Marauder Ship Confusion

lol. i didnt think this was the old a51 lol. I say cloud city sometime around 05 too when i rejoined gc.

No he`s not the original Area51. the original still plays, and i bet his girlfriend does as well. But he`s not as fluent in English and he sure as eggs wouldn`t be asking questions like this about Marauder ships unless he wanted you all to laugh and point fingers at him.

I think it`d be more correct to say that most old power-gamers were banned. I mean, there have been quite a handful of us who stayed around a long time, who never cared much about reaching the top of the rankings and who were never suspected of anything.

But then, that might just be because we`re too smart to get caught, hehehe.

If it was only about the description it`d be ok, I think most people can figure out that these are only here to provide some kind of background and don`t matter that much. But seriously, if you ever get Stephen to go something, tell him to remove all these ridiculously outdated guides from the manual.

Some extracts from the Marauder Guide by Danny (anyone still alive remembers who he was?) :

"Pyth has only a range of 1"
"Eels have good long range attack"
" the Barracuda has only a range of 4"

Of course the strategies describe are mostly worthless since the ships they were base on changed completely. How are new players (assuming there are any) supposed to learn how to play correctly with these guides ?

area51 used to be a guard sitting at the top of RT during months with some insane amount of planets (somewhere above 900), until it was discovered he was in fact getting borders from arranged battles. I think his fedmates (the old Bastard Clan crew) were quite ashamed of his actions.

"most old players have been banned"
... what ?

its correct , embarrising eh

Edited by Maraudian on 2007-09-18

When I started out I was a bit puzzled by the note that pyths are completely useless when defending. I think hes got a point.

A51 - bet you`re glad you asked the qn now eh? No more confusion for you, because at least you know for sure you`re new, and not the old A51 ;-)

To answer your qn though - the description just reflects the fact that maru ships generally die when defending. Look in the ship description for `This ship can`t return fire if attacked` or `Ships attacked by this ship cannot return fire` to see if a particular ship has a special attack characteristic

They just refer to the attack and defend phase of the battle, so when your empire is attacked the `no defense` ships still get an attack phase, they just don`t do the 50% damage part when they are attacked...

Hope this is what you were asking...

* shock *

gc hasbeen and still is being neglected 4 too long

He was banned a long time ago. (The original) Or am i thinking of CloudCity? Renegade refresh my memory mate.

most old players have been banned , in 4+ year or w/e temptation etc ets you and you get caught, but i wasnt staff at the times CC and A51 got banned if they were so cant really state anything on it , but i doubt this is the original A51 as he wouldnt post the likes of this question ( no offence intended to the question or poster )

Edited by Maraudian on 2007-09-16