A lot has changed. Nearly a year has passed since my last posts, and Kixeye has continued to unbalance then rebalance the game in a never ending crusade to get coiners to buy new techs and fleets. Apparently it's working. The sector numbers change, but the players are much the same. I'm a bad guy for hitting in sector, and there's usually someone around that can take out my base and fleets.
I stopped writing because I wasn't intending to continue playing. I even quit for a few weeks but picked it back up because... for all its faults, the game is just plain fun. There are a lot of new hulls, and new strategies to FvF and Base hitting. The raids keep changing so the strategies do too. Right now it seems the best fleet for raiding is spectres.
But to catch up, I'll go down the list of ships we have and their strengths/weaknesses.
Corvette, drac hull. Really fast, but cant carry enough weight to be used effectively in combat. It's best used as a submarine flagship, since you can have a submarine for a flagship, or to attack a base to keep the player trapped in baseview while your attacking fleets arrive.
Destroyer, drac hull. Another small, fast ship that is best used in the same way as the corvette. It has 3 armor slots, but those are pretty well pointless since the ship cant carry enough weight to carry big guns. It has high resistance and evade, as well as high speed. It can carry a torpedo and surface weapon.
Light Cruiser, drac hull. These are like drac barges. I built a few with firestorm rockets a while back, to use during the typhoon raids... but they were too slow to be of value. I don't like this hull and don't currently have any built.
Battle Cruiser, drac hull. Badassery on parade. It's as fast as as scorpion, but has 3 armor slots, 3 special slots and 4 weapons. It also has 50 submarine detection range... the same as the Stalker submarine. With sonarpod, this bad boy sees submarines at 75 range (+10 submarine visibility). I use a high evade BC flagship with 4 missile scorpions (laser/sfb3) to hunt submarines.
Battle Ship, drac hull. Battleships are very good hulls, with bonus range to ballistics, 4 armor slots, 6 guns and 3 specials. They are a bit too slow for FvF, but have enough armor and resistance to push a fleet of seawolfs to the edge and sink them. High resistances and zero evade, like the BattleCruiser, make this a champion ship.
Strike Cruiser, drac hull. Kixeye was getting a little ridiculous with this hull. It's a fast moving base hitting fleet, with bonus to spread and splash. Mortar fleets should work well on it, because it is fast moving and can creep forward to escape mortars... but its mostly used for siege cannon blitz fleets, because of the splash bonus and speed. Most bases fall apart when blitzed by Strike Cruisers with a large pinch. I call it pinch blitz.
Interdictor, drac hull. Better than average submarine detection, but still not as much as a BC. it has 3 torpedo bays, as well as 4 surface/submerge weapon slots. 2 armors and 3 specials. As it turns out, this is the most poweful FvF fleet right now. High resistances, including torpedo (concussive), fast hull with high evade.. it's versatile and lethal. D35S, D63V, D4V with Engine3, GuidScram3 and AutoReload3 make this short range ship into a speedy devil.
Goliath, base guard. Too slow on both the map and in combat, to be effective in FvF, it's main use is a base guard. Once they gave us the ability to put ships inside the waters of our base to protect during attacks, they soon gave us a nasty ship to do it with. 7 guns and 7 armors with 2 specials. It has bonus to ballistic range, but very little resistance and terrible evade. It's basically a floating turret platform.
Spectre, submarine. Basically a floating fortress underwater, with 3 armor, 6 weapon and 2 special slots, its a formidable weapon. It's best attribute is the extremely long underwater time, which can be extended with Battery special. Battery3 spectre can stay underwater for almost a minute and a half. Long enough to take out most guardfleets if they arent protected from submarines.
DreadnaughtX, drac hull. Kixeye unbalanced the game considerably when they put this in. Its a beast hull, with bonus to mortar fire rate, splash and spread. Shockwave dreadx with speed and resistance are nearly invincible on base hits and are the most commonly used base fleet now. Ive seen players that dont even have DU4 yet, run thru bases twice their size with dreadx and win. Yawn.
Juggernaught, drac hull. Big ship, with a proper name. It has 8 armor plates, 3 specials and 4 guns. Its relatively slow but with 8 armor slots, its very versatile if you use the drac armor bonuses effectively. With only 4 guns though, it's better suited as a flagship than a base hitter. The best thing I've seen them used for so far is a prep fleet, to take out guardfleets.
Arbitor, tactical ship. This ship can be fitted with a variety of different special modules that you research in the tactical lab. They emit a field that boosts your ships while harming the enemy, if you can get the enemy inside it. There are a few useful ways to use this ship, but it is very limited because of the range of the field. Makes a good base guard, to slow down enemy fleet.. surface enemy submarines and other debuffs that are handy.
Super Fortress, forsaken. Basically a Floating Fortress but with extended cargo capacity and 4 armor slots. Best used as a salvage pickup fleet, or a sniper fleet cargo holder. I use 3 of these with large cargo and hull streamlining in my 2 scorpion fleet. I use the two scorpions to take out warehouses that people leave within range of missiles, and I can carry over 30 million resources home.
Draconian Armor. There are 3 tiers. D2 armor is small plates, D3 armor is medium sized and D4 armor is close to DU4 strength. Ton of ton they are about the same as the forsaken armors, but lighter so theres less plating. V armor increases combat speed, N armor increases map speed, T armor increases turn speed, E armor increases evade %, X adds explosive resistance, C adds ballistic resistance and M adds missile resistance. S armor is supposed to reduce submarine visibility, but I've yet to see it work right. There is a reduced effect to these bonuses when you stack more than one together.
Guard Fleets can now be used inside the base, and they are just like normal fleets, with weight limits and use a fleet spot from the academy. You can position each ship and give that ship a range that it can travel within during base hits. You can control these fleets when you are online. This feature changed the game dramatically.
They finally got rid of the buddy bubble system, so players cant sit there and stay in permanent bubbles without taking actual damage. Good job kixeye, bout time.
Enough shop talk, time to go raise some hell.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Guerilla Warfare
I dont remember what sector I was in last week. It was an uneventful two weeks, trapped there by a raid that was as watered down as a mermaid's skirt. They neutered the draconian fleets in the drac outposts this last raid, by giving them a maximum distance range from the center platform.
No need to maneuver to take them out. Cutlass with booster2 could pick the level 28 outposts apart for 80k points (50k for fleet, 30k for center platform). Raid prize? A beautiful new submarine called the barracuda. Its basically an underwater seawolf, with lots of potential. I'll build them when I'm done with the submarine advanced lab researches. Also gave us new drac armors. Some are pretty sweet.
I revisited sector 214 this week, to hit salvage and play nice. I left as a friend and returned as a friend. First day back though, FC alliance hit my fleet. Sloaney and I both left our longships on Lady Hatchett's front lawn, to say hi. We didnt attack her or anything, and weren't planning on it. When we were away, though, she told FC that we are bad guys and one raycfc sank our fleets. Well, game on!
Samulin and Sabba and several others that I enjoy talking to were still in the sector. They migrated from 429 a long time ago, but settled in 214 with HSE alliance and TST and FoF. FC is a newly arrived visitor alliance with a huge ego and no balls. I insulted them relentlessly for the first couple days. No response, and my bubble was popped for a long time. So I saw a guy collecting salvage with his orange HH fleet. I sent the scorpions after him and sank him without trouble. It was a siege missile fleet, and a very pretty one at that.
JC-FC asked me why I hit him, which was exactly what I wanted. I told him (and the rest of the comms) about how I arrived as a friend but FC started a war with me, personally, and they are a garbage alliance. He defended his alliance by coin repairing his fleet and launching fleets before posting his coords. I didn't even bother looking. Just kept sinking fleets near him.
Next day he tried my base and killed half of a howitzer. I leave a warehouse near the front entrance to lure my targets into a false sense of accomplishment as their fleet dies. My base guardfleet has an assault mortar HH with hailstorms and full armor, and a few assault cannon ships that get in close. He killed a gunbarge and sniped a warehouse before sinking. Perfect.
Next day he hit me with two of the same fleet and lost both of them, but dealt a little more damage. I wasn't online for that hit but he utterly failed anyway. I relentlessly trashed their alliance for days, making sure every timezone player got to hear about how bad FC is. Eventually it sunk in and the sector started to turn on them, and stopped laughing at their jokes. FC began to lose their haughty braggard attitudes by day 4.
Day 5 arrived and I was stealing their cargo and killing their cargo killing fleets and miners, while laughing and joking with my old friends in 214. Spirits are high, as the main group of FC leave the sector without a word. Hilarious, I never even had to hit any of their bases. It's not that FC is actually a garbage alliance... I just don't like them because they hit me without saying hello first. And they did it for Lady Hatchett, who left after 2 days of my arrival. She's such a good sport.
By the end of this week, there are 25 dead FC hammerheads in my channel (at my entrance) and a couple dozen more random ships... from levis and wolfs, to FFs and Dreads. No one has gotten to the second row of turrets this week. Base guards are wonderful.
As FC left, nMe alliance filled their empty ocean spots. I picked a fight immediately and got told how much of a mistake it was. As more of them arrived, I realized that I knew most of them from our previous travels and even liked a few.
nMe is one of the better alliances that I've come into contact with, they hit in-sector but defend the sector from outside threats. They don't like whiners and don't put up with drama. Lady Hatchett stopped in on her daughters account to demand they not attack her friend. Chewy-nMe basically showed her his tall finger. She made an announcement that she was moving that account and never coming back.
I made sure to tell her how much it bothered me with a sharp go f urself, in comms. She got ignored by everyone else.
Samulin told me that my comms style is interesting... I ignore the good points against my character and basically choose to respond to the right things. He said people that argue with me in comms are fighting against my guerilla warfare style, doomed to lose. I say goodbye to 214, once again, as a friend. Maybe next time I won't get attacked first day, but hope I do.
No need to maneuver to take them out. Cutlass with booster2 could pick the level 28 outposts apart for 80k points (50k for fleet, 30k for center platform). Raid prize? A beautiful new submarine called the barracuda. Its basically an underwater seawolf, with lots of potential. I'll build them when I'm done with the submarine advanced lab researches. Also gave us new drac armors. Some are pretty sweet.
I revisited sector 214 this week, to hit salvage and play nice. I left as a friend and returned as a friend. First day back though, FC alliance hit my fleet. Sloaney and I both left our longships on Lady Hatchett's front lawn, to say hi. We didnt attack her or anything, and weren't planning on it. When we were away, though, she told FC that we are bad guys and one raycfc sank our fleets. Well, game on!
Samulin and Sabba and several others that I enjoy talking to were still in the sector. They migrated from 429 a long time ago, but settled in 214 with HSE alliance and TST and FoF. FC is a newly arrived visitor alliance with a huge ego and no balls. I insulted them relentlessly for the first couple days. No response, and my bubble was popped for a long time. So I saw a guy collecting salvage with his orange HH fleet. I sent the scorpions after him and sank him without trouble. It was a siege missile fleet, and a very pretty one at that.
JC-FC asked me why I hit him, which was exactly what I wanted. I told him (and the rest of the comms) about how I arrived as a friend but FC started a war with me, personally, and they are a garbage alliance. He defended his alliance by coin repairing his fleet and launching fleets before posting his coords. I didn't even bother looking. Just kept sinking fleets near him.
Next day he tried my base and killed half of a howitzer. I leave a warehouse near the front entrance to lure my targets into a false sense of accomplishment as their fleet dies. My base guardfleet has an assault mortar HH with hailstorms and full armor, and a few assault cannon ships that get in close. He killed a gunbarge and sniped a warehouse before sinking. Perfect.
Next day he hit me with two of the same fleet and lost both of them, but dealt a little more damage. I wasn't online for that hit but he utterly failed anyway. I relentlessly trashed their alliance for days, making sure every timezone player got to hear about how bad FC is. Eventually it sunk in and the sector started to turn on them, and stopped laughing at their jokes. FC began to lose their haughty braggard attitudes by day 4.
Day 5 arrived and I was stealing their cargo and killing their cargo killing fleets and miners, while laughing and joking with my old friends in 214. Spirits are high, as the main group of FC leave the sector without a word. Hilarious, I never even had to hit any of their bases. It's not that FC is actually a garbage alliance... I just don't like them because they hit me without saying hello first. And they did it for Lady Hatchett, who left after 2 days of my arrival. She's such a good sport.
By the end of this week, there are 25 dead FC hammerheads in my channel (at my entrance) and a couple dozen more random ships... from levis and wolfs, to FFs and Dreads. No one has gotten to the second row of turrets this week. Base guards are wonderful.
As FC left, nMe alliance filled their empty ocean spots. I picked a fight immediately and got told how much of a mistake it was. As more of them arrived, I realized that I knew most of them from our previous travels and even liked a few.
nMe is one of the better alliances that I've come into contact with, they hit in-sector but defend the sector from outside threats. They don't like whiners and don't put up with drama. Lady Hatchett stopped in on her daughters account to demand they not attack her friend. Chewy-nMe basically showed her his tall finger. She made an announcement that she was moving that account and never coming back.
I made sure to tell her how much it bothered me with a sharp go f urself, in comms. She got ignored by everyone else.
Samulin told me that my comms style is interesting... I ignore the good points against my character and basically choose to respond to the right things. He said people that argue with me in comms are fighting against my guerilla warfare style, doomed to lose. I say goodbye to 214, once again, as a friend. Maybe next time I won't get attacked first day, but hope I do.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
A Quest for Excellence
I've been called a comms bully... a chat hog, a soldier of words. When I start chatting in comms I am always initially respectful and courteous. I'm honest and playful, sometimes callous and blunt. Above all else, I am very critical of my fellow pirates. My opinion is all I truly care about, when I go into a debate or rant in comms. This offends some people.
This is not a difficult game. It requires patience and temper, concentration at times, and a strong sense of self-preservation. You gather resources to upgrade your ships and research technology. It's only a matter of time before everyone has the ability to build what everyone else has. No one is better than anyone else, but sometimes... because more effort (or money) is invested into the game, a player has a strong lead on power.
When I insult someone in comms, it is typically because they have proven to me that they care more about impressing other players than they do about actually playing the game. I find this trivial and stupid. I don't login to the game to make friends (that's what real life is for). I login to the game to be a mean pirate, but I reserve the right to be helpful and friendly.
Typically, people get really offended when I attack them... but their reaction is what sets the tone for the ensuing week of gametime for me. If a player whines and cries like a bleeding carebear.. I'll keep poking fun and hitting their fleets when I login. If a player hits me back and shares my weaknesses in comms, whether insulting or not, I respect that. I don't like losing, but I don't mind learning from my mistakes and can appreciate a loss just as much as a win. I choose my battles carefully and usually don't engage a target till I know whether I can beat them.
My fleets haven't been difficult to design and my base design is an original, but resembles other high level bases... what works, works. I know my gamestyle and I'm pretty good at keeping the game fun for myself. When someone goads me into attacking their fleet or their base, I decide whether to actually attack them based on facts, not emotion.
LOD alliance has moved out of the sector, after half a dozen days of non-stop ridicule and trash talking. They've finally moved on, and took their massive egos and facebook credit balances with them. I have no respect for their alliance, and I made that absolutely clear. I've been called jealous and spiteful because I make fun of coiners. They don't understand at all, but that is not surprising.
Spending money here and there, to enjoy the game a little more is perfectly acceptable to me. But spending thousands of dollars to gain the upper hand is absolutely ridiculous and I cannot and will not respect a level 35 player that acts big and bad in front of his friends after taking my base apart... when his power is derived from buying enough credits to speed up all his ship builds and researches.
If I was to indulge a big coiner in a game of chess, I would expect them to cheat and make up rules in their favor. That is what spending money does for you. It gives you an unfair advantage, and the majority of web-based games offer this incentive so they can make money. It takes away some of the fun of gaming, but I understand the premise. Those that abuse the system by spending more than their opponents in order to win... they deserve no respect and get none from me. I laugh at them while they pretend not to care... maybe they don't, that is fine with me too.
I want to master the game mechanics and excel in combat because excellence feels good, especially when it is difficult to attain. That is a personal paradigm.. a way of seeing things and doing things that is totally mine. I don't expect anyone else to believe or care about my opinions, but I share them whether they like it or not. Read or don't read, believe or don't believe. I enjoy freedom of speech as well as freedom of gameplay.
It's almost time to move away from 356... strangely enough, now that LOD has left the sector, and unforsaken is all but gone, the players that I enjoy talking to and playing with have started chatting again and I'm a peaceful Bondai in sector 356. I'm going to detach myself from exile but keep whatever friendships I've made along the way. Alliances really aren't my thing anyways; I'm on a quest for excellence.
This is not a difficult game. It requires patience and temper, concentration at times, and a strong sense of self-preservation. You gather resources to upgrade your ships and research technology. It's only a matter of time before everyone has the ability to build what everyone else has. No one is better than anyone else, but sometimes... because more effort (or money) is invested into the game, a player has a strong lead on power.
When I insult someone in comms, it is typically because they have proven to me that they care more about impressing other players than they do about actually playing the game. I find this trivial and stupid. I don't login to the game to make friends (that's what real life is for). I login to the game to be a mean pirate, but I reserve the right to be helpful and friendly.
Typically, people get really offended when I attack them... but their reaction is what sets the tone for the ensuing week of gametime for me. If a player whines and cries like a bleeding carebear.. I'll keep poking fun and hitting their fleets when I login. If a player hits me back and shares my weaknesses in comms, whether insulting or not, I respect that. I don't like losing, but I don't mind learning from my mistakes and can appreciate a loss just as much as a win. I choose my battles carefully and usually don't engage a target till I know whether I can beat them.
My fleets haven't been difficult to design and my base design is an original, but resembles other high level bases... what works, works. I know my gamestyle and I'm pretty good at keeping the game fun for myself. When someone goads me into attacking their fleet or their base, I decide whether to actually attack them based on facts, not emotion.
LOD alliance has moved out of the sector, after half a dozen days of non-stop ridicule and trash talking. They've finally moved on, and took their massive egos and facebook credit balances with them. I have no respect for their alliance, and I made that absolutely clear. I've been called jealous and spiteful because I make fun of coiners. They don't understand at all, but that is not surprising.
Spending money here and there, to enjoy the game a little more is perfectly acceptable to me. But spending thousands of dollars to gain the upper hand is absolutely ridiculous and I cannot and will not respect a level 35 player that acts big and bad in front of his friends after taking my base apart... when his power is derived from buying enough credits to speed up all his ship builds and researches.
If I was to indulge a big coiner in a game of chess, I would expect them to cheat and make up rules in their favor. That is what spending money does for you. It gives you an unfair advantage, and the majority of web-based games offer this incentive so they can make money. It takes away some of the fun of gaming, but I understand the premise. Those that abuse the system by spending more than their opponents in order to win... they deserve no respect and get none from me. I laugh at them while they pretend not to care... maybe they don't, that is fine with me too.
I want to master the game mechanics and excel in combat because excellence feels good, especially when it is difficult to attain. That is a personal paradigm.. a way of seeing things and doing things that is totally mine. I don't expect anyone else to believe or care about my opinions, but I share them whether they like it or not. Read or don't read, believe or don't believe. I enjoy freedom of speech as well as freedom of gameplay.
It's almost time to move away from 356... strangely enough, now that LOD has left the sector, and unforsaken is all but gone, the players that I enjoy talking to and playing with have started chatting again and I'm a peaceful Bondai in sector 356. I'm going to detach myself from exile but keep whatever friendships I've made along the way. Alliances really aren't my thing anyways; I'm on a quest for excellence.
Monday, April 9, 2012
356 and Exile
I came to sector 356 several days ago in the hopes of having some good combat and good times. What I found was a handful of unforsaken alliance players sitting there, doing nothing but hitting salvage, and making smart comments from time to time. I was disappointed.
After a few days of trashing them in comms and smashing their fleets when they tried to hit salvage, stealing their loot when they weren't looking and giving their bases nice rimjobs, most of them left the sector. Before I pat myself on the back, I notice that most of exile had left their home sector. wtf, where'd they go?
LOD alliance landed in most of their places. I don't know them, and now that I'm in a sector full of friends I act like a nice fella, and discuss battle pirates techniques and opinions on things. I got very bored, very quickly and before too long I hit a few random people for extra resources to start my last scorpion build.
Sector 356 is one of the sectors that doesn't pretend to have 'no-hit' rules. You can attack people there, and folks don't freak out, they just hit you back and/or discuss what went wrong and such. The more I looked around, the more I realized, LOD was eating all the level 8 and 9 salvage within 5 minutes of my base, and their level 35 top tech mass-spender had an attitude with me. I hit one of the LOD fleets, killed a nice siege mortar HH fleet while he hit salvage. He got all kinds of mad at me, and then the fun began.
I was half tuned out of the game for several days, but this level 35 guy kept waltzing thru my base with half damage. I'd like to see him hit my base, to see how he's getting thru with such little problem. He has superior hammerheads, won in the first or second raid event. His fleet is sufficient to beat most bases and it doesn't bother me that he has flattened mine, but I make fun of him relentlessly anyway. I never ask for help from anyone, but I often ask folks to come along to have some fun with me. I don't invite anyone to 356, and Sloaney left with the other friends a few days ago.
I stayed extra days to repay a favor to Bassman, and go to a sector with him when his friends are ready to move out. Playing with LOD has turned out to be the best thing I've done in weeks. These jokers are hilarious, and though I did enjoy this sector a while ago... it's nothing like what it used to be. There's nothing but carebears and politicians here now. I'm thru with exile, and their bastardized little carebear alliance Deep 6. Now I'm hitting wherever and whatever I want, since none of them want to stand up and defend their ideals of having a free sector anymore.
So, The-Cleaner (level 35 top coiner) takes 25 mil from me every 36 hours, and I steal all of that back from fleets that are either mining or hitting salvage within hours of him hitting me. Now I spend my hours, waiting to leave... hitting fleets at random to see who whines the loudest. So far its Joe_W on the top whine list. Dreadfullness (LOD alliance) is a close second.
Bring it, sheeple. I'm just getting warmed up.
After a few days of trashing them in comms and smashing their fleets when they tried to hit salvage, stealing their loot when they weren't looking and giving their bases nice rimjobs, most of them left the sector. Before I pat myself on the back, I notice that most of exile had left their home sector. wtf, where'd they go?
LOD alliance landed in most of their places. I don't know them, and now that I'm in a sector full of friends I act like a nice fella, and discuss battle pirates techniques and opinions on things. I got very bored, very quickly and before too long I hit a few random people for extra resources to start my last scorpion build.
Sector 356 is one of the sectors that doesn't pretend to have 'no-hit' rules. You can attack people there, and folks don't freak out, they just hit you back and/or discuss what went wrong and such. The more I looked around, the more I realized, LOD was eating all the level 8 and 9 salvage within 5 minutes of my base, and their level 35 top tech mass-spender had an attitude with me. I hit one of the LOD fleets, killed a nice siege mortar HH fleet while he hit salvage. He got all kinds of mad at me, and then the fun began.
I was half tuned out of the game for several days, but this level 35 guy kept waltzing thru my base with half damage. I'd like to see him hit my base, to see how he's getting thru with such little problem. He has superior hammerheads, won in the first or second raid event. His fleet is sufficient to beat most bases and it doesn't bother me that he has flattened mine, but I make fun of him relentlessly anyway. I never ask for help from anyone, but I often ask folks to come along to have some fun with me. I don't invite anyone to 356, and Sloaney left with the other friends a few days ago.
I stayed extra days to repay a favor to Bassman, and go to a sector with him when his friends are ready to move out. Playing with LOD has turned out to be the best thing I've done in weeks. These jokers are hilarious, and though I did enjoy this sector a while ago... it's nothing like what it used to be. There's nothing but carebears and politicians here now. I'm thru with exile, and their bastardized little carebear alliance Deep 6. Now I'm hitting wherever and whatever I want, since none of them want to stand up and defend their ideals of having a free sector anymore.
So, The-Cleaner (level 35 top coiner) takes 25 mil from me every 36 hours, and I steal all of that back from fleets that are either mining or hitting salvage within hours of him hitting me. Now I spend my hours, waiting to leave... hitting fleets at random to see who whines the loudest. So far its Joe_W on the top whine list. Dreadfullness (LOD alliance) is a close second.
Bring it, sheeple. I'm just getting warmed up.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Dont Feed the Monkeys
I lick a finger and stick it in the air to see which way the wind is blowing. It was a bad choice to come bunk with EXILE for a week. I run with a gang of pirate scumbags and we enjoy a game where we land somewhere new, and lay waste to as many as we can, while belittling their efforts to stop us. This sector 356 is full of people that would rather be great friends. The UNFORSAKEN and UNFORGIVING alliances are pretty much gone, to sector 358... even further from us than their old home in 357. Suits me.
I gave my friends the list of exile players in sector and said- everyone else is fair game, but don't mess with exile. Sloaney and I are members in the alliance, but we haven't done anything with them in quite a while. Our show goes on, and we are headed to a sector we've been thru before. Possibly a salvage week, since the crew was pretty well fed up this past week... while living in a cage. Somebody actually hit YellowDevil in the face with a peanut. He slung some poo at the snot-nosed punks.
I gave my friends the list of exile players in sector and said- everyone else is fair game, but don't mess with exile. Sloaney and I are members in the alliance, but we haven't done anything with them in quite a while. Our show goes on, and we are headed to a sector we've been thru before. Possibly a salvage week, since the crew was pretty well fed up this past week... while living in a cage. Somebody actually hit YellowDevil in the face with a peanut. He slung some poo at the snot-nosed punks.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Angles and Dangles
I had 2 Sea Scorpions, vs 3 dreadnaughts and 2 Hammereads. The hammers were using D55 siege missiles, and at max range are far less than mine, even if he's using rocket booster3. The dreadnaughts are faster and are using strike missiles. That means I have the range advantage. Unfortunately, this prey is online... I'm gonna have to work for it!
We both turn our fleets to starboard, and while I stack my 2 scorpions, he sends his fleets off to a few random positions behind them, and aims a dreadnaught at me. My four assault missile D53-Rs on each scorpion pack a good punch at 96 range. The highest range weapon on the game. The three Cutlass2 missiles on each scorpion have a slighly less range, but still outrange the strike missiles and siege missiles. His strike missile dreadnaught dies without firing, but I didn't notice that other dreadnaught rushing to get me within his range while I'm busy finishing the other.
I lose one of my two scorpions. They're big on firepower, low on armor.
As I gently and patiently maneuver my scorpion to where his half dead dreadnaught is, his third dreadnaught is aimed directly at me. I see his game now. He drags my attention away with a decoy, then sends the backup on a collision course to get into my range. I click on the port side with my fleet, then I send them all starboard. When he sees me click port side, he adjusted the path of his intercept ship to my new angle (angle of convergence). After he adjusts his intercept, then his main fleet (that I'm plucking missiles at), I click my fleets to starboard side, and watch as he forgets to retarget the intercept ship. I keep the second dread in my sights long enough to nearly kill it, then he moved a hammerhead into intercept position, and launches it at me while I'm trying to damage his third dreadnaught. It nearly got me in range too, but I was paying close attention. I'm watching his intercept ship's angle of approach now.
It was a constant game of cat and mouse, where he'd lure me into angling my ship toward his flee'ing ship, just to find myself in a head-on angle with a heavily armored dreadnaught or hammerhead .. barely enough time to aim the other direction before he's within firing range. I watch and listen for the assault missiles to fire, then impatiently watch the cutlass missile launchers... if they start firing I need to correct my angle immediately... for 5 minutes I kept my fleet safe, and when the battle timed out I sent the lone survivor home.
I tell him, "It was nice to fight someone that really puts some thought into piloting, well done wackdan." I do a similar technique when fighting fleets that outrange me, the attacker has to pay close attention and react to your movements correctly, every time, or it gets hit.
I'll have my fourth booster3 assault missile scorpions in 5 days. Then I start building my base fleets.
We both turn our fleets to starboard, and while I stack my 2 scorpions, he sends his fleets off to a few random positions behind them, and aims a dreadnaught at me. My four assault missile D53-Rs on each scorpion pack a good punch at 96 range. The highest range weapon on the game. The three Cutlass2 missiles on each scorpion have a slighly less range, but still outrange the strike missiles and siege missiles. His strike missile dreadnaught dies without firing, but I didn't notice that other dreadnaught rushing to get me within his range while I'm busy finishing the other.
I lose one of my two scorpions. They're big on firepower, low on armor.
As I gently and patiently maneuver my scorpion to where his half dead dreadnaught is, his third dreadnaught is aimed directly at me. I see his game now. He drags my attention away with a decoy, then sends the backup on a collision course to get into my range. I click on the port side with my fleet, then I send them all starboard. When he sees me click port side, he adjusted the path of his intercept ship to my new angle (angle of convergence). After he adjusts his intercept, then his main fleet (that I'm plucking missiles at), I click my fleets to starboard side, and watch as he forgets to retarget the intercept ship. I keep the second dread in my sights long enough to nearly kill it, then he moved a hammerhead into intercept position, and launches it at me while I'm trying to damage his third dreadnaught. It nearly got me in range too, but I was paying close attention. I'm watching his intercept ship's angle of approach now.
It was a constant game of cat and mouse, where he'd lure me into angling my ship toward his flee'ing ship, just to find myself in a head-on angle with a heavily armored dreadnaught or hammerhead .. barely enough time to aim the other direction before he's within firing range. I watch and listen for the assault missiles to fire, then impatiently watch the cutlass missile launchers... if they start firing I need to correct my angle immediately... for 5 minutes I kept my fleet safe, and when the battle timed out I sent the lone survivor home.
I tell him, "It was nice to fight someone that really puts some thought into piloting, well done wackdan." I do a similar technique when fighting fleets that outrange me, the attacker has to pay close attention and react to your movements correctly, every time, or it gets hit.
I'll have my fourth booster3 assault missile scorpions in 5 days. Then I start building my base fleets.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
I hate you, You're awesome!
Leaving 369 tomorrow, and I'm breaking with tradition. I'm not going to attack the sector, or even incite the other sectors to retaliate here by hitting miners all night. A few people here are cool, and it really is a defenseless little town.
Sanchez is a level 32 next to me, RIGHT on top of me all week long. He's mostly quiet, he occasionally launches a few fleets into the adjacent sector and never says much. I enjoy eating his level 9 salvage twice a day. Someone pointed out the coords to a minefield nearby, where sanchez had a dreadnaught fleet mining zynthium. My eyes lit up.
I watched it for a few hours, and I mentioned in comms that I just can't stand it anymore. I have to go attack it. A couple people laughed and a couple people said that it's my funeral if I hit that guy, "He's AFK's cousin, you'll pay dearly for that".
i bet
I can't look at a red button without pushing it. And those dreadnaughts are a bright red button for me. I mean really? Mining with a dreadnaught fleet? I didn't even send longship scouts. Sent my half-built scorpion fleet, with 2 barges. Two dreadnaughts in there. One has strike missiles and booster3, one is all thuds with hb3. Then 3 FF's with a siege mortar, and shockwaves. Delicious. I didnt pay close enough attention and lost my scorpion fleet. I sent the wolf fleet to finish the job though.
There was one barge fleet waiting for me after the battle, and I slipped away.. then stopped. The ballsy barge sank, but hey, way to go Saxon. Keep hope alive. He explained that he is worried that sanchez will destroy the whole sector for this, and his miners are next door. I explained how much his fears meant to me by sinking the rest of sanchez's miners nearby. Let there be no misunderstanding.
When sanchez logged on he exploded in comms. I grinned and explained that his fleets were terrible and that he should tune into the game more often. Theres this thing called solid fuel booster, it'll help the range on your missile ships. And who the hell mines with dreadnaughts? He told me how much of a coward I am because I am in a bubble. So I sent a longship on the extended journey, 3 seconds away, and popped my bubble on him.
"none of your fleets that I sunk can even make it into my base, you tough talking moron. what are you gonna do, yell at me to death?"
He tried a few retorts, yelling and screaming bad names and bad words, and I had a clever retort to each. The other pirates in the sector were laughing and the sheeple were quiet. I think I heard a bleating protest once.
"what, no more comebacks, sanchez? You checking your credit card balance?"
Oh wait, he relocated. heh, what a guy. We had a good laugh at his expense.
"I'm leaving tomorrow ya'll, been fun."
Ravenous relocated a few minutes later. She couldn't stand that many of the players that chanted hate at me all week were now praising me for some reason. I gotta agree. It'll be nice to get out of this one horse town, and back into battle.
Time to hook back up with Exile and so some huntin'
Sanchez is a level 32 next to me, RIGHT on top of me all week long. He's mostly quiet, he occasionally launches a few fleets into the adjacent sector and never says much. I enjoy eating his level 9 salvage twice a day. Someone pointed out the coords to a minefield nearby, where sanchez had a dreadnaught fleet mining zynthium. My eyes lit up.
I watched it for a few hours, and I mentioned in comms that I just can't stand it anymore. I have to go attack it. A couple people laughed and a couple people said that it's my funeral if I hit that guy, "He's AFK's cousin, you'll pay dearly for that".
i bet
I can't look at a red button without pushing it. And those dreadnaughts are a bright red button for me. I mean really? Mining with a dreadnaught fleet? I didn't even send longship scouts. Sent my half-built scorpion fleet, with 2 barges. Two dreadnaughts in there. One has strike missiles and booster3, one is all thuds with hb3. Then 3 FF's with a siege mortar, and shockwaves. Delicious. I didnt pay close enough attention and lost my scorpion fleet. I sent the wolf fleet to finish the job though.
There was one barge fleet waiting for me after the battle, and I slipped away.. then stopped. The ballsy barge sank, but hey, way to go Saxon. Keep hope alive. He explained that he is worried that sanchez will destroy the whole sector for this, and his miners are next door. I explained how much his fears meant to me by sinking the rest of sanchez's miners nearby. Let there be no misunderstanding.
When sanchez logged on he exploded in comms. I grinned and explained that his fleets were terrible and that he should tune into the game more often. Theres this thing called solid fuel booster, it'll help the range on your missile ships. And who the hell mines with dreadnaughts? He told me how much of a coward I am because I am in a bubble. So I sent a longship on the extended journey, 3 seconds away, and popped my bubble on him.
"none of your fleets that I sunk can even make it into my base, you tough talking moron. what are you gonna do, yell at me to death?"
He tried a few retorts, yelling and screaming bad names and bad words, and I had a clever retort to each. The other pirates in the sector were laughing and the sheeple were quiet. I think I heard a bleating protest once.
"what, no more comebacks, sanchez? You checking your credit card balance?"
Oh wait, he relocated. heh, what a guy. We had a good laugh at his expense.
"I'm leaving tomorrow ya'll, been fun."
Ravenous relocated a few minutes later. She couldn't stand that many of the players that chanted hate at me all week were now praising me for some reason. I gotta agree. It'll be nice to get out of this one horse town, and back into battle.
Time to hook back up with Exile and so some huntin'
Whatever, Bondai
It's been 5 days in sector 369 and I think they're catching on. I have all the drac fields in the sector bookmarked, as well as a handful of quality targets that hit salvage a lot. About 4 times a day I will click on the fields, looking for big targets. Many of the miners are repeat victims that never talk in comms, or help with the defense or offense of the sector. Standalone players. No fun.
222bk Nico gave my base a rim job, circling the outside perimeter, looking for high value targets... and he was successful in taking out one of my warehouses and my dock with his booster3 scorpion/HH fleet. 96 range goes a long way, especially when he ran his ships aground to squeeze a little more range out of his boats. I logged in and started making fun of the level 33 that gives rim jobs to level 31 players like me, because he can't actually beat my base. He bragged about the dock and warehouse till he was blue in the face. That's fine.
I did some errands around the house, and chatted a bit of philosophy and politics with the locals in comms, then went back to work hunting fleets that were salvaging and high value miners and guardfleets. I was hitting miners right next to last week's biggest sector cop and he just accepted that I was hitting, and kept hitting salvage. That's what I like to see, right there.
"Is this still a no-hit sector?"
no answer
There is an out of sector pirate hitting one of my neighbors when I sit back down to the computer, so I launch a longship fleet, but he's already gone. Then I see two sector cops speeding toward the retreating enemy... I launch a levi fleet. two shockwave levis and 3 assault missile levis. One of the cops sees me and says "no, I'm not going to chase you Bondai, you'll just run". The other guy engages me- excellent. I wait till he stacks his wolfs up, and sure enough his missiles start firing. As soon as my shockwave levis fire one volley, I pinch his fleet. The last wolf sinks as the pinch wears off.
"Bondai, did you just leave a guardfleet out?? Did you make a mistake? OMG hahah!!"
Just then his attacking fleet heads home and I grin.
No USS_Water_Log, that was a setup. His wolfs got to play 'catch the mortar'.
I could taste their sadfaces as one guy says.. 'whatever bondai'.
222bk Nico gave my base a rim job, circling the outside perimeter, looking for high value targets... and he was successful in taking out one of my warehouses and my dock with his booster3 scorpion/HH fleet. 96 range goes a long way, especially when he ran his ships aground to squeeze a little more range out of his boats. I logged in and started making fun of the level 33 that gives rim jobs to level 31 players like me, because he can't actually beat my base. He bragged about the dock and warehouse till he was blue in the face. That's fine.
I did some errands around the house, and chatted a bit of philosophy and politics with the locals in comms, then went back to work hunting fleets that were salvaging and high value miners and guardfleets. I was hitting miners right next to last week's biggest sector cop and he just accepted that I was hitting, and kept hitting salvage. That's what I like to see, right there.
"Is this still a no-hit sector?"
no answer
There is an out of sector pirate hitting one of my neighbors when I sit back down to the computer, so I launch a longship fleet, but he's already gone. Then I see two sector cops speeding toward the retreating enemy... I launch a levi fleet. two shockwave levis and 3 assault missile levis. One of the cops sees me and says "no, I'm not going to chase you Bondai, you'll just run". The other guy engages me- excellent. I wait till he stacks his wolfs up, and sure enough his missiles start firing. As soon as my shockwave levis fire one volley, I pinch his fleet. The last wolf sinks as the pinch wears off.
"Bondai, did you just leave a guardfleet out?? Did you make a mistake? OMG hahah!!"
Just then his attacking fleet heads home and I grin.
No USS_Water_Log, that was a setup. His wolfs got to play 'catch the mortar'.
I could taste their sadfaces as one guy says.. 'whatever bondai'.
Monday, March 26, 2012
New Sector Cops
Someone called in some friends to 'deal' with the two dozen or so pirates that are enjoying freedom of movement in sector 369. This new alliance, 222bk, is playing the role of sector police. They talk tough, and have a buddy alliance named JUP with them, who drives submarine fleets to every engagement.
222bk_Nico came in and started spamming coordinates in comms, of all the pirates that have been giving the sector a hard time. I laughed, and said something smart to him. He posted his base coords after launching his Yellow and Orange HammerHeads, Dreadnaughts and Scorpions. I explained to him that players that use their wallet don't impress me. He started to explain how he is not a 'coiner' and he heard that we've been harassing the peaceful players of this sector long enough, and that it's time to pay.
Nico sent 3 yellow HH fleets and a dreadnaught fleet, and JUP sent at least two submarine fleets to my base first. He sent the dreadnaught in, after scouting my base. I told him which direction to come at me from, and that he should use a missile fleet if he wants to get the job done. He ignored me and lost a fleet of 2 dreadnaughts and 3 yellow HHs. I giggled and made good fun of him in comms. Then he attacked a handful of other free pirate players in our group. Same result. Free 18 hour bubbles for everyone, thanks man.
I sent 8 fleets of 1 longship to his base, and probed every one of his colorful guardfleets. One fleet was all siege cannon HH's, but every single other ship was a d53 assault missile setup, with booster3. There wasn't even enough time since the booster came out, to refit all those ships with those missiles, and missiles were near pointless before booster. His plastic fleets aren't worth hitting... at least not while he's online. I told him that he should leave them out, and that I'll sink them while he's offline. He dock'd them all before logging out, and the adjacent sector came in and smashed him. I laughed.
222bk Irishman has some very nice fleets, and the next day he waltz'd right thru my base with barely any damage. The large pinch helped, but his 3 speedy dreadnaughts with siege mortars made short work of my nearly finished base defenses. I thank him for the bubble and congratulate him, explaining that Nico, for all his glitz and glamor, couldn't do the job that Sorry_For_Ya sent them for.
Every single day, I ask.. 'Is this still a no-hit sector'. The first couple days, the locals would fiercely defend the fact that there is no insector hitting allowed here and that I should leave, that I'm a coward and a bubble boy and blah blah blah. It's day 5 now. Now when I ask, I get no answer. When we arrived, all the minefields were taken in every drac field, and almost every single base had guards and no bubble. Now they all buddy bubble before bed, guardfleets are very rare, and almost no one mines at all. Their salvage armada is now one ship, the one hitting salvage, and they guard it till their cargo ships show up. It's a shame, I enjoyed killing multiple heavy fleets while they painstakingly torpedo's the level 8 salvages.
They still talk tough though. Very tough.
222bk_Nico came in and started spamming coordinates in comms, of all the pirates that have been giving the sector a hard time. I laughed, and said something smart to him. He posted his base coords after launching his Yellow and Orange HammerHeads, Dreadnaughts and Scorpions. I explained to him that players that use their wallet don't impress me. He started to explain how he is not a 'coiner' and he heard that we've been harassing the peaceful players of this sector long enough, and that it's time to pay.
Nico sent 3 yellow HH fleets and a dreadnaught fleet, and JUP sent at least two submarine fleets to my base first. He sent the dreadnaught in, after scouting my base. I told him which direction to come at me from, and that he should use a missile fleet if he wants to get the job done. He ignored me and lost a fleet of 2 dreadnaughts and 3 yellow HHs. I giggled and made good fun of him in comms. Then he attacked a handful of other free pirate players in our group. Same result. Free 18 hour bubbles for everyone, thanks man.
I sent 8 fleets of 1 longship to his base, and probed every one of his colorful guardfleets. One fleet was all siege cannon HH's, but every single other ship was a d53 assault missile setup, with booster3. There wasn't even enough time since the booster came out, to refit all those ships with those missiles, and missiles were near pointless before booster. His plastic fleets aren't worth hitting... at least not while he's online. I told him that he should leave them out, and that I'll sink them while he's offline. He dock'd them all before logging out, and the adjacent sector came in and smashed him. I laughed.
222bk Irishman has some very nice fleets, and the next day he waltz'd right thru my base with barely any damage. The large pinch helped, but his 3 speedy dreadnaughts with siege mortars made short work of my nearly finished base defenses. I thank him for the bubble and congratulate him, explaining that Nico, for all his glitz and glamor, couldn't do the job that Sorry_For_Ya sent them for.
Every single day, I ask.. 'Is this still a no-hit sector'. The first couple days, the locals would fiercely defend the fact that there is no insector hitting allowed here and that I should leave, that I'm a coward and a bubble boy and blah blah blah. It's day 5 now. Now when I ask, I get no answer. When we arrived, all the minefields were taken in every drac field, and almost every single base had guards and no bubble. Now they all buddy bubble before bed, guardfleets are very rare, and almost no one mines at all. Their salvage armada is now one ship, the one hitting salvage, and they guard it till their cargo ships show up. It's a shame, I enjoyed killing multiple heavy fleets while they painstakingly torpedo's the level 8 salvages.
They still talk tough though. Very tough.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
On the Prowl
These people are huge on talking, but as far as enforcing their own rules... they are the least active sector I've pirated in a long time. Sorry_For_Ya is the only remaining defender of the carebear sheeple. I've heard that he has fleets that can take out a base or two, and I've seen him driving dreadnaughts around town. So I keep my eye on him.
It didn't take long to find him moving two HH fleets toward Bassman's island. I called to Bassman in comms, but he doesnt respond. Getting hit while offline means that you can't click to heal the turrets between hits, and you can't aim the turrets at the smart targets. So I launch my booster2, engine2 seawolf fleet to Bassman's nearby base.
When SFY's first HH fleet arrives I wait with my wolf fleet, just above the base, where he can't see my name. He dances back and forth for a sec, then I trash him in comms for being pathetic. He engages my wolf fleet with his siege mortar HH fleet. Took about 4 minutes, but he tasted salt water, and I didnt get hit. He launched a wolf fleet from his base, just then.
I sent my wolf fleet toward his base, and he launched a dreadnaught guardfleet. I sent longships to see what he is using and sure enough, d53 assault missiles and booster3. I dont have anything that can take him out with reasonable losses so I just keep sending longships at him to annoy. Then I notice his other HH fleet hitting someone just south of Bassman. I wait for him to finish, and attack with my missile wolfs. His fleet was half dead when I got ahold of him, so I finished the job. glub glub glub
Earlier that day, I saw SFY's seawolf fleet hidden by a base near mine, so I sank it. Costed me an hour of repairs. He built them fairly smart. Strike missiles, booster, laser, and reactive armor (RA3) for missile defense. That wolf fleet is slower than most, and doesn't outrange assault missiles, but the missile armor cuts damage from missiles by 60%. More than doubles their effective armor, vs missile.
I trash talked him but he didn't talk back. It was soon after that when Ice1 started talking trash. She is bound and determined to be dirtier and filthier in comms than my buddies and I have been. She doesn't have wit or charm and makes a fool of herself. But she promises that pretty soon, we'll get whats coming to us. Just wait...
It didn't take long to find him moving two HH fleets toward Bassman's island. I called to Bassman in comms, but he doesnt respond. Getting hit while offline means that you can't click to heal the turrets between hits, and you can't aim the turrets at the smart targets. So I launch my booster2, engine2 seawolf fleet to Bassman's nearby base.
When SFY's first HH fleet arrives I wait with my wolf fleet, just above the base, where he can't see my name. He dances back and forth for a sec, then I trash him in comms for being pathetic. He engages my wolf fleet with his siege mortar HH fleet. Took about 4 minutes, but he tasted salt water, and I didnt get hit. He launched a wolf fleet from his base, just then.
I sent my wolf fleet toward his base, and he launched a dreadnaught guardfleet. I sent longships to see what he is using and sure enough, d53 assault missiles and booster3. I dont have anything that can take him out with reasonable losses so I just keep sending longships at him to annoy. Then I notice his other HH fleet hitting someone just south of Bassman. I wait for him to finish, and attack with my missile wolfs. His fleet was half dead when I got ahold of him, so I finished the job. glub glub glub
Earlier that day, I saw SFY's seawolf fleet hidden by a base near mine, so I sank it. Costed me an hour of repairs. He built them fairly smart. Strike missiles, booster, laser, and reactive armor (RA3) for missile defense. That wolf fleet is slower than most, and doesn't outrange assault missiles, but the missile armor cuts damage from missiles by 60%. More than doubles their effective armor, vs missile.
I trash talked him but he didn't talk back. It was soon after that when Ice1 started talking trash. She is bound and determined to be dirtier and filthier in comms than my buddies and I have been. She doesn't have wit or charm and makes a fool of herself. But she promises that pretty soon, we'll get whats coming to us. Just wait...
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Fleas
An old friend invited me to sector 369 because he said there was a lot of sector cops, and I would likely enjoy it. So after a week of harassing the veteran's alliance, I was totally ready to taste some fresh tears. When I first showed up, I was greeted by a couple local getalong players who told me that this is a no insector hitting sector. I asked him how that policy is enforced. One said "We make life a living hell for people that do."
keep that in mind
I was informed by a few pirate players in the sector, that this place is a lot of talkers, but only two real threats. AFK and SORRY. I bookmarked them for later, and started gathering resources. I filled up my warehouses over two hours, spent it all, then filled up again. There is no shortage of level 28-32 players, so there is a LOT of salvage.
I engaged in a little bit of chat, but watched the comms more than anything. I saw that there was already 3 or 4 pirates hitting in sector, so I asked again... is this a no hit sector? Several people said yes. Well, since I am getting conflicting evidence, it's time to test the waters. I started hitting local miners, waiting for a reaction. Then I started hitting local guardfleets. Same effect, nothing.
"Bondai, what the ***** are you **** and **** blah blah blah..."
"dont worry about bondai, he's just another 'flea' player, he'll be gone in a week just like All the Others!"
J_Harkness got extremely upset when I hit his cargo fleet while he was salvaging. He cried up a storm. Well, it's time for a rant, then I'll get started on some serious hits.
"What you fail to understand, harkness, is that this is a pirate game. Lots of players enjoy the freedom that kixeye has given us, where we can attack who we choose and profit from it. Why do you think base fleets can carry 500% cargo? They want us to hit each other."
"This is also a game of competition, and if you don't want to play it how it is intended, and you'd rather enjoy a peaceful environment, full of cookies and rainbows, go play castleville or something. It doesn't seem like this game was made for people like you."
The comms exploded with cursing from 3 different languages, while a couple people said.. yknow what, thats true Bondai.
This sector is fun already.
keep that in mind
I was informed by a few pirate players in the sector, that this place is a lot of talkers, but only two real threats. AFK and SORRY. I bookmarked them for later, and started gathering resources. I filled up my warehouses over two hours, spent it all, then filled up again. There is no shortage of level 28-32 players, so there is a LOT of salvage.
I engaged in a little bit of chat, but watched the comms more than anything. I saw that there was already 3 or 4 pirates hitting in sector, so I asked again... is this a no hit sector? Several people said yes. Well, since I am getting conflicting evidence, it's time to test the waters. I started hitting local miners, waiting for a reaction. Then I started hitting local guardfleets. Same effect, nothing.
"Bondai, what the ***** are you **** and **** blah blah blah..."
"dont worry about bondai, he's just another 'flea' player, he'll be gone in a week just like All the Others!"
J_Harkness got extremely upset when I hit his cargo fleet while he was salvaging. He cried up a storm. Well, it's time for a rant, then I'll get started on some serious hits.
"What you fail to understand, harkness, is that this is a pirate game. Lots of players enjoy the freedom that kixeye has given us, where we can attack who we choose and profit from it. Why do you think base fleets can carry 500% cargo? They want us to hit each other."
"This is also a game of competition, and if you don't want to play it how it is intended, and you'd rather enjoy a peaceful environment, full of cookies and rainbows, go play castleville or something. It doesn't seem like this game was made for people like you."
The comms exploded with cursing from 3 different languages, while a couple people said.. yknow what, thats true Bondai.
This sector is fun already.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Happy Happy Joy Joy
Late in the week I decided to break from tradition and offer some sort of peace to the sector. I wouldn't exactly call it magnanimous behavior... it's just that I was sinking the same handful of players, and most of them weren't even the raisin sacked ego junkies that started the whole mess. Raptor and Corey made their case well, saying that I've made my point and there's really no sense in continuing the abuse. Plus, Michelle-V is cute, and I don't hate her as much as I should hate the enemy.
There was still a few people trying to convince me that I'm a terrible person, and a coward, and a bubble boy and blah blah blah, and some even insisted that I was abused in a bad way by my daddy... that my mommy didn't love me enough. One guy even gave me his address in florida, to prove he wasn't scared of me. I giggled.
I told them repeatedly, so that there would be no misunderstanding, "My bubble pops soon, and if I don't get hit in sector again I'll stay peaceful and helpful in sector". I said it in a variety of different ways and times during the day, and while several people grunted obscenities at me for even offering a 'truce', many folks were glad at the opportunity to have their happy happy joy joy chats back. It didn't break my heart when sharkattack tried to crater my base. His HH fleet was limping away when all that was left of my base was my outpost and dock... y'know the two things that matter.
So, for 36 more hours I attacked miners, guardfleets and more often than before, fleets that are salvaging... not just their cargo standby fleet, but their attacking fleets. I even showed up for a couple bases that put all their fleets out for me, talking big about how I'm not man enough. Train-Vets put out all his fleets, mostly seawolf and taunted me. I sent a two missile seawolf, 3 havoc longship fleet toward him and he called everyone to back him up.
He docked his FF fleet, but I hit his seawolf as 4 other players showed up to try to engage me after each battle. Lost a longship, killed his fleet. Engaged each of the other 5 fleets and sunk them all, losing one wolf, and 2 longships. He laughed as he launched all of them back into the water, he actually spent money to show me who's boss after I just sunk all his fleets with ease. He made fun as I sent my wolf fleet back to base... for some reason. I know who won that one, toughguy.
Sunday night, I have three days left in sector and my bubble expires. I let everybody know ahead of time that I'm ready to be peaceful again, and the same terms apply. Two people enter chat that I haven't seen all week. One of them is going OFF about how I sank his fleets so sector 223 could smash his base. He has the same insults as all his friends had... do they practice this together? I told him that I understand his frustration, and gave him the run-down on what's been happening this week, since he just now logged in after several days. He swore he wasn't afraid of me and that mommy didn't love me and blah blah blah.
Sharkattack promises me that I'll be 'surprised' later, but sector 223 hit me before the new clowns could get to me. I'll be nice in sector until V alliance proves, once again, that they are better players, better people, and gosh dangit... people like them. Incidently, Michelle-V said she was tired of it and renamed, to remove the V. She's classy.
There was still a few people trying to convince me that I'm a terrible person, and a coward, and a bubble boy and blah blah blah, and some even insisted that I was abused in a bad way by my daddy... that my mommy didn't love me enough. One guy even gave me his address in florida, to prove he wasn't scared of me. I giggled.
I told them repeatedly, so that there would be no misunderstanding, "My bubble pops soon, and if I don't get hit in sector again I'll stay peaceful and helpful in sector". I said it in a variety of different ways and times during the day, and while several people grunted obscenities at me for even offering a 'truce', many folks were glad at the opportunity to have their happy happy joy joy chats back. It didn't break my heart when sharkattack tried to crater my base. His HH fleet was limping away when all that was left of my base was my outpost and dock... y'know the two things that matter.
So, for 36 more hours I attacked miners, guardfleets and more often than before, fleets that are salvaging... not just their cargo standby fleet, but their attacking fleets. I even showed up for a couple bases that put all their fleets out for me, talking big about how I'm not man enough. Train-Vets put out all his fleets, mostly seawolf and taunted me. I sent a two missile seawolf, 3 havoc longship fleet toward him and he called everyone to back him up.
He docked his FF fleet, but I hit his seawolf as 4 other players showed up to try to engage me after each battle. Lost a longship, killed his fleet. Engaged each of the other 5 fleets and sunk them all, losing one wolf, and 2 longships. He laughed as he launched all of them back into the water, he actually spent money to show me who's boss after I just sunk all his fleets with ease. He made fun as I sent my wolf fleet back to base... for some reason. I know who won that one, toughguy.
Sunday night, I have three days left in sector and my bubble expires. I let everybody know ahead of time that I'm ready to be peaceful again, and the same terms apply. Two people enter chat that I haven't seen all week. One of them is going OFF about how I sank his fleets so sector 223 could smash his base. He has the same insults as all his friends had... do they practice this together? I told him that I understand his frustration, and gave him the run-down on what's been happening this week, since he just now logged in after several days. He swore he wasn't afraid of me and that mommy didn't love me and blah blah blah.
Sharkattack promises me that I'll be 'surprised' later, but sector 223 hit me before the new clowns could get to me. I'll be nice in sector until V alliance proves, once again, that they are better players, better people, and gosh dangit... people like them. Incidently, Michelle-V said she was tired of it and renamed, to remove the V. She's classy.
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Mentally Deficient
Sector 224 has been a great sector so far. I wasn't sure whether my attacks would get my point across, since the V alliance is so incredibly overbearing in chat and coin power. Their top coiners are endowed with enormous fleets, and equally enormous egos. Luckily, they haven't been logging in all that often and most of them have me on their ignore list by now.
Two players to note are sharkattack and -XXX-, they were the first to start reading thru this blog to find details of my real life history and such. I have been promised a personal visit by several of the V alliance players, after I hit them or their friends in game. ChromeDome-V went off for an hour straight, about how he was going to show up at my door with a knife to teach me who's boss. Of course I continued taunting him.. gee, hope I don't get shank'd.
I started out hitting miners, and hit hundreds and hundreds of them before the sector was emptied. If I had more friends in the sector, and I might next week, we'd keep all the miners dead till the point gets across, but as it stands I just target the ones that I know are in V alliance, or nearby when I need quick resources. Most of the guardfleets that are worth hitting are dead and stay dead now, and that is always fun. Never know what kinda fleets they'll have packed away, and it's a great way to find out which players I shouldn't bother hitting when they're online.
It's usually easy to tell whether the target fleet will have booster3 or hardbarrels3, which are the only real threat when hitting them offline... their player ID is the small grey number at the bottom when you click on someone, and the lower the number the older the account, and usually it means the more research is complete. But this sector is full of a TON of accounts that are less than 1mil player IDs but they don't have top techs researched. Booster2, HardBarrel2, Engine2 are common... few of their fleets have even shot at me, let alone sunk me. Lots of them have missiles but no booster... stagnated much?
So I started hitting players that are mining, giving up the idea that I can tell what they have by their player ID. Watching them send their seawolf or submarine fleet at the salvage, while drooling at their FF HH or levi fleet... then when they start a new salvage, I move in to attack the bigger cargo ships. They are usually terribly built, but have long repair times. That is a kick in the balls to most players, as they only join the battle halfway thru, and by then the outcome is usually determined. Veteran alliance is starting to get the point... this sector is soft because of too much peace. People are complacent, and from the looks of things, usually pretty bored. They don't login enough to research at a normal pace, hence the low tech fleets with low player IDs.
I heard that most of them are relocating this weekend, which will make it less enthralling when my replacement shows up to harass them next week. An old friend asked me to take a shot at a different sector-cop alliance in a three hundred sector next week... says they are overbearing and hot-headed. They're always the most fun to upset. Gotta watch it though, I've heard that attacking people in a battle game is a symptom of mental deficiency... hope it's not true. Bondai might get locked away for good.
Two players to note are sharkattack and -XXX-, they were the first to start reading thru this blog to find details of my real life history and such. I have been promised a personal visit by several of the V alliance players, after I hit them or their friends in game. ChromeDome-V went off for an hour straight, about how he was going to show up at my door with a knife to teach me who's boss. Of course I continued taunting him.. gee, hope I don't get shank'd.
I started out hitting miners, and hit hundreds and hundreds of them before the sector was emptied. If I had more friends in the sector, and I might next week, we'd keep all the miners dead till the point gets across, but as it stands I just target the ones that I know are in V alliance, or nearby when I need quick resources. Most of the guardfleets that are worth hitting are dead and stay dead now, and that is always fun. Never know what kinda fleets they'll have packed away, and it's a great way to find out which players I shouldn't bother hitting when they're online.
It's usually easy to tell whether the target fleet will have booster3 or hardbarrels3, which are the only real threat when hitting them offline... their player ID is the small grey number at the bottom when you click on someone, and the lower the number the older the account, and usually it means the more research is complete. But this sector is full of a TON of accounts that are less than 1mil player IDs but they don't have top techs researched. Booster2, HardBarrel2, Engine2 are common... few of their fleets have even shot at me, let alone sunk me. Lots of them have missiles but no booster... stagnated much?
So I started hitting players that are mining, giving up the idea that I can tell what they have by their player ID. Watching them send their seawolf or submarine fleet at the salvage, while drooling at their FF HH or levi fleet... then when they start a new salvage, I move in to attack the bigger cargo ships. They are usually terribly built, but have long repair times. That is a kick in the balls to most players, as they only join the battle halfway thru, and by then the outcome is usually determined. Veteran alliance is starting to get the point... this sector is soft because of too much peace. People are complacent, and from the looks of things, usually pretty bored. They don't login enough to research at a normal pace, hence the low tech fleets with low player IDs.
I heard that most of them are relocating this weekend, which will make it less enthralling when my replacement shows up to harass them next week. An old friend asked me to take a shot at a different sector-cop alliance in a three hundred sector next week... says they are overbearing and hot-headed. They're always the most fun to upset. Gotta watch it though, I've heard that attacking people in a battle game is a symptom of mental deficiency... hope it's not true. Bondai might get locked away for good.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Veteran's Alliance
V alliance is interesting. Seems to be nothing but military veterans, a few big time top dog coiners call the shots, one of the guys was bragging that he spends 120 dollars a week on the game, then spent 2 hours justifying himself and gloating about his amazing wealth. I was a little sickened, but hey, he's free to spend his money how he pleases.
I showed up with only one other person from the main group, there were no spots left in the sector so Tokahontis and we started hitting local miners, trying to push a couple people out of the sector to make room. The next morning though, Sloaney took everyone else back to sector 85.
WhtWolf is the biggest mouthpiece in comms and he asks Mutt who hit his miners. Mutt is really angry, spouting off that he's lost 5 ships now to in-sector hitters! I used the minimalist approach at first. Wolf asked why, I said 'farming'. He explains that there is no in-sector hitting in 224 and I said I was gathering resources from local miners and he shouldn't try to force his rules on me.
I went to sector 223 to hit miners, it was only 1 minute away. While I'm getting started up there, gathering up that last 2mil zynth I need to build another scorpion, V alliance starts giving me mandates. Martin-V (level 34) says he's 11 minutes out. I warn them not to escalate the situation, that I am not someone they want to pick on. That infuriates them and I start smiling. This could be a fun week afterall.
Sky-King shows up with seawolfs and hits all my perimeter buildings, checking out my layout and talking loads of trash about how I'm pathetic and they're going to farm me and blah blah blah. I watch Martin-V arrive with a FF fleet, presumably mortars, and a siege missile fleet of HHs, which he hit me with. His ships took almost no damage, my base design is still anti-mortar. Before he attacked, I launched longships to scout what he was using, and told him, "you will win with that fleet, but I recommend you don't get me started". He did not take me seriously. He also did not get all the way to my dock or outpost before he ran out of time.
After that, it was game on. After doing some chores and running an errand, I sat down to several hours of gaming enjoyment. Every time comms went quiet, I ranted about how the bullies in V alliance are forcing their gamestyle on the patrons of the sector, and that this game is free to play how you please. Very few people speak up, but this is only the first day.
"Kixeye showed up an hour ago guys, they said we now have permission to attack each other in sector". For some reason they didn't believe me.
I went thru and bookmarked every draconian base in the sector. There are 25 of them, roughly spaced out every 100 clicks. Five from southwest to northeast, five rows of five from northwest to southeast. Then I split up my seawolfs into groups of two. I now have a gunscorpion and missile scorpion fleet, and 3 fleets with 2 missile wolfs in each. Then I put together a few twin longship fleets.
I scan the drac fields, sending a fleet to each field with easy targets (warm-up) and send the longships to the fields with big players (to scout their weapon arrangements). I found out that almost all of them still have thuds, and many that have missiles dont even have booster on them yet. The rest of them use hydra/mortar setups, and those are just terrible.
I sank 300 fleets in the first 24 hours. Yes, thats around 1500 ships. Someone logged in that night and made a comment to break the silence in comms. "Wow, drac fields are almost empty!" I told him what had happened, then V alliance went off in comms for another hour. Every time they get quiet I make a few comments then minimize comms again.
Day one in sector 224 has been a lot of fun.
I showed up with only one other person from the main group, there were no spots left in the sector so Tokahontis and we started hitting local miners, trying to push a couple people out of the sector to make room. The next morning though, Sloaney took everyone else back to sector 85.
WhtWolf is the biggest mouthpiece in comms and he asks Mutt who hit his miners. Mutt is really angry, spouting off that he's lost 5 ships now to in-sector hitters! I used the minimalist approach at first. Wolf asked why, I said 'farming'. He explains that there is no in-sector hitting in 224 and I said I was gathering resources from local miners and he shouldn't try to force his rules on me.
I went to sector 223 to hit miners, it was only 1 minute away. While I'm getting started up there, gathering up that last 2mil zynth I need to build another scorpion, V alliance starts giving me mandates. Martin-V (level 34) says he's 11 minutes out. I warn them not to escalate the situation, that I am not someone they want to pick on. That infuriates them and I start smiling. This could be a fun week afterall.
Sky-King shows up with seawolfs and hits all my perimeter buildings, checking out my layout and talking loads of trash about how I'm pathetic and they're going to farm me and blah blah blah. I watch Martin-V arrive with a FF fleet, presumably mortars, and a siege missile fleet of HHs, which he hit me with. His ships took almost no damage, my base design is still anti-mortar. Before he attacked, I launched longships to scout what he was using, and told him, "you will win with that fleet, but I recommend you don't get me started". He did not take me seriously. He also did not get all the way to my dock or outpost before he ran out of time.
After that, it was game on. After doing some chores and running an errand, I sat down to several hours of gaming enjoyment. Every time comms went quiet, I ranted about how the bullies in V alliance are forcing their gamestyle on the patrons of the sector, and that this game is free to play how you please. Very few people speak up, but this is only the first day.
"Kixeye showed up an hour ago guys, they said we now have permission to attack each other in sector". For some reason they didn't believe me.
I went thru and bookmarked every draconian base in the sector. There are 25 of them, roughly spaced out every 100 clicks. Five from southwest to northeast, five rows of five from northwest to southeast. Then I split up my seawolfs into groups of two. I now have a gunscorpion and missile scorpion fleet, and 3 fleets with 2 missile wolfs in each. Then I put together a few twin longship fleets.
I scan the drac fields, sending a fleet to each field with easy targets (warm-up) and send the longships to the fields with big players (to scout their weapon arrangements). I found out that almost all of them still have thuds, and many that have missiles dont even have booster on them yet. The rest of them use hydra/mortar setups, and those are just terrible.
I sank 300 fleets in the first 24 hours. Yes, thats around 1500 ships. Someone logged in that night and made a comment to break the silence in comms. "Wow, drac fields are almost empty!" I told him what had happened, then V alliance went off in comms for another hour. Every time they get quiet I make a few comments then minimize comms again.
Day one in sector 224 has been a lot of fun.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Yellow Clownshoes
The sector is alive with the sound of bleating and I just can't stand it anymore. I've spent most of the past day talking trash about YellowBeard and 22Bk, since they became friends. All they had to do was give him a few compliments and he went all soft.
I took the fight to YellowBeard in the morning hours. He has 3 fleets sitting outside his base. I tell the sector that I'm going to kill them. 22bk alliance tells me that I won't be able to and they pop some popcorn to watch me smash my head against the wall.
The three fleets:
2 thud dreadnaughts, 1 missile dreadnaught, 2 missile yellow HHs.
3 missile yellow HHs, 2 fast thud levis.
2 missile dreadnaughts, 2 d33 gun scorpions, 1 thud levi.
Tough fleets. Missiles are 96 range. His guns are all longest range possible.
I start with groups of 2 longships, 3 different fleets. My longships have a havoc4 and a havoc2 on each, and repair instantly. I wanted to see which fleets engage first second and third, and whether he's online. Guardfleets will engage the attacker in battle by order of best to worst. Meaning, the highest level guarding fleet will be the first one to engage the attacker, even if its the one led by a gunboat.
I wanted to kill the scorpions first, so I sent in 2 longship fleets, and a levi/barge fleet. The two longship fleets engage the 2 other fleets, so i attack with my 2levi/3barge fleet. The leviathans have 5 Shockwave L mortars on them, engine2 and High Explosive (HE). once they fire I dropped a small pinch on the scorpions. The mortars fall on scorpions and kill them instantly (one armor slot) and the gunbarges finish off the levi. Then I move the leviathans a little closer while my 3 barges get into range of the two dreadnaughts. The dreadnaughts are firing loads of missiles at my leviathans, and one levi dies. But the barges are firing very very fast at close range and the two dreadnaughts are only able to kill the one levi before they taste saltwater. So, sacrificed one leviathan (1 hour repair time) to kill 2 dreadnaughts (10 hour repair each) 2 scorpions (1 hour each) and a DU4 levi (1.5 hours). I win round one.
I send the 3 fleets of 2 longships at him a few times to see if he logged in. If he is online he'll pilot his ships to kill me before my longships fire torpedos. He doesn't so I send one missile seawolf. I engage the fleet with thud leviathans. I stay at long range with them while the slower yellow HHs slowly creep toward me. The seawolf kills the thud levis without getting fired upon. I run the seawolf around in circles till the battle ends (5 minute timer). Then I put together another fleet. 1 shockwave levi, same 3 d33 barges and a d33 levi.
All my levis have engine2 on them. All my ships with guns have hardbarrels2. I move my shockwave levi up front to take the bulk of the damage. they have 3 x titanium4 armor. The HH's start firing missiles and right when my guns are finally in range, the shockwave levi sinks, as expected. I target all my ships on one Hammerhead at a time. My ships are all firing d33x guns. 17 guns firing for almost a thousand damage per second from each boat. My gun leviathan takes half damage, barges are again untouched. Round 2 won.
Now for the thud dreadnaughts. Same as before, I send one missile Seawolf in there. My 88 range missiles vs his 74 range thud cannons. He got lucky, I got a lag spike on my internet and my seawolf drowns instantly. I send 2 more of the same seawolf and easily take out the two thud dreadnaughts. Now the challenge is, a missile dreadnaught and 2 missile HHs, each with 96 range missiles on them. My small pinch is finished building, so I put my fleet together. 2 gunbarges, 2 shockwave levis and my gunscorpion. I aim all my ships at the dreadnaught, then pilot the scorpion and barges enough to keep them behind the shockwave leviathans. I drop the pinch as the two leviathans start to fire and move them in close, almost too close to fire at the targets, and my 15 d33 guns start smashing the dreadnaught. It dies very quickly, while a bunch of shockwave mortars splash down all around. The remaining two yellow hammerheads die in seconds. I lose both of my leviathans and my scorpion is half dead.
So, I lost 3 shockwave leviathans, and adding up the damage to scorpion and d33 levi... I have 5.5 hours of repair in total. YellowBeard has roughly 80 hours of repairs to work on, and that's a guess. Actual times vary according to the amount of armor on the ship, and to a lesser degree, the weapons.
He logs in 20 minutes later. He is absolutely livid. I've been toying with this clown for months and I've never seen him shout in ALL CAPS like that.
You had it coming YellowBich.
"I'm going to end you Bondai, you cowardly cc'er bubble boy stupid blah blah blah"
10 minutes later, his 3 fleets are back on guard duty. He bought the repairs (16 dollars well spent) so that I could practice all that again. I sent longships at him for a few hours as he talked trash about how lame I am, then when he says in comms "I'll be back later to smash you Bondai", I put my fleets together again. I killed them all again, only this time I ended up with only 4 hours of repair. I thanked him for the xp points when he logged back in, and YellowBeard finally puts me on his ignore list.
Yeah, it's day 7 tonight. Time to move on.
I took the fight to YellowBeard in the morning hours. He has 3 fleets sitting outside his base. I tell the sector that I'm going to kill them. 22bk alliance tells me that I won't be able to and they pop some popcorn to watch me smash my head against the wall.
The three fleets:
2 thud dreadnaughts, 1 missile dreadnaught, 2 missile yellow HHs.
3 missile yellow HHs, 2 fast thud levis.
2 missile dreadnaughts, 2 d33 gun scorpions, 1 thud levi.
Tough fleets. Missiles are 96 range. His guns are all longest range possible.
I start with groups of 2 longships, 3 different fleets. My longships have a havoc4 and a havoc2 on each, and repair instantly. I wanted to see which fleets engage first second and third, and whether he's online. Guardfleets will engage the attacker in battle by order of best to worst. Meaning, the highest level guarding fleet will be the first one to engage the attacker, even if its the one led by a gunboat.
I wanted to kill the scorpions first, so I sent in 2 longship fleets, and a levi/barge fleet. The two longship fleets engage the 2 other fleets, so i attack with my 2levi/3barge fleet. The leviathans have 5 Shockwave L mortars on them, engine2 and High Explosive (HE). once they fire I dropped a small pinch on the scorpions. The mortars fall on scorpions and kill them instantly (one armor slot) and the gunbarges finish off the levi. Then I move the leviathans a little closer while my 3 barges get into range of the two dreadnaughts. The dreadnaughts are firing loads of missiles at my leviathans, and one levi dies. But the barges are firing very very fast at close range and the two dreadnaughts are only able to kill the one levi before they taste saltwater. So, sacrificed one leviathan (1 hour repair time) to kill 2 dreadnaughts (10 hour repair each) 2 scorpions (1 hour each) and a DU4 levi (1.5 hours). I win round one.
I send the 3 fleets of 2 longships at him a few times to see if he logged in. If he is online he'll pilot his ships to kill me before my longships fire torpedos. He doesn't so I send one missile seawolf. I engage the fleet with thud leviathans. I stay at long range with them while the slower yellow HHs slowly creep toward me. The seawolf kills the thud levis without getting fired upon. I run the seawolf around in circles till the battle ends (5 minute timer). Then I put together another fleet. 1 shockwave levi, same 3 d33 barges and a d33 levi.
All my levis have engine2 on them. All my ships with guns have hardbarrels2. I move my shockwave levi up front to take the bulk of the damage. they have 3 x titanium4 armor. The HH's start firing missiles and right when my guns are finally in range, the shockwave levi sinks, as expected. I target all my ships on one Hammerhead at a time. My ships are all firing d33x guns. 17 guns firing for almost a thousand damage per second from each boat. My gun leviathan takes half damage, barges are again untouched. Round 2 won.
Now for the thud dreadnaughts. Same as before, I send one missile Seawolf in there. My 88 range missiles vs his 74 range thud cannons. He got lucky, I got a lag spike on my internet and my seawolf drowns instantly. I send 2 more of the same seawolf and easily take out the two thud dreadnaughts. Now the challenge is, a missile dreadnaught and 2 missile HHs, each with 96 range missiles on them. My small pinch is finished building, so I put my fleet together. 2 gunbarges, 2 shockwave levis and my gunscorpion. I aim all my ships at the dreadnaught, then pilot the scorpion and barges enough to keep them behind the shockwave leviathans. I drop the pinch as the two leviathans start to fire and move them in close, almost too close to fire at the targets, and my 15 d33 guns start smashing the dreadnaught. It dies very quickly, while a bunch of shockwave mortars splash down all around. The remaining two yellow hammerheads die in seconds. I lose both of my leviathans and my scorpion is half dead.
So, I lost 3 shockwave leviathans, and adding up the damage to scorpion and d33 levi... I have 5.5 hours of repair in total. YellowBeard has roughly 80 hours of repairs to work on, and that's a guess. Actual times vary according to the amount of armor on the ship, and to a lesser degree, the weapons.
He logs in 20 minutes later. He is absolutely livid. I've been toying with this clown for months and I've never seen him shout in ALL CAPS like that.
You had it coming YellowBich.
"I'm going to end you Bondai, you cowardly cc'er bubble boy stupid blah blah blah"
10 minutes later, his 3 fleets are back on guard duty. He bought the repairs (16 dollars well spent) so that I could practice all that again. I sent longships at him for a few hours as he talked trash about how lame I am, then when he says in comms "I'll be back later to smash you Bondai", I put my fleets together again. I killed them all again, only this time I ended up with only 4 hours of repair. I thanked him for the xp points when he logged back in, and YellowBeard finally puts me on his ignore list.
Yeah, it's day 7 tonight. Time to move on.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Roles Reversed
I relocated to a friend of mine from way back, and it turns out that he doesn't play much anymore. I see dozens of players that I have met before in the sector, and when I get there several of them take the time to gently ask me not to attack people. I told them all, in no uncertain terms, that I am here peacefully, and I'll stay peaceful so long as I don't get attacked.
Sloaney's internet was down for days in a row, and it was just as well. We were being peaceful and were bored to tears. I filled my warehouses up with resources 3 times, and just gave it away to my neighbors while I explained how to hit salvage without getting damaged. I coached a few players on what I believe are the priorities for a player at their level range.
Bearing in mind that dozens of the players in this sector regard me as a loose cannon, and for good reason, I open up salvages for people, and make sure that I update people on comms about possible threats, and I even attack a few out of sector and in sector attackers. I have some allies at this point.
YellowBeard relocates and lands right near me. YellowBeard felt the sharp sting of my tongue on more than one occasion and the minute he shows up near me he vows to end my happy funtime gaming adventure. YellowBeard swears that nothing I can do will keep me from feeling his wrath as he enjoys smashing my base over and over, indeed, farming me while I am in this sector. Perfect.
I gently told him, I'm here in peace and I don't want to be attacked...
"You Are A Dead Man Bondai!!!, nothing can save you from what you've earned, I can't stand you and you are a blankedy blank blank blanker with a blankedy blank blank and blank blanks for blank blank you blanker!!!"
I stare at his comms with a blank look in my eyes. Then answer him blankly: this sector would rather not have me as a foe, and you know how I play. Attack me if you think you must, but I'd recommend you dont. I will sink everything that floats if I get hit.
YellowBeard stares into a placid lake, regarding his beautiful account statistics for the rest of the day and does not attack me. That same day two alliances join the sector, each threatening to end the peaceful paradise that sector 214 has enjoyed. SH alliance (silent hitters) and 22BK alliance. Both are in-sector hitters in a sector that I decided not to attack.
I give the residents constant status updates about the in-sector hitters for the rest of the weekend, and I even attack the 22BK fleets, killing most, losing some. They have to keep constant watch over each other while they hit salvages outside their bases... I keep sneaking into their party and sinking their fleets and they are not pleased. Their tears taste sweet as they trash talk me.
Welcome back Sloaney... oh, yer hitting in sector already... enjoy. I told the group that I wouldn't back them up in the sector, but they are always free to play how they please. After several days of peace most of the group was ready to slay some carebears and Sloaney came back to the internetz with murder in mind. They're having a blast, so I constantly berate 22BK and try to get the local 'police' players to attack that alliance, and ignore sloaney and yellowdevil.
I have been promised by several players that the in-sector hitters will be dealt with when 214's power players come back from a peacekeeping mission out of sector. I told everyone that I was looking forward to helping them rid the sector of 22Bk. Feels strange being a supportive patron of a no-hit sector... I'm looking forward to the end of the week, I hear they will be giving out group participation awards and signed carebear portraits... I can't wait!!
YellowBeard flexed his biceps and chest muscles so powerfully that 22BK started coming onto him, and he just loves flattery. Now they are friends, joined at the hip to attack Sloaney and them. So I reinforce the common patron's disdain for 22BK and look forward to the rest of the week. We secretly make friends with SH alliance but they stay low key.
Lady Hatchett still thinks my real account is a guy named Vee-Dog. She hates Bondai with a passion and doesn't know what to do with this new nicey version of the olde Pie Rat she fears. I asked her if she'll attack me when her friends arrive and she took her sweet time in replying... "I guess if you are going to help against 22bk you may live for now"
...as if that's her call to make... "lovely then, high five partner", giggle.
YellowBeard really has it out for me, but if he attacks me, I'll spend a few days killing every miner and guardfleet in the sector, shouting yellowbeard as my motivation. Last two times I smeared his image in front of his friends he left the sector. I never even had to attack. I love narcissism... it's so predictable.
Sloaney's internet was down for days in a row, and it was just as well. We were being peaceful and were bored to tears. I filled my warehouses up with resources 3 times, and just gave it away to my neighbors while I explained how to hit salvage without getting damaged. I coached a few players on what I believe are the priorities for a player at their level range.
Bearing in mind that dozens of the players in this sector regard me as a loose cannon, and for good reason, I open up salvages for people, and make sure that I update people on comms about possible threats, and I even attack a few out of sector and in sector attackers. I have some allies at this point.
YellowBeard relocates and lands right near me. YellowBeard felt the sharp sting of my tongue on more than one occasion and the minute he shows up near me he vows to end my happy funtime gaming adventure. YellowBeard swears that nothing I can do will keep me from feeling his wrath as he enjoys smashing my base over and over, indeed, farming me while I am in this sector. Perfect.
I gently told him, I'm here in peace and I don't want to be attacked...
"You Are A Dead Man Bondai!!!, nothing can save you from what you've earned, I can't stand you and you are a blankedy blank blank blanker with a blankedy blank blank and blank blanks for blank blank you blanker!!!"
I stare at his comms with a blank look in my eyes. Then answer him blankly: this sector would rather not have me as a foe, and you know how I play. Attack me if you think you must, but I'd recommend you dont. I will sink everything that floats if I get hit.
YellowBeard stares into a placid lake, regarding his beautiful account statistics for the rest of the day and does not attack me. That same day two alliances join the sector, each threatening to end the peaceful paradise that sector 214 has enjoyed. SH alliance (silent hitters) and 22BK alliance. Both are in-sector hitters in a sector that I decided not to attack.
I give the residents constant status updates about the in-sector hitters for the rest of the weekend, and I even attack the 22BK fleets, killing most, losing some. They have to keep constant watch over each other while they hit salvages outside their bases... I keep sneaking into their party and sinking their fleets and they are not pleased. Their tears taste sweet as they trash talk me.
Welcome back Sloaney... oh, yer hitting in sector already... enjoy. I told the group that I wouldn't back them up in the sector, but they are always free to play how they please. After several days of peace most of the group was ready to slay some carebears and Sloaney came back to the internetz with murder in mind. They're having a blast, so I constantly berate 22BK and try to get the local 'police' players to attack that alliance, and ignore sloaney and yellowdevil.
I have been promised by several players that the in-sector hitters will be dealt with when 214's power players come back from a peacekeeping mission out of sector. I told everyone that I was looking forward to helping them rid the sector of 22Bk. Feels strange being a supportive patron of a no-hit sector... I'm looking forward to the end of the week, I hear they will be giving out group participation awards and signed carebear portraits... I can't wait!!
YellowBeard flexed his biceps and chest muscles so powerfully that 22BK started coming onto him, and he just loves flattery. Now they are friends, joined at the hip to attack Sloaney and them. So I reinforce the common patron's disdain for 22BK and look forward to the rest of the week. We secretly make friends with SH alliance but they stay low key.
Lady Hatchett still thinks my real account is a guy named Vee-Dog. She hates Bondai with a passion and doesn't know what to do with this new nicey version of the olde Pie Rat she fears. I asked her if she'll attack me when her friends arrive and she took her sweet time in replying... "I guess if you are going to help against 22bk you may live for now"
...as if that's her call to make... "lovely then, high five partner", giggle.
YellowBeard really has it out for me, but if he attacks me, I'll spend a few days killing every miner and guardfleet in the sector, shouting yellowbeard as my motivation. Last two times I smeared his image in front of his friends he left the sector. I never even had to attack. I love narcissism... it's so predictable.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
In parting...
Seadogs had lined up their FF and HH fleets outside a base, in formation!
They kept blasting the coords into the comms to show everyone their beautiful steel armada.
I said in comms "wish ya'll were a bit closer".
no response
I made 8 fleets with one longship in each one, then sent them toward the armada across the sector. Eight LONG minutes I waited, while targeting the individual longships at a random ship from each player. They had their fleets all lined up in rows, and were tweaking them into perfect order for a group screenshot. Some folks in comms were already remarking at how lame it was, yet how quaint.
I grinned and watched my longships zoom across the sea, their wakes were like contrails in a blue ocean.
As the ships arrived I yelled in comms, "BONZAI!!!! Fear the Longships of Love!! [coords]"
Just then, all 8 of my fleet tabs lit up with battle and I watched their whole parade of fleets recall to their home bases, then they joined the battles to kill my... one longship each. There was much rejoicing. It's not often that I literally laugh out loud, but I did just then.
Wolf-Killer has a real problem with Bondai. He keeps telling me how sad I am for dedicating this much time to a video game, and that I'm fat and unemployed, and that I have no girlfriend and I am a waste of flesh and the whole nine yards. He told me a few days ago that I was going to be banned for hacking any minute now, too.
cool story bruh
Sloaney is on his way to smash that guy's base and he asks me to keep him busy in chat for 7 minutes, so he can hit him without warning. I start indulging wolf-killer in his lameassery, asking him what his favorite reality TV show is, how many miles he gets to the gallon on his massive pickup truck... I point out how incredibly ordinary he is, time and again, while insulting him on a level that takes him a minute to pick up on. I assure him that his mediocrity hasn't gone unnoticed and his personal insults on me hurt my feelings and my delicate sensibilities. I ask him if his daughter is hot.
He pretended to not be bothered when I told him, "There we go, thanks for staying distracted long enough for sloaney to sneak up on your base like that, I'm done with you now".
Before we left 429 we decided to smash all the miners in 428 for a couple days... it had the desired effect. 428's big boys couldn't catch our crew, because we exit our battles quickly and it's very difficult to engage us when we don't want to fight you. We hit the offline miners, like cowards, and talked trash to the spies that 428 had in sector... warning us to stop before it gets worse.
It did get worse, right before our 7 days was up, and we left 429 to their disaster... laughing the whole time. I decided to get us to a safe sector, for a week or two of peace. Sector 214, here we come!
They kept blasting the coords into the comms to show everyone their beautiful steel armada.
I said in comms "wish ya'll were a bit closer".
no response
I made 8 fleets with one longship in each one, then sent them toward the armada across the sector. Eight LONG minutes I waited, while targeting the individual longships at a random ship from each player. They had their fleets all lined up in rows, and were tweaking them into perfect order for a group screenshot. Some folks in comms were already remarking at how lame it was, yet how quaint.
I grinned and watched my longships zoom across the sea, their wakes were like contrails in a blue ocean.
As the ships arrived I yelled in comms, "BONZAI!!!! Fear the Longships of Love!! [coords]"
Just then, all 8 of my fleet tabs lit up with battle and I watched their whole parade of fleets recall to their home bases, then they joined the battles to kill my... one longship each. There was much rejoicing. It's not often that I literally laugh out loud, but I did just then.
Wolf-Killer has a real problem with Bondai. He keeps telling me how sad I am for dedicating this much time to a video game, and that I'm fat and unemployed, and that I have no girlfriend and I am a waste of flesh and the whole nine yards. He told me a few days ago that I was going to be banned for hacking any minute now, too.
cool story bruh
Sloaney is on his way to smash that guy's base and he asks me to keep him busy in chat for 7 minutes, so he can hit him without warning. I start indulging wolf-killer in his lameassery, asking him what his favorite reality TV show is, how many miles he gets to the gallon on his massive pickup truck... I point out how incredibly ordinary he is, time and again, while insulting him on a level that takes him a minute to pick up on. I assure him that his mediocrity hasn't gone unnoticed and his personal insults on me hurt my feelings and my delicate sensibilities. I ask him if his daughter is hot.
He pretended to not be bothered when I told him, "There we go, thanks for staying distracted long enough for sloaney to sneak up on your base like that, I'm done with you now".
Before we left 429 we decided to smash all the miners in 428 for a couple days... it had the desired effect. 428's big boys couldn't catch our crew, because we exit our battles quickly and it's very difficult to engage us when we don't want to fight you. We hit the offline miners, like cowards, and talked trash to the spies that 428 had in sector... warning us to stop before it gets worse.
It did get worse, right before our 7 days was up, and we left 429 to their disaster... laughing the whole time. I decided to get us to a safe sector, for a week or two of peace. Sector 214, here we come!
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Scorched Ocean
Patch tried to give me a nickname.
"Hey Bubbles, that's your new name now... Bubbles, get it?"
When my nickname catches on, can I sit at the cool kid's table then?
I taunt them:
Hey AngryAsian, my bubble expires in 7 minutes. Get in line for the event, and bring a good fleet, you'll fail the first time.
Of course my bubble still had 17 hours left on it, but I do enjoy watching the monkey's dance for me. I told him to enjoy the ride home, someone bubbled me before he got there. He pretended not to be aggravated.
I look around at all the empty spots where Sharkz alliance was the day before. Just like I had told the sector when we showed up, "by day 4, most of you will move on, cuz this sector just isn't fun anymore". I made a mockery of their alliance leaders every few hours, spouting lies and pretending to be the victim of their bullying. Slowly, the rot set into their private chats and their malcontent grew to the point where TheMuse knew he had to get the flock out of here. One alliance down, one to go.
When HS Angry Asian did end up hitting me the next day, he failed horribly, then told me I had a good base and proceeded to stick his nose up my anus. I explained that there was no amount of nicety that'll get this pirate to enjoy his company. His crew is pathetic and we're not leaving until they are gone.
"BONDAI! S.O.S. at YellowDevil's base!"
"omg Bondai, sos at Sloaney's base too"
Did Hit Squad suddenly get bold again? I thought we had them relatively beaten down by now... but wait, thats not Hit Squad, who I've come to affectionately call Shiz Squad. Thats SeaDogs. SD alliance has arrived. Wonder who brought them here. Could get ugly.
There are four different players surrounding my friends' bases. I start launching longship fleets to scout what they're using, and I wait till they've engaged someone else before I start the attack. Several gunwolf and missilewolfs, a few FFs and HHs in there with long range missiles... some pretty expensive fleets there. I sink 2 fleets with my seawolf before i get sent home in a box. Then I throw two fleets of levis at them and sink a few Hit Squads, that came to watch, and seadogs that are talking trash like crazy.
Hit Squad is kissing up to the seadogs, and SD have already started trashing me personally. It appears as if they showed up as a result of my actions here. I hope so, I love having an impact on other people's lives. It makes me feel warm inside.
"Bondai, come out of that bubble before we come over there and kill you."
Interesting thought guys, but my bubble has 7 more minutes on it. You'll have to try harder.
Of course, their best coiner, SD Crusader comes with his Siege missile FF fleet. He sits there and goads me, thinking I'm the kind of person that'll make myself vulnerable to be attacked while legitimate threats are waiting. I told him to enjoy his ride home too.
SeaDogs could be a serious problem. I just threw all my fleets at them, and I'm looking at 14 hours of repairs and I was in the process of gathering resources to do researches in 3 buildings. Hmm. That'll just have to wait. This is a war sector, and we came here to destroy everyone.
I let Sloaney and my friends know that today was not the day to be a hero, and to keep to the longships and avoidance... wait for SeaDogs to start hitting Shiz Squad instead. They have big mouths, and will be the only fun target for the seadogs by the end of the day. I spent much of the rest of the day with my family... watching movies, enjoying the day.
Next day, SeaDogs had utterly destroyed Hit Squad, and they were now bubbling each other to avoid further injury. I trash talk Hit Squad so heavily and ruthlessly that the seadogs are laughing at them, and patting me on the back. When my bubble is about to expire, I invite their biggest hitter to my base after watching him hit base after base after base. He shows me what a Siege Missile FF fleet looks like, and how effective they are. Oh my... I must build mine like that. He levelled me and was barely scratched. I thanked him in no uncertain terms. Sloaney took notes too.
We still have two days left in 429, and this place is already utterly scorched. I didn't mean for it to work out this way, but it couldn't have gone any smoother. Bubbles needs a new sector.
"Hey Bubbles, that's your new name now... Bubbles, get it?"
When my nickname catches on, can I sit at the cool kid's table then?
I taunt them:
Hey AngryAsian, my bubble expires in 7 minutes. Get in line for the event, and bring a good fleet, you'll fail the first time.
Of course my bubble still had 17 hours left on it, but I do enjoy watching the monkey's dance for me. I told him to enjoy the ride home, someone bubbled me before he got there. He pretended not to be aggravated.
I look around at all the empty spots where Sharkz alliance was the day before. Just like I had told the sector when we showed up, "by day 4, most of you will move on, cuz this sector just isn't fun anymore". I made a mockery of their alliance leaders every few hours, spouting lies and pretending to be the victim of their bullying. Slowly, the rot set into their private chats and their malcontent grew to the point where TheMuse knew he had to get the flock out of here. One alliance down, one to go.
When HS Angry Asian did end up hitting me the next day, he failed horribly, then told me I had a good base and proceeded to stick his nose up my anus. I explained that there was no amount of nicety that'll get this pirate to enjoy his company. His crew is pathetic and we're not leaving until they are gone.
"BONDAI! S.O.S. at YellowDevil's base!"
"omg Bondai, sos at Sloaney's base too"
Did Hit Squad suddenly get bold again? I thought we had them relatively beaten down by now... but wait, thats not Hit Squad, who I've come to affectionately call Shiz Squad. Thats SeaDogs. SD alliance has arrived. Wonder who brought them here. Could get ugly.
There are four different players surrounding my friends' bases. I start launching longship fleets to scout what they're using, and I wait till they've engaged someone else before I start the attack. Several gunwolf and missilewolfs, a few FFs and HHs in there with long range missiles... some pretty expensive fleets there. I sink 2 fleets with my seawolf before i get sent home in a box. Then I throw two fleets of levis at them and sink a few Hit Squads, that came to watch, and seadogs that are talking trash like crazy.
Hit Squad is kissing up to the seadogs, and SD have already started trashing me personally. It appears as if they showed up as a result of my actions here. I hope so, I love having an impact on other people's lives. It makes me feel warm inside.
"Bondai, come out of that bubble before we come over there and kill you."
Interesting thought guys, but my bubble has 7 more minutes on it. You'll have to try harder.
Of course, their best coiner, SD Crusader comes with his Siege missile FF fleet. He sits there and goads me, thinking I'm the kind of person that'll make myself vulnerable to be attacked while legitimate threats are waiting. I told him to enjoy his ride home too.
SeaDogs could be a serious problem. I just threw all my fleets at them, and I'm looking at 14 hours of repairs and I was in the process of gathering resources to do researches in 3 buildings. Hmm. That'll just have to wait. This is a war sector, and we came here to destroy everyone.
I let Sloaney and my friends know that today was not the day to be a hero, and to keep to the longships and avoidance... wait for SeaDogs to start hitting Shiz Squad instead. They have big mouths, and will be the only fun target for the seadogs by the end of the day. I spent much of the rest of the day with my family... watching movies, enjoying the day.
Next day, SeaDogs had utterly destroyed Hit Squad, and they were now bubbling each other to avoid further injury. I trash talk Hit Squad so heavily and ruthlessly that the seadogs are laughing at them, and patting me on the back. When my bubble is about to expire, I invite their biggest hitter to my base after watching him hit base after base after base. He shows me what a Siege Missile FF fleet looks like, and how effective they are. Oh my... I must build mine like that. He levelled me and was barely scratched. I thanked him in no uncertain terms. Sloaney took notes too.
We still have two days left in 429, and this place is already utterly scorched. I didn't mean for it to work out this way, but it couldn't have gone any smoother. Bubbles needs a new sector.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Tankman.. why??
Sector 429 again. There is almost no one left that I knew from before, but there's two main alliances: Hit Squad and Sharkz.
I showed up with a handful of people and we immediately started hitting bases and fleets and we were immediately branded 'bad guys' by the locals. Oh well, everyone's a critic.
Sloaney needed resources to start building his amazing Scorpions, and luckily there were bases nearby that were kind enough to stockpile the needed supplies for him. It happened very quickly, there were 3 Hit Squad seawolfs on top of him, bragging instantly about how awesome they were. I engaged them with my single longships, and Sloaney exited base after base safely, with full loads. I saw their ship builds, and wasn't too impressed.
Three dreadnaughts with two FFs run thru my base. Guys name is PayBack and he had something to prove, I suppose. He proved to me that just because you have blackships, doesnt mean you can do anything with them. He killed a couple resource buildings, but didnt hurt any of my turrets more than 10%.
After that, themuse, a local alliance leader, attacked me with his FF fleet for the second time. This time he got in, but only barely. I thanked them for the bubble, and explained that I had just started the build on my shiny new Scorpion, which is why they only got a few million resources from cratering my base.
Sorry guys, I don't keep more res than I need, and don't mind sitting in an invulnerable base for 36 hours, replenishing my res by salvage and your miners. My new wolf needs some xp anyway.
I see a group of HS hitting salvage together, but every time I approach them they scatter.
So when I'm 20 seconds away from a levi fleet I ask the guy in comms:
"Why Tankman?"
He can't help but respond
"Why What!?"
"Why did you let me engage your levis while you were typing?"
After I took his fleet out, I took his salvage. My other levi fleet took the salvage he left just off screen. I love being a pirate, and he was pretty upset. For two hours they ranted at me for being a coward and living in a bubble. All I do is talk trash, they say. Bondai's a bubble boy. I continued to hit miners and trash talk back.
A young man in the sector was complaining that he can't get a job because he has no job experience. I told him I understood that situation and it's annoying, ain't it. He agreed, then started talking about how he was smoking pot all day and was out from school because he's sick. All this while sitting there, captive in his base while my boys and I scour the sector for anything to hit. I urged him to go grab a couple job applications since he's obviously not doing anything.
I was told this sector was full of big boys, and an alliance of tough guys. The day after we showed up, Oblivion alliance abandoned the sector, and Hit Squad are bubbling each other for safety. A few of their players figured out that with solid rocket fuel booster level 3, their cutlasses can reach out to distances over 90 range. One guy outranged me by at least 4 range, but I got close to him and showed him that my draconian D53 Assault Missiles have no minimum range. I'm still not sure if he was listening, I'll tell him again later.
I showed up with a handful of people and we immediately started hitting bases and fleets and we were immediately branded 'bad guys' by the locals. Oh well, everyone's a critic.
Sloaney needed resources to start building his amazing Scorpions, and luckily there were bases nearby that were kind enough to stockpile the needed supplies for him. It happened very quickly, there were 3 Hit Squad seawolfs on top of him, bragging instantly about how awesome they were. I engaged them with my single longships, and Sloaney exited base after base safely, with full loads. I saw their ship builds, and wasn't too impressed.
Three dreadnaughts with two FFs run thru my base. Guys name is PayBack and he had something to prove, I suppose. He proved to me that just because you have blackships, doesnt mean you can do anything with them. He killed a couple resource buildings, but didnt hurt any of my turrets more than 10%.
After that, themuse, a local alliance leader, attacked me with his FF fleet for the second time. This time he got in, but only barely. I thanked them for the bubble, and explained that I had just started the build on my shiny new Scorpion, which is why they only got a few million resources from cratering my base.
Sorry guys, I don't keep more res than I need, and don't mind sitting in an invulnerable base for 36 hours, replenishing my res by salvage and your miners. My new wolf needs some xp anyway.
I see a group of HS hitting salvage together, but every time I approach them they scatter.
So when I'm 20 seconds away from a levi fleet I ask the guy in comms:
"Why Tankman?"
He can't help but respond
"Why What!?"
"Why did you let me engage your levis while you were typing?"
After I took his fleet out, I took his salvage. My other levi fleet took the salvage he left just off screen. I love being a pirate, and he was pretty upset. For two hours they ranted at me for being a coward and living in a bubble. All I do is talk trash, they say. Bondai's a bubble boy. I continued to hit miners and trash talk back.
A young man in the sector was complaining that he can't get a job because he has no job experience. I told him I understood that situation and it's annoying, ain't it. He agreed, then started talking about how he was smoking pot all day and was out from school because he's sick. All this while sitting there, captive in his base while my boys and I scour the sector for anything to hit. I urged him to go grab a couple job applications since he's obviously not doing anything.
I was told this sector was full of big boys, and an alliance of tough guys. The day after we showed up, Oblivion alliance abandoned the sector, and Hit Squad are bubbling each other for safety. A few of their players figured out that with solid rocket fuel booster level 3, their cutlasses can reach out to distances over 90 range. One guy outranged me by at least 4 range, but I got close to him and showed him that my draconian D53 Assault Missiles have no minimum range. I'm still not sure if he was listening, I'll tell him again later.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Scorpion blueprint please...
It's taking Kixeye a long time to sweep the winners for cheating, and instead of whining about it for 2 days, I decided to hit someone.
Deciding to hit a player is easy. Deciding what to hit them with, pretty easy. Deciding how much of a big deal to make out of it, and who to include, and how epic you want it to get is another story altogether. Most of all, decide on a goal.
A level 34 super coiner named CHERELY-KMA hit my neighbor last night. A level 34 player hit my level 29 neighbor with raid prize Dreadnaughts (blackships). This clownface turdburglar uses these amazing ships to tear down a level 29 so I decided to take a trip to sector 86 and see what their sector is like.That is, after we sank chereley's blackships while she tried to escape the base.
I aimed to use the same sportsmanship as our friend cherely so I sent 8 fleets to 8 different draconian mining fields, each had only 1 longship. And I hid them under the drac base so they can't be targeted.
I told sector 85 what I had done. No one was impressed.
Then I brought a fleet of leviathans armed with 88 range missiles to each of those draconian mining fields and killed the biggest fleets I could find with them, then picked a fight with a guy that had his fleets scattered around a level 8 salvage. I gave these fleets just as much a chance to win as chereley gave to my level 29 friend. No chance at all.
I updated comms. No one was impressed.
I went to sleep with my longships buried out there. And in the morning, I sent my leviathans out to play. I used the longships (one in each fleet, all havoc longships) to scout the biggest targets, to see what weapons they are using. They repair in 1 minute, but its a 10 minute trip. These are scout longships, but can occasionally win vs smaller targets.
I updated comms. A few eyebrows perked up.
One drac base that was hiding my fleet had a half a dozen ships around it... at last, someone gives chase. I put the coords into comms, and updated them. There were a few chuckles. Enemy ships scattered, waiting for me to slip up.
I explained what I was doing to a new timezone of players, since no one was impressed last night. I told them about chereley, and about the lameassery of a 34 hitting a 29, and I tried my best to rally a few of the other pirates in sector to go hit 86 alongside me. Only one person took up arms, and I did my best to back him up... it was then that every big hitter in their sector showed up to fend us off. I threw my fleets at them one by one, and sank a LOT more than they did. I lost all my longship fleets and one fleet of seawolfs.
In the end I sank 50 fleets of miners, salvage fleets, guardfleets and otherwise vulnerable sheeple ships. I had kicked the hornet's nest for sure, because a long line of attackers from sector 86 went to attack Elusive-FU and several of us worked hard to defend his base. We eventually repelled them, but I used and lost all my available fleets for his defense.
When you attack out of sector, expect someone that you attack to complain in their comms, then the sector's biggest players... their sector police, or warrior-templars if you prefer, will come to their aid. They bring their best ships and will usually be a challenge to defeat. If you just want to try out your newest and best fleet, engage your attackers when they come to defend their friend.
But, if you want to make a point to the other sector, to not attack us anymore- sink as many miners and guardfleets as you can. If you don't give them the opportunity to retaliate (you have a bubble and your fleets are under drac bases or docked) it can either unify them, or splinter them.
I've seen alliances leave their sector after a few days of miner raids, and the longer you can keep them living in fear to deploy their ships, the better the effect. The big players can't REALLY do anything to you if you don't engage them in battle, but their less advanced sector neighbors can make their game time unbearable with constant whining and demands for retaliation. Priceless.
Deciding to hit a player is easy. Deciding what to hit them with, pretty easy. Deciding how much of a big deal to make out of it, and who to include, and how epic you want it to get is another story altogether. Most of all, decide on a goal.
A level 34 super coiner named CHERELY-KMA hit my neighbor last night. A level 34 player hit my level 29 neighbor with raid prize Dreadnaughts (blackships). This clownface turdburglar uses these amazing ships to tear down a level 29 so I decided to take a trip to sector 86 and see what their sector is like.That is, after we sank chereley's blackships while she tried to escape the base.
I aimed to use the same sportsmanship as our friend cherely so I sent 8 fleets to 8 different draconian mining fields, each had only 1 longship. And I hid them under the drac base so they can't be targeted.
I told sector 85 what I had done. No one was impressed.
Then I brought a fleet of leviathans armed with 88 range missiles to each of those draconian mining fields and killed the biggest fleets I could find with them, then picked a fight with a guy that had his fleets scattered around a level 8 salvage. I gave these fleets just as much a chance to win as chereley gave to my level 29 friend. No chance at all.
I updated comms. No one was impressed.
I went to sleep with my longships buried out there. And in the morning, I sent my leviathans out to play. I used the longships (one in each fleet, all havoc longships) to scout the biggest targets, to see what weapons they are using. They repair in 1 minute, but its a 10 minute trip. These are scout longships, but can occasionally win vs smaller targets.
I updated comms. A few eyebrows perked up.
One drac base that was hiding my fleet had a half a dozen ships around it... at last, someone gives chase. I put the coords into comms, and updated them. There were a few chuckles. Enemy ships scattered, waiting for me to slip up.
I explained what I was doing to a new timezone of players, since no one was impressed last night. I told them about chereley, and about the lameassery of a 34 hitting a 29, and I tried my best to rally a few of the other pirates in sector to go hit 86 alongside me. Only one person took up arms, and I did my best to back him up... it was then that every big hitter in their sector showed up to fend us off. I threw my fleets at them one by one, and sank a LOT more than they did. I lost all my longship fleets and one fleet of seawolfs.
In the end I sank 50 fleets of miners, salvage fleets, guardfleets and otherwise vulnerable sheeple ships. I had kicked the hornet's nest for sure, because a long line of attackers from sector 86 went to attack Elusive-FU and several of us worked hard to defend his base. We eventually repelled them, but I used and lost all my available fleets for his defense.
When you attack out of sector, expect someone that you attack to complain in their comms, then the sector's biggest players... their sector police, or warrior-templars if you prefer, will come to their aid. They bring their best ships and will usually be a challenge to defeat. If you just want to try out your newest and best fleet, engage your attackers when they come to defend their friend.
But, if you want to make a point to the other sector, to not attack us anymore- sink as many miners and guardfleets as you can. If you don't give them the opportunity to retaliate (you have a bubble and your fleets are under drac bases or docked) it can either unify them, or splinter them.
I've seen alliances leave their sector after a few days of miner raids, and the longer you can keep them living in fear to deploy their ships, the better the effect. The big players can't REALLY do anything to you if you don't engage them in battle, but their less advanced sector neighbors can make their game time unbearable with constant whining and demands for retaliation. Priceless.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Sector 85
Base Invaders II. I never really participated in one before, because I don't spend money on the game, and I refuse to buy a ship just to be cooler than my neighbor. The prize this time is basically a seawolf, with 7 guns instead of 5. Great, another coiner toy.
This sector is totally cool. Haven't had bad words with anyone and there's no in-sector hitting allowed... plenty of salvage to relax and hunt for blueprints.
But y'know, once the raid started I figured I should go see if anything's changed from the last one.
Nope, same fleets and outposts and massive draconian range... same lag. Yep, not gonna bother. I share my disappointment with a few other folks in comms.
I could use some resources so I hit a few smaller level outposts, and I hoped to get a couple quotas done. The quota prize is armor for the base turrets. That'd be NICE!
I aim 8 fleets, each with a leviathan in front, 2 barges, a marauder and a longship. I dont plan on piloting all 8 of the fleets of course, I just don't want to take damage on the big ships, when I can simply throw my instant repair longships and marauders in there, to absorb incoming enemy fire.
"WTF BONDAI!! I didn't ask for YOUR HELP" says some jackhole named Ur_My_B1tch_Now_FU.
Big ocean fella, get over it.
Dude attacked my remaining barge and levi, sunk them easily with his Hammerheads...
I sat quietly in amazement for a moment then said in comms "Really Dumbass? Did you really just sink my fleet cuz I joined a battle with you?"
"I WAS THERE FIRST!!!" He was really making a big issue out of nothing, but it was okay. I told him, in no uncertain terms, that I was going to sink all of his fleets now. He kept telling me how pathetic I am and that I am all talk, just like he thought I was. I gave him my base coords, and told him he can go ahead and try.
He did try, but I launched my seawolfs RIGHT when he got to my base, so while he was trapped in there, losing his fleet (quickly I might add) I sank his HH fleet and his FF fleet without damage.
"Nice Base" he says (I'm wrapping up his second fleet)
I know
"Sarcasm"
After his FFs die he sees that I've sunk his others. He's going OFF so I egg'd him on, telling him how easily I just killed his fleets, and that I'm going to continue sinking his fleets all weekend, and that he's made a mistake.
"Easy to kill fleets that arent piloting!!! Pssy!!"
Yeah, I know.
He docked the rest of his fleets as I chased him back and forth. He's going off, and now his alliance is saying things like "Bondai if you keep sinking him I'll get involved and you don't want that"
Do what you need to do dude. I'm going to keep sinking his fleets all weekend. As of right now, he's the only one I'm after.
"Bondai you shouldn't have joined the battle... Bondai you shouldn't have attacked his fleets... Bondai you shouldnt have invited him into your base like that"
He's lost 9 FFs and 5 HHs so far, and I've lost 3 turrets. I'm grinning, morons. Keep talking.
Several folks in the comms backed me up, and some of them took this other guys side, while their alliance leader is trying to explain how this is all my fault.
"bondai do you want a bubble, to make sure they don't get you"
Nope. If they crater my base, I'll be back in 2 hours, when my dock is repaired. Then this raid will be all yours, without any of their alliance winning even a quota prize :)
classic kixeye form, they screwed something up and the game crashed for a while. I went to go hang out with my nephew. When I came back 4 hours later that guy had logged off. I went to his base and damaged all his researching buildings, and smashed his rocket platform (Long time to repair those).
Again, his alliance got all mad, and I told them how much that bothered me. When that guy logged in again, I sent fleets toward him, and I even told him I was headed for him. He docked his ships and I didn't see him online again. Still haven't.
I won first prize in the raid. Sloaney won second. Another partner in our group, Tokahontis, won fourth. One of the FU alliance members won third place. YellowDevil would have been up there with us too, but he was hunting for blueprints and got the one he was after!
Sloaney, I'm in great mood now, let's go slash and burn 429 again.
This sector is totally cool. Haven't had bad words with anyone and there's no in-sector hitting allowed... plenty of salvage to relax and hunt for blueprints.
But y'know, once the raid started I figured I should go see if anything's changed from the last one.
Nope, same fleets and outposts and massive draconian range... same lag. Yep, not gonna bother. I share my disappointment with a few other folks in comms.
I could use some resources so I hit a few smaller level outposts, and I hoped to get a couple quotas done. The quota prize is armor for the base turrets. That'd be NICE!
I aim 8 fleets, each with a leviathan in front, 2 barges, a marauder and a longship. I dont plan on piloting all 8 of the fleets of course, I just don't want to take damage on the big ships, when I can simply throw my instant repair longships and marauders in there, to absorb incoming enemy fire.
"WTF BONDAI!! I didn't ask for YOUR HELP" says some jackhole named Ur_My_B1tch_Now_FU.
Big ocean fella, get over it.
Dude attacked my remaining barge and levi, sunk them easily with his Hammerheads...
I sat quietly in amazement for a moment then said in comms "Really Dumbass? Did you really just sink my fleet cuz I joined a battle with you?"
"I WAS THERE FIRST!!!" He was really making a big issue out of nothing, but it was okay. I told him, in no uncertain terms, that I was going to sink all of his fleets now. He kept telling me how pathetic I am and that I am all talk, just like he thought I was. I gave him my base coords, and told him he can go ahead and try.
He did try, but I launched my seawolfs RIGHT when he got to my base, so while he was trapped in there, losing his fleet (quickly I might add) I sank his HH fleet and his FF fleet without damage.
"Nice Base" he says (I'm wrapping up his second fleet)
I know
"Sarcasm"
After his FFs die he sees that I've sunk his others. He's going OFF so I egg'd him on, telling him how easily I just killed his fleets, and that I'm going to continue sinking his fleets all weekend, and that he's made a mistake.
"Easy to kill fleets that arent piloting!!! Pssy!!"
Yeah, I know.
He docked the rest of his fleets as I chased him back and forth. He's going off, and now his alliance is saying things like "Bondai if you keep sinking him I'll get involved and you don't want that"
Do what you need to do dude. I'm going to keep sinking his fleets all weekend. As of right now, he's the only one I'm after.
"Bondai you shouldn't have joined the battle... Bondai you shouldn't have attacked his fleets... Bondai you shouldnt have invited him into your base like that"
He's lost 9 FFs and 5 HHs so far, and I've lost 3 turrets. I'm grinning, morons. Keep talking.
Several folks in the comms backed me up, and some of them took this other guys side, while their alliance leader is trying to explain how this is all my fault.
"bondai do you want a bubble, to make sure they don't get you"
Nope. If they crater my base, I'll be back in 2 hours, when my dock is repaired. Then this raid will be all yours, without any of their alliance winning even a quota prize :)
classic kixeye form, they screwed something up and the game crashed for a while. I went to go hang out with my nephew. When I came back 4 hours later that guy had logged off. I went to his base and damaged all his researching buildings, and smashed his rocket platform (Long time to repair those).
Again, his alliance got all mad, and I told them how much that bothered me. When that guy logged in again, I sent fleets toward him, and I even told him I was headed for him. He docked his ships and I didn't see him online again. Still haven't.
I won first prize in the raid. Sloaney won second. Another partner in our group, Tokahontis, won fourth. One of the FU alliance members won third place. YellowDevil would have been up there with us too, but he was hunting for blueprints and got the one he was after!
Sloaney, I'm in great mood now, let's go slash and burn 429 again.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Pie Rats
"BONDAI!!!! WTF are you doing here!!???"
Nice, sector 429 remembers me.
"After you left, more pirates came here and we haven't had any peace... will you take out these EXILE guys for me?"
Cool story bro.
A month or so ago I jumped to this sector and made friends with a few of the alpha males before I left. They refused to be baited with my trash talking, and never once backed down when I was attacking. They didn't even whine when I cratered base after base. They said, 'no in-sector hitting'... but what they really meant was... 'please, keep it to a minimum because we're not going to stop you.'
My friends Lonewolf and Stonewall moved to another sector because this one had been hit over and over, week after week and got fed up. So I came back to crater a few more bases without fear of reprisal. I didn't expect to see a bunch of fired up pirates trash talking my old foes and beating me to the booty.
I ignored them at first, and just continued trash talking my favorite peace loving simpleton Navy Marcom. He just loves mom jokes and being the tough guy in his group. Trash talking him is like taking part in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Exile was already tearing him down, and when I show up with Sloaney and the gang... ready to ravage the women and steal candy from their kids, it was all he could take. Navy Marcom left the sector, minutes later the rest of his moron posse followed, except for one. We kept that guy living in a bubble for the rest of the week.
There were no more sector police in 429, and every day people logged in giving out my coords in comms.
"Why did you attack me?"
Because your square base has all the vitamins and nutrients that my growing body needs.
Yellowstain is a friend of Sloaney's and he's an eager teenage spirit that needs to get laid a few times before he spontaneously combusts. Watching him lose his mind on these carebear, peaceloving sheeple is hilarious. The filth that comes out of his mouth is only equalled by the treasures he brings back to his base. The crew is starting to take shape.
429 never wants to see us again... most of the sector relocated on the second day.
Now, who are these EXILE? I kinda like them.
Nice, sector 429 remembers me.
"After you left, more pirates came here and we haven't had any peace... will you take out these EXILE guys for me?"
Cool story bro.
A month or so ago I jumped to this sector and made friends with a few of the alpha males before I left. They refused to be baited with my trash talking, and never once backed down when I was attacking. They didn't even whine when I cratered base after base. They said, 'no in-sector hitting'... but what they really meant was... 'please, keep it to a minimum because we're not going to stop you.'
My friends Lonewolf and Stonewall moved to another sector because this one had been hit over and over, week after week and got fed up. So I came back to crater a few more bases without fear of reprisal. I didn't expect to see a bunch of fired up pirates trash talking my old foes and beating me to the booty.
I ignored them at first, and just continued trash talking my favorite peace loving simpleton Navy Marcom. He just loves mom jokes and being the tough guy in his group. Trash talking him is like taking part in a battle of wits with an unarmed man. Exile was already tearing him down, and when I show up with Sloaney and the gang... ready to ravage the women and steal candy from their kids, it was all he could take. Navy Marcom left the sector, minutes later the rest of his moron posse followed, except for one. We kept that guy living in a bubble for the rest of the week.
There were no more sector police in 429, and every day people logged in giving out my coords in comms.
"Why did you attack me?"
Because your square base has all the vitamins and nutrients that my growing body needs.
Yellowstain is a friend of Sloaney's and he's an eager teenage spirit that needs to get laid a few times before he spontaneously combusts. Watching him lose his mind on these carebear, peaceloving sheeple is hilarious. The filth that comes out of his mouth is only equalled by the treasures he brings back to his base. The crew is starting to take shape.
429 never wants to see us again... most of the sector relocated on the second day.
Now, who are these EXILE? I kinda like them.
THOR and the Hackers
Hell_Base called in some help before we left. A group of big boys from another sector. I didn't know much about hackers at the time, and there wasn't much we could do about them. This guy had a ridiculous amount of Floating Fortresses, and parked them outside my base after I talked trash a bit.
Apparently these idiots use a program to insert ships and upgrades into the game at no cost in time or resources. I have seen this in many games over the years, and the type of players that do this are the worst sort. They remind me of steroid junkies that brag about how tough they are. Of course you'll be able to lift twice your bodyweight... you are on muscle enhancing drugs, you moron. When your nuts shrivel up, I'll be givin' it to your girlfriend and mommy.
THOR's account got suspended after he sent his ships to my base. So I sent my longships out against him for 3 hours, and killed all of his fleets, plus several of Hell_Bases fleets (I waited for him to battle someone else then jumped on his fleets while he was busy so he couldn't pilot against me). He was furious and his friends were really laughing at him now.
Another of Hell_Base's friends jumped in, but quickly left when he couldn't engage me in battle. I jumped target to target. Used 2 longship fleets to take down each of THOR's big giant FF and HH fleets. Since my longships have no armor, they repair instantly. I lost nothing but a trivial amount of resources.
I gained cool points and Hell_Base started telling everyone that THOR wasn't his friend afterall, and he shut right up when I told everyone how much Hell_Base spends on this game, and how much he depends on them all to worship his ego and do what they're told. I really upset the power-base in that sector. My job here is done.
C'mon Sloaney, lets rock.
Apparently these idiots use a program to insert ships and upgrades into the game at no cost in time or resources. I have seen this in many games over the years, and the type of players that do this are the worst sort. They remind me of steroid junkies that brag about how tough they are. Of course you'll be able to lift twice your bodyweight... you are on muscle enhancing drugs, you moron. When your nuts shrivel up, I'll be givin' it to your girlfriend and mommy.
THOR's account got suspended after he sent his ships to my base. So I sent my longships out against him for 3 hours, and killed all of his fleets, plus several of Hell_Bases fleets (I waited for him to battle someone else then jumped on his fleets while he was busy so he couldn't pilot against me). He was furious and his friends were really laughing at him now.
Another of Hell_Base's friends jumped in, but quickly left when he couldn't engage me in battle. I jumped target to target. Used 2 longship fleets to take down each of THOR's big giant FF and HH fleets. Since my longships have no armor, they repair instantly. I lost nothing but a trivial amount of resources.
I gained cool points and Hell_Base started telling everyone that THOR wasn't his friend afterall, and he shut right up when I told everyone how much Hell_Base spends on this game, and how much he depends on them all to worship his ego and do what they're told. I really upset the power-base in that sector. My job here is done.
C'mon Sloaney, lets rock.
Stealing Sloaney
437 was fun, afterall. After Hell_Base revived his fleets and proved that he was willing to spend as much as it takes to win against me, I started hitting his neighbors' guard fleets. Then I hit all the miners around me. I told each player I was aiming for them next, to give them a chance to move... but since I knew most of the miners are offline I was simply telling the sector who I was attacking so they could start to understand that I was enjoying myself while sinking them all with longships.
After I put Hell_Base in his place a few times, by making fun of him and getting his friends to laugh a little bit, I decided to go hit some adjacent sector fleets with this eager noob who just sank his first FF fleet.
Sloaney was headed back out to attack some more fleets in 436 and I said I'd come along. I sent a longship fleet and a brand new submarine fleet. I aimed for the first FF miner I could find, and sank it without trouble. Just then, another 437 pirate showed up and started sinking ships too. Now there was three of us, sinking fleets left and right... Sloaney killed 1 or 2 then went back for repairs. 15 minute trip each time... I was still out there sinking stuff when he asked... what are you using in that longship fleet?
I explained havoc torpedos to him, then explained how to stack ships in combat to control them as one, and to stay on the outside edge of range (kiting). He was an information sponge, just the kind of player I enjoy. The more I told him in chat, the more he awakened to the possibilities of the battle game. Hell_Base was forcing the entire sector into being peaceful little sheeple that rely on him for protection. That was ending.
When the week was up, I refused to leave till I asked him if he wanted to come along. I didn't realize at first that he had a handful of other players that would come along too, each of them growing and learning at their pace, steadily behind Sloaney. He has a notebook full of notes. And I have a partner in crime now.
After I put Hell_Base in his place a few times, by making fun of him and getting his friends to laugh a little bit, I decided to go hit some adjacent sector fleets with this eager noob who just sank his first FF fleet.
Sloaney was headed back out to attack some more fleets in 436 and I said I'd come along. I sent a longship fleet and a brand new submarine fleet. I aimed for the first FF miner I could find, and sank it without trouble. Just then, another 437 pirate showed up and started sinking ships too. Now there was three of us, sinking fleets left and right... Sloaney killed 1 or 2 then went back for repairs. 15 minute trip each time... I was still out there sinking stuff when he asked... what are you using in that longship fleet?
I explained havoc torpedos to him, then explained how to stack ships in combat to control them as one, and to stay on the outside edge of range (kiting). He was an information sponge, just the kind of player I enjoy. The more I told him in chat, the more he awakened to the possibilities of the battle game. Hell_Base was forcing the entire sector into being peaceful little sheeple that rely on him for protection. That was ending.
When the week was up, I refused to leave till I asked him if he wanted to come along. I didn't realize at first that he had a handful of other players that would come along too, each of them growing and learning at their pace, steadily behind Sloaney. He has a notebook full of notes. And I have a partner in crime now.
Hell_Base
Sector 437. I need some peace, I think I'll be nice and fill my warehouses this week. I'll pass on a little knowledge to these good people before I leave. That was my intention, at least.
I got attacked by a big boy from sector 438, and I chased his seawolf for a minute or so after his base fleet failed.
"That's right you lame piece of chit - keep walkin'. Come back when you can't stay so long"
I do enjoy talking trash to people from other sectors. I know they can't actually read what I'm typing, but there's almost always spies in adjacent sectors and I'm sure some of my remarks get passed on from time to time.
"You talk to much, Bondai" says Hell_Base. Oh joy, an outspoken sector cop.
I'll say exactly what I please when I please and you can click ignore if you don't like it. I'm being peaceful in sector and would rather not be bothered, I tell the guy. I was as polite as Bondai gets.
"I can see we have a problem" he says, as he sends his yellow HammerHead fleet to my base.
I warned him again, and told him that I would sink every fleet that floats within my reach. He doesn't speak English very well, apparently. But I made it quite clear that I wasn't going to cower. He set a fleet outside my base. I said one last time... don't do it. I will have more fun than you, that's a promise.
When he lost 5 yellow hammerheads in my base I laughed at him, and sent a fleet of longships to his base. I sank the next 2 fleets he put out into the water, but avoided the thud fleet he was using. Luckily, he docked it after losing the others. Then I entered his base and threw a rocket at his dock.
He immediately relaunched all the fleets I had sunk after repairing his dock. So, he's either a hacker or a coiner. Good, I can make him look like a complete failure in chat. There's at least 5 players telling him how great he is in comms, and I've already bookmarked their bases. I'm surrounded by players that depend on him to hit the bad guys. But, they've never met me... I don't fight like they do.
I got attacked by a big boy from sector 438, and I chased his seawolf for a minute or so after his base fleet failed.
"That's right you lame piece of chit - keep walkin'. Come back when you can't stay so long"
I do enjoy talking trash to people from other sectors. I know they can't actually read what I'm typing, but there's almost always spies in adjacent sectors and I'm sure some of my remarks get passed on from time to time.
"You talk to much, Bondai" says Hell_Base. Oh joy, an outspoken sector cop.
I'll say exactly what I please when I please and you can click ignore if you don't like it. I'm being peaceful in sector and would rather not be bothered, I tell the guy. I was as polite as Bondai gets.
"I can see we have a problem" he says, as he sends his yellow HammerHead fleet to my base.
I warned him again, and told him that I would sink every fleet that floats within my reach. He doesn't speak English very well, apparently. But I made it quite clear that I wasn't going to cower. He set a fleet outside my base. I said one last time... don't do it. I will have more fun than you, that's a promise.
When he lost 5 yellow hammerheads in my base I laughed at him, and sent a fleet of longships to his base. I sank the next 2 fleets he put out into the water, but avoided the thud fleet he was using. Luckily, he docked it after losing the others. Then I entered his base and threw a rocket at his dock.
He immediately relaunched all the fleets I had sunk after repairing his dock. So, he's either a hacker or a coiner. Good, I can make him look like a complete failure in chat. There's at least 5 players telling him how great he is in comms, and I've already bookmarked their bases. I'm surrounded by players that depend on him to hit the bad guys. But, they've never met me... I don't fight like they do.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Submarines and Havoc Torpedos
Nothing thrilled me more than havoc torpedoes. 75 range? Are you kidding me?
Time to talk some numbers here.
Thud cannons are 49 natural range. With hardbarrel 3 that makes it 73.5.
Cutlass missiles are 72, there were no boosters for missiles yet.
The new draconian D53 Assault Missiles are 74 range.
Havoc torpedoes are 75 range?? Well now, its time to get started on some new ship designs, I thought to myself. I attacked a guy that boasted that he had a full fleet of 4 submarines already. I sent my brand new D33 Assault Cannon barges. I didn't know where his submarines were, and luckily, he didn't know how to use them. I killed them all but my fleet was suffering by the end of it.
Hmm. I saw that his submarines were very slow to turn and very slow movement. Submarines aren't the only ship that can carry torpedoes, so I put one on a gunboat. It did almost no damage, but it outranged almost everything. Hard Barrels 3 (HB3) Thud attackers still caught me, the difference between 73.5 and 75 is just too imperceptible. HB3 Thuds will still kill me. But everything else will sink when they meet this fleet of longships I'm building.
And I might as well research the Predator Submarine. They'll be worth using eventually.
Time to relocate again.
Time to talk some numbers here.
Thud cannons are 49 natural range. With hardbarrel 3 that makes it 73.5.
Cutlass missiles are 72, there were no boosters for missiles yet.
The new draconian D53 Assault Missiles are 74 range.
Havoc torpedoes are 75 range?? Well now, its time to get started on some new ship designs, I thought to myself. I attacked a guy that boasted that he had a full fleet of 4 submarines already. I sent my brand new D33 Assault Cannon barges. I didn't know where his submarines were, and luckily, he didn't know how to use them. I killed them all but my fleet was suffering by the end of it.
Hmm. I saw that his submarines were very slow to turn and very slow movement. Submarines aren't the only ship that can carry torpedoes, so I put one on a gunboat. It did almost no damage, but it outranged almost everything. Hard Barrels 3 (HB3) Thud attackers still caught me, the difference between 73.5 and 75 is just too imperceptible. HB3 Thuds will still kill me. But everything else will sink when they meet this fleet of longships I'm building.
And I might as well research the Predator Submarine. They'll be worth using eventually.
Time to relocate again.
What is a Revenge Raid?
This wasn't the first raid, but I didn't read any forums... not gonna follow posts made by game moderators and developers about what's coming soon, and why I should subscribe to their newsletters and such.
I'm certainly not going to read through the comments section on discussion threads, and waste my time wondering why people whine so much. Their poor grammar and barely biting remarks make me want to smack their mommies and daddies for being so reckless 14 years ago.
The only thing I knew about the Revenge Raid is, it's a competition and the winner gets something. Shouldn't be too hard to win this... my fleets are solid, I have a leviathan as a flagship in all five of my fleets now. Peacemakers and Diplomat Mortars made them heavy, but I wasn't about to upgrade my dock yet. Gotta have priorities.
I attacked a salvage and when I was done, the thing exploded. Prior to this raid, they just vanished. So I sent out my fleets to all the level 3, 4, 5 salvages I could find. They respawned extremely fast so I was gaining resources at an alarming rate. Then I noticed that my fleets were twice as fast to repair. This is great!
For the next two days, I researched everything that I could find that was expensive, and still ended up with full warehouses. Lesson learned, need to upgrade the warehouses some more. I took a quick look at the leaderboards, thinking to myself... I must be in the top 10 or something.
How bout no. I was top nothing, leader of nowhere, in the land of null. I couldnt imagine how these players had already gathered 100 million resources, when I had struggled to gather 20mil. Turns out, they were using Seawolfs and Floating Fortresses, gathering level 6, 7, 8 salvages that I hadn't even attempted yet. Repairs? They don't need no stinking repairs... facebook credits will take care of everything.
sigh. I'll be more ready next time.
I'm certainly not going to read through the comments section on discussion threads, and waste my time wondering why people whine so much. Their poor grammar and barely biting remarks make me want to smack their mommies and daddies for being so reckless 14 years ago.
The only thing I knew about the Revenge Raid is, it's a competition and the winner gets something. Shouldn't be too hard to win this... my fleets are solid, I have a leviathan as a flagship in all five of my fleets now. Peacemakers and Diplomat Mortars made them heavy, but I wasn't about to upgrade my dock yet. Gotta have priorities.
I attacked a salvage and when I was done, the thing exploded. Prior to this raid, they just vanished. So I sent out my fleets to all the level 3, 4, 5 salvages I could find. They respawned extremely fast so I was gaining resources at an alarming rate. Then I noticed that my fleets were twice as fast to repair. This is great!
For the next two days, I researched everything that I could find that was expensive, and still ended up with full warehouses. Lesson learned, need to upgrade the warehouses some more. I took a quick look at the leaderboards, thinking to myself... I must be in the top 10 or something.
How bout no. I was top nothing, leader of nowhere, in the land of null. I couldnt imagine how these players had already gathered 100 million resources, when I had struggled to gather 20mil. Turns out, they were using Seawolfs and Floating Fortresses, gathering level 6, 7, 8 salvages that I hadn't even attempted yet. Repairs? They don't need no stinking repairs... facebook credits will take care of everything.
sigh. I'll be more ready next time.
Relocate Came Back
The relocate button re-appeared on the outposts and this opened up the game on a whole new level. Now, once per week, we can move our base to another sector... specifically we can move our base next to a friends base in the current sector or in another sector.
Sector raids!! I was still building my barge fleets when relocate came back, but I moved my base to a new sector immediately. When I showed up in sector 426 I wasted no time.
"Why did you hit my fleet, Bondai!!!?"
It's a battle game, dude. I wanted what you had mined for me.
"OH great! We have another in-sector hitter"
...uhoh, I have competition, I'd better go sink the rest of the miners in the sector before someone beats me to it. Thanks for the head's up.
Three hours later there was a dozen ships sitting outside my base. The local big boys didn't like that Bondai was hitting miners. Tracy didn't like that I didn't care that she didn't like it.
"Hope you're comfortable in the bubble, Bondai... you'll be there forever"
Yep, it's comfortable. It keeps the carebears out. (scheduled downtime in 10 minutes)
Minutes after the game locked up due to a scheduled downtime, I refreshed the page and sent my thud barges out to meet the neighbors. Tracy didn't log back in fast enough. Every fleet she owned was tasting salt water when she got back on. The other two players were online, and tried to click attack on me a couple times, but then silently went back to their own bases as Tracy's FF fleets were sent home back to back.
"You're a coward!! Hitting me while I was offline... I was having connection issues"
You're a pathetic pirate to leave your fleets outside my base. Don't address me again till you remove some clothes.
She relocated an hour later. This sector is gonna be fun.
Sector raids!! I was still building my barge fleets when relocate came back, but I moved my base to a new sector immediately. When I showed up in sector 426 I wasted no time.
"Why did you hit my fleet, Bondai!!!?"
It's a battle game, dude. I wanted what you had mined for me.
"OH great! We have another in-sector hitter"
...uhoh, I have competition, I'd better go sink the rest of the miners in the sector before someone beats me to it. Thanks for the head's up.
Three hours later there was a dozen ships sitting outside my base. The local big boys didn't like that Bondai was hitting miners. Tracy didn't like that I didn't care that she didn't like it.
"Hope you're comfortable in the bubble, Bondai... you'll be there forever"
Yep, it's comfortable. It keeps the carebears out. (scheduled downtime in 10 minutes)
Minutes after the game locked up due to a scheduled downtime, I refreshed the page and sent my thud barges out to meet the neighbors. Tracy didn't log back in fast enough. Every fleet she owned was tasting salt water when she got back on. The other two players were online, and tried to click attack on me a couple times, but then silently went back to their own bases as Tracy's FF fleets were sent home back to back.
"You're a coward!! Hitting me while I was offline... I was having connection issues"
You're a pathetic pirate to leave your fleets outside my base. Don't address me again till you remove some clothes.
She relocated an hour later. This sector is gonna be fun.
Do you know what this means!?
After a couple months in sector 34, I felt the need to stretch my legs. Too bad I used my relocate button already.
But wait, what's this? Seawolf? Advanced Lab? More turrets and terrain blocks? If they keep adding these new game features, this Battle Pirates - Beta game could become something interesting and fun.
I start a dialogue in comms, since most of them have removed me from their ignore list because they didn't like being made fun of and not know it. It's hilarious when their friends laugh at them and they don't know why.
"Bondai, you noober, Seawolf is garbage, it only has one armor slot, you don't know anything!"
"WTF!, Advanced lab? Now I have more things to research! This sucks!"
Your delusions of adequacy amaze me, sector 34. Choke yourselves.
They obviously don't know what this means. The game just got interesting and dynamic. Wonder what a Revenge Raid is... guess we'll find out soon.
But wait, what's this? Seawolf? Advanced Lab? More turrets and terrain blocks? If they keep adding these new game features, this Battle Pirates - Beta game could become something interesting and fun.
I start a dialogue in comms, since most of them have removed me from their ignore list because they didn't like being made fun of and not know it. It's hilarious when their friends laugh at them and they don't know why.
"Bondai, you noober, Seawolf is garbage, it only has one armor slot, you don't know anything!"
"WTF!, Advanced lab? Now I have more things to research! This sucks!"
Your delusions of adequacy amaze me, sector 34. Choke yourselves.
They obviously don't know what this means. The game just got interesting and dynamic. Wonder what a Revenge Raid is... guess we'll find out soon.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Ok, I guess I'll play Battle Pirates
I don't know where my account was born, but I relocated to my kid when I started, and ended up in sector 34, and that's where I decided to play. I was playing with marauders when most of the pukes over there were running around with Floating Fortresses (FFs).
I call them pukes because that's what they were. The FPA (Free-Pirate-Alliance) ruled the sector with an iron grip. I'm a solo player, and didn't appreciate the establishment telling me who I can and cannot hit. So I took great pleasure in stirring them up in chat before attacking with my tiny ships. I always lost, but if you know how to handle the comms, you never really lose. My shipyard has never been idle for more than an hour and my research has never stopped.
I loved stirring them up. A free pirate alliance is like an anarchist committee... carebears, free to do nothing. The alliance was full of a bunch of 'yes men' who worshipped the biggest coiner in their sector. I'm not sure what kinda favors this guy had given them before I showed up. I suspected fowl play. Chickens and bitches.
"No in sector hitting, Bondai!!"
Y'know what? Your insistence only makes my resistance taste sweeter.
After 3 weeks of silence, only occasionally logging in to keep researches moving... I wasn't even sure I was going to play this game. I saw the alpha male in comms, and watched the sheeple flock to him like peasants groveling for copper coins.
"Welcome to my farm list noober!!!"
You don't impress me, FPA.You can only smash my base every couple days, and it will be empty when you arrive.
"When you need our help, we won't be there for you"
I'll never need your help. This is a solo game.
I call them pukes because that's what they were. The FPA (Free-Pirate-Alliance) ruled the sector with an iron grip. I'm a solo player, and didn't appreciate the establishment telling me who I can and cannot hit. So I took great pleasure in stirring them up in chat before attacking with my tiny ships. I always lost, but if you know how to handle the comms, you never really lose. My shipyard has never been idle for more than an hour and my research has never stopped.
I loved stirring them up. A free pirate alliance is like an anarchist committee... carebears, free to do nothing. The alliance was full of a bunch of 'yes men' who worshipped the biggest coiner in their sector. I'm not sure what kinda favors this guy had given them before I showed up. I suspected fowl play. Chickens and bitches.
"No in sector hitting, Bondai!!"
Y'know what? Your insistence only makes my resistance taste sweeter.
After 3 weeks of silence, only occasionally logging in to keep researches moving... I wasn't even sure I was going to play this game. I saw the alpha male in comms, and watched the sheeple flock to him like peasants groveling for copper coins.
"Welcome to my farm list noober!!!"
You don't impress me, FPA.You can only smash my base every couple days, and it will be empty when you arrive.
"When you need our help, we won't be there for you"
I'll never need your help. This is a solo game.
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