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Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Apr 2015, 20:39
Replies: 131
Views: 18,581
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Dec 2014, 20:53
Replies: 337
Views: 52,238
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Oct 2011, 05:57
Replies: 31
Views: 6,459
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 44 Round Name

Voted for the best round name ever. I feel like such a winner!
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Aug 2010, 14:43
Replies: 69
Views: 12,824
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance Points System

Those numbers, while interesting, aren't truly valuable. We simply don't know what the baseline is. If PA team were to release the data, we could start talking about what effect outliers would have...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jul 2010, 14:07
Replies: 50
Views: 33,634
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 38 round name

Next round I'm submitting "Thirty-Nine".
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jul 2010, 12:19
Replies: 40
Views: 13,387
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jul 2010, 08:54
Replies: 98
Views: 41,652
Posted By Jester
Re: Hi from a Jagex fansite

Slippery slope! Slippery slope!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jul 2010, 08:53
Replies: 50
Views: 33,634
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 38 round name

What a fantastic burn! I'm looking forward to seeing your suggestions. Why don't you post them in this thread for everyone to ridicule?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Jul 2010, 15:12
Replies: 98
Views: 41,652
Posted By Jester
Re: Hi from a Jagex fansite

Haha, not likely!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Jul 2010, 11:14
Replies: 98
Views: 41,652
Posted By Jester
Re: Hi from a Jagex fansite

The reason we're a bit jaded has been explained already, but I'd be interested to know if you can tell us anything about how Jagex usually treats properties it acquires. Especially if there are any...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Jul 2010, 13:19
Replies: 135
Views: 41,146
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 38 predictions

1. Ascendancy
2. Who cares about any alliance but Ascendancy?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Jul 2010, 16:51
Replies: 188
Views: 111,385
Posted By Jester
Re: If I could make three changes to Planetarion, they'd be .....

Mine's easy:

1) No alliance member limit, all members counting. (Alternatively, make it something ludicrous like 2000 that we know only madmen will hit.)

Alternatively, here's the long...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 May 2010, 07:42
Replies: 18
Views: 3,862
Posted By Jester
Re: New beginners manual & video

Because you take pride in what you create?

"Lol, it's free" is a terrible excuse for mediocrity :(
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 May 2010, 15:18
Replies: 46
Views: 25,490
Posted By Jester
Re: eXilition

exiiition for life!
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 20:35
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Re: Asc/THINLYVEILEDTHREAT

hahahhahahahahhahahahahahahaha.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 19:46
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Re: Asc/THINLYVEILEDTHREAT

Incompetence win :D
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 19:46
Replies: 22
Views: 14,694
Posted By Jester
Re: Planetarion, or is it Donatearion?

Donations and farming are healthy for the game, the negative reaction to them have contributed to the shrinking community. Shut up, you're ruining the game.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 19:24
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 18:51
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Re: Asc/THINLYVEILEDTHREAT

I said this to JBG simply because us winning again has little value (what more can we prove?), but a very tangible cost; If Ascendancy keeps winning every round this game is going to be very, very...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 18:37
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Re: Asc/THINLYVEILEDTHREAT

If you can't figure out who the sucker in the room is within 10 minutes, it's you.

I had very little to do with the planning or execution of this plan, so I'm not going to defend it. I just find...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 18:10
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Re: Asc/THINLYVEILEDTHREAT

This is a war game. Playing the game in ways people don't expect is fun. It's more fun because I'm on the side having the fun. I'm sure everyone else is having a shit time because we've done...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 May 2010, 18:03
Replies: 328
Views: 108,288
Posted By Jester
Re: Asc/THINLYVEILEDTHREAT

Knowing us, we'll outlast your goldfish memories (again).

Remember when we were nothing but an XP alliance? Or just a bunch of planet rank whores? Or when we won every ****ing round we played?
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 Feb 2008, 14:55
Replies: 48
Views: 4,018
Posted By Jester
Re: Politics -> Planet Status

Except you can't choose. I wouldn't mind if galaxies were private, in that case I could invite my enemy to my private galaxy. But this way my enemy can exile in at any time.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 5 Feb 2008, 12:43
Replies: 126
Views: 11,856
Posted By Jester
Re: You're Ruining It For Everyone!

Actually by not reading the thread you missed how Achi had to point out (multiple times) that it's sarcasm, and that we're making fun of all the people who think we're ruining the game.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Feb 2008, 12:39
Replies: 40
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Re: Structure Killers

Welcome to Planetarion, a war game.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 5 Feb 2008, 07:03
Replies: 126
Views: 11,856
Posted By Jester
Re: You're Ruining It For Everyone!

This many (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3137885&postcount=46).

PS. I'm with SteinMetz, I think it's really cool that this round has an added dimension.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Feb 2008, 21:47
Replies: 126
Views: 11,856
Posted By Jester
Re: You're Ruining It For Everyone!

Let's not get distracted from the real point here; How you are ruining Planetarion for everybody else.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Feb 2008, 21:35
Replies: 126
Views: 11,856
Posted By Jester
Re: You're Ruining It For Everyone!

You aren't too familiar with irony (http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Unfair_Benefit), are you?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Feb 2008, 15:16
Replies: 76
Views: 16,875
Posted By Jester
Re: Prelaunch and multi tick battles

The first tick of combat was exciting. The second and third were dull as sticks. If I was staying up to see a combat tick, I'd go to bed after the first and second. If I was interested in knowing...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 1 Feb 2008, 10:52
Replies: 55
Views: 9,144
Posted By Jester
Re: F A T

In the interest of full disclosure*:

#ascendancy has 90 access records. One of these is Munin (our IRC bot), and at least 17 of these are people that don't play PA anymore, or just aren't playing...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 31 Jan 2008, 14:46
Replies: 11
Views: 2,795
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance for a new player?

We try to avoid letting prejudice influence our recruiting policy. Being shit will eventually weed you out, one way or another.

It hasn't failed so far.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 Jan 2008, 14:22
Replies: 76
Views: 16,875
Posted By Jester
Forum: Alliance Discussions 31 Jan 2008, 14:21
Replies: 11
Views: 2,795
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance for a new player?

I'd sponsor you. Forum PM if you're actually interested etc.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 Jan 2008, 15:28
Replies: 45
Views: 6,879
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Jan 2008, 13:45
Replies: 55
Views: 6,183
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Dec 2007, 19:32
Replies: 32
Views: 3,940
Posted By Jester
Re: The Difference between the good and the bad

I think this means that Ascendancy has finally gotten over its reputation as an XP alliance...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Dec 2007, 22:41
Replies: 82
Views: 10,963
Posted By Jester
Re: More slander please?

What, like porting your channel for the amusement of others?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 12 Nov 2007, 22:16
Replies: 97
Views: 12,110
Posted By Jester
Re: ToP 3 Most Hated Alliances

When confronted with the poll I folded and told the truth.

Voted Ascendancy for great villainy.


I hate* you.

*by which I mean love.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 12 Nov 2007, 17:38
Replies: 97
Views: 12,110
Posted By Jester
Re: ToP 3 Most Hated Alliances

Personally I find it quite amusing. I guess my definition of hate is 'alliance that I can consistently laugh at and mock without effort.'
Forum: Alliance Discussions 12 Nov 2007, 16:48
Replies: 97
Views: 12,110
Posted By Jester
Re: ToP 3 Most Hated Alliances

1. FAnG
Proud to be FAnG.

2. Angels
See above.

3. Jenova
See above.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 6 Nov 2007, 19:38
Replies: 52
Views: 8,992
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 24 "stats"

Multiple targeting is stupid because it has no depth.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 25 Oct 2007, 14:32
Replies: 30
Views: 5,512
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance rumours

But then his post doesn't make any sense :confused:
Forum: Alliance Discussions 25 Oct 2007, 09:41
Replies: 30
Views: 5,512
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance rumours

We've never had DCs, let alone active DCs.

Also backing up what JBG said.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 24 Oct 2007, 21:29
Replies: 30
Views: 5,512
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance rumours

I really dislike the whole "seriously" thing. I understand the excuse, but really it comes down to whether you put in the effort and get the results or not. If you don't, you suck.

Last round...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 24 Oct 2007, 21:08
Replies: 32
Views: 4,705
Posted By Jester
Re: Who we were

Yeah, my planet got deleted for inactivity this round too. Sux. PAteam should disable that 'feature'.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 24 Oct 2007, 21:05
Replies: 30
Views: 5,512
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance rumours

Remember when someone invited Crusie into the private channel and you got so upset that you left the alliance?

That was funny.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 27 Sep 2007, 16:33
Replies: 10
Views: 3,072
Posted By Jester
Re: How long do we have to wait?

To clarify this, what happened was basically that being unable to play with >70 members, most people went and joined other alliances. Some of these people joined EXilition. I hear they all bitterly...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Aug 2007, 12:32
Replies: 32
Views: 9,234
Posted By Jester
Re: Fix the roiding to be independant of user id

You'd think more of the PA code was like this, but it's not :D
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Aug 2007, 12:12
Replies: 50
Views: 8,334
Posted By Jester
Re: The open source idea

Pipe. Dream.

Keep in mind that porting it to PHP would require an effort proportional to the amount of effort it took to write the current codebase.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Aug 2007, 11:20
Replies: 32
Views: 9,234
Posted By Jester
Re: Fix the roiding to be independant of user id

Cin would know more than Remy about this, but I still think energy spent on this would have been better than some of the features we've seen added lately.

:support:
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Aug 2007, 08:56
Replies: 9
Views: 3,030
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 23 changes?

That actually makes sense. The relative gain to the new alliance is lower, thus the incentive to invest resources in the new planet is lower.

That said, it's still a bunch of baloney.


This,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Aug 2007, 09:50
Replies: 45
Views: 7,168
Posted By Jester
Re: New productionsystem makes it easier to stockpile resources.

The whole 'infinitely delayed' order seems hilariously realistic to me. Mythical man month anyone?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 24 Aug 2007, 07:24
Replies: 190
Views: 23,861
Posted By Jester
Re: Favorite HC

Probably because he wasn't directing those fleets :rolleyes:
Forum: Alliance Discussions 22 Aug 2007, 10:31
Replies: 190
Views: 23,861
Posted By Jester
Re: Favorite HC

My favorite HC is probably Barrow. I've never worked in the same alliance as him, but I've worked together with him several times. Both as an officer as an HC, I've disliked working together with...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Aug 2007, 14:28
Replies: 160
Views: 22,652
Posted By Jester
Re: round 23 predictions

And while they are playing under the banner of the 'undefeated' and 'undefeatable' exilition, the people in exilition are not a group that has played together before. It's fallacious to assume that...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Aug 2007, 13:30
Replies: 160
Views: 22,652
Posted By Jester
Re: round 23 predictions

That's a fantastically bad argument. It's a bit like saying EXilition could never have won round 13, because they hadn't proven that they knew how to fight a proper war against an alliance like 1up.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Aug 2007, 13:06
Replies: 160
Views: 22,652
Posted By Jester
Re: round 23 predictions

Rumors of our demise are greatly* exaggerated.

* slightly

Edit: oh yeah, predictions:

1) EXilition
2-10) A bunch of whining maggots.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Aug 2007, 14:36
Replies: 63
Views: 12,087
Posted By Jester
Re: Jenova: As its over, how many planets?

Hi.

I was one of those support planets*. I spent the entire round initiating roids for the universe. That's was my inactivity. If you doubt this, ask the MHs, they were aware and monitoring my...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 15 Aug 2007, 14:50
Replies: 78
Views: 11,861
Posted By Jester
Forum: Strategic Discussions 15 Aug 2007, 11:28
Replies: 251
Views: 52,750
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 23 Ship Stats

It's not a trivial fix, and it's something that really shouldn't be fixed. If you're worried about it, adjust Phoenix/Phantom emp res/armor so that they don't flak eachother ridiculously.

The...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Aug 2007, 15:23
Replies: 78
Views: 11,861
Posted By Jester
Re: Whats makes a good alliance HC ?

Lead by example and delegate the rest. That is all.

A good HC does as they expect of members and delegates enough that they're not left with too much to do.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Aug 2007, 21:53
Replies: 23
Views: 4,200
Posted By Jester
Re: MZ and his hilarious round 22

Oh man. When you said you miscalced your last prod, I thought it was just a normal last day prod. That's hilariously awful, well done.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 11 Aug 2007, 21:42
Replies: 20
Views: 5,460
Posted By Jester
Re: Who we were

I just dislike the "Ascendancy = no defense" meme.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 11 Aug 2007, 14:58
Replies: 20
Views: 5,460
Posted By Jester
Re: Who we were

You are: The lying ways of the aryan race (12:1:10) Ter (Clear)
Size: 327 1500
Value: 224,666 2419
Score: 811,106 1615
XP: 9,774 880


I was never warned for my r/p ;)

I didn't have...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 Aug 2007, 10:37
Replies: 97
Views: 16,174
Posted By Jester
Re: r22 Prediction

It was hard to single out any single person that predicted Ascendancy ending highly ranked, but here's to you and your shoe eating antics.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Aug 2007, 15:45
Replies: 9
Views: 2,311
Posted By Jester
Re: Fleetscan should be moved to last research again.

I concur! Faking is way too fun to ruin like this.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 13:01
Replies: 30
Views: 3,616
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Aug 2007, 14:20
Replies: 85
Views: 11,569
Posted By Jester
Re: R23: Cluster ETAs

The cluster ETA advantage has given me nothing but fun, even when it's been fun caused by low ETA incoming.

I agree with the statement earlier in this thread that the galaxy and cluster setup...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 3 Aug 2007, 21:48
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

Siege wars in PA are not really about capping the roids. It's more about grinding morale. Lower morale, means lower member activity, which means less enemy fleets.

This whole topic is a fallacy,...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 3 Aug 2007, 17:51
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

Despite dropping names, I was not speaking to their individual habits at all.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 3 Aug 2007, 06:10
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

I'm still waiting for your reply to my post.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Aug 2007, 06:09
Replies: 4
Views: 2,195
Posted By Jester
Re: bash limit

Yes, it most definitely is.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Aug 2007, 20:05
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

Apologies in advance for this slightly off-topic post, but since this forum has a couple of PAWiki readers/editors, I figured it's better to answer here than in PM.

The main page is protected, but...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Aug 2007, 19:18
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

Yeah, I saw I'd somehow misread and deleted my post...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Aug 2007, 18:27
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

I base it on discussions with the best players I've known (Rob, Sid, JBG), and on experience of being on both the receiving and giving end of these sorts of attacks.

In my round 21 galaxy, which...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Aug 2007, 11:33
Replies: 9
Views: 5,724
Posted By Jester
Re: get rid of hct researches

The real question here is "why is this an issue?"

The original poster said:

I'm with you so far.


But how did you jump from "we don't need 10k HCT" to "HCT shouldn't be research?"
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Aug 2007, 09:45
Replies: 5
Views: 4,136
Posted By Jester
Re: Suspending proven cheaters indefinatly

What exactly do you mean by 'proven cheaters'?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Aug 2007, 07:53
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

You are, of course, correct. But there's a clear difference between 'winning this' and 'theoretically optimal behavior which would have given the apriori maximized probability of winning the round'....
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Aug 2007, 13:51
Replies: 22
Views: 3,109
Posted By Jester
Re: In regars to beeing attacked in vacmode

That page doesn't tell me what bugs have been reported previously...


Much, much better :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Aug 2007, 07:30
Replies: 22
Views: 3,109
Posted By Jester
Re: In regars to beeing attacked in vacmode

Speaking of bugs, how come there isn't a way to report them anymore? There used to be a bugs forum for this...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 1 Aug 2007, 07:29
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

Comparing current alliances to 'optimal' alliance behavior is pretty ludicrous.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Aug 2007, 07:26
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

The counted score rule is OK. It's not terribly bad, and it does have some good side effects. The bad is that it becomes more difficult to swing leads by recruiting, essentially the merit of a player...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 21:48
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

No matter what the limit is, I can live with anything but that. The 'members under each alliance average score' thing is daft.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 20:14
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

Your alliance maybe, mine is tighter than an 8 year old's hoo-haa.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 14:27
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

*sigh* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number)

Edit: I think I need to expound. I'm not saying that the PA community is hitting Dunbar's number. I'm saying that alliances are societies, and...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 14:01
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

Personally I think they prefer smaller alliances, and therefore don't want to be "forced" to accept more members under the assumption that they must recruit to the limit to be competitive.

Or...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 13:57
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

This isn't parsing for me.


Likewise, I think that you and the other whining gits should let go of the Obiora case and just accept the fact that the world needs violent cops :rolleyes:
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 13:36
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

Tech is miles better, but I subscribe to Rob's argument that alliances over a certain size become unmanageable by societal nature.

This is one of the reasons I think that alliances should be...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 12:54
Replies: 22
Views: 3,109
Posted By Jester
Re: In regars to beeing attacked in vacmode

They* do. Really, I'm just trying to say that there will be whining either way, so it's a pointless discussion.

*The idiots.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 12:50
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

Given that 'fun' is entirely subjective, how are you to judge what I find to be fun?

Incidentally, I don't need 149 other people in my alliance to have fun, I just need the right 10-20 people....
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 11:31
Replies: 22
Views: 3,109
Posted By Jester
Re: In regars to beeing attacked in vacmode

Assume 10 days left, the minimum that you can get a full vacation into.

Furthermore, assume that multiple waves are being lined up, let's say that predictions yield at least 4 of these waves...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 10:35
Replies: 22
Views: 3,109
Posted By Jester
Re: In regars to beeing attacked in vacmode

Aside from the obvious?

If a prelaunched attack will cause more damage than 72 ticks without resource income and attack benefits*, then go into vacation mode.

Rationally, this won't often be...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 10:31
Replies: 57
Views: 5,675
Posted By Jester
Re: Attack Times

6 years ago, in round 4, Cray told me that CELL rarely launched before 6:55 CEST*.

In round 3, however, you had to be insane not to launch just before the game went down for burp tick, as you got...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 10:24
Replies: 22
Views: 3,109
Posted By Jester
Re: In regars to beeing attacked in vacmode

Yeah, this came up a few rounds ago, and it's your responsibility to check for prelaunch before you go into vacation mode. A bit shit, but the alternative wouldn't be that much better.

The least...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 10:19
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round alliance limits

How about you dig up an old post and link to it at least?

I think the alliance limit should be higher than any current alliance's member count, as to allow for growth, but at the same time low...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2007, 07:19
Replies: 58
Views: 5,300
Posted By Jester
Next round alliance limits

With all the round 23 threads going around, I thought I'd kick start this discussion.

It really should be at least 150 so my inactive ass warrants a spot in the Ascendancy tag next round.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jul 2007, 13:03
Replies: 13
Views: 4,333
Posted By Jester
Re: Why do people act sad when they loose ships/roids?

I like those people. They make me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Jul 2007, 10:02
Replies: 15
Views: 3,169
Posted By Jester
Re: Legion???

I thought everyone knew the legion people were playing as a BG (ish) in Jenova?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jul 2007, 20:19
Replies: 142
Views: 15,056
Posted By Jester
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

I have vague recollections of Kileman actually sending defense. But no, it's not really that different in my opinion. Hence why I think it should be legalized.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jul 2007, 17:46
Replies: 142
Views: 15,056
Posted By Jester
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

"First time after the donation limitations and farming legislation were put in place."

OH WAIT MINE ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE.

I have no idea what point I'm arguing though, I didn't actually read...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jul 2007, 06:19
Replies: 164
Views: 20,032
Posted By Jester
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

No. You see the Multihunters don't actually set precedent. They enforce the rules, and if they **** up it doesn't affect later cases. There is no such thing as precedence when it comes to the MHs.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 20:22
Replies: 164
Views: 20,032
Posted By Jester
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

One of what people I mentioned where?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:54
Replies: 164
Views: 20,032
Posted By Jester
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

Alki is in a galaxy with 9 people from Asc/Desc?!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:51
Replies: 164
Views: 20,032
Posted By Jester
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

Laze was never a multihunter or PAteam. He provided a paid hosting service which included tools that he had coded. I really don't see how the situation is in any way comparable.

But when JBG was...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 11:23
Replies: 244
Views: 24,472
Posted By Jester
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

The problem is that intent means nothing. The phrasing and interpretation are the only things that matter. Ships being used were never part of the phrasing, and now the new MHs are reinterpreting the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 15 Jul 2007, 08:44
Replies: 54
Views: 6,997
Posted By Jester
Re: Large Alliances ruin PA for everybody else

This is fact. People want to be involved in the top level of the game, at least in some small part. F-Crew, despite offering many other things, will never (or at least have never) offered...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 18:16
Replies: 45
Views: 7,168
Posted By Jester
Re: New productionsystem makes it easier to stockpile resources.

Higher payback for landing on defense (for example by lowering damage relative to attacking armor) or change the combat engine to have secondary targets again.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 14:20
Replies: 45
Views: 7,168
Posted By Jester
Re: New productionsystem makes it easier to stockpile resources.

That and build times lower than the maximum launch ETAs.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 14:18
Replies: 54
Views: 6,997
Posted By Jester
Re: Large Alliances ruin PA for everybody else

Having never been in a top alliance, what do you base this on?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 14:17
Replies: 54
Views: 6,997
Posted By Jester
Re: Large Alliances ruin PA for everybody else

No, it's like saying people who died from suicide are responsible for a lower population.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 11:22
Replies: 54
Views: 6,997
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 23:22
Replies: 54
Views: 6,997
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 14:42
Replies: 83
Views: 8,066
Posted By Jester
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

I never said anything about removing alliance rankings or hiding them until the end of the round :confused:
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 14:41
Replies: 45
Views: 7,168
Posted By Jester
Re: New productionsystem makes it easier to stockpile resources.

So you actually have to log in to PA every day and remember to spend or you start losing score? Even worse. It's better to solve this by giving incentives to own ships rather than resources, for...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 12:53
Replies: 45
Views: 7,168
Posted By Jester
Re: New productionsystem makes it easier to stockpile resources.

So it's ok for small planets to stockpile against each other, but not big ones? I don't get it.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 10:26
Replies: 83
Views: 8,066
Posted By Jester
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

I don't see that either option is in conflict with fluid alliance politics. I think you need to explain what you mean by this more explicitly. Could you give an example of what you mean?

Edit: I...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 09:59
Replies: 83
Views: 8,066
Posted By Jester
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

That becomes an issue of definition. Are we rewarding those who dominated the longest or those who ended at the top of the pile? In my opinion it's the latter, but the former has the advantage of...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 08:15
Replies: 83
Views: 8,066
Posted By Jester
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Here's an idea. Define the winning alliance as the alliance with most tagged people in the top N ranks. It'd even be possible to weight the ranks so that a better aggregate could be found. For...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 07:35
Replies: 54
Views: 6,997
Posted By Jester
Re: Large Alliances ruin PA for everybody else

Surely it's the alliance limit making the game inaccessible to new players, since they're prevented from joining worthwhile alliances?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jul 2007, 16:27
Replies: 87
Views: 7,841
Posted By Jester
Re: Make Multying Legal

Do you have any evidence towards this claim?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 16:05
Replies: 244
Views: 24,472
Posted By Jester
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

We're getting wildly off-topic again, but I don't think that's how the scan sharing feature works.

Anyway, we've successfully hid scanners in top alliance tags, with shared scans enabled. This...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 12:53
Replies: 244
Views: 24,472
Posted By Jester
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Not yet, #transcendancy is special. Eventually the feature will be taken beyond the test phase and all channels will have extended access, but currently the lack of a trust web makes it unfeasible. ...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 Jul 2007, 17:55
Replies: 49
Views: 6,106
Posted By Jester
Re: How many waves is enough?

Just how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 16:55
Replies: 34
Views: 3,968
Posted By Jester
Re: The Support Planet Rule

But perhaps the MHs do? You never know what those wacky guys will get up to next!
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 16:11
Replies: 34
Views: 3,968
Posted By Jester
Re: The Support Planet Rule

The retals were an aside, the main point was that defender's are favored by attrition due to salvage.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 15:40
Replies: 34
Views: 3,968
Posted By Jester
Re: The Support Planet Rule

Actually that's wrong. Attrition favors the defender due to salvage. Not only that, but there are serious disadvantages to tying up that much firepower at one planet. Even if D can't send defense,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 14:55
Replies: 34
Views: 3,968
Posted By Jester
Re: The Support Planet Rule

They're meant to be conjunctive, not disjunctive.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 13:58
Replies: 34
Views: 3,968
Posted By Jester
Re: The Support Planet Rule

I agree completely. If it's going to exist as rule, it should exist as a part of the game. The only things that should be external rules to be enforced are things that are actually impossible to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 10:08
Replies: 171
Views: 15,326
Posted By Jester
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Jenova had our coords before then, because no one ever got around to kicking the spy.

I know you were always against the public arbiter, but I think you're seeing what you want to see. The people...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Jul 2007, 12:21
Replies: 171
Views: 15,326
Posted By Jester
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Whether or not the tags share channel is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the behavior from tag to tag. This is why I differentiate between 'getting around the alliance limit' and 'breaking...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Jul 2007, 11:40
Replies: 171
Views: 15,326
Posted By Jester
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

The multihunters don't consider precedent.

Scans are easily an unfair benefit. Consider two players, both wish to attack. Neither have scan technology. One has access to scans via a scanner.
...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Jun 2007, 19:23
Replies: 40
Views: 5,814
Posted By Jester
Re: Do alliances today use private irc servers?

Having old school Legion people back is hilarious.

Private IRC servers are for wankers. Just like private arbiters.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Jun 2007, 21:44
Replies: 28
Views: 4,283
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance limit needs to be upped: Admittedly I was wrong.

PAteam can never be expected to correctly predict the number of sign ups, so there should be no alliance limit.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 17 Jun 2007, 09:10
Replies: 97
Views: 16,174
Posted By Jester
Re: r22 Prediction

1. Jenova
The rest:
CT gets beaten by Jenova, and ends further down the ranks. #2 to someone blocked with Jenova or someone not involved (like Ascendancy last round).
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jun 2007, 16:57
Replies: 41
Views: 21,811
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 22 Name

The documentary Fog of War wasn't about the holocaust. Or is there another one in addition to the Errol Morris interview with Robert McNamara?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jun 2007, 20:10
Replies: 41
Views: 21,811
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 22 Name

Posting and voting in complete agreeance.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jun 2007, 18:15
Replies: 154
Views: 17,197
Posted By Jester
Re: Why should I come back?

1up didn't start the anti-block propaganda, it's been around since round 3 (at least). It's a natural reaction in any case. If you can paint your opponent as unfairly using a good strategy, you can...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jun 2007, 17:25
Replies: 154
Views: 17,197
Posted By Jester
Re: Why should I come back?

Ironically, the most fairly won and decisive war* fought in all of PAX's existence (EXilition vs New Dawn) was won due to XP gains.

* I say fairly won, because no one begrudged EXilition that...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Jun 2007, 21:30
Replies: 154
Views: 17,197
Posted By Jester
Re: Why should I come back?

On the contrary. Last round was an excellent advertisement for the game. The 'elite' was toppled by a small gang of 'guerillas' with a clever plan. The inevitable was turned around.

This is an...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Jun 2007, 11:18
Replies: 154
Views: 17,197
Posted By Jester
Re: Why should I come back?

Yeah, because as paying customers, it's our responsibility to advertize for the game. Get bent.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Jun 2007, 11:02
Replies: 154
Views: 17,197
Posted By Jester
Re: Why should I come back?

Let's imagine someone is thinking of buying a brewery. They go out on the town and see some people drunk off their face beating eachother senseless.

Why would anyone invest in beer after seeing...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Jun 2007, 13:55
Replies: 71
Views: 9,282
Posted By Jester
Re: Biggest positive suprise this round?

Except for the fact that Kargool didn't ask for 'whose ranking and average score impressed you' but 'which alliances impressed you'. By that criteria, any wannabe pundit is eligible to post whatever...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Jun 2007, 10:45
Replies: 71
Views: 9,282
Posted By Jester
Re: Biggest positive suprise this round?

Expectations aren't just about rank. I measure visible performance much more than I measure rank. For example, Conspiracy* crashed loads of fleets, organized poor defenses and were generally very bad...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Jun 2007, 21:34
Replies: 28
Views: 6,082
Posted By Jester
Re: Resource Donation

More like remove both limitations. Gimping the funds just makes the game less fun to play.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 1 Jun 2007, 21:27
Replies: 41
Views: 6,697
Posted By Jester
Who were you?

You are: A moment of weakness (2:4:1) Etd (Clear)
Size: 640 694
Value: 5,129,329 52
Score: 6,118,189 42
XP: 16,481 338

Ships (633,357 total)
Wyvern 633 Dragon 342...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Jun 2007, 20:40
Replies: 152
Views: 22,768
Posted By Jester
Congratulations Greenhills

<[CT]vudu> this is hillarious. i bet asc peeps are just dying with envy as to why they didnt come up with it :D

Technically, DeLoS screwed Game out of the win doing this last round, but who cares....
Forum: Alliance Discussions 30 May 2007, 14:03
Replies: 195
Views: 19,048
Posted By Jester
Re: Correct me if I am wrong.

This is complete rubbish. How many Ascendancy members can you name? The 10-15 that post on the forum most? The fact is that people only see the loudest Ascendancy members and ignore the fact that we...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 May 2007, 11:28
Replies: 195
Views: 19,048
Posted By Jester
Re: Correct me if I am wrong.

I agree. Someone congratulated me on Ascendancy coming 2nd the other day, to which the natural reply was 'yeah, we're the first losers.' Anyone who thinks Ascendancy is winning this round is stuck in...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 May 2007, 11:18
Replies: 21
Views: 3,857
Posted By Jester
Re: If alliances were countries....

Ascendancy would be Tortuga or any other pirate free-hold.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 26 May 2007, 23:20
Replies: 195
Views: 19,048
Posted By Jester
Re: Correct me if I am wrong.

What I wonder about is at what point this becomes unfeasible? How many people before this doesn't work? 50? 100? 200?

I want the alliance limit removed, but I'm not sure my alliance would survive...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 25 May 2007, 19:54
Replies: 195
Views: 19,048
Posted By Jester
Re: Correct me if I am wrong.

Afaik this is right. We were having a little mutual planet targeting with Angels until Game and Assassin spoke and we let off eachother.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 25 May 2007, 10:23
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Forum: Alliance Discussions 20 May 2007, 13:16
Replies: 106
Views: 29,245
Posted By Jester
Re: Official Declaration of Tides of Fire

1 (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3078755&postcount=15). Do you want more?

The 'we don't try' shit was annoying and trite back in round 16. But annoying and trite is one of our...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 20 May 2007, 10:36
Replies: 106
Views: 29,245
Posted By Jester
Re: Official Declaration of Tides of Fire

ISUE*.

*I stand up, emotionless.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 12:24
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

What Kargool says above is factually correct. There are some top galaxies that are heavy on Ascendancy members, and the high amount of targeting comes primarily from attacks on them.

However, we...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 12:01
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

Oh, I didn't realize you had spoken to VSN that day. Whoops. I think jer or Game did the vision targets, I can't take credit for that.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 11:54
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

Oh not at all. I wasn't claiming that.

This was my post:


You make your alliance members leave your alliance when they get in the way of you hitting Ascendancy*. We don't have any draconian...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 11:33
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

Mostly I spend my 'HCing time' making new functions for Munin to do my work for me. I helped set up both the TGV attacks, but you are correct, I don't hold any power over the alliance. I mean, I...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 11:23
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

I think you have the order of events mixed up. We didn't ask you guys. You had hit us, so we hit you back. Then we went and talked to your guy, and agreed that nothing further need come of it.

Wow...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 11:06
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

And we retaliate when people try to take our roids. It doesn't matter if we're the primary target, secondary target or incidentals, we will come after you. As you can see on my post above, Vision and...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 May 2007, 10:59
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
Re: TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

I definitely don't like Kargool, but that doesn't mean we aren't honest with each other. In fact, Kargool is rarely anything but rudely honest to us and likewise in return.

To answer Gio2k's...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 May 2007, 15:35
Replies: 15
Views: 3,618
Posted By Jester
Re: Next round - start date

With a couple of minor tweaks the current stats could be rebalanced slightly without changing too much. I wouldn't expect that to even require a 'speedgame' beta really.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 May 2007, 15:33
Replies: 82
Views: 8,574
Posted By Jester
Re: Thanks for the compliment!

Other way around. He knew nick and coords, but not alliance.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 May 2007, 15:22
Replies: 188
Views: 20,767
Posted By Jester
TGV member and losing roids? Thank Kargool.

Last night Ascendancy planet targetted TGV for the second time in a week. The first time was a response to a night of several galraids targeting Ascendancy heavy galaxies. So heavy was the targetting...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 May 2007, 16:07
Replies: 72
Views: 10,377
Posted By Jester
Re: Free Round 22

The wiki is not official. Never has been, and as long as I host it, never will be.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 May 2007, 08:51
Replies: 1
Views: 2,954
Posted By Jester
Re: alliance scans page

Also, add an 'export scan links' link so I don't need to view source every time I parse all the scans.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 May 2007, 08:46
Replies: 15
Views: 3,313
Posted By Jester
Re: The amount of piggybacking this round. Are galaxies too small?

Allow me to introduce you to my friend Irony...

I agree that this is a problem, but I'm not sure larger galaxies will instantly solve it. I do, however, think that piggied attacks is something...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 May 2007, 12:00
Replies: 15
Views: 3,482
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance scans

Wouldn't an alliance HC have to be mentally deficient not to share scans with members?

Oh, point taken.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 1 May 2007, 18:31
Replies: 23
Views: 4,449
Posted By Jester
Re: Calling all alliances !!!!!

Since HR have a private server, and therefore aren't affected, I suggest everyone attacks them tonight. I have 2 HR coords available on request and one of them is Mistwraith \o/
Forum: Alliance Discussions 1 May 2007, 18:25
Replies: 23
Views: 4,449
Posted By Jester
Re: Calling all alliances !!!!!

Have you people forgotton how to use channel keys? With the ingame spamming capabilities, it should be trivial to spam a new key every day for added 'security'.

(PS. Our port of CT priv is still...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 1 May 2007, 18:21
Replies: 23
Views: 4,449
Posted By Jester
Re: Calling all alliances !!!!!

Ascendancy tech relies on P to work. We just relocated to Undernet, problem solved.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Apr 2007, 19:52
Replies: 32
Views: 4,925
Posted By Jester
Re: FAO jesterina

Got anything we're missing?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Apr 2007, 12:41
Replies: 32
Views: 4,925
Posted By Jester
Re: FAO jesterina

I'm all about good old fashioned laziness.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 23 Apr 2007, 11:58
Replies: 162
Views: 20,152
Posted By Jester
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 Apr 2007, 19:07
Replies: 162
Views: 20,152
Posted By Jester
Re: Dear Angels

This is what games are about.

This is not what games are about.

If I wanted really important, I'd pray for cancer.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 Apr 2007, 07:54
Replies: 162
Views: 20,152
Posted By Jester
Re: Dear Angels

It was delicious.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 Apr 2007, 07:39
Replies: 162
Views: 20,152
Posted By Jester
Re: Dear Angels

Yes. Forgot their fortune cookie indeed.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 Apr 2007, 07:27
Replies: 162
Views: 20,152
Posted By Jester
Dear Angels

Failure must seem like a dead end, but it could be a slip road onto the freeway of dreams.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Apr 2007, 06:21
Replies: 24
Views: 4,350
Posted By Jester
Re: Cut down research times

In my opinion, the solution to the scanning problem is to make everything always available, but lower the amount of information available via scans. Every player should "always" have access to all...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Apr 2007, 19:14
Replies: 17
Views: 3,508
Posted By Jester
Re: My Comic Start

Doesn't change the fact that democracy sucks ;)
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 Apr 2007, 16:23
Replies: 83
Views: 8,643
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliances, Support Planets and the EULA

Nope. Your argument was that whatever you thought was justifiable, was justifiable. I summarized this in a somewhat (but not very) sarcastic fashion, as this is AD and I wanted to look cool.

Edit:...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 Apr 2007, 16:08
Replies: 83
Views: 8,643
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Apr 2007, 15:59
Replies: 10
Views: 2,719
Posted By Jester
Re: The Abundance of Capital Letters

Yeah, this has bugged me since the skin update too.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 Apr 2007, 15:58
Replies: 83
Views: 8,643
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliances, Support Planets and the EULA

Basically, whatever Phil wants is right, because Phil wants it.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 12 Apr 2007, 18:10
Replies: 7
Views: 7,605
Posted By Jester
Re: Long Live the Revolution! : Guide to Governments

33% actually. More if you take into account that it factors after other mining bonuses (essentially stacking).
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Apr 2007, 18:08
Replies: 7
Views: 2,933
Posted By Jester
Re: Ranking

I agree with Heartless.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Apr 2007, 15:04
Replies: 18
Views: 6,787
Posted By Jester
Re: PA Wiki

PAteam offered to point wiki.planetarion.com at my site, so people could use that, but I turned them down. As long as I host it, I don't want the wiki to be "official". If the offer is still open, it...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Apr 2007, 13:58
Replies: 18
Views: 6,787
Posted By Jester
Re: PA Wiki

The domain is back now, I think the domain renewal emails were filtered away as spam. If anyone wants to take over the content, I'll provide a database dump.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Mar 2007, 10:04
Replies: 12
Views: 3,558
Posted By Jester
Re: A very little Score idea

Value is a very much more useful stat than how much damage a fleet can inflict.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 Mar 2007, 16:49
Replies: 12
Views: 3,558
Posted By Jester
Re: A very little Score idea

This sounds sensible.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 23 Mar 2007, 03:07
Replies: 11
Views: 2,654
Posted By Jester
Re: Request: Total Real Score and Total Value Rankings

03:05:20 < Munin> Ascendancy Members: 55, Value: 38475413, Avg: 699552, Score: 151027433, Avg: 2745953, Size: 20707, Avg: 376, XP: 1875867, Avg: 34106

The extra 2 members are probably some guys...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Mar 2007, 14:16
Replies: 22
Views: 3,445
Posted By Jester
Re: ticks?

According to people I know who have access to the code, a lot of code is very inefficient. However, the coders have to balance their time between adding new features, fixing bugs and optimizing old...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Mar 2007, 16:58
Replies: 24
Views: 3,427
Posted By Jester
Re: Roadtrip through California

All the valleys in Utah are cool, but unless you're big into red rock formations, they can get a little samey. I recall Zion being better than Monument valley, mostly because Monument valley is huge...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Mar 2007, 15:25
Replies: 29
Views: 4,002
Posted By Jester
Re: No last week recruitment

Perhaps I'm missing something here. I don't really see the problem. Could someone explain what the absolutely worst situation that being able to add planets for score throughout the round is, and why...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Mar 2007, 13:56
Replies: 29
Views: 4,002
Posted By Jester
Re: No last week recruitment

I can see this sucking pretty hard for people kicked out of their alliance with 8-9 days to go to make room for "last minute" recruits (or any other reason, really).
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Mar 2007, 11:49
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

As you can see from my post about this, I advocate keeping the current score based bash limits (or in fact removing bash limits entirely) with this system. Laundering the resources through the funds...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Mar 2007, 11:42
Replies: 14
Views: 3,421
Posted By Jester
Re: EoRC log?

The crystal roid was held the longest by someone in 1:1 as well. Remy I think (whoever was #5 anyway). I managed to hold it for 210 ticks or so, until a week before ticks ended. And at that point he...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Mar 2007, 23:13
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

If donations are such a big problem, why not just grant score from mining instead? It's easy to reward covoppers instantly, while simultaneously deducting that score from the target. In fact, it's...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Mar 2007, 19:33
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

I'm not sure XP had the touted benefit in rounds where value dominated XP. However, there is a very strong incentive to take roids away from a planet, galaxy or alliance that is a threat. In essence,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Mar 2007, 19:10
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

I don't think score should be broken down into specific rewards for specific actions. This dictates policy rather than mechanism, which is much less open-ended. I think being open-ended is an...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Mar 2007, 17:06
Replies: 30
Views: 3,754
Posted By Jester
Re: XP, part two

Unfortunately "I still think attacking isn't nearly as damaging as it should be" is a completely meaningless statement in the context of any constructive discussion. It's the intellectual equivalent...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Mar 2007, 16:58
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

You raise some interesting points, but before I reply, could you clarify that last sentence? The grammar isn't parsing for me and I'm having trouble guessing what you mean ;)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Mar 2007, 16:35
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

In order of coding complexity, implemented with the least possible amount of work. You're in a much better position than me to say which these are. My reasoning is that since the changes complement...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Mar 2007, 15:42
Replies: 30
Views: 3,754
Posted By Jester
Re: XP, part two

How on earth would you differentiate? This is why I think XP for landing attacks needs to go. It is impossible to differentiate between the two.

As a small aside, don't misunderstand the system...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Mar 2007, 02:39
Replies: 5
Views: 1,831
Posted By Jester
Re: Has this been suggested somewhere?

Time and time and time again. Check this thread before posting (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=185751) if you wonder whether it's been suggested previously :)
Forum: Alliance Discussions 17 Mar 2007, 01:21
Replies: 109
Views: 12,170
Posted By Jester
Re: And now for something different.

I'm not so interested in the rest of your post, as I am about this. Would you care to elaborate on what you mean by 'whine, moan and bitch about everyone and everything'? Some specific examples would...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 17 Mar 2007, 00:42
Replies: 32
Views: 5,315
Posted By Jester
Re: R20 Who were you?

3:6 was easily the worst gal ever :(

< Munin> 10:2:11 (Ter) 'The Illegitimate Son' of 'God' Score: 4319819 (17) Value: 951599 (376) Size: 1065 (28) XP: 56137 (16)

Ships (2,710 total)...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Mar 2007, 19:35
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

Good luck DCing against jammer players. How do you organize defense against someone you can't get a tech scan on?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Mar 2007, 15:42
Replies: 11
Views: 2,654
Posted By Jester
Re: Request: Total Real Score and Total Value Rankings

I'd be willing to contribute full stats on Ascendancy's actual value, XP and whatever else from our private DB once the round is over. I think we're pretty heavy on XP this round (heh).
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Mar 2007, 15:38
Replies: 28
Views: 5,397
Posted By Jester
Re: An innovative approach towards score

The best way to test this formula is to look at planets that have held the most roids over the round, since these will approximate those that have generated the most resources. Summing the size of...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Mar 2007, 15:14
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

I'm a bit dubious to having pods of all classes, due to the hell it would be to DC. But that's the only real justification I see. I only put the FR and DE pods there as examples. Another example that...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Mar 2007, 22:00
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

In the spirit of running my mouth, here's a possible way stats could look if everyone had access to the same set of ships:

http://goat.no-ip.com/teststats.html

This would be what I would term...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 15 Mar 2007, 15:19
Replies: 84
Views: 9,081
Posted By Jester
Re: WOW nice brep

Fat lot of good that did him, eh (http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=8585).
Forum: Alliance Discussions 14 Mar 2007, 20:01
Replies: 84
Views: 10,001
Posted By Jester
Re: Impressive...

Caring about next round makes for really boring rounds (think iterated prisoner's dilemma). Top, active players are so rare that Caj will have no trouble walking into a competitive alliance anyway.
...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 14 Mar 2007, 15:51
Replies: 84
Views: 10,001
Posted By Jester
Re: Impressive...

Rather unfortunate that Planetarion is a game about having the most score and not having the most honor, isn't it?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Mar 2007, 11:34
Replies: 35
Views: 3,921
Posted By Jester
Re: *Suggestion* PA team approved alliances.

What makes an alliance what you call a "blackhole" alliance? Could you give an example of how they do this?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Mar 2007, 11:32
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

Err. The current formula is almost exactly that. It's:

value = roids + ships + resources + constructions

Your constant is 1, so unimportant. You can find out how much score is contributed by...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Mar 2007, 11:30
Replies: 27
Views: 3,733
Posted By Jester
Re: Random roid discovery

Attacking will also be less profitable, counteracting the existance of more roids.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Mar 2007, 11:27
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

Perhaps the problem is that under the old system you could lose things you weren't putting on the line.

When I woke up this morning my DSL wasn't working, so I would've had to go to the library...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 23:07
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

When did we all turn into newbiecoddlers? Why do we assume that being able to lose everything on the last day is bad? Isn't risk exciting anymore?

I'm not sure of the answers to any of those...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 22:15
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

By distributive product:

Score = value + value * XP * k

Which is swiftly dominated by value * XP, almost regardless of k.

Edit: And troll's idea is Score = Value * (1 + XP * 1/100000).
Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 19:51
Replies: 84
Views: 10,001
Posted By Jester
Re: Impressive...

3 (And in case it isn't blindingly obvious, Ascendancy, that alliance full of suiciding wankers with absolutely no value that only exists to win popularity contests...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 19:47
Replies: 75
Views: 7,946
Posted By Jester
Re: r21 stats

But we all know only target, class and initiative (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3096699&postcount=28), and the Tarantula had better initiative than the Corsair, therefore it was...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 18:25
Replies: 3
Views: 2,619
Posted By Jester
Exclamation OMG outbox!

\o/

Can we have one for the alliance mails too now?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 16:53
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

Oh ye of little faith . . .

As an aside, here's how value is counted too much in the current XP formula:

The current formula is:

min(2,value_factor) * min(2,score_factor) - 1

And is...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 13:59
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

No, it's not. Multiplication is associative ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative). No matter where you put k, no matter what brackets you put around your value * XP * k equation, the actual...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 12:58
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

The only attacks I've landed this round that haven't been worthwhile in terms of roidcost and value were three blind landings around pt130. Other than that almost all my attacks have been gratis and...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Mar 2007, 12:07
Replies: 59
Xp
Views: 7,532
Posted By Jester
Re: Xp

Changing the combat engine isn't the only solution to this. If every player gets access to the same (say) 20 ships, rather than everyone having very obvious and singular fleets, a large part of this...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Mar 2007, 10:12
Replies: 8
Views: 2,895
Posted By Jester
Re: Exiles and Galaxy disbandment

Nope. Go back and read it again.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Mar 2007, 15:11
Replies: 27
Views: 3,733
Posted By Jester
Re: Random roid discovery

The more roids you've lost over the round, the more roids you discover. That wouldn't benefit larger players more than smaller players would it ;)

I think a flat random rate might be a good place...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Mar 2007, 14:28
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

Thanks for replying.

The main thing I'd like to stress is that I think it would be better to have 20 ships that everyone has access to than 11 ships per race. I don't think having more ships...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 23:41
Replies: 27
Views: 3,733
Posted By Jester
Re: Random roid discovery

I think this is a very interesting suggestion. The formula presented is flawed, because it divides by size, then multiplies by it again. Thus it only distributes actual roids based on value (the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 23:05
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

I posted my suggested changes as a whole. The alliance member limit change takes into account the scoring system change. All the changes are designed to harmonize and complete each other.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 22:24
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

I agree that this is an option, but I don't think it's got the long term value of removing the limit. Specifically, I don't think a drastically lower alliance limit provides the necessary incentives...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 21:50
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

I don't think there's anything wrong with alliance merging at all. With a last deadline for merges (as is currently in place), I don't think there's a need for any other limitations. The only real...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 21:37
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

Obviously, yes.

Yes, stupid people will do this. Stupid people will, however, always be stupid. Since the stupid people demographic is pretty big, there isn't much point in creating a game where...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 21:24
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Re: What I'd change and how I'd do it

No, I would not. Exit needs to be an option in some sense or another. Some planets are utterly inactive. Completely dead. The policy on exile and, to an extent, self-exile can be adjusted. If...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2007, 20:20
Replies: 82
Views: 18,406
Posted By Jester
Post What I'd change and how I'd do it

This thread has been brewing for a long time. In it I'm going to try to hammer out what I'd do if I were in charge of Planetarion.

Not every idea is as well thought out and I do not claim that...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 Mar 2007, 14:34
Replies: 362
Views: 43,759
Posted By Jester
Re: Hurt + Heal Alliances

Maybe we're just objectively better than you.

Legion 7
Exilition 23
1up 11
Ascendancy 28
Xanadu 7
Elysium 1 (-3 carebear stare!)
Wolfpack 18
[]LCH[] 15
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 4 Mar 2007, 13:10
Replies: 14
Views: 2,481
Posted By Jester
Re: a way to "fix" xp

As a casual XP player, I also think this idea is flawed. I have barely lost any ships this round, most of my attacks result in 0-loss landings (http://game.planetarion.com/show_news.pl?id=5536). I...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 19 Feb 2007, 08:48
Replies: 362
Views: 43,759
Posted By Jester
Re: Hurt And Heal alliances

Legion - 15
Exilition - 18
1up - 15 (heal, revitalizing PA)
Ascendancy - 16 (heal, coming from behind.)
Xanadu - 13 (hurt, winning is hard :()
Elysium - 17
Nos - 15
Wolfpack - 17
Eclipse - 15...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Jan 2007, 09:41
Replies: 10
Views: 2,004
Posted By Jester
Re: Stolen Pods capturing Asteroids

They don't. This is stealing, not subversion.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Jan 2007, 12:37
Replies: 20
Views: 6,910
Posted By Jester
Re: Do people like Cathaar 'guns' and empres?

I agree. The lack of separation of different damage types from each other has been missing and annoying. The throwback to EMP resistance was not the best way to do it. The way you outline is close to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 Jan 2007, 19:51
Replies: 11
Views: 2,481
Posted By Jester
Re: Nitpicking point

This isn't really correct. The only reason it was changed was that Gate and others preferred the 'undead' nomenclature to Spinner's old 'bizarro alien' nomenclature the round he made stats.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Jan 2007, 20:29
Replies: 151
Views: 15,489
Posted By Jester
Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Or you could shut up and try playing the game as it is designed.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Jan 2007, 13:12
Replies: 151
Views: 15,489
Posted By Jester
Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

I think you're being a bit defensive here. He said he thought the general consensus was against the zik dying when they steal. Despite eneral consensus being the best validation of truth we have*,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Jan 2007, 19:23
Replies: 151
Views: 15,489
Posted By Jester
Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

The Zhil ship stealing incident was most definitely round 13. Wow, owned by Kila, that's embarrassing.

If anyone's really interested in what rounds Forest ended top100, you can have a look at this...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jan 2007, 19:48
Replies: 34
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Re: Woo, more changes

Or in English*, if you send ships that kill more than they're worth, you can make a profit.

*That language where 'value weight' means absolutely nothing.


Except pods work by dealing damage to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jan 2007, 19:16
Replies: 34
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Re: Woo, more changes

It wasn't like that when I was making stats in round 13. It's stealing, not subversion.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Jan 2007, 15:03
Replies: 12
Views: 2,447
Posted By Jester
Re: Parallels>Clusters ?

Or the cluster peace is just as unmaintainable, but parallels provider wider target selections thus allowing weaker galaxies more breathing room.

Your statement is non-sequitor. It doesn't follow...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jan 2007, 15:00
Replies: 151
Views: 15,489
Posted By Jester
Re: zik dying 1:1 ???

Argument from ignorance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance). Mind you, the people complaining aren't very good at providing any evidence. Then again, it's pretty much impossible to...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 Jan 2007, 12:45
Replies: 120
Views: 14,703
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 20 Predictions

Except there were 5, and two of those weren't playing their first round. Counting is hard though, isn't it?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jan 2007, 12:42
Replies: 34
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Re: Woo, more changes

Close, but no cigar. 'Free' stealing can be just as bad as 'value losing' stealing. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out why this is so.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jan 2007, 05:18
Replies: 34
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Re: Woo, more changes

If the ziks don't lose as much value as they gain, the potential for exponential growth remains in the same way it would previously with bad armor/damage.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 17 Jan 2007, 17:14
Replies: 30
Views: 3,641
Posted By Jester
Re: *tuts* @ Stats

I've spoken to Appoco and he said the stats are going to change. It didn't sound like the current beta stats were representative at all.

tux: Zik can't bounce anymore, due to the 'stealers die'...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jan 2007, 10:28
Replies: 34
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Re: Woo, more changes

Or learn to read ;)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jan 2007, 06:07
Replies: 34
Views: 3,658
Posted By Jester
Woo, more changes

Preempting the inevitable whines, I'm looking forward to seeing how the new changes play out. I like the ETA removal to compensate for the cluster ETA bonus. Something like that was necessary to let...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Jan 2007, 10:00
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

Here's a little story about two pilots. Abe and Bob were both Spider pilots, under the great commander Carol.

Abe: Shit, that fleet is full of thieves, we'll get our ships stolen.
Bob: Shit...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Jan 2007, 18:36
Replies: 120
Views: 14,703
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 20 Predictions

Under the Unfair Benefit (http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Unfair_Benefit) clause that would mean eXilition win 3 rounds in a row :(
Forum: Alliance Discussions 6 Jan 2007, 12:44
Replies: 120
Views: 14,703
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 20 Predictions

5:4
8:3
6:10
5:2
7:7

Top 5 galaxies.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Jan 2007, 12:42
Replies: 91
Views: 8,099
Posted By Jester
Re: New Changes

I'm not going to reply specifically to any points raised, but here's my piece on XP. Personally, I don't care either way. I guess I did when the change was originally announced, but right now it...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jan 2007, 20:16
Replies: 91
Views: 8,099
Posted By Jester
Re: New Changes

Glad to know you're on top of all the internet friendships out there.


I think boxing matches should be about who is the strongest too. Instead of punching eachother for 15 rounds, they could...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jan 2007, 18:12
Replies: 91
Views: 8,099
Posted By Jester
Re: New Changes

You just gave a great justification for XP \o/
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jan 2007, 18:04
Replies: 91
Views: 8,099
Posted By Jester
Re: New Changes

I never said they were untouchable, I just said that they would never win by going one-on-one. This is in no way an exceptional situation, it's how PA was before PAX.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jan 2007, 17:28
Replies: 91
Views: 8,099
Posted By Jester
Re: New Changes

You're wrong. An alliance at war loses fleet resources, an alliance NAPed to the hilt doesn't.

Counterintuitive and also incorrect. The bash limit has been fixed so that you can always hit a...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Jan 2007, 13:39
Replies: 6
Views: 2,338
Posted By Jester
Re: Post of the Round - Voting

This was pretty cool, I hope you do it again next round. Congratulations to Rob and horn :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jan 2007, 14:46
Replies: 28
Views: 3,278
Posted By Jester
Re: Galaxy Setup

I don't think it will have a huge effect at all, but I have no point of reference for saying that. If you'd like, I can provide you with most of the database dump information for rounds 16, 17 and 19...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jan 2007, 14:22
Replies: 28
Views: 3,278
Posted By Jester
Re: Galaxy Setup

It also raises the bar of participation in the game.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jan 2007, 13:16
Replies: 28
Views: 3,278
Posted By Jester
Re: Galaxy Setup

By reducing the target pool, you're increasing the amount of organization required to mount realistic attacks. Boring!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jan 2007, 08:46
Replies: 28
Views: 3,278
Posted By Jester
Re: Galaxy Setup

Would the new bash limit count against actual sum of all scores in a galaxy, or only count against the 'counted' score for ranking purposes?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Dec 2006, 02:37
Replies: 37
Views: 4,465
Posted By Jester
Re: Rankings in general

I found this post fairly interesting, but I'm going to split my reply in two.

These two first points are closely tied together. My advice to PAteam is to make a game you would enjoy playing. This...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 20 Dec 2006, 11:14
Replies: 269
Views: 25,986
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Dec 2006, 22:47
Replies: 49
Views: 6,160
Posted By Jester
Re: Universe structure in general (will not affect r20)

Personally, I just want a private galaxy with 10-15 people. Preferably 15 rather than 10. No randoms to deal with, just us.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Dec 2006, 11:15
Replies: 114
Views: 12,116
Posted By Jester
Re: Have Multihunters lost the plot??

If it is the case that defending out of a/g/c is cheating, why doesn't the game include provisions against this? It'd be a fairly easy thing to program into the game :(

Wouldn't this make the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 16 Dec 2006, 16:32
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

Would the game be more interesting if the shots were evenly distributed by value? Why?

I think not. The way it is currently, 'stupid' Xans who send their Spirits in with an equal value of...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Dec 2006, 11:15
Replies: 244
Views: 23,315
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 20 Changes

This is fallacy. PAteam shouldn't be listening to the community's requsets and wishes. There is no guarantee that selectively listening to those who speak the loudest will lead to a better game. I do...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 15 Dec 2006, 10:39
Replies: 244
Views: 23,315
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 20 Changes

Do not confuse people who post in this thread with people.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2006, 19:58
Replies: 13
Views: 2,028
Posted By Jester
Re: The Merger System

Furyous wins.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Dec 2006, 17:58
Replies: 13
Views: 2,028
Posted By Jester
Re: The Merger System

I think you're all* idiots. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the merger system currently. A bunch of other players feeling badly done by is not a reason to remove a feature.

* Except...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Dec 2006, 17:56
Replies: 244
Views: 23,315
Posted By Jester
Re: Round 20 Changes

That sounds like fun!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Dec 2006, 07:45
Replies: 244
Views: 23,315
Posted By Jester
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Dec 2006, 10:34
Replies: 32
Views: 6,503
Posted By Jester
Re: Sandmans

That'd be cool. As far as I know*, Sandman passed his code on to someone for further hosting and development. I don't think you should let that stop you.

* There was a post about this on his...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Dec 2006, 18:03
Replies: 114
Views: 12,116
Posted By Jester
Re: Have Multihunters lost the plot??

If something is not defined to be cheating, then it is not cheating. It is rabidly unfair towards the multihunters to expect them to continually redefine what cheating is. PAteam and Jolt should fix...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Dec 2006, 16:05
Replies: 114
Views: 12,116
Posted By Jester
Re: Have Multihunters lost the plot??

Shit like this annoys me :(
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Dec 2006, 15:58
Replies: 14
Views: 2,793
Posted By Jester
Re: Why wasn't the salvage change announced?

I meant the latter, but both those are valid questions :p
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Dec 2006, 14:57
Replies: 14
Views: 2,793
Posted By Jester
Re: Why wasn't the salvage change announced?

Back on topic, will the salvage formula be fixed again for next round?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Dec 2006, 12:30
Replies: 114
Views: 12,116
Posted By Jester
Re: Have Multihunters lost the plot??

I'd very much like to know why that would be cheating as well.

I've tried to discuss this problem with biffy in private, but the last email he sent me contained a paragraph that made me lose hope...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 12 Dec 2006, 12:28
Replies: 92
Views: 10,492
Posted By Jester
Re: Leadership

This number may be correct. Nihilum was 13.6m score on the last tick it existed.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Dec 2006, 20:30
Replies: 67
Views: 7,461
Posted By Jester
Re: Fakenicking

When I was in 1up we used to laugh at alliances who did that because they all had shit intel. Better to be hitting actual targets and fetch new coords off alliance defense, rather than wasting fleets...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Dec 2006, 14:38
Replies: 14
Views: 2,793
Posted By Jester
Re: Why wasn't the salvage change announced?

Not quite. My primary point is that this is important and should've been announced. My dissatisfaction with the actual change is secondary to that.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Dec 2006, 14:06
Replies: 14
Views: 2,793
Posted By Jester
Re: Why wasn't the salvage change announced?

It doesn't actually compensate for the free stealing. It worsens the situation of stealing relative to killing.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Dec 2006, 13:03
Replies: 38
Views: 3,474
Posted By Jester
Re: Are distorters a real deterant?

How did you build ships, ChipZ?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Dec 2006, 13:01
Replies: 14
Views: 2,793
Posted By Jester
Why wasn't the salvage change announced?

For those who are unaware, sometime between round 13 and round 19, the salvage formula changed. For round 13 it was 20% for defending ships lost and 15% for attacking ships. At some point, I think...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 11 Dec 2006, 12:56
Replies: 31
Views: 3,474
Posted By Jester
Re: The Round of the Xans?

Ghosts were great. With the current salvage formula defending ghosts were guaranteed 70% payback per dying Ghost. Any Ghosts that didn't die were pure gravy. Spectres were crap, and had horrible EMP...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 Dec 2006, 14:33
Replies: 63
Views: 8,373
Posted By Jester
Re: Official eXilition Announcement

Not really, the two are pretty synonymous.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 Dec 2006, 05:23
Replies: 167
Views: 15,499
Posted By Jester
Re: R19: The hall of shame

Will you two whiners please ****ing drop it already? It's a nasty calc, that's bad for both sides. You both suck. You were playing a game of chicken and you crashed. At least when people do this with...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 17:22
Replies: 67
Views: 7,461
Posted By Jester
Re: Fakenicking

There are idiots everywhere, what's your point?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 16:17
Replies: 67
Views: 7,461
Posted By Jester
Re: Fakenicking

The galaxy channel is a social setting. The game contributes a context to this setting. Rather than a random grouping of people, we're a random grouping of Planetarion players. Allegiances and...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 16:08
Replies: 12
Views: 2,695
Posted By Jester
Re: So, after two years, is PA still any good?

Learn to play for XP. You should be ok.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 15:02
Replies: 67
Views: 7,461
Posted By Jester
Re: Fakenicking

You answered your own question there. If you don't trust me with what alliance you are in, why should I do the same to you? Trust is a two-way street, and people who aren't willing to go down one way...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 11:30
Replies: 67
Views: 7,461
Posted By Jester
Re: Fakenicking

The galaxy began with only Desse as EXilition. At some point #10, angem, joined or exiled in (I'm not sure, this was during the first 700-800 ticks, I didn't pay much attention during them). WuMing...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 11:04
Replies: 40
Views: 6,933
Posted By Jester
Re: [Jesus]Movie review- The Nativity Story

Ever considered a move to Iceland (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=age+consent+iceland&btnG=Google+Search)?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 11:00
Replies: 67
Views: 7,461
Posted By Jester
Fakenicking

This thread is part question and part anecdote. As some of you may know, Ascendancy concentrated about half of its members into a single semi-private galaxy this round. The galaxy channel had many of...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 09:31
Replies: 57
Views: 7,497
Posted By Jester
Re: Good Comedies

Glad I'm not the only one.

Absolute Power is a great show. House, while not primarily a comedy, is also quite funny at times.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 07:04
Replies: 92
Views: 10,492
Posted By Jester
Re: Leadership

You're wrong. Any alliance could play it. A lot of people play in other alliances like they were Ascendancy, and they get called out for not being perfect soldiers*. I say rejoice in these qualities...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2006, 00:02
Replies: 92
Views: 10,492
Posted By Jester
Re: Leadership

I see you are accusing Ascendancy of having a leadership. I resent that. People might expect me to do stuff :(

Edit: to expand a bit: Yes, Ascendancy does have these things, but they are not...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Dec 2006, 23:54
Replies: 38
Views: 3,474
Posted By Jester
Re: Are distorters a real deterant?

I usually don't bother to ask for scans if I'm looking for targets. Too many of my targets are misses, so it's easier to just go on and look at the next one. Easier to get scans the next day as well....
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Dec 2006, 23:17
Replies: 25
Views: 3,242
Posted By Jester
Re: Who we were

You are: Attn! Spoilers (9:10:4) (Clear)
Size: 227 1290
Value: 3,970,549 40
Score: 6,083,389 74
XP: 35,214 397

Ships (20,896 total)
Chimera 189 Pegasus 101
Drake 52 ...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Dec 2006, 19:59
Replies: 13
Views: 2,159
Posted By Jester
Re: My last battlereport

Greenhills had a clear lead without the salvage.

Edit: Told you all that the farming rules are bullocks.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Dec 2006, 17:59
Replies: 5
Views: 1,961
Posted By Jester
Re: The Zik Race....

I tried two solo fleetcatches, neither landed. I didn't take part in any other fleetcatches. I stole lots of ships, I'm ending up top100. Zik stats this round did suck though.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Dec 2006, 10:12
Replies: 33
Views: 4,896
Posted By Jester
Re: [Long]Round summary.

Thanks for making this post, qebab. It was a very interesting read. It's always good to be able to see how things were from different perspectives.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Dec 2006, 20:42
Replies: 9
Views: 2,058
Posted By Jester
Re: An element of the game beyond calculation

It used to be possible to catch this by news scanning the MoD. Apparently people complained about that and PAteam changed it without realizing or caring about this consequences :)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 7 Dec 2006, 04:44
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

Thank you. The point made in the second paragraph is very salient. The problem is not the combat engine, but the pricing of the different ships. I think tux and Appocomaster are wasting their time...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Dec 2006, 16:41
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

What the ****?

What logic?

Make more sense to whom?

I'm a veteran, it doesn't make sense to me. Hell, lots of things that make games don't necessarily make sense. Please explain to me why...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Dec 2006, 15:26
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

Why will wasting coding time on changing this make Planetarion a better game? Will it improve the play experience for everyone, most people, some, any people?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Dec 2006, 03:30
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

Err. That's not how it works at all.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 Dec 2006, 11:27
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

That's retarded and a typical PAteam 'patch' solution. There are much better ways of changing this problem into something more useful. Check our PM or stat devel channel logs for some of my ideas on...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 5 Dec 2006, 09:43
Replies: 56
Views: 6,663
Posted By Jester
Re: 'Fix' the combat engine its damage distribution

I happen to think this is a feature, not a bug. It adds a strategic element to fleet composition.
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 5 Dec 2006, 05:47
Replies: 22
Views: 4,712
Posted By Jester
Re: Will milscans be in next round?

Thank you Captain Obvious :salute:
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Dec 2006, 18:10
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

Oh yeah, we were so surprised when we got incoming when we had 30k roids. Shocked into a stunned silence. I'm glad we dropped the roids though, they were keeping fleet at home and keeping people from...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Dec 2006, 15:08
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

I disagree strongly with this sentiment. In my view, alliances don't exist as anything beyond an agreement between a large set of players. One can speak about the alliance as a greater sum of its...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 4 Dec 2006, 13:17
Replies: 22
Views: 4,712
Posted By Jester
Will milscans be in next round?

Hi, I maintain an IRC bot called Munin (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=191226) that does some scan parsing. I haven't written a milscan parser for this round, but it's obvious that...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Dec 2006, 11:34
Replies: 26
Views: 3,832
Posted By Jester
Re: We Want You - Portal Columnists & Round 20 Skin

Allow me to rephrase then: what advantage do I get for opting into your shitty portal instead of just starting my own Planetarion blog?

I'm completely serious, btw. About 2 years ago we were...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Dec 2006, 11:32
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

Sid tried that in round 11, but I think it presents a few obvious problems. Not every planet NAP is explicit. There are many ways to ensure plausible deniability upon confrontation. It is not in the...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 3 Dec 2006, 18:09
Replies: 6
Views: 2,873
Posted By Jester
Re: Bug in the self-exile formula?

Ah, that's our bug right there, Valle's ability to recall whether or not he had exiled. I was helping him calculate how many exiles he could afford and our numbers didn't match up. Thank you kindly.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 3 Dec 2006, 18:08
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

What, like TGV is being used as peons for ND?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Dec 2006, 17:08
Replies: 26
Views: 3,832
Posted By Jester
Re: We Want You - Portal Columnists & Round 20 Skin

May I have a column in which I continually complain about how shit PAteam is?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 3 Dec 2006, 15:44
Replies: 16
Views: 2,886
Posted By Jester
Re: Show Alliance Value

Personally, I think you pull these opinions out of a random word generator.
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 3 Dec 2006, 04:00
Replies: 6
Views: 2,873
Posted By Jester
Bug in the self-exile formula?

Either the manual is wrong or there is a bug in the self-exile formula code.


(From this page in the manual (http://game.planetarion.com/manual.php?page=31).)

But the self-exile counter...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Dec 2006, 19:00
Replies: 43
Views: 3,726
Posted By Jester
Re: [Long]On dedication, honour and teamplay.

Reading the original post was like looking into a timewarp of my own head after round 13. Unlike Rob, I couldn't take another round like that. Never again.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 30 Nov 2006, 23:09
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

Yeah, except that's not actually the block. There are alliances that are NAPed to EXilition. There are alliances hitting New Dawn that aren't EXilition.

edit: qebab is probably in a much better...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Nov 2006, 22:40
Replies: 45
Views: 4,648
Posted By Jester
Re: 'def fleets' made easier

It's not just a good idea, it's a great idea. It's also the sort of thing PAteam have been good at adding to the game for the last rounds.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Nov 2006, 14:53
Replies: 102
Views: 15,571
Posted By Jester
Re: /Me claps *fap fap fap*

Just like you did all those times 1up beat EXilition, right?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Nov 2006, 11:13
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

Galant? Gay? It's neither. It's playing the sodding the game.

They are not doing this of some higher or lower motive. They are doing us no favors, they are doing the only thing worth doing in a...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Nov 2006, 10:54
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

I think it's a complete and utter misnomer to try to make it out to be unfair or in anyway negative that so many alliances are attacking EXilition. Would it be a 'fair' fight to pit pdmaster against...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Nov 2006, 09:52
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

You're just trying to play divide and conquer :(
Forum: Alliance Discussions 29 Nov 2006, 09:36
Replies: 358
Views: 39,084
Posted By Jester
Re: NewDawn's Official Proposal to Furious Omen

Unless those fleets they're sending to pdmaster are defense :o
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 02:42
Replies: 99
Views: 8,886
Posted By Jester
Re: We told you so! (some disagreed)

Lokken and I spoke on IRC, you replied here. What's to be annoyed about?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 02:33
Replies: 99
Views: 8,886
Posted By Jester
Re: We told you so! (some disagreed)

Then you're not very good at it.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 02:26
Replies: 181
Views: 18,981
Posted By Jester
Re: eXilition

I don't really see the need to control any damage. While anything jerome says reflects on Ascendancy, we really don't give a shit how much anyone thinks we're damaged by it.

Personally, I think...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 02:15
Replies: 99
Views: 8,886
Posted By Jester
Re: We told you so! (some disagreed)

And Bill didn't have sexual relations with that woman. Right, we get it.

We still don't believe you.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 02:14
Replies: 181
Views: 18,981
Posted By Jester
Re: eXilition

You'll notice, though, that he said 'stereotype' not 'typical'. The two are vastly different. You guys do have a bad reputation. Some of it is undeserved, some of it is deserved. The fact that you...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 01:55
Replies: 181
Views: 18,981
Posted By Jester
Re: eXilition

rain: getting owned by Ascendancy (http://www.clawofdarkness.com/pawiki/index.php/Round_16:Planet_Ranks) since round 16.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 28 Nov 2006, 01:43
Replies: 99
Views: 8,886
Posted By Jester
Re: We told you so! (some disagreed)

I'm sorry, but your credibility is damaged (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3075824&postcount=11), so I'm having trouble believing you.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 26 Nov 2006, 02:02
Replies: 181
Views: 18,981
Posted By Jester
Re: eXilition

Are you asking for a NAP? I'm sorry to disappoint you, but we don't do those.
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 25 Nov 2006, 18:41
Replies: 12
Views: 3,407
Posted By Jester
Re: What is offensive?

Obviously. I am, for example, offended that you didn't take the time to run a spell-checker on your post, but obviously that's not going to get you banned.

However, the blatant lack of...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 25 Nov 2006, 12:28
Replies: 12
Views: 3,407
Posted By Jester
Re: What is offensive?

Thank you for replying. I don't believe you've clarified much beyond 'what we find offensive'. What cultural norms do the multihunters use as guidelines? The changelog says that the game is aiming...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 24 Nov 2006, 22:50
Replies: 175
Views: 16,812
Posted By Jester
Re: ND whats your plan?

Shouldn't we make a separate thread whining about their merge (http://www.sandmans.co.uk/?p=viewalliance&name=Nihilum)?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 24 Nov 2006, 19:57
Replies: 31
Views: 3,474
Posted By Jester
Re: The Round of the Xans?

With Xan FR you can scare away home ships against both Terran and (especially) Zik. This means you can hit upwards if your fleet is very lop-sided. Same goes for CO against Zik or FI/CO against Ter,...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 24 Nov 2006, 14:47
Replies: 12
Views: 3,407
Posted By Jester
What is offensive?

This round a lot of fleet names, alliance names and other names have been changed due to the content being offensive. What with me being me, I'd very much like to know what the benchmark for...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 23 Nov 2006, 17:44
Replies: 55
Views: 7,259
Posted By Jester
Re: The rules for being a player, as stated by me.

Very few alliances, if any at all, actually do what you've claimed here, sorry.

Wow, I guess I can make totally unfounded statements on the internet as well!
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Nov 2006, 17:43
Replies: 31
Views: 3,474
Posted By Jester
Re: The Round of the Xans?

I think a few of those factors are down to how you play, particularly the XP. It sounds like you got ahead early and kept a balanced fleet. Of the 10 Xan with most score, it's an even split between...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 23 Nov 2006, 02:10
Replies: 61
Views: 7,276
Posted By Jester
Re: Tomen? Gomen? Tgvomen? Omentgv?

And Keizari went to TGV, didn't he? Does that make him 2/3 right? I'm confused :(
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 23 Nov 2006, 02:08
Replies: 18
Views: 2,622
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance merges

You're right. They're both just as bad, in that there's nothing wrong with either. Angels and Omen have both fought hard this round. What has New Dawn or EXilition done that make them deserve the top...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Nov 2006, 17:16
Replies: 155
Views: 23,134
Posted By Jester
Re: "Where did all the angels go?"

5th, 6 million behind LCH.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Nov 2006, 13:27
Replies: 155
Views: 23,134
Posted By Jester
Re: "Where did all the angels go?"

Reread cura's post. He's not talking about Ascendancy, he's talking about the alliances that were considering merging to beat Ascendancy.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 21 Nov 2006, 03:30
Replies: 155
Views: 23,134
Posted By Jester
Re: "Where did all the angels go?"

You're all shite, there is absolutely nothing wrong or lame or whatever about this. **** them up, or shut the **** up.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Nov 2006, 01:51
Replies: 19
Views: 3,211
Posted By Jester
Re: Good God

No it wouldn't. Hitting the lowest risk targets would still be the most efficient way of gaining fleet.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 15 Nov 2006, 12:33
Replies: 58
Views: 7,712
Posted By Jester
Re: Relaying Alliance Channels - is it ok?

That's tautology. I also don't see what a fascist dictator who was responsible for killing millions has to do with Planetarion. At all.

When you invite someone to your alliance, you're taking a...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 14 Nov 2006, 11:14
Replies: 16
Views: 2,886
Posted By Jester
Re: Show Alliance Value

The word you're looking for is intractable. And it is. The only thing revealing value would do is reduce the number of false positives. It would still take just as long (what comes after millenium?)...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Nov 2006, 22:22
Replies: 19
Views: 2,530
Posted By Jester
Re: Quit changing planet names _or_ publish unique IDs in DB dumps

No they shouldn't. If someone wants to genuinely restart their planet, they should pay 1 credit like everyone else does for a new planet.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Nov 2006, 22:21
Replies: 195
Views: 17,884
Posted By Jester
Re: A request for ND HC

There is nothing to say that the members have to put up with it. They choose to. I guess in the land of the blind...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 9 Nov 2006, 15:01
Replies: 6
Views: 2,558
Posted By Jester
Re: Didn't get 100XP for defending

This is all because PAteam can not count (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=2849214&postcount=7) ;)
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 9 Nov 2006, 09:29
Replies: 13
Views: 3,101
Posted By Jester
Re: how to change planet name

You do realize how ironic it is that this service is only provided to people who break the rules?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Nov 2006, 09:28
Replies: 388
Views: 39,157
Posted By Jester
Re: Official Angels Announcment

I like how you're implying that Angels are a decent alliance, that made me chuckle.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Nov 2006, 09:20
Replies: 19
Views: 2,530
Posted By Jester
Quit changing planet names _or_ publish unique IDs in DB dumps

Most alliances track intel on r/p. Usually this works great, they stay the same despite coords changing.

Personally, I think r/p changing has gotten way out of hand, but that isn't my call to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Nov 2006, 12:00
Replies: 47
Views: 6,020
Posted By Jester
Re: rollback

I'd just like to thank PAteam for their handling of yesterday's downtime. They made the correct decisions and I hope we will see more of this approach to handling problems.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 6 Nov 2006, 12:33
Replies: 126
Views: 12,965
Posted By Jester
Re: What have alliances turned into...

My gal had incoming from Omen and Angels today, and it was exactly like prestel said. Complete roid race, failed to cap anything off the EX members in our gal.

When you assume all you do is make...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 5 Nov 2006, 12:04
Replies: 126
Views: 12,965
Posted By Jester
Re: What have alliances turned into...

I think #4 is a complete foil. What reputation did EXilition have before winning round 13? What reputation did Ascendancy have before winning round 16? People worry about reputation, but see some of...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 5 Nov 2006, 11:10
Replies: 126
Views: 12,965
Posted By Jester
Re: What have alliances turned into...

EXilition are overrated, something we can thank Synthetic_Sid for. If Sid had made the concessions necessary to beat EXilition just once, they wouldn't have the aweinspiring reputation they do. They...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 15:39
Replies: 9
Views: 2,539
Posted By Jester
Re: Roid/value balance

Because that has the exact opposite effect of what we're trying to achieve ;)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 14:56
Replies: 9
Views: 2,539
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

Why is that your opinion? I don't think people should be punished for doing well early on, as it breaks the pace of the game. It's very frustrating to come out of the blocks at break neck speed only...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 13:40
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

Here's a great example of why the farming clause is crap (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showpost.php?p=3070488&postcount=130). A past round winner admits to getting a competitor's planet closed under...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 13:34
Replies: 9
Views: 2,539
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

This sums up the problem rather well.

I think this overcomplicates the matter a little. I don't see the need to wait until the middle of the round and I don't see why value/score should be...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 13:00
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

I think this is off-topic and you should post a new thread.

Agreed. It's now a new thread (http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=192886).

- Rob
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 11:35
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

I think you misunderstood the post. He raised a good point, not an attack on Planetarion. There was absolutely no need for a clarification. This is, after all, the Suggestions forum, not the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 11:05
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

There is no need to be defensive. He raises a good, worthwhile point. It would not do to simply remove the farming clause, because it would immediately provide much more benefit for one race than...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 10:07
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

I think I'm going to have to refer you to JBG's 'analogies to real life don't work' line here. I refuse to believe that Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Stalin and the like followed the UN's...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2006, 08:43
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

But this is a war game, we don't want to live happily with our friendly neighbors, we want to rape, pillage and do all that awesome viking shit that we can't do in real life. We don't want to have to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Oct 2006, 15:14
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

Just a small correction here, after round 4 farming wasn't made illegal, but ingal attacks were prevented and the first bashlimit (15%) was implemented. Farming in round 6 wouldn't be illegal, but...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Oct 2006, 14:30
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

It's not a non-sequitor, it's just not a strong result. A correlation does not equate causation, but it does imply a certain degree of causation. Further, Rob provided an actual causative argument by...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Oct 2006, 12:27
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

The devil's advocate in me wants to say "You're right, those people are called losers." However, I don't think that is true. As you can see from my previous posts, I don't advocate simply removing...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 26 Oct 2006, 09:48
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

I don't agree on the specifics you cite, but that is one much better way of dealing with it than expanding the EULA.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Oct 2006, 19:53
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

To clarify, I don't have a problem with the existence of the EULA, or even the cheating clause. What I have an issue with is the way the cheating clause has been expanded at the behest of groups with...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Oct 2006, 12:52
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

A very good example of correct behavior would be round 16 and the following changes to the XP formula. I wouldn't say that the XP formula in round 17 was perfect, but would it have been better to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Oct 2006, 12:29
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

I answered this in my original post, see in particular the second and third paragraph.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Oct 2006, 10:59
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

You lasted longer than me, but then I've actually had this argument with K-W ;)


You are, of course, correct. I was using irony when I stated that it was "science fact" that more roids would lead...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 25 Oct 2006, 08:19
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

I think this long string of practically content-less replies illustrates nicely what a contested issue this is. Discussing what is fun and what is not is pointless. Everyone has their own definition...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Oct 2006, 18:49
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
Re: The case for legalizing farming

Thank you for clarifying that. I have been led to believe that all multihunters sign the NDA and was referring primarily to this. I still think the point stands, and obviously it holds concerning...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 24 Oct 2006, 12:48
Replies: 85
Views: 11,617
Posted By Jester
The case for legalizing farming

This thread is specifically addressed to PAteam. I'd appreciate constructive responses from non-PAteam members, and that the members of PAteam in charge would at least read and consider my points.
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Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 20 Oct 2006, 10:05
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Posted By Jester
Re: Scans and distorters

As a casual player who doesn't rely on scanners, I concur that this is a problem. For me, the game doesn't begin until 100 ticks after everyone else. I have to research scans first. JGPs being after...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Sep 2005, 19:26
Replies: 52
Views: 9,371
Posted By Jester
Forum: Alliance Discussions 3 Sep 2005, 23:50
Replies: 185
Views: 11,903
Posted By Jester
Re: To much of a gap!

That's something of an insult to Dingo, he practically invented the back and forth NAP game, but unlike ND, he backed it up with military action. When he turned his back on Ve(X), he turned his guns...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 1 Sep 2005, 15:17
Replies: 14
Views: 6,691
Posted By Jester
Forum: Strategic Discussions 31 Aug 2005, 18:29
Replies: 7
Views: 2,249
Posted By Jester
Re: Discussion on PA stat direction and its implications

I don't quite see how putting a second class in with the first one is that much more 'complex'. The example that comes to mind is Cath FI/CO this round, or Cath DE/CR in r12. But really, lobbing all...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 31 Aug 2005, 18:24
Replies: 42
Views: 3,786
Posted By Jester
Re: Alliance members

Sir, you haven’t been here for long so your comment isn’t valid.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 14 Jul 2005, 12:03
Replies: 212
Views: 17,795
Posted By Jester
Re: new stats

I haven't read this post, but I think it's wrong.
Forum: General Discussions 13 Jul 2005, 12:07
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Views: 29,842
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Forum: Clownshoe Corner 13 Jul 2005, 12:07
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Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Jul 2005, 00:28
Replies: 25
Views: 2,955
Posted By Jester
Re: My Race Analysis

So they're generally the best attacker and best defender?
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