Ike

Istanbul [not Constantinople ]

I have been doing some stuff in G2 recently and noticed a new planet two slots from my moon named "free res need moon." So I spied and sure enough, 1667 LF and no defenses on the planet. I checked and he did not appear to be online, so I created a DF, sent recs, and then being it was a Solid, I thought that for Llama I would launch two waves . . . _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Battleship 200 (Lost = 0) Colony Ship 666 (Lost = 0) _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender kenrog _____________________________________ Light Fighter 1667 (Lost = 917) _____________________________________ The battle ended in a draw! The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 3,668,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 825,300 metal and 275,100 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 11% _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Cruiser 200 (Lost = 0) _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender kenrog _____________________________________ Light Fighter 750 (Lost = 750) _____________________________________ The attacker has won the battle! He captured 15,266 metal, 5264 crystal, and 9744 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 3,000,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 675,000 metal and 225,000 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 9% Recyclers: Your 110 Recyclers have a total capacity of 2,200,000. At the target, 1,500,300 metal and 500,400 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 1,500,300 metal and 500,400 crystal.

One half.

Hamburg [repeat on Edinburg]

I just saw . . . And I thought to myself "He didn't have 450 MM in fleet, I sure hope this was planned."

Ike is saddened.

And I still have one. I signed up a couple months ago and then got three invites at the beginning of this month (one for Stubbie, one for Crunchie, one left). Let me know if anyone is still in need. - Ike

I suspect that he thought it was still Spankodon and that he had left a bunch-o-res undefended, the way Spanky used to. I would imagine that he jumped the whole fleet A) 'cause he wanted to show it off, B) 'cause he wanted to keep it all together, and/or C), 'Cause he is a n00b.

How do you know? I have Espionage Tech 13, he had 13. It used to take me 4 probes to get Res/Fleets/Defenses. When I probed yesterday or the day before he had Espionage Tech 14, and it took 13 probes to get Res/Fleets/Defense. [Their Espionage Tech - Your Espionage Tech]^2 = additional probes. Without technocrat -- [14-13]^2 = 1, with Technocrat -- [16-13]^2 = 9. I'll try hitting one of his planets with some defenses later to see how much is rebuilt. - Ike

See - http://board.ogame.org/thread.php?threadid=375655 and http://board.ogame.org/thread.php?threadid=375643 on the OoF. I thought this might be Hate Choir, but it appears that it is not. When last I talked to Spanky he said he was giving the account to a friend and Yakasu lists a Polish e-mail. One thing is for sure, he is likely to be far more active -- and possibly far sloppier. I'll try to nail down his online times. You can see his fleet in the first post. - Ike EDIT: Forgot to mention, he is using officers, at least Technocrat, maybe others.

Well, we are all behind you! You can have my account if you want it. Only caveat is I need to send 3 moonshots to Beowulf. Not much of a fleet, but great planets/moons.

DiO sent me a note about joining PAWNZ and said that he was getting a bit tired of NN and wanted to hang with the other real fleeters. Haven't talked to Ban Dana about his move. Wouldn't surprise me if he had been getting pressure from PAWNZ to join and finally decided to. Obviously I've worked with DiO a lot and he is really cool unless you get on his bad side. He can be pretty vindictive if you get him angry. I've gotten along pretty well with Ban Dana as well, never gotten a probe from him, handed him a HoF or two in the past. Guess we'll see what happens. - Ike

Hmmm, so, I was not far off in my original guess. Arrrgh, hand over your swag or we'll perma-ban you! - Ike

Posted on the Oof - Ike

Ike has returned to the open. A couple of hours before my fleet hit I ran up the Jolly Roger . . . or more specifically renamed my account to Ike. The story of this hit, with which many of you have some familiarity is a long one. It all started with NINJA: [MFPA] teh pwnerer v Swedish [Jesus], which I noticed just after adam2510 finally left Uni 9 and I was preparing to give up my iIi account and leave oGame for good . . . again. After my old account got crashed it went inactive and I decided that I needed to do something to revitalize interest in Uni 9 and get my old account into shape again. So I took it back after I came back from a week in Italy. I figured that it would take approximately 1500-2000 Colony Ships to HoF someone with a basic HoFfable fleet. And of course, Spankodon was my primary target, with the #1 account in terms of rank and fleet, and a long history of animosity from me. I started out by building cargos and sats to get my production back in shape. It took about a week to get production running at full and have enough cargos to move the res from planets to moons and then moons to central collection twice a day. Once production was ready I started to buy Crystal, much of it from Firefly, and some Deuterium . . . also mostly from Firefly. The building of Colony Ships took a lot of time. After about a month I was up to 1400. At the time, Spanky was pretty inactive and he left several HoFfable fleets out, one of which was within my range in G5. I figured I would need 1700 Colony Ships to take it, with some IPM help from Ankhanu. So I put out an urgent call for res sales and donations and Anestty and several D.a.r.k. members came through with donations and trades. I built another 300 Colony Ships in 20 hours, quite a feat based on the pathetic state of my Nanites and wide distribution of planets. However, I checked the next day and he had built more LF and I needed another 200-300 Colony Ships (around 2000 total) in order to do it. I started building again and got 2000 by the next day, only to find that he had moved his LFs. In part this may have been because of Arianna and Blade HoFfing him in the same day. So I have spent the last six months waiting and watching. Upgrading my Nanites, mines, and research and helping DiO and Beowulf with some hits. In addition, after two tries I got a moon on my attack planet, equidistant between Spanky's Main and one of his G1 moons and in IPM range of both. Now it appears that Spanky might be leaving again and he has taken to coming online in the middle of the night, perhaps after repeated attacks I have made against him. In addition, he is not leaving HoFfable fleets around anymore. So, when I saw this fleet, I knew I had to go for it. Yesterday I noticed activity on Ghost Rider's planet, right next to Spanky's Main and I phalanxed to see 1667 LF inbound from NEW. Unfortunately, there were only 23 minutes remaining, so no time to grab the DF. However, I checked back later to see if any more moonshots were inbound and I saw this fleet heading to a local DF at 20%, around 13-14 hour round trip. I spied the planet and Raksimmed the defenses and SpeedSimmed the fleet and decided to go for it. With DiO's help I got a list of Ghost Rider's planets and I pinged them all to see his fleets and he traded me 1 MM in deuterium and got it to my Moon just in time that I did not have to stop research on Impulse 12 or stop building Lunar Base 6. I was able to account for all but ~ 1600 ships and there were none in the air in G1. So I did all of the calculations on what to send and when to send it and how to get it all to my attack Moon along with the necessary resources to send 200 IPMs. After 184 IPMs his planet was laid bare. I built additional IPMs to take care of any defenses built in the morning when he came online. An hour and thirty-five minutes before impact activity showed up on his Main and shortly thereafter, on this planet. Instead of moving res from neighboring planets or building recs to try to grab part of the DF, he just started building defenses. So I nuked them. As you can see [below] I emptied my silos right before the hit just to make sure no more defenses appeared and so that I could build ABMs in case of an attempted return hit. Ships were sent at a variety of speeds to all arrive at the right place at the right time. Recs arrived within 1 second of the second attack. _____________________________________ Attacker Ike Weapons: 140% Shields: 140% Armour: 140% _____________________________________ Colony Ship 2000 (Lost = 0) _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender Ghost Rider Weapons: 140% Shields: 140% Armour: 140% _____________________________________ Large Cargo 80 (Lost = 52) Light Fighter 1667 (Lost = 1662) Recycler 73 (Lost = 45) Espionage Probe 3 (Lost = 3) Solar Satelite 400 (Lost = 400) _____________________________________ The battle ended in a draw, both fleets withdraw to their home planets. The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 8,795,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 1,724,400 metal and 914,100 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 20% The enormous amounts of free metal and crystal draw together and form a moon around the planet. The attacker has won the battle! He captured 835,281 metal, 273,598 crystal, and 50,965 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 804,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 138,900 metal and 102,300 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 2% The attacker has won the battle! He captured 417,645 metal, 136,801 crystal, and 25,484 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 208,834 metal, 68,405 crystal, and 12,745 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 104,426 metal, 34,206 crystal, and 6375 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 52,220 metal, 17,106 crystal, and 3190 deuterium Recyclers: Your 166 Recyclers have a total capacity of 3,320,000. At the target, 1,863,300 metal and 1,023,600 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 1,863,300 metal and 1,023,600 crystal. I'll post on the OoF this evening.

From the Pillory -- Tue Jan 22 2008 9:52:31 SYSTEM Anestty Thu Jan 1 1970 1:33:33 PAYMENT Is GameForge finally showing its hand? Pay us money or we will ban you! - Ike

Aww GoGo, Iceman just needs an . . . Ice Queen to warm his cold heart.

EvilSanta, send me a PM with your e-mail and I'll send you an invite. - Ike

I believe that Spanky took the account back from Autonow at the beginning of this month, so he should not be able to turn it over again for 28 days from then (else I'll ban his @$$ ). I would guess he is trying for a GoodBye Hit. Resources on Moon (Moon) [5:204:7] at 01-20 23:22:13 Metal: 49,899 Crystal: 80,742 Deuterium: 3,633,661 Energy: 0 Fleets Small Cargo 18,870 Large Cargo 6,431 Light Fighter 215,734 Heavy Fighter 40,000 Cruiser 34,758 Battleship 22,701 Colony Ship 97 Recycler 15,983 Espionage Probe 1,454 Bomber 789 Battlecruiser 243 Defense Light Laser 100 Small Shield Dome 1

I've still got a couple of invites if anyone needs any. Just drop me a PM with your e-mail. - Ike

Hate Choir talked about giving the account back to Tenchi. Not sure if he would or not. I always liked Tenchi, so I'd be happy to see him back. I may be IPM-ing all of the Spankster's defenses one of these days. Just gotta wait until I see if he is going to leave me a target and until I start upgrading to Impulse 12 tomorrow. It may take a little while, but I should be able to get rid of all of the defenses on 1:496, 1:458, 1:234, 2:236, 5:205, and 3:253.

I got an IM from Hate Choir yesterday and he mentioned that he may be getting Spankodon's account . . . or, more specificially, Cabe's Account, Cabe's Fleet, and Spanky's LF. If it were to occur, it would probably occur in about a week. HC is really itching for a new Top 10. He claims to have a couple of targets in mind. He has always espoused a like of D.a.r.k. However, I trust him a little less than I trust Nish. Nish at least does not probe me. So I would caution everyone to be very careful, especially if HC takes over that account. I have no doubt that he will use it far more effectively and actively than snore-o-don. He is pretty good at watching people and their patterns. It would be bad to see one of us on the wrong side of a New Top 10. - Ike

Hey, I am heading out for a little while. I'll sign in when I get back. Probably a bit after 3:00 EST. ID: IkeEsq, Character: Ike.

I think that will work . . . although 3:00 p.m. EST is 8:00 p.m. GMT. - Ike

I should be around this weekend (EST GMT-05:00) during the day although I suspect I'll have plans now and again, just not sure exactly when other than noon-17:00 or so on Sunday. Weekdays are tougher. Usually I am around from ~ 18:00-22:00. - Ike