bump

Could be true I guess ....since the Legend said the Troll did not send a fig test on the DS portal...

..we must get to the bottom of this at once!

-_-

Let me tell you how it works in another game I've played...

The concept is slighty different from IC, in that instead of capturing a planet - you hit someones fleet.  If they hit your fleet then you lose it (if you lose the battle) + their losses.

What happens is the 30% of the value of the fleet, turns into a Debris Field that hovers above the planet.

Then people send "Recyclers" to harvest the Debris Field.

The Recyclers move realllllly slowly.  So in IC-terms, if you had sent a 4 tick fleet to hit someone's fleet and crash their fleet - you can send your recyclers at the same time, but they take 8 ticks.

This effectively gives the person who got attacked, time enough to log in and recycle the debris himself.  It's quicker for him to travel to the debris field, cos he's sending from his own planet.

You can also ask people in your fam, who are closer to send their recyclers too.

But yea, different game, and the concepts would take a whlie to implement - we don't get those kinda changes in IC easily!

lol

Sure, you may have helped - I can't remember what I looked at the time.  But really, it's been a mass grouping of a lot of ideas to implement a good working system.  Things that can be tweaked too.

To give you an idea....here's a post dated 3 months earlier than yours about something similar, from Skoe.

http://www.imperialconflict.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=854996#p854996

Family name & number: 5354
Ingame name: Four of Four

1. Best Leader
Lexusiz! ..lol, RIP!

2. Best Diplomat
5354 Collective! Safely negotiated our round.

3. Most honorable family
42 - Gave us a Pnap free - no questions asked <3

4. Most dishonorable family
Colorado Fam - We were last placed and we had to pay them 20 planets for a Pnap.

5. Most tenacious family

6. Your favorite war
Lex vs Ps + Parrot vs Lex

7. Best spellcasting empire
Five of Four (h4e) - Always opping.

8. Best agent opper empire
Cougar 5346 - Genesis knows why, lol

9. Most overrated player
Thirdrock! Our 2nd banker? :'(

10. Potential Star
Eddie Knox
Jesterscouch
Membrane
^ 3 of the randoms in our fam that despite no aid, no communication, stuck around and fought it out with the fams they could.  Their posts in our forum were quite funny and entertaining!  Eddie Knox is actually in our fam for the 4th time

11. Favorite forum poster
Whiteshadow - Keeps things interesting and you guys keep getting trolled.

12. Best all around banker
arsy (Fraggle Rock - 5359) - Solid banker as always + trying to manage their rag tag bunch.

13. Best all around resourcer
Genesis (One of Four) - How many people have ever made 2.1m iron/tick?

14. Best all around attacker
Not sure about this one - Probably someone in 42/60 who kept killing threats.

15. Rounds Joker (why?)
Nolio (Three of Four) - Always!

16. Biggest mistake of the round
Failing to recruit arsy or KT into our fam! They rejected us

17. Favorite Family theme
5342 - <3 FF7

18. Rate the round (1-10)
9.99

Round Highs
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- Making 73m gc/tick
- Genesis making 2.1m/tick

- Genesis, Nolio and myself just wanted a laid back round, so we drafted into the lowest ranked family as a team of three.  Had a draft spare so kept it in the bank - but never ended up using it.  H4e was here too, so he became our honorary 4th member.

- Funniest part of the round:
Part 1:  Eddie Knox, Gekko, Damon random into our fam.
Part 2:  All progress SS, but not really doing anything
Part 3:  We kill all 3 off in one go
Part 4:  Eddie Knox randoms back saying "Lol i guess kicking me out wasnt enough"
Part 5:  Another random coming back saying "what a waste, kicking me while I have 85% con and mil science, and then land in the same fam with inresponsive so called vets" - lol, Gekko is back.
Part 6:  Another random coming back saying "If its any consolation at all..they booted me and my 8 planets too" - lol, Damon back too!

All 3 randomed back the same tick! ...you had to be there

30m nw?...

And how exactly are you planning on paying for this fleet?

Cos, it's probably full.

Barring a few 'ghost' spots which cannot be occupied.

It's not so much about you having the tag - you missed the point.  It's about transparency and me asking how you got it and why.

Primo said it was a mistake.

So, you're not really "giving it up" and being a martyr here   You never should have had it in the first place

I think the point is, a lot of people have worked hard for their tags.

Yes, in between we stopped giving out tags, so it kidna got hard to get points.

But regardless, I was curious to see why he was the only one who got to keep his custom one.  As from my post, Primo, you can see that it was Skoe who won the contest, and we made sure that even that was temporary.

AA knows that I have nothing against him   We get along really well.  But as for his reasons in his post, well, there are many other people who help the community just like that.  I'm sure that's not the reason he has the tag.

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> [TI] Doug Butabi wrote:

> this had absolutely nothing to do with AA being a mini mod.

it is a simple mistake on my part, i think. I was under the impression AA was the winner of the partax competition. I don't know why.
I'll have to look into why AA had his tag, and what we're going to do about it.

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^ If that's the case, then we all start on even terms with no tags.  Will be looking forward to seeing the new Tag System!

Mods, Do It!

Then....

Shouldn't the likes of Parrot, arsy, Nolio, KT - deserve to have their own "permanent" custom tag?