead yet, and i will try to do some damage before i get killed, next set (if you want to play again) we can always try to make our intentions known, but even that that doesn't guarantee us immunity from a coordinated attack.

Its a style of play that suits him. He won't get a top 10 with it but he's having fun, I can't speak for him but i don't think he's bombing banks on countries with billions on hand.. stealing a little tech here, bombing a few jets there, etc. I think its funny, and the amount of damage really done is minimal. Once he's spotted the defending country can and will act accordingly. Dunno if he targeted drunksex or not, but either way, if they want to attack us its their prerogative, and no hard feelings. Its a war game on the warriest server, after all.

Brigg, i think its fair to say that randomly spyopping countries is not unlike what drunksex did to us, just with a lot more force and focus :)

next set ill actually try to play all my turns! And not as a theo with no stock or war techs :)

The 'Wild West' factor is what makes this server fun. No hard feelings with the drunk tag, ya clowns.

Brigg buddy, ill team with you again next set, no biggie.. come back :)

I have never understood poetry, sounds like this guy is on an acid trip with his golden birds and death shadows.

Took 4 hours to get home.. fluff rt 6.. My in-laws live down there and I beat my father-in-law by 3 strokes with a 82, great wknd.

I killed a guy randomly, then the next day killed his restart after stonewalling his kr attempt on me, I then went to the cape for 2 days and just logged in to find my country destroyed. No hard feelings, guy.

I just saw the tourny thread.

Brigg is a MVP earther!

haha this is fantastic!!


Hi Brigg!

I guarantee you #41 doesn't read forums, and is honestly having the time of his life spending all of his turns committing espionage because he thinks it is benefiting the rest of our team (like we get a percentage or something)

Earlier in the set he wanted to bomb airbases of the top ranked country (on day 5 or so) to slow him down.

I am positive he is blissfully unaware of any potential rules violations if that is your insinuation, Link. However, I will in-game message him and explain that it is a no-no to do this.

Otherwise, I am getting a huge kick out of being teammates with him. I promise no one has more fun than him!

ha!

haha im sorry but this is the most fun i've had in team since... forever. And i've barely played any turns!!!

(while I am a member of TEAM OLDIES, this is not my country)

Vic, Celphi:

See?

lol

this guy

https://vimeo.com/10880189

Marshall, you received tag/pw info from an Elders not oldies member?

Also - I realize Express and Alliance are 2 different animals, but a DT would = death in Express, which makes it fun.. come play!