old school!!

I remember you, actually. Not sure but I believe I allied you and Circus Midgets that round.

Actually, I remember the bigger problem with dropping all my land. I did it too early and it made my private market shrink into nothing and I had trouble de-stocking.

http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/feb99/i.htm
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Hah. I would've had a bit more networth that game if I didn't spend 100s of millions breaking all my buildings and dropping my land to be cute.

This is my first round!

http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/nov98/y.htm

I think I answered my question

http://web.archive.org/...m/earth/primary/final.htm

Is there a mirror or a capture anywhere of all the top ten finishes from the :2025 days?

shaney: I know you won, that's why I did a smiley.

Mapleson: If I made a big retal on a guy out of my league, and he let me off with still a profit in acres, I'd take my winnings and go. I know I would because I have, back in the day. but I was never up on the gentleman's code or whatever, never talked to other players or read the forums and just followed the law of the jungle + netgaining tactics.

omg shaney, you let him get away with that??! :)

NOW3P, i guess i forgot about those other 2 guys. checked the news and after getting started the first day i did 18 straight 1x taps...

Then the stuff happened.

it may be a "poor grab" but most people can decide to focus on all jets for a day on express and retal a person. it's only a "poor decision" because this specific person decided to be self-destructive and do so. the other 95% don't.

and don't say "those guys you quad tapped." i 1x'd every single person i hit except one, and that guy was a 0 defense noob.

cool thanks. maybe im just feisty but in that situation i choose war >:)
just want it to be vs. the guy im fighting next time! :)

(again im talking about a guy substantially smaller than me jetting and getting in a cheap shot, not just any old person retalling)

thanks braden, getting a clear picture that that's how it's done here. if im ready for a war WITH THAT GUY, if im in GDI and hit him back, does that void my gdi to the whole world or just to that guy?

#68 and #69 messaged me 3 minutes apart, and #69 along with #13 hit me with over 20 missiles when I never attacked either of them. So when you say "crying cheater with no evidence," I don't know. Is there any way to get more definitive evidence? It seems/seemed like a legitimate suspicion. Why are we assuming it WASN'T a multi - is there some way to tell that I'm missing out on? And if it WASN'T a multi, what kind of alliance is this? Are you supposed to see that kind of thing in Express?

I also want to say, btw, that's a pretty dogmatic approach to the 1:1 thing. We're talking a guy about half my networth who I can pound into the ground anytime I want. He goes extreme jets and leaves himself completely exposed and manages to get in one shot - one shot that happens to take 1000 more acres than I took from him. "If you don't like it? Expect a fight." Fine with me... If they outgrow me or are stronger than me I'll suck it up and say well done, but if they're still half my size and basically suicided to get their retail, I don't like it and am ready to fight someone who does that. Just not their friends with their 20+ missiles. And I wouldn't have started this thread if the one going to town on my country was the one I'd been attacking. It's when I get slammed by random guys I've had no interaction with that I bring it on here.

oldman: I was spying on you throughout - not to attack you, but to try and follow what you were doing. :P Thanks for the info!

crest - I thought it just enables the player you hit twice to use other attacks on you, not everyone. Am I incorrect?

TheVoices - so you're not interested in answering my question, just in assuming a tough DealWithIt posture. maybe someone else will weigh in.

I don't mind the potential consequences (if I'm in GDI and it doesn't mean missiles from random countries). You're analyzing me, and my risks and actions, but that's not the question I was asking. I was asking about the player doing the retal.

Is your mindset that one can go all offense and attack someone who can easily break them twice over in the name of a 'retal,' capturing a load of acres, without expecting reprisal because it's a 'retal'? That's more what I was getting at.

Ethoxylates you finished really high for having only 10k land. I don't think commie is too powerful.

yah I know about GDI now, I'll join it next time. None of those players could have missiled me if I was in GDI because i never touched them. The hurricane took out my power for the last day of the game so it's all irrelevant anyway.

but let's discuss "retaling a retal" because i'd like to talk about this specific scenario.

I hit a guy for 200 acres. 1x tap, nothing exciting. he goes almost all offense and semi-suicides to take 1200 acres from me (2000 after ghost acres). his defense is very low when he does this and i could easily 2x ps him at once even without adding more jets! is it some unwritten rule that he gets a "free pass" for going all offense and taking a ton of acres, just because it's a "retal"? That's the question I have. Possibly everyone says yes?

So I hit him one time and messaged him that he still gained 1300 acres profit on the transaction. If HE wanted to war over it, that would've been at least understandable. I would have never started a thread about that. And if I was in the GDI like I should've been, it would've been his only option. But instead he gets his buds to dump a billion missiles on me, which is undoubtedly lame, hence the thread.

I hit #68 once for 200 acres and like 24 hours later (in Express) #68 went 4m jets 2m turrets to hit me back for 1200. Seeing as I had 4m jets at the time of that hit, it seemed stupid to lose 1000 acres in the deal, and I hit a second time to "even it out." Two hits isn't the end of the world but I knew I was asking for it and might get a war... I was ready for that and wouldn't complain if #68 had the guts and decided to go for a war.

But what I didn't expect was 100 missiles from other people who had nothing to do with it - people I never attacked. Maybe because i could've crushed 68... but it certainly seems like some off-server alliance if not a multi. The #68 and #69 thing messaging back to back also sure set off alarm bells.

Anyway, it's quite a welcome back after being gone for ~6 years. I canceled all my alliances and am just going to try to stop these folks from finishing too highly now. I mean, that was a lot of missiles. Next round I'll join the GDI.

I haven't played in a long long time. Even before Mehul sold this game I hadn't played in awhile, but I think the new GDI is a really good idea. Everytime I quit it was because some multi suicided on me for no reason -- and then, since I'd quit, I'd miss the next reset, and so on. Eventually I'd forget about it and that's why I haven't played for so long.

Therefore, I really like the new GDI. But I wanted to ask... instead of totally blocking all AB and GS, could (at least on non-alliance servers) it not just block any after the first 3 or something like that? I ask this because the new GDI has pretty much made troops and especially tanks obsolete. I can tap a guy, and have 0 tanks, and not have to fear AB? It makes me wonder why tanks exist.

Like I said i'll get GDI next time so I don't have to deal with cheaters. Don't really understand though, is there really a way for me to see IPs?

And either way is it a coincidence that #68, who I never hit, shoots me with a bunch of missiles, and then #69 messages me immediately after? I mean really? #13 I never hit either. And they all missile and message me back-to-back. It's not just random.

For all I know it's you who's the one cheating? Maybe not but is there a way to tell?

Message from Pulled my trigger now hes Dead (#69) sent on 08/28/2011 00:15:21
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silence you felon

check my ip you clown



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Message from Ella EnchanteD (#68) sent on 08/28/2011 00:18:05
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SO you dont wanna get retalled eh..

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hmm...............
gonna say this involves #68 and #69 multis??

First round in 6 years and look at this

CM Aug 27, 23:17 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 699 B
20,150 C
CM Aug 27, 23:17 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 686 B
17,530 C
CM Aug 27, 23:17 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 659 B
15,251 C
CM Aug 27, 23:17 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 632 B
13,269 C
CM Aug 27, 23:17 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 607 B
11,544 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 582 B
10,043 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 560 B
8737 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 536 B
7601 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 516 B
6613 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) DH
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 495 B
5754 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 476 B
5006 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 456 B
4355 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 438 B
3789 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 420 B
3296 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 405 B
2868 C
CM Aug 27, 23:18 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 387 B
2495 C
CM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 372 B
2170 C
CM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 358 B
1888 C
CM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) DH
CM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 343 B
1643 C
NM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 934 A
NM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 888 A
NM Aug 27, 23:19 Bobby Boucheys drinking water (#13) The Marshes (#135) 843 A
NM Aug 27, 23:41 Pulled my trigger now hes Dead (#69) The Marshes (#135) 801 A
CM Aug 27, 23:41 Pulled my trigger now hes Dead (#69) The Marshes (#135) 267 B
1563 C

gonna say it's probably a multi, note i never touched either of these guysm #13 or #69, and yet they missiling me to death. and this is why i quit in the first place way back in the day. OTOH, i just didnt know how new GDI worked and if i had, i wouldve joined, and none of this couldve happened to me. so ill try again next time.

I never played on earth empires before so I'm used to the 2b bug. I always thought circumventing that was a big part of the game's strategy.

Is it removed from all the games? What's corruption like? does this change how people play significantly and if so how?

I've always played Utopia but never really liked it that much... so I saw that interview and read it just to see if they got into Earth. No dice. :(