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Originally Posted by Patrikc

I thought it was at least somewhat obvious I wasn't serious. And last time I checked humour was still allowed on the internet (regardless of how bad the 'joke' may have been!)

Yea no worries, humor is still allowed. Appearantly I just didn´t get the joke, you might try to transport it better next time. Maybe place a smiley

Apprime can complain (and stroke their own egos!) all they want, but it's a simple fact that the impact of hitting them is exponentially bigger the more alliances are in. All alliances involved had their reasons for joining in, even though some might not have made sense to you or me. In retrospect I don't think pushing Apprime/Asc together was the smartest thing to do, but I'm not sure how else we would've kept them from steamrolling away with the win. Somehow I think both would've been reluctant to hit the other, and would've sooner cooperated together on Euph/DLR and roidrace than hit eachother.

Considering this has been tried multiple times before without success, one should expect people try something different at times. Obviously, they don´t, they try to apply the same fail tactics round after round. Why exactly do you think the 127634th gangbang will be successful, if it´s executed by the same people in the same way that failed pretty much every time before?
Even worse, you drove the top 2 enemies into cooperation (as you have noticed yourself, that was no smart move).
Your assumption Asc/App wouldn´t have started fighting at some point is rather weak imo. We´ve seen Asc/App conflicts before, eventually one would overtake the other in a roidrace, forcing the losing ally to start a direct war. Also, never underestimate someone manages to piss Cardi off and start a war that way. That has also happened before

And as for the gangbangs getting boring, I'd really really like to see a 100% random round, with no galaxy exiling and cheaper selfexiles. Fortress galaxies are (one of) the causes of these kind of rounds, and I think it'd be a nice change both for the people used to fortressing as for the people used to gangbanging up on the former.

I doubt fortress gals are the poin here. Most allies have a tendency not to hit large gals for a long time. They´re afraid it wouldn´t pay off. While this might be true later in a round, early on the top gals are first of all fat. While allies resort to hitting like size rank 50 to 20 gals, the biggest ones are usually allowed to grow fine value from their roidlead. I don´t exactl see this changing by getting rid of fortress gals. People are putting effort into those gals, effort alot of others are not willing to put into the game. Punishing someone for actually enjoying to spend time on something is certainly a brilliant idea.