Hunt!

You say you can feed us Renegade, but for the 3rd time this week my people go hungry!!!

ender all i read is blah blah. other people cant be online at all times. however the fact that you ran to vacation mode because people were waiting for you your like blazed. a chicken. if you couldnt hold on to them with your base power why take them? other people can hold them you obviously cant hold them hence the vacation mode

The mineral thread doesn`t include RT as has been stated in the thread since it`s creation, RT is a big enough and fast enough server to fend for itself.

And lastly, why I went into VM (not that it`s really anyone`s business)
My base PR is too high to fight off the entire server (and it seems like it would be the entire server with the amount of publicity this has generated)

I can`t cut down my infrastructure to give myself a fighting chance because I have 10k ore, and I`ve seen less than 200k posted in the 3 months I`ve been active. If I cut down my infrastructure, I might as well just perma VM or plunder the planets because it would probably be a year before I could build them back up again. I have made several posts over the past couple months about ore on RT to the minerals thread, it`s really a problem that`s been an issue for me for a while.

Even if I CAN maintain borders with 4 million base PR, the combo of the server losing a 30k fert and a taxer gaining a couple hundred k`s of land has thrown food prices all to heck. If I kept playing normally, food prices would just keep climbing and not only would I make little to no money, but most of the other taxers wouldn`t either.

I thought about it for a bit. Used some turns, then went into VM. Maybe the situation will change in the next week. Maybe magical ore will appear and I will be able to come out and fight. Maybe some Food giant who has been sleeping in VM will wake up and start selling things again. Or maybe not much will change and I`ll take another little nap. We`ll see.

A word from me about VMing in general. I`ve played this game for like 9 years now, and there`s plenty of you that have been around years longer than me. For as long as I`ve been playing people have been making threads like this whenever someone who has nicer planets than them VM`s, and I almost guarantee more than half of the people who have whined about VM have hypocritically used VM to their own advantage at least once, if not several times, over the last decade. Have I been annoyed by another person VMing before? Of course I have, but I`ve never whined in the forums about it because I`ve never thought that I had more of a right to determine what someone else does with their empire, and their colonies than they themselves do. And for the argument that this is the same thing as enslaving someone, climbing to a high power, and then VMing, there`s one major difference between the two. Enslave VMing affects someone else`s game playing experience in a substantial and negative way, VMing to protect clusters literally affects no one else`s game playing experience. After all, they are that persons planets, they`ve earned them (whether they built them, or captured them), and if they wanted they could plunder them without owing an explanation to anyone.

To the couple of people who are whining the most, where were you when Opvs came out of DP? It`s not like it was a surprise, his days since last log in counter was ticking down for like a week. MtzComeback was literally the only other person there, and in my opinion the only person that has any right to feel jaded (besides Opvs, and he was more than gracious to me once the dust had settled). I was out of DP for a whopping 8 hours and had time to get 9 borders (I chose to plunder 2 C2`s and a C1 just to make more room) before someone finally put me in DP.

People that vm so soon after winning should either be stripped of them or not allowed to even activate vm. I know ill grab a 60k c3, then hise in vm forever

Wow such amazing use of a colony lolz

if he didnt think he could hold them he shouldn`t of tried to win them

What do you expect from nubs?

n ender wiggan ran away cos hes chicken

And enderwiggin :) (sorry bro)

Still on mtzcomeback

wow, those are some nice planets! i`m glad you didn`t die. anybody have any idea where they are now?