I'd just like to say thanks

[pinpower]

I never put the friends only thing on, the best bit about this game is the community. I cant believe anyone would ever actually get upset by ingame messages. If im attacking someone and they mail me something abusive, i instantly know they aren't worth talking to so just ignore them (or more likely just mock them for a while ).
But more often than not you can end up having a good chat with someone and possibly make a friend...

[Garrett]

Originally Posted by pinpower

I never put the friends only thing on, the best AND simultaneously WORST bit about this game is the community. I cant believe anyone would ever actually get upset by ingame messages. If im attacking someone and they mail me something abusive, i instantly know they aren't worth talking to so just ignore them (or more likely just mock them for a while ).
But more often than not you can end up having a good chat with someone and possibly make a friend...

fixed for accuracy.

[tobapopalos]

Originally Posted by LadyDarkAngel

Something to do whilst you wait for the tick tbh

Too busy looking for my next targets usually

[tobapopalos]

Just thought this was a pretty funny mail, and fairly on-topic too. I'll edit it to make it a bit more readable.

Random weirdo says: Our IDS alerted us of a possible hack attempt. We traced the IP back to Toby [me].

what!


Me says: what what in the butt? in the butt!


Random weirdo says: dont hack me when you know you wont attack me


Me says: how do i know if i can attack you if i don't hack you, ya damn fool. and i'll hack whoever i damn well feel like. you ain't the boss of hacks in this game.


Random weirdo says: ****



So I basically just got insulted just for hacking someone when I was looking for a target.


Ah well...he got about 100 hacks after that.

[Silence]

Originally Posted by saint1d

I play for fun, not for the politics of the game.

I'm confused. If you don't play for the politics what prevented you attacking all of those outside of your alliance? Surely as you conformed to the powerblock you are indeed playing for the politics?

I'm sorry but you actions this round contradicted you above statement =)

[saint1d]

Originally Posted by Silence

I'm confused. If you don't play for the politics what prevented you attacking all of those outside of your alliance? Surely as you conformed to the powerblock you are indeed playing for the politics?

I'm sorry but you actions this round contradicted you above statement =)

Lol that makes no sense whatsoever

[Silence]

Originally Posted by saint1d

Lol that makes no sense whatsoever

...yes it did. I simply stated that as you are part of TBA you were playing for politics as you refused to hit other alliances. If you were not playing for politics you would have attacked anyone.

[Steve_God]

Technically, the reason he didn't hit others was my fault as the Leader, as the orders were always to not attack others in the TBA group. All he did was follow alliance orders.

Place the blame on me, not on Dave

[saint1d]

Originally Posted by Silence

...yes it did. I simply stated that as you are part of TBA you were playing for politics as you refused to hit other alliances. If you were not playing for politics you would have attacked anyone.

Ok I get your point, but I didnt continue this round with the same bunch of players (SG) knowing we were going to be part of the TBA, that was decided not long before round start, and I really didnt give it much thought.

Look, I'm not trying to justify the "powerblock" or say that it is right or wrong, I was just playing a reasonably inactive round and things just ended up the way they were, then once Azzer posted a thread about it I was stuck between staying with my ally cos I'm loyal, and deleting cos thats what I felt was the right thing to do.

In all honesty I thought it would be better if the whole ally deleted on the basis that it was the moral thing to do, and no offence meant to the leadership, but if it was my decision I would have kicked eveyone and deleted the ally. My reasoning behind this is that I play for fun, not for the politics of the game and that there would be more respect from the playerbase for taking such actions.

Anyway my post was not about the TBA, it was about the crap received from other players.

In response to what others have said, I will never select "friends only" because I enjoy the "crack" and like meeting new people through messaging. In fact when I was pawned by defence and got killed I would generally mail them in a friendly manner to acknowledge the fact that they won, but quite often got nothing but a shed load of crap in return. For Christ's sake it's just a game, and the majority of the time it was just me sending at the ally. At this point I would like to say that WH were the nicest bunch of people who just went with the flow and didnt give me any crap, but thats prob cos they kept killing me when I decided to stay and find out if there defence was real on me (which ofc it was considering they were all armour killers lol)

[saint1d]

Originally Posted by Steve_God

Technically, the reason he didn't hit others was my fault as the Leader, as the orders were always to not attack others in the TBA group. All he did was follow alliance orders.

Place the blame on me, not on Dave

Not really Steve, I couldve left you if I wanted to, it was my decision.

Besides, where else would I find such an abundance of grannie love?

[Dark_Angel]

I agree with the this post in that I too have received an unprecedented amount of crap from various individuals this round. (With regards to be being in TBA)

In the end I didnt, and still don't care. I ended up feeling sorry for the, in my mind "troubled", guys who sought, in a fashion that I considered borderline sociopathic at times, to insult/flame/troll me at every given opportunity.

At the end of the day the guys you're describing are the very small minority of the community who take this game far too seriously and get genuinely upset about in-game issues, such as TBA. Whilst the current powerblock merits some upset from the community, and as we all know that has been voiced, the extent to which some people took this was, IMO, staggering.

Those people know who they are. My advice to them is to chill out, relax, and go try find that big bright thing in the sky

In other words, David, don't let them get to you. I assure you, whatever problems they accuse you of having, they've almost certainly a great deal worse.

[marvin]

I didn't get too much abuse from people about being in TBA.. I more got abused because of my hair colour And that was mostly from my fellow TBAians aswell as others outside of TBA!! So yeh, I'd like to say thanks and FFFUUUU-

[f0xx]

Originally Posted by Dark_Angel

Those people know who they are. My advice to them is to chill out, relax, and go try find that big bright thing in the sky

And my advice to you is:

Take a deep breath and then pull your head out of your arse,

Mr. I am so good coz I am top 10
Mr. I am against powerblocks but I find it OK to be part of one
Mr. What can we do to make this game better
Mr. It's so boring being part of a powerblock

Jeez, my attitude is **** too, I am arrogant as hell and sometimes even I regret my sharp tongue, but atleast I admit it, atleast I admit when someone else is right and I am not and I don't try to present myself in fashion that goes against my ingame behaviour i.e. being a hypocrite.

Yours truly, f0xx.

PS. I punch people like you in the face in RL.

[tobapopalos]

Originally Posted by f0xx

PS. I punch people like you in the face in RL.

Lol. Love that line.

[Dark_Angel]

Originally Posted by f0xx

And my advice to you is:

Take a deep breath and then pull your head out of your arse,

Mr. I am so good coz I am top 10
Mr. I am against powerblocks but I find it OK to be part of one
Mr. What can we do to make this game better
Mr. It's so boring being part of a powerblock

Jeez, my attitude is **** too, I am arrogant as hell and sometimes even I regret my sharp tongue, but atleast I admit it, atleast I admit when someone else is right and I am not and I don't try to present myself in fashion that goes against my ingame behaviour i.e. being a hypocrite.

Yours truly, f0xx.

PS. I punch people like you in the face in RL.

Thank you very much for proving me right

[edit] - Oh, and if you make want to accuse me of something, for example saying I think I'm great for finishing top 10, please back that up with some evidence

P.S - As for your "punch me in RL" joust, the term "internet hardguy" comes to mind