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Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Sep 2007, 00:50
Replies: 149
Views: 16,077
Posted By Talin
Re: Destiny and eXilition

Amusing how that line comes across as a whine. Especially after noting how many people (outside ex) kept talking about an anti-exilition coallition being needed for about a whole year now - often...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 15 Aug 2007, 22:18
Replies: 63
Views: 12,165
Posted By Talin
Re: Jenova: As its over, how many planets?

Being public about the issue and trying to turn things around and make the game function normally again is a clear and obvious goal.

Recruiting extra members in an attempt to win the round, while...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 15 Aug 2007, 19:43
Replies: 63
Views: 12,165
Posted By Talin
Re: Jenova: As its over, how many planets?

On a sidenote, the entire *scendancy deal was public from the very beginning, and there was no lying or decieving involved, which is a slight difference.

But don't take it as an excuse. There is...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Aug 2007, 08:52
Replies: 63
Views: 12,165
Posted By Talin
Re: Jenova: As its over, how many planets?

These people attacked with and defended Jenova planets, if MH were going to keep an eye on this for alliances other than eXilition or Ascendancy, they had plenty of evidence in-game.

The nicklist...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 12 Aug 2007, 22:23
Replies: 63
Views: 12,165
Posted By Talin
Re: Jenova: As its over, how many planets?

Brilliant.

I won't be slagging off Jenova, as it's impossible for me to percieve having any number of planets as cheating. Although it was a wrong choice to try to defend this case and deny...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Aug 2007, 00:31
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

When you're talking about things like this, could you refer to which rounds exactly are you talking about?

As in, which rounds it was that alliances were regarded as winners, contenders, or...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Aug 2007, 21:23
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

That depends on what kind of deal you made with VGN of course. It would be dishonorable if you agreed to a permanent NAP. It would be normal if you agreed to a temporary NAP to eliminate whoever it...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Aug 2007, 21:09
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

Heh, this sounds quite familiar. :)

On a sidenote, I'm tempted to dig out what Kargool was posting during the certain two rounds when ND and Subh preformed similar acts. I even might put an effort...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Aug 2007, 14:49
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

Technically they should do whatever the hell they feel like doing, and for whatever reason, which is kind of the point. I don't have a problem with that at all.

Only problem is that they try to...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 22:29
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

And it can keep changing until the very last tick, but I still don't see how can you fit two or three alliances into it. Only one will eventually win.

Wheter the alliances involved choose to make...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 22:22
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

Funny, I would've thought that forced tag limits, tag score, and relevant alliance rankings (all of which you seem to support) made it pretty obvious that in the current setup, #1 ranked alliance...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 21:56
Replies: 117
Views: 9,508
Posted By Talin
Re: Round Report 5 august 2007

Except this is not round five, blocks don't win anymore, "The Triad" was merely a coop to get rid of one of the contenders, and VGN will (as it stands) win alone?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 15:46
Replies: 85
Views: 11,672
Posted By Talin
Re: R23: Cluster ETAs

For the record, in my first round, our private galaxy was quite literally raped in-cluster on daily basis, and we had tremendous fun, being new to the game and trying our best to arrange defense,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Aug 2007, 15:25
Replies: 22
Views: 11,773
Posted By Talin
Re: Fleet commanders

How would they benefit from XP (I assume it's not the same XP as the one that's already in the game)?

And what would the traits be like?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 15:24
Replies: 30
Views: 3,679
Posted By Talin
Re: So, supportplanet rule and r23.

But it seems there is lots of love in PA. :(
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 15:08
Replies: 30
Views: 3,679
Posted By Talin
Re: So, supportplanet rule and r23.

This statement is wrong in so many ways.

First of all, they're not hindering their round by making themselves immune, they're doing what can be done to protect their planet from an offensive...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Aug 2007, 11:15
Replies: 13
Views: 2,889
Posted By Talin
Re: support planet issue??

Essentially, yes.

The question now is, how are these decisions brought about? You just said how the support rule came to be, and the motivation behind it is pretty clear as well.

But what...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Aug 2007, 05:39
Replies: 13
Views: 2,889
Posted By Talin
Re: support planet issue??

I have yet to hear any valid argument whatsoever against dropping the support rule completely, and until I do, I'll keep supporting that side.

By limiting the number of times someone can defend...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Aug 2007, 05:26
Replies: 103
Views: 18,405
Posted By Talin
Re: Ministry announcement

gr33n <3
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Aug 2007, 13:09
Replies: 58
Views: 5,381
Posted By Talin
Re: Next round alliance limits

Other alliances should then simply make sure this does not happen, or alternatively compensate the losses with their own recruitment. Where is the point?

They're only suffering the consequence of...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 23 Jul 2007, 14:56
Replies: 60
Views: 15,694
Posted By Talin
Re: Does anybody remember what alliance first used a 'Wing' system?

If I remember correctly, The Empire (or some similar name) was known to be the first such alliance. I don't know anything specific about it though, and I still may be wrong altogether.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Jul 2007, 02:36
Replies: 142
Views: 15,260
Posted By Talin
Re: The Nature of the Support Planets Rule and other such extended discussions

Heh. I should've just left it at this, you said enough yourself.



Surely this is wrong. When a scanner is crippled by having his amps destroyed, every alliance other than his own benefits from...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Jul 2007, 01:22
Replies: 142
Views: 15,260
Posted By Talin
Re: The Nature of the Support Planets Rule and other such extended discussions

What nasty things? It has been said like a dozen of times right here that there were too many people willing to play in Asc to put in under one tag, hence there were multiple tags.

I guess one...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Jul 2007, 21:29
Replies: 15
Views: 2,986
Posted By Talin
Re: Etd pick their own ships

Yeah, it's a pretty bad idea indeed.

But I would so like to be able to do that! :(
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Jul 2007, 19:43
Replies: 14
Views: 3,442
Posted By Talin
Re: Transparent Hunting

The discussion does work. It does result in well-argumented points being filtered from not so well-argumented ones. It's only normal that some people get upset along the way and start ranting...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jul 2007, 19:33
Replies: 142
Views: 15,260
Posted By Talin
Re: The Nature of the Support Planets Rule and other such extended discussions

No. It hurts too much.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jul 2007, 16:45
Replies: 142
Views: 15,260
Posted By Talin
Re: The Nature of the Support Planets Rule and other such extended discussions

What people and what posts? You are one of the three people here that I can recall who posted in support of support planet rule, and the only person to actively argue that side (with a painful lack...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jul 2007, 08:58
Replies: 164
Views: 20,276
Posted By Talin
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

That depends on what you want to do.

It's very possible to write a (more or less) precise EULA against multiing, account sharing, and to an extent against farming, abusive language, and many other...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jul 2007, 01:26
Replies: 164
Views: 20,276
Posted By Talin
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

I'm convinced by now that you are purposefully trying to ignore the point here. I don't know why, and I couldn't care less. Allow me to put it in a more direct and internet-debate-compatible manner. ...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 15:24
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

You always hang onto the most unimportant part of the post. I said it doesn't matter if it was 30% or 100% already. I just mentioned that bit, because Remy claimed it was 90% (and made closure based...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 15:15
Replies: 164
Views: 20,276
Posted By Talin
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

Wrong. With enough access, regular users can view the accesslist on www.netgamers.org.

As for the IPs to the nicks, it can also be done using /dns command if the person doesn't have +x mode set. I...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 15:08
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

But not every rule is the subject to interpretation to the same extent.

When you look for multis, you know exactly what you're looking for. When you see the same IP through different accounts, and...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:56
Replies: 164
Views: 20,276
Posted By Talin
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

What is it with you and cservice?

The "information" (I presume you mean the log with Remy) is either from a PM or a public channel, I'm guessing.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:50
Replies: 164
Views: 20,276
Posted By Talin
Re: Who watches the Watchers?

Sounds like doublespeak (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak) to me.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:38
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Hah, I edited out that detail at the last moment! :)

(you never know these days :()
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:31
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

In fact, you'll see that I never accused Remy of being biased on alliance or personal basis. Although I do not personally believe he went on to check every planet with scans that did 30% of their...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 14:12
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Very well. But then it also means I wouldn't not biased or at fault for not closing out of tag defenders, as long as I applied the same standard to every planet in the universe (which I don't think...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 13:55
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Even if that's the case, my point still stands.

Support planet rule only mentions "unfair benefits", and nothing else specifically.

So it's up to the MH's biased (and I don't mean in a...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 02:07
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Exactly. So MH's judgement is decisive in the end, which does make Remy responsible, and not just someone who followed and executed a rule. The rule is simply too broad for it to be applied like...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Jul 2007, 01:28
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

But once again, where do the rules state that scanning for someone in another alliance (even if it is 100% scans) is illegal? Remy couldn't have applied such a rule, because it does not exist.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 15 Jul 2007, 11:40
Replies: 11
Views: 3,581
Posted By Talin
Re: A new research branch : Diplomacy

It could provide some interesting results indeed. On the other hand, I'd rather that the actual diplomacy is kept outside the game code, and given freedom that it used to have (which includes...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Jul 2007, 23:49
Replies: 54
Views: 7,064
Posted By Talin
Re: Large Alliances ruin PA for everybody else

Unlikely.



This is wrong. There were plenty of "lesser" alliances (talking about r5-r6 here) with over 100-120 members that I can recall. Membership among lower ranked alliances wasn't...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 22:16
Replies: 74
Views: 13,814
Posted By Talin
Re: Are these Alliances around anymore?

Obviously no one would say "I am offended", but alright, have it your way. It was my personal perception.



Then again, F-Crew isn't exactly the only alliance that had its members verbally...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Jul 2007, 18:02
Replies: 74
Views: 13,814
Posted By Talin
Re: Are these Alliances around anymore?

Or alternaively, because they get actively involved in the main political scene, and hence influence the round to a certain extent. And wheter they are actually held in "fairly high" regard still...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 09:49
Replies: 74
Views: 13,814
Posted By Talin
Re: Are these Alliances around anymore?

Same advice.

You're taking offense unneccessarily, really. We (well, I) do understand that you have your own criteria for rating an alliance. And I have my own, subjective criteria as well. It...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 12 Jul 2007, 01:36
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

That depends on wheter we have non-interaction rules or not.

In case there are no non-interaction rules, I doubt anyone would abandon their planets just like that. Everyone would want those...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Jul 2007, 00:10
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

So let me guess, anyone who doesn't read and understand the EULA in the same way that you do is actually trying to find exploits and destroy Planetarion? Brilliant.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 22:58
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

The key question there is, who are "you"? Because "we" certainly don't have attackers and defenders as specialized roles. In fact, I'm pretty sure "specialized defenders" could somehow fall under the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 21:47
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

You can hardly be successful in the game as a dedicated scanner. Some people should always be there and be willing to sacrifice their round for an alliance to have an efficient scanner - while being...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 17:16
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Huge contraditiction in that single line.

Has there been any alliance, ever, in the history of Planetarion (again bar Concordium in Round 1) that was "noobishly swarming", and yet won the round?...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jul 2007, 17:11
Replies: 14
Views: 2,783
Posted By Talin
Re: Alliance limit - a solution

Is it just me, or there is no difference whatsoever between a player being a "Supporter" in tag, and being out of tag?

Where's the point? Unless you're limiting the number of "supporters" an...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 17:04
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

You're ignoring what he said though.

1) Every alliance has equal opportunity to recruit as many players as they want, need, and can manage.
2) Every alliance has equal opportunity to find allies...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jul 2007, 16:30
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

I thought we weren't going with the interaction limitations (bar attacking/farming)? Especially when planets are incorporated into the development process like this, and players pay the price of...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jul 2007, 16:16
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

That makes much more sense, yeah. It would also provide plenty of planets of all sizes in the universe, and it shouldn't be a problem for every low/average ranked player to find some underdeveloped...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jul 2007, 16:07
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

Actually, wouldn't the requirement for a capital investment in order to get an additional planet do exactly the opposite? Instead of allowing everyone additional planets, only those who can afford it...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 15:39
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Then the alliance beeing badly outnumbered by the other alliance can recruit more members and fight back.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 15:29
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Because finding 3 allies in Planetarion to fight a perfectly fair 3-times bigger opposition is much easier and more fair than recruiting additional 20 or so members (which you might not even need) to...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 15:16
Replies: 74
Views: 13,814
Posted By Talin
Re: Are these Alliances around anymore?

And to me, my local football club is the best in the world (and I'll vouch none of you ever heard of it).

This game measures ranks based on score, victories based on ranks, and success based on...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 14:56
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Sigh.



So you are saying that it's perfectly fair to have, for example, 3 alliances (210 members) gang up on a single alliance (70 members)? Because that's politics.

Now how does that fit in...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2007, 12:56
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Actually, that's exactly what you are doing. Continuous spamming of the same "arguments" over and over with complete disregard to the actual debate, and what other people are saying.

You're saying...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jul 2007, 10:58
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

Slightly.

It would be much harder to wipe out a player completely, as furball pointed out. There would be 10k planets around, and at the same time it would add more depth to the actual gameplay....
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 23:21
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

Slightly off-topic, but this would pretty much make Ziks obsolete as a race (or at least the stealing ability). Perhaps the best option would be keeping it at 3 races then, which is probably easiest...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 20:52
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

Following on TK's arguments, I'll also add the one that managing an (illegal) multi account is neither as easy nor as profitable as it sounds in theory. For example, having 5 planets you control in a...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 19:35
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

It's hard to tell. The only real downside I see of allowing multiple planets is that some people who play casually would simply not bother to put the effort in managing 3, 5 or 10 accounts (however...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 19:06
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

What I'm thinking is, would we really need the non-interaction rules, though?

If we assume several facts:

1) Everyone is allowed the same (limited?) number of planets.
2) Farming would still...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jul 2007, 17:59
Replies: 87
Views: 7,973
Posted By Talin
Re: Make Multying Legal

I am generally in favor of this.

I assume that limiting the number of accounts (or better said, planets, as I assume it would still be one actual "account") to a certain number would be needed,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Jul 2007, 11:44
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

The plot thickens.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 20:52
Replies: 72
Views: 11,168
Posted By Talin
Re: so whats happening?

All the while I had no idea #XIV was such an amusing place to be in. :(
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Jul 2007, 20:33
Replies: 34
Views: 4,009
Posted By Talin
Re: The Support Planet Rule

My memory might be flawed after all this time, but wasn't Round 3 the only really one sided, quickly decided round in Planetarion's history? Rounds 1 and 5 are close contestants, but not quite there...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Jul 2007, 19:23
Replies: 34
Views: 4,009
Posted By Talin
Re: The Support Planet Rule

What jupp said pretty much sums it up.

As for the suggestion of "hardcoding" everything that support rule implies, I won't get into how good or how bad would that be (although my opinion on that...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 19:11
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

That's a debate which I wouldn't want to get into now (also largely off-topic).



Uh, no, it doesn't. There's nothing that says that repeated scanning for an organization is unfair benefit. It...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 18:49
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

The "grey area" part of that analysis pretty much makes all other arguments null and void.

First of all, no one should get to decide what is "unfair" and what isn't, unless there is a detailed...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 18:36
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

The problem is obviously in the actual rule. Multihunters can use this rule to close hundreds and hundreds of planets if they choose to do so. Closing a scanner is only the worst thing that has...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 13:42
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

It will (or is meant to) achieve a reduced financial income from Planetarion, until the whole issue about support rule is resolved. That might be "absolutely nothing", or it might not be, depends how...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 11:56
Replies: 83
Views: 8,148
Posted By Talin
Re: To VGN, CT and Jenova

Why play with us then? Go run your massive WoW guild or something.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 11:36
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

I found this hilarious.

Anyway.

There are two problems here. First is the problem with the support rule in itself, which has nothing to with you. Second is your completely overblown...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 01:00
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Don't reply to Red, he'll just drag the thread to oblivion.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jul 2007, 00:16
Replies: 244
Views: 24,639
Posted By Talin
Re: An Open Letter to the Planetarion Players

Sign.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Jul 2007, 19:07
Replies: 45
Views: 4,385
Posted By Talin
Re: The truth about UNHOLY

This alone is a sound advice right there!

(couldn't resist)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Jul 2007, 01:10
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Mindnumbing.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 22:22
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Don't get me wrong, I don't like to go into ego battles, but I'm pretty sure that there are people who started playing in round 18 and have a better insight, based solely on this statement:


...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 21:32
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Simple. If you think that Descendancy has been significantly helping Ascendancy, then Ascendancy's ranking does not reflect the true state of things (which you claimed in the last post). Afterall,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 19:09
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

They have an advantage, yes. They do not have an unfair advantage. Huge difference.



Weren't you complaining about Descendancy for a week, claiming how it's only goal is to "help" Ascendancy,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 18:47
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

I'll give you one single, sublte hint. Football (most sports in general) is played by a fixed number of two squads. Planetarion is a Free For All war and diplomacy game which involves at least 10...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 17:21
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

For God's sake, stop using completely absurd and illogical analogy with football, or any other sport.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 15:35
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Why would you ever want to say that?

You may as well attempt to make an arugment based on the question "what would happen if Jenova, CT, VGN, VsN, and eXilition support planets all joined the same...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 15:01
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Nothing would stop them and nothing should stop them - other than their own competence and effort, of course.

Making an efficient and working alliance of 50 people is difficult. With 70 it's...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 13:09
Replies: 49
Views: 6,201
Posted By Talin
Re: How many waves is enough?

Didn't we already have a thread like this once... or twice, or half a dozen times?

Yes, it's frustrating to be 10-waved to the stone age. This is a frustrating game. It's perfectly normal to be...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jul 2007, 12:42
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

Wrong. Every alliance gets a set limit of people who can be in tag, and at the same time recieve all the benefits of being in the same tag (faster defense, scan database, contributing to alliance...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 5 Jul 2007, 21:43
Replies: 171
Views: 15,473
Posted By Talin
Re: Is scanning for someone unfair?

The multihunters limited alliance cooperation the moment OOGOOA rule thing was introduced, they just took it a step further every following round or two.

I don't think I can comment the event of...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 2 Jul 2007, 16:53
Replies: 106
Views: 14,177
Posted By Talin
Re: [F-Crew] bite me

And just when one would think that this thread could not possibly get any worse.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jul 2007, 12:24
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

This entire thread does. Unfortunately people in charge are unlikely to see it that way.

I expect more rules to patch the holes (and at the same time allow for new "exploits"), rather than the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jul 2007, 00:12
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

= Planetarion login question. I don't think I can find any other relevance to this game. ;)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jul 2007, 00:06
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

Or let's play with one club having $300 mil bankroll to buy any player they can imagine for the sole reason they have a rich Russian owner, and the other one having $10k, or nearing bankrupcy. Oh...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Jul 2007, 23:52
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

What you're saying, and what many people have a problem with, is that a player shouldn't be allowed to make or join the alliance he wants, attack targets he wants in any way that he wants, and for...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Jul 2007, 22:46
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

Yes and no.

There is a significant population of players (and whoever is in charge of general game development) who feel that everything which annoys, irritates, frustrates, stresses out, adds...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Jun 2007, 12:42
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

Such behaviour is only encouraged by adding more and more pointless rules each round, from the hardcoded alliance limit to the rules directing where your fleets can and where they can't go.

(hi...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Jun 2007, 23:59
Replies: 190
Views: 16,582
Posted By Talin
Re: Cov Ops

You do realize that this "breach" has happened countless times since the support rule was introduced, yes?

Sharing targets and scans between cooperating alliances pretty much -defines- the term...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jun 2007, 02:09
Replies: 13
Views: 3,503
Posted By Talin
Re: PA - An Analysis

I find myself agreeing with wakey on this one.

What you need is a person with some level of knowledge and talent in actual game design, and what he would need is creative freedom for this game to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Jun 2007, 21:33
Replies: 58
Views: 7,961
Posted By Talin
Re: Rules enforcement

It is more an issue of actual rules than the individual cases. While the inconsistency with the cases is obvious, the rules which in essence rely on reading and second-guessing players' minds allows...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 May 2007, 22:52
Replies: 116
Views: 18,746
Posted By Talin
Re: OMG , im CHEATING

Come to think of it, I think I'll take this advice and leave it at that. :)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 May 2007, 22:46
Replies: 116
Views: 18,746
Posted By Talin
Re: OMG , im CHEATING

Wouldn't you expect that they would have made that "mutually beneficial arrangement" somewhere other than the ingame mail which the MH can and will read?

Either way, even if all that would make...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 May 2007, 22:36
Replies: 116
Views: 18,746
Posted By Talin
Re: OMG , im CHEATING

This has nothing to do with either farming of ships, roids or xp. Related to this, I agree to mz's post above (the last line).

It has to do with one player sending the other a completely harmless...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 May 2007, 21:53
Replies: 116
Views: 18,746
Posted By Talin
Re: OMG , im CHEATING

So does this so-called rule actually accomplish anything, besides making the game look like a not-quite-sane environment?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 May 2007, 20:00
Replies: 116
Views: 18,746
Posted By Talin
Re: OMG , im CHEATING

Hi.

You have just made me dig out an account I never actually used (and it's not a gimmick, before you make that assumption) to reply in this thread.

And my reply is: WHAT?

Seriously, do the...
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