Maybe I infiltrate yours and start my own party

Key fits, avo fits, find three other pot addicts and your family is made.

He's another libertarian pot head junky,  different flavor than the other two.

Here's Einstein trying to label those who would be in the Piranha fam as simply those who aren't either 'Conservative' or 'Liberal'.   Einstein doesn't get that Piranhas could be Conservative, they could be Liberal.  There could be either and / both in the Piranha fam, as the Piranha fam is made up of those players who, REGARDLESS OF THEIR POLITICAL AFFILIATION, believe in the simple premise that IC has for too long been about Big Fish eating Little Fish and that it is now time to do something about that.  They share the notion that honor must be brought back to IC; that vulturing, farming, etc., REQUIRES retribution from....

The Piranhas!@~!~!@~!@

We fight corrupt mods (those who farm and vulture).  We fight farmers (big fams who surround and contain small fams waiting for small fams to explore and then nab their planets).  We fight vultures, fams who attack and nab planets from another fam who is at war with another.  We do not fight smaller fams (unless they are vulturing or farming, and if we do we are generally very forgiving).  We do not fight other piranhas, wherever they might be.  We're not cannibals.  However, pretender piranhas we do eat.

Consider it like this:

Your two fams are like the two parties (Right Wing and Left Wing) in the Legislative branch of a government, whereas our fam is like the judiciary.

> xeno syndicated wrote:

> Consider it like this:

Your two fams are like the two parties (Right Wing and Left Wing) in the Legislative branch of a government, whereas our fam is like the judiciary.

Elaborate, please.

Just consider it like this then,

You have players conscious of the tendency for some fams to farm and vulture.  Piranhas are simply those players who despise that sort of dishonorable game-play, and focus their attention against those fams that farm / vulture. 

They want to have their existence legitimized by having a family in this ICC.

hell by that description I'm a piranha.. It's just so much fun opping the big fams pop bankers

The Piranhas are many, out there, in every round, in every galaxy, doing battle against big vulturing / farming fams.  Every fam has at least one - a brave, stubborn, single-minded ravenous Piranha who, against all sense or reason will keep up the fight against a farmer or a vulture.  Most operate independently without any explicit support from the larger Piranha group, as coordination between piranhas would be against the rules.  Even discussing the Piranhas, I risk getting banned permanently from the game.

But, nevertheless, we are out there, and we won't go away.  We effect the rounds, every round.  Generally, even without coordination between members, simply by all of us fighting against the corruption of farmers and vultures, we succeed in making IC a more honorable gaming universe. 

Who are we?  We are many, and we are everywhere.  Any player who ever protested to their leader about how their fam is vulturing and should stop is a Piranha.  Any player who ever deleted because their fam was vultring or farming a smaller fam is a Piranha.  Any player who ever attacked a fam which was farming a smaller fam, is a Piranha.  Their effect might go noticed individually, but as a whole, their actions influence every round, in every galaxy, regardless of whether they even know they are Piranhas or not. 

Yes, it is true most Piranhas out there are not even aware they are Piranhas, but they are becoming more aware, and thus the ranks of the enlightened piranhas grow day by day. 

Another way to describe it (in a way that perhaps flint can understand) is this:

You understand the notion of market forces dictating supply and demand in an economy, right flint?

Consider us a similar type of 'force', but instead of market force within the economy, the Piranhas are like the honor force in the IC universe.

Piranhas!~!

Walking_Corpse wrote:

"hell by that description I'm a piranha.. It's just so much fun opping the big fams pop bankers big_smile"

Yes you are a Piranha, indeed.  Welcome to the ranks of the enlightened Piranhas!~~!~!