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.
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