My Terrifying Experience In Open (or how I learned to stop worrying and love Modular Terminals)
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Great story Mr Decay!
I have also avoided Palin because I can't be bothered with Qwent and his preciousness.
As for the MT's and the T9 storage, surely this is further evidence that paid for storage is a must? I have also jettisoned MT's but I know at some point I will need them. I don't want to buy a whole new account but I would buy a couple of hundred tons of cargo space if it was available.
I have also avoided Palin because I can't be bothered with Qwent and his preciousness.
As for the MT's and the T9 storage, surely this is further evidence that paid for storage is a must? I have also jettisoned MT's but I know at some point I will need them. I don't want to buy a whole new account but I would buy a couple of hundred tons of cargo space if it was available.
Great story OP! Just goes to show that not everyone is out to get you.
Was lucky myself with the Gwent thing as already had the Permit...but wasted a ridiculous amount to time just trying to get the engineer invite to appear [blah]
And yeah, I still get the shakes everything I see a modular terminal...
Was lucky myself with the Gwent thing as already had the Permit...but wasted a ridiculous amount to time just trying to get the engineer invite to appear [blah]
And yeah, I still get the shakes everything I see a modular terminal...
Uh okay that's K-53 in the anecdote jukebox, but since it's Ziggy asking -
So uh PowerPlay, back before the Alliance Office of Statistics was an in game thing.
After the time when GNThrone single handed tipped Mahon into turmoil in Cycle 11, but before the Federation betrayal and merit SuperSnipe Cycle 43.
Back when the Empire were the ones to watch, before I got my #nevertrustafed tattoo.
This bloke turns up at the Mahon Reddit telling us he's Baron von Klaptrapp and he's "the designated emissary and Diplomatic contact for Imperial High Command. Signed von Klapptrap, Earl of Rutland"
Well, my interpretation of it was that "if the leaders at the Mahon Reddit needed to talk to anyone to make some actual diplomacy happen, they already knew who to talk to and who was this polished turd in the jhodpurs with the fancy haircut
barging into our snooker hall waving bits of paper and shouting proclamations. Signed - DNA-Decay, Kitchen Staff Supervisor"
No upvotes no downvotes but I felt I'd scored a nice dis and said what others were thinking, but were too polite or senior to say.
So then it's a couple months later when the Alliance faced a deficit of five thousand CC and every man and dog of the Alliance came out to help fortify. I'm taking my first load of fortification in to Gateway and who should I meet at the Dublin toastrack but CMDR Vectron himself!
We went hard that week. I made a personal best for PowerPlay - Zero merits to Rank 5 in one week.
But ultimately Vectron's plan wasn't achieved. Either through stopping us from wasting effort or through a bug in the way CC gets calculated, and the Alliance lost a dozen systems. (alas Contien!)
Anyways since that meeting at the toastrack I've felt kind of entitled to the title.
There are a couple of other bits of backstory to that title, but one is [OP: SEC] and the other is this:
So that's where the "kitchen staff Supervisor" reference comes from, but actually the only thing i do for security is to hang out on forums and leak. I'm totally in charge of nothing except keeping you vaguely entertained and advocating for long hair.
Uh please don't take my funny stupid personal tale of Cycle 44 "The Defence of the Alliance" to be indicative of the funny stupid PowerPlay.
A lot of real people spent a huge amount of time in the game that week. I flew with CMDRs who had put in multiple 14 hour days in the cockpit.
PowerPlay was never more compelling.
And yet it felt like barely registered with Frontier. And when the stuff up of Cycle 53 happened it was the nail in the coffin of PowerPlay for a lot of people. Cycle 53 was one of those turning points.
The memory of the massive communal effort was fresh. For the Alliance obviously, but also the Feds had put together a massive coordinated covert operation with devastating results. The Rise To Power games were in the wind and coming. The Cycle fault of '53 should have been an opportunity for a reboot. A time for some fresh ideas and radical change. The potential was there for Frontier to connect with the leaders who were the force behind the Game characters. There were so many terrific ideas for change to PowerPlay mooted at that time. Some really well thought out and balanced. Some to just up end the apple cart.
I think we got the consolidation mechanic but that was about it.
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What you mean this old thing?As a sidenote, can you let me know next time you put me on a 'Most Wanted' artwork?
I did kinda wave it about a bit the week I made it - I'm sure I posted it in threads you were active in.
I remember posting it places where you and [The Mad Bomber] and The White Templars were active.
Although The White Templars have been pretty quiet on this forum for a long time. It's not exactly complete and correct.
Sali Vader didn't like associating [The Mad Bomber] with Sirius.Inc as he'd resigned by that time. And there's that young feller from The White Templars who just seems like he was along for the ride and not really a CMDR of note. And there's another CMDR who I've seen bragging about bombing operations and I think he should be there, but isn't.
I've tried to present some evidence with each CMDR, but I can't hold myself to "beyond reasonable doubt"
It's a computer game so I rolled with "balance of probability" as a sufficient standard. You were perhaps the weakest evidence. But you were advocating pretty strongly for UA bombing, and you enjoy a bit of notoriety.
Goose4291
Banned
Nah I dont mind it. I'd just rather if Im on a wanted list I know about it
Well you're in the company of Ed Lewis and that's always nice.
I don't think it constitutes a KOS list - although everyone does put Ed in the cross hairs when they see him.
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Excellent read Mr Decay! Have some Rep for your time in writing this.
Re: Storage.
Second account with "almost the same name".
Re: Opening Comms with a CMDR FDL:
I opened comms to buy some time. I thought I was about 90 seconds from a Rebuy.
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