i'm protesting about organic food prices being to expensive

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31 food ftw

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The best way to make Mayweather run away is to wear a Manny mask. 100% to make Mayweather hide away.

I heard that Monsters is the best alliance so I am joining them this reset.

good job dukey, haven't talked to ya in awhile

here's some missed from last month alone :)

2011-02-20 22:57:14 PS valentines day massacre (#61) ETFT Strange Famous (#8) Ragnarok 1462A (2197A)

2011-03-03 08:53:48 PS You Sank My Battleship (#114) ETFT Strange Famous (#8) Ragnarok 904A (1700A)

End of the day, you double retalled, a seperate member sent a message indicating support for the guy that double retalled to a seperate country. That implied support meant a threat, so there was no point is us waiting.

ETFT never made any FA attempt before overretalling this set, nor did they ever bother contacting Ragnarok when they multi tapped us in the past.

#74 sent a ingame message to a Ragnarok member supporting his tag member and mentioned something about a conflict in the future sets between the two tags. It would have been stupid to wait for him to attack first, if ETFT already indicated they supported their members actions.

The two countries had similar networths when the attack was made, if you want to go low defense, every attack would technically be a topfeed.

ETFT has multitapped Ragnarok on multiple resets now even though we avoided you guys. If you guys want to try to bully us around, we'll hit back. Revenge is more important than ending networth to us. You guys have been trying to push your weight on us for too long.

Rock was formed around early or mid 1996.

The core of RoCK was an alliance called Axis (in game A) which formed probably late 1995 and smaller collective of asian players in game B. RoCK (Rise of the Chinese Kingdom) technically formed in game B a reset or two prior to the introduction of private markets. However it was probably a dozen or two dozen players.

Axis is where Brian came from (creator of gamerstown). Back then gamerstown didn't have a name yet since only Axis used it. Using the website as a technology advantage, Corflu (leader of Axis) started sending in game messages to all the top 25 ranked players in game A at the time and the alliance doubled in size. Axis was a functioning alliance of about 25 to 35 netgainers that literally held all the top spots for about 2 resets straight. Then the public market was introduced and a lot of major alliances formed.

LaF and Omega are notable for being formed and recruiting most from tourny players and people on the strategy forums. This was also the point when alliances from game B migrated to game A. Back then alliances were either in game A or B. the intro of the public market is when all the alliances migrated to game A and game B became a pure solo server like it was intended to be.

At this point, Axis/RoCK's collaboration and merger occurred the same reset of the introduction of the public market.

The same reset LaF was created, Axis/RoCK (then about 50 members deep) started recruiting smaller alliances to help war vs LaF. Then the next set they pulled in some of those allies which would end up be 4 or 5 new divisions in the Axis/RoCK entity. At this point, Axis/RoCK just became RoCK period and dropped the word Axis from the alliance name. Among the new divisions from the alliances that joined were Star League, Blood Brigade, Panzer and a few others I don't remember.

agreed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZftK2kO6U

Do the Monster Mash

Well if Muslim Brotherhood comes to power - Egypt might be at war with Israel....


"Muhammad Ghannem reportedly told Al- Alam that the Suez Canal should be closed immediately, and that the flow of gas from Egypt to Israel should cease “in order to bring about the downfall of the Mubarak regime.” He added that “the people should be prepared for war against Israel,” saying the world should understand that “the Egyptian people are prepared for anything to get rid of this regime.”

Ghannem praised Egyptian soldiers deployed by President Hosni Mubarak to Egyptian cities, saying they “would not kill their brothers.” He added that Washington was forced to abandon plans to help Mubarak stay in power after “seeing millions head for the streets.” "

Hamas is reportedly now crossing the border into Egypt since the military has reduced the number of people at their borders....

Hamas grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood... which is aiming to be the ruling group should the Mubarak lose power.

terrorists running the largest arab country in the world is probably what paladin is afraid of

She has no chance.

2 days before the shooting, liberals were claiming Giffords was dead to them on liberal websites like dailykos, partially because they felt she was too conservative.

She'll never make it out of the primaries because her views aren't left wing enough.

gundam are mechs

You should get a gundam death scythe, that was my favorite gundam

There is never a situation where an alliance is too big IMO.

Ideally the game reaches a state where the larger alliances are around 200 to 300 and the smaller alliances are around 50 members minimum in the future.

Outside of that, anywhere past 200 members - bureaucracy and varying interests usually lead the alliance to break up.... so there are natural factors at play preventing alliances form getting too big.

Although I do think kills need to be a lot harder too do in general.

I would say that the average age is probably 36, but the median age is 26.

Ragnarok:
Ragnarok
Rag1e

Other lessons:

The value of co-operative interests despite competing interests. Land is the most valuable resource in this game. Yet at the same time, the game needs players to make the accomplishments significant. On alliance server, we've seen some alliances avoid maximizing their land potential derived form attacking other countries the past few years as the player base has declined in order to maintain the health of the game.

At the same end, you also see the consequences of when some alliances overdo it, and the consequences (players leaving the game)

FA also teaches a lot about communication and conflict resolution. I'm talking about alliance server FA duties back when I was more involved. I mess around more on team bc it is a less serious server.

But alliance server FA requires navigating interests that compete with each other. Having your alliance get gangbanged or being able to pact out is largely a function of the communication abilities of your foreign affairs, leadership.

On the conflict resolution end, just look at back at how many grudge wars there have been in the history of earth.

On the conflict prevention end, you learn the consequences of heated rivalries, suiciders etc....

Most of these lessons eventually come in the workplace, but it is especially valuable for teenagers. It also growth and understanding of nuances for things that people don't get until they work in serious competitive environments.

I got accepted into ucla and a couple other schools for college apps when I wrote my essay about e2025 message board forums. It was about how I learned how to debate and different logical fallacies or something, it was a little under ten years ago so I don't remember exactly.

Democratic Senators are better at taking advantage of tragedies than Pang.

"This afternoon Sanders sent out a fundraising appeal, seeking to raise money to fight Republicans and other "right-wing reactionaries" responsible for the climate that led to the shooting.

He writes:

Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many supporters who have begun contributing online to my 2012 reelection campaign at http://www.bernie.org. There is no question but that the Republican Party, big money corporate interests and right-wing organizations will vigorously oppose me. Your financial support now and in the future is much appreciated.
...
A staffer in Sanders’ campaign office confirmed that the letter went out today."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/...izona-murders_533487.html

It's only been a couple days and the resilient rats known as Democratic politicians are already trying to benefit from tragedy.

Meanwhile, none of the articles about Earth Empires have featured a link to the game yet :p

Let's do this ASAP, make creating countries a requirement for viewing the forums.

The stupid motherfluffers showed a graphic from Empire Earth instead of Earth Empires. The media has a bias against text based games :p

rag

Ragnarok, http://www.boxcarhosting.net/...ation.php?clanID=Ragnarok

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Who person created a webforum that has had more racist rants Anthony Ciolli and his law school forum or Chris Poole of 4chan?

Who is the better political strategist: thefloyd or Karl Rove?

Who is the bigger loudmouth: dagga or James Carville?

I think some junior staffers in politics might enjoy alliance game politics though :p earth empires (e2025) Alliance Server politics can be just as vicious as real life politics lol

This story makes me wonder what's going on with Anthony Ciolli now a days, lmao.

Well this community has former congressmen and senators who have played it as well as a famous actress. So it's pretty diverse...

Although the large contingent of players are now a days a bunch of developers working in the tech industry and a couple of entrepreneurs.

Hillary Clinton is going to be on the news talking about the dangers of text based games and how the have negative influence on mental development.

Earth Empires is going to be shut down because it encourages people to committ artillary barrages on neighboring countries with their homemade tanks :p

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the media or politicans scapegoating capacities.

An interview described the killer as a left wing pot head. Liberals were angry at Giffords for not supporting Pelosi, as evidenced by liberals on dailkos talking about how "my congresswoman (giffords) is dead to me" two days before Giffords was shot. Now the liberal's own kind is responsible for Giffords shooting and they are trying their best to associate it with Palin.

http://www.americanthinker.com/...-01-08-at-1-56-04-pm1.png

That's a screen shot from the dailykos.com website, a haven for extreme left wing liberals.

Also note that one of the killer's favorite books is the communist manifesto.

An interview with someone who knew him states that he was a liberal.

http://newsbusters.org/...hes-liberal#ixzz1AaDWIeoT

I think it's time to throw everyone who works for or writes on dailykos.com into prison (per Detmer logic).

Good luck finding people who hold on to grudges longer than I do, that's all I have to say.

Maybe you should look into why Superfly tried to get cute and nuke me on the last day of the reset out of the blue..

I had no problem playing turns with zero food for over 100 turns and falling out of my rank 4 position to get revenge so if you think i have a problem hitting back when you guys try underhanded tactics, you are in for a big surprise.

Also, Apple hit Rag first, we avoided you all reset up until the point.

That's what I've saying for awhile now. Killing needs to be made a lot more difficult if war alliances want more variety in who they war. Most people don't have all day to stay online to stonewall. If you want to encourage other people to war you need to make it so that strategy and country building becomes more important than time availability. I think kills need to be weakened and disabiling/strategic grabbing needs to be a bigger part of war.

Coinciding with that you need to get rid of DR for attacks or at least make it so that DR only applies to successful SS or PS and it so that landgrabbing is more beneficial during wars. That would give incentive for netters to war. Until warring offers a decent probability of a higher finishing net, you will never see netters want to war.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHa81UKTamk

Nobody loves you, like your mama loves you, but whose loving your mama, I am, I am

I support trainboy <3

trainboy, come back to ragnarok, bring dragon with you :) <3

Overretalling is encouraged is because countries keep the same name from reset to reset. Overretalling sends a message to grabbers in future resets not to grab you or face overreaction. That is the implicit threat that comes w having the same country name every reset.

Overretalling is the most logical action on tourny server. If you are getting grabbed successfully you probably are not on pace for a top 10 finish. in which case better to send a message to the rest of the server that you will not tolerate landgrabs.

Until country names change from set to set, people are doing the most logical action. I see no problem with it.

I feel bad for people who are ABed for no reason, but any attack or spy op always comes with risk. You attack or spy, you are open to anything.

If you are getting missled then it is your fault for taking the riskier strategy of no buying SDI in order to have a slightly higher finishing networth... There are countries that maintain higher tanks and SDI to mitigate the threat but they end up w lower max potential networth.

Long story short, I see no problem with missles or AB if you did any offensive action.

Although I do think that special attacks should be disabled for countries you never attacked or spied on in primary, express and tourny.

Fewer options is a bad thing.

Look at team server, I remember telling people that it would lead to players leaving and I ended up being right. The server lost 200 + players after the old 1a server equivalent was shut down.

Specifically I remember telling h4axor wanger that player declines would occur if the old 1a in alliance server was shut down. He said that player count would jump. Fast forward....

NeoFed was at 30 to 40 players. After moving to the main council server, they lost 2/3s of their players after being farmed and membership moral because of the different style in place. Same story with Ely. Both alliances now cease to exist and some of their members stopped playing completely. MKR still exists but that is a product of their decision to stand firm and not move to alliance server.

Reducing options seems like a stupid idea to me. Also like Zarcon says, more servers gives people more of a chance to try something different. People in war alliances get more chances to net on the other servers, and vice versa.

Merge alliance option. Where if both tag creators enter in the username and password of the other clan and both parties do this, the new clan will automatically merge.

Not sure if its complicated or not. If it's easy to do, it might prevent situations where people switch tags and laggers get hit, etc. Not a big deal and I don't really care that much if its implemented or not :)

Quick question, are kills in primary counted towards the total count? I just killed a country but primary doesn't seem to keep track of that :(