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PE-RA-Announce [Moderator]: Mod announcements
Date:Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:22:35 +0000

Announcements from the Moderator to All Leaders:

(1) A big welcome to the three new alliances!

(2) Per the rules, all nations with at least 10 regions need to be
members of alliances, or else NA.  Odin, platonic1, Little Gamers, and
painted dog:  this means you!  Please let us know your decision now. 
Any non-diplomatic actions you take will be ignored by the Universe
until you make a decision.

(3) xXx violated the 2-announcement limit last turn.  Having been
previously warned, this time his government was so busy transmitting
these high-priority messages to other nations that it was unable to
transmit his orders to his units.  xXx: Sorry, but it was time to
invoke some consequences, and in the few minutes I had to take care of
things, that's what I came up with.  All:  Please remember that your
powers as a leader are not infinite!

(4) Mr Big, please rename your nation (per the convention) rather than
changing your own name as the leader.  This is so that your alliance
status will appear on the maps.

-- Power's Edge, http://www.powersedge.net/ 

P.S. If you are no longer playing, please use the Resign button 
in your newspaper to resign.  After your resignation goes through, 
you will no longer receive these messages.


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PE-RA-Diplo [-xXx-]: BS
Date:Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:48:14 +0000

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That's awesome Bob, thanks for taking away my turn because I
accidentally broke one of the "essential" rules of the game.  I
honestly didn't realize it was my third message.  Probably because the
one message I sent was to correct Asterix's misunderstanding of the
new alliance rules.  The best part is that I don't think anyone would
have realized that I sent three messages if not for him.  This is the
same guy who (in his different incarnations) has repeatedly used foul
language and violated the language filters in public messages (of
course there was no consequence for that).  This is the same guy who
is still holding a grudge against me because I was part of a group of
4 leaders in the previous world that were sick of his aggressive
region claiming and decided to attack him.  No allies would even think
of coming to his aid so he just resigned before the battle even
began.

Another awesome part is that I have previously suggested to Bob that
the announcements per turn limit be increased to 3 because in times of
public debate sometimes more than 2 are necessary.

If you're going to enforce the 2 messages per turn then enforce it on
the server side.

I think it royally sucks that I get to be made the example in this. 
There should be a set penalty before the penalty is enforced.  A
penalty like this might have made me go check the archives to see how
many messages I had already sent before sending another one.

I hope that Watchers II also didn't get any orders for this turn
because I got 3 public emails from him last turn too.  One of them was
a duplicate but I assume he had to hit the button twice for that to
happen.  Rules are rules though and 3 messages sent is 3 message
sent.

I stand by my subject heading.
-xXx-


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PE-RA-Diplo [Little Gamers]: Alliance Chosen
Date:Wed, 14 Jan 2004 18:59:49 +0000

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Your staffers barge into your bedroom with worried expressions:
"Little Gamers, we received no properly authorized orders from you
this turn; is everything okay?!?! What should we do???". 

As the Little Gamers were overly busy with server trouble, they missed
the Alliance notification turn. To rectify this the Little Gamers
would like to announce that they will be synchronizing their servers
and network bandwidth with the KotH alliance currently manned by
HAL9000 and Loony Tunes.

-Little Gamers


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PE-RA-Diplo [HAL 10000]: Big Four ?
Date:Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:32:30 +0000

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I am not sure who Watchers II was referring to when he mentioned the
Big Four, but my ranking of all leaders is as follows for T40:
Rank	Own	Leaders
	percent
 1 	13	Mr. Big (BP)	
 2 	12	-xXx-	
 3 	11	painted dog	
 4 	10	Loony Tunes	
 5 	9	HAL 10000	Little Gamers
 6 	8	Tzu Doh Nam	Watchers II
 7 	7	Leila Skywalker	
 8 	6		
 9 	5	Platonic1	Asterix
 10 	4	Odin	
 11 	3		
 12 	2		

The Own column is (percent of total regions PLUS percent of toal units
PLUS percent of total production) DIVIDED BY 3. I then grouped the
leaders into whole number percent bins to get a better feel of
differences between leaders. Some would add more weight to production,
but I prefer other mehods.

prepared by HAL 10000


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PE-RA-Diplo [Platonic1]: alliances
Date:Thu, 15 Jan 2004 01:08:59 +0000

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Alliances shmalliances! THe platonists want to be free, hence, we are
NA!


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PE-RA-Diplo [Asterix]: to xXx
Date:Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:22:53 +0000

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Man,
As you said so many words to my address I have to reply.
You can swindle the facts from our past in your message on the way you
wish, I'm not going to annoy anybody in this game with my
contrarguments about details of this stale story. In general it's
rather simple - you was an agressor and I was a victim. That is it,
and all the words already said. So stop spaming about it.
You should remember in some moment your lie will be materialized
against you. And abusive words - it's your favorite method, afterall.

Asterix

P.S. In fact, you have also send your 4th Diplomatic message during
last turn, and the last was supraliminal and intentional. So you
meaningly broke the rule. I think that almighty Bob was rather
merciful to you, so you shouldn't complain.
P.P.S. If here happend to be the third round, I have an offer to named
it 'Vendetta', that will be very exact name :-) :-)



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PE-RA-Diplo [Asterix]: xXx
Date:Fri, 16 Jan 2004 16:27:47 +0000

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Just want to correct my previous statement. I have been mistaken a bit
- there was no 4th public message of xXx, of course, it was private
message to us during the last turn.
Also I received an interesting offer from xXx. He offered me to became
his personal enemy till the end of this Universe. This is very kind of
him and Asterix enthusiastically accepts this offer.
xXx, from now and till your death> please, count me as you bitterest
enemy. Such is my roleplaying, and I won't change the name in case of
any restart here. 

Asterix


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PE-RA-Diplo [HAL 10000]: KotH alliance is waiting
Date:Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:28:33 +0000

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The KotH alliance is waiting for Mr. Big and the BP alliance to accept
our peace treaty offer. This offer was in response to Mr. Big's
initial offer to negotiate a treaty between our alliances. It's been
68 hours since I messaged the so called non-aggressive in nature third
alliance. I'm sure one of their members is merely pre-occupied or
perhaps ill and will be communicating with
us shortly. As a sign of good will, the KotH alliance will
unilaterally refrain from any acts of aggression toward BP alliance
members during this upcoming turn.

HAL 10000 speaking for KotH