Time
Enemy
Mission Type
Number of Spies

2 seconds ago
robke136
Recon
1

10-15-03

Aye!  Whoopee!

I spied on a potential target twice, and then down the server went...

I think the biggest problem is the large number of database errors.  I have lost money several times because I get errors when I try to buy something (my normal habit is to open my armoury/training page in another window and spend instantly) and somebody nabs me.

And I've lost 31 Excals and probably 4 or so Dragonskins to sabotage.  The largest I've lost at once is 22 Excaliburs. :sheep:  I still think sabotage is cool.  I figure if someone sabbs me, now I just sabb them right back.  It grants a lot of power when you have high CA levels, and they're really cheap to start out with.

I'd love it if Age 3 added an Assassination covert attack, heheh.  But I doubt many would go for that idea.

Aran Taur

I jump all over depending on whether I've just upgraded spies or not, but my lowest (since I first started, of course) has been around 60,000 (now), my highest has been 7,000 (not long after I started, when 500,000 SA was still ranked above 600, and before I realized the power of covert--you can guess the consequences :blink:), and I spend most of my time between 15,000 and 25,000.

I'm afraid I wasn't clear.  I am not accusing you of any wrong-doing.  In war games I wouldn't exactly classify name-calling and threats as wrong-doing.  As far as I know, you were not the one who sabbed me twice, and I know robke could not have.  My mistake was in assuming that you were somehow in charge in TGA and that you would pass on the word that I would not continue to attack, and my conclusion later that you had failed to do so, and that I would have to go on the offensive.  Obviously, I was wrong. :-)

But if you don't take me as your buddy, I shan't be put out for too long.

Aran Taur

Oy!  And now you insult my intelligence.  :hehe:

That is not, in my experience, the normal view on the word "bastard," nor is its meaning lost on me.  But regardless, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you or anyone else here.  Go ahead and post what I sent you if you so desire.  It was a very very shortened version of the above, and sent to you because I thought you to be in a high position in TGA.  And I ask for no apologies.  But I would point out I wasn't "messing with" TGA; I stopped when so requested.

Oooh, you scare me.   :rolleyes:  But I'm not in here to war with anyone, though I realize it's risky to enter an alliance's forum and demand instant peace, or else.  It's not called whining, it's...diplomacy.  

IRT orcs, I did mean TGA, rather than this forum.  I've applied for membership, and figure by the end of the week I'll know both whether I want to be a member and whether I'll be allowed a member.  

Thanks!
Aran Taur

Thank you kindly!  I guess I'll trash my list of sabbable TGAers and get going again.  

Aran Taur

P.S.  I am right in thinking that if I joined this place I'd have to stop using all my non-orc farms?

Here's the deal.  My username's Arantor, and I attacked Robke136 a couple times.  In retaliation 5 or 6 TGA members attempted covert missions on me.  Whiteknight attacked me, and I took that to mean that somebody had made it through and had sabotaged my weapons.  I retaliated.  Whiteknight informed me that I had not been sabbed, that I had been thought unsabbable.  Robke informed me that if I stopped attacking then, all would be well.

I've done nothing to TGA people since then, but since then I've been successfully sabotaged twice, two different times (I just discovered the second this morning). :angry: In response to a request for a member list (who not to attack) and a complaint that I was still being sabbed, whiteknight started using name-calling and tough-guy threats. <_<

I would love to go back to the way things were.  Low profile, etc.  I'm willing to.  I'm wanting to.  But I'm *waiting* to.  Why?  Because I can't if this doesn't stop.

Once I'm told that this will stop happening, then I'll go my merry way.  I have plenty of better things to do for the rest of age 2 than to be at odds with an alliance with half a dozen members in the top 100.  Hey, I wouldn't mind being a member myself.

But unless I have assurances that this will stop happening (I still haven't attacked your members since robke136, that I know of) I'll have nothing better to do than to be at odds with you guys.  I won't be purchasing more weapons.  I won't be attacking.  I'm not going to waste money on stuff I can't keep.  That'd be stupid of me.

Where will all those extra attack turns go then?  The TGA alliance has dozens of practically covert-less members.  You can attack me, destroy my weapons (If I have any), take my gold, but you can't come kill my spies or downgrade me from my current spy level.  I am willing to end hostilities (remember, I haven't attacked you guys since Robke told me to stop), but if you prove to be unwilling, I will have no choice but to devote my every attack turn to creating wrack and ruin among you.  :fireball::asha'man/2::fireball/r:

Summary:
1.  Stop attacking me, and all is well; I might even join, for orcs are evil.
2.  Continue to attack, and, as things now stand, I can do far more damage to a great many of your members than you all combined can do to me.  Without weapons, and with 40-odd men, there's practically nothing of mine for you to hurt.
Conclusion:  It is in the best interests of both me and TGA to end hostilities.  Wanna?

Thank you.
Aran Taur, Lord of Fire