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HobbieRogue4 · 23 Oct 2004, 20:39

...how badly will I be hampered as far as game-play?*

*Keep in mind that actual time devoted to game-play each day will be minimal at best.

jvg · 23 Oct 2004, 20:41

well pretty bad heh

depends on your luck with gals

Pa crew have made some strange thing thou. So you will only join suckky gals. its seems you cant join a good gal or something. Not sure what they have done heh. would actually like to know what the big idea is

HobbieRogue4 · 23 Oct 2004, 20:44

By "sucky" do you mean lumped with a galaxy devoid of any paid accounts then?

P.S. It's been approximately four minutes and I'm still waiting on my confirmation e-mail.*

*No, I'm not using a free provider.

mist · 23 Oct 2004, 20:54

you'll only be able to mine 200ish roids, and won't be able to do most of the other researches.

basically, you can either:
attack other freebies in the hopes of stealing their roids
initiate up to 200 roids and be bored / farmed
covert op people you don't like, with the lamer covert ops

that said, if you're not in a big alliance, these options seem fairly close to what you'd get as a paid account

-mist

jvg · 23 Oct 2004, 20:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by HobbieRogue4

By "sucky" do you mean lumped with a galaxy devoid of any paid accounts then?

P.S. It's been approximately four minutes and I'm still waiting on my confirmation e-mail.*

*No, I'm not using a free provider.

sucky i mean unpaid always under attack gals

hell if u end up in mine i would pay for u =P

Forest · 23 Oct 2004, 21:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by jvg

sucky i mean unpaid always under attack gals

hell if u end up in mine i would pay for u =P

Why?

HR4 is a pain

HobbieRogue4 · 24 Oct 2004, 09:28

It's been several hours. Still no e-mail. This is irritating, when looking at my Net provider also being my e-mail provider.

I have a feeling that such a delay will ultimately harm my chances of a Top 10 finish.

:((((

HobbieRogue4 · 25 Oct 2004, 13:03

I'm still waiting...

Phil^ · 25 Oct 2004, 17:52

have you tried prodding a pateam member in #support, or re-requesting the mail from the login page ( password recovery form ) , after having checked its not got filtered as spam

Rc mayhem · 27 Oct 2004, 00:49

I have been thinking about this and I am wondering about if you are going to go random, if you would be better off not paying for a while, reaping those free roids, getting nice and big, then paying and trying to quickly research the required mining things. If you time it right and are lucky i think you may well get away better.

Anyone want to discuss?

mist · 27 Oct 2004, 00:58

how would you get more roids as a freebie than as a paid planet?

i don't see the cunning part of you plan...

-mist

Rc mayhem · 27 Oct 2004, 01:23

steal them. if you look right now there are loads of nice targets in the free part and very few in the paid. Just have to hope that once you pay you can get the research to mine them fast, thus giving you a few ticks of huge income before they are stolen, however been random gals are usually not great anyway for defence or activity, the time with near imunity in the free side and then the few ticks of boosted income may mean you are better off.

Thats my theory at least

Cm

Tis · 27 Oct 2004, 08:30

um, theres only one part where you can attack m8 :/

the c200s are a no fly zone.

Rc mayhem · 27 Oct 2004, 08:35

You cant attack in c200?? bugger. that will be the problem then......

Kal · 27 Oct 2004, 11:21

if u r in c200 u can attack c200 people, but why would u be in c200?

Forest · 27 Oct 2004, 12:17

Go to c200, attack non-stop, get loads of roids, then come back at the end with a huge planet.

Rocket Science

Kal · 27 Oct 2004, 12:27

its rather slow getting roids in c200 and the XP gains will be lower as well

Forest · 27 Oct 2004, 12:33

Its also safer. Roid people that wont get defence, and dont worry about an orgainsed alliance sending wave after wave at u.

furball · 27 Oct 2004, 16:05

As an old player reading this thread, I've just decided to go and play a free planet. Let's see how it goes...

Rc mayhem · 28 Oct 2004, 00:47

but i thought you couldnt mine more than 200 roids due to restrictions. still looks better than playing in the paid universe.

Forest · 28 Oct 2004, 00:53

whats stopping u being a paid planet and getting urself exiled there?

Rc mayhem · 28 Oct 2004, 01:02

That possible? That would be the best way to do it though.

randal · 28 Oct 2004, 11:01

they made the free planets so totally boring and pointless (at least after a week) and inable to join alliances or clusteralliances (cause of eta etc..) to keep new players away i guess, there's no other explanation for those ridiculous restrictions

must be cause of the servers and stuff, yes i'm sure it is

furball · 28 Oct 2004, 14:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nonentity

As an old player reading this thread, I've just decided to go and play a free planet. Let's see how it goes...

Well, 24 hours later it's going pretty well. I'm following a helpful 72 hour tick plan, with a couple of amendments since everyone will already have ships once I come out of protection. Helpfully my new MoD sent me a lot of resources, so I'm roid-fat and getting ready to build ships.

After the personal fiasco that was round 10, especially after the ship-stats back then, I'm actually having a bit of fun at the moment. I'll keep everyone updated about attacking and stuff - an old PA player's view on what it's like to return to what certainly used to be one hell of a game.

Oh, and I've already upgraded

said MoD had a couple of spare credits....

one downside: if only i'd been the new player in Sid's gal

-furball

Forest · 28 Oct 2004, 15:00

Are u in the c200's

/me would like to have a pot at getting a top 10 planet using only c200 till end of round

furball · 28 Oct 2004, 15:10

Nope, I'm in the paid universe

started there

laputa · 28 Oct 2004, 15:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by HobbieRogue4

...how badly will I be hampered as far as game-play?*

*Keep in mind that actual time devoted to game-play each day will be minimal at best.

lo Hobbie! I also have a free account. The 200 roids limit sucks though. Also my gal is quite lame. I started 72 ticks late an I am ranked #3. But since my level of game play is limited to 10 minutes a day I don't really care. Wanna go roid huntin' with me?

Laputa

Forest · 28 Oct 2004, 15:40

shouldnt u ahve 48 free accounts?

laputa · 28 Oct 2004, 15:46

nah my neighbors, cats, dogs and other pets are too tired to play atm....maybe next round!

Forest · 28 Oct 2004, 15:54

Rc mayhem · 28 Oct 2004, 16:50

do you think jolt/PA would let us share a C200 planet for the round for the purpose of research? somehow i think not but may be worth a try

G.K Zhukov · 28 Oct 2004, 17:01

Im having a freebie.

I roid n00bs. I defend my alliance. I play a bad target, so I dont get attacked.
There you go hobbie

Rampage · 29 Oct 2004, 06:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by HobbieRogue4

By "sucky" do you mean lumped with a galaxy devoid of any paid accounts then?

P.S. It's been approximately four minutes and I'm still waiting on my confirmation e-mail.*

*No, I'm not using a free provider.

Caught in the act, sad hoobie , sad ! :P

HobbieRogue4 · 29 Oct 2004, 13:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rampage

Caught in the act, sad hoobie , sad ! :P

TISK TISK!

An HC actually reading these forums! Shameful!

laputa, Zhukov: I'd be happy to join you guys, only, well, let's try the password recovery thingy... I cba to ask a PAtty Team Member, heh.

HobbieRogue4 · 29 Oct 2004, 14:01

Apparently, my e-mail isn't in the system. Therefore, I've signed up a new one...

laputa · 30 Oct 2004, 11:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by HobbieRogue4

TISK TISK!
laputa, Zhukov: I'd be happy to join you guys, only, well, let's try the password recovery thingy... I cba to ask a PAtty Team Member, heh.

Tell me when you are out of protection...roids are waitin

HobbieRogue4 · 30 Oct 2004, 11:44

This is bullshit... still no confirmation e-mail OR return password from my new planet.

I can't say I'm disappointed.