i actually wrote servers for blizzard.

including WoW ones.

i did not make the game fun, if anything all that downtime that i could potentially have caused for WoW servers would actually serve to decrease you addiction ;)

"I invited... the market buyout"

other than the fact that ur post there sounded like sarcasm, this part is kind of true considering you were the recipient of the first market buyout in earth: 2025 history if i recall correctly :P

how does that relate to this thread? i thought you were asking about why that untagged is being hit so much.

if its a debate of warring alliances hitting netting ones, isn't that another topic of debate? ;P

its FAQ time mrford! ;)

Q: what does a CLAN fighting a CLAN have to do with you running every single untag off the server with farming?
A: if untags were all run off the server, then the problem would solve itself no?

Q: do you not find that funny at all? did the untags ever get to call bottom feed?
A: i don't find that funny. the untags are free to call bottom feed. no one is denying their freedom of speech here.

Q: if right now, i farmed a EVO of LaF country 40 times in a row, what would you say?
A: i would send a message to SoF's FA, get our land back, and get a SoF FA's authorization to do a kill run on a "rogue member".

Q: if your wish was granted, and every single untag actually tagged up, what would you do?
A: we would hi the explore button




and "one of these days im going to run a untag and fluffin unload on the first clan that farms me" is spot on. there has never been a lot of real "untagged country newbies". in the past those untagged countries were 90% multies/landfarms of others, now 90% of the untagged countries are bored vets who run untagged just to retal/hit random clans

mrford: send him a recruitment message. then he can have protection!

WHO SAYS TREEHUGGERS CAN'T KILL?

i love it how some people claim to know history and spout bs.

some people are relatively accurate though =) ruthie and ponderer is spot on, there was the concept of "tags" before the feb 1999 reset when tags were part of ingame.

and the first reset mehul implemented in game tagging as a feature, all alliances used it, so i don't think RAGE "changed the way earth ran"

mehul was the factor in why we all have official ingame tags instead of just tagging who we chose and trading member lists, not RAGE.

anoneim: i actually find that quote hilarious too but for a different reason (the obvious lack of grammar skills :P)

this thread was to wish us a merry christmas.

now that its way past and its almost new years, maybe we should change it to happy new years!

im still in hawaii atm, but i came back two resets ago and was tricked into taking a leadership position again.

rest assured detmer i still love you as much as always ;P

there's a place to do FA and its not AT :P

feel free to use the proper channels if you want to talk about stuff ;)

and ivan: i'm trying to reach to you, since i would love to listen to what you have to say. shoot me a message back and we can chat

Don Hanlong
Head FR of LaF

hi silver =)

what's the point of full dental but no medical? :P

i have to admit, that 18k acre country is a testament to uber netgaining skills

yah i'm in the same boat as you battle toupee... i don't remember half the stuff, but after reading about it again some of the events are coming back to me

i agree with requiem. country:country is the way to go.

it rewards more skilled players.

i hate the "go play primary if you want C:C" crap, i think the alliance steps in if someone is really abusing you, but if its just a grab and you can't retal yourself you should just "L2P N00B"

they are TIEd up in LCN

oh,

you are right. i went back to double check... haha oops =)

i was thinking of another coalition ;P i remember what SLIT was now, and you are right it was after my time.

so yes, let me take that back =)

is SLIT the last major coalition war event? or are there more? sounds like ever since we moved to EC and EE there has been less coalitions?

LCN should be 11th

i was leading my alliance when SLIT was around, so i was very active and definitely remembered it.

therefore, by my definition it is considered old ;)

being away for a few years, i wanted to catch up to earth history.

it seems like these past few years were relatively uneventful compared to the past. the biggest modern events pale in comparison to the older events (all those juicy events during the RoCK days, FoG vs the anti-coalition, TIL, Big 6, RD taking out UCN, etc.).

are we just getting tame relatively to the past? or i'm just not aware of what's going on now since i'll freely admit i haven't followed earth for a few years and maybe i just remember the events which i was a part of personally more vividly

oh well its all in the holiday spirit then ;)

you guys have the same theme as us.

damn it, and i thought we got the monopoly on christmas theme countries

well at least its a bigger pain in the ass to prove ;P

you can't prove this, because there is no formula to represent the series of prime.

if you have a f(x) = blahblahblah then it would be trivial to prove, but there's none for primes

if you are talking about proofs involving things like marseinne primes which has a formula to it, then its provable

not only that, the country SENT about 1B of aid...

he could've finished higher =)

heh,

it used to be hard to crack the top 10.

i used to take netting very seriously and things had to all go right to get top 10.

winning in the early late 90s/early 2000s was much harder.

i knew times have changed when i just half-assed a country (10 minutes a day) and still placed rank 4 a few years ago. there was no way that would've happened. my first top 10 finish and 1A win took an all day obsession to accomplish. my last top 10 took 10 minutes a day, my last win took me 20 minutes a day (over a frequent poster on this forum, if he knows who he is, and what reset it was :P)

that's when i knew the glory days of netting competition are over. i find the new breed of tyranny grabbing any land you can find sad compared to the old TTR midfeeding strategies (where you carefully chose your targets and kept a good balance of turrets and jets and just required more min/maxing in general)

pretty much when theo midfeeding became infeasible from mehul's change is pretty much when true netting skill really disappeared.

"I think the real reason is SOL did not like seeing a country run by a member of the alliance that FS'd them potentially finishing above their highest rankers, and potentially tagging up as LaF at the very last moment. Quite frankly, I see that as a valid reason for taking 242 out. "

well the problem there is already a few LaF restart that are already higher nw than the top SOL country. plus i doubt SOL cares about networth/rankings anyways.

i do understand the country is untagged, and SOL could just say they wanted to learn how to take out big targets, etc. as war practice and an untagged country is a good target. then the debate would be whether or not SOL is driving untagged players away from this game.

i find the attempt to justify killing him based on the already past SOL/LaF is weak at best. the timing of this is just off. it really doesn't compute, just like if i brought up stuff that happened to me from 2002 in earth: 2025 or something to justify something that i want to do now in earth empires.

there's usually a time limit for action on things that really tick you off. does it really take a war happy alliance that long to react to something that truly upset them? otherwise its just a conveninent excuse

hmmm

sounds like a lot of people are missing from there ;P

the 7 day war? ;)

its just a front for the back business ;)

you can't get more moral victory than lemming ABs

SoF has more TNW than NA+SOL combined.

that is a pretty good idea Ron..

we should have a bracket tournament based war sometime ;) like the NCAA final four or something haha

well i was hoping in 10 minutes i could've taken the 10+ or so of you guys who dec warred on me with me so you guys couldn't bully the other restarts ;)

just 10 minutes!

it was just sad when i had to resort to dropping land and use humanitarians to protect me LOL

damn it.

if you just waited about 10 more minutes, i could've joined vacation ;)

nice oversending, i had 100M cash on hand, buying troops and jets to no avail while ur big dudes just power throughed ;P

yep first country i played in 4 years ;) i need some warmup

you guys need to make up your mind when you want to BR or GS ;)

you guys are all mouthpieces.

now hush ;)

what exactly do you mean by "less intensive members"...

true netgaining is pretty intensive ;)

ok everyone. let's just stop arguing about this.

yes war alliances can war better than netting alliances. that's why they are called warring alliances. netting alliances can net better than war alliances. that's why they are called netting alliances.

and yes, top tier war alliances can net better than the average alliance, and top tier net alliances can war better than the average alliance. that's why they are called top tier.

let's stop having the same debate over and over again ;)

haha i posted on there also :P

i was more flaming anthony ciolli than defending elitez though.

that guy was major douche

why can't you guys think of netting the same as war, just that you are warring against the limitations of min-maxing your country into optimal networth? ;)

oh mak, i didn't say it made a difference for my specific case, i was just letting you know that originals can mean a lot of things ;)

nice stats mak.

one problem about the "killed 31 originals"

i started my country two days before the war started, was sitting on like 180 acres out of protection and someone landkilled me.

i hardly would count that as an "original", even though it was part of the 53 that was counted for "start of war" ;)

n00b

and to think i wasted an international SMS on this fool...

haha relax, i wasn't being entirely serious.

i fully understand the learning curve for this game is logarithmic..

not claiming anyone will reach 100%, but you can get to 90% potential in a short time, and spend exponentially longer time to get that last 10%.

i didn't play for 4 years, came back and the game is still the same as ever ;)

i have another newsflash for you dagga:

playing this game isn't rocket science, netgain or war.

this isn't 1997 when we were still trying to figure this game out, its a pretty stale game and all war/net strategies are already known.

the game really is a battle of who still wants to play this ancient dying game ;)