30-04-2001 10:02									#1
	Yin's Intergalactic Promise: Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Earlier today I had yet another chance to make some quick credits and experience: A Good Aligned trader flew into my same sector (I won't give his name since he probably didn't even notice me), and I could clearly have taken his ship and all the stuff in it. Trading in that ship would have earned a LOT of credits, etc.

But I didn't. And except for one incident when I was still very weak, I haven't. So here's Yin's Intergalactic Promise: I WON'T!

There are some conditions, however:

1. Any Evil Aligned Trader is going to die on first sight. This includes aliens, unless they are too powerful, of course.

2. Any Good Aligned Trader who has been marked the enemy of Apolyton Co. will also be attacked on sight.

3. Any Good Aligned Trader who attacks me from this day forward will be forever considered Evil by me unless reparations are made. This puts him category 1, of course.

4. Any Good Aligned Trader who has attacked me but for some reason gets protection from our CEO, MarkG, will be let off the hook despite my personal wishes.

Other than that, I am hereby announcing that you Good Guys out there minding your own business need not fear me. In fact, if you are a Newbie and need some credits to get going, I'll even make a good loan or clear out a sector for you or something. More experienced players can also get loans from me but at a bit higher interest.

I do not speak for the rest of Apolyton Co. as each member has his own take on how to advance. But now you know mine. Good luck out there!

	30-04-2001 18:57									#2
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Touche' Yin! A TRUE Trader through and through.

	01-05-2001 09:44									#3
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I noticed you Yin, but appreciate your not attacking me - I just barely picked up the game. However, after running out of turns in non fed-space, I believe my days (or hours?) are numbered.

	30-04-2001 22:13									#4
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Wittlich: I figure if I can make a few extra credits by being a good and reasonable guy, why not! Now, if there were no profit in being good...just kidding.

aeturneus:

Like I said, I'll gladly loan you credits and give you tips, etc., to get you up to speed. Just let me know.

	01-05-2001 00:40									#5
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This appears to be a pretext for disregarding corporate responsibility for member actions. I denounce your Intergalactic Premise as a cynical ploy to throw people off of your REAL hegemonic intentions. I shall always look upon the Apolyton Co. corporate veil as pierced in my "court of law".
[This message has been edited by DanS (edited April 30, 2001).]

	01-05-2001 01:26									#6
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I'll gladly join in Yin26 's intergalactic promise, I too are a trader by heart.

I do however take a more direct response. Should I stumble on a trader with sub optimal (x<50 fgts.) defenses sitting in non-fed space I'll send him a personal warning call.

The next visitor might not be so friendly...

	01-05-2001 05:08									#7
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*pukes*

That from a member of the corporation who blew up the largest number of good-aligned ships in history.

I rest my case.

	01-05-2001 05:51									#8
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Yes, I am a proud member of Apolyton Co. If this means I am to be judged a certain way, I accept that. But you know my stance.

	01-05-2001 05:59									#9
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One may wonder how you can so offhandly look the other way when it is convenient for you to do so.

And you are proud to be associated to the corporation who is blowing the largest number of good-aligned ships in the known universe? I think this gives us starling insight into what your so-called "ideals" truly are.

You're not fooling anyone.

	01-05-2001 06:10									#10
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our act against the civcorp was just lesson for the future. as we have said: if it werent us, it would be an alien or a ferengi.

we have shown our good way of thinking by not attacking anyone else who is on the good side, by rejecting (private) offers for combined attacks on other corporations, by hunting down evils and aliens for the benefit of other good-alligned corporations and finally by being the first and only corporation which have goten a federal commision!

	01-05-2001 06:52									#11
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Apolyton: "But officiers, we were only teaching them an invaluable lesson. If we didn't kill them, some random mugger, drug dealer or pedophile would have gotten them. They really shouldn't have had the arrogance of walking in the streets at night."

Cop: "What are you doing with their wallets then?"

Apolyton: "Err..."

The amount of hypocrisy in this thread is unbelievable.

	01-05-2001 06:57									#12
	Inflate your Upload Space

Feeling lonely out there in space, Evil Boy? We'll gladly end all your mental suffering. If you recall, you fall sqaurely in my "kill on sight" category. I'd be happy to show how hypocritical I am once you send in your current sector.

	01-05-2001 08:24									#14
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Nice dodge Yin. I expected nothing less of you than to avoid difficult moral questions.

Wittlich: I'm glad to see that other people here still have their heads on their shoulders. I was beginning to worry.

-Hutak

	01-05-2001 08:35									#15
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This is really amusing.

After they have blown up lots of people they decided to be Good. Why didn't they accept my Apolyton-wide ceasefire earlier?
[This message has been edited by Urban Ranger (edited April 30, 2001).]

	01-05-2001 08:56									#16
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Simply because it's wasn't profitable for them to do so before.

Now that they have serious competition, they're trying to make people conveniently forget their past deeds while trying to demonize their opposition in a desesperate and pathetic attemp to gather support.

Fortunatly, people aren't as dumb as they take them to be and aren't so easily fooled.

-Hutak

	01-05-2001 09:45									#17
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Well, then, I encourage all of you to do your best to attack us. Of course, you understand what that will mean. Until then, I still stand by my convictions outlined above NOT because it is profitable. Heck, stealing other people stuff and selling their ships: THAT'S profitable! But not the path I will willingly take.

	01-05-2001 13:59									#19
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Still dodging Yin, still dodging...

quote: Originally posted by MarkG on 05-01-2001 04:28 AM why should we be different?

	01-05-2001 15:12									#20
	Got spare money?

evils and aliens are a threat to good players. what's wrong with fighting them?

	02-05-2001 08:47									#22
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Yin, anyone ever told you that you look like a politician answering questions during an election campaign?

Of course Markg, you're obviously right. I mean, I wouldn't want you to fry your brain thinking that there are shades of gray between black and white, and that your own (misguided) notions of morality can be anything else that the Truth with a capital T.

Having said that, I think people actions speak for themselves.

	04-05-2001 05:41									#23
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Ours is the Cause of Good.
Though Good is not easy.
Though Good is seldom free.
Such is the Universal Balance.

As Apolyton proclaims it to be.

Stand against the Good and weaken...
...yourself...your past...your soul
Or see in the Great Light a Vision
Of Apolyton making you Whole.

Such has Apolyton created the heavens
Such has Apolyton created the rules
Though there will always be The Uncertain
The Hutaks...The Fools

	04-05-2001 06:07									#24
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Yin, what fools do you take us for?! Your "poem" (or is it a chant?) is just down right scary for the free world/universe!

	04-05-2001 08:34									#25
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Yin, are you Miriam's brother? (SMAC reference, in case you don't play it.)

-Hutak

	04-05-2001 10:39									#26
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The above is Apolyton Co.'s Sacred Chant. It is sung before and after any encounter with an imbalance in the universe. There was quite a large disturbance early today, in fact, and the mighty chorus of this chant helped us to cleanse an invested sector of space.

Until today, the chant had never been seen by The Unworthy. You need not thank me...for merely looking at it will grant you at least a measure of Goodness, which just might tip the Cosmic Balance in your favor despite yourselves.
[This message has been edited by yin26 (edited May 04, 2001).]

	04-05-2001 19:39									#27
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This Apolyton retoric is downright SCARY!

	13-04-2002 02:39									#28
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ROFL see now THIS is TradeWars! Where are the large corporations, the throngs of newbies flying around cursing those on high, the evils sneaking about, the goods enforcing their version of righteous truth?

You just can't get a truly great game going with less than 10-12 people, preferably 20-25, and the more the merrier. Give me 100 players and I'll give you a 20k universe with 1500 turns you'll never forget :>