you mean from your phone :P

and impressive country highrock. you set the bar high for us to beat for the future... and it's a hard bar to beat ;)

there was no FA chains or buyouts done by LaF. i can promise you that.

if we were doing FA chains and/or buyouts LT would've been rank 1.

hey i was suicided by an untagged country that had two tech allies with evo countries this reset, so let's not air dirty laundry on AT ;)

9s ago 500,000 Bushels bought for $100
99s ago 5,000,000 Bushels bought for $100

who's doing it? evo, bust out the tools? =)

lol you got spanked locket ;)

i spoke too soon =)

100.09M

we have crossed the barrier ;)

we are going to make it ;) 99.98M ANW now. and we still got some jump in us ;)

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lol me too ;)

i do agree with chevs that is is SoF and SOL's decision to pact each other and not the admin's decision. mehul never cared about who pacted who, although he didn't quite care about the multies either :(

i'm happy that arrangement is working out for SOL/SoF. extremely well played. now i wished LaF/MD/etc. got along with RoCK back then, imagine what could've been if the anti-coalition forces were never formed. maybe we were too stupid to not try to join up and bully the rest of the "pitiful souls" in the server and instead fought epic server wide wars instead ;)

you can do that to alliances one by one until there's no more alliances but you two ;) way to be on the "let's try to get this game more fun/dynamic" side of the fence ;)

then it's like RoCKfamily days again ;) because RoCK just liked RD/TGA/HAN/etc. out of "genuine like and friendship"


GAAAAH :P

actually i would disagree with that. especially after RAGE merging into SoF, the numbers wouldn't be favorable to SOL if we were forced to do this:

1) Everyone must participate in a world war.
2) SOL and SoF are on two sides.
3) All alliances have to pick a side.

i'm willing to bet SoF would have twice as much countries on its side.

because of the policies/politics of SOL aren't in line with 75% of the alliances in this game (L:L vs 1:1 being the main one), the alignment would naturally be in that ratio also.

from SOL's perspective i can see why they are willing to share top dog status with SoF, because they need them for survival. the reverse isn't true actually.. that's why i don't see why SoF is willing to share it

i don't think pang (or at least i'm hoping) is really saying this from a biased agenda he has. because even though i'm in LaF also, i'm fine with SOL or SoF being the powerhouse, because what they did in recent resets (recruitment, more active leaders, etc.) gave them that advantage. you get the efforts that you put in.

frankly, i don't get why SOL and/or SoF like sharing the top dog throne. in the past all the #1 alliances made sure they were #1 by kicking ass and taking names. another alliance trying to claim the top alliance throne got a swift reminder by the top dog to show them their place (or otherwise if they lost, that new contender takes the spot). during the times LaF was the #1 alliance, we didn't buddy up with the #2 and #3 alliance and bullied the rest.

we are now missing that dynamic and the game is actually getting quite stale. you couple that with lack of countries and land, no wonder the game is dying. it used to be the politics at least made this game interesting, and we don't even have that now.

and another point i was thinking about this and i remember only once when something like this happened, and it was during the early RoCKfamily days. the top 4-5 alliances all bundled together and bullied the rest of us. while they might have enjoyed it, it really killed the parity of the game.

wow... maybe you should try running your alliance for a change ;P it's a bunch of hard work. you can look at SoF as a example, they were down for a bit when their leadership got burnt out (martian/et al) and made a comeback when they got a new active leader again (ivan).

stuff like that happens, the way you are saying it just tells me you have no idea what it takes to run an alliance, especially how we have other real things to worry about (our job/our real lives/etc.)

and there were times when SOL was smaller, leaders were less active. just because SOL is at a high point relatively in activity doesn't mean the rest of us aren't "that great". all great alliances have ebb and flow where they are more dominant at times than others depending on how active the leaders can be due to their other time commitments.

we can all point and laugh when the tables turn in the future, but i don't think that would be constructive

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i'll be brutally honest, if that happened, i wouldn't be sad ;P

but pang will probably be =)

since when did maki got any point you are trying to make pang? ;P

i actually wasn't around when that happened, so i'm not going to comment on it ;) my original comment was sort of tongue in cheek...



i would sign up :P although you really think SOL would want to FDP us for the other block? ;)

i'm guessing some other alliance randomly FSed LaF two resets ago then? ;)

in that case:

LaF is accepting mergers from any midsized alliance who wants to form a third powerhouse alliance.

now taking applications!

that's why big 6 happened ;)

well i think the biggest sad point was back in the days we tried to stack ourselves as much as possible and it didn't kill the server because there was much more players/alliances that two big ones allying together wasn't the end of the world.

its sad how now if the two largest alliances FDP together it spells doom for everyone else. wasnt this way in the past =)

that's for me to decide ;)

NorCal: are you actually back now?

its a well known fact that we alliance earthers have bigger e-penises than FFAers

*high fives everyone around*

SOL: whatever happened to a "i'm sorry"? =(

yah it makes sense if its a feasible range.

if the random num generator ended up on the first day or last day, that would suck

i think so, although armadillo would've given him a run for his money last reset if SOL didn't kill him for no reason at the end of the reset ;P

Chevs: you don't have to worry about setting up wars for LaF. you should know from history we fight approximately 40% of the time. =)

damn

can we stop all the complaining? =)

like i said earlier, this netting thing is causing more ruckus than war ;P

londwell: you are right, LaF wars about ~40% of the time. we do net more than we war though, but we definitely do fight more than the average pure netter.

if you are looking for a higher % of netting overall i would agree that NM would be first (although next reset would be the anomaly) followed by Omega and Evo.

but i hope you can consider LaF still ;)

don't listen to alicia, she got cooties!

like i said who cares who finishes what rank.

this reminds me back in the days when i really cared about networth and finish and now we don't even remember who won what reset during what time =)

there's been one consistent place to cultivate trees for the past 14 years:

http://www.lafamiglia.org

solarianet?

what LT said

we're one of the few alliances that were around in 98 that still exists (SOL being the only other one)

and definitely the only one that prefers peacefulness =)

it doesn't really matter.

i can see why people prefer to war than net. netting pisses people off more than war, contrary to what you would think ;)

haha same thing ;P

i know you guys have lot of tools (same with LaF). we've long learned all the dirty tricks people use to try to gain an unfair advantage in netting and already automated the fluff out of detecting such things ;P

hence why we are hardcore netters

some of us have been fighting lots in the past few resets...

if NM is fighting 50% of their resets like the rest of us, then that's another story ;P

if LaF haven't fought those two wars recently with SOL, i'd be the first to sign up =)

you can't hide from qz ;)

omg..

fingolfin

we'll see in the end.

i think there would be a few farmers and cashers in the top 10 range along with the techers ;P

i can feel the sexual tension already ;)

can i form 3 one man alliances and qualify? :P

we should start a pool for interested parties in this unique mailing list ;)

i'm not saying make this a "graphics" game.

it can still be mostly text-based. the core of the game is the same. but the extra "fluff" and the accessibility of something like facebook will make it easier for new adopters to digest