first off: bonus

second: I thought this was pretty funny
http://profootballmock.com/?p=4810

this reminds me of sarcastaball...

not sure if you're joking with the first part of that, too.

I love to fluff about refs getting the wrong call like any other guy, but with the real refs, we usually had around 5-10 wrong calls on a weekend and not ~30.
I can think of a few pretty grave missed calls this weekend:
-on that one play, they got the posession wrong and missed OPI
-shortly before they called PI on a Sidney Rice facemask on the defender
-Min-SF game: 49ers were allowed to challenge without timeouts left
-Pit-Oak: the hit on DHB went unpunished

and these are just the 4 instances that I can think of

what a disgrace! we really need those refs back.
We saw about 20-40 botched calls every week for the last 3 weeks, that's just too much. And often the situations are just to obvious to be that wrong

went ahead and ruined a perfectly fun thread...
you 2 seem to be quite bitter about being blindsided. But isn't that what you are doing all the time and then ridicule the target for their crying?

lol
old people thread

ahh, can't say imag isn't honest. They are always straightforward.

Also no need to bait us into posting here. Apart from our FAs, you won't find a monster posting about this war.

new bonus?

yea, that was sad...
but money league is not for me :(
I'm too poor

This is propably what I'd say, too.
The awesome thing for 3 is that you can actually recognize parts of DC. It's such a long time ago that I played 3, while I played NV only early this year.
Both are really recommendable and not so expensive to get during the current steamsale.

yep, I liked that speech, too, when I watched the pilot of The Newsroom.

It was one of the best pilots I've seen in a long time. Truely excellent. Sadly the following 2 episodes couldn't keep up with that niveau. I'll still keep watching whenever I have some spare time.

burp

you monsters are weird
*wait* I'm a monster, too
*looks around embarrassed*

the irony is that a few sets back, you were one of them :D

btw, not taking sides. I'm staying on the sidelines. I also don't understand the people who hang out on AT a lot, it just makes me sad how far people go over a game.


oh and also: this bonus post was brought to you by the first thread that picked my interest

whoever that was, that's seriously pathetic.
I tip my hat to you for once, imag

usually it's just the trolls and ppl that are complaining, that are the loudest.
But I'm quite sure that at least 70% of the EE community appreciates all your work as much as I do.
Thanks a lot for all your work!

the AT cooking book ^^

and spaghetti to the chilli, wtf?????
a good chilli only comes with white bread

at higher land ranges that's not enough. If you are in the top 10 of land and have 6 mil turrets for 30k land, prepare to get grabbed.

exactly. I'd like to add, that everyone who mouths off in a big way here propably never had it happen to them yet.

I'd like to see you build a 30k(that's still pretty reasonable) or more acre country and have it hit by a 10k country, dagga. And not during the last week of the set either, but rather halfway through or so.

I'm not a big fan of L:L retal policies, because it takes at least some skill out of the usual retaling. But if there is no way to regain your land, no matter how much you tweak your country, then you embrace it. And we were already over the case that almost any country can be broken any time of a set.

my sentiments exactly.
-as I said before, because a very large part of games companies' costumers are kids or are still comparably young and don't give a fluff about restrictions like locket does, the game market developed in a way that nearly no other market did. Name me 1 market where it is acceptable:
-to publish that many unfinished/not-properly-working products(bugs, and I don't mean the one or other minor bug, but gamebreaking or crashing bugs)
-to only license out your product
-to severly restrict the user in the way he is allowed to use the product


so you actually say you like it :D

I understand that making it online is the best way of copy protection for blizzard. I don't understand why so many people are willing to bend over for a game that's not one bit as industry-changing(or only in the worst possible way for the costumer) as D2 was. In a few days Torchlight 2 will be released at a cheaper price, with less restrictions from publisher side and with nearly the same quality. It only hasn't the big blizzard tag attached to it.

I guess he's talking about the MP part, that actually is the bread and butter of it. The SP is pirated of course.

argh mixed up edit and quote again

well I'm of the complete opposite opinion and it's easy fluffes like locket that we have to thank for, that gaming companies think they can get away with every stunt they pull.(btw I'm also annoyed by the currently developing fluffstorm-culture, where every little problem is made out to be the end of the world on the internet. That doesn't mean that most gaming companies completely screw over their clients)
-What other industry only licenses away their products?
-we already had the car example
-I didn't buy D3 despite wanting to, because I'm not paying for a game where I don't even have the option to play for myself and offline.
-I don't give a crap about the RM auction house. That's actually a smart move, given all the ebay sales of D2 items.

it's called earth retirement home for a reason

already thinking too long what to post here

same could be said about the Bayern. Their defense was absolutely terrible yesterday.

I wish you good luck!
It's kinda sad that you quit over a thing that you basically were part of during the last 3 or more sets.

clearly this shows the skill of finding a target 2-3 times your land. Congratulations!

actually marriage is first and foremost a contract and only with less importance a religious thing. Religion is separated from government. But now the government denies gay couples the benefits they give to heterosexual couples with religious reasoning. But raf actually said it far better than me

if you go by that logic, all the guys whose sets got ruined by imags blatant topfeeds should join TIE.

Yes, I'm bitter and whining.

this has been my main beef with earth for a long time. Bravo for putting it so clearly.

the formula on the wiki is correct, though?

I know that there used to be attack calcs.
What happened to them?
Can anyone link me to a still working one.

And don't point me to the wiki, I know how to calculate an attack. A calculator would simply be more comfortable and quicker.

and as you see, all the drama is still around, too.

I hope you'll play again, no matter where. It's always good to see some old guys back in the game

I completely agree with MD and SoL on the point of LaF having to earn back their trust for this server.

I don't care, though, about the history lessons, those are always posted in a way benefitting the posting alliance.
edit: ugh that 2nd part sounds too harsh.

no, they should look for a new home. Preferredly one that teaches them some better morals than those in LaF. Even before the corruption in their leadership came to light, LaFs methods were highly unethical.
I know that this isn't an ethical game, but sometimes, it would help to not do anything to furhter your cause. It would help to keep any new blood in the game or also keep any guy who is willing to come back.

your work is highly appreciated. Thx a lot guys!

thx for all the hard work you put into earth.
enjoy your life and post here once in a while

after the jags leapfrogged them, it's not that bad to trade down. But the rams still need a receiver who can actually catch a pass very urgently.

Ronaldo+KaKa=160 mil €. Both still missed their penalties :D

the finals will be interesting, though, both teams will miss 2 or 3 of their starting defenders

this is golden.
and offensive countrynames have been changed for ages...

I'll try to provide a little more insight for you guys:
there are 2 major ways to play this game. either netgaining, aka trying to reach the highest networth possible at the end of a set. a decent finish is above 100 million NW, which you propably wont reach during your first set here, even if you werent busy fighting off guys who try to take advantage of your unexperience. The best players reach 250-400 mil.

The other way to play is to war other alliances by killing their countries. You can kill countries by either taking all their land(with Standard Strike or Planned Strike attacks) or by killing all civilians of a country(which is the easier option 90% of the time) using Bombing Run or Guerrila Strike attacks. Some alliances war almost all the time, because they like it more than netgaining, others do it from time to time for fun and often it obviously is also a way to resolve conflicts between alliances

and it will also make sure that they kill you.
I suggest you talk to evolution and lafamiglia first, since their members are usually the first to take advantage of unexperienced players, as you may have already noticed.

in case you haven't done yet.
go to http://www.boxcarhosting.net/Boxcar/public/home.php and apply for a site. It is tailored to this game. You have forums there and tools, like attack and defense reports, country reports, etc

bla

to each his own.
It's better playing than bullying any new player that might find his way here out of the game again.

I worked on a project last term at university, that evaluated the ecological balance of electric cars, aka not only look at the use of gas/electricity but also at energetic production costs. e.g. with the current state of tech, you have to exchange the batteries far more often than a normal motor.

We did almost all the comparisons with german data, though, and in germany we're way back on hybrid cars, but on the other hand, we already have a pretty decent part of regenerative energy production.
As a result, as long as the production of electricity doesn't move away from coal, pure electric cars cause about the same exhaust as cars with a slightly better than average gas efficiency(in germany; sorry, but in the us most cars are still an atrocity in fuel efficiency)
nuclear energy isn't the solution for the future either, though, because of long-term disposal of the rods

Long-term, I firmly believe that regenerative energies are the way to go as energy source, but we're still far away from that. And as long as it doesn't happen, pure electric cars are not the solution for the environment.
The have a few pros, like the "smart grid" application, that qz already mentioned and not having smog in the cities. But effective at this moment, if you changed all cars to electric cars, not much would change, apart from the need to build tons of power plants.

Urgh, this got a little confusing, but I don't really have the time at the moment, to order my thoughts for this posts ^^

I remember a time, when you were on or near the top of the hitting list, set after set after set :)