Well done, Cameron.

On SO Main, per the time-stamp below, my planet was "tested":

beastly(#126675)
2011-10-14 17:09:49
Planet invasion in system RSN-962

beastly(#126675) invaded your planet Who is John Galt?.
Raid attempt failed.
You lost 50.000 colonists and killed 1.000.000 marines in combat.

It was then followed up shortly thereafter (within the next three hours) with two raid attempts by clarkie21 (#107013).

It has been said to me that these are two accounts belonging to the same person.  If so, the TOS have clearly been broken.  I will leave it to Emi to look into this and decide.

Complete with cow bell and bull head and horns.

lol - I can see that.  No, just (failing) saying that the pic is a few years ago.  The top one is actually more recent.

Lol - that one's one of my daughters as of a couple of years ago.

Me:


Me on a good day:

Interesting.  It does a good example of demonstrating good use of debate vs. logic.  Logically, the above was very flawed.  Argumentatively, however, it made me smile.

Very clunky so far.  I am now underway on my first mission, but it really needs a "get started" tutorial that tells you things like, "Okay, now buy this...and this.  Now click here and you'll see this.  Congratulations, you're now on your way, Captain!"  For instance, even though I am now carrying passengers, and knew to buy return fuel, if you hadn't said to do so, I probably wouldn't have as a new player.  I also have no idea, at this point, what the various minerals and gasses are for.  I would guess that they're needed for the "manufacture" area of the game, but that hasn't been explained yet.  Either that or they're things, in addition to passengers, that you can take to a destination as trade goods or to satisfy other mission requirements.

Well done, all.

So nice to see an actual reply to this.  That same day, in order to test further, Borg! had me power up above 12 trillion with highlandknight's power remaining the same.  The percentages dropped, but remained exactly 100% above where they should've been.  Yesterday, however, I was able to attack normally.  Not sure what changed/glitched, but I'd think looking into it would help prevent this same thing from happening in the future.

Although I'm not a long-time player like the rest of these guys, I'd also like to know what's coming and have a few bugs ironed out that we all hit from time to time.  Moreover, any time a game stagnates and doesn't offer new challenges, the players that have already mastered the current version fade away leaving nothing to the newer players.  They no longer have the experience to draw upon and they never feel justified in spending the time to gain the experience on their own as they can never test their skills on the "legends" that came before them...thus offering them, at best, a consolation prize of being "the best of the noobs".

Currently, my Mothership power is 11,494,764,430,778 and highlandknight's is at 21,042,769,499,553.  That's 1.9 times mine, or 190%.  Unfortunately, the game is somehow computing this as 290% so I can't scout or attack him.  The numbers are very slightly skewed as I powered up by about 1% and tried a second time just to see if it was a one-time glitch.

First try:
highlandknight(#103445)'s fleet and mothership were huge.
Your fighters knew they would face certain death and turned back.
The enemy mothership power was only 290% of our mothership...

Second try:
highlandknight(#103445)'s fleet and mothership were huge.
Your fighters knew they would face certain death and turned back.
The enemy mothership power was only 289% of our mothership...