Ike

Well, at least you don't have to deal with people like this lovely individual from this morning. And more importantly, you don't have to check out all those images and videos on their twenty-five harddrives, three laptops, two thumb drives, . . .

Am I the only one who planned out his planets:) Of course, I have $#!tty mines, so blowing a planet here and there was not normally that big a deal for me. Eight mooned planets in good killing grounds in G1-5. Plus a spare planet (last used to pwn Koris [Purple A] for my goodbye hit) that could be moved as a mobile attack colony. My biggest regret was never getting a moon in G8. Not like I didn't try, but there were a lot of big fleets out there and it was three galaxies from my nearest moon. Just not worth holding onto a single planet out that far without a JG and nowhere to FS. - Ike

Nah, his fleet was last seen in G2. He is fleeing my massive prowess. - Ike

Mmmmmm, cylonilicious.

Hey, WB! I noticed the name change earlier and finally figured out that it was Jun's account. Let me know if you would like your name back. - Ike

Not sure about Uni36, but there was a message that the oForums would be down for a few hours for upgrades. - Ike

They sometimes say "third time the charm." Well my third "six-wave" attack was the charm. Although technically it was the 15th time the charm. I sent six waves, the first and third wave were only a single RIP and the second and fourth-sixth were each two RIPs. Overall, the six waves had a 50% chance of success. Wave 1 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 9% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 2 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 12.7279220614%, DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 3 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. At first, light quakes increasingly build up on the surface of the moon. The moon begins to deform and is torn apart. Gigantic chunks of rubble come flying towards your fleet. It is too late to evade them. Your entire fleet is obliterated in a hail of rubble. Moon destruction chance: 9% DS destruction chance: 45% - Ike EDIT: Corrected Moon Destruction chance on second wave.

Happy BIrthday GoGo!! OK, the new avatar is making me a little dizzy

I decided to give it another go, this time one RIP per wave -- overall 43% chance of moon destruction. Perhaps I should not have bothered? At least I took out his 6 Battlecruisers and 175 Sat . . . so there! The attacker has won the battle! He captured 0 metal, 0 crystal, and 431 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 775,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 72,000 metal and 154,500 crystal. ALL DF covered. Wave 1 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 9% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 2 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 9%, DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 3 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 9%, DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 4 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 9% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 5 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 9%, DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 6 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 9%, DS destruction chance: 45% - Ike

Yuma (Arizona)

Ooopsie! It really should be pretty difficult to get -ed with the new activity indicator . . . but people still manage it. - Ike

Happy BIrthday! May your fleets go forth and massively crush your enemies.

Hmmm, the distinctions between good and bad are sometimes lost on me. They all look so good! - Ike

Well, the plan was a fairly simple one. After Spanky was inactive for a few days I sent six waves of RIPs at his G3 moon while his fleet was on the planet. If successful, it would have stranded his fleet in G3 without a JG and the nearest moon a Galaxy away. However, he came online and moved his fleet. So I moved to Plan B . . . or maybe it is C or D at this point. I sent a Colony Ship from G7 to arrive one slot away from his G8 moon at approximately the time he normally signs off. There was activity on his planet/moon approximately 2 minutes before the colony appeared, but nothing after, so he never saw it show up. Meanwhile, I scanned every SS for 64 SS in each direction to make sure that no fleeters were in the area and would be able to phalanx me. SlowHand [MOB] Ranked 157 was 23 SS away, but based on his fleet score, I did not think it likely that he would be able to send enough fleet in time to seriously threaten the operation. However, I decided to send 500 recs along so I could threaten to pickup any DF and thus dissuade attackers. As soon as the colony was up (99 fields), I sent 500 recs and 18 RIPs on a 25-hour journey. They arrived around Spanky's normal sack time and I watched for activity. No pings, no intercepting fleet. I figured that Spanky does not use the moon much and no reason for him to go to Galaxy View from there, so he was unlikely to see it. I figured out where Spanky's fleet was (G2), and the activity on all of his other planets disappeared at the same time, but there was still activity on the one with his fleet. I checked with PAWNZ and sure enough, someone from NN had probed him. So I launched 5.25 hours one-way. Six waves of 3 RIPs each. Each wave having a 45% chance of being destroyed and a 15.6% chance of destroying the moon. Overall a 63.82% chance to destroy the moon. I was hoping to take out the moon and lose no more than 2 waves -- a pretty average result. Well, Fate had a rather different idea of an April Fool's joke. Wave 1 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 15.5884572681% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 2 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 15.5884572681% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 3 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 15.5884572681%, DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 4 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 15.5884572681% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 5 Your fleet from planet Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. Your deathstar aims its alternating graviton shock cannon at the satellite. Light quakes shake the surface of the moon. But something is wrong. The graviton cannon causes the deathstar to vibrate. There is feedback. The deathstar ruptures into millions of pieces. The resulting shock waves destroy your entire fleet. Moon destruction chance: 15.5884572681% DS destruction chance: 45% Wave 6 Your fleet from Moon Passionate Dark [8:148:6] arrived at the moon of the planet on [8:148:7] of DARK PASSION. The structure of the moon was not sufficiently weakened, and the fleet is returning to its home planet. Moon destruction chance: 15.5884572681%, DS destruction chance: 45% So, 12 RIPs down, and now he knows I am there. On the plus side, although he came online 50 minutes after the attack and had 400K deuterium on the planet, he did not phalanx and destroy the two waves of RIPs returning home. Probably 'cause he is a big wuss. But the question now is what to do? I can't attack the moon again for 24 hours due to the bashing rules. I don't really want to leave the RIPs just sitting there. I would tend to suspect that he may be on his guard now and it takes 24 hours to get RIPs there, so it is hard to sneak them out there. Do I pull them back and try again somewhere else in a few days? Anyone want to trade moon shots . . . maybe I can get a moon there, which would facilitate moving RIPs back and forth. Or I can move to 7:48 and try to get a moon there and harrass Spanky and NEW. Some small moons there. Hmmmm . . . thoughts or suggestions? - Ike p.s. On the plus side, with recent hits I still have 83 RIPs with two more in production, and probably an 86th starting production by the end of the day.

It's funny because it is true. - Ike

Heh, I think everyone should hope Lite wins! - Ike

I got a shipment of deuterium from GoGo and a shipment of Crystal from Yaga, and found myself in the strange position of lots of crystal and deuterium, but no metal. So I started browsing the local serfs, looking for some metal to collect. And what to my wondering eyes should appear? Yeah, sats. Lots of them. Not exactly metal rich, but there was ~10 MM metal on the planet and another 4 MM metal worth of fleet, so I send the RIPs on their merry way. Sadly, a few hours later, yopato comes online and . . . wait for it . . . burns ~ 10 MM metal, 2 MM and a few 100K of deuterium building 40 Plasmas and 3300 RL, to further enturtle his planet. Pretty stupid waste of res if you ask me, as he'll lose 20-30% and I was going to draw anyway. I figured if he was really inactive I could come back for the res later. As I said, not so very bright, but then, he packs up his remaining 8 MM of deuterium and sends his whole fleet on a 107 hour, round-trip planet -> DF FS. o_O So I assume that he will probably recall at some point before my RIPs can return and relaunch, but no, he does not. So I hit his remaining sats (~260K crystal profit) and defenses to clear the way for a profitable return hit on his fleet. He came online about 15 hours or so before the return and sent res from all of his planets to this one, so the return hit was even more profitable. But, he never saw the launch and did not drop by for the return. Too bad for him. Guess he'll get a nice little April Fool's present when he does log in. Four second phalanx with recs one second behind. Sat Crash _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Death Star 91 _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender yopato _____________________________________ Solar Satelite 8225 (Lost = 7772) Rocket Launcher 35,659 (Lost = 33,828) Light Laser 1820 (Lost = 1735) Heavy Laser 971 (Lost = 916) Gauss Cannon 282 (Lost = 261) Ion Cannon 106 (Lost = 104) Plasma Turret 286 (Lost = 263) Small Shield 1 (Lost = 1) Large Shield 1 (Lost = 1) _____________________________________ The battle ended in a draw. The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 130,385,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 0 metal and 4,663,200 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 20% Recyclers: Your 300 Recyclers have a total capacity of 6,000,000. At the target, 0 metal and 4,669,500 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 0 metal and 4,669,500 crystal. Fleet Crash _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Death Star 76 _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender yopato _____________________________________ Small Cargo 5 Large Cargo 1500 Light Fighter 517 Cruiser 78 Battleship 12 Cargo Ship 1 Recycler 76 Espionage Probe 140 Bomber 3 Solar Satelite 20 Battlecruiser 17 Rocket Launcher 17800 Light Laser 868 Heavy Laser 850 Gauss Cannon 156 Ion Cannon 49 Plasma Turret 153 Small Shield 1 Large Shield 1 _____________________________________ The attacker has won the battle! He captured 891,384 metal, 371,434 crystal, and 3,499,200 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 91,163,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 4,227,300 metal and 3,499,200 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 20% Recyclers: Your 400 Recyclers have a total capacity of 8,000,000. At the target, 4,227,300 metal and 3,499,200 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 4,227,300 metal and 3,499,200 crystal.

The gauntlet has been thrown down by L.I.t.e.!

Cassandra posted a note about April Fools Jokes on the OoF, so I thought perhaps we should play a little prank on Uni 9. Some time this evening, after 00:00 server time, I am planning to post a War Thread in the Diplomacy Section. I hope that everyone will participate in a lively discussion. Perhaps DAWN will back-up IKE, and PAWNZ can backup D.a.r.k.? I don't know, we'll just have to see what seems best. - Ike

Now I feel sad. p.s. Note which numbers come up and which do not.

A guy with lots-o-turtled planets. I used to hit them in G5 with my old account. And what do you know? He has more planets by GoGo's Main. _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Death Star 90 _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender James _____________________________________ Large Cargo 50 (Lost = 47) Recycler 30 (Lost = 29) Destroyer 41 (Lost = 38) Battlecruiser 37 (Lost = 31) Rocket Launcher 5000 (Lost = 4487) Gauss Cannon 1036 (Lost = 908) Ion Cannon 84 (Lost = 74) Plasma Turret 428 (Lost = 391) Small Shield 1 (Lost = 1) Large Shield 1 (Lost = 1) _____________________________________ The battle ended in a draw. Both fleets returned to their planets. The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 89,344,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 1,314,600 metal and 1,318,800 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 20% Recyclers: Your 150 Recyclers have a total capacity of 3,000,000. At the target, 1,314,600 metal and 1,319,100 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 1,314,600 metal and 1,319,100 crystal.

I figured it out based on the second roll. Does that make me smart or dumb:)

I didn't mean to HoF him . . . really! As if it were not obvious from what is below, this was very definitely not the plan. I probed around looking for metal deposits and came across this planet (and a few others in the neighborhood) with ~800K metal and some defenses. Just what Ike ordered. So I sent ships out to retrieve said resources to about 5-6 planets and was busy playing Mythos while I waited. Every half hour or so I'd check for activity on my targets and the Main planets. Nothing. I last checked on this one about 5-10 minutes before I hit. No activity. I check messages after the hit and there is this big yellow battle report. At first I could not figure out where this was and if someone attacked me or I attacked someone. I eventually figured it out and checked the CR and figured out what happened. His fleet must have returned a few minutes before I attacked or right after my initial probe. So I probe, see more res and the remnants of his fleet and launch 3 waves to carry off the booty and recs (3:40:00 away). At least I grabbed the DF. The really amusing thing is he did not get a 20% moon on the first hit, but he got a 5XXX moon on the 4% follow-up. _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Small Cargo 80 (Lost = 80) Cruiser 100 (Lost = 71) Battleship 50 (Lost = 8) Battlecruiser 50 (Lost = 4) _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender Tito_is_back _____________________________________ Large Cargo 52 (Lost = 52) Light Fighter 502 (Lost = 500) Heavy Fighter 12 (Lost = 12) Cruiser 15 (Lost = 13) Battleship 53 (Lost = 39) Bomber 10 (Lost = 4) Rocket Launcher 35 (Lost = 35) Light Laser 123 (Lost = 123) Ion Cannon 7 (Lost = 6) Small Shield 1 (Lost = 0) Large Shield 1 (Lost = 0) _____________________________________ The battle ended in a draw, both fleets withdraw to their home planets. The attacker lost a total of 2,997,000 units. The defender lost a total of 6,099,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 1,847,700 metal and 771,900 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 20% Follow-ups: The attacker has won the battle! He captured 529,649 metal, 245,882 crystal, and 41,093 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 8000 units. The defender lost a total of 1,722,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 294,000 metal and 114,000 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 4% The enormous amounts of free metal and crystal draw together and form a moon around the planet. He captured 264,824 metal, 122,941 crystal, and 20,549 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 314,000 units. He captured 132,424 metal, 61,475 crystal, and 10,276 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 4000 units. The defender lost a total of 128,000 units. Recyclers: Your 300 Recyclers have a total capacity of 6,000,000. At the target, 2,142,300 metal and 886,500 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 2,142,300 metal and 886,500 crystal. Total profits ~ 1.2 MM. Weird.

Watch where the bear is in relation to the white-team's ball. At first the ball is on the left as the bear comes into sight. Then, as the bear crosses the middle and makes a basketball-wavy gesture, the ball goes up and over and then the white ball is on the right as the bear finishes on teh left and then leaves. Tricksie tricksie hobbitses. But yeah, I saw the 13 passes but not the bear. cyclists.

Crunchie: Thanks for the other side. I always kinda wondered what happened and Blade's version always seemed a little odd. I do not doubt that he believes what he said, but I also noticed that he had a tendancy to talk over people . . . not exactly listening to what they were telling him. For instance, to this day he seems convinced that he would be a great asset to D.a.r.k. and that if he were to apply, he would be accepted. While I do not doubt that he could be an asset, I do not think his personality is exactly a perfect fit. He does not seem to understand that we considered him a friend and that he betrayed our trust in him, something that we are unlikely to offer again. C'est le vie. - Ike