16-06-2005 09:24									#1
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Colonel Googlie passed his hand over the access panel, and the door irised open, admitting young Karla.

She strutted into the Command center war room cocky as only young, successful Crypteia staff had the right to be, and paused before the Colonel, quietly handing him an infocrystal.

He looked around at the others, assembled at his request. The Lieutenant Colonels, Majors and Captains, who, although nominally divided into two loosely formed democratic parties, still formed the backbone of the governing Junta.

The Colonel inserted the crystal, then sank back in his chair to watch, as did the others.

Gasps arose. Colonel Maniac could clearly be seen in earnest discussions with two of the known Gaian lords – Chaos Theory and binTravkin. Papers changed hands, and they were joined by others, unknown to the Junta.

Colonel Googlie let it run its course, then stopped the display, and with a wave of his hands the lights raised in intensity.

He looked round the room.

“There you have it”, he said. “Missing from War council meetings for over a year, and now consorting with other faction leaders”

“Where were these taken?” inquired Lt Colonel Kassiopeia. “Some of the background looked familiar”

Googlie raised an interrogative eyebrow in Karla’s direction.

She snapped to attention and said: “A night club and bar in PK territory, sir. Known as Civgamers – a well-known hang out for many of the faction leaders. We’ve had the Colonel under surveillance for over a year now.”

“And what exactly is he doing there?” inquired Lt Colonel Snoddasmannen.

“Well, sir, that’s a bit unclear. Seems to be some sort of alternate universe discussions he’s involved in. Uses terms I’m not familiar with. Such as OCC, and Pirates, alphax text and rules.”

Colonel Googlie chuckled … “Ah, yes. I’ve been there too. Quite eclectic bunch hang out there. Alternate Reality junkies. But I can see that the Gaian lords have an ulterior motive – they’re trying to distract him from his Sparta duties.

“Well, there’s not much we can do until he returns of his own accord. His counsel is missed, but we’ll survive.

“Meeting adjourned.”

	17-06-2005 04:40									#2
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Nice roleplay. Wish we had that more often.

The reason for my absence is because the way things are currently run in the Federation is incompatible with my living pattern. To explain... The tendency is more and more towards the forum being completely dead when the turn is not with us. About everything is discussed and decided (or executed without any prior discussion) in the 24 hours after receiving the turn. Eg the sixth-latest thread to which someone replied (MY 2174 Planning Thread) is a week ago - about nothing was discussed in this week.

As you may know during the week when I'm in Gent for university I'm only a limited duration online per day, as I don't have my own internet access, but use my faculty's network node. So with about everything being decided in 24 hours, the usual pattern these last turns is me coming online half a day after the turn has been posted by Morgan, with lots of things already being executed, and with comments recently posted by others. If I then want to add something, I have to look at the turn and make some suggestions all in a great hurry before the network node closes. Which isn't exactly fun. I'd rather prefer things being discussed in advance more calmly.

Tassadar's latest thread in the general forum made me wonder why I'm still bothering, and with the ways things currently happen, I think it would be better to just let loose instead of continuing to try participate.

	17-06-2005 05:17									#3
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Well, the 2173 turn was one of the better planned ones, which I followed almost to the letter in execution.

I was somewhat tentative for 2174, for which you had made just a couple of early suggestions before the turn arrived.

I waited in 2175 for a thread to start, but eventually set out for discussion what might be decent build orders. I'm still very cautious re unit movements and worker allocations, but no suggestions were forthcoming so I did the best I could with limited input.

Micromanagement isn't my forte, as I've said before, but I've learned tons from following your suggestions

If you do disengage, our chances of winning will plummet - of that I'm certain. And I myself am just a few weeks away from serious downtime, as I head to the interior of British Columbia for two weeks on a golf holiday without my laptop, then shortly thereafter for five weeks in Scotland, again with no laptop.

What I'm getting to is that perhaps it makes more sense for you to resume turnplay duties rather than the opposite

G.

	17-06-2005 10:30									#4
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Maniac!

Don't give credit to this thread by Tassadar!

After these last months, I am still learning tricks and can now see the patterns behind the Spartan moves.
If I don't post more, it's not by lack of desire but because it would be mostly endlesss questions or suggestions (though someone could argue that's the very reason for this ACDG) while there is currently a down in activity. But I'm ready to get more involved.

However, I agree with Googlie: we need you for Sparta!

	17-06-2005 11:15									#5
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I'm with the Vishniac and Googie here. For what it's worth I'm having a lot of fun in this game, and I do like to read your build orders and worker relocations, the complexity boggles the mind sometimes I simply feel that there is little that I can add to these discussions.

So I don't know if any of this will help motivate you to play the game, but rest assured that you are not just throwing away your time, we're listening.

Anyway, to remedy this lack of activity, I suggest a live turnchat for the PK invasion, anybody up for that? It was a lot of fun last time.

	17-06-2005 13:27									#6
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well i dont want you to come back maniac j/k...tell me when the life turnchat is am i will be there is always fun.