Highlander

Schot --- Thanks for thinkin' of me while your supposed to be visiting your folks. Your mama should have hit you right over the head with a frying pan... I pulled the snapshot up that you posted and while what I see is very similar, it's very different as well... The little box that says "remove formatting" with the X in it is on the top left side of my screen. While using the OGame skin, I can see the two little boxes ( the + and the - ) on the left side below the box where you type your message, but there is nothing to the right --- there's no "Submit", "Preview Post", Guided Mode Off", or "Check Post Length" boxes anywhere on the screen. I've cleared my cache, reloaded firefox, re-booted and still no change. The really odd thing is that it's happening on both my computers (my laptop and my desktop). And see the same thing using IE on both my laptop and desktop. I'm perplexed, baffled, flummoxed, confused and downright dazed. Is it possible my ISP or security settings are preventing the display of these boxes? I'm thinking, that if no else has this problem, it must be on my end somewhere...

We've run into this guy before around here. He was flyinclouds and if memory serves me correctly it was a wing member that was being harrassed by him just a short while ago. This is brilliant play danwilliams. Cunning and ruthless, you are, my friend! And I mean that in the nicest possible way. A toast to you...

Well well another year older , gratz Happy Birthday!

Llama, welcome to D.a.r.k. It is an honor to have you here!

gogo I normally use the OGame skin (with the nifty space theme background) The problem persists. There are no buttons for preview and submit when I use the OGame skin, but they're there when I switch over to the default IPB skin. That is the only way I can post in a thread. I first noticed this about this time (4:00 pm - eastern) yesterday or shortly before I messaged Schot. It's not a game-stopper, because I can easily toggle to the default skin, post and toggle back. I'd post a screen shot, but I can't figure out how to do it...

Hey Guys... maybe it's me, but I no longer see the Submit and Preview buttons using the really cool OGame skin. I've tried both Firefox and IE and on my latop and desktop as well. There's just no Buttons any where. I can post using the default IPB skin. Any thoughts or ideas? Cel

Here's a little story about the power of defense. I know of a player in a universe far, far away who the biggest turtle I've ever heard of is, no doubt. He wishes his identity be kept secret, but he did grant permission to share this information. Here's his defensive structure as of a few weeks ago: Defense Rocket Launcher 32000 Light Laser 27500 Heavy Laser 2250 Gauss Cannon 2350 Ion Cannon 4300 Plasma Turret 555 Small Shield Dome 1 Large Shield Dome 1 Anti-ballistic Missiles 80 And here's the story: My friend is ranked in the mid-80's in the universe he plays in. While viewing the galaxy screen one fateful day he notices a new DF consisting of about 2kk metal and 1.5kk crystal in orbit around a neighbor's planet. He figures it's worth the effort and launched his recyclers to pick it up and he got it. Shortly thereafter he is probed by a top 10 player and receives a message demanding the recycled debris be sent to this top 10 player. At first he was willing to do so, but thought it about it a bit and replied with "Nah! Come and get it." It seems this top 10 player is also in the #1 alliance. Within hours of sending this message he is probed by the #1, #2 and #3 players. He waits…the next day a second round of probes from the #1 player. He waits…. He finally receives a message from this #1 player, "Nice Defense". He waits… Now three months later and he hasn't been probed by anyone in that #1 alliance even though the #1 player is only a few solar systems away. The debris remains his and he's safely sitting behind an even bigger wall of defense and a few Deathstars of his own. We simmed this a number of different ways. We took the #1 player's fleet (from a recent Top 10 HoF) and added 20%. The battle ended in a draw. We then added DeathStars; first 10, still a draw; then 20, still a draw, then 50, finally the attacker wins, but with losses of: 50kk metal, 21kk crystal and 1kk deut. We then simmed it with just Deathstars and we estimated it would require about 275 to allow the attacker a 100% of a win. But with the defense rebuilding at a 70% rate, what's the point... Such is the power of a turtle…

Great improvement, thanks you guys!

You'll also need OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org

I took the chance and downloaded OpenOffice and from what I see right now it's pretty slick. I still need to play around with it a little, but I'm pretty impressed so far. Thanks for the info Firefly. I also downloaded OTab and it's a real nice piece of work. It took a little time to enter my specific data, maybe a 1/2 hour or so. The outcome is awesome. This is a nice program that allows you to track your personal OGame stats, run simulations (how long to build and how much it will cost, etc.) So I used it to calculate my invulnerability factor and it's a little scary. It's only 52.68%. OK Boys, back to the mines!

The only time I leave a df around my planets is when I'm hoping for a moon shot there. It just saves the attacker the trouble, otherwise I like my universe nice and clean. But I'm curious now about how others feel about this....

hmmm... I've seen that. How many colonies do you have now BlueRookie? I think if you try to colonize a ninth one this is what happens, you get a little I and the big I, a message about the colonists revolting or some such language.

Welcome back dan, I hope you can stay a while... You just gotta give us a day in the life of a GO. I'm real curious about what tools you have available, what kind of training you got to prep for this role and tell us about all the wacky e-mails and weird requests you get (if you can). There's gotta be a laugh-a-minute in some of those.

Thanks a million bhj. I like this new update much better! Great find and thanks for posting it! /thumbsup

Hey rik -- This looks like a really great tool. I checked it out see that you need Open Office to run it. I'm a little wary of open source products, but would like to know your experience with it. Can you walk us through what OTab does, how you set it up and how it really works?

Nicely done there Cygnus. A milestone to be sure!! Gratz

A real pleasure to have you a part of D.a.r.k. now rik. Welcome! A round of drinks on me for this one here /beers

Couldn't agree more, DaGirl. This declaration is quite a stretch. And Cyclops, whether this was a valid war hit or not, DarthIrishGuy(Girl) should be ashamed. Hardly worth the effort on her part and all she did was raise the hackles on your neck. Go get her /diablo

Yes that's right TGS has declared War against D.a.r.k. and Dark Wing along with every other alliance in Universe 9. Link here: [TGS]The Goon squad V's Uni nine[probably you] I'm sure this will liven things up one more notch! TGS is The Goon Squad and is comprised of 3 players: DarthIrishGuy, Serenity X and Vindication; all top 100 players. Apparently this declaration is valid, so they are free from any kind of bashing rule. /oooo Everybody panic! /oooo

SercaN I'm pretty sure the math doesn't work out right on this... I get (based on my calculations) a trade that looks like: 2,000,000 deut for 800,000 metal 1,600,000 crystal If this works for you, PM me ingame @ C31ebrimbor, as I've got the deut (in Gal 7) "Normal trade rates @ 2.5:2:1. War time trade rates at 2:1.5:1" Edit: Two topics of same content merged for easier reading...hope this helps you Sercan gogo

Wouldn't it be a cat's meow... if we had this kind of graphix in OGame? To see your fleet attacking a planet with the right level of attack and defense detail protrayed in a video sequence before you could look at the combat report... I think it's possible... but probably not in the future for OGame... too bad /sad These are realy cool battle sequences, jun... thx

Jeepers, I've been trying to update my new ORP database, which means I spent a lot of time today clicking through the galaxies. I can't remember the time when I've experienced so many "Time-Outs". At first I thought it was me and I cleared my cache, but that didn't help at all. I checked the OGame server status and see that all the OGame.org (except UNI 3) are running pretty slow. So, tell me....is anyone else experience 10-15 second screen load times and about a 7% "Time-Out"? /blink

Oh, Dutch, the suspense is killing me... /drool When can you let us know what's going on? Ya, just gotta love a guy that does does this kind of stuff /oooo

Hey Sercan, Welcome to D.a.r.k. Matters - it's a great place, hope you like it here... As for bein' cool, now that you've been here, you're really cool, lol

Hi ya Beowulf, welcome to the greatest forum around...good to see you here. Helena, MT, now that's some beautiful country, I think the sky is bigger there, /lmao