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Gothic vandelia wrote:

Indeed, my experience is that it is rather random if they will stay or not. If they drop in during some kind of event the chances are far higher and if they drop in on a slow day far smaller.
More experienced players tend to research the region before doing anything (I honestly had TWC as the first region I would move to for a year before I actually moved here).

It stings a bit that he moved to a region named after a salad though. ;)

They were too vegetarian for carnivores like wolves.

Sovende wrote:

Wow, i was in the middle of my welcome message when it hit me that they might have left. Sad.

That's whacked poo. :(

Gothic vandelia wrote:

Indeed, my experience is that it is rather random if they will stay or not. If they drop in during some kind of event the chances are far higher and if they drop in on a slow day far smaller.
More experienced players tend to research the region before doing anything (I honestly had TWC as the first region I would move to for a year before I actually moved here).

It stings a bit that he moved to a region named after a salad though. ;)

Destroy All Salad! God Wills It!

Ephiny wrote:

You need Influence to set a password on a region if you're not the Founder.

Yeah, and I think suppressing messages in the RMB cost a couple of points too but just a few.

It might be that asking to open an embassy or something like that cost a couple of points too. But the expensive thing is banning people.

Anyways, you usually don't need a lot of it unless you have a large number of trolls targeting your region. I kicked like 2 persons for trolling during 2 years from the Radiant and NL, both for being annoying trolls who spammed the RMB with inappropriate comments. It might have been the same guy, it wasn't severe enough to report to mods but when someone continues to troll after a warning they need to be booted out. I also suppressed a bunch of messages to keep flame wars from breaking out. That is all the influence I ever used.

Apostate wrote:

Destroy All Salad! God Wills It!

Nah, salad is an acceptable side dish but it ain't a main course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfwgbMrffOE

Update on my combat RP system
I am now half done with the tech tree. Note that the ship upgrades will make more of a difference for the same points compared with aircraft, since aircraft operate everywhere while ships only operate on water. I will make similar cost for tanks who only operate on land. Airplanes are very diverse so upgrading them should be more expensive. This however is just a theory that might change when we get to balancing. I might also need to add more defense features to planes.

Anyways, I am working on things but creating a new system from scratch that both offers diversity while still being relatively easy to use take some time. I do tend to work rather fast but making too much too fast tend to hurt quality and frankly can be pretty boring.

Ephiny wrote:

Suppression, and requesting an Embassy require no point of Influence that I am aware of.

I do think Suppression does but it is just a couple of points so it is not something you notice unless you are moderating a full flame war. I am pretty sure I checked it up when I was moderating a political discussion of the NL forum (it was between Trump, Sanders and Mayor Pete supporters, boy what that painful), I did drop slightly there but it can't be more then 5 points or so for each post. Then again, that was a while ago like early spring.

Requesting an embassy was just a theory, I never done that myself and so far we only seen fees for managing the region.

In basic, Influence is rather useless unless you are the Governor or founder and even then you rarely need a lot of it. It seems to me that Max originally had more plans for the stat but they never panned out. Or maybe there were more to it early in the game, it has been around for close to 20 years.

Apostate wrote:

Influence was designed as a special edge for ""Natives"" and Fendas to abuse in order to deal with, at the time, large scale raids that outnumbered and out smarted the fendas. Its why you do not see real reading anymore, with occupations and eventual assimilation of the population.

Instead they use apps like spyglass to run around and just vandalize the regions during a tag raid, no wonder raiding is pretty much dead in this game.

I guess that explains it.

But honestly, for the game to be raid friendly they would have to implement better mechanics for it anyways. And maybe some mechanics for war between regions as well.

BTW, how is telling my rednecks to stop burning people for witchery adding to corruption? I could possible understand it lowering my religiousness even if that is pretty far fetched too, but corruption? Wouldn't it be more corrupt to let the morons burn people?

To quote Judge Dredd: "I am the law"!

Apostate wrote:

It is corrupt to dare tell people to stop doing a bad stupid thing these days!

Seems like it. I don't think there have been a witch burning in a somewhat civilized country for the last 200 years and my science is the highest in the region so it seems strange that things like that would occur at all.

I think I am going to send in Nicolas Cage dressed as a bear.

Ephiny wrote:

There have been stonings and other barbaric forms of execution still in the world.

Better yet, send John Wick.

True, but that rarely happens in countries with high science.
Also, I have pretty high in law enforcement (nowhere near my science) and people are doing this without it being state sponsored so it seems rather funky.

I mean Saudi Arabia do still have stoning but in that case it is state sponsored. Having people killing whoever they want for made up crimes does not seem like something that should increase integrity.

Sure, GV does have capital punishment but burning people is extremely painful and having private citizens killing people without repercussions seems rather evil to me. The Gothian state prefer good old fashioned hanging or being shot by a platoon of marines, your choice.

And yeah, maybe Nicolas Cage didn't work out that great in the Wickerman remake.

Apostate wrote:

Nicholas Cage should have been replaced by James Woods.

No way, no one can play mad like Nicholas Cage, that role was perfect for him.

Sure, James Wood is good, but if you want an over the top performance you need Cage. He is actually basing his performance on how actors act in theater and 30s movies. I recommend "Vampires Kiss" to fully see Cage going nuts.

Face/Off is also fun when 2 of the most over acting actors try to play eachother. :D

I am a huge Cage fan. Just the idea of Cage dressing up like a bear for no reason is awesome. The bad guy was better in the original though, Christoffer Lee had creepy cult leader down to a level few could surpass.

Interesting, a huge storm is hitting US at the moment but the several newspapers I checked out are more interested in Kanye going number 1 on one of his Grammys.

The worst thing is that the political spectrum doesn't matter. This can only mean 1 of 2 things: Either are the editors morons or the readers are and want the focus on that. Or maybe the readers like the moronic stuff so the news sites have been hiring morons to make people happy.

I find the whole thing worrying, are people actually getting dumber? I blame Zuckerberg, before Facebook the storm would have been the top news all over the western world.

I fear that the 2024 election will be between Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler if things continue like this...

Social media have done a pretty good job ignoring people with any actual knowledge, 20 years ago they would at least interview people with qualifications even if they tried to manipulate the questions to get their own points.
Now they interview celebrities... Hmm, maybe Bono is involved too. They did use him as an expert for a lot of things far earlier then anyone else without real qualifications.

My point is that I get sad when both conservative and liberal "experts" know less about the issue the news interview them on then me. And boy is reading FOX and CNN making me sad now, they are more clickbait then news. And I can tell you that the Swedish news sites are the same. We have this former police chief who wrote some bad books who they know ask about politics, economy and I don't know what. Fine, he knows crime so there you could consider him an expert there but just because you know 1 thing doesn't mean you know something different.

And world politics are moving the same way, politicians seems to be moving towards talking clickbaits.

Sigh, I am getting more cynical then usual. What do you guys think, have social media made people dumber? And no, it is not a generation thing, boomers and zoomers both seems to be affected.

Ephiny wrote:

Funny thing, I just heard that the magazine Scientific American has, for the first time in its 175 year history, has endorsed a presidential candidate for the 2020 election. What have we come to when a scientific journal actually weighs in on a political contest.

It isn't a good sign, no. And it isn't a small magazine either, I can find it at some places even here in Sweden. Not my favorite but it isn't bad (my favorite is Archaeology).

I felt dirty the last 2 elections here and needed a shower after voting... We can vote for 8 different parties all lead by morons instead of 2 and it doesn't help either.

To me it looks like elections have turned into reality TV world wide the last 20 years. Having magazines get involved ain't helping either (I wonder who "Cosmo" support?).

Apostate wrote:

You will all buy your useless trinkets and poorly made clothing from Apostate as I dominate Retail! Bwahahaha

As long as they buy their arms from me, that is fine.