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Beren One Hand
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Nice job MEC. You should be our permanent UN ambassador. [Wink]
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I don't see any real disadvantages to having a smaller alliance--what if we get a spy?
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Spying is a valid concern but I don't think you have to worry about that until much later in the game when we are stronger players.

Players are limited to one account per IP address. I doubt people would take the trouble to join our alliance just for the sake of spying on us.

In the future, however, when we are thinking of coordinating an attack against another alliance, we SHOULD temporarily suspend the addition of new members in case they are spies.

I think another advantage of having a larger alliance is that it makes people think twice about attacking you.

Speaking of spying, we really need Kama to help us scope out the Polish alliance. [Wink]

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sounds good. Someone needs to be paranoid, and that someone may as well be me.

Can we at least limit membership to people who know who OSC is?

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Beren One Hand
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A simple quiz like "speak friend and enter" type of deal? [Smile]

The enemy's gate is:

A. Up
B. Down
C. White
D. Guarded by werewolves
E. Are you sure you don't want to pick down?
F. Seriously, do you want to join this alliance or not?

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sounds good. [Smile]
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I would prefer:

The enemy's ____ is down:

A. Pants
B. Zipper
C. Gate
D. Mood
E. Stock Index
F. Duckling Feather

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Teshi
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Yeah, that's a good idea.
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We have a pending member...he says he saw our message at clutch fans.
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Beren One Hand
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Yeah, he is friend from another forum. I accepted his application, I hope that's ok. [Wink]

I talked about the game at another forum earlier this morning. But I have deleted my post there after seeing sarcasticmuppet's suggestion that we should limit our members to OSC fans.

I think we should get more than enough fans from Hatrack and MEC's post on ogame's official forum. [Smile]

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I'm at a crossroads and need some advice. I'm not sure if I should actively pursue starflight and become a raider or focus on building more mines and be a peaceful miner. What do you think?

My current stats:

Metal 8
Crystal 8
Deuterium 6
Solar 10
Robot factory 2
Research Lab 1
Shipyard 2

Technology researched: 0
Weapons developed: 0
Ships built: 0
Missle launcher: Thinking about building one.

[ May 30, 2005, 11:21 AM: Message edited by: Beren One Hand ]

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Teshi
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Does anyone else get to pages which are totally inundated with pop-ups? I have a blocker but it totally incapacitates me on that page until I go away from it and come back.

Is there anyway I can prevent that?

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Enigmatic
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I have no problem with accepting other players. A good safety rule would be don't promote anyone to jatraquero except for people that we know actually are jatraqueroes.

Another suggestion on limiting your resource stockpile, apart from the sending them in a slow transport trick: Spend it. (Duh, I know.) But what I'm doing is keeping my production ratios fairly close to the ratio needed for building things, and then if one resource does get too high, build something that uses primarily that while waiting for others to catch up. If metal is very high, I build missle lauchers. If crystal or deuterium is too high I do research. Just a tip for before you have actual cargo ships.

--Enigmatic

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Beren One Hand
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Good tips and good suggestion Enigmatic. Thanks. [Smile]

Teshi, I get no pop ups with Firefox. Which browser are you using?

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*cough*

Internet Explorer.

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Beren: At the minimum I'd build a missle launcher or two even if you have no plans to raid anyone. Peaceful miners are good targets: they don't raid back.

I'd say either way you decide to go you can build some more mines for the time being. The smallest fighter ship is 3000 metal/1000 crystal, so you need a lot of production to make a decent raider fleet.

--Enigmatic
(realizes this is the longest thread he's started by far)

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Beren One Hand
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Try Firefox Teshi! Once you have tasted the paradise that is tabbed browsing, you'll never go back! [Wink]

Thanks Enigmatic. More mines sound like a good idea. I guess I'm just feeling a bit impatient.

"realizes this is the longest thread he's started by far"

Oh, it is going to get SO much longer. [Wink]

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Teshi
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I resisted Firefox for this long, but now I have given in. *uses Firefox*
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*shudders at the thought of not using firefox*

I'll join in too... this game appears to be similar to one I played a while back called imperial conflict.

Name: Blue Sun
Planet: Arial (I'll probably change this)
Location: 3:396:9

On a somewhat unreleated matter... I'm surprised to see so many Firefly fans on here... how many of you watched the show before OSC reviewed it?

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OSC reviewed it?
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Enigmatic
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Welcome to the game. Search for "hatrack" on your alliance tab to apply to the alliance. For some reason the search seems to go off the tag, not the name.

On firefly: In terms of strict chronology, I couldn't answer. I have no idea when OSC reviewed it. Hence I watched it before I read OSC's review or was aware that he reviewed it, which is probably more like what you meant. I didn't watch it when it was actually on tv, though. Joss Whedon fans made me watch the DVDs.

--Enigmatic

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I registered for the game either Friday night or Saturday, can't remember which.

Name: Noemon
Planet: Noemonia
Location: [Deleted]

Peter, most of us who've watched it did so before Card reviewed it, I think. No surprise, really, that so many of us like it though; it's good character driven SF, and this is the site of an author primarily known for writing good character driven SF.

[ May 31, 2005, 09:55 AM: Message edited by: Noemon ]

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This alliance is getting pretty big. Does it only consist of members of Hatrack still or are there other people? Also, my missile launcher is almost finished building, will it automatically provide defense for my planet or will I have to activate it if someone attacks me?
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I should do it automaticly, I built one for myself a little while back.
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Can buildings get damaged in an attack?
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We should definitely restrict entrants. In fact, I wouldn't have added "Vampire", since we have no clue who he is. I think the rule should be that if they don't post in this thread, they shouldn't be added.

Question: I am maxed out on energy usage right now. Should I get robots or another level in my solar plant first?

-Bok

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Vasslia Cora
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My stats:
Metal: 6
Crystal: 7
Deuterium: 4
Solar: 9
Robot factory 2
Research Lab 1
Shipyard 2

Technology researched:
Combustion Engine (Level 1 )
Energy Technology (Level 1 )

Weapons developed: 0

Ships built: 0

Missle launcher: 1


Any advice on what I should do?

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I've played a few of these games too [Wink]

Name: Excaliver
Planet: Omakron
Location: 3:413:8

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get Combustion 2 and you can get transport ships. I'd also build up Deuterium--I have a level 6 synth and I think it could still use some speed.
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I have applied to the alliance.

And built more robots. [Smile]

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No I don't think buildings themselves can get damaged, your defence weapons can though.


As to Vampire, don't like it. He says he plays on ogame.de and on ogame.org but thats againest the rules.

Whats your plants level and whats your robots level?

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Thanks for the answer Vasslia Cora.

Vampire did not pass Dan's awesome test. How did he get in?

Sarcasticmuppet, do you already have starflight? Yay, wtg! [Smile]

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Instead of trying to recruit members we aren't sure about, we should think about creating alliances with other alliance. Esp. ones that could potentially harm/help us.

For example: I know there's a member of another alliance (called CH4) right next door to me that we could consider having a non-aggression pact with. Especially since he's the only "strong player" in my system [Angst] .

Stuff like that--I think other people might have more pressing need than me.

Beren: I'm not quite there yet--I do have the capability for a light fighter, but I'm waiting a bit until I can upgrade enough for the transport ship. In the meantime, I've built ahead of my energy needs, so I'm waiting to upgrade my plant.

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quote:
I'm surprised to see so many Firefly fans on here... how many of you watched the show before OSC reviewed it?
I was forcibly introduced. Now I'm on a crusade to forcibly introduce others.

[Evil]

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I also think that we shouldn't forget Vadon has an alliance too. Plus he has been playing longer then most of us, if not all of us.
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Me too! I successfully converted my mom. [Smile]
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*Is drumming his fingers impatiantly, having to wait about 11 more hours to finally get the amount of resources he would have had yesterdaymorning.*

Heh, I should check out your thread.

You know with how big your alliance could become, you have a good chance of becoming quite powerful.

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Vadon, do you fleet save you resouces?
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That's a good idea sarcasticmuppet. We can have non-agression pacts with other alliances. [Smile]

When we get more powerful, we can splinter off and form new alliances as a sub branch of our main alliance. OK, I have now officially given too much thought to this game....

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So how do I build ships? I have a shipyard, and I have enough resources for either a satellite or a light fighter, they show up in my shipyard menu, but I can't find a "build" button.

<--- Is obviously an ignoramus

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Well a quick summary, I had sent out both cargo ships out with the metal I sent you and Bob, so I had no defenses when I was attacked. I wasn't be the brightest little ruler of a planet and I had not built any sort of defenses, so then a fleet comes and easily shoots me down and takes away almost all my resources and puts debris out.

I actually just looked again at it and um... It actually will only take about two hours... yay!

Beren, you think that's bad? I already made a freewebs website, made a logo, written up a complete policy, and have made a forum for the UIPC. THAT is taking it too far.

(Edit: Yeah, that's always a good thing.)

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Sorry, I let vampire in without doing the test. Mainly because he said he's played the german version of the game, which has been around longer so he's likely to know what he's doing. If there's consensus on not allowing non-OSC fans/hatrackers, I can kick him and explain it. Up to you all.

--Enigmatic

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Well, at least you were able to save your cargo ships. [Smile]
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Dkw, it took me a bit to figure building out too. You put a number in the field to the right of the ship (defaults to 0) and click "send" at the bottom. Unlike buildings, you can actually queue up ships. Same for the Defense tab.
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Yes but he doesn't get them back.

DKW: Next to the ship you want to build is a writing are with a 0 in it just delete the 0 and add whatever number of units you want to build and hit send at the bottom.

Vadon: The cargo ships wouldn't have help much depending on what ships they had. But 2 large cargo ships will take enough resouces for a colony ship, so if you build them and send them on a fleet save to an empty planet to "spy" by the time they get back you'll have all you need to build a colony ship.

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"Mainly because he said he's played the german version of the game, which has been around longer so he's likely to know what he's doing."

Imagine his disappointment when he figures out we are all under 1k points. [Smile]

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Well, you can queue buildings but you have to pay the $4s to do it.
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Ugh, this is so annoying, I have about 2,000 crystals and under 500 metal and deut...And I accidently clicked to upgrade energy research to level 2 which I don't even need. Now I have to wait a billion years to get enough deut to do anything that requires alot of crystals...This is frustrating. But fun.
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Don't you get your resouces back if you cancel the upgrade?
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quote:
Originally posted by GaalD:
Ugh, this is so annoying, I have about 2,000 crystals and under 500 metal and deut...And I accidently clicked to upgrade energy research to level 2 which I don't even need. Now I have to wait a billion years to get enough deut to do anything that requires alot of crystals...This is frustrating. But fun.

Plus, once you hit energy tech 3 and duet synthesizer 5, you can get fusion plants. They burn a little bit of duet every hour but they produce a LOT of energy. I can't build them yet, but I bet they would be a good suppliment energy-wise once your solar plants get to be high level.
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Agh, I hate metal! I get 318 each hour but it just not enough, I need to upgrade my deut synth but I have to wait for my metal.
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