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H4xOr WaNgEr

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Jun 22nd 2010, 15:19:48

I'm not saying that we havint gained any new members from other alliances/people coming back that weren't in LaF before.

I'm saying that the members we are gaining from those avenues are only enough to counter balance the retirements we have every round or possibly even a little less.

Thus if that was the only way we were gaining members, our membership would be fairly flat or even have a 1 -3 member per reset decline. It is the half dozen or so old vets we hoodwink into coming back every reset that has keep us at a 2 - 4 country per reset growth rate over the last few rounds.

H4xOr WaNgEr

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Jun 22nd 2010, 12:19:24

is that the call center at blair station?

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Jun 22nd 2010, 4:32:55

we have just had a lot of people coming out of long retirements the last couple resets, helped keep the net growth rate even or positive.

archiving member emails over the years pays off.

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Jun 21st 2010, 22:30:34

Until they announce a policer for themselves.

"You can have anything you want, but you better not take it from me".

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Jun 21st 2010, 15:39:18

not having a pact doesn't mean you can retal whoever you want and expect to get away with it.

Your hits on us were landgrabs, as such we were going to retal them. Just as we would have accepted your retals had you actually retaled (which you didn't).

I don't understand why you feel that a lack of pact somehow meant that we weren't going to retal your hits.

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Jun 21st 2010, 12:08:46

SS was our fattest country that entire time, so how as it a "fluffty country" to retal?

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Jun 21st 2010, 0:54:52

we don't have pacts with a lot of the larger alliances either.

Edited By: H4xOr WaNgEr on Jun 21st 2010, 1:01:28

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Jun 21st 2010, 0:36:14

who ever said this was a netting set for us?

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Jun 20th 2010, 23:14:25

why should LaF be punished for managing to retain a lot of their members through the games steady decline?

LaF was a mid sized alliance back in the day, its not our fault that all the other alliances shrunk so much.

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Jun 20th 2010, 22:44:56

Not accepting land to land retals? Thats a paddling.

Not contacting us or responding to our attempts to contact you? Thats a paddling.

Retaling all explore countries instead of those that LGed you? Oh you BETTER BELIEVE thats a paddling.

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Jun 20th 2010, 6:10:58

I don't think so scode.

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Jun 19th 2010, 21:31:09

This isn't a democratic political system.

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Jun 17th 2010, 22:11:58

How is our lack of a pact LaF's doing?

We didn't approach Rage to sign a pact, Rage didn't approach us either. I don't see how that is one side's doing more than the others.

The issue here seems to be land:land retals. LaF has enforced land:land retals on non pacted tags/countries since 2002 or 2003, it isn't a new policy and it isn't going to change.

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Jun 12th 2010, 15:15:43

mm he is in LaF so I doubt it

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Jun 12th 2010, 15:08:49

have we been getting accused lately?

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Jun 10th 2010, 12:19:53

Hey Orkin.

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Jun 2nd 2010, 17:21:58

actually 1:1 came from MD

and land:land came from LaF

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Jun 2nd 2010, 16:52:45

we've restructured to a 2 president system.

Parallax is the president of internal affairs, I am the president of external affairs.

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Jun 2nd 2010, 16:31:37

Current contacts are as follows:

H4xOr WaNgEr (Don - FR) ICQ# 67603487

Mr. Gainsboro (Head FR) ICQ# 234599773

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May 31st 2010, 4:11:11

I resent nascar being referred to as a "sport"

H4xOr WaNgEr

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May 29th 2010, 4:09:10

Seth heh, thats a name I have not heard in a long long time.

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May 29th 2010, 3:59:30

name the policy, I'll tell you who "made it up"

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May 29th 2010, 3:58:09

is this your first time?

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May 29th 2010, 3:11:34

odd, I was in the other thread when I posted.

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May 29th 2010, 2:05:29

I got 19 out of 20 on both the Ontario and the Alberta tests

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May 20th 2010, 5:19:06

There are Dons who were removed (other than Gramberto)

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May 19th 2010, 22:59:52

Isn't that what I said 2 posts ago? That we let the stockpile lost go?

Edited By: H4xOr WaNgEr on May 19th 2010, 23:02:04

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May 19th 2010, 22:47:52

errr, we are talking bushels lost here, not lost production/stockpile generation, which is the "controversial" part of our pact clauses.

How are lost bushels not to be compensated?

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May 19th 2010, 22:35:08

I'm quite certain LaF isn't the only one that says that reps/retals are done in PS.

if people are willing to use SS retals thats up to them, there is nothing saying you can't. However it has always been the case that people have the right to use a PS strike for such a purpose, even if PS returns more.

And I didn't realize that giving a list of countries and acres lost was an implied/tacit indication that it is how the distribution is going to work out? Isn't that just for a record of how much is owed? heh

I mean such exchanges of country #'s and info occurs with pretty much every reps case, this is the first time I've ever heard anyone try to make a claim such as this (and I've been doing FA work for LaF since 2000).

At the end of the day LaF lost hundreds of millions (if not billions) of dollars worth of bushel stockpile in the suicides that we did not ask to be compensated for. Overall we were definitely losing out on this deal, and were more than willing to accept/already wrote off that net loss.

I don't see how pissing on the deal, which was already a very good deal for PDM, is a wise decision.

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May 19th 2010, 22:21:59

But LaF hasn't went above what is owed, you still owe land.

The distribution of the land isn't your decision, its the decision of the defending countries.

If we want to give all the acres to just 1 or 2 countries, thats our choice. If we want all our countries to PS (and some countries don't get to hit because the reps are all done before they got their turn), once again that is LaF's choice.

Also, are you seriously going to try to argue that PS isn't the standard attack type of retals/reps now?

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May 19th 2010, 22:11:12

I don't understand, how are we suppose to avoid taking more than what was owed?

You can't punch in how many acres you want to take in a grab, you get what you get. Retals/Reps are always taken in PS form, thats just how it is. If someone did decide to send a SS and failed, would you allow them to try again? I highly doubt it...

The fact is that if you didn't want them taking that much land in their hits, then perhaps you should have offered countries as reps that were going to give yields more in keeping with the reps owed, given that you KNOW that hits are going to be PS.

Overall, this thread/decision = shenanigans

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May 16th 2010, 21:15:12

I know molson still plays, but he doesn't post.

I was never a fan of ghost.

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May 16th 2010, 15:43:09

hey, I'm always happy to see old faces back. But of course I'd put you on doing something like that :P

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May 16th 2010, 14:30:49

I've been talking about shortening the retal window to 48 hours for a few resets now.

WIth all the turns we have now compared to before... People don't need/shouldn't have that many turns to prep for a retal.

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May 16th 2010, 14:25:11

detmer is back so we probably won't see any reps,

will probably give the "PDM doesn't take responsibility for suiciders" line again.

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May 16th 2010, 6:04:54

I like how he looks at policy as static and reverses the cause and effect.

Policies to deal with suiciders exist because we had to deal with a lot of suiciders in the past, and saw the need for a policy. It wasn't a forward thinking "this may happen in the future, better prepare for it now!"

Besides, most of the time the people suiciding on us are people in tags we have not been grabbing.

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May 14th 2010, 20:23:36

doobie, AC, Gramberto (aka Jesus H Christ), Molson Canadian,

Edited By: H4xOr WaNgEr on May 14th 2010, 20:25:14

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May 10th 2010, 20:09:55

how would you enforce such a policy?

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May 7th 2010, 13:23:15

I'm sorry, but what does pacts have to do with it?

people apply L:L on unpacted countries, thats how/why land:land was developed to begin with.

But people usually apply whichever policy will yield more return (land:Land or escalating).

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May 6th 2010, 18:50:44

but makes exporting stuff more difficult.

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May 5th 2010, 15:08:05

mmm

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May 4th 2010, 15:23:43

My favourite is:

March of the Panguins (#207)

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Apr 30th 2010, 23:01:08

what you have to join is join the alliance as a member and show them from within that you are a good person for a job.

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Apr 29th 2010, 20:13:35

LaF of course

http://www.lafamiglia.org

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Apr 29th 2010, 3:11:59

well back in the day people would create coalitions over policy.

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Apr 27th 2010, 21:12:38

LaF got ripped on by RD just as much as any other alliance. LaF didn't get any favourtism.

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Apr 27th 2010, 18:29:56

Everyone was turning a blind eye to LaF cheating and playing dirty?

What were we doing exactly?

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Apr 23rd 2010, 17:00:27

There was a lot of catholic terrorism in England as well (the IRA anyone?)

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Apr 22nd 2010, 14:49:39

I actually revise my previous argument, we should remove the 2B bug.

It will throw the game into disequilibrium for a reset or two, but then it will settle in a new balancing point. At least that balancing point will be something new and potentially interesting.

Thanks to servers like team and tourney, we can get more test runs in to figure things out.

Edited By: H4xOr WaNgEr on Apr 22nd 2010, 16:43:36

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Apr 22nd 2010, 0:50:33

I disagree