Mumblefratz

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="IztokBitenc" reply="50" id="2651746"]Hi! Very long ago I already proposed to remove scoring from GC. Because scoring promotes competition, and quite usually playing a score game for fun devolves into playing score sistem for more points. What we now have here is just the last stage of this: the last die-hards arguing about something no one else cares about. Gentlebeings, you're throwing around big words and accusations for a long-dead

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]At best this topic is a discussion of whether or not it was wrong for Mumble (or anyone) to spy on private forums...That is a topic I have already given my opinion on. At worst it is an attack on Mumble...though I must admit, as Mumble felt the need to call out cheaters in his previously mentioned post, should we not also call out those who are cheating our trust?[/quote]Look. I don't really mind being called out in this post. I do think things could have been handled better (a lot bet

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]For what it's worth, Mumble, in my experience KP is generally a reasonable man, and had you come to him privately, rather than attempting to say something publicly via the ZYW thread, I imagine this situation would have never arisen. I am aware that for some time you were not aware of exactly how it was done, nor exactly what effect there was ingame, despite allegations to the contrary. If you had actually done so, and made clear that you did not understand exactly what was

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[quote]That password is only one layer of protection in the forums. Even with the password, nobody without the correct permissions granted could get still get in. Dont worry to much about it Maiden. And it will soon be completely irrelevant.[/quote]I had assumed that it was already irrelevant since even prior to your PM to me at the Core about it you had already locked me out by as far as I could tell eliminating the password and relying entirely on access control lists, however that could be

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[quote who="RGB2012" reply="33" id="2650702"]Your dodging the point: You denounced the entire kzinti empire. You called them cheaters. He opened this thread, which with all do respect, this could have been settled some other way than to make it public. However, you have escalated this and put this blame unto yourself. You angered kzinti with what you did, he called you out. Although he made the mistake of posting this in the first place, with every

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]I hate to get involved, but again Mumble, you are attacking real people with your statements.[/quote]*I'm* attacking people? Sure. Nothing I like better than ganging up on a bunch of other folks and berating them for no apparent reason. I figure me against 5 or 6 other people is just about even odds, given the caliber of the 5 or 6. Did I create a thread where I denounced the entire Kzinti Empire as an empire of cheaters? No. Did I resurrect the Spacet

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]An interesting rhetorical flourish, but ultimately facetious. At the point at which Kryo (or another creator of the game) says that a particular exploit or strategy is not MV legal, the opinion of the average player loses much of it's relevance on that specific issue (in my opinion). Whatever you, or I, or other player think on the matter, is superseded by Kryo's statement. I believe that it is the right thing to do for those who wish to play on the MV to accept that determination by K

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[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="24" id="2650052"]I'm not the one making things up here. Kziniti members have been caught cheating by Kryo's and their own emperors admission [/quote] [quote who="jacklv" reply="25" id="2650067"]Very, very true.[/quote]

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]But all of this is off topic. You could not cajole, intimidate or publicly reveal information about Maiden's games to get what you wanted. So, you illicitly eavesdropped on private conversations of the Kzinti only to find things you already knew. And then cried cheat.[/quote]Not quite true, not that it matters much one way or the other. I actually did figure out that the key parameter was AIPersonality instead what I initially thought it to be which was RaceID or CivType. However after

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Speaking of honesty I think that Stardock also bears at least some responsibility for things getting to this state of affairs. When the concept of ARC was first discussed it was brought up in what I consider to be a mature and responsible way. There were certainly folks on both sides of the opinion but both sides were at least willing to consider the other sides point of view and in fact I think we all took great effort to bring these things to Stardock's attention and to point out wh

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]You chose to take an adversarial and deceitful route, rather than honestly stating what you knew, and what others (Kryo) had said.[/quote]I've stated what I honestly knew at pretty much each stage that I honestly knew it. As Kryo mentioned my state of knowledge of this has evolved over time and I did not know everything that I know now at the first moment I tried to bring up the question nor at the point at which I contacted Kryo/Cari nor even at the point that Kryo made h

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[quote]Immediately upon hearing the response from Kryo yesterday, I advised members of the Kzinti that the DL exploit will no longer be used for MV games within the empire. If you had first come to me (or anyone in the Kzinti) and said simply, "Kryo said this is not MV legal", that would have been the end of this exploit for MV games. You did not even try to do this.[/quote]Interesting. Except that I did in fact try to bring up this discussion and was totally stonewalled first in private PM's

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Ah. Out come the sock puppets. [quote]The preferred strategy (at least in ToA[/quote]ToA is admittedly different and I have no idea whether or not using Dread Lords opponents in ToA gives the same advantage as in DA. [quote]Did you PM Kryo/Cari regarding some of the equally creative ARC tactics that the ToE developed and used? Yes, I know all about them. Do not, by the way, expect me to believe that the ToE was NOT using the "3" long before it was generally revealed to the res

Reply to We are Adepta Sororitas in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]That's not a very nice thing to say to someone who just made you a Senator GmOOnii is no pawin in my book.[/quote]Could you please list *all* of your usernames that you use here so that I know who it is that I'm talking to? But apparently you either aren't keeping up or you wish to maintain the fiction that you aren't simply the sock puppet of some other user. In any case GmOOnii kicked me out of her empire assumedly at the bequest of KP and I wished to indicate that

Reply to Fall of a GC2 Titan in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]If you consider this cheating, as you say, then the Swindle all-diplomacy strategy, which Purge created and you helped develop and strongly promulgated, should also be considered cheating, for it too gives the AIs absolutely zero chance to win the game...they are both all about nothing more than points-grinding, when the game is already won long before. You therefore condemn your own past actions with your current statements.[/quote]No the difference is that anything that I did was don

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GmOOnii, I don't blame you as you are merely a pawn. I wish you the best in all things.

Reply to Kzinti Empire - offical empire thread in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

[quote who="KzintiPatriarch" reply="3887" id="2648675"]Everyone, please direct your attention to this thread: Fall of a GC2 Titan [/quote]Yes please do. And try to do so before KP deletes my response, however if he does then I'll simply repost it myself.

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Hah. This from someone that is in fact nothing but a cheater. The way that Maiden and KzintiPatriarch and the Kzinti Empire has bested all others is a simple matter of "hands-down 100% cheating, no doubt about it." The above is a quote from Kryo who is aware of the situation as is Cari. Whether or not anything will ever be done about it is uncertain. After all GalCiv2 is pretty much end of life and to spend money, time and effort to eliminate cheating in what is after all a si

Reply to Idea: remove offtopic from recent posts list. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Oh, and just to note, I think the real reason for the "off-topic spam" is [quote]that the Off-topic forum will be visible on pretty much all of Stardock's sites. [/quote]and thus the posters are from all those sites, meaning there's more of them, whereas those posting on GalCiv threads are only from the GalCiv forum, those on Sins threads from the Sins forum (etc.)... [/quote]That's pretty much it. The stated reason for this is to promote communication among Stardock's disparate c

Reply to Idea: remove offtopic from recent posts list. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]well, i tried that, and it turns the forums into a jumbled mess... and doenst change the fact that offtopic is still clogging the recent posts list. I posted a very long post... and by the time i clicked the button to go back tothe main forum page, it was already the third most recent post, displaced by tugowar... and an elemental dev post thread.[/quote]As I said check "flatten forum categories" and then monitor only https://fo

Reply to Idea: remove offtopic from recent posts list. in Everything Else GalCiv2 Forums

I used to say the same thing 2 years ago. Now if you eliminated the Off-topic forum there would hardly be anything left. However now that Bara has implemented the "bubble up" feature you can sort of do this yourself. If you go into "My Account" and click on the "Options" tab you'll see the "Flatten Forum Categories" 2nd from the top. Click this and then when you monitor a specific forum you will also see any threads from any subforums. This is not a perfect soluti

Reply to Mystery of economy score in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Your economy score is simply the accumulated total of all income earned each turn over the course of the game divided in some manner by the turn number squared. What you're looking at is average net income which is income earned minus expenses averaged over the course of the game. Clearly these are two different things. Basically what you spend your money on doesn't count for your economy score, if perhaps you buy ships with your cash then that money can be used to increa

Reply to 'standard' settings? in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Anyone else got views?[/quote]There are so many ways to play the game that it's really tough to define just a single set of "standard" settings. There are folks that prefer to play shorter games and these folks tend to play ZYW's (zero year wins) and there are very specific strategies along with a couple of different types of settings one would use dependent on which strategy or style one was using. Another set of people tend to just go for monster scores and then

Reply to Two simple questions in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]More relevantly, I'm seeing an issue in DA 2.x (haven't bothered to look at TA yet, for complex reasons) whereby the difficulty seems to reset (to Cakewalk) upon Ctrl + Ning from any loaded save, whether it be quick, auto, or manual.[/quote]I've seen this in DA v1.80g and DA v2.01. It happens every time you ctrl-n from a reload. I didn't consider it a bug, just something to avoid. After I ctrl-n I always pay attention to my income and the instant it goes up it means that the ga

Reply to We are Adepta Sororitas in Metaverse GalCiv2 Forums

My main character is Mumblefratz so may as well use that one. I will be reseting him again as 240K will only drag down the ultimate score he can achieve, but he's the one I'll be working on first.