Lets party

Last event we had like this collectives got instant points for plundering so hopefully you get a treat.

I beilive their all x.class so they get passed around. Whoever is holding thwm at the end of the event may be able to get them changed into a nice colony. Thus trick or treat, I could be wrong but im sure thee event admin will clarify in the long so I would hold onto those treats if I were you guys.

Colony name X.2138
Planet class U.Large
Xtreme Colony, Can`t Plunder
Available ore 10,312,012
Mineral produced Terran Metal
Total land 101
Food required 5
Goods required 5

Population
Current Population 43
Max population 10
Loyalty 6

Construction
Available labor 42
Land available 100

Housing 1
Commercial 0
Industry 0
Agriculture N/A 0
Mining
N/A


Hmm, Mining NA ??????

messed up right? I have one of those larges with 10mil ore. I`m going to keep it forever and just look at it.

pfft. 43 is probably one of the ones that think MK killed slow and blames us for having incapable competition

So Raist what your saying is that empires X,Y and Z abuse the system so therefore I will also. Given this is the attitude of a G it`s no wonder the game is in decline. I do agree with your point that community action is difficult to implement but that is because the view is that the community have no real say in the running of the game. If that were to change then maybe the attitude of the community would change. Oh and I remember the action of Honeybucket, at the time I was a relitively new and hopelessly inexperienced empire. When I bought minerals as was intended I remember getting threatened and harrassed by larger more experienced empires, I can`t remember if you were one, but what this felt like to me at the time was the big empires looking after their cronies. If action like this is to succeed it need to be made clear what the expectations are and what sanctions the commmunity should/would make to those who go against it and to get the agreement of the majority of active players to implement/police this.

Yeah i dont tend to go that high in power (over 20 mil) often due to ship upkeep, being a mineral miner it does mean i can fight more/longer than a tax miner but jsut gets boring blowing a hole in my cash, and usually when im going offline i end up getting based or id stay up there longer, takes too long to build a fleet to break the 100 mil barrier for me

I don`t gordo up and i seem to be doing ok, but then again i put almost a year into getting my empire setup.

It`ll be like it is now. I feel myself forced to constantly gordo up because the enemies i face, several of whom are guardians who gordo up. In order to keep up with the multiple empires, i in turn have to gordo. The the wheel comes full circle - they keep gordoing up because I will.

And asking for the community to band together and work as a team - Honeybucket tried that, and it worked for maybe a week. And then all the `pondsucking` empires as I call them kept ignoring his pleas and buying up the mineral market without a care. I recall one person in the forums telling HB that they were buying all the minerals because they were there, and it was a part of the game.

I`ve seen this mentality resurfaced multiple times throughout the game`s history, so maybe I`ve become jaded when I see people bring up things like "the community should band together"

Should? yes. Will? not likely.

Ok so we might disagree about a lot of points but we do seem to agree on the evils of gordo`s. I realise that a solution wouldn`t be implementable in code but couldn`t some sort of agreement be reached within the community or is this a minority view?
Forcing empires who want to be "safe" to lower PRs or shorter forays into the higher PRs seems eminantly sensible.

no one likes you filthy collective, go back to your hobble before i kick you

Cont.

"Third massively ancient empires. I`m sure this would be hugely unpopular but some sort of either forced restart once a certain age is reached or a progressive handicap applied to older empires. When I started it was massively intimidating going up against empires with huge ages which would obviously have massive resources compared to me. I think forcing or encouraging empires to restart would help keep the game fresh."

You might have a tiny point here but not as much of one as you think.. Those of us who actually fight often and especially in my case don`t really have a ton of resources built up.. Most races can match or even surpass what alot of us have in a short amount of time and often do..

And going back to your first point throwing a handicap on people based around the few massively gordoed empires is quite unfair to everyone else.. Forcing empires to restart is not what GC was founded on either.. but i`m all for encouraging empires to restart that`s why UW Rewards exists you know..

My current funds/situation for you.

57,002,636,194 $ 809,176,112 F 500,000,000 P 45 T RT BadWolf

Empire information
Raw Material 0
Goods 0
Ore 0

Mineral Store
Terran Metal 12,712,763
Red Crystal 12,007,854
White Crystal 13,250,916
Rutile 10,572,096
Composite 11,881,339
Strafez Organism 11,250,663


Fact of the matter is in my situation while i might have a ton of land myself.. I also face a handicap from that which is made basically made unfair because of the gordoed empires who can easily come up, scout me, then wipe me all while im alseep if i sit anywhere lower down then where i normally sit these days.. and the cost of this for them is probably nothing.. infact it wouldn`t shock me if they made cash doing it.. all the while they can explore.. Because of this i`m basically poor at all times..

My entire empire is made pointless by people who can fight on equal ground to me in pr/income with absolutely no downside at all..

Edited by BadWolf on 2012-10-25