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Adept wrote:QUOTE (Adept @ Jan 3 2009, 10:59 AM)

You sir, are aweseme

Agreed.

Orion wrote:QUOTE (Orion @ Jan 3 2009, 02:06 AM) Yeah, so five guys are gonna all buy new computers and new ISPs so that they can team up and beat the (meaningless) stat system?

What kind of pipe are you smokin?

Do games of only 5 vs 5 even count?

If it's perfectly accepatble to do, then why not. Doesn't even need to be a new computer. Everyone just goes over to their friends house, joins the same team, and get instant ownage.

Also, the 5 vs 5 was just an example. With a slight bit of intelligence, you can derive from this statement that 5 noobs (vets) in a large game will also throw off the ranking system.

At Phoenix: You wouldn't belive how many people here would try to beat the system. Also, in the case that the newbie server is ever occupied, you wouldn't want all the 0 hiders to go there for some newbie owning fun. That would scare of the 3-6 newbies there, and it would make the server totally useless because whenever it is in use, it will be abused shortly afterwards. Do you ever look at the ban list? Then you will see the ridiculous amount of people who get banned for going on the newbie servers.

tl:dr Why make it a possiblity to abuse something when there are really no gains from doing so. With the exception for the friend computer problem, there is really no gain from letting people make 0 hiders. I'm sure there is some other solution of the friend computer problem, but that's even less common than the problems with the newbie servers and the ranking system.

_SRM_Nuke wrote:QUOTE (_SRM_Nuke @ Jan 3 2009, 01:09 AM) Because its working out so well for Somalia lol.

Heh, but as Grimmwolf said, anarchy in a sense I was talking about would mean that Somalis have organized themselves in a non-coercive manner.
Still...:
Economist Peter T. Leeson, in an event study of "the impact of anarchy on Somali development", found that "[t]he data suggest that while the state of this development remains low, on nearly all of 18 key indicators that allow pre- and post-stateless welfare comparisons, Somalis are better off under anarchy than they were under government." Powell et al. concur that in absolute terms, Somalia’s living standards have improved and compare favorably with many existing African states, but also report that living standards have often improved "relative to other African countries since the collapse of the Somali central government."[12]
So according to opinion of "some other people" on this forum, anarchy, or should I say chaos, is proven to be the best system Somalia had in a long time.

P.S. Sorry about derail.

Snack, the problem in Solamia isn't the central goverement, more the inherited colonial borders, like everywhere in Africa. That's why "anarchy works" (more or less) there.

Sure, but I don't remember Spain having inherited colonial borders in Europe or do you?

sambasti wrote:QUOTE (sambasti @ Jan 3 2009, 01:36 PM) I'm sure there is some other solution of the friend computer problem

Yes,we need to address that issue.I'm wondering if there would be a way to identify an account that is set up by a vet with the express purpose of "showing the ropes" to someone that is not using the vets computer,but thier own.It's a complex game,and it takes a vet to show a "non-believer" that this is something that they may want to spend sometime learning to play.I have failed to convince a few friends to try the game,because they see me using the entire keyboard to play the game (ok,maybe my friends are old ),but they say "don't bother loading that on my computer...it's too hard to learn".If we could figure a way to have a "guest" account,so a vet coul'd identify themselves,that would let the admins know who set up the account,and allow them to monitor the progress of that newb with the help of the vet who set up the account.The newb would automatically be enrolled in Cadet 1,with the assumtion that if an instuctor saw a weakness in the new players advancement,they could PM the vet that set up the account,and it woul'd then be that vets responsability to help thier apprentice to improve.

/I posted this on another thread and I think the Admins may be looking into it.

Snack wrote:QUOTE (Snack @ Jan 3 2009, 07:57 PM) Sure, but I don't remember Spain having inherited colonial borders in Europe or do you?

There was something else before 1469-1492...

Parasitism wrote:QUOTE (Parasitism @ Jan 2 2009, 07:20 PM) Nice one, definately keeping that one.

But it fits nicely on the end of my sig

now ! back off.. i am 4ever newbie , why on earth would i need a new computer for ?
ohh by the way.. does anyone know where pookyman at ? wonder if his job is okay ?


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