Upsilon Plan Market: Ythkrovvari Investment Plan (Little Upsilon)

Well, that does sound like it was fun with the old war rules. But I'm a bit thankful for the war leveling, as I'm sure the reference to finding myself at the pointy end of a nuke would have been carried out by now. (Not that it isn't obviously well deserved.)

You've had the best advise all day, I'll be super specific in the future for the sake of everyone's sanity.

And just so everyone knows, I give great wrong-way rubbings... for a price.

Ah, yes. Laguna, if I may be so bold, that reference just MIGHT have been about your goats!

Crafty, be good. Oh, wait, you are. Never mind.

Gothamloki, nukes, smukes. Get enough nuke defense batteries with enough missiles to defend with, no problem (except your neighbors might not be too happy about the fallout). A couple million of each ought to do it!

Watch what you say about rubbings, there's folks here who might take you up on it! Naming no names, let them do their own trolling!

I'm okay with the war leveling, but one thing it seems to have done is take away some of the "community" of the game and made it more like sitting at your PC dicing it out with an AI.

If you can stand being bored , here's a little of what it used to be like. I was on GR the last time, and with the old rules, unless you were in a backwater country or kept a VERY low profile you really had no choice but to join a Fed. Which if you think about it is very realistic. RL has a few countries who can project their power worldwide, a few more who can project power continentally but not worldwide, and a mess that can project regionally but not continent or world.

The regionals seek to align themselves with the continentals, and so forth. To do this they of course have to talk, and deal. The better diplomats come home with the bacon.

GR back then was the same way. The dominant world superpowers were the AF and the UC. It makes life so much easier when you have 15 or 20 people with empires to work with. Need workers? Somebody's got them. Have corps that need a home or vice versa? Not a problem. Need help understanding something? Somebody was there.

It seems that, since a person doesn't need to worry about their main any more that Feds are sort of past history. If you don't need those 20 air forces coming to your defense when you're attacked, why bother with a Fed?

All right, sorry, but there are things I miss about how it used to be. Nostalgia period over.

Oh, and if Laguna offers to let you rub one of his goats the "wrong way" I'd think twice!

In case you don't know him, Laguna is one of the "Gods" of the game. There are others, but "he be the man".

He has a corp in my country, I'm required to say that!

Yeah, that sounds pretty cool. A lot more contact between players. This is my second time playing SC as well, but my hiatus was only a few months long. So I've only experienced gameplay under the new rules. But the first time I created my own private common market and fed for my countries and had very little contact with other players. Got bored quickly. This time I accepted an invite to an existing CM and gameplay is a lot more challenging and interesting trying to collaborate with a bunch of folks.

'Beware Laguna's goats.' I'll keep that in mind. How are his chickens? Are they wrong-way-rub-safe? I like chickens.

Goth, my main issue was with the fact that I was insulted (or, at least, that I felt that I had been insulted) for no reason, when I was merely trying to help others figure out what was going on in this message. I admit that I did insult you back, I was condescending back to you, and I apologise for that.

In future, however, remember that the vets are here to help you, not to hinder you. This kind of situation could have been easily avoided if you hadn't insulted RCP/me or if you'd just cleared up your point when we first asked. You could have just said "This post was only meant for members of my common market, sorry," rather than going on the attack.

As rep helpfully pointed out, you do have a right to play the game your way, and you do have a right to post whatever you want on the forums, but you need to remember that people like RCP and I also have a right to wonder what on Earth you're talking about if we don't understand you :P Try to be more specific in future, and try not to go on the attack. I'll try to get less annoyed when I think I've been insulted :P

But yes. I forgive you for all that, hopefully you can forgive me. Now, back to light-hearted discussions about Laguna's sexy, sexy goats.

EDIT: Oh, and if I could clarify: I said "you are making a fool of yourself" not "you are a fool". I referred to other people saying that you were "being a prick", I did not call you a prick. I said you were "being a asshat", I did not call you an asshat. I was annoyed with your conduct - I don't actually have any personal bent against you. I think it's important that we see this for what it is: I (thought) I was defending myself (even though that TMTR thing was actually aimed at RCP) and you were defending yourself. In reality, you did not insult me, just like I did not insult you - we were attacking each other's statements, no more, no less.

I just ate 2 burritos while reading this. They were good, carne asada. This has been quite amusing, but I have a few questions. Is there really a LU dictator? If so, who is he/she? I'd like to send this person a car directly out of somebody elses factory. I don't want to be on the pointy end of a nuke. But, all in all, it looks like everyone is getting along. So, how about that economy on LU. Crazy, huh? I'm sick of my corps page these last couple of weeks. Hey Gothamloki, did the people in your Upsilon Plan Market get the point you were trying to get across to them? Hope they did. Back to my burritos.
Cheers

Of course there's an LU dictator. In fact there's probably a thousand of them, give or take. :P

The LU economy is definitely on the wild side lately. But a lot of people are stepping up, building more corps to try to help. Accordian and Gothamloki are doing their part, obviously.

The flip side is there's some outrageous profits to be made right now if you have the right corps.

Well, outrageous under the price control economy we labor under. That's another thing I think has changed since my first trip down the SC lane, I don't recall any cap on prices before.

Ah, well. Things seem to be stabilizing as far as the long term econ outlook, but it's going to take time to ramp it all up.

Then we can sit around and complain about the oversupply problem, and who should close down corps.

Hey, you gonna eat that last burrito?

Gothamloki, I have a poultry corp, feel free to visit any time!

I think I spotted a goat!

Rep, you say there's a lot of profit to be made with the right corps - what are the right corps? :D

If you're running a country I think theres 2 best ways to get out of the economic crisis. 1: sell all of your corps in your country or close them down and let somebody else like a CEO deal with the shortage problems. Or 2: Be a lot more self sufficient with your corps like relying on yourself which is hard to do rather than those common markets as the price of goods are often worth a fortune. Im still thinking which way to go with this.

LURBJUSGANITH ATHRETVARIGK va PFOHIN
EISGANITH LURIGK

ATHRETVARIAN MINISTRY of INFORMATION
OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE

Be It Written In All Books of Law That Bind The Realm of Ari: Athretvari which is The Land of Ari, Athretvari Ut which is The Land of Ari Two, and Ythkrovvari which are The Works of Ari; And that Bind Him That was and is still Elected by The Technocratic College of the Realm and Accepted by The Lotterial College of the Realm in the Year 2784 upon the Fifth World titled Little Epsilon to be The Defender of the Realm.
(a.k.a. Gothamloki)

With the Honorable Accordian, his realms and banners, We seek Truce...

...although Our first reply was, "This message is specific to the Upsilon Plan Market..."

Just saying.

I must admit, I have been a bit of a dick. I apologise, and I forgive you. Also, you might want to fix your record books - it's spelled "Accordion" :P

Are you a Trekkie? I've been trying a Klingon translator on your unusual words, and it's been turning up nothing yet.

Records are being corrected.

It's actually jumbled (syllables and/or letters) English and Spanish with some grammar tags to help me understand it after I write it.

Athretvari
Ath = the
ret = ter(ritory)
v = of
Ari = the nerd behind the screen

Athretvari Ut
Ut = Two

Ythkrovvari
Yth = the (plural)
krov = work

Lurigk
Lur = rule/law
igk = (adjective)
blah, blah...

And, thank you.

Skulls: Sadly, nearly all are maxed out on available workers. I'm going to have to convince some to shift workers and buy population, then try again.

Nice work on the jumbling, then, because it really does look like another language :P

That it does!

I'm just wondering if friend Gothamloki might not be an old comics book fan. "Gotham" definitely comic book city. I vaguely remember a comic character by the name of Loki.

And the language (well explained) just reminds me of an early Superman character, Mr. Mxyzpytlk (or something like that), who was a mischievous imp from another dimension who sometimes escaped to this dimension and gave Supes hell. Only way to send him back was to make him say his name backwards.

So..., I'm wondering if we make Gothamloki say that Arith.. thing backwards, will he discover another dimension for us? One where my Pharma corp can maybe make some money?

LOL pharma corps. Teach you to invest in life-saving technology.

I only got it for the free samples! :P