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Sep 18th 2010, 20:38:16

Okay, well if you're going to be a d*ck about this -- I'm going to assume that everyone else is right, because it seems unlikely that the whole server would be wrong, and you're not bothering to provide any information that's useful in establishing the contrary.

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Sep 18th 2010, 20:16:36

Originally posted by spawn:

at fooglmog: you dont need to know the alliances name to post your oppinion about our retal policy. Smikke simply stated that its possible to retal without being d*ckheads

Why are you being secretive about this? Is it because the pretext for this post is made-up and no one's actually complained? That's the only explanation I can think of.

The purpose of this post seems to be Fist proving that they're not farming people. I think that it's possible to follow the policy you've outlined and still farm people. So, I want to know what alliances have complained so that I can determine if Fist actually is farming them.

I'm sorry if my asking for facts offends you. I realize that the concept of basing opinions upon facts is foreign to some, but asking what alliances this thread is referring to is hardly unreasonable.

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Sep 17th 2010, 22:28:56

Originally posted by spawn:
if you dont have problems like that then dont post here ;)
That's idiotic. He posted here asking for people's opinions, I decided to offer mine. If he doesn't want the opinions of people who "don't have problems like that" then he'll only get negative opinions because by definition anyone who does see themselves as having this problem will view it as unfair.

Originally posted by spawn:
check our news, if you're lucky you'll find out which clan Smikke means :)
He came here looking for an opinion, it doesn't matter to me if he gets good ones or not. I asked for the information I need to fulfill his request for a proper opinion. I'm not going to go out of my way to wade through all of Fist's news for this reset and figure out who he's talking about though. It doesn't matter that much to me if his query gets addressed properly.

Originally posted by dustfp:
fair land grabbing, regardless of how "aggressive" it is, should never be considered farming
that said, though, if a clan can't retal, even one hit will upset them
That's the opposite of what's true. There's no such thing as "unfair" landgrabbing because we all start every reset on equal footing. If someone has an advantage, it's because they played better than you. To use an advantage you've earned isn't unfair in any way.

Therefore farming is always "fair"... but it's still farming.

The policies that Fist has in effect do not effect "fairness". They're simply self-imposed limits that Fist hopes will prevent anyone from being pushed far enough that they think it's worth going to war. But the fact is, if you're taking a lot of land from one alliance, it doesn't matter if it's done by 3 attacks every day or 1 attack every 3 days. The damage is the same, and if you push someone too far they'll complain and fight back.

I don't think "farming" is an inaccurate label just because you guys had guidelines for how often you could hit.

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Sep 17th 2010, 13:41:26

Originally posted by smikke:
I'm talking about some alliances with between 15-25 members, all of whom we grabbed less than 10 times this set. One I was particularly surprised about because we had no retalling disputes with them, they retalled everything and got their land back on every hit...


Who? It's hard to give an opinion without knowing what alliances you're talking about.

Originally posted by smikke:
If you're playing in a clan with more than 15 members, do you think our grabbing policy is fair?


I'm in iMagNum. We don't have problems like this.

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Sep 17th 2010, 13:05:01

Looking at the news between you and EEVIL, I don't blame them for hitting you. It's true that you seem to have stuck to the letter of the above policy, but there was definitely some aggressive land grabbing going on.

When you LG aggressively, people will get upset. It doesn't matter what policies you say you're following to keep everything "fair", you're still putting them at a disadvantage and if you push them too hard they will go to war.

You were taking a lot of land from them. For whatever reason, they weren't able to retal effectively. I see no problem with defining that as farming.

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Sep 17th 2010, 7:58:34

That doesn't stop it from being an idiotic stance.

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Sep 16th 2010, 9:34:21

So, I went out with a friend today to go and see a play. The drive to the theatre was about 45 minutes, and during that drive we somehow got into the topic of UFOs and how ridiculous the reasons a lot of people give for their views on the subject are. Then she told me why she's sure UFOs don't exist. Her reasoning went something like this:

Since there's video footage from the lunar landings that have images of UFOs, all footage of UFOs must be faked by the government just like the moon landings.

I almost pulled the car over so that I could facepalm properly without fear of crashing. As it was, I was so dumbfounded that I couldn't speak for a solid 2 or 3 minutes. I thought about pointing out the logical holes in her reasoning, but was worried that I may end up making her believe that UFOs are visiting aliens so I kept my silence on that and politely (by which I mean, without calling her a dumb fluff -- there's no way I kept the incredulity out of my voice) asked her why she thought the moon landings were a hoax.

She gave me some of the standard litany of reasons, then ended with one I'd never heard before. She said that she believed that moon landings were a hoax because "the President admitted it". I was curious and so inquired as to which President had said such a thing. She confessed to not remembering but said she would check for me. After the play (which was a solid mounting of The Tempest, for those who care) I drove her home she insisted that I come into her house so she could look up which President had admitted the moon landings were a hoax. She grabbed a conspiracy book about Roswell (apparantly here disbelief in UFOs is a new phenomenon) and showed me the page with the President's quote. It read as follows: "Only the explanations I have seen in the newspapers. Did you ever hear of the moon hoax?" and right after was the attributation which read: "President Harry Truman, July 10, 1947".

She didn't understand why this was a problem until I explained it to her.

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Sep 16th 2010, 6:52:20

My memory is that iMagNum did indeed tag with Vengeance the first reset... though I don't recall whether or not iMagNum stayed for the whole reset.

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Sep 16th 2010, 2:41:34

I never had access to Monster's site...

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Sep 15th 2010, 9:59:00

My recollection of the Omega site was that it was basically just a forum script and then they linked to some third party tools.

I don't think they ever had their own attack sim, advisor/spy op parser, country search, tag database, embassy, news system, market scan... or anything like that. It may have had a stockpile calculator and a tech calculator, or it may have just linked to a third party system -- my memories not good enough to be sure. It certainly didn't have much though.

However, I admit to having never been in their MUD so I don't know what they've got in there. And, of course, this may have changed in the 8 years or so since I last had access to their site. My impression was, though, that it had never changed much.

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Sep 15th 2010, 8:02:09

Originally posted by Thomas:
Originally posted by Soviet:
Stop applying to our unused boxcar site and we'll see.


I thought SoL were the only ones that didn't use Boxcar. Don't tell me you guys use ghqnet too ...

iMagNum's had its own site since 2000. It's entirely custom made and has been modified and improved by a half dozen of our members over our history.

We're not the only alliance to host our own site though, Omega's had one longer than us. Though their site has no Earth tools and is based off of a very old open source forum package, so it's not quite as customized or versatile as ours.

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Sep 15th 2010, 7:11:30

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Sep 15th 2010, 6:55:44

Originally posted by Dark TwizTid:
Say the guy with no clue :P

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irony

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Sep 15th 2010, 5:46:50

It's a pretty commonly used expression Twiz...

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Sep 15th 2010, 1:42:20

No matter what you say, I think ICN's massive FS against iMagNum crashed the server.

Thanks for getting it fixed :)

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Sep 15th 2010, 0:16:15

Find any confirmation issued on the behalf of iMagNum confirming that statement archaic. Then you might have a case.

As it is, someone entirely unaffiliated with iMagNum made a statement. We see no reason to be bound by that statement. Much like ICN would not be bound by a statement that they "won't be retalling any hits next reset" if I made it. That statement would have no validity whether or not ICN took the time to refute it.

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Sep 14th 2010, 23:52:32

34%

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Sep 14th 2010, 23:50:47

I thought ICN never viewed itself as being at war with iMagNum... so shouldn't this just be a declaration, rather than a "re-re-reclaration"?

For the sake of form, I'm also going to point out that we did not sign a pact at the beginning of this reset.

Other than that, as long as a pact wasn't agreed to as part of the CF (something which I don't know anything about), I see no problem with this.

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Sep 14th 2010, 23:15:45

On the subject of cheeseborgers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XFNtXbkelM

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Sep 14th 2010, 8:59:12

iMagNum doesn't break pacts. We never have and I'll leave if we ever do.

The confusion with ICN was unfortunate. From what I understand there was discussion about a pact but the whole process was sloppy and no one bothered to clarify it. iMagNum was never under the impression that it had a pact, ICN was. It's a lesson for the future that we need to be more diligent about such things.

What happened there wasn't deliberate. I'm happy to put both my word and my reputation on that. Of course, if anyone chooses not to believe me in this matter they're free to bring the rain of war to iMagNum on the altar of pacts.

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Sep 14th 2010, 8:52:06

Really?

I would have said that's WTK... and the guy who makes the lame ass attempt to lead him away at the start is me... and the guy filming it is beltz. I dunno who the guy who puts him in a headlock is though... maybe Zarcon?

I don't know who Rick is yet... probably Thomas at the moment.

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Sep 14th 2010, 4:05:35

AxA... I don't think you should give too much credence to the thought that iMagNum wasn't up for the war (whatever our dec says). We've essentially considred ourselves at war from the moment you hit us. We just saw an advantage in lying to our enemies and we took it.

Enjoy the war. Whoever wins, I hope you guys have fun.

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Sep 14th 2010, 3:30:04

Originally posted by archaic:
So iMag begs collab for a CF like a little girl crying for a lost pony and then turns around and FS collab a week later?

nice
It was less than a week.

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Sep 13th 2010, 19:55:35

The other solution would just be to delay dropped acres for 24 hours or something...

Of course, that impacts stone walling a lot... but no more than restricting the tech jump when you drop acres would...

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Sep 13th 2010, 19:34:47

Originally posted by qzjul:
I have no problem with "suiciding" if it doesn't involve "Land leaving the game"

Because as long as the acres are there, there will be some available form of recourse for the "suicided"


Speaking of that issue: http://forums.earthempires.com/...ggestion-re-dropped-acres

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Sep 13th 2010, 18:53:47

So, I saw a post on AT from QZ saying that his only real problem with suiciding is if it's done in a way that makes acres disappear. So, I thought to myself "Okay, let's have them not disappear"... here's the mechanics of my idea:

When a country drops land, those acres don't "disappear" -- they become abandoned but are still attached to the country. For the purposes of tech, building effectiveness, population, costs etc. those acres no longer exist. But when the country gets LGed, they do... and stolen acres are taken proportionally (so if a 2000 acre country abandons 500 acres, so it's 1500a/500a an LG will take 75% of the land from the built acres and 25% from the abandoned acres). Military losses work the same way, you don't take land more easily because some of it is abandoned. Think of it like the military is using the abandoned acres as a cushion to fall back through as they defend.

Of course, one of the legitimate purposes of dropping acres is to make you a less appealing target... so that strategy needs to still be possible.

First, please note that you already are a less appealing target. Abandoned acres won't have buildings, so it's more effective to LG countries who are entirely built up and steal buildings.

I do think that those acres should gradually disappear though... and my solution is to add a bonus to exploring and ghost acres. In both cases, if there's abandoned acres in the game, add a 25% bonus which gets taken from the abandoned acres (so if exploring would get you 40 turns, it now gets you 50 or if you would get 200 ghost acres, you now get 250) -- of course, these percentages can be changed to balance this properly, maybe a better figure would be 10%, or 20% for exploring and 10% for ghost acres. But the point is that, in this way, the abandoned acres will slowly be leached away... but it prevents an immediate and sudden change.

Anyway, that's my idea. I already realize that those who drop acres will organize with their alliances for LGs and exploring to happen right after and that only attentive (or lucky) players in other alliances will get in on it. But I have no problem with that, I think alliances should benefit from organization and I think that other players should benefit from attentiveness. Regardless, I think it solves a problem in an interesting way that would add a pretty cool new dynamic to the game.

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Sep 12th 2010, 0:42:50

I was on AT.

For real.

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Sep 12th 2010, 0:31:52

Are the rumours that iMagNum is going to try for aNW this reset? Because it's true.

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Sep 10th 2010, 8:41:52

Originally posted by locket:
why would imag want a CF? Dont they relish warring? Do they really have plans to hit someone else? Only people i can think who arent warring are pdm omega and evo. Maybe they should fs the 3 of them? :P
Don't worry about it... if Soviet doesn't find us a war that's more fun than this one would have been, he'll be usurped. It's how iMagNum's presidency works. You have the job until you get us into a war that's no fun.

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Sep 10th 2010, 8:37:41

Post the whole creative one that included iMagNum too... I want to see it :)

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Sep 10th 2010, 5:13:45

It's called class.

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Sep 7th 2010, 22:07:04

- If you are part of this project, it should be in favour of your current one, meaning that this will be the priority hosting site project for everyone involved. Obviously, there will still need to be support for old sites while it's being built, but the eventual goal should be for all of the developers to phase out their existing sites. I know this is a dealbreaker for a lot of folks, but I want to make sure that everyone is going to give their all and not just stay peripherally involved because their alliance is hosted elsewhere.


Lost me there, sorry mate. iMagNum won't be moving off its current hosting so my priority won't be switching. Not that I've done anything for letskillstuff.org recently...

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Sep 7th 2010, 22:03:05

Would someone please remind me how "-35% Maximum Technology" on a theo works?

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Sep 7th 2010, 21:49:56

Looks like someone finally made it into grade 9 math...

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Sep 7th 2010, 5:37:06

Looks like it does disappear... it just took about 10 minutes...

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Sep 7th 2010, 5:32:30

Is there any chance that we could have this message:

"You have bonuses waiting!
Click here to receive your bonuses now"

Disappear after we've voted?

Please?

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Sep 7th 2010, 5:25:43

Originally posted by mother:
OK, thanks slagster, that's all I needed to know.
Thought maybe I was screwing something up yet again.

Most asinine comment of the year? I think so.

Good change guys. And Slag's first post was clear about what the change was... people here are just a little slow and got confused by the title I think.

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Sep 7th 2010, 1:42:16

What's the Earth version of the Darwin awards?

Might I suggest the Fingolfin awards?

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Sep 7th 2010, 1:01:35

No.

When you learn the difference between Diminishing Returns and Proportional Reduction of Returns, I'll explain why.

Hint: see the other thread about DRs which you posted about this in, the explanation is there.

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Sep 6th 2010, 7:11:28

It's one of the ways iMagNum keeps its member retention rate higher than average... we don't delete most accounts.

Glad you're around mate.

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Sep 6th 2010, 7:04:52

He's around, but not in iMagNum. I'm not sure if he's actually been playing a country anywhere recently. We were worried he died in the quake since he lives in Christchurch, but he was around earlier today.

I think your ICQ number may be 265821808.. password I can't help you with.

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Sep 6th 2010, 7:00:48

KSF is not. iMagNum is. http://www.letskillstuff.org

Mehul sold 2025... the company that bought it promised to improve Earth and Utopia, then proceeded to ignore Earth and constantly crash Utopia's servers until everyone left. In November, they announced they were closing 2025 entirely, so we created our clone and have been improving it ever since.

I don't know your ICQ number.

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Sep 6th 2010, 4:50:47

Originally posted by Slagpit:
Can someone please explain to me why Imag members seem to know more about warring mechanics than every other alliance, despite not really caring about winning wars?

Because we're not the newbs and hacks everyone has always taken us for. We're a group of very experienced players who like to experiment with off-beat things in game. It's hard to experiment if you don't understand the fundamentals though.

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Sep 6th 2010, 3:01:42

Were you even in iMagNum when that happened Sov?

I feel like that was long before your time.

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Sep 6th 2010, 2:19:10

Scode! Good to see you're still alive :)

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Sep 5th 2010, 2:28:40

Grow up toma. They're not running multies, no one really cares what their names used to be.

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Sep 3rd 2010, 18:31:15

A much better simpsons video:

http://www.youtube.com/...amp;NR=1&feature=fvwp

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Sep 3rd 2010, 16:55:21

War?

http://www.letskillstuff.org

Look at our website address. Could we be any more clear?

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Sep 3rd 2010, 16:44:32

Originally posted by ViLSE:

Sorry to have to say this but it was my decision to smack iMag around back in 2001 and my decision alone. I seem to recall that we smacked iMag around more than once too but I am not entirely 100% about it I would have to go dig up my old databases to verify that. And yes we were very friendly for quite a while afterwards, didnt ICN actually come to your aid as well in a war at a later date?

For Vilse! It's good to see that you're in the game... I had no idea you were around.

Just to clear up the history... you guys invited iMagNum to hang around in your chat during the war, and I took that opportunity. I chatted a good bit with you and Thunder and a few other people and decided that I liked you guys -- so I kept hanging around after the war.

Later in the same reset, you guys were warring Militia X but couldn't get at their small countries. Showing off a huge pair of balls, you guys asked me if, since we had so many small countries, we'd be willing to jump in and help. I talked to Zarcon about it and we really appreciated the gall that it took to ask for help from an alliance you'd just been at war with. So we agreed.

That's how our pact started.

I'm sure ICN helped us our in later wars, but that first one was us helping ICN. I also can't think of any other time ICN and iMagNum warred against each other, but I may be mistaken.

Coincidentally, that war with Militia X started a 6 year feud where we warred them a couple times a year and they hated us. Alas...

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