Will be checking once a day or something... mebbe... just mebbe... bear with me if I don't have imagination, and my thoughts aren't all too complete

Alright, changed a few bits, placed my land to the east of Drauka's.

Lothlorien

Location and Notable Places
Locating within the central forest, called Mirkwood, the west leading to the wilderness of the Southrons, the east fenced by Misty Mountains, the north leading to the hillside lands of Brandywine, and the south with grasslands of Rohan.
Beyond the high ridges of the Misty Mountains lie the Desert Nation of Kaname.  The weather climate and precipitation differ greatly between these two sections of the world as a result of the sky scraping peaks of the Misty Mountains that block most clouds from getting through.
The entire city is protected by the forests, carefully hidden and sealed off from intrusion by powerful runes and spells to camouflage and block all entrances.  No mortal has ever entered this mystical metropolis of the elves and left alive, although daring souls have entered the forest and came out months later, haggard, half-starved to death, and disoriented.

Population
Approximately 5,000 elves, consisting of:
25 Elven Royal Family and their servants
80 Elven Gryphon Riders (and likewise 80 Gryphons)
90 Elven Adamantite Smiths
140 Elven Mithril Smiths
150 Elven Falconers  
205 Elven Sorceresses
215 Elven Assassins
310 Elven Wizards
335 Elven Elite Hunters
350 Elven Bards
450 Elven Priests and Priestesses
650 Elven Hunters and Hunteresses
2,000 Elven Commonfolks

Currency
Unknown, possibly gold pieces

History
Elves have always been in tune with their nature.  So close they are to the nature that their magic users have heightened elemental powers.  Hunters, Falconers, the Royal Elite Hunters, and the Gryphon Riders alike have even learned to communicate to each one's respective animals.  Yet, they are a secretive and suspicious creature, regarding the intruding Humans, and especially the dreaded Orcs, with a careful eye.  Perhaps it's their long history and long life that gave them a sense of arrogance, perhaps this pride and suspicion of their neighbors that leads to their fall...

As the onslaught and spread of the undead and evil continues, the hunters on guard at strategic points at the fringes of the forest report of humans and orcs alike cutting down the valuable forests of the elves' homeland.  The elves' homeland is being endangered by these logging practices, they cannot rest until something is done.  With tensions building up, it maybe only a matter of time before attack ensues...

my record now:
25 minutes ago Mystice 26,041 Gold stolen 15 0 0 3,216 5,810
25 minutes ago Mystice 1,765 Gold stolen 1 0 0 1,997 6,887

26041gold taken, 6887 damage done

in both money stolen and damage done, this was my highest:

7 hours ago Apocalyps 8,176 Gold stolen 10 0 0 87 3,357
3,357 damage XD

there are problems when you get errors opening KoC pages using an edu connection...

it's true that it's really fast at certain times of the day(in particular the evenings and midnights), but that's absolutely no different from the old server, and there's something even worse going on if it isn't.
what irks a lot of us(at least me) is that the server doesn't seem to be able to handle 1500+ people at the same time... (the old server was able to handle 2000 fine, maybe slower, but still could handle a lot more than the one right now)

and i think the server should be able to handle more, but that the koc admins didn't stick enough ram/memory into the freakin server... (a number of the errors gave something like 8mb ram not enough...? mebbe that's just me... mmm)

you count manga as book?

then i'm reading Pita-Ten 1-7... (don't ask me why, i just do...)

got a mad collection of manga... a bunch of them incomplete tho

okey

hmm...

PHP... whoops, i never touched on that before (as well as ASP that you've mentioned...)

bleh, i guess i'll just watch and play once the game comes out

ok, one idea that i probably should have checked the previous posts for redundancy, but...
the gold pillaged should have an additional factor of how many men are attacking (doesn't count defenders), and perhaps also factor in beasts of burden (in other words, things and living things that can carry load, i.e. wargs and steeds)

this means that 10 soldiers have less capacity to hold the pillage than 100 soldiers, and 1 soldier controlling 10 steeds would have more capacity than 1 soldier with only knives.
been thinking how stupid it is otherwise... current coding allows for situations where 10 dwarves with battle axes could literally attack and pillage 10million gold if they're lucky... (think about the physical impossibility of lifting 10 million gold pieces by 10 soldiers)

if the above doesn't make sense, or if it only repeated a previous post, just ignore it

and concerning coding... what language are you going to be doing it in?
my specialty is in C++ (college level), but with training and experience, should be able to do java/html/etc...

nice
got the game(FFTA = Final Fantasy Tactics Advance) myself as well (rom, of course)
if you need tips/help on it, don't mind asking me
if you use VisualBoyAdvance, i can even give you some cheats

i ought to finish playing Final Fantasy Origins, but when you've already played the WonderSwan version of Final Fantasy 1 and 2, i really don't see the point in re-playing them on PSX emulator... (altho the intro for both of them are COOL and SPIFFY)

diablo's good for when you want to vent steam off...
ol' mindless slash 'n hack instead of complicated rpg's....

mmm... pnp rpg.... now where did my pencil and paper go...