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SE5 - MOD wars

SE5 - Peaceful Co-existance

[ December 15, 2002, 21:54: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

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I'm enjoying this thread. It's name changes about as often as Ruatha's strategy in Newbie Gold 1.

BTW, I was laid off on Tuesday December 3 and accepted a new job on Friday, December 13. I start tomorrow. That has to be a new record for shortest period of unemployment....Greybeard

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Space Empires: 3D

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SE5: Tesco Changes His Avatar Yet Another Time
SE5: Armageddon (hey that's actually pretty decent)
SE5: Supernova Genesis http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif (like that's when it's gonn a come out)
SE5: Not as Bad as Star Trek V
Son of Space Empires
SE5: Yes We Have No Doom Stars
SE5: Better than All the Other SE Games
DOSE (The Dungeon Odyssey / Space Empires Crossover Game)
SE5: Also Not as Bad as Megaman X5
SE5: Five More Games and We Have SEX http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Shrapnel better prepare the explicit labeling convention.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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SE5 Demo? No, I haven't tried it. Where can we get it??

Hi Ragnarok! Congratulations on your promotion to Major!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hey thanks!

SE5... There is no SE5 demo... Ruatha tricked you...

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Ed nice picture... Way cool

I would love to get one of a bowling ball travelling down the famed wood and then at the Last second when you were going to yell strike... it drops off to the left and becomes a gutter ball leaving all the pins unscaved.

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I got a good one for Space Empires 10:

SE:X You can't get enough of it!

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SE:SE (Special Edition)

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Now this is an eye catching title...

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SEVEN (space empires V, Embodiment of Newness)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Hmm, and here I thought I was having one clear strategy all along, kill Greybeard, Kill him, Kill, Kill, Kill, kill......Destroy, death, chaos.

Hmm, did I mention that I am the good side and I belive Greybeard is possesed by the dark side, so I will KILL,KILL, KILL, destroy, etc...

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Hmm, why didn't my avatar change?
Oh, I think I understand why now!

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i never played winplan... Do speak of it please.

Vga planets was ok at its time.

never played planets 4.0

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Never played any of them.

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SE:V, II better than MOO III

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">NNNNNNNOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I prefer this nonsense thread to the Cantina. I like the topic changes, the race for posting reply N*100, and fewer rules than even the Cantina. Like anything else, if you don't like it, don't read it. I know that's hard for most of us; if we weren't compulsive, we wouldn't like games that encourage micromanagement http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

On the topic of the Cantina, it's about to undergo another transformation; only another 100 or so Posts left in the current incarnation.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">SE/V: Breaking the Final Frontier
SE/V: Breaking the Final Wind http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
SE/V: Better than the alien invasion miniseries also named "V" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
SE/V: Isn't it time to use a new numbering system yet? Even Microsoft changes once in a while... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif
SE/V: We're tied with Rocky, now let's break Jason's record! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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I have seen VGA Planets but never played it myself. When I was in university, I noticed that a lot of fellow students were completely addicted to the game, and were playing it day and night. I have been addicted to different games from time to time, and it usually had a detrimental effect on my grades because I spent all my time playing and not enough studying. So I managed to avoid playing it, and avert the addiction (it took some willpower).

Never heard of Winplan or Planets.

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"SE/V: We're tied with Rocky, now let's break Jason's record!"

Actually, I read today that Rocky's coming back for number six. He's supposed to be running some sort of boys' center or something. Don't know if he comes out of retirement or is coaching someone else.

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how can you say the cantina has rules...

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For next SE naming contest thinking about:

SE Millenium: The beggining or just ended?
SE MX: Multiplexing allowed
SE XP: XP not required

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You know! i really came here looking for something interesting! GOD DAMN YOU!

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif actually i figured anything over 20 pages isn't oging to be serious (except mod threads and story threads)

actually this isn't the first time you've tricked me either, arghhhhhhhhh

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No onions.
No line-dancing.
No compromising the FBW's.
No tabs (supposedly).

Can't recall any others off the top of my head. Except for the apparent requirement to commit cartoon violence (sometimes Japanese cartoon violence http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif ) on a regular basis... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

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no onion... i do not know of this rule...

as the others there not rules... just what brings on cartoon violence... which i have never taken part in....

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn't know this rule either, until I was forced to learn it the hard way! I happened to mention onions one time, and immediately a big ship came by and dumped a gigantic load of onions on top of me.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, maybe.... it depends on what it is. There are lots of things I haven't tried yet, that I'd like to one day - skydiving, rock climbing, playing the piano, flying, sailing, writing a book, traveling around the world, GP, CTW...

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I didn't know this rule either, until I was forced to learn it the hard way! I happened to mention onions one time, and immediately a big ship came by and dumped a gigantic load of onions on top of me.

Quote:

Have you ever really tried it?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, maybe.... it depends on what it is. There are lots of things I haven't tried yet, that I'd like to one day - skydiving, rock climbing, playing the piano, flying, sailing, writing a book, traveling around the world, GP, CTW...</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ahh, skydiving, that's really fun, you should try it someday.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Because this thread slipped to the bottom.

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What Happened?! We lost more than half of the 3000+ replies!

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Huh? What's going on? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif We used to have WAY more Posts than this! Now we are way behind the Babylon 5 thread...

Wait, this sort of thing happened a couple of times before, but nobody solved the mystery. A few months ago, there was a thread called "unsolved mysteries of the universe" or something like that, and we suddenly lost many pages of Posts. It happened again on another thread a bit later, I think it was another topic on Iraq or politics or something. Many Posts mysteriously disappeared.

There must be some problem with the message board system. Or maybe it's a hacker attack? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif

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unnecessary words removed

[ July 07, 2003, 03:41: Message edited by: Loser ]

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What a disappointment. Many of us worked very hard to get the post count up to the #1 place, and now we have really SLIPPED down... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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Keep a close eye on the B5 Mod thread. Maybe there's a certain number of Posts after which the first 2000 or so get "filed away"...

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If the Posts are filed away, maybe they can be recovered somehow? But the other times that Posts have disappeared, the threads were not this big. Is the data backed up at all?

Even though all those Posts that disappeared contained nonsense, there were quite a lot of funny and entertaining stuff, it would be sad if it were gone permanently. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

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"Keep a close eye on the B5 Mod thread. Maybe there's a certain number of Posts after which the first 2000 or so get "filed away"..."

In this case it wasn't the first set that got nuked. This has happened before, and thread length didn't seem to effect it then..

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This is terrible. All those thousands of Posts, just gone... We lost about 7 months worth of Posts. This is a dark day, indeed. Things will never be the same again... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Does anybody have any idea what happened?

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WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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&#1 Wanted - Dead or Eaten Alive: The Post Thief. &#1

It has been noted by this reporter that the dreaded Post Thief has managed to make off with THOUSANDS of Posts from this the Ever-living Name Changing Thread.

While there is currently no reliable description of the culprit, the Posts stolen can be identified by their utter uselessness.
Anyone finding such Posts should run away screaming and report the sighting.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD THESE POSTS BE READ!
Insanity or even permanent brain damage may result.

&#1 We now return you to your regularly scheduled nonsense. &#1

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[ July 07, 2003, 17:06: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

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Man, how could this have happened? We must find and deal with whoever committed this atrocity!

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[puts on Sherlock Holmes cap and lights up Cavendish pipe]

Let's take this one step at a time. A crime has been committed (theft of Posts). Culprits must be identified. The three major criteria for culprits are...

- means
- motive
- opportunity

I think we can conflate means and opportunity here. Only a moderator/sys-admin could pull a stunt like this. That narrows the list down to...

(Moderated by: geoschmo, Mephisto, Suicide Junkie, Atrocities)

(copied from top of Forums hub page)

[pauses to puff on pipe]

So, which of these four scurvy dogs had the motive to perpetrate this crime?

Any ideas?

[ July 07, 2003, 20:10: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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There are also the admins, and software gremlins that could be at fault.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[draws long puff on pipe]

Indeed. But, regarding the admins, we must also ascertain motive. Why would they steal our Posts? Why this thread, and not another? And why no prior announcement?

And as for gremlins... well, I am no programmer, but the hit on this thread appears to this old bunny to be a bit non-random. Why just one thread? This thread, for example? Further, why would Posts just disappear, rather than the whole thread being corrupted? Barring further evidence (reports of prior incidents of such gremlins), I must default back to purposeful human action behind this theft.

Elementary, my dear Junkie. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif [puff, puff]

[ July 07, 2003, 20:56: Message edited by: General Woundwort ]

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*pulls out his hammer*

I'M GONNA GET HIM! OR HER!

*begins randomly smashing stuff*

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uh huh? what? whats going on? i missed two pages, why is the white mouse running around with hammer?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[sighs, taps ash from pipe]

Now calm down, my good fellow. We will not solve this crime by such destructive displays. You may be destroying valuable evidence, besides.

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Possible motives :

- Free time in excess.
- Yet another bad day.
- Revenge.
- Online arguments with people who post here frequently.
- No taste for nonsense.

Hmmm... does that point out a suspect ? http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies...s/azzangel.gif

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Don't look at me!!!! I did not take em!

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i know! its the B5 people taking revenge on us!

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[pauses to relight pipe]

Remain calm! Let's take this step by step.

To review, there are three possibilities here.

1) An "inside job" by one of the Moderators/sysadmins

2) An outside "hack" by a third party

3) A "bug"

As you all are aware, I am inclined to think that 1) is the probable solution. The evidence (disappearance of Posts in this thread only) does not appear to me to indicate a random bug in the system. An outside hack 2) is a possibility - and given the success vis a vis MOO3 that SEIV has enjoyed, we have a clear motive. But I am not inclined to believe that this is the case, as a "hack" job by a disgruntled MOO-ite would have, I believe, most likely targeted a more game-oriented thread - the Newbie FAQ for example.

So, we have the crime, and we have a finite and identifiable circle of suspects. We must now be about the task of narrowing that list down, until we find our nefarious culprit.

[puff, puff]