esfan38

Happy Birthday DaGirl Wishing you well on your special day. May the coming year bring you happiness.

Congrats! This site is already really good. Now I'm sure it will get even better. /thumbsup

Wow, what a mile stone. Congratulations! /thumbsup

I've played Lineage 2 from that list. Not the official fee based server, but free private servers. I was a mod on 1 private server until circumstances forced the owner to shut it down. He keeps saying he'll start it up again when Cronicles 5 is goes live on Sept. 6. You can find numerous free private L2 servers running. I really enjoyed it but some people don't like the grind of leveling up your character. If you want to go fight in groups, the members need to be close to the same level. That can be a problem if the members don't have similar amounts of time to level. There's several aspects of the game that can make it appealing to almost anyone. There's fighting, questing and crafting. Though only dwarves can do all three. There's quite a bit to learn as you progress through the levels and each cronicle has expanded the map with more places to go. Gee, now I kind of want to go find a server to play on.

And it's better if you can have the full amount saved up before you start to minimize the length of time you might be discovered and have your hard work crashed.

You bet. Silos are fully restocked and ready to go. /thumbsup BTW, according to the revised rules, since you are ranked higher than me you can send me res for IPM's any time you need some fired off.

Sometimes people are just looking for an excuse to quit. They just can't quite bring themselves to abandon a decent account. Then getting crashed and losing their fleet gives them the excuse they were looking for. I almost quit uni 6 when I started a new job that took me away from home for more than 12 hours a day. When Graff a.k.a Candlemass crashed my fleet I was all set to enter permenant vacation mode until my alliance members showed me how you can maintain a decent rank while only playing for 1 hour a day. BTW, I've got the next 2 weeks off so it's a good time to begin that universe domination campaign. When do we get started? /lmao

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But I don't need the #2 player piffed at me for taking all the debris. He'll be doing the hard work so I'll just calculate recyclers needed for 20% and call it good.

You can find me with the search. What's your uni 6 name? Search does not find any gintukas.

Wow, impressive hit there. So that's the evidence that the strategy can work and possibly what inspired #2 to try the same thing. BTW, he offered to let me have 20% of the debris for providing a scan report.

It's esfan38 - lol I'm esfan38 every where I go. That's my online handle and I use it every where I register. So far the only time it was taken was at AOL. So if you see a esfan38 at aol.com it's not me.

Here's the results of that test... Although gates in cool down appear in the jump list for other gates, an attempt to send ships to one in cool down results in an error and no ships are sent. @Llama8: 1667 light fighters costs - Metal: 5.001.000, Crystal: 1.667.000 Results: The defender lost a total of 6668000 units. At these space coordinates now float 1500300 metal and 500100 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 20 %

Correct on both counts gogo. Destroy a moon and the fleet that was going to it diverts to the planet where it can be seen via phalanx scan. I haven't actually seen this method work yet but it seems sound and there's every reason to believe the #2 ranked player knows what he's talking about. It's a big risk to take with your RIPs but for him it's probably no big deal. I'm also guessing there's a conflict going on between the 2 alliances which would increase the motivation factor. The #2 player in #27 alliance is talking about crashing #619 player in #28 alliance.

I just learned of a devious method for crashing a moon based fleet. I was contacted by the #2 player in universe 6 with this message: to which I replied: and his response: Ingenious! Destoy the moon while the fleet is out on a mission and it will return to the planet where it can be scanned and crashed. /devil

Hmm, it didn't look all that different to me with the exception that now the definition only counts giving res to a higher ranked player as pushing. The way I just read it, you can give as much as you want to a lower ranked player. How it would affect the rental of scanning services is unclear. You should contact a GO to be sure. By strict interpretation of the rules it would be pushing if the phalanx owner was a higher rank and it is not declared on the forum under the bounties/head hunts clause. But, I can't see that they would want scanning rentals declared on the forum as a bounty/head hunt as it doesn't really fit that category. Most likely a simple notification to a GO would suffice. Please let us know how you handle this and what a GO says if you contact one.

I don't think it's a very good method of scaring off a player from attacking. There are 2 easy solutions here. Either refuse the deal and continue attacking whenever it's profitable or contact a GO to see if it could be viewed as a paid service rather than pushing. If you contacted a GO, I would present it this way. My personal take on this... refuse the deal and keep attacking whenever there is sufficient profit.

I wasn't all that high ranked and it took me about a week to make up a 10% moon chance. It seems unlikely you'd be crashed daily but you may be right. What I neglected to mention is that I only had the 1 planet and it was only after I had it built up to where I needed to save close to a million res for the next building before I was worth crashing. By that time I was able to build about 100 fighters per day and they would accumulate to about 700-800 before k2k would come along and crash them.

Yeah, great work gogo. I started my 2nd gate yesterday so 9 days to go. You do indeed need 2 gates to make a free jump but you can't transport any res. Make sure you have some duet fuel waiting on the other side. It is also in fact a 1 hour cool down for each of the 2 gates involved in the jump. I have 3 jump gates in uni 6 and the interesting thing is that after a jump is complete you can't start a new jump from either of the 2 gates just used but you can start a jump from a 3rd gate and it seems to allow you to pick the 2 gates just used as a destination. I haven't been able to verify that yet since I didn't have any fleet on the 3rd moon. I'll arrange a test this weekend and let you know the results.

I don't think any universe at any time has been able to see recalled deploy missions via phalanx scan. The reason is because of the nature of this particular action. When you deploy, it is a one way trip. The system calculates the arrival time but not the return time. Only 1 direction is displayed on the overview. When you recall, the system must then calculate a new arrival time for purposes of the fleet screen but the fleet disappears from the overview screen since it is no longer going to the original destination and a return trip was never displayed. Now, since the phalanx scan is basically the same as the overview screen, the recalled transport disappears from there as well. That being said, it's possible to fix this "bug" by displaying the fleets new destination and arrival time on both the overview and scan. If this were to happen it would be bad news to those without any moon to hide on. But it need not be a complete disaster. You could always do what I did when k2k was crashing my fleets every week. Spend all your res everyday on light fighters. Each time someone crashes them it's a "moon chance" After about the 4th time k2k crashed my fighters I got a moon. He was never able to crash me again after that. /thumbsup

I'd be careful about any accusations. While seemingly unlikely, it's not impossible for someone to appear to be online 24/7. If you don't go to school, are in between jobs and don't have any money to go out with (basically no life), it's possible to click the overview link once every hour to make sure you're not being attacked. What about sleep, you say? Easy, just set your alarm to go off every hour. When the alarm goes off, check the game, reset the alarm for an hour later then go back to sleep. That's not to say this is what he's doing, just that it's possible. The only sure way to catch an account breaking the sitting rules is to have the admins check the logs to see if there is any game play on that account from multiple IPs not on the same ISP block.

You're all welcome. I was happy to create it. I did find a bug last night when the timer crosses midnight. I just uploaded a fix so get your updated version using the link(s) in post #1.

And here it is... a very basic, no frills countdown timer. It needs a couple of MS runtime files which you probably already have on your machine. Download and try out the executable first then if it complains about missing files download and run the setup. D.a.r.k Timer D.a.r.k Timer Setup

Major bummer. Ban Dana invited me to join Jin Roh right about the same time I applied here. Obviously I turned him down and joined the cool members of D.a.r.k instead. /woot

I tried that cool timer. It's appearance is... well... cool. However, my system flagged it as spyware and it caused my cpu to peg 100%. I'll try the yTimer next and see if my system likes it better. Also, I can make one for us to do almost anything needed. We could have our very own D.a.r.k Timer.

That's correct, you can't IPM a moon. Sounds like a good plan to me. And, who wouldn't want a ferrari for christmas? Especially if it came with pre-paid insurance.