Starport: Galactic Empires

Chapter 6: Philosophy Ice and Fire Let serenity be commanded by a higher-order chaos Let chaos be commanded by a higher-order serenity. -Madace Unpublished memiors xxxx Dienekes sat, cross-legged, breathing in a deep rhythm until the breaths seemed to roll from him like long gentle waves. He sat in...

Chapter 5: Wild Garden Major Turner felt very strange as she walked, gardens passing on either side of her. Still, she walked with purpose. She'd never been to the garden district before. It was not something that someone of her class usually had the opportunity to do. Still, she had to admit that ...

Dunno about great minds tho. Reason I'm not yet a full blown socialist is because our Comrade Marx has a poor understanding of history. Which makes sense as the developments that are the origin of my opinions on the matter are fairly new. As for the analysis of capitalism and general marxism, sure ...

Chapter 4: Welcome Home “The pact, draw together in darkness, unified against the Empire when it was at it's most powerful. They were a band of idealists, like the many senators determined to kill Caesar. When the Empire turned to destroy them, most fled, some surrendered, and a few fought. One cap...

Everything pretty much the same, except for the politics thingy. Right now we're running up to an election. And I'm kinda the guy of one of the most important elections websites. I also work in the video team (3 vids so far) and have been given the honor of being asked my opinion on some matters on...

Chapter 3 : The Catalyst “Posion? No. . . Refer to her as poison. That I love you man! isn't a God damned flower. She's a plague.” -Commander Starwynd, Empire. --------------------- Dienekes heard that they'd arrived in Alpha Reticuli, or as the ship's speakers called it, “The Capital”. Dienekes ha...

Too long dude

Too much has happened to list it neatly, but I've taken up cooking, apartment living, and I graduate next fall.

Because, you know. . . I need that history degree before we take over the world and all. . . nations submit far more readily when you have an Bachelors.

How about you?

Thanks Luna. . . Duece, good to see you both :P I'd probably post this even if only one or two people read it. Honestly, posting stories is a good way for me to keep track of them. Mostly, I write for myself :P You'll start to see me introducing characters. I've changed names. . . and monkied aroun...

The Frontier Chapter 1 - Pariah, Resurrection They did not die easily. They had hope. They had a vision of lofty, irrational things, promises that could never be delivered, and ideals of a more naive age. They dreamed of a world where weaklings could survive among the strong. And so we chased them ...

I'd like to thank all you creepers that try to mess with me in game, and all you other immature badasses behind a computer that pick on people THIS BBQ ISN'T FUNNY OKAY????? :evil:, I KNO MANY OF YOU WILL LAUGH AT THIS BUT ITS BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO hugging LIFE. Lol, it's funny because you've probabl...

Does anyone remember WAY back ( I think back in 2004/2005 ) when one of the members of an original big corp got pissed, and revealed the corp's password to the entire server? Everyone was going wild joining the corp, and raping credits from their hundreds of colonies. The member coined it as a "Pub...

@Ozzy It's good to see a keen eye has addressed this issue. Yes, this trend is a huge obstacle for SGE. I disagree with Toonces in his thinking that this is a background problem, it is the #1 problem. The problem is that big corps gain huge advantages as they go on, and the consolidation of power in...

Toonces im offering to pay monthly for you to be able to hire some new help for your game..Content developers and gui devs. I have $ i work 40+ hours a week for it and i spend probly like 10 hours a week on sge if not more...id like to give you some help aside from the tokens..steady income so u ca...

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Occam's Razor, I find, to be a rather unreliable defense. For example, you can see Occam's Razor arguments on both sides of many arguments including creationism... proving that, based upon how conditions are labelled and how many are recognized, one side or another can be seen as having more or less...

Just because my post had a question mark didn't mean I needed enlightening :P Faith/Belief is a strong sentimental attachment to the truth of an idea. (where sentimentality is defined as a state of thinking where emotional cues lead to a distortion of logic.) http://www.unionversity.com/wp-content/u...

Here are a few basic beliefs... #1- Why do people who believe in the Christian god never try to disprove the Norse Gods, the Greek Gods, or the Shinto Gods? Surely... they don't believe such Gods exist...... :roll: So let's hear the argument as to why Christians feel that the Norse Gods (for example...

The nigga's dead, now shut the hell up. I wonder how you think you come across. Ahahahahah! I think, hindsight being 20/20, the best system of government would have been a tribal confederacy... where we could bribe certain tribal chieftains with arms and money and offer large monetary rewards for k...

Lol.. Al Qaeda barely existed before 9/11 :lol: Funny thing is, we started a war we can't win. They're poor, they're jobless. The Taliban is paying good drug money to kill soldiers... and they've got crazy imams preaching BBQ to them. Simple formula leads to infinite number of potential insurgents b...

Then, expect this game to die a slow death.

I am not surprised you joined in 2010... you have not been around long enough to have the perspective to see what is ACTUALLY happening to this game.

I miss starwynd.

He was a world class enemy...

Call me a massochist... but I loved the Pact. BBQ was Shakespearean. This was always a favorite http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q218/btmangan/Lmao.jpg?t=1299626399 lol When Starwynd, Me, and some other guys (I think Relentless was there went onto P2, pretending to be black.... ) http://i137.photo...

a suggestion to balance madace's idea for new players. Make it so that as long as a character is under noobie protection, that their costs for variable warp gates are 1/2 that of normal players. Should allow for them to go further into the frontier, and give them time to develop. So it's perfectly r...

Get rid of pollution and consumables. Add new planetary defenses including "walls", allow solar cannons to be deployed outside of the dome. If we could somehow limit empire size based upon a decreasing morale per hop as mentioned, combine this with a new frontier system where noobs are spawned in a ...

Sounds good if they got an actual high-quality in game tutorial to go with them so they stand a chance when the "big dogs" go to eat their faces. This cannot become a system where the new corps just wait for the frontier to open, and then smash whoever is inside that frontier. If the fuel cost is n...

Well... I had an idea that I wanted to refine. It's a "Frontier" idea. The idea is that a moderately-sized "Frontier" will open every month or so... and that new players will be spawned there, but old players from the old space will not be able to access it. After 30 days or so, a bridge connecting ...

The fixes Toonces has done so far have made the game less fun, and more labor intensive. Toonces' efforts, while driving players away and making the game less fun, has not stopped sad little assholes from owning entire servers. (Sad little assholes = SLA) We must therefore conclude, that it wont ma...

The fixes Toonces has done so far have made the game less fun, and more labor intensive. Toonces' efforts, while driving players away and making the game less fun, has not stopped sad little assholes from owning entire servers. (Sad little assholes = SLA) We must therefore conclude, that it wont mat...

If we don't find a way to limit the holdings of empires, a few powerful corps will always end up owning the entire server. As long as this is true, Starport is destined to be a game of a few fags, cleaning huge empires in empty servers. What game changes could we put into place to ensure that while ...

Toonces wrote:thanks for the feedback, everyone.

At this point I'll probably leave it on the back burner for a while.

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