Ike

Perhaps something to shield someone from those harmful rays . . . how about some lovely toys from China attached to a coat, forming a servicable . . . Lead shield!

And here's a little . . . Virus for your Linux.

This is no less than the third time I have knocked this guy back into (n) in the last few months. It is unbelievable. He hoards a ton-o-res and builds RL until he has a high enough score that he pops out of (n) protection. I notice this, nuke his defenses and steal all of the res. A couple of hours later he is back in (n) again. He was ranked 1087 (9,787 points) prior to the hits. Note his impressive techs . . . Research Espionage Technology 2 Computer Technology 6 Shielding Technology 1 Armour Technology 2 Energy Technology 7 Combustion Drive 6 Impulse Drive 4 Laser Technology 6 Ion Technology 4 Planet 1 - Before: Resources on kronos secon [1:276:7] at 12-13 03:04:58 Metal: 158,397 Crystal: 274,746 Deuterium: 45,352 Energy: 2,324 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 597 And after: Resources on kronos secon [1:276:7] at 12-13 03:56:48 Metal: 20,277 Crystal: 34,406 Deuterium: 5,680 Energy: 2,324 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 37 Planet 2 - Before: Resources on kronos prime [1:277:6] at 12-13 03:05:20 Metal: 246,739 Crystal: 338,539 Deuterium: 224,454 Energy: 3,581 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 366 Ion Cannon 4 And after: Resources on kronos prime [1:277:6] at 12-13 04:20:12 Metal: 31,677 Crystal: 42,364 Deuterium: 28,069 Energy: 3,581 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 13 Planet 3 - Before): Resources on kronos kwadria [1:277:13] at 12-13 03:05:23 Metal: 159,221 Crystal: 262,127 Deuterium: 69,778 Energy: 2,324 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 560 And after: Resources on kronos qaudria [1:277:14] at 12-13 04:43:38 Metal: 30,195 Crystal: 51,292 Deuterium: 25,991 Energy: 2,001 Fleets Defense Planet 4 - Before: Resources on kronos qaudria [1:277:14] at 12-13 03:05:25 Metal: 116,753 Crystal: 204,917 Deuterium: 103,629 Energy: 2,001 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 461 And after: Resources on kronos kwadria [1:277:13] at 12-13 05:22:11 Metal: 20,772 Crystal: 32,770 Deuterium: 8,754 Energy: 2,324 Fleets Defense Rocket Launcher 41 Cost: 15 IPMs = 187,500 Metal, 37,500 Crystal, and 150,000 Deuterium. 6 SC = 12,000 Metal and 12,000 Crystal ~10,000 Deuterium Total Profit: 383,671 Metal, 870,192 Crystal, and 229,321 Deuterium

Cr4sH aNd BuRn: Resources on Moon [4:94:4] at 12-10 00:05:55 Metal: 14.013 Crystal: 4.031.419 Deuterium: 1.512.732 Energy: 0 Fleets Small Cargo 728 Large Cargo 1.333 Light Fighter 29.241 Heavy Fighter 2.000 Cruiser 3.906 Battleship 2.300 Recycler 2.552 Espionage Probe 136 Bomber 1.526 Destroyer 1.103 Deathstar 1 Battlecruiser 400 Defense Rocket Launcher 80 Light Laser 101 Heavy Laser 22 Ion Cannon 19 Small Shield Dome 1

Complete with shadow cats!

Claire, that tree is AWESOME!! And I love the circular stair.

We bought our tree last night and I put on the lights. With luck the decorations will go on tonight and I'll post a pic. RE: Undone - We have an advent calendar (PeA) full of chocolate. Mmmmm.

Sad to say, but Autonow has started to turtle up. No fleet builds, just ABMs for all planets and defenses . . . even on his 3:88 moon. On the plus side, defenses are wasted points that can go away and nuking them may assist Firefly in taking over the #1 slot earlier. Not a bad goal, that.

Well, I thought it would only be right to welcome Autonow to the Uni's biggest Fleet/Account, so the day he took over . . . Defender Antonow (3:253:8) destroyed The attacker has won the battle! He captured 1.333 metal, 1.333 crystal, and 1.333 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 0 units. The defender lost a total of 64.000 units. At these space coordinates now float 12.000 metal and 7.200 crystal. Your 3 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 60.000. At the target, 12.000 metal and 7.200 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 12.000 metal and 7.200 crystal. The attacker has won the battle! He captured 87.036 metal, 64.809 crystal, and 8.857 deuterium The attacker has won the battle! He captured 43.524 metal, 32.407 crystal, and 4.429 deuterium - - - - - Defender Antonow (1:458:5) destroyed The attacker has won the battle! He captured 0 metal, 0 crystal, and 4.423 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 195.000 units. The defender lost a total of 1.128.000 units. At these space coordinates now float 274.800 metal and 122.100 crystal. Your 25 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 500.000. At the target, 274.800 metal and 123.300 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 274.800 metal and 123.300 crystal - - - - - Defender Antonow (1:234:13) destroyed The attacker has won the battle! He captured 0 metal, 0 crystal, and 6.499 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 108.000 units. The defender lost a total of 690.000 units. At these space coordinates now float 175.500 metal and 63.900 crystal. Your 15 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 300.000. At the target, 175.500 metal and 75.900 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 175.500 metal and 75.900 crystal. - - - - - Defender Antonow (5:204:7) destroyed The attacker has won the battle! He captured 0 metal, 0 crystal, and 3.997 deuterium The attacker lost a total of 84.000 units. The defender lost a total of 1.200.000 units. At these space coordinates now float 258.900 metal and 126.300 crystal. Your 25 recycler(s) have a total cargo capacity of 500.000. At the target, 258.900 metal and 137.700 crystal are floating in space. You have harvested 258.900 metal and 137.700 crystal. His total losses = 3,341,981 (None of this was defenses).

Yeah, it is a contination of this thread. The guy pled guilty back in August and just got sentenced this morning. It is certainly a fairly common scheme, this was just a very well organized and lucrative group.

Hmmmm, no idea when (exactly) Autonow turned over his account . . . I just know it was before 16:05 when the last stat update occurred. In a few more hours, Vendetta will disappear . . . with luck for good.

It occurred right about 16:30 server time today. I was checking for activity on Spanky's planets and halfway through noticed that the name had changed from Vendetta (when I started) to Autonow. Yeah, even if I were inclined to play in U36 the timing would be really horrible.

My spamming defendant got sentenced to six years in prison this morning. All e-mail boxes rejoice! Here is the press release.

He posted a goodbye thread on the OoF. He outlines his fleet, mines, and research. Apparently, when you reach 20 MM points, the game gets a bit dull.

At approximately 16:30, Autonow took over the #1 account in Uni 9 (Cabe's, then Sphenodon's). Autonow's account (previously BlueWhaleMoon's and Urkhai's) has been taken over by "Cr4sH aNd BuRn." According to Beowulf, Spanky sent him an IM a few days ago about leaving Uni 9. Blade had a long IM conversation with the Spankster two days ago and Blade says that Sphenon00b will be playing in U36 when it opens (in a couple of days). Apparently, a very large number of Uni9 players will be starting up in U36 if anyone is interested. - Ike

I fear.

I read about this on the OoF a week or so ago. It seemed really st0000pid. Still does. Sadly, I am about halfway through researching Hyperspace Drive 9, so no expeditions for me for a while. Guess I'll just have to watch everyone else get all of the goodies. Or get attacked by and

As I understand, he was given Werner's account, and he knew he was getting it over the summer. He started posting here beforehand and claims that he sent notes about possibly joining D.a.r.k. to GoGo and others. Not sure where else he was interested in joining. For whatever reason, he didn't apply, and instead joined PAWNZ. I don't know of any conditions on his taking over the account. I told him it would be rather a shame to use that account as a miner, but then, it is Werner's acount, he can do as he pleases.

Yeah, he changed this morning -- specifically between the 00:00 and 08:00 updates. Blade is close with DiO, Hornet, and others in NN. He was never all that close to PAWNZ. In fact, he originally hoped to join D.a.r.k., but for whatever reason did not apply. He and a large number of others are joining U36 (non-PrOgame/ACS I believe) when it opens in a few weeks. When U36 is announced, Blade is giving the account back to Werner, and Werner is going to be a Miner. Apparently Werner is one of those who will also be playing in U36, which is why he will be mining in U9 -- no time to fleet crash. Werner is not a big PAWNZ fan, hence the move to NN.

I always run online. Especially as I can't install programs on my work computer. I prefer to have as little installed locally as possible.

He, he, he. A little background to give people a sense of the Enemy . . . On Thursday night I saw 5 RIPs and a recycler on one of Spanky's moons, all lonely like. I let a few people know and Blade was the only one who could make the attempt. Unfortunately, he had to wait for some ships to return. When they did, he sent attacks against the moon (where there was 57 deuterium and no metal/crystal), and the planet (around 8K deuterium and 200K/80K metal/crystal). I sent 8 attacks as well, and others sent a few. In all, 15 attacks were scheduled to hit within about 30 minutes of each other. Unfortunately, 10-15 minutes before impact, Spanky comes online. A little earlier (30 minutes earlier) than he is normally online. So yesterday morning I see these two RIPs and no deuterium sitting on another moon. I am thinking there is NO WAY that anyone could be st00pid enough to leave two RIPs alone overnight after seeing me spy them, when I was clearly involved in a similar attack two days earlier. But 10-12 hours later, at around 02:00, I check again and they are still there although there is some activity on some of Spanky's planets so I think he may be online. Nonetheless, I notify a few people in the area and Borg starts SIMming. 03:00 comes along, no activity on Spanky's Main, I probe once more. STILL THERE! The rest is, as they say, History. But my low estimation of Spankodon has dropped yet a few more notches . . . although I did not think that possible. So, EXCELLENT hit Borg. Even with a 'sure thing,' it still takes guts to go after the #1 account's RIPs on a gated moon. Congrats on the hit, you are only the second person to hit any of his RIPs.

OK, I saw Beowulf on Thursday night. It is animated, and the main characters are animated using the images of the voice actors. So the main characters look really realistic. The rest of the characters and 'extras' tend to be pretty marginal. In fact, I couldn't help but think of Thief: The Dark Project. A great PC game, but not the best animation ever. In addition, Robin Wright Penn plays the Queen, and they reduced her age for the first portion and she looked really stiff and wooden. After she grew older and was more her own age, she looked much more realistic. As I noted in an earlier post, this was made PG-13 in the US. As a result, there is no real nudity, and that is a bit of an issue. In the beginning, Beowulf lies naked, waiting for his first opponent. They keep having people and objects blocking the view of Beowulf's crotch. It reminded me eerily of Austin Powers . . . which was a joke. This did not appear to be meant to be funny, but it was REALLY distracting because it was so obvious. Of course, for Angelena Jolie's character, they didn't cover her, they just smoothed her out like a Barbie Doll. It was a little odd. The story itself was really good, but the animation really detracted a bit from it, as did the rating.

He'll probably be out of (n) in another 4-6 months. I'll watch to see if he joins an alliance and warn them off. Might need to start a new account so I can hit him as soon as he gets 5K points.

Hey Highlander, great to see you around and better to see that all is well and your career is on track. Excellent to reduce that commute. Got mine down to walking 5-10 minutes and life is about as good as it gets! Happy Thanksgiving to you as well, spending mine on the Outer Banks with family. Then it is back to hunting He Who Must Not Be Named. So there is a life after oGame:)