Ike

I've got 3 invites if you want to send me an e-mail address for the person you want me to invite. Going to sleep now, but I'll be back online in 8 hours or so. - Ike

Oh no! Vegetarian protesters!

found that instead

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Indy And 21 . . . must call for some legalized drinkin'!

Doesn't everyone like a good story? Well if not, tough luck, you are getting one anyway. Locutus sent me a PM about a week ago asking if I happened to have 2500 recs . . . sadly, with a fleet of 5000 ships, half were not recs. He pointed out Sylka's fleet of some minor ships and 34 RIPs, just 4 SS from my paired G1 moons. I suggested that ThE DiO would be interested and was not far away. I asked DiO about it later and he said that Locutus had, in fact, alerted him to this nice fleet. Unfortunately, he waited until deuterium arrived and recs were timed and Sylka came online. We watched on phalanx, and despite having a moon in the area, Sylka did a deploy FS between planets. So DiO timed one such, but Sylka came online. The landing time tended to be really inconvenient for both of us (~03:00-04:00 for me) so we determined to try again for a deploy recall on the weekend when I could afford to get up at 02:00 and phalanx to get the recall time. So Saturday came along and I figured I'd do a little probing to figure out which planet the fleet was on -- so that I knew defenses and such -- and there is no fleet on any of her planets! So I start phalanxing and there is the fleet, 12 hours until deploy. And it is arriving about an hour earlier than normal. So I send a note to DiO and do some calcs, and it seems like 70% is the most likely speed -- her normal speed -- and she had left within about 10 minutes of my probe. This makes sense as their was activity on the launching planet and Main about that time. However, we are not positive and I am loath to have DiO launch for a third time and not know when the fleet will return if she recalls. I am also a little concerned about the early departure as I do not like changes in patterns. But we figure it is to our advantage as the fleet will land about the time Sylka normally comes online and it is a Sunday morning so perhaps she will sleep in just a bit. For whatever reason, Sylka has some defenses but no ABMs on her planets, so I send 59 IPMs and 5 waves of cargos at the target planet, reducing it from . . . Resources on Oldtown [1:281:5] at 01-12 21:09:29 Metal: 1.375.309 Crystal: 805.386 Deuterium: 176.602 Energy: 13.512 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 2.973 Light Laser 30 Heavy Laser 8 Gauss Cannon 5 Ion Cannon 7 Small Shield Dome 1 Large Shield Dome 1 Interplanetary Missiles 4 The attacker has won the battle! He captured 687.654 metal, 422.060 crystal, and 88.301 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 343.844 metal, 211.041 crystal, and 44.153 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 171.974 metal, 105.550 crystal, and 22.083 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 85.999 metal, 52.782 crystal, and 11.043 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 43.034 metal, 26.411 crystal, and 5.526 deuterium To: 01-13 02:52:24 Fleet command Espionage Report of Oldtown [1:281:5] Resources on Oldtown [1:281:5] at 01-13 02:52:24 Metal: 55.584 Crystal: 33.755 Deuterium: 7.138 Energy: 13.512 Fleets Defense So I go to bed and DiO launches his main fleet and 5 follow-ups (now free of unnecessary defenses). I get up at 02:00 and launch a final follow-up and refresh the galaxy screen every 10 seconds. At 10 Minutes to impact I start refreshing every 6 seconds. At 8 minutes to impact I start refreshing every 5 seconds. At 5 minutes to impact I start refreshing every 2 seconds. I know we have her now because I have enough deuterium onhand to refresh phalanx every 2-3 seconds if she comes online, but she does not. So I only used 20-30K deuterium, instead of the 2 MM I had allocated. The hit on the OoF: Advanced 20% + Phalanx hit + RIP KILL [NN] ThE DiO vs. Sylka [PAX]. (TD:375.620.000 My Follow-up: The attacker has won the battle! He captured 111.121 metal, 78.326 crystal, and 61.233 deuterium My profits: Metal: 706,126 Crystal: 748,670 Deuterium: 2,113,000 (-357,661 from IPMs, -30,000 from phalanx and galaxy view, +2,500,000 from DiO for phalanxing)

I noticed this in the Forum rules about a week ago: I had disabled IP check because I kept getting logged off, although it only happened from time-to-time, it would occur repeatedly when it did. So I unchecked that box and didn't have any problems and forgot about it. Then I noticed someone I was planning to hit was Banned, and they had just come out of (v) mode that morning, so I checked and . . . Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:33 Makari Lone Wolf Tue May 29 2035 18:03:33 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:30 Makari Grim901 Tue May 29 2035 18:03:30 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:26 Makari deadlysocks Tue May 29 2035 18:03:26 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:22 Makari Xion Isoroku Tue May 29 2035 18:03:22 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:18 Makari Lord of Avernus Tue May 29 2035 18:03:18 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:14 Makari Johnny McNubbin Tue May 29 2035 18:03:14 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:11 Makari Sensei Tue May 29 2035 18:03:11 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:08 Makari goorny Tue May 29 2035 18:03:08 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:04 Makari den sejrende Tue May 29 2035 18:03:04 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:03:00 Makari xan Tue May 29 2035 18:03:00 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:02:56 Makari InSoMniA Tue May 29 2035 18:02:56 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:02:50 Makari Cursed_84 Tue May 29 2035 18:02:50 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:02:45 Makari kenrog Tue May 29 2035 18:02:45 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 17:02:37 Makari dupa Tue May 29 2035 18:02:37 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:55:31 Makari frodotipo Tue May 29 2035 17:55:31 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:55:25 Makari Cormac Mcart Tue May 29 2035 17:55:25 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:58 Makari Blackmage Tue May 29 2035 17:54:58 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:54 Makari Merodym Tue May 29 2035 17:54:54 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:50 Makari Fsttrk Tue May 29 2035 17:54:50 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:45 Makari Epion Tue May 29 2035 17:54:45 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:40 Makari Mavrick 15 Tue May 29 2035 17:54:40 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:36 Makari Tibet Tue May 29 2035 17:54:36 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:31 Makari valentina Tue May 29 2035 17:54:31 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:25 Makari Jane the Revelator Tue May 29 2035 17:54:25 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:17 Makari Kavish Tue May 29 2035 17:54:17 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:11 Makari NoName Tue May 29 2035 17:54:11 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:54:05 Makari greystroke Tue May 29 2035 17:54:05 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Sat Jan 12 2008 16:53:56 Makari wangji Tue May 29 2035 17:53:56 Unauthorized IP Check Deactivation (Contact) Owie! Noone from D.a.r.k. listed, but they might not have gotten to the end yet, so turn it back on if it is off!

Interesting that you brought this up . . . when I took my account back post-crash I had to rebuild a ton of satelites and it took a lot of time as my mines used to REALLY $uck -- now they only moderately $uck Eventually, I got around to standardizing my mining levels (currently 27/23/22 and 24 Solar). Because I already had built up sats to support my previous mining level, I ended up with a bunch of excess energy on a number of planets and in fact have not even bothered to build the last level of solar planet on a few planets. It really comes down to MUCH cheaper cost on sats being offset by the possibility of losing those satelites. Because all of my planets (except one) now have gated moons, and I remove all the res from them twice a day, it seems unlikely that I will get attacked too frequently. In fact, I have only been attacked a couple of times in the last six months. So other than for my slot 15 planet, which requires a ton of sats, I don't really plan to build too many more levels of Solar plant.

I have yet to expedition . . . wondering if there is any real point. Normally, most of my fleet slots are pretty busy punishing those around my moons for the audacity of their proximity. However, occasionally I think maybe I should try it out. Hmmmmmm, thoughts? Generally positive experiences or generally a waste of time? Anyone found enough DarkMatter to actually buy something other than a GameForge key fob or an oGame eraser? - Ike

He, he, he . . . when I saw the title I thought you had clicked on some pop-up banner on a pron website or something. Congrats, I am relieved!

Ban Dana [JinRoh] vs. Myles [D.a.r.k.] Oh nooooz! Hope you just slept in and nothing is wrong. - Ike

Eleanor has not been online in several days so I figured I'd take out the last of her mini-fleets, the one on her Main. Well, she has another moon now . . . and a bit less res and a few less ships. While I was at it, I did my third day of farming on her planets. Note the extreme lameness of my 'fleet.' And I had to build about 100 BS yesterday in order to make it this big. _____________________________________ Attacker Ike _____________________________________ Small Cargo 434 (Lost = 176) Battleship 211 (Lost = 1) _____________________________________ _____________________________________ Defender Eleanor _____________________________________ Large Cargo 100 Battleship 65 Bomber 9 Solar Satelite 180 Rocket Launcher 29 Light Laser 44 Heavy Laser 30 Gauss Cannon 4 Ion Cannon 13 Small Shield 1 Large Shield 1 _____________________________________ The attacker has won the battle! He captured 554,910 metal, 362,987 crystal, and 216,340 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 764,000 units. The defender lost a total of 6,885,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 1,311,600 metal and 758,100 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 203,277 metal, 183,363 crystal, and 108,994 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 271,000 units. The defender lost a total of 573,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 51,600 metal and 29,700 crystal. Recyclers: Your 150 Recyclers have a total capacity of 3,000,000. At the target, 1,363,200 metal and 788,700 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 1,363,200 metal and 788,700 crystal. - - - - - In addition, hits on other planets: The attacker has won the battle! He captured 113,053 metal, 47,720 crystal, and 23,960 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 56,537 metal, 23,865 crystal, and 11,982 deuterium - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 126,793 metal, 61,976 crystal, and 26,607 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 63,410 metal, 30,995 crystal, and 13,307 deuterium - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 235,753 metal, 87,331 crystal, and 51,639 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 93,000 units. The defender lost a total of 276,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 19,800 metal and 8,100 crystal. Your 2 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 40,000. At the target, 19,800 metal and 8,100 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 19,800 metal and 8,100 crystal. - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 259,303 metal, 99,715 crystal, and 59,401 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 165,000 units. The defender lost a total of 320,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 30,600 metal and 18,900 crystal. Your 4 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 80,000. At the target, 30,200 metal and 14,600 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 30,200 metal and 14,600 crystal. - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 281,616 metal, 121,332 crystal, and 52,991 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 183,000 units. The defender lost a total of 376,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 37,200 metal and 17,700 crystal. Your 6 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 120,000. At the target, 76,200 metal and 36,000 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 76,200 metal and 36,000 crystal. Total Gain = 2,575,052 Metal 1,199,684 Crystal 249,221 Deuterium

Hmmm, hmmm, hmmmm. Tough, tough, tough. I think for me that this depends on the period in my life. In college I watched Monty Python's Life of Brian and Holy Grail a lot. For a while I was watching Four Weddings and a Funeral about every weekend . . . along with A Fish Called Wanda and When Harry Met Sally on a frequent basis. Lately I have been wathcing Love Actually, Notting Hill, and Groundhog Day a lot. I've also seen the Lord of the Rings, the original Star Wars Trilogy, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom quite a few times. However, in keeping with the spirit of the question, I would have to say that I have probably seen Groundhog Day more than any other movie. I just watch it again and again and it never changes.

Why beat the mountain when you can simply enjoy it whilest . . . Skiing!

Well, Eleanor is back in PAX (about a month now) and she is lousy at collecting res from her planets. Since she appears not to be using all that res, I figured I'd liberate a bit of it. Turns out, just enough to build a Nanite 2, which is what I am adding to four of my planets right now. What luck! The following are 5 separate planets, all hits (except the first) were within 15 minutes, the first was ~30 minutes earlier. DF collected within an hour and 15 minutes (first hit) or 30 minutes (second two). I sent recs overnight as they take ~5 hours to arrive at 100% and that would leave the DF for 3 hours. The attacker has won the battle! He captured 541,073 metal, 152,689 crystal, and 104,898 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 624,000 units. The defender lost a total of 3,954,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 732,600 metal and 498,600 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 12% Your 80 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 1,600,000. At the target, 732,600 metal and 501,600 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 732,600 metal and 501,600 crystal. - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 529,204 metal, 152,773 crystal, and 125,616 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 345,000 units. The defender lost a total of 902,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 65,400 metal and 109,500 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 1% Your 20 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 400,000. At the target, 65,400 metal and 109,800 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 65,400 metal and 109,800 crystal. - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 530,042 metal, 240,495 crystal, and 105,085 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 353,000 units. The defender lost a total of 934,000 units. At these space coordinates now float 69,000 metal and 93,900 crystal. The chance for a moon to be created is 1% Your 20 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 400,000. At the target, 69,000 metal and 94,200 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 69,000 metal and 94,200 crystal. - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 135,433 metal, 85,934 crystal, and 43,198 deuterium He captured 67,694 metal, 42,996 crystal, and 21,614 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 0 units. At these space coordinates now float 0 metal and 0 crystal. - - - - - The attacker has won the battle! He captured 183,531 metal, 116,275 crystal, and 49,994 deuterium He captured 91,758 metal, 58,147 crystal, and 25,001 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 0 units. At these space coordinates now float 0 metal and 0 crystal. - - - - - Total Gain: 2,185,735 Metal 992,909 Crystal 287,406 Deuterium (Includes 160K deuterium to send all ships/recs)

All of my U9 planets are in slots 5-8 [two in 5, three in 6, two in 7, one in 8] except one, which is in slot 15. The slot 15 was a little bit of a mistake, I planted two colonies in the same SS so I could FS my moonshot fleet and ended up getting moons on both. The slot 15 planet has 76 fields (86 with level 2 terraformer) and is home to my main deuterium mine and can be used for IPMs. I normally try to get at least 200 fields, but anything 150 and up is pretty usable, I can always terraform more space if I need it. For some specific planets, like Gravitron planets and IPM or attack colonies, the number of fields can be pretty low. Gravitron requires 12 for research, 10 for robotics, 12 for shipyard, and 1-5 for Nanites. Solar plants and fusion reactors add almost nothing to the equation, so any slot 1 planet with 40+ fields (or less if you plan to build terraformers) works. For new Unis, I would be inclined to keep every colony with more than 30-40 slots until I was running low on planets. Early mines pay off much more quickly than higher-level ones, so you might as well make some res while you are waiting for bigger colonies. I would also be inclined to start colonies in distant/sparsely populated galaxies if mining is the intent. There will be more slot-4/6 G1 planets open later as the (I)s disappear. - Ike

Hmmmm, maybe I'll IPM him again.

Oooopsie. Wonder if it was chock full of 2.5 MM in res as well. After I IPMed Autonow a week or so ago to drop him into second I started getting a lot of probes from Dead and others in Purple D. So I asked if he wanted to lose deut or fleet . . . he noted that he was just helping an ally out when I asked if he was Autonow's lap dog. Sadly, no fleets have come my way yet. Well, congrats on the free delivery! - Ike

Resources on Moon (Moon) [1:458:5] at 12-28 16:37:24 Metal: 18,794,397 Crystal: 8,902,375 Deuterium: 1,194,582 Energy: 0 Fleets Small Cargo 19,237 Large Cargo 5645 Light Fighter 194,310 Heavy Fighter 36,141 Cruiser 34,937 Battleship 22,749 Colony Ship 97 Recycler 15,983 Espionage Probe 1954 Bomber 793 Destroyer 422 Deathstar 4 Battlecruiser 153 And he is looking for deuterium for those without scrupples.

Welcome Zyther! Any friend of GoGo's is . . . well, viewed with much suspicion. But, it being the Holiday Season and all, we'll cut you some slack just this once. So welcome, enjoy, have fun, and all that. - Ike

Oooooo, so pretty. The whole site is like a huge present just for me . . . RIP! A Merry and a Happy to everyone!

Hmmm, well, I have certainly seen a number of people from time to time regularly go inactive and then pop back out again. I usually make a killing off of people like that and farm them regularly enough that I rather doubt anyone else could be profiting nearly as much as am I. So I suspect that they are just only occasionally active people as I know they are not staying around just for me to farm them, and no one else appears to be hitting them with the same regularity. Often, these people have a fair amount of defenses that I either nuke or flatten with attacks, so I'd know if someone else was after them. There should be no way for an inactive to send a message, 'cause that would make them active. Are you sure it wasn't someone farming them that sent the note? Otherwise something is VERY wrong. Open a ticket at support.ogame.org if you think there is a problem/issue. I've had them respond to me before: for instance, when I started my iIi account and was still under 5K, two accounts attacked me at roughly the same time, one from ~200-300 galaxies away and the other from less than a dozen. Neither had moons, I ninjaed the first and got a message from the second within a couple of minutes that I should not have done that. They were not in the same alliance or anything. It seemed VERY weird, so I reported it to a GO and he replied that he would keep an eye out. Nothing illegal about attacking someone in your own alliance or who left, unless it is pushing, I.e. lower-ranked account allowing a higher-ranked account to attack it.

1 + Firefly Dawn 5.848.831 2 – Antonow purpleD 5.808.577 How much does that rock:) - Ike

Autonow's Planets: 1:496:10 (Main - NO Moon) 1:458:5 (JG Moon) 1:234:13 (JG Moon) 2:236:6 (JG Moon) 3:88:4 (JG Moon - Fleet usually) 3:253:8 (NO Moon) 5:204:7 (Moon) 7:48:10 (Moon - NO JG) 8:148:7 (JG Moon) Someone should definitely destroy his G7 Moon before he gets a JG. - Ike

After three weeks, Uni 9's next #1 account . . . Resources on Homeworld [1:99:11] at 12-14 03:49:18 Metal: 12.265 Crystal: 6.397 Deuterium: 0 Energy: 0 Fleets Defense Buildings Metal Mine 1 Crystal Mine 1 Research Needless to say, he is already (I). Guess he didn't realize you need to build a solar plant in order for your mines to produce.