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Saturday, October 04, 2003
The text of the previously noted website: 1) The player base sucks. Ever wonder why so many people play TDZK? I hated that game but I played it for a while because the people were nice. In SMR you have 98% jerks 2) The graphics.. or lack of. Looking at green boxes gets old after a while. Its sad that people fought so hard to save a pink flashy bar.. the only graphic SM has ever known 3) Lack of options... you ether trade, or you hunt. Whoopie!! 4) The imbalance between traders and hunters. The only reason I can see to trade is to make money. Screw exp, you're gonna die anyway 5) Trading is the most boring activity Ive ever engaged in. I'd much rather be in math class. Its much more fun. 6) If you're on a 56k then you're pretty much screwed. 7) The opressive ops - enough said. Why would anyone want to come in #SMR and ask a decent question when they're just going to get kicked? 8) the bugs/glitches. Tell me why TK logged off in sector 2303303 for an entire game 9) the imbalanced allainces - every game there is a HoA or an allaince with another name and the same people, a Shadow where its canff and mostly n00bs, and maybe 1 - 2 allainces that are actually willing to work with new people. 10) The races suck and are not exciting. The alskant are supposed to be traders, yet almost every als gets a FW or FU. 11) Races not playing their roles - the Human are supposed to hate the WQ Humans but they almost always have peace.. 12) Everything is predictible.. there is going to be mostly all 36/17 FUs and not very good carapaces because the thevian rarely gets peace with Salvene/Creo. ZzZ 13) Not many people play.. which ties in with #1. They see the player base SMR already has and quit. 14) The Galactic post.. its biased, the editor sucks, and everyone complains about it. Why is it still there? 15) single mining is soo annoying. 16) When playing Helbreath (www.helbreath.com - great game) and other games and I have to rush off somewhere, I just recall to saftey with a click of the mouse and go. In SMR I have to fight my way to fed or a planet. 17) Lack of items.. no rare items where luck is rewarded.. just cloaks, jump drives.. ZzZ.. all that you buy 18) Lack of newbie help files for so long. I know they are up now but that was rediculous 19) Most newbies quit as soon as they begin or after they get a pod so the HQs are always full and take forever to load. I know most people are dead by the time they load it if there are hunters in there. 20) a lvl 2 newbie whom someone buys a dev for and tells them what weapons to get on a fast connection can easily kill the top trader in the game. Why do people trade for EXP? Friday, October 03, 2003
Just done DarkFlare Conv: DarqFlare: SE crashed OMGN's hosting company, so they took us offline DarqFlare: We're removing it immediately. CharlesRector: How did SE do that? DarqFlare: One of the regularly-run scripts crashed TCH's server. CharlesRector: so no more OMGN SE? DarqFlare: For now, I'm putting everything on hold. CharlesRector: ok CharlesRector: How come I can access OMGN? DarqFlare: Because I got TCH to lift it. DarqFlare: It was only down 5 minutes. CharlesRector: If its a "regularly-run script" then how did it cause the crash? DarqFlare: TCH said it kept piling up requests to run until it crashed the server. DarqFlare: What do you think of the Cali recall? CharlesRector: what doyou think of it? July 13th, 2002 Stryker AIM Conv: Xram7: hi CharlesRector: hello. did you see the notice I posted at the AA about how I got podded last? Xram7: not yet.. why? CharlesRector: I got killed because Beowulf abandoned his planet to take one with no cnstructions on it whatsoever & whle I was msg'ng with him on it, I got killed by a Dark Knight guy at the planet's sector Xram7: hmm.. Xram7: but the Dark Knight guy broke through the shielding on the planet, yes? CharlesRector: no, because once a planet is abandoned, the shielding no longer works. Xram7: hmm. i didn't know that Xram7: who's the guy who keeps building turrets on my planet.. Xram7: u? CharlesRector: yes... I also got killed with a lot of credits on board. Xram7: 7/13/2002 11:42:29 AM crector (37) was killed by RedDragon (432) in Sector #2758 CharlesRector: yes. I saw the You are under attack ting come up and got to the sector, but not in time to fully escape. Xram7: well.. i'm hunting around in Tangeria CharlesRector: Any luck? Xram7: lots of Dark KNight ships sitting in 2785 Xram7: they PBing CharlesRector: wonder who owns that planet? Xram7: i'm in a ravager CharlesRector: well, don't take them all on, unless you have a death wish/ Xram7: fuck Xram7: is shadow allied with dark knights? CharlesRector: no clue. Xram7: 4 shadow fags at 2737 Xram7: an UNO Xram7: danm Xram7: the Shadows tok my kill ... :P Xram7: shadow prtyt good.. they working together to kill me.. :P CharlesRector: well, get back to #3211 for the time being. Xram7: nope, i'm dead :P Xram7: i made a stupid move Xram7: i thought Cancer was lower lvl than me for some stupid reason.. Xram7: it was fun tho :P Xram7: i've lost my touch tho Xram7: :) CharlesRector: you'll get it back eventually Xram7: yea.. in the next game Xram7: i can't believe i clicked examine player instead of running.. :P Xram7: especially in a ravager.. CharlesRector: Will you be able to fund a turret on your planet now? Or should I? Xram7: i'm nowhere near my planet Xram7: i'm in salvene space.. roughly 30 sectors away.. in an escape pod CharlesRector: ok...I will. CharlesRector: I'll do some trading to do it, since my acct. is bsically dry and the AA isn't much better. Xram7: ?? Xram7: i'll put some cash into the AA CharlesRector: thanks. Gamer AIM SN's: AOL killthemdead 6/23/2002 1:40:16 AM does any one else have AOL or AIM cause they would help to talk to each other.......... my S\N is Thereisnospoon37........i know it is gay but i was to lazy to change it but i will soon Mikeyp 6/23/2002 3:27:50 AM im Kingmike1234. cya online Aurora 6/23/2002 5:36:42 AM SteveR3850.... Tharkas 6/29/2002 3:56:50 AM I'm new to the alliance, and I hope to be a valuable addition. TharkasDB is my AIM s/n. Stallick 7/2/2002 5:44:36 PM I am also new, my S/N is CreeDaMofo spahzz 7/3/2002 5:17:09 AM mine is "spahzz" crector 7/3/2002 5:25:35 AM CharlesRector Doug's Drivel/MPOGD Ouster: ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug McIntyre To: crector@earthlink.net Sent: 8/21/02 4:48:13 PM Subject: Recent News Post Please explaining to me why you posted about game2k on MPOGD, I want to know. While I encourage posting links to news sites that are sources for news stories posted on MPOGD, I see no need for staff to divert traffic from MPOGD for no reason other than it being a slow news day. It’s just not done. You've done a decent job covering the news you don't see on the big sites and I do appreciate it but its news posts like game2k that make me reconsider where your loyalties lie. I’ve disabled your posting access, which will be reinstated if/when this gets sorted out. Doug Jerle Conv. Sept. 1st, 2002: Chuck: (1:42 PM) Long time no see Jerle: (1:42 PM) Yes, it has been a while. Jerle: (1:42 PM) That's too bad what happened with MPOGD. Chuck: (1:43 PM) yes it is. Have you seen my ideas on how to save TDZK on the HF Forum yet? Jerle: (1:43 PM) Yes, I've ben watching the thread. Chuck: (1:44 PM) What do you think of them? esp. limiting messages and having a bonus for less frequent logging in to the game? Jerle: (1:46 PM) I like both of the ideas. Easy to implement, and useful. Chuck: (1:47 PM) How about getting rid of the circular button graphics for telling us when msg's have come? Jerle: (1:48 PM) A lot of players actually seem to like that. And those really wouldn't reduce the lag by hardly anything. Chuck: (1:52 PM) How about cutting down on the maximum number of turns? Jerle: (1:53 PM) That may be a possibility. However, we're going to have to take a much clsoer look at that one. Jerle: (1:53 PM) The problem is, if reduce the max number, players will have to log in more often, instead of doing slightly longer bouts of playing then resting for a while. Jerle: (1:53 PM) So I don't know if that would chagne the overall equation much. Chuck: (1:54 PM) ok....Is it true what certain KAOS members say that, you have been going after them? Jerle: (1:54 PM) ? Jerle: (1:55 PM) I haven't been going after anyone. Chuck: (1:55 PM) they say that the admins blame them for kkilling off half the palyer base and that the admins have been doing things to impede them. Chuck: (1:55 PM) hasty typing Jerle: (1:56 PM) Hotaru seems a bit biased against KAOS, but I'm not aware of anything we've done to stop them. Chuck: (1:57 PM) was going to ask you about that. The allegation has been made that Hotaru got mad at KAOS on some type of chat room or IRC discussion. Jerle: (2:01 PM) Ah, now I believe I know what the problem is. Jerle: (2:01 PM) You are aware that Hotaru got podded a few days ago by KAOS? Chuck: (2:02 PM) No, I was not. Thought that Admins couldn't get podded. Jerle: (2:02 PM) Usually not, but apparently Hotaru didn't have the admin protection turned on. Jerle: (2:03 PM) So they sat and attacked for 24 rounds, finally getting past the defenses. Chuck: (2:04 PM) The following was posted earlier today on the TDZK Forum by JaiMaster of KAOS: The way the game is playing at the moment, certain alliances need to put in place long term operations to restore parity due to certain code changes gutting their ability to wage war some time ago. Jerle: (2:05 PM) That's probably referring to some of the attack script issues. Chuck: (2:06 PM) What's that about? The only things I've attacked are forces. Jerle: (2:07 PM) Some of the new security changes aren't working out very well. Chuck: (2:08 PM) Such as? Chuck: (2:10 PM) Here's a post by Cnh- of KAOS on the SMR Forum July 28th, 2002: With the SM crash of 2000 (ot whatever) , most KAOS drifted to TDZK (www.tdzk.net) and I have recently joined their fleet once again, what a pleasure to port raid every night and never worry about dying because we ALWAYS have cover, yes, teamwork at its finest. And KAOS owns TDZK... the game designer is mad that we have killed over half of the player database and tries to make it harder for us.. heh. Thes allegations have been made against TDZK by KAOS members for over a month now. Chuck: (2:14 PM) Or is that there way of bragging about how great killers they are? Jerle: (2:16 PM) Probably. Chuck: (2:21 PM) take it that the plan is still in place for a reset to occur only when the Scourge mothership has been destroyed? Jerle: (2:22 PM) Actually, we might be changing that. Jerle: (2:23 PM) I don't know if you have access to the test part of the forums anymore, but we decided to to a compelete re-code of the entire game. Jerle: (2:24 PM) Which we plan to have completed by the 1st of October. Chuck: (2:25 PM) And you would have to have a reset to implement the new code? Jerle: (2:25 PM) There are a lot of reasons to recode, but one of the main reasons is effciency. We've learned a lot since we started TDZK, and to improve the lag, and a lot of other things, it makes more sense for us to redo it to an entirely new system. Aside from some new features the game will still play pretty much the same, but the code is going to look completely different Jerle: (2:25 PM) Probably, though I would prefer if that piece of information wasn't broadcast. Chuck: (2:26 PM) ok...I won't broadcast it. Chuck: (2:28 PM) What new features are you planning on adding? Jerle: (2:29 PM) A lot. I'm busy writing up a design document for the admins to work off, based on all the notes we've taken. We've been meeting for several hours a couple of times last week. Chuck: (2:31 PM) Well, if you want to keep open the option of having a premium account, better be careful to what you add to the game for free. Jerle: (2:32 PM) Yes, we're aware of that. Chuck: (2:36 PM) what did you think of my ideas for a premuium plan? such as ad-free accts & @tdzk.net accounts? Jerle: (2:37 PM) We already had plans to sell email addresses. Jerle: (2:38 PM) And the ad-free accounts are sort of covered by donations, we plan to include the regular ads along with the popups for donation purposes once the new round starts. Jerle: (2:38 PM) It will be retroactive, people who have already donated will get both benefits. Chuck: (2:38 PM) ok Chuck: (2:41 PM) In SMR, you players are ranked by their deaths and also the sectors are ranked by the number of deaths in them. If I'm not mistaken, that kind of info isn't available to TDZK players, So that's something that could be in a Premium Acct. package. Jerle: (2:42 PM) Hmm, interesting idea. Not too hard to add either. Chuck: (2:44 PM) In my HF post, I cut & pasted from the MARS Project front page about their concept of having a Gold Clan. YOu or Hotaru could check it out and see just what's in the Gold Clan and how much you guys would be willing to add to TDZK as part of a Gold Alliance package. Jerle: (2:45 PM) Yes, I did see that suggestion. There are some possibilities, but I'm not sure exactly what we'd do there. Jerle: (2:45 PM) One problem we are facing is the physical lack of time the admin staff has to work with. Jerle: (2:45 PM) We all have jobs in the real world, since TDZK is struggling to pay it's own bills, much less ours. Chuck: (2:46 PM) Well, you wouldn't have to implement both kinds of premium accts simultaneously. Jerle: (2:46 PM) So there is a limit to how much we can do. Chuck: (2:47 PM) I'm wel aware of that....I went to HS too. I know the homework or rather the busy work that they assign. Jerle: (2:47 PM) ? Jerle: (2:47 PM) Squee and I attend BYU. Jerle: (2:48 PM) Hotaru goes to UVSC Jerle: (2:48 PM) Which if anything, will be more homework than HS Chuck: (2:48 PM) ok....you're older than I thought. Jerle: (2:49 PM) The semester starts on Tuesday. :P Chuck: (2:49 PM) Wrong. College has a lot less homework than HS. Chuck: (2:50 PM) Its that the homework you do get is harder. But its far less homework. I found college to be a lot easier than the public schools. Chuck: (2:51 PM) Unless of course compsci is taught differently than the liberal ares are. Chuck: (2:52 PM) arts Jerle: (2:58 PM) True. I am holding down a job as a programmer 20 hours a week though, and that eats a lot of time. Chuck: (2:59 PM) yes, but you shold be learning from your job stuff that helps you in programming TDZK. Jerle: (3:00 PM) Oh, I have, and am. It just takes time away from working on the game itself. Chuck: (3:03 PM) will the recoding cut down on bandwidth? Jerle: (3:03 PM) Hopefully some. The main boost will be in processing time. Chuck: (3:06 PM) Well, before you go to pay to play, my advice is to try to cut down on bandwidth first. That way, you'll be in a better position to persuade players to part with their money, esp. if you can make the case that you've done what you can to cut costs. Chuck: (3:15 PM) Still there? Jerle: (3:15 PM) Yes, just talking to a lot of people at once. :) Jerle: (3:16 PM) We are trying to cut down the bandwidth as much as possible, but a large part of that is determined by the sheer number of players we have online at once. Jerle: (3:16 PM) That's just a lot of load for our servers. Jerle: (3:17 PM) After we got the second server, things improved dramatically for a while. Then the player base rushed in the take advantage of the new power, and it's starting to lag again. Jerle: (3:18 PM) The processor is actually starting to bottleneck now, due to the constant load. Jerle: (3:18 PM) Before it was just Ram. :) Jerle: (3:22 PM) 192 processes: 160 sleeping, 31 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 66.0% user, 11.0% system, 0.0% nice, 22.9% idle Mem: 512904K av, 425732K used, 87172K free, 48K shrd, 33652K buff Swap: 1024088K av, 0K used, 1024088K free 72904K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 949 apache 20 0 5084 5084 2496 R 6.0 0.9 0:28 httpd 4042 apache 14 0 4596 4596 2480 S 6.0 0.8 0:04 httpd 923 apache 20 0 4476 4476 2496 R 5.4 0.8 0:25 httpd 4332 apache 14 0 3484 3484 2412 R 5.4 0.6 0:03 httpd 3848 apache 14 0 3832 3832 2412 R 4.7 0.7 0:08 httpd 828 apache 14 0 4428 4428 2480 S 4.0 0.8 0:25 httpd 874 apache 20 0 4880 4880 2480 R 4.0 0.9 0:24 httpd 921 apache 20 0 4276 4276 2508 R 4.0 0.8 0:21 httpd 936 apache 20 0 4716 4716 2512 R 4.0 0.9 0:24 httpd 943 apache 14 0 4544 4544 2484 R 4.0 0.8 0:25 httpd 4241 apache 14 0 4612 4612 2460 R 4.0 0.8 0:02 httpd 4473 apache 9 0 3384 3384 2396 S 4.0 0.6 0:00 httpd 898 apache 14 0 5148 5148 2512 R 3.3 1.0 0:24 httpd 1729 apache 10 0 3568 3568 2428 S 3.3 0.6 0:23 httpd 1733 apache 11 0 3904 3904 2404 S 3.3 0.7 0:19 httpd 4409 apache 20 0 3760 3760 2400 R 3.3 0.7 0:01 httpd 903 apache 14 0 3884 3884 2512 S 2.7 0.7 0:23 httpd Jerle: (3:22 PM) That may or may not make any sense to you. That was the server state as of a moment ago. Jerle: (3:22 PM) It's actually doing fairly well right now. Jerle: (3:23 PM) 2:31pm up 1:41, 1 user, load average: 29.84, 26.40, 25.63 Jerle: (3:23 PM) The load average of 26.40 is bad though. Jerle: (3:23 PM) That means we have 26 processes per second waiting to be processed. Jerle: (3:23 PM) Ideially that should never go above 10. Chuck: (3:25 PM) If or rather when you go pay to play, don't charge $5 per month like other games do. That adds up to $60 a year, more than what the big-selling CD-ROM games sell for. You don't want to get in price comparisons with the likes of Shadowbane. Instead, go for pricing per round, say $10 per round or per year at say $25 per year. Just the bandwidth savings from the cheapskates quitting the game should help TDZK's pocketbook quite a lot, so you wouldn't necessarily have to charge an arm and a leg. Jerle: (3:27 PM) Yeah. We were thinking we might go $2-3 a month. Jerle: (3:27 PM) It's still in the future though, we'll have to see how some things work out. Chuck: (3:30 PM) In case you're wondering why game advertising doesn't pay very well anymore is that in the past, cetrtain operatiors such as Shareplay & Swirve didn't care how many multis they had in their games since the more accts there werre, the more page views and hence advertising bucks there were. Stuff like that turned a lot of advertisers off from online games. Jerle: (3:31 PM) WE've noticed. Chuck: (3:33 PM) Should I cross post my HF postings on TDZK to the TDZK forum to spur feedback from TDZK players? Jerle: (3:33 PM) Probably a good idea. Chuck: (3:35 PM) ok, will do. From what I've heard, in 1999, Shareplay reaped nearly $100,000 in advertising. Jerle: (3:36 PM) If only. :P Jerle: (3:36 PM) Considering we have a lot more players online at once than they ever seemed to in SM Chuck: (3:38 PM) I doubt that all 3 of Shareplay's games ever had a grand total of 200 players simultaneously online. Chuck: (4:12 PM) If/when TDZK does go pay to play, you should put most of the profits back into the site, either by expanding the game universe or by developing Hotaru's RPG project to completion. Sept. 16th Conv with Stryker: CharlesRector: In the Vets Game, is it true what I've heard that the Forsaken have pretty much folded and Warklock is with a different alliance now? xChaos Stryker x: yes xChaos Stryker x: well.. kinda xChaos Stryker x: like 3/4th of TF went to HoA xChaos Stryker x: the rest went to random alliances.. a bunch join my alliance, The Dawnrazors CharlesRector: they defected. CharlesRector: why did TF fold? xChaos Stryker x: where do u hear this stuf CharlesRector: sick of Warlock & his mental proble,s? CharlesRector: I hear it around from sources. xChaos Stryker x: i have no clue.. from what i hear, Warlock was going paranoid and accusing Inferno Death of spying on TF for the DawnRazors xChaos Stryker x: so ID left and created HoA xChaos Stryker x: and a bunch of TF left and joined HoA xChaos Stryker x: ID has like 330,000 exp in Vet.. ug.. hate him CharlesRector: I was in the #smr room once when Warlock came in nd started babbling away about evil enemies and hwo other ppl's childeren should burn in Hell. xChaos Stryker x: lol xChaos Stryker x: Warlock scares me.. xChaos Stryker x: :) CharlesRector: He's always seemed like a nutcase to me...you've ehard about his accusing me of trying to steal his alliance's name form him? September 20th, 2002 AIM Conv with Stryker: xChaos Stryker x: hey dude CharlesRector: hello...thnaks for the 23 mil...we naow have 118 mil in the fund. xChaos Stryker x: hehe xChaos Stryker x: From: Mad Matt (102) Date: 9/20/2002 3:56:19 PM u are too good for tm come join me we ca nuse u xChaos Stryker x: mad matt is getting annoying CharlesRector: interesting. I guess Shady Characters doesn't want to have a NAP with us any more. CharlesRector: Has Mad Matt been communicating with you a lot? xChaos Stryker x: well, he sends me invitations to join his alliance like every day.. xChaos Stryker x: other than that, no xChaos Stryker x: i never heard of him before xChaos Stryker x: i'm not gonna leave TM, if that's what u thinking xChaos Stryker x: i;m having fun trading CharlesRector: I wasn't thinkg that....MM is a former Forsaken...got kicked out since Warlock thought that he was a spy. xChaos Stryker x: LOL xChaos Stryker x: ah well xChaos Stryker x: estoy loco invited me to join The Edge xChaos Stryker x: after i played tag with him xChaos Stryker x: i ran circles around him while he was trying to hunt me xChaos Stryker x: lol xChaos Stryker x: i killed scouts and combat drones that he put down right under his nose CharlesRector: interesting....Esstoy seems to have a high oinion of himself. CharlesRector: good job on killing his forces. xChaos Stryker x: onion CharlesRector: onion? xChaos Stryker x: CharlesRector (10:49:28 AM): interesting....Esstoy seems to have a high oinion of himself. CharlesRector: I meant opinion xChaos Stryker x: :) xChaos Stryker x: well, he was rather annoyed at me xChaos Stryker x: he sent me hate mail xChaos Stryker x: lol CharlesRector: Do you know this Myst guy any? xChaos Stryker x: ? CharlesRector: the leader of the Shay Characters...we had a NAP and thein he killed me just half an hour or so ago. CharlesRector: Shady xChaos Stryker x: oh.. xChaos Stryker x: dunno him xChaos Stryker x: were we supposed to have NAP? CharlesRector: Yes. xChaos Stryker x: hmm xChaos Stryker x: did u send him a msg CharlesRector: It was on the Msg. Bd. CharlesRector: Yes...and he won't respond. xChaos Stryker x: From: EstoyLoco (123) Date: 9/20/2002 2:36:43 PM you fuckn have a god connection damn!! i must agree its the first damn time a ship is laughting in my nose like that CharlesRector: hehe CharlesRector: flying circles around him! xChaos Stryker x: :) xChaos Stryker x: well.. xChaos Stryker x: EstoyLoco is in The Edge xChaos Stryker x: and he was trying to hunt me.. xChaos Stryker x: erm.. i dunno where i'm going with this line of thought CharlesRector: Estoy ins an incompetent or has a slow conneciton xChaos Stryker x: well, even if he has a fast connection, all u need is a same speed connection to avoid him xChaos Stryker x: cuz he needs to click examine trader, and attack in the timespan that u have to click a different sector CharlesRector: yes xChaos Stryker x: yay i have 31k exp CharlesRector: great.... xChaos Stryker x: :P xChaos Stryker x: is that the "i don't care" great? xChaos Stryker x: hehe xChaos Stryker x: or the "i don't care as long as the AA gets money" great xChaos Stryker x: lol CharlesRector: no, its the I hope you get aggressive and eventually hunt the Shady Characters down great., but the money's nice too great II. CharlesRector: great II = the sequle to the first great. xChaos Stryker x: Myst (270) (Human) was killed by Malvado (46) (Salvene) in sector #763 xChaos Stryker x: lol xChaos Stryker x: hunt down the shady character? xChaos Stryker x: no dude.. i'm trading this WHOLE game xChaos Stryker x: :) CharlesRector: I saw that....couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy. CharlesRector: ok xChaos Stryker x: hehe xChaos Stryker x: yer just gonna have to teach the other peeps in TM to learn how to fight CharlesRector: we'll use your donations to hunt them down. xChaos Stryker x: if u ever decide to burn money and have fun, i have some ports that u can port raid that will help my route a lot xChaos Stryker x: it'll take about 10 warbirds tho xChaos Stryker x: so.. xChaos Stryker x: :P CharlesRector: I'll wait until I have 300+ turns stored up and then get an Ambassador and get my exp right back at least to the 2,300 level. xChaos Stryker x: hehe xChaos Stryker x: gather up the 10 most active peeps in our alliance, buy them warbirds, and get them to kill a port for me xChaos Stryker x: it'll be good combat experience CharlesRector: How would it help your route? xChaos Stryker x: well.. xChaos Stryker x: u want me to explain all the details? xChaos Stryker x: my current route is 994(lux) 1065(machinery) 987(narc) xChaos Stryker x: the stuff in parenthesis are the stuff i buy from that port CharlesRector: I know that port raids downgrade ports. xChaos Stryker x: it's not an efficient route, because the machinery gives no money xChaos Stryker x: there is a route 994(lux) 1001 (narc) that is close to perfect xChaos Stryker x: the narc side of it is perfect.. 994 gives lots of money for narc xChaos Stryker x: but 1001 has ports near it that sells lux, so i don't get much money/exp from 1001 for the lux xChaos Stryker x: which is why i don't use that route.. xChaos Stryker x: if u kill the ports aroudn 1001 that sell lux, it'll make the route perfect xChaos Stryker x: and it will have the potential to earn me 2 mil every 10 turns CharlesRector: but those are high level ports, right? xChaos Stryker x: yes. lvl 8-9.. which is why u need at least 10 warbirds xChaos Stryker x: there is an UNO close to them CharlesRector: I'll ask DLB about what he thinks of this...he's ahd experience raiding ports. xChaos Stryker x: erm.. alright.. xChaos Stryker x: u don't trust me? :) xChaos Stryker x: i think i have more exp port raiding than DLB does.. :( CharlesRector: well, I want to find out it its feasible xChaos Stryker x: what part? the 10 warships? xChaos Stryker x: 10 warships should be enough, assuming they don't do random things CharlesRector: and if its eally a done deal that the pors woud stop selling lux. xChaos Stryker x: no it's not xChaos Stryker x: ports usually drop in lvl... but not always xChaos Stryker x: if it drops a lvl, it loses goods xChaos Stryker x: cuz it needs to be a certain lvl to sell lux CharlesRector: yes xChaos Stryker x: it has to be lvl 8 to sell lux.. xChaos Stryker x: oh, and u get 1/4th the money in th eport xChaos Stryker x: so.. that might be fun for u too xChaos Stryker x: :) CharlesRector: yes...at the moment, I'm a bit more interested in dropping mines on others planets and finding ut whee the Shady Characters all hang out. xChaos Stryker x: oh.. hehe xChaos Stryker x: what are u going to do when u DO find out :) CharlesRector: see about doing them in...naturaly. xChaos Stryker x: ah xChaos Stryker x: but u don't fight much.. CharlesRector: true...but there's always and exception to every rule. xChaos Stryker x: ah.. so Stryker the alliance-hopper/bounty hunter will spend NG3 only in TM and only trade, whereas Crector the non-fighter/non-trader is going to trade like crazy, reach lvl 20 and get into a warbird and kill everyone!! xChaos Stryker x: :) CharlesRector: we;ll, there's also the option of using forces to kill ppl. xChaos Stryker x: bleh xChaos Stryker x: that's no fun xChaos Stryker x: and that's boring xChaos Stryker x: and 1 person isn't enough xChaos Stryker x: you'll need literally about 1000 mines in all the sectors in their area xChaos Stryker x: especially around their nearest UNO xChaos Stryker x: to get 1000 mines around their area fast enough so that they can't blow them up prematurely, you'd need lots of miners xChaos Stryker x: and LOTS of money CharlesRector: that could be, but therier leader has only 1,300 exp, so he can't have that big a ship. xChaos Stryker x: uh.. xChaos Stryker x: he can have any ship xChaos Stryker x: lol xChaos Stryker x: he could be in a Federal ultimatum CharlesRector: paid for by his alliance mates? xChaos Stryker x: ... xChaos Stryker x: well, theoretically, u could buy an FU if u wanted.. xChaos Stryker x: u have the money for it xChaos Stryker x: :) xChaos Stryker x: where that money came from is irrelevant CharlesRector: only 18 Mil. past the 100 mil. mark and I'd rather helo the younger members get into IST's and the like first ....get their expp up. xChaos Stryker x: heh xChaos Stryker x: the thing is..ppl won't feel obligated to raise their exp unless a bunch of the other peeps in their alliance have high exp.. cuz then they'll feel like they are at the bottom of the pack xChaos Stryker x: so what we need is some active peeps to get lots of exp.. xChaos Stryker x: i am working on that.. we need a couple more tho.. xChaos Stryker x: *looks at crector* CharlesRector: I dropped some inactivers....there's a possiblity of getting Icedude and the other actives in Omega Factor into the TM xChaos Stryker x: that would be nice Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Just concluded interview with Psycho: Phoenix79194: Hihi crector!! <--- Psycho from Space merchant! :) CharlesRector: hello Phoenix79194: Immo adding all AIM adresses from SM :) CharlesRector: great Phoenix79194: Yap! An u got mail about money for the alliance! :) Phoenix79194: But i have one question to you! :) CharlesRector: mail? Phoenix79194: ingame CharlesRector: what's the question? Phoenix79194: why u don´t get xp? :) To hard to lead the alliance? CharlesRector: I have to do a lot of stuff in-game such as communicating with other alliance leaders and that cuts down on trading time....also have been trading in Ik'Thorne some to try to get perfect relations with them/ Phoenix79194: Ah i was wondering! :) Perhaps i am of any help to you if you want? i have plenty of time to play and communicate in SM! CharlesRector: Not at the moment, but I'll keep it in mind Phoenix79194: ok! I hope so! :) And i hope there will be another Alliance meeting in AIM again! Could not be online last time :( CharlesRector: well, it turned out to be an IRC meeting since the folks who turned up all had IRC. Phoenix79194: WAHHHHH! Fucking IRC! Mhm will think about it! I hate the port scans and so on in IRC! :) So i use not. CharlesRector: if somenone shows up who doesn't have IRC, then it will be on an AIM chatroom Phoenix79194: Everyone can get IRC! So i will come, when i can! Also Maverick, who my ... ( mhm my english leaves me) ( he is leaving wiht me in one apartment!) CharlesRector: ok Phoenix79194: So time for bed 30 minutes to5 in the morning and then 30 minutes to go to work so till next time! :) CharlesRector: see you around cyberspace there is alot of truth to what he says and you can see, he says alot. History has two sides and HoA was a diffrent alliance than TF it's members were mostly the same but they walked a diffrent path. But there was still favortisim shown to them from Speef and Ger Draxon. And, yes, the cheating was less visible to the players in general, but it was still there on an indvidual level as opposed to the grand alliaance scail of previous times. I sent it to Rat-Fighter, Hunter and Omega's Glory sence they all played at that time too. If they dont reply to you directly I'll forward what they say. A voice from the four horns of the golden alter which is before God said to the angel which had the trumpit, "Lose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates." And the four angels were loosed, which were prepaired for to slay the third part of man. And I heared a noise, as it were a noise of thinder, one of the four beasts saying "Come and see." And behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering and to conquer (Pestilence). I heared the second beast say, "Come and see." And there went out another horse that war red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword (War). I heared the third beast say, "Come and see." And I beheld and low a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of ballances in his hand (Famine). And I heard a voice in the midsts of the four beasts say, "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barly for a penny, and see thow hurt not the oil and the wine." I heared the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see." And I lookedand behold a pail horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And the number of the army of horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heared the number of them. And power was givin unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sward, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth. *****The Horsemen of the Appocolips***** Heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and he that sat up on him was called Faithfull and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He is the Wrath of God. And he spoke, saying "I am the Omega, the last of all things." And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Saying, "We are the Alpha and the Omega, the fisrt and the last, the begining and the ending, which is, which was, and which is yet to come, by the power of the Almighty." *****Omega Prime & The Omega Factor***** (talk) Now I seen a many a bridges in my time and crossed every one of them, with no truble at all * I had trials and tribulations, heart achs and pains * Survived them all * I'm still Omega * And I'm still cool * (sing) They call me Omega Cool * I was here long before you * If your good I will love you * But I'm nobody's fool * I'm Omega Cool * When I was boarn there was tital waves * At every funeral it rained * Every time I sang * Omega Cool * I have been here much longer * Longer than you * I'm Omega Cool * Well now * Every body's running round talking about saving souls * When-they-know good-and-well they-got-enough-trouble trying to save their own * Every woman and every man * One day they just got to understand * That were palying the same key * Every time we bleed * Omega Cool * There ain't no big I's and little U's in my life * They call me Omega Cool * I was here long before you * If your good I will love you * But I'm nobody's fool * I'm Omega Cool. (rap) Everybody wanna tell me how to play the game * When I run it better than a madam runs dames * Trin' to beat me is like playing pool with a rope * My voice will leave you dead cause you coulden't play the dope * yes * It's jack * I'm back * And I'm hearder than a heart attack * I'm the cure for any disease * 'Caues there ain't nobody funky like me. Patience gone * Time to move along * No one to blame * It's time to win * Don't criticize * Try to realize * I'm number one in the end * Play to win * That's the color * Color of success * I play to win, oh I * Free as a bird * It's time to spread the word * Dark weather's gone * The sun is shining * First understand * I'm not your typical man * Shrewd, I'm the kind * You can't deny me * Play to win * That's the color * Color of success * I play to win, oh I * Don't take me wrong by the words of my song * Bitterness gone, it's behind me * Fresh, picturesque at my very best * Greatfully strong and proud to be me * If I wanna make love sometimes * It's all right * It's my life * I play to win * If I wanna get crazy sometimes * It's all right * It's my life * I play to win * Play to win * That's the color * Color of success * I play to win. Time to play...THE GAME! * Hahahahaha * It's all about the game, and how you play it * All about control, if you can take it * All about your debt, and if you can pay it * It's all about pain, and who's gonna make it * I am the game, you don't wanna play me * I am control, no way you can change me * I am have heavy debts, no way you can pay me * I am the pain, and I know you can't take me * Look over your shoulder, ready to run * Like a good little bitch, from a smoking gun * I am the game, and I make the rules * So move on out, or you can die like a fool * Try and figure out what the moves gonna be * Come on over sucker, why don't you ask me? * Don't you forget there's a price you can pay * 'Cuz I am the game and I want to play * It's time to play the game * Hahahaha * Time to play the game! * It's all about the game, and how you play it * It's all about control, and if you can take it * It's all about your debt, and if you can pay it * It's all about the pain, and who's gonna make it * I am the game, you don't wanna play me * I am control, there's no way you can change me * I am your debts, and no you can't pay me * I am your pain, and I know you can't take me * Play the game, you're gonna be the same * You're gonna change your name, you're gonna die in flames * Hahahahaha * Time to play the game! * I Am Your Pain * I am The Game * YOU WON'T FORGET MY NAME! * I'm in control * I make the rules * This is My Time * YOU MESS WITH THIS AND YOU DIE LIKE A FOOL! * I am the debt that can't be paid * You're going down in flames * This is the time I cannot lose * LIVE OR DIE * YOU'LL HAVE TO CHOOSE! * It's all about me * I am The One * Soon you'll see there's nowhere to run * I am the threat that is so real * THROUGH THE BLOOD AND THE SWEAT * THE PAIN YOU WILL FEEL * Nowhere to run * nowhere to hide * Now it's time to die * Time to feel the pain * GO! * TIME TO PLAY THE GAME! Here come Omega Factor * We come groovin' up slowly * We got righteous power * We all holy rollers * We go money up to our knees * Got to be a joker * We just do what we please * (guitar sounds: vam vum vum vam voom voom vam voom voom vam vum) * We wear no pretense * We got no remorse * We got massive shothguns * We shoot everybody * We say I know you and You know me * One thing I can tell you is we got to be free * Come together * Right now * Over me * (guitar sounds: vam vum vum vam voom voom vam voom voom vam vum) * We bag production * We got gient gunships * We got perfect teamwork * We are spinal crackers * We got money up to our knees * Hold you at our gun point you can feel our degrees * Come together * Right now * Over me * (guitar sounds: vam vum vum vam voom voom vam voom voom vam vum) * We roller coaster * We got early warning * We got scaners systems * We are mojo killers * We say One and One and One is three * Got to be cloacked because were so hard to see * Come together * Right now * Over me. Omega Prime Conv. Sept. 20th, 2002: Omega Prime: (10:38 PM) hey Omega Prime: (10:39 PM) I been hoping to see you Chuck: (10:39 PM) hello Omega Prime: (10:39 PM) Do you have a girlfriend that plays SMR? Chuck: (10:40 PM) There's a Creonti named Omega Prime in NG #3 who's at 0 exp. Is that you? No, I don't have a girlfriend who plays SMR. Omega Prime: (10:40 PM) There was this one girl that talked about you like you were some SM god. I forget her name, now. Omega Prime: (10:41 PM) I made that ship, but dont have time to play that game. I bairly have time to play the vet game. Omega Prime: (10:42 PM) Anyways, this chick was claming that you were single handedly responsible for the doom of Manton Games and the old SM. Chuck: (10:43 PM) Why not play in Newbies? You could join your alliance and do recruitting...OF in newbies is almost dead. That is a canard and no friend of mine would ever as that I had anything to do with the demise of Manton or SM. Omega Prime: (10:44 PM) Then she got into an insulting match with Nariis (who is one of the admins for SMR) and talking about her former relationsship with Evels Fett Omega Prime: (10:44 PM) I know that Omega Prime: (10:44 PM) but this woman seems to have a screw loose some where. Chuck: (10:45 PM) I didn't anything about that. Both Nariis & EF are but names to em. I was just barely into the game wihen both of them stopped playing SM. Omega Prime: (10:45 PM) I only get a few hours a week to play the vet game. and we are about dead there too Omega Prime: (10:46 PM) That is what I told Nariis. She wanted to talk to me about this girl, hoping I would know her. But she must have been using a diffrent name recently. Chuck: (10:46 PM) Well, you can recruit new blood in newbies............ Is it ture that most of the vet players are more or less inacitve? Chuck: (10:47 PM) What name or names did this girl use? Omega Prime: (10:47 PM) We got 8 people in OF in Vet and HoA has taken control from TF. Omega Prime: (10:48 PM) let me see if I got that file on hand and I'll send it to you. Chuck: (10:50 PM) ok When did Nariis want to talk to you and did she really want to talk to you about me? Omega Prime: (10:50 PM) Sep 13 Omega Prime: (10:50 PM) yea Omega Prime: (10:50 PM) thought you might know this girl...Space Cadet Sarah Chuck: (10:51 PM) What did she want to know about me? I've had nothing to do with Nariis or this Space Cadet Sarah either. Omega Prime: (10:51 PM) Sarah (344) Date: 9/13/2002 10:50:08 PM the FAQ's. You know, you aren't even fit to hold a candle to crector. He destroyed single handedly Space Merchant, leading to SM's replacement by the much superior SMR. You should be thankful to him for destroying SM. Not immensity of his achievement. How many games have you destroyed? Yours, hstrynrd. she'd like to join the help desk and get maps. Omega Prime: (10:52 PM) Sarah (344) Date: 9/13/2002 11:41:06 PM historian, Space Acess and Pink Bunny. Why do you ask? Omega Prime: (10:54 PM) Sarah (344) Date: 9/12/2002 1:56:23 AM again, anyone who would stoop to be the live-in girlfriend of Elvis Fett is utterly pathetic. 10:58:16 PM girlfriend? Omega Prime: (10:55 PM) this person must have played the old SM but stoped befoer EF quit playing two years ago. Omega Prime: (10:57 PM) Her account was disabled and if she logs in under another she wil get her IP taged as a multiaccount. Chuck: (10:58 PM) Interesting. I knew from reading the WB that EF & Nariis were in an ill-fated alliance called the 500k Club, but other than that I knew nothing of their relationship.....Never heard anything until tonight about their being lovers or anything like that. Omega Prime: (10:58 PM) married for a short time. Omega Prime: (10:59 PM) Anarchos (from my town - Akron OH) went down to FL work on Nariis' PC a few weeks back. Omega Prime: (11:00 PM) but you have no clue who this other girl could be? Omega Prime: (11:00 PM) She knows you. Chuck: (11:00 PM) Why isn't Anarchos in OF anymore? No clue at all. Why do you think that she knows me? Omega Prime: (11:02 PM) Anarchos like to be independent. I'll tell Nariis that you were not even indirectly involved with girl and have no clue who she may be. Omega Prime: (11:02 PM) Nariis thought she may have been your GF or something. Chuck: (11:03 PM) Why would Nariis think that & why wouldn''t she ask me abiut it? Omega Prime: (11:04 PM) Seems to me this girl, if it is a girl, is not very smart, hates EF with a passion and has some kind of hero worship on you. Omega Prime: (11:04 PM) Nariis was up set and I told her that I know you and would talk to you for her. Omega Prime: (11:05 PM) better to have level heads than get irate Chuck: (11:05 PM) Sounds like from what you've related, that she hates Nariis. What do you know/think about this Nariis? In the past, she was just a name to me. Omega Prime: (11:07 PM) She is a nice girl. One of the old vets, Thorfin something or other is moving in with here. She had a major crush on Anarchos for the last year or so. and some other personal stuff. I know here about as well as I know you I guess. Omega Prime: (11:08 PM) I trust her to be honest with me. Same as I do you. Omega Prime: (11:09 PM) Me being the Champian of the SM down troden I get this some times Omega Prime: (11:09 PM) Congradulations, you have been around long enough to become part of somebodys shady sceams. Chuck: (11:10 PM) Thank you. If you want OF to make a comeback down the road, it would seem the better course to spend what time you have in newbies and try recruiting. Omega Prime: (11:10 PM) I'm doing this tonight to protect you as much as to hepl her. Chuck: (11:10 PM) Hunter doesn't seem to have done any recruiting ant all and OF in newbies seems kind of inactive. Chuck: (11:10 PM) Thank you. Omega Prime: (11:10 PM) yea. to both Omega Prime: (11:11 PM) I guess I could try and dosomething in the newbie game Omega Prime: (11:11 PM) I'll Join OF but I wont play enough to be in control Omega Prime: (11:12 PM) the next problem is contacting Nariss withthe news, or lack there of, from you. Omega Prime: (11:13 PM) she is on at odd times and is hard to catch Chuck: (11:14 PM) You don't know how to contact her yourself? Omega Prime: (11:14 PM) when ever I see here in MIRC Chuck: (11:14 PM) Don't you have her email address or can't you contact her in-game? Omega Prime: (11:15 PM) Oh yea...I could e-mail her. Forgot about that Omega Prime: (11:15 PM) been so long sence I checked my e-mail... I'll do that here in a few minuets. Omega Prime: (11:17 PM) if you dont mind, what we talked about tonight should be confidential. Chuck: (11:17 PM) Of course. Omega Prime: (11:18 PM) thanks Chuck: (11:19 PM) Icedude was talking about the idea of him and perhaps one or two others joining the TM. Omega Prime: (11:20 PM) here is what I'm sending: I talk to Chuck Recter about the matter of your Psycho Sara and he has no clue as to who she is or why she said what she did. Omega Prime: (11:20 PM) Hey if Icedude wants to that's cool Chuck: (11:21 PM) Thanks. How well do you know a player named Myst? Omega Prime: (11:21 PM) I did spell your last name properly? Omega Prime: (11:21 PM) if it is the same player from the old SM, he's a good player but he like to be incontrol Chuck: (11:22 PM) spelled Rector Omega Prime: (11:22 PM) sent Chuck: (11:23 PM) Myst made a NAP between our 2 alliances, then he killed me today and his mate Anarchos killed one of my members today as well. All without any notification that the NAP was over with. Omega Prime: (11:23 PM) he's kinda young, and if he don't like what is Myst: going on he will up and leave and take people with him. Omega Prime: (11:24 PM) That could be him Omega Prime: (11:24 PM) I He once stabed me in the back too...once. Chuck: (11:26 PM) No wonder why his DarkShade alliance proved unable to take on HoA..... Omega Prime: (11:27 PM) he knows how to play and when he dose something he should know the consiquenses. He's played for a about 3 years. Chuck: (11:28 PM) btw, you knew that TF has completely disintegrated and that a bunch of members formed a new HoA? Omega Prime: (11:28 PM) yes. in Vet game Omega Prime: (11:29 PM) I sent Cowboy my old HoA story I made for MM Omega Prime: (11:29 PM) BoH just couldent keep his hands clean. Omega Prime: (11:30 PM) Warlock/Betrayer of Hope is your version of my enemy Elvis Fett. Omega Prime: (11:31 PM) An ass on a power trip Chuck: (11:33 PM) What was your old HoA story? Omega Prime: (11:34 PM) it paralels my OF story. Omega Prime: (11:34 PM) its kinda long Omega Prime: (11:34 PM) A voice from the four horns of the golden alter which is before God said to the angel which had the trumpit, "Lose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates." And the four angels were loosed, which were prepaired for to slay the third part of man. And I heared a noise, as it were a noise of thinder, one of the four beasts saying "Come and see." And behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering and to conquer (Pestilence). I heared the second beast say, "Come and see." And there went out another horse that war red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword (War). I heared the third beast say, "Come and see." And I beheld and low a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of ballances in his hand (Famine). And I heard a voice in the midsts of the four beasts say, "A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barly for a penny, and see thow hurt not the oil and the wine." I heared the voice of the fourth beast say, "Come and see." And I lookedand behold a pail horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And the number of the army of horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heared the number of them. And power was givin unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sward, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth. *****The Horsemen of the Appocolips***** Omega Prime: (11:36 PM) Heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and he that sat up on him was called Faithfull and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He is the Wrath of God. And he spoke, saying "I am the Omega, the last of all things." And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. Saying, "We are the Alpha and the Omega, the fisrt and the last, the begining and the ending, which is, which was, and which is yet to come, by the power of the Almighty." *****Omega Prime & The Omega Factor***** Omega Prime: (11:40 PM) see how they go together? Omega Prime: (11:41 PM) The Armies of Hell and the Armies of Heaven both sent by God to destroy all that is. Chuck: (11:45 PM) WOW. Must have taken a lot of time/effort to come up with that. Omega Prime: (11:46 PM) actually I was inspired to wright both after I read a few passages int the Book of Revelations from the Bible. Omega Prime: (11:46 PM) I took the passages and rrewrote them to better fit the game. Omega Prime: (11:47 PM) I have a few others too. let me send you the whole file of them. Omega Prime: (11:50 PM) or maybe I could e-mail it to you Chuck: (11:51 PM) Email would be best, I think. Omega Prime: (11:51 PM) it is a bit big for ICQ Chuck: (11:52 PM) yes Omega Prime: (11:56 PM) sent Chuck: (11:56 PM) thanks. Omega Prime: (11:57 PM) I used to have more than that but had to reformat my HD once and lost them Chuck: (12:04 AM) Take it that you dind't stor them in your web-based email or have paper copies? Omega Prime: (12:04 AM) I have a flopy copy of the HoA and OF onces, but the others were not important Omega Prime: (12:08 AM) however I did send Icedude a copy of thme all so that somebody else in OF would have them just incase... Chuck: (12:08 AM) What do you think of the new HoA? Omega Prime: (12:09 AM) it is not the same with out Rex, MM and Cat. But most of the old members are there and alot of the TF are there so it should do well. PresBMK Conv Sept. 24th, 2002: > CharlesRector: I've noticed that there are 2 game > directories that have sprung up since I did the site > registering for Yap 11/2 years ago. Would it be ok > with you if I were to register Yap with them? > AnarchyOfCaz: Of course > AnarchyOfCaz: speaking of which... > AnarchyOfCaz: I'm setting up a GW development > website.. > AnarchyOfCaz: And I'd like to invite you to be a part > of it > CharlesRector: In what way? I'm not a programmer or > anything like that. > AnarchyOfCaz: As an observer > CharlesRector: ok > AnarchyOfCaz: You'd be able to put in some input if > you wanted as well > AnarchyOfCaz: And when time comes, I'd probably invite > you to be a part of the alpha test team or something > CharlesRector: ok...I'd suggest giving it a different > name from Quest for Yap such as jsut calling it Ground > Wars. > AnarchyOfCaz: well if you'll just give me a username > and password you want for the site, an email address > that you dont mind being public, and what you want me > to post your real name as > AnarchyOfCaz: I like keeping the quest for yap. > CharlesRector: Will this be a major download on > Infantry's scale? > AnarchyOfCaz: Prob not > AnarchyOfCaz: I plan on making portions optional.. > AnarchyOfCaz: For example, I'll be working with a > musician friend of mine to make a full soundtrack for > the game. But that wont be available as a normal > download. > AnarchyOfCaz: Right now, at this stage of development, > the game is under 300k when it's zipped > CharlesRector: login: hftrex password: trexhf > CharlesRector: About how soon will it be ready? > Around May, 2003? > AnarchyOfCaz: um > AnarchyOfCaz: Probably later than that > AnarchyOfCaz: I really dont want to say > AnarchyOfCaz: I havent yet decided at what point I'll > release it.. > CharlesRector: ok...understood. > AnarchyOfCaz: I dont know if I'll release it as soon > as all planned features are implemented, or if I'll > wait until its a "perfect" game. > AnarchyOfCaz: So, that really matters I guess. :) > AnarchyOfCaz: I also dont know how much time I'll have > to work. Or what roadblocks we'll hit. > AnarchyOfCaz: Haven't really done this before, so I > dont know how to estimate timeframe. > CharlesRector: I have ahd some trouble getting some > downloads to work. I couldn't ever get Yahoo Instant > Messenger to work, for instnace. > CharlesRector: I had a Hell of a time getting Diaspora > to work and after I figured it out, the game ceased to > exist just a few months later. > AnarchyOfCaz: I never got Diaspora to run actually lol > AnarchyOfCaz: well actually a Diaspora clone > AnarchyOfCaz: After it "ceased to exist" > CharlesRector: like Xiaspora or Rillaspora? > AnarchyOfCaz: Xiaspora > AnarchyOfCaz: What email do you want me to put with > your account for the site? > CharlesRector: hftrex@graffiti.net > CharlesRector: Too mmuch spam headed to the > crector@clan-forsaken.com addy. > AnarchyOfCaz: heh yeah > AnarchyOfCaz: well www.yapquest.com/gw/ if you want to > check it out sometime > AnarchyOfCaz: I've been working on the site yesterday > and today > AnarchyOfCaz: Not a whole lot there > AnarchyOfCaz: (yet) > CharlesRector: What should I use as my real name for > this project? crector? > AnarchyOfCaz: I just threw in Charles Rector > CharlesRector: ok...that'll work > AnarchyOfCaz: If you want me to change it I will > AnarchyOfCaz: Ok > AnarchyOfCaz: I know some people dont want their full > name published for whatever reason.. > AnarchyOfCaz: Personally I could care less who knows > my name > CharlesRector: yes > CharlesRector: What do your teachers think of your > projects? Or have you never told them? > AnarchyOfCaz: um > AnarchyOfCaz: they dont really know I suppose ICQ Conv./SMR Forum PM's from early March, 2003: March 3rd, 2003: Omega Prime: (12:07 AM) want to see some thing new? Omega Prime: (12:08 AM) From: Omega Prime To: Elvis Fett Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:43 am Subject: vets Hey, I may not be the games best killer, but I know how it works. I was there with you in the first vet game when SM split the vets from the Newbies. Never played a SM newbie game, ever. Just like you. I dont clame to be a master of the game. Just good at it. And I call the relations trading system, trading for dummies because I can sit here and trade while reading a book and eating dinner. I never said you weren't good, either. I just think that you have an over inflated ego. Of all the thousands of SM & SMR players, you are the only one that I have never liked and the only one that I never will. *****Omega Prime***** Omega Prime: (12:10 AM) From: Elvis Fett To: Omega Prime Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2003 6:59 am Subject: Re: vets You started this petty arguement, not me. Nobody asked you to run your mouth. You did that of your own free will. It is players like you that THINK I have an ego that are the problem. If you do not think you are the problem then ask yourself this, who is the pathetic person holding a stupid grudge for THREE years. Three years you have not even heard a word from me. Yet the first chance you got you felt the need to start throwing those lame *** ego and no life comments. Grow up. Unless it is an apology DO NOT message me again. Otherwise I will report it as harassment to the board moderators. Sunday, September 28, 2003
D2 Patch 1.10 delayed at least 2-3 weeks. Illegal Infantry URL: http://hyper.webdetailing.com/down/infantry.zip Thread URL: http://www.clan-forsaken.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12318 Just Concluded Conv with Naismith: QwertyMIDX: What would be a good ship for me to aim for? CharlesRector: IST QwertyMIDX: aren't they slow? CharlesRector: 7 turns per hour QwertyMIDX: oh QwertyMIDX: that's pretty good CharlesRector: Do you still have your NMV? QwertyMIDX: Yeah CharlesRector: Stay in it until you get podded....those are pretty decent trading ships. QwertyMIDX: yeah QwertyMIDX: It's fast, and I bought max cargo holds CharlesRector: good QwertyMIDX: Should I just sell this laser? QwertyMIDX: I doubt it will help me if someone deciedes to kill me CharlesRector: keep it as long as you have max holds. QwertyMIDX: ok QwertyMIDX: anything else I should do before I save up turns for for a trading spree? CharlesRector: no...do you have max shields and armor? QwertyMIDX: nope CharlesRector: when you get the money for that, go directly to HQ before trading some more. QwertyMIDX: ok QwertyMIDX: thanks Jan. 30th, 2003 forwarded email from Omega Prime: --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: To: Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:08:02 -0600 Hi Omega, I have started to use my mcc@manton.com mail again. You can send mail here. I am planning to bring up SM, maybe only for a couple short games, we will see how much time I can devote. Network is also a problem. Machines we have plenty. I don't want to do anything half-assed. Jonathan is busy trying to get some income here so he can't do it now. I am not sure what mails you sent to Jonathan. Could you please send them to me. I am vaguely remembering your alias from the old SM. Tell me what you think about this. I don't want to sound too committal. I'd better have low expectations and exceed them than the other way around. Cheers Marta Feb. 1st, 2003 Forwarded E-Mail From Omega Prime: --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jonathan Manton" To: Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:43:10 -0600 Subject: RE: SM vs SMR By the way - Azool, Spock and I have already exchanged some messages, and we have agreed that there won't be any head-to-head competition. It wouldn't be fair to them, and anyway, that's not where my life is right now. We have also agreed that the SMR webboard will be the location to discuss SM games, as they happen (I see the occasional semi-wars type games happening here, not games that are open all the time in SM). So the community would remain cohesive. Thanks for your email, Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: omegaprime1@juno.com [mailto:omegaprime1@juno.com] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:58 AM To: mantonj@locusinfosys.com Subject: SM vs SMR I have played both games. I have even sent e-mail to both of you in previous times. I hope you remember me. I have read the entire web board posting. I hope that you and Spock can come to a working arrangement, I would like to see the original Space Merchant return, even if it is just for an occasional weekend game. I would not like to see Space Merchant and Space Merchant Realms try to compete. I fear that a head to head competition would hurt both games. I wish both Mr. Spock and Mr Manton good luck, we the players need it. http://omegafactor.topcities.com/ *****Omega Prime***** |