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'

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'.

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.

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...

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.

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.