banksy, as opposed to many, ive been tutoring players for the last 7-8 years. I'm still willing to do so, hence the post i made to start a teaching galaxy. A hardcore galaxy, however, is not the place to do that. And its not the newbies that bother me most ... though it would take a lot of extra work, if they're active and willing to work for the team, i'll gladly have them. It's the barely-actives who think they can do anything useful in a hardcore galaxy, the divas who dont work in a team coz they're too good for that, and the own-fam-killers that bother me.
And , again, as opposed to many, im not gonna random into this galaxy only to go inactive if i dont like the team, and leave the others out to dry, not my style. But watch how many inactives this galaxy will have for exactly this reason, it's gonna be painful.

edit - @lee : i said that. im honest about it i put it as 'people i can trust' but thats about the same thing, no? and i was typing this while you posted, and see, i said exactly the same as you about noobs and people you dont want to play with

pfff is this the 'solution' you guys came up with poley? son, i am disappoint.

hc should be about skill, not pure luck. It's bad enough placement on the map has such a big influence on the game, now you're just gonna make it even worse?
i understand why PW is no draft. Obviously. its the newbie galaxy. hardcore is the opposite of newbie. please catch on to the logic here. Its not the job of the experienced players to go motivate and tutor people who played one round as a barely active - which would qualify for this galaxy. Its hardcore, we wanna play hardcore, so we want people we trust at our side, and also people that wont go 'render' (replace with 'baratheon', 'TBO', 'KTiger' if you like) on our asses just for fun.

oh and no, if i say i wont play, i wont play. and i wont in this configuration.

> Arby3 wrote:

> Right now only milky way and pinwheel are running. You are permitted to play in both.

> Orion, the hardcore galaxy will be opening this week. It will also be available for players to join.

Now imagine it would NOT be available for players to join would kinda defeat the purpose no?

geez, even i got that one...

... they seem to have lost the ability to set up hardcore galaxies ! can some dev look into this ? 

(didnt know where else to post this, so it occurred to me that a little humor and a barely used forum were the way to go now get to setting up that galaxy boys and girl )

Yay, we're going to apply a medieval, mostly culturally based concept (usually aimed at keeping a warrior caste loyal to their lord) on an outdated online spacegame. Please, make the discussions public, i NEED to see this

Whatever einstein thinks up, it is bound to fail. All very nice in pure spreadsheet format, mathematically sound, except he always forgets some variables, and most importantly, he forgets that this is a game with changing circumstances. His 'grand plan' invariably fails due to : other fam members not being on 25 hours per day, leader failing to understand the importance of the (failing) strat and not granting einstein all fam resources for several days, some other fam attacking them (the audacity!), etc. To make a long story short : Einstein jumps (whatever they're supposed to mean this time) fail but it will never be einstein's fault.

hehe i allready gave up on that i tried having a debate, but ran into a wall of staunchly defended slogans and oversimplifications. I even got reproached for a) using actual statistics and b) valuing anothers life more than my right to carry a lethal weapon. Then they went on to rather likening the USA to Bosnia than to western europe. Thats about where i gave up, knowing this thread would eventually evolve into a 'look how much i know about guns' discussion. Mine is bigger anyways guys, and im not talking about guns. *sigh*

ive always done the cf/rc to cf/to switch, and it has always worked for me at some point those rcs would make only one or two extra % eco per day due to the formula used (high percentages are ridiculously expensive in RPs), and then you better dont grow too much nw. TOs will give an immediate 50% increase in base income (so actually even a bit more net) at that point. Not a lot of math involved in that, just simple plain common sense

/me throws dried chili peppers in WiWi's eyes.

consider it spiced up

So, you value another person's life less than your right to carry a gun. I think the clinical term here would be sociopath.

I am still shocked at that rhetoric. I'm belgian, we have outlawed gun ownership (except under the most stringent conditions, and even then, you're not allowed to carry it - at best transport it in a manner that would take forever to get it and use it) and ... hey, look, firearms-related homicides are 10 times higher in the US (per 1000 inhabitants). And before you say 'but then people over there kill each other in other ways', that is only partially true, as intentional homicides per 1000 inhabitants are also 50% higher in the USA than in Europe. And thats just intentional homicides, that number does not take into account the number of people your cops shoot every year coz they were either carrying a gun or were thought to be carrying a gun, or cases in which one person shoots the other in righteous self-defense. You could easily say that one in every two people killed with guns every year would still be alive if guns wouldve been outlawed, the other one out of two is effectively someone out to kill another person by any means and a gun was just the easiest way. So yeah it still holds true : guns dont kill people, people with guns kill people ... its just that people with guns kill people a lot more than people without guns.

And presenting one such instance as an argument FOR gun ownership is silly. It's actually an argument AGAINST it. People will, from time to time, come unhinged, and that happens everywhere. And they will ALWAYS seek a way to turn that into a massacre. Giving them the constitutional right to own and carry guns just makes that very easy. It's enabling them, not stopping them.