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Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 28 Dec 2004, 13:41
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Zik Bug Exploit?

Maybe I haven't made myself clear enough? Buddies CANNOT help against this sort of attack.

The only thing that can possibly damage an attacker expoliting this is to have a friend break the rules...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 20 Dec 2004, 21:10
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Zik Bug Exploit?

of course, you would need to find BWs with a lower attacking ETA than the Zik fleets, which could prove rather difficult!
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 20 Dec 2004, 15:27
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Zik Bug Exploit?

Are you seriously telling me that Ziks are SUPPOSED to be able to kill anyone's ships and get salvage, whenever they like, with absolutely no risk that they could lose any ships?
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 19 Dec 2004, 22:53
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Zik Bug Exploit?

Well, one solution would be to delete all planets that use this exploit, we already have 'no cheating' rule which covers this sort of thing.
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 18 Dec 2004, 03:15
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Zik Bug Exploit?

The BS won't kill anything, but the other 'friendly' zik ships they subvert do!

In the battle report I pasted, they killed:
Vsharrak Fighter : 5342
Daeraith Pulsar : 2671
Medium Factory : 1...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 18 Dec 2004, 01:09
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Zik Bug Exploit?

This is a serious exploit then, since it's impossible for me to inflict any damage at all on the attacker, and he'll either get salvage if I stay or kill structures if I run.
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 17 Dec 2004, 19:59
Replies: 23
Views: 5,152
Posted By Andy_r
Zik Bug Exploit?

What's the deal with this battle?

Attacking fleets: 1 Defending fleets: 5
SHIP Att Lost Held Sub Def Lost Held Sub
Vsharrak Fighter 0 0 0 0 18333 5342 0 0
Daeraith Pulsar 0 0 0 0...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Dec 2004, 21:24
Replies: 20
Views: 2,898
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Tactical Retreating

but this way you don't HAVE to kill the fleets to get to the roids!
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Dec 2004, 20:14
Replies: 20
Views: 2,898
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Tactical Retreating

Thanks for that eloquent and well reasoned post.



I think it should apply to defending and fleets at home too, I only mentioned it replacing 'fake attack' because that's somthing that's been in...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 9 Dec 2004, 16:39
Replies: 20
Views: 2,898
Posted By Andy_r
Tactical Retreating

It's always struck me as strange that a fleet will go into a battle that is so hopelessly one-sided that it will inevitably be destroyed. I propose adding the ability to retreat from such battles....
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Oct 2004, 15:20
Replies: 13
Views: 2,876
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Diary of the Lone Samaritan

Actually, there are 8 single player galaxies (2 in the 200+ range), but mine will be failry obvious when you find it.

Thanks for the excellent advice, Kloopy, but to be honest, I think I like it...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Oct 2004, 14:38
Replies: 13
Views: 2,876
Posted By Andy_r
Diary of the Lone Samaritan

Well, to be honest, I did know this would happen...

The reshuffle left me in a bottom 20 galaxy, with no members apart from me using IRC. We did manage to get our act together enough to exile the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Oct 2004, 09:35
Replies: 14
Views: 2,404
Posted By Andy_r
Re: COMPETITION: Who did the worst out of the shuffle

I ended up in a bottom 20 galaxy. I'm not sure if we have any paid planets, because we've only managed 5 forum posts between us. No sign of defence for any of the hostiles, even from in-galaxy. I'm...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Jun 2004, 12:55
Replies: 53
Views: 6,925
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Getting a Scanplanet to #1

Well done to Lord Cheese for outthinking the rest of the universe. I'm in favour of this sort of thing. If we had the tough 6k roid limit of round 10, we'd be seing a battle of wits for the top 10...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 25 May 2004, 10:16
Replies: 62
Views: 6,629
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Top list r10.5

3923rd (last place) - A concerted effort 2 finish in last place (16:8:2) - Andy_R

Free account signed up 1 tick before the end of the round, all resources donated away :-)
Forum: General Discussions 1 Apr 2004, 15:19
Replies: 33
Views: 4,440
Posted By Andy_r
www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

For one day only, you can see either some zombies, or my flash anim of Kraftwerk-style robots at www.badgerbadgerbadger.com instead of the usual dancing badgers.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Mar 2004, 10:07
Replies: 30
Views: 3,354
Posted By Andy_r
Re: PA text-only version now available for Opera users!

Well, technically it IS true, since I did design it that way, I just didn't succeed - the problem is that I only compared it to 'industrial' to see if I it was small - d'oh!

If gifs were...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Mar 2004, 12:52
Replies: 30
Views: 3,354
Posted By Andy_r
Re: PA text-only version now available for Opera users!

Mozilla (and for that matter iCab) users can block images, which gives that same effect, and can also be useful if (like me) you try to visit the portal with a modem.

For a less drastic solution,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Mar 2004, 18:41
Replies: 134
Views: 16,526
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bot Plannets

My idea was that they would never attack at all, just sit there and initiate roids, and build ships/do constructions and researches.

Players joining after tick start would be given one of these...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Mar 2004, 02:17
Replies: 2
Views: 2,508
Posted By Andy_r
Alliance ranking addition

The current alliance ranking page lists about 10 big alliances (ranked by score), and then 90 joke names, some of which are only 1 player.

I propose showing just the top 10 alliances, ranked...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Mar 2004, 02:06
Replies: 43
Views: 7,153
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Universe ranking and score

Farming has always been an issue, and I'm not convinced that going to a heavily roid-biased scoring system would make it any worse than it already is.

The roid option does seem to deny covert-ops...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 1 Mar 2004, 01:55
Replies: 30
Views: 4,164
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Intended 'Features' for Round 10.5

the Zik idea seems to be much stronger for attack than defence. As long as you attack ziks with a fleet composed of ships that don't target themselves or each other, borrowing will do no damage.
...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Feb 2004, 23:39
Replies: 43
Views: 7,153
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Universe ranking and score

'Score' as it worked in early PAX betas was a wonderful system, but it suffered from exploitability (I should know, I finished one beta in first place with more score than half the top 10 galaxies...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Feb 2004, 17:36
Replies: 38
Views: 5,280
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Planetarion Music Top 100

1. Peaches "Rosa Helikopter"
2. Weebl & Chums "Badgers"

That is all.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Feb 2004, 17:39
Replies: 19
Sg3
Views: 3,296
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Sg3

Thanks to all the |R6B| people for reminding me how much fun PA can be. When we went into the 4th quarter of SG3 with just one unallied galaxy in 4th place I was expecting everyone to call it a day...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 18 Feb 2004, 12:54
Replies: 32
Views: 3,254
Posted By Andy_r
Re: An empty fleet spot shouldn't be returning!

You are right... I didn't say it was a good reason, just that it was the reason we were given :-)

Spinner also said (more promiently, and at the time round 10 started) that 'all ships always fire'...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 17 Feb 2004, 11:33
Replies: 32
Views: 3,254
Posted By Andy_r
Re: An empty fleet spot shouldn't be returning!

From the PAX Beta, when we brought this issue up, we were told that the reason for this was that it was abusable. I believe the problem is that you could (theoretically) abuse this by sending small...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 13 Feb 2004, 11:30
Replies: 11
Views: 3,771
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Updated manual on covert ops

no, Spinner is entirely right (barring unforseen bugs of course).

What he posted is the forumula that determines *success or failure* of a covert op.

There is an *entirely different* formula...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 12 Feb 2004, 03:12
Replies: 11
Views: 3,771
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Updated manual on covert ops

So there is no point in having more than 30% security centres because the bonus is capped?

It would be very useful to know if there are similar limts to the other constructions - a limit of 60...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 12 Feb 2004, 03:06
Replies: 32
Views: 5,497
Posted By Andy_r
Re: question bout priorities....

Spinner's description does make sense, but since no-one has noticed the effects of this in an entire round, I guess it's safe to say that it's either broken or rarely affects the outcome of battles. ...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 3 Feb 2004, 10:06
Replies: 5
Views: 2,765
Posted By Andy_r
Re: I officialy declear

Dicshonaries!
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Jan 2004, 15:39
Replies: 134
Views: 16,526
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bot Plannets

yes, that was part of the plan, the bot planets should not grow big enough to be hit by people outside the "bashed to bits" and "only just started" categories - which is the reason I specified that...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Jan 2004, 12:19
Replies: 134
Views: 16,526
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bot Plannets

I posted something similar to this idea back in about round 6, when the shrinking universe and lack of 'n00b' players was causing a lot of stagnation.

Basically, I suggested using bot planets to...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 23 Jan 2004, 23:09
Replies: 28
Views: 2,773
Posted By Andy_r
Re: multihunting

Ok, this seems like a good approach to me...

Problem 1) The Webangel Effect

Problem 2) The traditional excuse for not letting people know what the tools actually do, which is that once people...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 20:21
Replies: 81
Views: 6,958
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Give people something to do

Well, if all else fails, there is at least one stable open source speedgame 'old-style PA' clone in PHP out there on the intarweb that could be pressed into 'official' service
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 17:08
Replies: 81
Views: 6,958
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Give people something to do

Personally, I'm after every formula there is (see my suggestions thread). Disturbance seems to equate reasonably well to 22% of ships dying, so I'm not too bothered about that one. My main problem is...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Jan 2004, 15:18
Replies: 81
Views: 6,958
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Give people something to do

Yay, Spinner is back!

/me fires up the spellchecker... :-)
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 22 Jan 2004, 14:37
Replies: 51
Views: 6,160
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Reveal all formulas

While the 'select group' is indeed a nice idea, the group would have to consist of people that the whole of PA could trust not to leak them to their respective alliances. Good luck finding anyone at...
Forum: General Discussions 20 Jan 2004, 16:53
Replies: 6
Views: 1,927
Posted By Andy_r
Planetarion on BBC News (sort of)

http://tinyurl.com/23cof
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 19 Jan 2004, 14:59
Replies: 51
Views: 6,160
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Reveal all formulas

Another difference is that bugs can go undetected for much longer when people don't know exactly what is supposed to be happening.

Structure/Factory targetting was completely broken throughout...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 11 Jan 2004, 18:23
Replies: 51
Views: 6,160
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Reveal all formulas

So chess is no fun/requires no skill because you know exactly what all the pieces do?

A2's comment about priorities is a very good one, using fleet priorities allows both me and you to have what...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 10 Jan 2004, 16:56
Replies: 51
Views: 6,160
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Reveal all formulas

I'm still confused by this concept that guessing how things work is a 'skill'.

I don\t spend all this time with PA to enjoy playing against a random number generator, I do it to enjoy playing...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Jan 2004, 21:19
Replies: 29
Views: 2,677
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Speedround Thread Again

From the beta, 2 minute ticks were a lot more playable than 1 minute imho, now that we have more mucking about with separate fleet and mission pages, but apart from that this sounds good to me.

If...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Jan 2004, 14:35
Replies: 51
Views: 6,160
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Reveal all formulas

Yes, I'm asking for R11 formulas not R10 ones, I thought that much was obvious!

The problem with hiding the formulas is that in PAX betas we didn't notice the income bug, the 60 finance centres...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 6 Jan 2004, 03:08
Replies: 51
Views: 6,160
Posted By Andy_r
Reveal all formulas

I believe this round's experiment with hidden formulas has been a complete failure.

There are major bugs in the structure/factory targetting code (and probably in other places too), but since we...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Dec 2003, 00:01
Replies: 27
Views: 3,309
Posted By Andy_r
Re: 3 Billion Resources?

A sensibly chosen set of numbers would let people play havoc whichever way they wanted.

Since you can both suicide your fleet AND then have the option of covert-opping inactives and maiking...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 22 Dec 2003, 17:39
Replies: 30
Views: 4,841
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Who were we? (R10)

1:5:9 Boldness of Helvetica

Iniitally I was expecting to join Olympians, but when they disappered very early on, I moved to play with my old friends from the YHQ era in New Dawn.

Prior to last...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 13 Dec 2003, 14:53
Replies: 22
Views: 4,639
Posted By Andy_r
Re: PA's economy

From my experiences in PAX beta, seeing all Spinner's posts there and discussions about the features of the new game, I'm convinced the changes for PAX were all Spinner's ideas, and I'd speculate...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Dec 2003, 01:42
Replies: 204
Views: 37,046
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Planetarion Ticker: what happens next

A few things for the people who make the decision to think about:

Ending now would be a terrible PR disaster for PA. Giving up on round 8, round 9 only being half a round, Round 9.5 going to plan...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 12 Dec 2003, 21:44
Replies: 34
Views: 5,104
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Helpful tip and some BEGGING!

11. many of us have paid for Speedrounds, which were promised during round 10. When will these speedrounds happen?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 9 Dec 2003, 00:08
Replies: 34
Views: 5,494
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Unblocking

http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?t=172926

Looked like a quit thread to me. Of course, things seem to have changed since I wrote my post.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Dec 2003, 22:15
Replies: 34
Views: 5,494
Posted By Andy_r
Unblocking

With FAnG gone, how about the rest of us have a nice clean fair fight for the vacant no. 1 slot?

Are any of the alliances prepared to take the bold step of finishing the round with no blocks?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Dec 2003, 19:45
Replies: 5
Views: 2,604
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Exiles and deletions

After a while it would become an asset to the galaxy, generating revenue. Some small galaxies might enjoy having a big inactive around donating to them all the time.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 8 Dec 2003, 17:08
Replies: 410
Views: 45,667
Posted By Andy_r
Re: who's gonna be blamed this time

some things I've not seen mentioned in this thread...

1) Is there any proof that anyone other than Webangel used that login/pass? Everyone seems to be ignoring the possiblity that everyone in...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Dec 2003, 14:15
Replies: 4
Views: 2,557
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Planetarion UP and TICKING

www.planetarion.com maybe?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 8 Dec 2003, 13:29
Replies: 5
Views: 2,604
Posted By Andy_r
Exiles and deletions

I think it's clear from recent events, and from the number of inactives that are taking expensive tours of the universe paid for out of active player's galaxy funds that the exile/deletion system...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 8 Dec 2003, 11:21
Replies: 2
Views: 2,536
Posted By Andy_r
How to stop the forums hurting your eyes

Since this option is hidden behind some rather cryptically labelled controls, here's a quick guide:

1. Click the button at the top of the page marked "User CP"
2. Choose "User Options" from the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 2 Dec 2003, 15:24
Replies: 16
Views: 3,522
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Roidcounts reversed

Jealousy!
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Dec 2003, 20:05
Replies: 16
Views: 3,522
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Roidcounts reversed

forcing balanced fleets sounds dull to me. I suggest (now this thread has movd to suggestions) dropping the 30% limit, adding an auto-runaway feature to combat (if you lose x% of your ships at base,...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 1 Dec 2003, 14:43
Replies: 16
Views: 3,522
Posted By Andy_r
Roidcounts reversed

It seems that you smaller you are, the more roids you can safely have.

In my galaxy, the player who gets the most incoming is twice my value, but has less roids than me - the biggest planets can't...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Nov 2003, 19:22
Replies: 36
Views: 4,364
Posted By Andy_r
Re: someone care to explain... ?

well, there's a simple way to check that....

Surface Analysis Scan
Reveals constructions on a target planet.
This scan costs 2000 of each resource.
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Nov 2003, 19:12
Replies: 35
Views: 6,774
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Passport

I'd have no problem with it if it did what it was supposed to do.

but giving it such a high priority at www.planetarion.com now, given that it doesn't afaik do anything at all yet is ridiculous.
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Nov 2003, 18:49
Replies: 36
Views: 4,364
Posted By Andy_r
Re: someone care to explain... ?

We would see these sort odd results if structural damage was being calulated on whole fleet values, not on a per-class basis, so if 95% of your fleet is alive after enemy fire, 95% of your fleet aims...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 16 Nov 2003, 03:19
Replies: 16
Views: 3,673
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Income is incorrect

I just checked and I'm getting more than I should:

METAL 124 31000 6000 8495 45495
CRYSTAL 117 29250 5000 7915 42165
EONIUM 111 27750 5000 7548 40298

I spent everything and donated the dregs...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 10 Nov 2003, 00:51
Replies: 11
Views: 5,884
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Strange battlereport??

I've been seeing some similarly odd reports, I've suicided a few hundred Battleships set to structures/factories on someone and not killed a single structure or factory and neither did a few hundred...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 6 Nov 2003, 16:03
Replies: 17
Views: 4,491
Posted By Andy_r
Re: WHat happens if.....

Well, the idea as I understand it is to force the big players to keep on doing heavy cargo, to hand an advantage to the smaller people, so penalties of some kind make sense to me.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 6 Nov 2003, 16:03
Replies: 17
Views: 3,428
Posted By Andy_r
Re: 6K roids and beyond

The way to gain value after 6k is to concentrate on finance centres, and whoever realised this first will have a big advantage.

I hope we will see the '6k club' switching to structure-killing...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 6 Nov 2003, 15:53
Replies: 48
Views: 5,008
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Alliance names, old and new

Well to carry the thread on, I'd better ask why, and why the "n" if FAnG is lowercase and the "N" in VisioN is in caps?

Maybe FAnG and VisioN should swap Ns?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Nov 2003, 01:01
Replies: 14
Views: 4,536
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Poll Suggestion Section

http://tinyurl.com/ttmm
Forum: General Discussions 1 Nov 2003, 22:54
Replies: 12
Views: 2,678
Posted By Andy_r
Livejounal.com

Do any of you ppl have one?

Is it worth reading?

Is it worth paying for the extras?

Do you want to invite me so I can get a free account?
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 Oct 2003, 17:17
Replies: 35
Views: 6,774
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Passprt

Is saving people from retyping their info once every 3 months better than putting off potential new customers?

If this functionality is important, why not just use the existing PA log in and...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 Oct 2003, 14:57
Replies: 28
Views: 4,616
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bring back the ship racial skills

There are 4 billion people out there that are not 'in the know' and about 4 thousand that are. With the game dying from lack of new players, I think new players need to be considered. Even if the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 Oct 2003, 14:53
Replies: 28
Views: 4,616
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bring back the ship racial skills

Removing ship classes is probably not very difficult to code nowadays, with PAX being a clean re-code, but if it is the same effect can be achieved using stats, if you wanted Xan to have no BS and...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 31 Oct 2003, 14:15
Replies: 35
Views: 6,774
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Passprt

Put yourself in the position of a new visitor to PA, who is considering playing - which is EXACTLY the sort of person we most need to bring into the game.

As eveyone does, they, will ignore the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 30 Oct 2003, 10:56
Replies: 28
Views: 4,616
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bring back the ship racial skills

I've been saying that for ages, but no-one listens. It's the main reason that I object to races, people are penalised for an entire round for a decision they took before the game started (often based...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Oct 2003, 22:16
Replies: 28
Views: 4,616
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bring back the ship racial skills

how about keeping the ships and races the way they are now, but adding emp/stealing/cloaking in another way?

These things do unbalance the game, so why not make them available to all?

Here's my...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 29 Oct 2003, 17:20
Replies: 28
Views: 4,616
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Bring back the ship racial skills

My impression I had from Spinner was that they were left out since the 'points for killing' scoring system was hard to reconcile with emp, and that the Xan travel time advantage was diffcult to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 28 Oct 2003, 17:30
Replies: 11
Views: 3,750
Posted By Andy_r
Re: MMORPG gaming experience

Actually, the score system as it was in early betas fixed this too. If your planet was reduced to rubble you kept your score, and were well placed to take advantage of the score bonuses for small...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Oct 2003, 17:15
Replies: 8
Views: 5,123
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Negative score for bashing

The benefit of score is quite simple - it determines your ranking, nothing more, nothing less.

Whoever has the most score wins :-)

Ranking is now displayed on every page, so everyone can see...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Oct 2003, 13:06
Replies: 8
Views: 5,123
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Negative score for bashing

Yes, I agree that fleet/roid size is currently making up far too high a portion of score, but I was going to wait for this thread to mature before starting another one about that!
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 28 Oct 2003, 02:18
Replies: 8
Views: 5,123
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Negative score for bashing

Well, I'm capping it to a 3-fold boost. When you take into account that the score gain for roid capping exceeds that for ship-killing at the moment (for a reasonably successful attack) I think the...
Forum: Planetarion Suggestions 27 Oct 2003, 18:12
Replies: 8
Views: 5,123
Posted By Andy_r
Negative score for bashing

I raised this with Spinner in Beta, but since he's gone off to RL (that's the big cold place that the Pizza delivery guy comes from) I'll post it here.

The score system in early betas for PA X...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Oct 2003, 05:58
Replies: 4
Views: 2,999
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Slashdot article on MMPORGS

hmm, it works for me, but that maybe because I'm logged into slashdot.

Try www.slashdot.org then scroll down to the story, but it will only be on the front page for a few more hours.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Oct 2003, 18:09
Replies: 4
Views: 2,999
Posted By Andy_r
Slashdot article on MMPORGS

Slashdot are running a story about how people are getting fed up with graphics-heavy MMPORGS here:
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Oct 2003, 16:22
Replies: 10
Views: 3,328
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Jobs for Spinner!!

I would suggest he moves further north and helps out Santa, but I fear for the reaction of chilrden woldwide when Christmas has to be moved back a few weeks :-)
Forum: Alliance Discussions 18 Oct 2003, 15:35
Replies: 12
Views: 3,401
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Wtf is up with that Game

erm, doesn't he know everyone in your gal?

I got into YHQ be randomly ending up in a YHQ gal, then into Legion by being in a Legion gal. Will none of the 9 others in your gal vouch for him?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 18:10
Replies: 17
Views: 3,392
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Explain for me

Yes, people will whine no matter what happens.

The difference is that the some of the pro-rollback people are whining about losing their entire fleet, and the anti rollback people are whining...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 16:22
Replies: 9
Views: 3,433
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Latest Rollback Question

your compensation is 4 extra days of round 10
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 15:31
Replies: 62
Views: 9,569
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Covert Ops, some light fun

Covert 782 10 agents from Iraq have infiltrated your planet and destroyed 0 metal roids. The operation was a success says their minister of information

Covert 782 10 agents from round 5 have...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 00:54
Replies: 18
Views: 4,241
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Hey JOLT thanks for CARING for your players.

They don't call me the Pedantic Proofreader for nothing!

The correct signup link is http://jpaweb01.planetarion.com/signup.pl

Maybe this ought to be somewhere more obvious on the portal too?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 00:45
Replies: 47
Views: 4,808
Posted By Andy_r
Re: No more moderating from me.

hey, it's only a row of asterisks! Seriously though, thanks for all the behind the scenes effort you've put in to the game for us
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 00:44
Replies: 18
Views: 4,241
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Hey JOLT thanks for CARING for your players.

It's probably worth pointing out that the signup link on that page is broken
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Oct 2003, 00:33
Replies: 47
Views: 4,808
Posted By Andy_r
Re: No more moderating from me.

Does this mean I can get away with saying **** **** ****ing ********s the ***** **** now?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Oct 2003, 22:30
Replies: 71
Views: 10,410
Posted By Andy_r
Re: For Spinner need all HC participation

You have 90 days to contest a payment under British law.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Oct 2003, 22:26
Replies: 32
Views: 4,957
Posted By Andy_r
Olbigatory Simposons Joke

Ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've just lost the picture, but what we've seen speaks for itself. The Planetarion spacecraft has apparently been taken over- 'conquered' if you will- by a master race of...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Oct 2003, 20:03
Replies: 71
Views: 10,410
Posted By Andy_r
Re: For Spinner need all HC participation

I'd love to understand how my ability to organise something is related to my disagreeing with you about PA X. Do all people who hold different opinions to you become unable to organise things, or is...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Oct 2003, 08:32
Replies: 20
Views: 4,881
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Planetarions Annual Report

For what it's worth, here in Britain all limited companies have to file their financial info with companies house (http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk), and the public can see basic details for free or...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Oct 2003, 08:16
Replies: 71
Views: 10,410
Posted By Andy_r
Re: For Spinner need all HC participation

I think the ideal outcome would be for Jolt to pay Spinner.

The PA community does have considerable leverage here, since the administration and bank charges invovled in contesting a credit card...
Forum: Departing PA Messages 15 Oct 2003, 22:09
Replies: 249
Views: 32,826
Posted By Andy_r
Wow, this is a tough one to write...

The deeper I've got into the workings of Planetarion, the more respect I have gained for you, Spinner. People shouldn't forget that you designed the most successful (and most copied) MMPORG there has...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 15 Oct 2003, 00:05
Replies: 20
Views: 4,344
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Wtf????????

How on earth do you reach that conclusion?

For a start, PAX is not prone to stagnation, because of the 6000 roid cap, at which point big planets can't outgrow each other and must resoirt to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Oct 2003, 13:50
Replies: 14
Views: 4,221
Posted By Andy_r
Re: The right thing to do

I'm on both sides, having lost a huge fleet that I would have recalled and gained roids with a dummy that will not work after a rollback now the planet in question knows not to run from it.

Given...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Oct 2003, 12:53
Replies: 28
Views: 3,640
Posted By Andy_r
Re: question

IF (pages served this tick * 50) < (pages served 24 ticks ago) THEN server is down
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 14 Oct 2003, 10:42
Replies: 6
Views: 3,393
Posted By Andy_r
Re: I can't log in at school

Topic for #planetarion: Planetarion Down - Attempting to contact a creator atm - Shall keep you updated as and when possible |x| Please dont spam channel about it too much, we know it's down.
Set...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 13 Oct 2003, 18:58
Replies: 114
Views: 16,190
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Lords of the rounds: The Two Towers" (The story of Xanadu and Legion in the 4th era)

Interesting to see what was going on behind the scenes. I was in the Ell/Dirtball galaxy that was mentioned in the logs, but blissfully unaware of the politics.

Funnily enough the tiny (3ppl...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 13 Oct 2003, 16:59
Replies: 26
Views: 5,918
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Ship Combinations

I can think of 4 possible reasons, none of them very convincing though.

1) The planet was late getting big ships and is in the process of changing to use the big ones.

2) The planet is trying...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Oct 2003, 13:50
Replies: 36
Views: 4,364
Posted By Andy_r
Re: someone care to explain... ?

My theory is that structure-killing isn't meant to be a worthwhile tactic until nearer the end of the round.

I'm currently seeing 1 to 2 structures killed by players of under a million in value. ...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 24 Sep 2003, 01:39
Replies: 15
Views: 11,660
Posted By Andy_r
"guesswork and quibbling"?

"guesswork and quibbling"?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Sep 2003, 22:28
Replies: 34
Views: 4,698
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: Interesting battlereport with bs

I suggest you forward the URL to 1:1:1 for Fudge to take a look at it.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Sep 2003, 22:24
Replies: 19
Views: 4,582
Posted By Andy_r
Actually, that's not what happened. His amazing...

Actually, that's not what happened. His amazing score gain was due to a flaw with the score given by combat, it was nothing to do with covert ops at all.

The score gain you get from an attack...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Sep 2003, 08:22
Replies: 24
Views: 4,413
Posted By Andy_r
The 'bright' one was called "Jolly", we asked...

The 'bright' one was called "Jolly", we asked about it's removal in Beta and were told that Mrs. Fudge (who designed it) didn't like it any more and wanted it taken out, but it might return in an...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Sep 2003, 05:01
Replies: 144
Views: 18,166
Posted By Andy_r
I wonder if this post:...

I wonder if this post: http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=2525442#post2525442
is a clue as to how it's done?

Seems like a covert-ops only planet is more practical than anyone...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 22 Sep 2003, 00:40
Replies: 28
Views: 16,995
Posted By Andy_r
That's true if you are aiming for pure Value...

That's true if you are aiming for pure Value gain, but Score gain involves the ratio of your planet's value to that of your target, and the ratio of your ship losses to your target's ship losses. To...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Sep 2003, 11:27
Replies: 10
Views: 3,506
Posted By Andy_r
I've seen this sort of comment over and over...

I've seen this sort of comment over and over again in the beta, because people are not thinking of the implications of the new features.

Like eveything in PaX, this was put in for a reason.
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Sep 2003, 10:35
Replies: 17
Views: 4,491
Posted By Andy_r
Why can't the toolkit look like this? ...

Why can't the toolkit look like this?

http://www.abe11.dial.pipex.com/pilkaramozilla.jpg

... and of course spending a few minutes swapping the fixed widths for wariable ones would solve all the...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 23:59
Replies: 19
Views: 3,104
Posted By Andy_r
Well, I've been thinking about how you would...

Well, I've been thinking about how you would actually code a combat system with the least possible mucking about...

Guns are a messy way of doing it, I would probably go for a simple look up table...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 16:40
Replies: 19
Views: 3,104
Posted By Andy_r
hmm, that's odd, I was assuming that all the old...

hmm, that's odd, I was assuming that all the old agility/weaponspeed stuff had all been thrown out in the pursuit of simplification, and that every shot would hit.

I wonder why it is still in...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 16:40
Replies: 30
Views: 5,260
Posted By Andy_r
thanks, I took a phonecall halfway through making...

thanks, I took a phonecall halfway through making this thread and missed the fact that someone had beaten me to it before I finished,
Forum: Strategic Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 14:07
Replies: 19
Views: 3,104
Posted By Andy_r
heh, well you could always skip the cryptic stuff...

heh, well you could always skip the cryptic stuff and just tell us how it works ;-)

I can't see where my logic is wrong though - if the number of ships being shot at counts, surely the number of...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 13:40
Replies: 19
Views: 3,104
Posted By Andy_r
That's a good point, if that is so (and NB3...

That's a good point, if that is so (and NB3 should know) then we need to know how many guns ships have to predict 'disturbance', as well as the cut-off level for disturbance.

Things would be even...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 13:34
Replies: 34
Views: 4,698
Posted By Andy_r
Interesting Battlereports please

As people probably know, most alliances are frantically collecting battlereports trying to work out the stats and formulas.

I think that for the benefit of the solo players, we should have this...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 13:18
Replies: 19
Views: 3,104
Posted By Andy_r
Understanding disturbance

From what I have seen in Beta, getting a good understanding of disturbance (as well as the other formulas) is going to be an important part of strategy in this round.

What we know is that...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 12:47
Replies: 21
Views: 3,807
Posted By Andy_r
This seems to penalise people for signing up...

This seems to penalise people for signing up early, someone in cluster 1 will have half as many potential targets/defenders as someone in 10+

I wonder if the universe gets bigger we will see...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 09:50
Replies: 30
Views: 5,260
Posted By Andy_r
"blessed with eager workers"

"MOTD
The Construction guilds around the universe have been blessed with eager workers, and pending constructions will be finished a little ahead of schedule. "

I wonder if this is one of those...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 16 Sep 2003, 00:35
Replies: 9
Views: 3,524
Posted By Andy_r
Writing on the beta forums is a bit like praying....

Writing on the beta forums is a bit like praying.

God ALWAYS answers your prayers, it's just that the answer is "NO!" most of the time :-)

I posted over 100 spelling and "Spinnerese to English...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 15 Sep 2003, 15:43
Replies: 85
Views: 11,305
Posted By Andy_r
I'm proud to have sat in your chans waiting for...

I'm proud to have sat in your chans waiting for my application to go through and my trial period to finish. I wish I could say I was proud to have been a member, but alas it was not to be. I'm...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 15 Sep 2003, 08:32
Replies: 16
Views: 3,117
Posted By Andy_r
The system doesn't reward suicide attacks for...

The system doesn't reward suicide attacks for either side, or it would be possible to donate score by sending just ships that only target class 'X' at a planet that has none of it's 'X' at home. This...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 14 Sep 2003, 23:17
Replies: 16
Views: 3,117
Posted By Andy_r
I'm pretty sure the definition of "bigger" is...

I'm pretty sure the definition of "bigger" is value based, not ranking based, I was getting comparatively big score gains hitting people twice my value but much lower in the rankings in the final...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Sep 2003, 12:00
Replies: 9
Views: 3,524
Posted By Andy_r
A workround for the lack of journal is to mail...

A workround for the lack of journal is to mail things to yourself.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Sep 2003, 11:59
Replies: 21
Views: 4,736
Posted By Andy_r
I standardised the sizes of menu items on the...

I standardised the sizes of menu items on the Arcade skin, and it works fine. It seems you can fiddle with all the sizes if you know what you are doing. I agree that gifs would be good though.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 13 Sep 2003, 09:42
Replies: 21
Views: 4,736
Posted By Andy_r
thanks :-)

thanks :-)
Forum: Alliance Discussions 10 Sep 2003, 18:21
Replies: 110
Views: 12,230
Posted By Andy_r
Going wildly out on a limb here.... The...

Going wildly out on a limb here....

The winning alliance will be completely new.

It will start as a local travel time based group of mostly newbies who don't carry all the baggage of old-PA...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Sep 2003, 16:10
Replies: 28
Views: 8,118
Posted By Andy_r
ofc, as soon as I post that, the beta is altered...

ofc, as soon as I post that, the beta is altered and there is now 30% salvage for defenders.

It's safest to consider the manual a moving target, I guess?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Sep 2003, 14:20
Replies: 28
Views: 8,118
Posted By Andy_r
Reading the beta forums, I see the same things...

Reading the beta forums, I see the same things cropping up on a regular basis, so here is a mini-FAQ that might warrant a place in the unofficial manual...

1) Why does the resource capturing cover...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 10 Sep 2003, 00:08
Replies: 39
Views: 4,599
Posted By Andy_r
Exclamation If there is one thing these forums should have...

If there is one thing these forums should have taught you by now, it's that actually being right comes a poor second to appearing to be right!
Forum: Strategic Discussions 9 Sep 2003, 23:38
Replies: 39
Views: 4,599
Posted By Andy_r
oops having just got my...

oops

having just got my cruisers/battleships...

you actually get the structure specialist ship too with that research.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 9 Sep 2003, 18:59
Replies: 39
Views: 4,599
Posted By Andy_r
One thing that's not clear unless you are a beta...

One thing that's not clear unless you are a beta tester...

There are just 3 main steps on the shipbuilding techtree, one gets you fighters, the next frigates, and the final one gets you cruisers...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 9 Sep 2003, 00:00
Replies: 11
Views: 3,866
Posted By Andy_r
Wierdly enough, Fudge is currently going through...

Wierdly enough, Fudge is currently going through all the threads on the new beta board and posting the word "fixed" in about 1 thread every 5 minutes at the moment!

I'm amazed!
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Sep 2003, 23:57
Replies: 12
Views: 4,882
Posted By Andy_r
How many threads can you moderate before losing...

How many threads can you moderate before losing track? :D

http://pirate.planetarion.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168982
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Sep 2003, 18:13
Replies: 12
Views: 4,882
Posted By Andy_r
...and now a comment on the stats from Spinner on...

...and now a comment on the stats from Spinner on the beta forums...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Sep 2003, 18:08
Replies: 11
Views: 3,866
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Beta's End

It seems from the 500 player limit that the forum turning into a running 2000 person flamewar was part of the issue. We also have many tweaks and typo fixes, and I assume construction killing has...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Sep 2003, 18:01
Replies: 12
Views: 4,882
Posted By Andy_r
REVISED Public Beta Stats and Formulas

Since the new public beta is now full, here is a cut & paste of the latest stats, there are several changes, not just in the Xan names...


Name Class Target Armour Damage ...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Sep 2003, 00:18
Replies: 11
Views: 3,866
Posted By Andy_r
The answer my be earlier in the public beta forum...

The answer my be earlier in the public beta forum thread you quoted that from, there is some sort of mystery DB problem that needs fixing first.

In earlier beta resets we were testing endgames,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Sep 2003, 11:31
Replies: 12
Views: 4,598
Posted By Andy_r
I think the problem here is that we have short...

I think the problem here is that we have short ticks, no strong alliances at war, and a set of people used to old-PA tactics.

Bashing and defending heavily are the necessary skills for old-PA, but...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Sep 2003, 10:02
Replies: 252
Views: 30,025
Posted By Andy_r
Tactitus He didn't even need to have a big...

Tactitus

He didn't even need to have a big planet to convince people he was better at it than anyone else :-)
Forum: General Discussions 5 Sep 2003, 23:44
Replies: 10
Views: 3,180
Posted By Andy_r
This thread was at it's closest to the...

This thread was at it's closest to the Planetarion dicussion boards on the evening of September the 5th, but is now getting further away, heading in the direction of "General Discussions"
Forum: Strategic Discussions 5 Sep 2003, 19:47
Replies: 25
Views: 4,218
Posted By Andy_r
And when the ticker stopped for a day with me at...

And when the ticker stopped for a day with me at the top my news page too a looooooong time to load!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Sep 2003, 15:00
Replies: 22
Views: 5,418
Posted By Andy_r
Armed with a couple of relevant screen grabs and...

Armed with a couple of relevant screen grabs and a few spare hours it should be quite easy to make replica skins, but it's probably worth asking Spinner if he would let us use them before going to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Sep 2003, 12:58
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
Now that I can finally resolve pilkara's DNS...

Now that I can finally resolve pilkara's DNS again...

http://www.abe11.dial.pipex.com/pilkaramozilla.jpg

Nicer, isn't it?

Anyway, please give a thought to using percentages instead of pixels...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Sep 2003, 17:31
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
Actually, having just tried it with Explorer on a...

Actually, having just tried it with Explorer on a PC, I can. It looks terrible in Explorer compared to what I'm seeing on my Macintosh running Mozilla!

It's probably a 72dpi/90dpi issue, and I'm...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Sep 2003, 16:43
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
I wonder if anyone switched from Pilkara to the...

I wonder if anyone switched from Pilkara to the toolkit though? If I had visited it more than once, I would certainly have complained about the size, but I had a working alternative at Pilkara, so I...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Sep 2003, 23:04
Replies: 11
Views: 3,950
Posted By Andy_r
In the current beta it gives you a tiny score...

In the current beta it gives you a tiny score gain, vastly outweighed by the score you get for killing things.

Trust me on this, I currently have more roids than anyone in the top 100 and I'm only...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 2 Sep 2003, 10:25
Replies: 11
Views: 5,366
Posted By Andy_r
Not if you wave attack :-) Now that defence...

Not if you wave attack :-)

Now that defence against waved attacks is 6 times harder, we'll be seeing a lot of this!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Sep 2003, 10:22
Replies: 10
Views: 3,946
Posted By Andy_r
They need even numbers of roid types, which means...

They need even numbers of roid types, which means if they get out of balance they can smply attack whichever race concentrates on what they are short of.

Now there are no 'sinks' for excess...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 1 Sep 2003, 14:04
Replies: 21
Views: 5,018
Posted By Andy_r
Very good post. I've been having similar...

Very good post. I've been having similar discussions in the betas, and there is an amazing resistance to change.

People are finding it amazingly difficult to look at the overall picture, and are...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 1 Sep 2003, 08:44
Replies: 12
Views: 3,800
Posted By Andy_r
I've been searching for exploits in the score...

I've been searching for exploits in the score system for several iterations of the beta, and just like another person I could mention, I have a nice but hollow victory to show for my success :-)
...
Forum: Planetarion Help Desk 31 Aug 2003, 23:16
Replies: 8
Views: 3,192
Posted By Andy_r
There are a lot of DNS problems around at the...

There are a lot of DNS problems around at the moment, try http://195.149.21.104/passport/

Added "/passport/" to URL to make it point to the portal instead of a random page on main.pa
Forum: Strategic Discussions 31 Aug 2003, 09:39
Replies: 11
Views: 5,366
Posted By Andy_r
The problem with this approach is the...

The problem with this approach is the 'disturbance' factor.

To get roids, you need one class of ships to be sufficiently 'undisturbed' by the combat to cap roids, which is going to be a problem is...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 23:26
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
It would be very easy to just keep the height...

It would be very easy to just keep the height fixed and stretch the horizontal sizes of the top icons, to the right of the big X. They will be readable down to about 40% width, and even if they get...
Forum: General Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 22:12
Replies: 38
Views: 4,119
Posted By Andy_r
I hear a sort of highly irritating ringing sound,...

I hear a sort of highly irritating ringing sound, and then I hear voices.

I call this phenomenon a 'telephone call'.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 21:43
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
I agree with everything you say about standards,...

I agree with everything you say about standards, the difference is that I think the standards are dictated by what people actually use, and you think that Microsoft will abandon it's monopoly...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 21:01
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
With IE's maket share, Microsoft can just tell...

With IE's maket share, Microsoft can just tell the WC3 where to stick their standards, just like they did with HTML 2.0 onwards.

Putting a lot of effort into passing WC3's incredibly picky...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 20:28
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
Personally, I think this WC3 thing is a complete...

Personally, I think this WC3 thing is a complete red herring. Practically nothing passes the validation tests, and it if you do manage to write something that does pass, it's no guarantee that it...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 16:57
Replies: 11
Views: 5,366
Posted By Andy_r
I just cut & paste the entire stats page from the...

I just cut & paste the entire stats page from the public beta, and added spaces to patch up the formatting.
It may indeed need translation from Spinnerese to English, but that's not my fault ;-)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 13:42
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
Wow, you have those too? I didn't know. I...

Wow, you have those too? I didn't know.
I guess that means Mozilla's popup blocker is working :-)

The stupidity of advertisers never ceases to amaze me, do they really think that the more they...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 11:26
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
You like having to scroll all the time just to...

You like having to scroll all the time just to see the content, having a top menu that duplicates the side menu, buttons that lead to the page you are already on, bright jiggly flash ads in the...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 30 Aug 2003, 10:17
Replies: 11
Views: 5,366
Posted By Andy_r
PaX Public Beta Stats

Current Ship Stats

Name Class Target Armour Damage Struct Metal Crystal Eonium Race

Banshee Fighter Fighter Decent Average Poor 1400 750 750...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Aug 2003, 23:29
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
well, Parracida, you know how to fix it then!

well, Parracida, you know how to fix it then!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Aug 2003, 23:15
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
I wasn't asking HOW it's wrong, I was asking WHY...

I wasn't asking HOW it's wrong, I was asking WHY it's wrong!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Aug 2003, 22:45
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
Then why doesn't it resize to fit the browser...

Then why doesn't it resize to fit the browser window?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Aug 2003, 22:10
Replies: 76
Views: 8,523
Posted By Andy_r
The big problem with the new portal is that it is...

The big problem with the new portal is that it is far too graphic heavy. Taking up so much space with a huge detailed letter X that you have to scroll around to see the content is just silly, you...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 Aug 2003, 16:14
Replies: 7
Views: 3,964
Posted By Andy_r
...and even if you know you have lots of mines,...

...and even if you know you have lots of mines, they can't steal them, only destroy them. The other factor to consider is the Heavy Cargo Transfers limit, which makes you choose between having lots...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Aug 2003, 17:58
Replies: 35
Views: 4,002
Posted By Andy_r
He's a famous PA player, so we knew that already...

He's a famous PA player, so we knew that already :-)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 26 Aug 2003, 16:36
Replies: 35
Views: 4,002
Posted By Andy_r
Unhappy I can't have my underscore either

I can't have my underscore either
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Aug 2003, 00:54
Replies: 113
Views: 16,303
Posted By Andy_r
A few ideas to kick around... Allow everyone...

A few ideas to kick around...

Allow everyone to sign up individually, and assign them to teams by location, so you play with the 10 ppl who are closest to you physically. The final might end up as...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Aug 2003, 00:41
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
well, pardon me for following the rules. ...

well, pardon me for following the rules.


True. Then they will wonder how some of the small people are on ten times their score, and how, when those small players do get smacked, they keep on...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Aug 2003, 22:43
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
Disclaimer: Once again I have very good answers...

Disclaimer: Once again I have very good answers to a some of Hicks's points that I can't reveal here.


True, but only if you define having too many roids and a huge angry enemy, a 'reward'.
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Aug 2003, 15:39
Replies: 57
Views: 8,723
Posted By Andy_r
If there is one thing I'm absolutley sure of it's...

If there is one thing I'm absolutley sure of it's that for the new game, you NEED a manual!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Aug 2003, 14:58
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: PAX Beta first impressions

Great, now go try those in PA X, and you'll see how the score system actually rewards those kinds of things far more that it rewards bashing. In PA X you can have that kind if fun AND win!

...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Aug 2003, 11:59
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: Re: Re: PAX Beta first impressions

I'm limited in the reply I can make to your intelligent and well reasoned post by the request for confidentality.

I'll answer where I can, and hope that my sudden swing from criticising Spinner's...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Aug 2003, 11:57
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: PAX Beta first impressions

So do my posts, and I've always been one of Spinner's harshest critics.

A lot of the negative comments are from people who are just looking at the surface level, and finding things they don't...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Aug 2003, 21:43
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: PAX Beta first impressions

I tried it. I attacked the galaxy to the left of me, but pushing the joystick to the left for 8 hours was knackering, and only getting to press the fire button once an hour when I got there was lame....
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Aug 2003, 20:56
Replies: 67
Views: 8,875
Posted By Andy_r
Wave Amps don't go Poof :-) Yikes! I leaked!...

Wave Amps don't go Poof :-)

Yikes! I leaked!

/me slaps himself
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Aug 2003, 12:02
Replies: 83
Views: 10,751
Posted By Andy_r
For my part, I'm coming round to Cochese's...

For my part, I'm coming round to Cochese's position a bit too. I'd assumed everyone would adapt to the new game far more quickly than they are, so the mechanisms that are in place to push people away...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Aug 2003, 10:11
Replies: 83
Views: 10,751
Posted By Andy_r
Talking Group hug!

:-)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Aug 2003, 10:06
Replies: 60
Views: 9,156
Posted By Andy_r
I'll be playing :-)

I'll be playing :-)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Aug 2003, 01:43
Replies: 83
Views: 10,751
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: On a more positive note...

I'll skip a tedious point-by point rehash of this debate and just say that it's safe to say we disagree, and neither of us is making much headway at convincing the other.

All the readers of this...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Aug 2003, 16:11
Replies: 30
Views: 6,189
Posted By Andy_r
at a guess...

We know there is a 2 week public beta planned, and since there are not 2 weeks left to fit that in before the 22nd, it has to be for that.

The real questions are:

How long between that date...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Aug 2003, 13:00
Replies: 83
Views: 10,751
Posted By Andy_r
Exclamation On a more positive note...

I've held off posting in this thread for as long as I can bear, becaue we all know tha the first rule of Beta is that you do not talk about Beta, and the Second rule of Beta is that you do NOT talk...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Aug 2003, 15:56
Replies: 49
Views: 4,553
Posted By Andy_r
I enjoyed it a lot

The ending of the car chase with the 2 trucks crashing and Neo rescuing Morpeus and the Keymaker definitely had the 'wow' factor for me, much more so than the T3 truck.

Yes, the rave scene went on...
Forum: General Discussions 9 Aug 2003, 15:39
Replies: 47
Views: 3,979
Posted By Andy_r
at a guess...

about 4000 or so.

I think they just started to outnumber my vinyl record collection.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 7 Aug 2003, 10:33
Replies: 31
Views: 3,938
Posted By Andy_r
Might I suggest not building leftovers?

Might I suggest not building leftovers?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 7 Aug 2003, 10:31
Replies: 31
Views: 3,938
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: Screenshots of round 10

All you can sensibly attack with a fleet that has around 25% of your ships in it is someone MUCH smaller than you - hence my comment about bashers

Also, bashers can use the '1 big fleet to kill...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Aug 2003, 02:21
Replies: 39
Views: 6,219
Posted By Andy_r
It's a meaningless squiggle, but as meaningless...

It's a meaningless squiggle, but as meaningless squiggles go, it's not bad :-)

The name does read as Plane Tarion X though, which is a bit odd.

I'm not as positive about the screenshots of...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 7 Aug 2003, 02:17
Replies: 31
Views: 3,938
Posted By Andy_r
Screenshots of round 10

There are now screenshots of round 10 linked from www.planetarion.com which reveal a few things about the next round that were previously only known to beta testers and those with access to leaks.
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 7 Aug 2003, 02:07
Replies: 59
Views: 7,826
Posted By Andy_r
Re: incompetent fools

Am I alone in thinking that's a much better title for what goes on here than "Planetarion Discussions"?:)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Aug 2003, 12:12
Replies: 48
Views: 4,945
Posted By Andy_r
No Round 10 News for over a month and a half

"Subject: Alliances, Traveltime and more
Posted by Spinner at 10:29 on Saturday 14th June 2003"

If you want us to stay interested, and eventually pay for the new game, at least give us an update...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Aug 2003, 04:31
Replies: 39
Views: 5,664
Posted By Andy_r
If you legalise account swapping, you give people...

If you legalise account swapping, you give people an excuse to 'babysit' and share their login/pass, if caught they would simply say it's an account swap.

Is this a bad thing? Possibly not. I...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2003, 20:40
Replies: 39
Views: 5,664
Posted By Andy_r
ok, here is a suggestion for a radical...

ok, here is a suggestion for a radical anti-cheating/alliance power reducing measure...

Get rid of clusters and parallels. Players are only able to send ships, (hostile or friendly) and scan the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Jul 2003, 20:20
Replies: 39
Views: 5,664
Posted By Andy_r
hmm, planets have to be in the same alliance to...

hmm, planets have to be in the same alliance to attack together?

I can't see how this could be implemented, do targets suddenly get forbidden if someone from a different alliance is already...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Jul 2003, 05:11
Replies: 39
Views: 5,664
Posted By Andy_r
irc-nick as planetname has several problems. ...

irc-nick as planetname has several problems.

Firstly, half of PA (the low scoring half) doesn't have IRC, and a high percentage of new players don't have it either.

Secondly, it would become...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 Jul 2003, 13:54
Replies: 42
Views: 6,145
Posted By Andy_r
Re: 19:8:6 A Pint of Indian Pale Ale

/me whistles and tries to change the subject
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jul 2003, 11:35
Replies: 51
Views: 6,063
Posted By Andy_r
Zero Luck????? You have never scanned for a roid?...

Zero Luck????? You have never scanned for a roid? Or played any of the rounds with random galaxies then? Never launched an attack on a planet that might run, might get defence, might build more...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jul 2003, 11:13
Replies: 51
Views: 6,063
Posted By Andy_r
There are several major problems with not...

There are several major problems with not releasing the stats.

Clearly, it hands a big advantage to the alliances who can compare lots of combat reports, which ought to be reason enough for full...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 18 Jul 2003, 18:13
Replies: 42
Views: 6,145
Posted By Andy_r
36:10:14 Mordac the Preventer of Information...

36:10:14 Mordac the Preventer of Information Services

Score: 15,839,886

Ships (59646 units total)
Vsharrak Fighter 8429 Daeraith Pulsar 7562
Lyvidian Sentinel 30605 Culdassa Arrowhead...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jul 2003, 18:05
Replies: 55
Views: 8,575
Posted By Andy_r
GL in RL

Adding my name to the long list of people who have only good things to say about Desse.

There are rare people in PA, who you can trust to be hard-working, have unswerving loyalty, dedication,...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jul 2003, 10:52
Replies: 43
Views: 6,274
Posted By Andy_r
Just wait until they tell you to build the turret...

Just wait until they tell you to build the turret construction in round 10, after Spinner has removed the pds, THEN you can start complaining.

As for in-galaxy attacks being prohibited, the 20%...
Forum: General Discussions 14 Jul 2003, 23:51
Replies: 67
Views: 7,335
Posted By Andy_r
I find it worderfully liberating to be able to...

I find it worderfully liberating to be able to use my alias Andy_R.

You have no idea how difficult RL is when your real name is Jarjar Pickard McWarezood III
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jul 2003, 15:00
Replies: 25
Views: 5,632
Posted By Andy_r
I wonder how much less cheating there would be if...

I wonder how much less cheating there would be if scans were free and always succeded?

Taking away one of the major incentives to cheat would probably stop people going down the slippery path that...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 11 Jul 2003, 12:56
Replies: 14
Views: 3,148
Posted By Andy_r
Any decent alliance HC should be able to put...

Any decent alliance HC should be able to put together a fleetcatch quite easily - the difficult part is keeping the catch secret from the target, and stopping people from recalling if there is some...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Jul 2003, 15:14
Replies: 10
Views: 2,981
Posted By Andy_r
That's the formula from the manual, but it is...

That's the formula from the manual, but it is incomplete, there is also an additional part that reduces the success further for the more expensive scans.
Forum: General Discussions 5 Jul 2003, 13:52
Replies: 91
Views: 6,734
Posted By Andy_r
yes, minister

yes, minister
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Jul 2003, 17:22
Replies: 12
Views: 2,645
Posted By Andy_r
You think you've got it bad! I was ranked...

You think you've got it bad!

I was ranked 2nd at tick 74 (nothing to do with skill, It just took me slightly over 1 hour of server-thrashing to to all the possible quests at tick 73, so I ended...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Jul 2003, 14:46
Replies: 47
Views: 5,984
Posted By Andy_r
so, what is the answer to the one about a poker...

so, what is the answer to the one about a poker hand looking like a telephone number? :confused:

Has anyone (or a bot for that matter) ever been closed for getting too many wrong questions?
...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 1 Jul 2003, 09:38
Replies: 10
Views: 3,045
Posted By Andy_r
CowboyNeal

CowboyNeal
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 Jun 2003, 14:51
Replies: 4
Views: 4,798
Posted By Andy_r
In round 5 it got me from finishing outside the...

In round 5 it got me from finishing outside the top 250, to inside it, I went from 253rd with 2 ticks to go to 245th at the end.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 27 Jun 2003, 16:42
Replies: 4
Views: 4,798
Posted By Andy_r
PDS and score

In search of the best possible final score, I'm considering using my excess E to build an huge number of Mesonic Cutters 5 ticks before the round ends.

In the past there was a bug that affected...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 27 Jun 2003, 11:58
Replies: 56
Views: 7,592
Posted By Andy_r
That's a good point, but I've not seen anyone...

That's a good point, but I've not seen anyone trying that pattern of behaviour since the famous Kileman incident.

Anyone who is making a reasonable attempt to cover their tracks would either be...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Jun 2003, 11:42
Replies: 56
Views: 7,592
Posted By Andy_r
ok...

The problem with looking at IPs that is that 2 players legitimately working legitmately in close harmony will look exactly like a multi.

A far better way of using IPs to catch cheaters would be to...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 Jun 2003, 12:48
Replies: 56
Views: 7,592
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: but...

Yes, the point I was making is that IP is a good way to catch accountsharers and a bad way to catch multis.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Jun 2003, 15:36
Replies: 56
Views: 7,592
Posted By Andy_r
but...

The problem with doing that is that 2 players legitimately working legitmately in close harmony will look exactly like a multi.

A far better way of using IPs to catch cheaters would be to watch...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 19 Jun 2003, 10:53
Replies: 71
Views: 8,316
Posted By Andy_r
Find Cathaars who have most of their fleetscore...

Find Cathaars who have most of their fleetscore in Beetles, Defenders and/or Roaches, attack with a Corvette only fleet.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 9 Jun 2003, 08:49
Replies: 115
Views: 11,454
Posted By Andy_r
From my point of view

As one of the old players who left, I'm one of the people who Jolt/PA are trying to entice back with this free mini-round.

Frankly, I'm not impressed with the current performance.

We all know...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jun 2003, 06:59
Replies: 97
Views: 10,467
Posted By Andy_r
Interesting to see that Athena and Girlee are...

Interesting to see that Athena and Girlee are missing from this thread, despite GCing top galaxies in the past, maybe the whole 'being married' thing has an effect?

Nobody mentioned my wife...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 4 Jun 2003, 06:36
Replies: 11
Views: 3,228
Posted By Andy_r
Yes it would be a good idea to give 1:1:1 lots of...

Yes it would be a good idea to give 1:1:1 lots of something useless so it's the number 1 galaxy when the quests happen.

I suggest Reflectors :-)
Forum: Strategic Discussions 31 May 2003, 16:10
Replies: 32
Views: 4,320
Posted By Andy_r
Actually I expect a lot more bad-scan whining,...

Actually I expect a lot more bad-scan whining, since we are starting with 24 roids. There will be a lot of people failing the sector scan quest and getting 0 roids at tick 7 because they don't have...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 May 2003, 23:20
Replies: 32
Views: 4,320
Posted By Andy_r
simple, you would end up with -1 amps.

simple, you would end up with -1 amps.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 May 2003, 14:24
Replies: 27
Views: 3,472
Posted By Andy_r
It doesn't make any difference, you can't get to...

It doesn't make any difference, you can't get to the donation quests until after the 'launch a hostile fleet quest', which you can't do until protection ends.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 May 2003, 13:39
Replies: 32
Views: 4,320
Posted By Andy_r
No, it's not. When scanning for roids, you don't...

No, it's not. When scanning for roids, you don't have an opponent with reflectors.

The manual says the Roid scanning formula is:

30 * (Number of Wave Amplifiers / Present Number of Asteroids)...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 May 2003, 13:33
Replies: 32
Views: 4,320
Posted By Andy_r
No. When things get going you'll be needing to...

No. When things get going you'll be needing to buy a mixture of amps and roid scans, which requires lots more C than E.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 May 2003, 13:27
Replies: 32
Views: 4,320
Posted By Andy_r
Re: Re: Getting that first Sector Scan through

Well spotted, I was good at maths, but it was a LONG time ago :-) I cancelled both sides of the equation and assumed the result was nothing at all, but as you point out it's 0.

Anyway, it looks...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 28 May 2003, 10:30
Replies: 32
Views: 4,320
Posted By Andy_r
Getting that first Sector Scan through

so, I check in the manual to see how many amps I need to stand a good change of completing the sector scan quest early on, and I see:



well, assuming I'm not unlucky enough to pick someone who...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 24 May 2003, 23:06
Replies: 14
Views: 2,568
Posted By Andy_r
Shouldn't there be an announcement saying that...

Shouldn't there be an announcement saying that the announcements will be on the portal?

Maybe there was one and I missed it because it was only on the portal?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 24 May 2003, 23:03
Replies: 10
Views: 2,961
Posted By Andy_r
I'm not so sure of that, success would require...

I'm not so sure of that, success would require making friends with over 50% of a new galaxy on a reguar basis!
Forum: Strategic Discussions 24 May 2003, 22:20
Replies: 10
Views: 2,961
Posted By Andy_r
Wierd Suggestion

Here's how to entirely remove the power of alliances in PA by only changing 2 lines of code!

1) Instead of not allowing attacks in-galaxy, reverse it so players can ONLY attack and defend...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 23 May 2003, 10:28
Replies: 21
Views: 3,545
Posted By Andy_r
Starting round 9.5 with 6 roids of each type

So, the temptation of a free short round was too much for me, and I'm going to play once more.

On the portal, Spinner says that we will start the round with a full tech tree and 6 roids of each...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 25 Apr 2003, 09:09
Replies: 40
Views: 6,427
Posted By Andy_r
Wishing RS a speedy and complete recovery

We are all hoping you get through this as speedily and completely as possible
Forum: Strategic Discussions 4 Apr 2003, 23:57
Replies: 26
Views: 3,224
Posted By Andy_r
There seems to be a lot of support for wrap-round...

There seems to be a lot of support for wrap-round co-ordinates when calculating etas.

This has 2 problems (only one of which I realised when I posted in Spinner's thread)

1) the lowest cluster...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 4 Apr 2003, 11:08
Replies: 250
Views: 27,858
Posted By Andy_r
The flaw with the circular universe idea...

...is that quite quickly the low numbered galaxies will get too big to attack the new high numbered ones that are being added next to them, which will leave them at a disavantage.

This could be...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Mar 2003, 17:08
Replies: 15
Views: 3,869
Posted By Andy_r
My quit thread

So, signups have been open for a while and tick start is just a week away - so why am I not feeling excited?

Maybe I'm too old, maybe I'm still saddened by the end of the Titans or the abrupt...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Feb 2003, 13:24
Replies: 70
Views: 8,797
Posted By Andy_r
Congratulations!

Congratulations!
Forum: Strategic Discussions 22 Feb 2003, 18:19
Replies: 59
Views: 9,833
Posted By Andy_r
Xands have a huge vulnerability to Mantis, but ...

Xands have a huge vulnerability to Mantis, but apart from that, there is still the eta advantage and the milscan-confusing advantage, who cares about ship costs when you only need to send out dummy...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Feb 2003, 20:25
Replies: 5
Views: 3,279
Posted By Andy_r
Then investigate resonancefm.com, or tune to...

Then investigate resonancefm.com, or tune to 104.4 if you are in London!

It's a legitimate (non-pirate) station with a one year licence to broadcast, it doesn't have any adverts, and you can hear...
Forum: General Discussions 21 Feb 2003, 17:42
Replies: 5
Views: 3,279
Posted By Andy_r
Planetarion player becomes radio DJ for a day!

Proof that I do other things with my life than just hang out on the strategy forum!

I hope some of you will tune into my one-off show on London's Resonance 104.4 FM this Saturday lunchtime. It...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Feb 2003, 13:22
Replies: 331
Views: 66,081
Posted By Andy_r
1) me 2) Dirtball 3) Athena 4) Aesop 5)...

1) me
2) Dirtball
3) Athena
4) Aesop
5) Cypher
6) Masada
7) Heartshunter
8) Nynaeve
9) Colonel Carpenter
10) Tactitus
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 10 Feb 2003, 12:56
Replies: 61
Views: 6,881
Posted By Andy_r
Titans and LDK had different ideas of what...

Titans and LDK had different ideas of what 'winning' meant. LDK wanted #1 planet, Titans wanted to have the most top 10, top 100 and top 250 planets. Both were where they wanted to be when 5th season...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 8 Feb 2003, 21:12
Replies: 14
Views: 2,815
Posted By Andy_r
'Veterans' rarely complain about new ideas, what...

'Veterans' rarely complain about new ideas, what we complain about is the specific implementation of the ideas... some examples:

Overburn was a good idea, but the implementation let people get...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 6 Feb 2003, 19:15
Replies: 74
Views: 5,959
Posted By Andy_r
I can't really find anything positive to say...

I can't really find anything positive to say about parallels.

Another point to bear in mind is that I expect there will be about 4000 paid sign-ups for round 9, and if we have 10 player glaxies...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 2 Feb 2003, 16:06
Replies: 45
Views: 4,391
Posted By Andy_r
Congratulations!

Congratulations!
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Jan 2003, 22:46
Replies: 4
Views: 2,499
Posted By Andy_r
New idea about the Random/Private problem

I mentioned this idea earlier today but it got lost halfway down a long thread in the 'questions to players forum', and I think it deserves a thread of it's own...

Here's the problem: we need a...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 23 Jan 2003, 00:30
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
Podless fleets won't work, people will simply...

Podless fleets won't work, people will simply move their fleet away and take no damage.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Jan 2003, 20:04
Replies: 15
Views: 3,734
Posted By Andy_r
Random galaxies need to be given some advantage,...

Random galaxies need to be given some advantage, and overburn might be a good thing, but after all the effort that went into getting it taken out it won't go back in for round 9.

The problem is...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Jan 2003, 18:34
Replies: 32
Views: 4,753
Posted By Andy_r
I think the reason is that "remove overburn" was...

I think the reason is that "remove overburn" was a nice simple rallying cry, an easy message to get through to the creators.

Personally, I wanted OB attacks to stay too, but nowhere near as...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Jan 2003, 16:03
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
I was arguing against Gayle's idea of recalls not...

I was arguing against Gayle's idea of recalls not being available after eta 2.

One bad idea at a time please!



Yes! The most satisfying thing in round 8 was watching people run from 500...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2003, 20:15
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
1) Because in-galaxy fighter defence can be...

1) Because in-galaxy fighter defence can be launched in time by any planet that gets recalled from in a galaxy-wide attack. Strong galaxies under attack will get on-line just before eta 2 and hammer...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2003, 19:06
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
I can't beleive I'm reading this, SYMM! You...

I can't beleive I'm reading this, SYMM!

You come up with an idea that makes it harder to get roids from difficult targets and now you want to remove the 3-tick attack limit?!?!?!

Why don't we...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2003, 17:08
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
I agree with Scoot951, this will encourage...

I agree with Scoot951, this will encourage overkill attacks.

Since the larger the planet the more likely it is to get defence, a good strategy for getting roids will be to gang up with people of...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2003, 16:44
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
But what about players who have become too big to...

But what about players who have become too big to bash? People in the top 250 last round usually launched 2 attacks a night, but only gained roids 3 or 4 times a week.

Removing recalls would make...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2003, 16:11
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
This would make the game even less friendly to...

This would make the game even less friendly to the casual player, since you would have to be online for launch, online again for a scan 2 hours and 1 minute before landing (it has to be this late in...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 20 Jan 2003, 15:54
Replies: 39
Views: 3,970
Posted By Andy_r
I'll start by saying I'm strongly against this...

I'll start by saying I'm strongly against this idea, since it will make it harder to get roids.

Anyway, if we are going to get all 'real world' about it (which is damn difficult considering PA...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jan 2003, 15:13
Replies: 9
Views: 2,772
Posted By Andy_r
Confusing Portal Poll

Would "Random gals to have MORE players as Private AND overburn" mean that random galaxies would have overburn, but private ones would not?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 19 Jan 2003, 14:57
Replies: 81
Views: 9,030
Posted By Andy_r
Best of luck Zeus

I've always known your heart was in the right place, even if your vowels and consonants rarely were :-)
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 18 Jan 2003, 17:59
Replies: 10
Views: 2,846
Posted By Andy_r
<Zeus> so currently we are looking at signups...

<Zeus> so currently we are looking at signups opening on 1st Feb.
<Zeus> and ticks start about 2 weeks after that.
<Zeus> so...we could be looking at feb 14th ticks start round 9.

From the...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 17 Jan 2003, 15:30
Replies: 107
Views: 13,524
Posted By Andy_r
From round 8: Waking up in the middle of the...

From round 8: Waking up in the middle of the night and realising I'd overslept the recall of fighter fleets from Eternal Flame.

My planet dropped from 13th to 136th in 2 ticks.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 14 Jan 2003, 20:58
Replies: 51
Views: 9,034
Posted By Andy_r
I think the important point here (once you strip...

I think the important point here (once you strip out all the bickering) is:

The PA community can provide a highly skilled team of strategic minds to advise Spinner on the implications of new...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 11 Jan 2003, 12:45
Replies: 27
Views: 4,071
Posted By Andy_r
I think the principle of having more players in...

I think the principle of having more players in random galaxies is sound, since random players are at a huge disadvantage, and the increased numbers will offset this, and will hopefully introduce...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Jan 2003, 20:14
Replies: 35
Views: 8,705
Posted By Andy_r
One more thing: consider the effects of overburn...

One more thing: consider the effects of overburn defence on private galaxies...

In-galaxy OB fighter defence has eta 2, and can therfore be launched just one hour and one minute before an attacker...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Jan 2003, 20:07
Replies: 35
Views: 8,705
Posted By Andy_r
The importance of overburn in the next round will...

The importance of overburn in the next round will vary depending on how the creators fix the imbalance of Xandathrii etas.

If xandathrii are slowed down to match other races attack etas, it will...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Jan 2003, 13:14
Replies: 32
Views: 4,263
Posted By Andy_r
I would consider writing my strategy columns...

I would consider writing my strategy columns again if it wasn't for the 'one per week' restriction.

Wouldn't the portal be a better resource for players if columns were written when the authors...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Dec 2002, 18:31
Replies: 36
Views: 4,512
Posted By Andy_r
Planetarion III?

Planetarion III?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Dec 2002, 12:25
Replies: 33
Views: 5,038
Posted By Andy_r
I imagine a lot of the people who quit over the...

I imagine a lot of the people who quit over the last few rounds might come back if they knew that the big alliances that they blamed for their lack of success have left the game.
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Dec 2002, 12:14
Replies: 85
Views: 10,458
Posted By Andy_r
The single thing that (currently) annoys me most...

The single thing that (currently) annoys me most about the portal is the uneccessary 'view article' links, they very rarely lead to anything more than you can already read on the main page, but you...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 23 Dec 2002, 20:47
Replies: 90
Views: 11,641
Posted By Andy_r
I'm finding it difficult to write anything that...

I'm finding it difficult to write anything that doesn't sound like propaganda, or empty praise but here goes...

Titans felt like home.

Titans was an alliance where absolutely everyone respected...
Forum: General Discussions 17 Dec 2002, 14:34
Replies: 36
Views: 4,596
Posted By Andy_r
Rather inaccurately, it seems?

Rather inaccurately, it seems?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Dec 2002, 15:33
Replies: 48
Views: 5,387
Posted By Andy_r
Sorry, but the only way La Ketchup could have...

Sorry, but the only way La Ketchup could have been taken down is if war broke out between LDK and Titans, and there is no way on Earth that was going to happen before December 23rd, as both sides had...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 11 Dec 2002, 14:07
Replies: 211
Views: 19,024
Posted By Andy_r
Having shared a galaxy with you, I can agree...

Having shared a galaxy with you, I can agree 100% with all the positive things that have been said about VisioN in this thread - surviving and thriving without allies is a great achievement,...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 5 Dec 2002, 12:13
Replies: 232
Views: 31,637
Posted By Andy_r
Could be worse, spending resources is the reason...

Could be worse, spending resources is the reason I'm 102nd not 99th :-/
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Dec 2002, 14:13
Replies: 14
Views: 3,631
Posted By Andy_r
A free round would take 3 months and require a...

A free round would take 3 months and require a huge bandwidth for all the extra players - and bots :-(

Finishing the current round would only take 3 weeks or so, and the bandwidth required would...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 3 Dec 2002, 13:39
Replies: 14
Views: 3,631
Posted By Andy_r
Open letter to the new owners of PA

Zeus has just announced that it will not be possible for him and Fudge to move the game to new servers and restart the round.

While I applaud their efforts to do the right thing without being...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 30 Nov 2002, 14:45
Replies: 15
Views: 4,550
Posted By Andy_r
how about we finish round 8 first?

how about we finish round 8 first?
Forum: Strategic Discussions 26 Nov 2002, 20:30
Replies: 15
Views: 3,189
Posted By Andy_r
I was in the top 20 for about the first 1000...

I was in the top 20 for about the first 1000 ticks (curse oversleeping!) and I can quite confidently say I've seen no evidence of farming at all.

All the big alliances would love to get their...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Nov 2002, 17:47
Replies: 33
Views: 5,357
Posted By Andy_r
You were referring to me when you said "You all a...

You were referring to me when you said "You all a bunch of bloody retards."?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 22 Nov 2002, 12:40
Replies: 33
Views: 5,357
Posted By Andy_r
You tried to start a thread where nothing but...

You tried to start a thread where nothing but praise was allowed - all we did is explain why we are not going to praise you.



You asked everyone did you?



Let me explain it to you:
GD...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 21 Nov 2002, 14:53
Replies: 33
Views: 5,357
Posted By Andy_r
Nothing worth voting for there

1) The Game (Spinner, Fudge)
Overburn def makes it too tough to get roids, and Xandathrii are too powerful. So much for beta-testing :-(

2) Game Support (Oreo,...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Nov 2002, 14:31
Replies: 49
Views: 6,744
Posted By Andy_r
The problem with ditching all your allies and...

The problem with ditching all your allies and going by the number 1 planet, is that no single alliance could mount a defence against a concerted waved fleet catching attack from everyone else in the...
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Nov 2002, 14:15
Replies: 49
Views: 6,744
Posted By Andy_r
top 5000 thread anyone?

top 5000 thread anyone?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Nov 2002, 14:08
Replies: 49
Views: 6,744
Posted By Andy_r
Is that an official annoucement of the end of the...

Is that an official annoucement of the end of the round?
Forum: Alliance Discussions 16 Nov 2002, 14:05
Replies: 49
Views: 6,744
Posted By Andy_r
The only way I can see is for us to have the "Who...

The only way I can see is for us to have the "Who was top 100" thread again like we did last round, and let people draw their own conclusions.
Forum: Strategic Discussions 8 Nov 2002, 03:30
Replies: 26
Views: 3,732
Posted By Andy_r
I have 3 frigs and 3 battleships, purely for use...

I have 3 frigs and 3 battleships, purely for use when joint attacking with people who are eta 8 or eta 9 :-)
Forum: Strategic Discussions 5 Nov 2002, 09:48
Replies: 15
Views: 3,197
Posted By Andy_r
The Council appreciates your efforts at educating...

The Council appreciates your efforts at educating the masses and awards you 3 gold stars.
Forum: Alliance Discussions 3 Nov 2002, 23:28
Replies: 97
Views: 8,724
Posted By Andy_r
I wonder if these are the same people who all...

I wonder if these are the same people who all launch at cluster 60 the moment anyone up there gets a few roids?
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 31 Oct 2002, 08:00
Replies: 61
Views: 7,839
Posted By Andy_r
Powerblocks have made almost all my irc friends...

Powerblocks have made almost all my irc friends into PA 'enemies' at one time or other, so my test is that I can have a friendly conversation while being at war with them or their allies.

Everyone...
Forum: Strategic Discussions 29 Oct 2002, 05:03
Replies: 8
Views: 2,974
Posted By Andy_r
That thread has (at the time I wrote this) 86...

That thread has (at the time I wrote this) 86 views and 5 replies.

Maybe 81 people found it useful and 5 didn't, you can't really tell. Of the replies, some were useful additions to what you...
Forum: Planetarion Discussions 29 Aug 2002, 16:24
Replies: 101
Views: 15,623
Posted By Andy_r
How much will Round 8 accounts cost?

I'm sure that I am not the only one who will pledge to pay for some other people... but only once I know what the cost will be, and what bulk packages (if any) there are going to be.
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