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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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with a ten week round the alliances had better work together to prevent an ownage by anyone such as happened over the last 2 rounds because if asc owns like it did last round or the round b4 then we would have 5 weeks of an unchallenged hegemony, which would imo be rather boring for everyone
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Its why its probably a bad idea raising the alliance limit to 100 while also increasing the round length.. As doesnt it just allow more good players to move to Asc?
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27 Dec 2008, 05:41
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Its why its probably a bad idea raising the alliance limit to 100 while also increasing the round length.. As doesnt it just allow more good players to move to Asc?
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if the "good players" are moving to asc, it's because their allies aren't working for them
instead of worrying about ascendancy taking members from other alliances, you should think about why they're leaving in the first place
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27 Dec 2008, 09:47
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by stay_posi
if the "good players" are moving to asc, it's because their allies aren't working for them
instead of worrying about ascendancy taking members from other alliances, you should think about why they're leaving in the first place
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coming from someone who shipjumped to asc in r29 to someone who intends to use an asc invite for r30; surely between you two u have the answers.
It is not that every other alliance is totally worthless but rather asc is a different kind of alliance which others seem unwilling to replicate. It surely would not be hard to recreate ascs system; but now that they do have all the good players its effectively closing the barn door after the horse has bolted
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27 Dec 2008, 10:20
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Its why its probably a bad idea raising the alliance limit to 100 while also increasing the round length.. As doesnt it just allow more good players to move to Asc?
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10:20:18 <@Munin> **** off and stop watering down this elitist shithole.
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27 Dec 2008, 10:54
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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but now that they do have all the good players its effectively closing the barn door after the horse has bolted
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so you're saying anyone not in ascendancy isnt a good player?
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27 Dec 2008, 10:59
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
And that's before you even consider losses to Omen and Angels.
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27 Dec 2008, 11:18
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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so you're saying anyone not in ascendancy isnt a good player?
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no but I think I have said before (probably in the r29 predictions thread) that the half of the universes good players not in asc but spread thin through the others doesnt seem to balance those concentrated in Asc.
besides, Im not in or am I likely to be asc, I would essentially be saying Im not a good player, which while it may be true is not something Im likely to admit to myself
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27 Dec 2008, 11:33
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Raising the alliance limit means that there can be fewer alliances. This round was interesting. Next round will stagnate again. They never learn.
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27 Dec 2008, 11:46
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Im not sure thats true; the amount of alliances is in large part decided by how many HC teams there are out there actively recruiting and thus their theoretical maximum is not an issue. There is no need for every alliance to race to 100, its quite likely many would have about 75 anyway.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by Gerbie2
Raising the alliance limit means that there can be fewer alliances. This round was interesting. Next round will stagnate again. They never learn.
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Can only mean? I think not.
Denial were not playing next round regardless of how what the limit was going to be.
Angels and Omen started reforming before the alliance limit was announced.
It's almost like people care more about being in charge than how many members they have! Who would've thunk it.
Edit: beaten and more eloquently so by Londo. Shucks.
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27 Dec 2008, 19:00
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Benefits some alliances more than others tho
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27 Dec 2008, 23:36
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by Vladel
Benefits some alliances more than others tho
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By that logic, reducing the number of members per alliance also benefits some alliances more than others. In other words, any change to the alliance member limit will by definition benefit some alliances more than others.
In other words, alliance HCs should have no say in this matter, because there will always be some HCs that will argue in favor of the status quo.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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And that's before you even consider losses to Omen and Angels.
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Angels and Omen started reforming before the alliance limit was announced.
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Does anyone actually know if this Angels return is more than just a rumour?
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
More importantly: I heard Orbit is returning!
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28 Dec 2008, 02:20
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Good luck btw
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28 Dec 2008, 12:47
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by [B5]Londo
no but I think I have said before (probably in the r29 predictions thread) that the half of the universes good players not in asc but spread thin through the others doesnt seem to balance those concentrated in Asc.
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28 Dec 2008, 17:16
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
after reading this i somehow worry more about the fact the clementines i just ate taste exactly like ribes. thats strange. Game change a bit but its hardly anything to cry out for i think its for the better anyways with some change
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28 Dec 2008, 20:56
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
I kinda lika Achi's FAGS system. We should combine this with AIDS (alliance intel and defense system, codename, Munin)
But with the attitude provided by FAGS and the options provided by Munin you can come a long way and don't become dependable on a few bc's who get worn down or attack organisers etc. Only thing you then depend on is a group of scanners.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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I kinda lika Achi's FAGS system. We should combine this with AIDS (alliance intel and defense system, codename, Munin)
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29 Dec 2008, 00:37
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
haha, yeah, arse.... good times
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Less ****ing acronyms, more ****ing talk about round 30 please.
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29 Dec 2008, 05:59
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Does anyone actually know if this Angels return is more than just a rumour?
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29 Dec 2008, 12:47
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by stay_posi
if the "good players" are moving to asc, it's because their allies aren't working for them
instead of worrying about ascendancy taking members from other alliances, you should think about why they're leaving in the first place
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I think its more along the lines of people see Asc as the winning alliance, so they go running to it. Its natural for any human being (you been one of them as of course so did i once) Always go to the place you think is the best. Thats just how humans work, you go to where you think you will benefit from and if you were a new player and saw Asc at the top of the rankings naturally you would want to play with the top alliance.
So raising the alliance limit i see as pointless especially as alliances such as Tof, Omen, Orbit etc are returning. The universe just isnt big enough for this anymore, and at least with solid limits it forced people to go to these smaller alliances rather then joining the bandwagon of the top allies. So now PA will die and stagnate even quicker then before.
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29 Dec 2008, 12:52
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
If the game doesn't grow it's dead anyways and who gives a shit.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
I couldnt care less about the fking limidt.
How I ll structure anything, in any round, and amount of people I d get along wouldnt change if the limidt was 50 or 500.
I place asc as fav. to win the round, mainly because no other alliances are able to keep / recruit enough quality players. And the fact that people will be blind to stupid factors like score at pt200
Also, they have too many good planetholders, people who overall do less fkups than other allies, and eventually end up top100 no matter what.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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And the fact that people will be blind to stupid factors like score at pt200
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Exactly. If you only ever look at current score and not potential score, you are in trouble. As well as factoring in skill of the playerbase, among other things. I think that lesson was learned last round. Old habits seem to die hard though.
IMO it will come down to, does anyone actually want to challenge ASC? When New Dawn was going for their hat trick, Denial decided to stop that from happening, even if it cost us the round. ASC won that round, but I like to think that Denial had something to do with that. ASC have already said that is exactly what will happen, that a sacrifice will have to be made. Will there be an alliance willing to do that in Round 30?
There are worse things then finishing 2nd or 3rd.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
I expect stagnation from the end of the 2nd week
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29 Dec 2008, 19:28
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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I expect stagnation from the end of the 2nd week
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then ur an idiot
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I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
oh oh oh it sounds like Wishmaster has a plan, does he?
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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then ur an idiot
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No need to get personal
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29 Dec 2008, 20:38
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Wishmaster has a plan
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You make me laugh.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Another easy win for asc coming up!
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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You make me laugh.
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I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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No need to get personal
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ye, cause saying a round will stagnate after less than 2 weeks is not an idiotic statement
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I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
I for one am firmly convinced that wishmaster's strategic nous and political insights will easily allow him to outplay us all.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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I for one am firmly convinced that wishmaster's strategic nous and political insights will easily allow him to outplay us all.
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I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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And that's before you even consider losses to Omen and Angels.
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Angels? Who's resurrecting them?
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Your mum
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
just to clear some things up
angels is not coming back
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Round 30: Prediction Thread/Views
My view is that I don't see any victory other than that for Ascendancy, I think a big density of a experienced players, they know how to turn politics in their favour, and to be honest, I can't see anyone capable of beating them, or even come close, add that to the fact that PA team have seen it wise to add 100 tag limits, plus support planet rule taken out, I can't see this helping any other alliance as much as it helping Ascendancy.
Conspiracy Theory i think will suffer quite abit, after the better part of 5-6 rounds napping the Universe and "playing for planet ranks", I think it will be hard to change the mindset of 75 people, used to sitting on big roids, on their big fences to then being some1 up all night, DCing, recalling, resending, I just don't see it working at all. I think the best way to see how far an alliance has come, is to test it, and last round CT found out nothing about how good its members, officers, HC really are.
NewDawn, my new home, I expect a top5 finish, but I can't see top2 finish.
VGN, they have some good players, but also some extremely shit players, also there are rumours of flagshipping HC and officers (amazing how Stuhlman nearly always comes top10 for such a poor alliance). Last round I heard rumours that VGN were struggling to even take one small galaxy towards the end, so unless decent recruitment is done, and problems solved, I can't see much happening.
I'm not sure whats going on with other alliances, or even with the ones I've mentioned, but like I say, I really can't see anything other than an Asc #1 finish
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
stuhl does leech a bit of def, but alot of planets do, one of the reasons he's consecutively high ranked is most likely down to him being a good player! even if he uses alot of def :P
Omen will be OK next round, CT will be alittle stronger but will crack under pressure, ND will be decent activity wise in attacking but will not challenge for tag title due to DLR playing solo, ROCK will be stronger once again with some good recruitment going on, I won't comment on Ascendancy.
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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coming from someone who shipjumped to asc in r29 to someone who intends to use an asc invite for r30; surely between you two u have the answers.
It is not that every other alliance is totally worthless but rather asc is a different kind of alliance which others seem unwilling to replicate. It surely would not be hard to recreate ascs system; but now that they do have all the good players its effectively closing the barn door after the horse has bolted
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
the day that alliances stop having officers and hc channels seperate from everyone, and start giving their members an equal say in how the alliance is ran, is the day that ascendancy wont have the outspoken advantage it currently possesses
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
Who got the impression asc members got an equal say?
This just isnt the case
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I would give me right testicle to be in a gal with you wishmaster!!! wonder if thatd be enough to bribe spinner with hmmmm
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Who got the impression asc members got an equal say?
This just isnt the case
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That said, anyone can step up and take charge, which is exactly what JBG did and how he got such an important voice in what happens in the alliance. I don't think people realized this as strongly as they perhaps should have, which in my opinion is a failing of our recruiting system: when we got 7-8 generations out there was just no chance of correctly introducing people to the Ascendancy culture. All we could do was hope they'd stick around long enough to pick it up. And the more JBG did, the more difficult it was for people do just that...
Ascendancy might not have equal say, but it's designed to have equal ability to do. Words don't mean much, action is where it's at.
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3 Jan 2009, 14:40
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mz.
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 8,587
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by Banned
I don't think people realized this as strongly as they perhaps should have, which in my opinion is a failing of our recruiting system: when we got 7-8 generations out there was just no chance of correctly introducing people to the Ascendancy culture. All we could do was hope they'd stick around long enough to pick it up.
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The outraged poets threw sticks and rocks over the side of the bridge. They were all missing Mary and he felt a contented smug feeling wash over him. He would have given them a coy little wave if the roof hadn't collapsed just then. Mary then found himself in the middle of an understandably shocked family's kitchen table. So he gave them the coy little wave and realized it probably would have been more effective if he hadn't been lying on their turkey.
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3 Jan 2009, 16:41
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General (Adjective Army)
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Yorkshire, England.
Posts: 825
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Re: Round 30: Prediction Thread/Views
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Originally Posted by [ND]Disc
VGN, they have some good players, but also some extremely shit players, also there are rumours of flagshipping HC and officers (amazing how Stuhlman nearly always comes top10 for such a poor alliance).
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Just to set the record straight - flagshipping (of any kind) is never going to happen while I'm HC of VGN.
As for Stuhlman - yes, he always finishes with a high rank - but he's a damned good player.
And thanks for your opinion of our quality as an alliance. We haven't picked our "enemies" for R30 yet.
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Amnion (aka The Arcane Chas of Arcania) - Playing PA under those and other pseudonyms every genuine round since Round 2. Most recently (and insignificantly):
Onset of Apathy R94 | Stacks of Resources R95 | The Necromancer of Dol Guldur R96
70 Years of Queen Elizabeth R97 | Worst of The Worst R98
Knights of the Green Shield R99 | Look Out of The Window R100 | Most of All R102
Hard of Hearing (2:7:1) R103 | The Lateness of Your Application (1:6:6) R104 | Kinnison of Tellus (5:1:2) R105
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3 Jan 2009, 18:21
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optimist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 263
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by Banned
That said, anyone can step up and take charge
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Originally Posted by VenoX
Your attempts to be e-cool have been noted and laughed off as terrible.
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4 Jan 2009, 16:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 936
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by Linkie
Ascendancy won't win. We'll be playing solely to get Cardinal to win top planet so we can have the best eorc ever.
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You need plenty of effort to that tbh. Mostly you will need watches so MHs dont finnish him off before the playerbase does.
But its nice to see you like challences!
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4 Jan 2009, 21:23
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LCH
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: JNC
Posts: 154
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Re: Round 30 - Gamethread
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Originally Posted by Caj
Omen will be OK next round, CT will be alittle stronger but will crack under pressure, ND will be decent activity wise in attacking but will not challenge for tag title due to DLR playing solo, ROCK will be stronger once again with some good recruitment going on, I won't comment on Ascendancy.
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Last i heard that speech we won
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