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Feb 19th 2020, 21:52:04

From my point of view the jedi are evil blah blah blah, who cares, really? This thread is about a war dec not about how much people cheated in the old days or what behavior is scummy. If you want to make a thread about that, I can name a few things that even the respectable people in LoC have done in recent sets that I think is scummy.

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Feb 19th 2020, 21:46:27

PS: decent war dec only made slightly awkward by the fact that he got his half-naked sister to read it out.

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Feb 19th 2020, 21:28:39

Originally posted by The_Hawk:

Originally posted by DerrickICN:

Also can throw on here for fun. I think the last time you called mob scum it was for doing EXACTLY what sublime just did to us yesterday.

The hypocrisy knows no limits.

When did I call mob scum?

I'm still waiting for his post on those hits on sota.

What did sublime do?

Took about half the retals he was entitled to for getting farmed to hell. Looks like he went L:L. Which is not what mob did.

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Feb 17th 2020, 9:21:15

People tend to be afraid of low probability deaths- the lower the probability, the more likely it is to be in the news cycle, and the more afraid people are. It's almost like the news cycle routinely causes undue panic over minor occurrences.

Edited By: sinistril on Feb 17th 2020, 20:32:20
See Original Post

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Feb 16th 2020, 12:37:51

You need an institution with checks, balances, and transparency. There should be high punishments to both the bribers and the bribees, a citizenry that has the ability to hold the government accountable, and an independent inspector general. That will help reduce but not eliminate corruption. Probably corruption will exist as long as we have the human factor present in politics. Once Skynet takes over, all will be well

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Feb 14th 2020, 6:46:39

Originally posted by Chevs:

360 got purpled lol

Pooped so hard he bruised himself

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Feb 13th 2020, 5:56:15

The truth is that we are still in the first season of Survivor. The true winner of the show is not any of the supporting cast that we have seen so far, the true winner will be the last person watching Survivor. We are in the home stretch as currently the only people still watching that show are chevs and victor victoria. Which one of you will be the weakest link? Big brother is watching, stay tuned because one of you will be a millionaire

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Feb 13th 2020, 5:40:22

Originally posted by Red X:

Originally posted by sinistril:

Curiosity killed the cat

The Cat has 9 lives ;)

Not with the changes to the restart bonus

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Feb 11th 2020, 23:32:20

Chevs being extremely reasonable
Marshal winging it
Hmm

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Feb 11th 2020, 13:01:25

Curiosity killed the cat

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Feb 8th 2020, 22:05:55

Originally posted by galleri:

Originally posted by smegma:

Originally posted by galleri:

I wrote the perfect application. And failed. I am pissed.

You must live in Iowa

Go fish

Do you have an eight?

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Feb 8th 2020, 22:04:54

Originally posted by braden:

Originally posted by DruncK:

Yea but obviously you want to calculate it to buy all units, not just troops

I was under the impression troops and tanks were the most effective so as much money towards those gets the higher nw?

I think I knew all of this before I asked for my permaban but two years of school, work, and drank I dun forget

The problem with just buying troops and tanks is it would be more efficient to buy all types of military units and sell the excess oil at highly discounted prices

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Feb 8th 2020, 22:01:47

Originally posted by The_Hawk:

Now you know how it feels.

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Feb 8th 2020, 21:58:06

Originally posted by Marshal:

except greta, she goes on boat. but yea 20+ envinronmentalists meeting and all fly with plane to there and most likely on private jet even if it'd be possible to share the plain or use commercila flight or even buss or railroad or train but since they don't have to pay their own bills private plane it is.

Two people have to fly to New York to sail the boat back to Europe. In other words, her carbon footprint is higher than if she would have just flown to New York. Environmentalists always use more carbon than is necessary. QED.

If she was really about low carbon emissions, she would use Skype like the rest of us plebs.

Edited By: sinistril on Feb 8th 2020, 22:01:25

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Feb 7th 2020, 20:09:00

Originally posted by Gerdler:

It would make EE like utopia which has races and personalities.

apart from that why does the environmentalist burn more oil? They should have +1 turn per attack or lower military effectiveness on attacking or something, but no oil cost because they drive hybrid APCs and tanks and they fuel their jets with cow farts.

It's almost 2025 and environmentalists regularly fly en masse in private jets to lecture everyone else about cutting their meager fuel expenses. I think environmentalists using more fuel makes sense.

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Feb 6th 2020, 6:00:27

Originally posted by DerrickICN:

I hate 2020 troll politics so bad. Lol

I was like Oooooo when trump snubbed nancy on the hand shake and then i was like ooOOooo when nancy didnt say she had the honor and distinction of introducing our preaident. Then i was like oooo oooo oooo when trump gave a xenophobic sexist warmonger the medal of freedom and then I OOOOF when nancy shredded the papers.

It's so 5th grade up in here. Ffs.

I hope the next leftist president gives fluffin rachel maddow a medal of freedom. Tit for tat and that. I'm surprised that troll didnt win. Its pretty epic. Elevating that fluffhead to the same level of Rosa Parks is a heavy handed jab at equal rights activists. Haha

To be honest, I don't know why you're so mad about a medal of freedom. It's not something that matters. At all. We live in a society where people are having large scale tributes and mourning the death of their most beloved rapist. It goes perfectly with my analogy of teams. This is a team game. You'll celebrate or mourn your team's players no matter what they do, bit be careful of being too critical of the other team because it's very, very easy for someone to pick a far worse example from your team

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Feb 5th 2020, 21:42:29

Let's face it, AT is general talk. If you want general talk used then move it to the top of the forums, otherwise, let us talk about non EE stuff here or this board might die too

On topic, Baudrillard once pointed out that the only scandal that came out of Watergate was that there was no scandal. He was pointing to the fact that Watergate was covering up an entirely different scandal. The simulation that conceals reality and in so doing has become reality itself, so to speak. Both parties (teams) are trying to pretend like there are checks and balances on government power, meanwhile all the players have spent the better part of their lives proving exactly the opposite.

Edited By: sinistril on Feb 5th 2020, 21:52:29

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Feb 5th 2020, 5:32:56

Originally posted by Pang:

If people are more keen to get full turns + stored turned over a restart bonus that's easy enough to code in.

I've gotten a lot of mixed feedback on the restart bonus from ppl fighting this round. Folks here seem to want it off for the most part, but other folks who have messaged me privately want it restored as-is.

I like allowing other clan members to help their restarts get back into the fight quickly by providing a higher % of FA so if that alone feels like a good change I'll look at doing that!

Either way, don't make FFA restart FA be 20% unless you want people to eat their cake and have it too.

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Feb 5th 2020, 0:20:01

"- Update foreign aid so that countries can send up to 20% of their goods to countries that are restarts (still 10% to non-restarts)."

Definitely do not do this on FFA. This is a BAD and poorly thought out change. It does not even require explanation, tbf.

And bringing back restart bonus and nerfing walling are both subpar changes as well.

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Feb 3rd 2020, 21:29:12

Originally posted by patriottawnn:

i wonder what the average age is here?

Older than that hah

Should have just smoked a super bowl and watched a movie instead

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Feb 2nd 2020, 23:22:49

Usually when used in my field we're talking about a derivative

But.my point was it would cut your finish potential into pieces

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Feb 2nd 2020, 22:00:23

Originally posted by DerrickICN:

Lots of people batch to 1900 or 3800 in ffa and it only really takes marginal amount off the end game. I get 1a is making every turn matter to win, but with the changes I'm considering just x-ing to 1900 in 1a now because I'm lazy.

Marginal amount? Lol

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Feb 2nd 2020, 21:52:38

Great ideas sui

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Feb 2nd 2020, 6:19:16

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Everyone agrees SoF are well ahead and did a good job so far, what we are disagreeing about was when that was obvious. :)

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Feb 1st 2020, 21:40:38

Whatever you say lol

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Feb 1st 2020, 21:37:56

Originally posted by TheLegion:

I don't know what the statute of limitations is...but..

In its prime, this game was roughly 1/3rd bots. I know this because they were mostly mine and a few friends. There were a few clans, at various times, that were entirely..umm..fake. This being one of the reasons that several of you older cats know me as different monikers.

(No worries, I'm too old for that nonsense these days.)

Have there been any thoughts to adding an element like that to this evolution? That is, having some of these bots form together and work collectively..ie devote activities towards a few countries nw, retaliatory action for hyper-aggressive bottomfeeders (extreme emphasis on hyper, there was one set rampant with suiciders due to some unnecessary tweaking).

Just a thought.

Player run bots can create storylines. Game run bots that join clans and retal once in awhile without active admins controlling their actions, which we'll never get, is just ridiculous, annoying and boring. The reason I say that is you're going to get the exact same bots we have now, which are really sub standard for how long this game has existed with bots, plus some lazy tweaks to them.

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Feb 1st 2020, 21:14:50

Originally posted by Chevs:

Sinistril what stats are you looking at? You got pretty quiet bud what happened ?

I didn't anticipate one side not hitting for 3 days. At the time, there were no major differences except for the fact sof had less kills, much worse walling, had lost 50+ mill more NW since the war started etc. Basically, you were praising sof for something that hadn't happened yet and got lucky

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Feb 1st 2020, 5:29:39

Pretty hard to prove causality here but one would assume that everyone knew Brexit was happening so I doubt it impacted the markets much/at all.

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Feb 1st 2020, 4:07:00

This is the Brexit celebration thread not the US thread

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Jan 31st 2020, 23:44:09

Presenting a thread that is much more interesting than the impeachment thread

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Jan 31st 2020, 6:07:49

That lategame demand for tech tho

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Jan 31st 2020, 4:56:42

Originally posted by braden:

A great advertisement for us to spend money

Oh snap

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Jan 31st 2020, 2:47:39

My sports team is the best sports team, we score all the goals, win all the championships and take home all the trophies.

It's a shame there are no goals, championships or trophies and all the players in the league are corrupt war criminals

Edited By: sinistril on Jan 31st 2020, 2:50:36

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Jan 31st 2020, 2:39:06

Originally posted by DruncK:

No bonus, just turns

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Jan 30th 2020, 17:03:25

Hidden profiles, I guess

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Jan 29th 2020, 19:43:32

Originally posted by Chevs:

TL : DR?

1. Derrick talked fluff
2. wanted all-stars vs Elders?
3. Lost to SoF who hasnt won a war since their return (~4 sets?)

Whats next step?

4. Derrick makes excuses (I wasn't really trying!!!)

5. QQ ensues.

SoF looking great tbh just take your ass whooping like a man don't be a sore loser

We looking at the same stats?

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Jan 28th 2020, 19:30:32

Pay credits to win top 3 in each server

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Jan 28th 2020, 19:29:53

Isn't this idea part of the "babysitting" for premium users that's coming? #paytowin

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Jan 28th 2020, 5:25:30

More people have died from the flu than the corona virus over the same time period. You just don't hear about it in the news because it doesn't sell subscriptions as well.

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Jan 27th 2020, 23:40:54

That's why I was never a fan of svfr

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Jan 27th 2020, 21:29:13

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Without restart bonus I expect that any close war will result in no tag kill. Which is interesting in itself, what will the tag-kill crowd look for as the win condition then?

The irony is that when the tag kill starts to really matter, it becomes irrellevant because its unachievable. :)

Depends how close wars are. I fully expect some clans will not enjoy the same success they have with restart bonus

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Jan 27th 2020, 21:26:37

Since we're now allowing people to derive spals with no information, I think we should do the exact same thing for normal landgrabs.

#paytowin

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Jan 27th 2020, 3:42:58

Originally posted by Sov:

We killed Azn. War is over.

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Jan 27th 2020, 0:07:25

Originally posted by Marshal:

he did nasty things but still it's not nice to say bad things about deads especially recently died.

Would it be more acceptable to say bad things about him if he died while raping someone? Or where is the line?

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Jan 26th 2020, 20:58:38

Whoosh what I said went over your heads

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Jan 26th 2020, 7:23:53

Originally posted by Lord Slayer:

Originally posted by The_Hawk:

Originally posted by beerdrinker75:

Seems like if unpacted retal window should be set long.

Could have sworn it was off the clans policy that was hit.

Haven't played this set, but we got a snowstorm so wanted to see whats new. Saw this comment and just wanted to let you know the correct determination of a retal policy to help you all out.

Retal policy is decided by whoever wants to back it up. If Loc wants a 5 set retal policy, they have the right if they are going to back thier actions. Imp also has the right to not accept the policy. With all the bot hitting and not needing to hit real people, I figured I'd give this refresher of how these things get handled :)

On a related note, this is interesting because if I was FA, I wouldn't accept month old retals, but also if I was getting topfeed/stock fed at the end of the set, I'd tell my members to take month old retals, probally more than that actually.

If I was an FA, there would be a lot more dead countries associated with this thread. Unfortunately, I'm not an FA, so I can't promise that kind of constraint

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