The A.I.D. Coalition FS looks to have tailored oof. FoCuS is currently sniping countries and appears to be focusing (HA! PUN! GET IT! FOCUS?! HA!) entirely on AoDT ATM.
No, it is not if the previous record was achieved by the same means/within the same guidelines/framework.
My main thrust was pointing out the shift in views of what is considered acceptable behaviour with regards to netgaining.
These records would've been laughed oof the boards 10 years ago outright by most simply due to self-farming. They would've been scrutinized and viewed warily with all the mass multi and botrunning 5 years ago.
I don't argue the point that these 'record setting' countries don't take a lot of effort and work. I'm willing to go as far as to argue that it takes more effort and time to run 15 with the aim of getting #1 in NW and land and all that compared to a warmonger handrunning 200 countries.
Camping the market. Running multiple complicated strats. Setting alarms in RL for market hits and all that jazz. Each turn is calculated. Etc.
It's just that the idea of any record in this game is....hollow.
I don't know if I am the only one who sees the irony and hypocrisy here. In the first sets of FFA Hermes and Killer were dismissed by many because of self-farming.
Now, it's the bees knees and seems to be accepted across the board from a netting perspective (IE: NBK doesn't accept self-farming by members but..well...we're not aiming for top 25 finishes are we).
And then *fans firestorm* there's the taint of this reset and just how much of an advantage do LAE tagged countries have that they may not have had with the cheating. Did any of the clean LAE countries benefit from the shared landfarms? Etc.
So is it really worth keeping track of these records? It's like entering in a cheat code and then getting a highscore.
FoCuS really took one on the chin this past hour. But that's to be expected with an obviously coordinated and planned FS. But FoCuS is not one to lay down! They just got their first kill. They're in the fray!
I'm loving the news!
This makes up for the first night of no playoof hockey!
'A reading from the Book of Habs, Verse #4, Chapter Belliveau...
...And God spoke to the multitude of Habs fans and said...
" Woe to ye of little faith that you didn't believe we'd make it this far!...For verily I say to thee, that in the next round of seven, Boston or Phillie will fail to win even three..."'
This is not the first time a missile bug has appeared in Earth. Somewhere in the 3-5 reset of FFA there was a bug where you could fire unlimited missiles (So long as you had one to start). That bug took a week or so to fix and cropped up at least once after. There was no spiffy error like this time around.
There was the spy bug as previously mentioned.
There was also a news bug where you could make it so any attack you do simply didn't register in the news.
There was the food return (Instead of destruction) with the GS change that RD took advantage oof. Perhaps not a 'bug' persay, but certainly an exploit that was quickly changed.
3a) Did you have any prior knowledge to this forum/secret pages/cheating scandal prior to the day you were given access? And if so, how long were you aware that DM & Co. were doing this?