Are you tough enough to be the "King of the Hill"?

[Slynky]

Alneyan said:
My Empire is up. I'm not using my favourite shipset this time, though, and I've picked an absolutely awful Empire name. Ah well, your ships aren't any better, even if you fight for the Mnibari or the Grande Armée.

Just for the sake of redudancy, we drop *all* limits on ships, be they total or per sector. Correct?

Redundancy is fine. Redundancy is good. (slight pun intended ).

No limits on ship numbers or unit numbers. Just tonnage limit.

[Slynky]

"Lowly Slynky" ??? :wags finger: Tsk, tsk!

[Slynky]

Well, CRAP! Looks like my cleanup after Christmas resulted in me throwing my PW away! Grrrrrrrr! I guess I'll have to regen the empire and reload.

CRAP! My apologies.

(that's what I get for generating it 3 weeks ago!)

[parabolize]

You should have given it to pbw when you uploaded your emp.
Email me a replacement emp.

[parabolize]

Replacement turn uploaded.

[Alneyan]

I sure hope you broke your Empire when you rewrote it. Trust me, Psychic is *useful*. You should pick that one.

My connection broke down yesterday, just to make life more interesting. You are the Lowly Slynky because I cannot reuse the same names as PBW. Sure, I could have used something like "K.O.T.H. Battle for the Hill", but hey.

[Alneyan]

KOTH has entered the 21th century. Erh, I mean, 2007. Even the SEIV part is now Web 3.0 compliant. Expect a blog full of shineyness Real Soon ©.

First item of the blog will be "How I used my KOTH admin powers to peek at another game, where Slynky uses a full-tech Empire, thereby enabling me to figure out what sort of Empire he's using in our own full-tech game". The obvious follow-up is, of course, permanent spying on said Slynky.

Second entry will be the usual rant about ISPs not functioning, mail servers going offline just as I need them, and users somehow deleting a couple giga files (SEIV included), while experimenting a bit with files and trees.

Third entry will discuss how great symbolic links are. Perfect to confuse the heck out of a whole system, and recursive, broken links are just awesome. There's just nothing as fun as seeing programs fail for no apparent reason... though maintaining behemoth config files is almost as exciting, especially when the tweaked version starts becoming a freak, almost, but not quite, totally unlike the original program.

Come to think about it, I'll drop the whole blog idea and stick to 2006-style messages. Somehow, I have the nagging feeling I'm not blog-writter extraordinaire material.

[Slynky]

Alneyan said: First item of the blog will be "How I used my KOTH admin powers to peek at another game, where Slynky uses a full-tech Empire, thereby enabling me to figure out what sort of Empire he's using in our own full-tech game". The obvious follow-up is, of course, permanent spying on said Slynky.

Second entry will be the usual rant about ISPs not functioning, mail servers going offline just as I need them, and users somehow deleting a couple giga files (SEIV included), while experimenting a bit with files and trees.

Third entry will discuss how great symbolic links are. Perfect to confuse the heck out of a whole system, and recursive, broken links are just awesome. There's just nothing as fun as seeing programs fail for no apparent reason... though maintaining behemoth config files is almost as exciting, especially when the tweaked version starts becoming a freak, almost, but not quite, totally unlike the original program.

Come to think about it, I'll drop the whole blog idea and stick to 2006-style messages. Somehow, I have the nagging feeling I'm not blog-writter extraordinaire material.

Hmmmm...where's that virus I had set aside for just such ocassions?

NOT blog-capable? Somehow, I'm seeing quite a waste of polysyllabic verbosity if not committed to some variation of written recording.

[Glyn]

Last night, I had a dream about my KOTH game with Slynky. On the third turn I jumped into the adjacent system and found Slynky’s home system. At first I was thinking the manual placement was forgotten during the game setup. Then I noticed that every sector in Slynky’s home system had a stack of 30 ships of various sizes. I was having trouble trying to figuring out how he did that in only three turns!

[Alneyan]

You know, I think you should stop using your viruses. You've managed to knock down PBW yesterday, and now I cannot load our game in SEIV. Can you play the current turn? It might be that Wine went down crashing on me.

So, you should behave in a more manly manner for once. Let's fight in the most virile of all games: Tetrinet, or maybe Freespace 2. In other words, games I'm somewhat skilled at... there ain't many of those. At least it makes finding opponents trivial, since any bot can give me a rough time. (Operation Flashpoint reminds me of the proverbial broadside of the barn)