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Ikariam: Burning the World, one kitty at a time

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  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    re. v. 0.2.5
    There is currently no date set for the release, however expect it soon

    Darian on
  • juice for jesusjuice for jesus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So, upgrading academies above level 15 starts getting exorbitantly expensive. How high do people take theirs? There must be a point at which it's more cost effective to use crystal for research rather than further upgrades of the academy.

    juice for jesus on
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    None of mine are even that high yet. I don't think there's really any desire to rush research, because once you get that high, all that's left pretty much is new units that may or may not be as good as the starter ones.

    Scooter on
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    hmm, seems my empire has more or less stagnated due to my decreased ability to keep an eye on it.

    How have you been maintaining your positions on the scoreboard?

    oh and fuck that noise! 60 2/3 steam giants and now they're useless = /


    Yeah all that's left to research are bombadiers and diving boats and placeholder technologies... at some point it might be worth taking them all off research.

    Casual Eddy on
  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Utopia is actually implemented and useful; +200 happiness and +200 pop max at your capital.

    My own academies are all at 13 or 14; not planning on upgrading those any further at this point.

    Edit: Those steam giants are still good attackers right now, particularly if the other person is also using steam giants or phalanx. Also, as soon as 0.2.5 goes live, they should become good defenders again.

    Edit2: We're not "maintaining" our positions; we're still heading up. :)
    Are you interested in joining us, leaving BRO? I'll make a slot for you if you want it.

    Darian on
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    whoa... utopia ho then!


    looks like it'll only take half a month to research it...

    Casual Eddy on
  • PlacerPlacer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Still not any response from rhapsody, he could be gone any day now too, cap'n, would you mind booting him?

    Placer on
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  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I guess Tamorlane has to do it, he's Home Secretary.

    captaink on
  • DarianDarian Yellow Wizard The PitRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You can grab the position from him, kick the guy, then give it back.

    Edit: They fixed the ability for me to see everyone's resources. Hopefully, that means Kalkino can see military units again, as well, and we can actually shore up our weaknesses and organize some real military actions.

    Darian on
  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    new marble colony Butte Towne 64:95

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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yeah I can see yous all now. Much better forces now than last time I could look. We have a bunch of people with very large fleets/strike forces so I say we are as ready for a war as we ever have been


    So what is the deal with our leadership? Has it been passed on due to the Solysp leaving? I must have missed this while being away.

    EDIT - oh and Darian/devoir, if you want to do the honours for the new thread then by all means do so, you guys seemed to do a better job of it anyway

    Kalkino on
    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Hey dev


    Victors: DasScoot
    Remaining troops (-Losses)
    Me
    Slinger 2(-0) 2(-0)
    Swordsman 47(-4) 47(-4)
    Catapult 3(-0) 3(-0)
    Ram 1(-0) 1(-0)
    Cook 3(-0) 3(-0)
    Doctor 2(-1) 2(-1)
    Gyrocopter 2(-0) 2(-0)
    Archer 15(-2) 15(-2)

    Him
    Slinger 2(-2)
    Swordsman 8(-6)
    Ram 1(-1)
    Archer 10(-8)
    Phalanx 19(-13)

    DasScoot from Paragon has won the battle and pillages COLOSSEUM TM.
    Loot

    * Gold: 218
    * Building material: 952
    * Marble: 521
    * Crystal glass: 352

    His navy is all at the bottom of the harbor.

    Scooter on
  • KarennaKarenna Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Some thoughts:

    Gyrocopters really aren't that great. SG's are better at defense and offense per upkeep, and cost the same amount of resources to build iirc. Like Dev said, once 0.2.5 goes live, you'll want SG's in all your bases when possible.

    Academies: I have most of mine at L15/16, and it's still going to take me 7 days to do mortar ships. You should probably focus on hitting L20 towns first, but then it would be good to get those academies up...think about the future. Eventually the high end research will be implemented, and the folks with 5-6 L16 academies will demolish those without.

    YAMI: These guys bug me. Let's wang them soon.

    Karenna on
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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Well assuming we do go to war with YAMI should we find an excuse or just do it? What do we want out of it - victory conditions that is.


    1) Disband
    2) LOOT
    3) Cat poetry
    4) ...

    ?

    Kalkino on
    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • Casual EddyCasual Eddy The Astral PlaneRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Do the plugins on the OP work with the latest firefox?

    Casual Eddy on
  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    RC2? Yes. Kronos utils needs FF3 and Greasemonkey 0.8+
    Scooter wrote: »
    Hey dev
    snip ownage
    DasScoot from Paragon has won the battle and pillages COLOSSEUM TM.
    Loot

    * Gold: 218
    * Building material: 952
    * Marble: 521
    * Crystal glass: 352

    His navy is all at the bottom of the harbor.

    Ouch, sorry about your doctor, archers and swordsmen. Weird how the slingers are alive. :P Thanks tho.

    devoir on
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pft, easily replaceable. I've got to lose a lot more than that to be noticeable in my roster.


    The slingers are there because I don't fire units, I just keep throwing them into battle, and they just won't die

    Scooter on
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Scooter wrote: »
    Pft, easily replaceable. I've got to lose a lot more than that to be noticeable in my roster.


    The slingers are there because I don't fire units, I just keep throwing them into battle, and they just won't die

    Are they equipped with brass balls?

    Edit: Also, damn I want to see this shit go down.

    Baidol on
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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Steel balls actually


    Hey, they were cheap

    Scooter on
  • juice for jesusjuice for jesus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Wow, the moderator is leader of an alliance? Talk about your conflicts of interest.

    juice for jesus on
  • maturinmaturin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Baidol wrote: »
    Scooter wrote: »
    Pft, easily replaceable. I've got to lose a lot more than that to be noticeable in my roster.


    The slingers are there because I don't fire units, I just keep throwing them into battle, and they just won't die

    Are they equipped with brass balls?

    Edit: Also, damn I want to see this shit go down.

    Anyone else notice the leader posted 2 pics off his mail page? Zoom in ff3 comes in handy there :winky:

    maturin on
    Danes have the DONG ENERGY !
    tomblag
    19,48 / Gulf of Blag / Sulfur
    10,40 / Blager Fjord / Marble
    14,45 / Blaget Sound / Wine
    12,53 / Blaga Bay / Crystal
    25,42 / Blagoon Cove / Marble
  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    maturin wrote: »
    Baidol wrote: »
    Scooter wrote: »
    Pft, easily replaceable. I've got to lose a lot more than that to be noticeable in my roster.


    The slingers are there because I don't fire units, I just keep throwing them into battle, and they just won't die

    Are they equipped with brass balls?

    Edit: Also, damn I want to see this shit go down.

    Anyone else notice the leader posted 2 pics off his mail page? Zoom in ff3 comes in handy there :winky:

    Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Baidol on
    Steam Overwatch: Baidol#1957
  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Wow, the moderator is leader of an alliance? Talk about your conflicts of interest.

    Yea, I really hope the same isn't true of the GOs, cause they basically have the "I win" button.


    And yea, I was wondering why no one brought up the "no coords allowed" rule there.

    Scooter on
  • captainkcaptaink TexasRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Scooter wrote: »
    Wow, the moderator is leader of an alliance? Talk about your conflicts of interest.

    Yea, I really hope the same isn't true of the GOs, cause they basically have the "I win" button.


    And yea, I was wondering why no one brought up the "no coords allowed" rule there.

    Mods don't have a lot of power, but it's still kind of strange and unsettling.

    captaink on
  • DeadlySherpaDeadlySherpa Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Baidol wrote: »
    Scooter wrote: »
    Pft, easily replaceable. I've got to lose a lot more than that to be noticeable in my roster.


    The slingers are there because I don't fire units, I just keep throwing them into battle, and they just won't die

    Are they equipped with brass balls?

    Edit: Also, damn I want to see this shit go down.

    I wonder if there is anyway to foment chaos an precipitate a war

    DeadlySherpa on
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  • LindenLinden Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    If people are planning alliance-wide mercenary work, then I'd like to suggest that costs be set based not solely on scores, but on perceived ability to respond as well. Attacking a high-score, low-military target might be easy, but high general scores could suggest an ability to respond in future. Similarly, espionage and alliances.

    Or at least, that's an easy way to justify higher costs. Distance should be taken into account as well, and I would strongly advise that confidentiality is at a premium, with perhaps several tiers, to avoid blowback.

    Linden on
  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yeah my military score is back up to half a million. Time to hit a strong target to lower my gold income. Can I start the war with YAMI? I do have the biggest military.

    Burtletoy on
  • maturinmaturin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    Yeah my military score is back up to half a million. Time to hit a strong target to lower my gold income. Can I start the war with YAMI? I do have the biggest military.

    How much negative upkeep do you have with a military that size? Do you have resource gatherers/scientists at 100 percent ?

    maturin on
    Danes have the DONG ENERGY !
    tomblag
    19,48 / Gulf of Blag / Sulfur
    10,40 / Blager Fjord / Marble
    14,45 / Blaget Sound / Wine
    12,53 / Blaga Bay / Crystal
    25,42 / Blagoon Cove / Marble
  • skarsolskarsol Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    You guys fill my life with joy! :P
    It appears that your definition of adequate is different from mine.

    On the 09.06.2008 7:07 gentyle wrote::

    > Well no military now since its been beaten but they had adequate military before being attacked.

    > On the 09.06.2008 7:05 Skarsol wrote::

    > > Do they have lots of gold/goods and little to no military?

    > >

    > > gentyle from the alliance Toukon sends the following message: Hi,

    > > A couple of our members are being attacked by multiple members of your alliance. Can we put an end to this. They do not know why they are being attacked. Turtleboy is one doing most of the attacks.

    skarsol on
    why are you smelling it?
  • juice for jesusjuice for jesus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I stole another couple mil from U_N today. I think they're gonna be mad at me.

    juice for jesus on
  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Right now it is -12k gold.
    2 Sulfur colonies.
    5 total colonies.
    Top 300 score.
    0 Level 19/20 cities.

    All military is the way to go.

    Burtletoy on
  • BurtletoyBurtletoy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I wouldn't fuck with U_N too much.

    1 Cpower3 U_N 1,394,096*



    *Edit: Highscore Generals Beta

    Burtletoy on
  • juice for jesusjuice for jesus Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Wow, two sulfur. That's certainly a different approach.

    I had sulfur production at about half capacity for the longest time, but I've had to crank it up with all my recent fisticuffs.

    Not too worried about that guy, but there is a U_N with a 700k military in my vicinity.

    I still don't expect much of a response.

    juice for jesus on
  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    That "Peace" thread is amazingly drama laden - Timberwolf/Rise are so gunning for BRO it isn't funny.

    Kalkino on
    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • maturinmaturin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Man... can anyone make spies right now? Mine keep dying then I can't make anymore.

    maturin on
    Danes have the DONG ENERGY !
    tomblag
    19,48 / Gulf of Blag / Sulfur
    10,40 / Blager Fjord / Marble
    14,45 / Blaget Sound / Wine
    12,53 / Blaga Bay / Crystal
    25,42 / Blagoon Cove / Marble
  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I cannot make them at several towns on Beta and Delta. Boo

    Kalkino on
    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • Romantic UndeadRomantic Undead Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    New colony being built on 43:8

    Looking for name suggestions.


    In other news: paradoxmd is now the second-highest contributor on my island (next to myself, of course). Violence pays!

    Romantic Undead on
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  • KalkinoKalkino Buttons Londres Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    BRO/TBO thing is heating up. Was I a bad man for pointing out the rule violations?

    Kalkino on
    Freedom for the Northern Isles!
  • LindenLinden Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Kalkino wrote: »
    BRO/TBO thing is heating up. Was I a bad man for pointing out the rule violations?

    No. The response is wonderful.

    EDIT: Well, time to test my army. Ten flamethrowers met no resistance, in conflict with my spy's report, so I'm not sure what I'm really up against. We will see shortly.

    Linden on
  • LegbaLegba He did. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Baidol wrote: »
    Edit: Also, damn I want to see this shit go down.

    Would you look at that. BRO are a bunch of pansies after all.

    EDIT: On a more relevant front: Gyrocopters ho! (Not that I'll bother building any.) And 10 hours untill I have my first level 20 city... Woo!

    Legba on
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