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13 Dec 2004, 19:47
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
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it might be a bad idea but...
im thinking about starting to play pa again, maybe a couple of rounds free game (if they still do that) to see what its like again then go into full pay per play
has it changed much? what are the alliances like now
note to mods: i have put this on GD rather than one of the pa boards cos i only know the people from around here now, i dont know any of the in game type people anymore, and i therefore respect the veiws i will get from the people i know more, so please dont move it
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13 Dec 2004, 19:50
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
I wouldnt purely because of the amount of time you will need to play it at a decent level. I havent played the new pa but i assume it is still time consuming.
Play something like Sundayleague.com (assuming you like football)
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13 Dec 2004, 19:51
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
It crossed my mind to get back into the game as well just for the fun, but something is telling me I will regret it badly.
So, I am listening to that voice.
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13 Dec 2004, 19:54
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Mathamagician
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
i tried to play again, but its a bit crap really. Nationstates is better, you only need to check it every couple of days, the game is more reliable, and it's free.
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13 Dec 2004, 19:59
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
The people I know who still play PA claim it's been more interesting the last few rounds. You still need to put in a fairly ill amount of time if you're aiming to play at the very top levels. However you can play the game at a fairly reasonable level without increasing your activity beyond the amount of time you spend on GD. I put in some stupid number of hours on this forum but it's the fact I'll disappear for a few days at a time out drinking or whatever that hasn't made me bother to get a planet this round. Free planets are still done, with certain limits in place. Payment is better than it was r5-7 (or whenever you last played), I think you get 3 credits (rounds) for 10 euro. Alliance wise sid came back two rounds ago with a new alliance called 1up (similar to r4 wolfpack in the number of good players they've got compared to everyone else) and they've won the last two rounds, the current one is ending in a week I think. ND are still around and are competing fairly seriously. Here's a list of the alliances this round. Overall I'd say PA is close to a better game now than it ever was, the real problems lie in the small memberbase and stagnatory nature of alliance-play. If you actually liked the game when you played I'd recommend it though.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:00
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Rawr rawr
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by SilverSmoke
It crossed my mind to get back into the game as well just for the fun, but something is telling me I will regret it badly.
So, I am listening to that voice.
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Me too. It's not about the money even, like it was in the past. I just don't like spending too much time on a game I can never win.
Perhaps I should whack out some clone or something and play old PA with my friends just for kicks.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:06
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
That's the problem for me, I can't play just for fun. When I am into it I want to be in a decent alliance, decent galaxy and I will play to win. Which isn't really a good idea as I am having a nice social life and girlfriend at the moment.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:11
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Banned
Join Date: May 2001
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by SilverSmoke
That's the problem for me, I can't play just for fun. When I am into it I want to be in a decent alliance, decent galaxy and I will play to win. Which isn't really a good idea as I am having a nice social life and girlfriend at the moment.
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Wait until you break up and then start playing heh. Or alternatively get married, don't give a shit what she thinks and start playing!
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13 Dec 2004, 20:13
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
I did something similar some years ago. I won a bloody beta (woah) round by keeping awake for 3 days, in the meanwhile my ex (we owned a house,car,pets etc) was busy making fun with some tosser at her work heh
Not that I regret anything of that part in my life.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:22
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Aardvark is a funny word
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: I'm No Nino Rota
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Wait until you break up and then start playing heh. Or alternatively get married, don't give a shit what she thinks and start playing!
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or, get a girlfriend from INSIDE THE GAME. Or is that exclusively for ginger Scots?
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13 Dec 2004, 20:25
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Been there already, it's what I did after. No thanks, never again.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:28
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Banned
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by Phang
or, get a girlfriend from INSIDE THE GAME. Or is that exclusively for ginger Scots?
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The only good thing about how utterly gay people were into PA is how many amusing stories came out about internet relationships. Game seems to have been involved in at least half of them.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:32
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Registered User
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Speaking as the best pa player in history, I wouldnt advise it tbh.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:36
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Speaking as the best pa player in history, I wouldnt advise it tbh.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:36
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Probably not, what were his round 1 coords?
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13 Dec 2004, 20:39
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Guy next door
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: The Netherlands
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
I have no idea, I don't think he was playing yet in round 1.
Also, I was trying to be sarcastic :/
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13 Dec 2004, 20:41
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Banned
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Frag was better than nod!
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13 Dec 2004, 20:41
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Registered User
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by SilverSmoke
I don't think he was playing yet in round 1.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:41
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Mr. Blobby
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Belgium
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
It's boring as hell.
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13 Dec 2004, 20:48
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Gone
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Salute the Nodrog.
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13 Dec 2004, 21:03
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Rawr rawr
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Upside down
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Speaking as the best pa player in history, I wouldnt advise it tbh.
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hmmm, I might just post your battleship vs tarantula column again.
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14 Dec 2004, 00:06
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Insanity Prawn Boy!
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: In a bush where you can't find me
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
i'm playing this round, i'm in Please Join Me! who are ranked 23rd alliance wise. score wise, i'm not doing that well. haven't even made it to 1mil
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14 Dec 2004, 01:00
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Are you Sliekas?
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Isn't Sliekas a cheating LDK scumbag?
I never new Gordon was LDK
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14 Dec 2004, 01:04
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Banned
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Location: Further to the right
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Nodrog cheated like hell.
Although I don't think he's lithuanian.
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14 Dec 2004, 01:07
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so f*cking zen
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hitting Bottom
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
dont do it son
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14 Dec 2004, 01:09
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Made of Twigs
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
We could all start playin again and form a GD gal, although we'd all get bored after about a day and quit.
Actually that's a shit idea, so anyone else who was thinkin' that - schtop!
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14 Dec 2004, 01:11
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I dunno...
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: manchester
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
I might play next round.
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14 Dec 2004, 01:15
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Banned
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by Stew
We could all start playin again and form a GD gal, although we'd all get bored after about a day and quit.
Actually that's a shit idea, so anyone else who was thinkin' that - schtop!
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I was involved in a GD gal. We had me and jboy and nodrog and sarina and plasma and chrism and other people I can't remember that well
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14 Dec 2004, 01:37
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1up on you
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Birmingham, UK
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
pa is a lot more fun that it was, just a mere lack of players tbh, but pa has had less, i believe there is what 4k players now. But you can play pro or semi active whatever floats youre boat. I enjoy tbh as do many others, pa is going through a certain renaiscence one could say..
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14 Dec 2004, 01:38
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Banned
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Clearly I was the best PA player in all history.
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14 Dec 2004, 02:07
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Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
I was involved in a GD gal. We had me and jboy and nodrog and sarina and plasma and chrism and other people I can't remember that well
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Wasn't there a TPE gal in round 4? didn't they all fall out or get deleted or exiled or something?
There would be no way i'd get up in the middle of the night to answer a galaxy distress call when I'm with my girlfriend or not home. Sigh, how sad i used to be...
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14 Dec 2004, 02:10
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
There was indeed a tpe gal in r4. Nod no doubt has many gay stories about it that nobody in particular really wants to hear. Most of them went inactive after a while if I recall correctly.
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14 Dec 2004, 10:44
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
excellent, wow, i know 2 of the top 5 alliances, hehehe
thinking about playing again as i am moving further out of town in january, so will be spending less time around my friends, and more time in the home with my GF, where she generally doesnt mind if i have a computer on in the backround, hence thinking about pa again
thanks a lot jonny btw, that really helped
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14 Dec 2004, 10:45
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Location: NI
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
Here's a list of the alliances this round. Overall I'd say PA is close to a better game now than it ever was, the real problems lie in the small memberbase and stagnatory nature of alliance-play. If you actually liked the game when you played I'd recommend it though.
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I aint played in a few rounds but now they name an alliance after me!
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14 Dec 2004, 11:23
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Guy next door
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by JonnyBGood
There was indeed a tpe gal in r4. Nod no doubt has many gay stories about it that nobody in particular really wants to hear. Most of them went inactive after a while if I recall correctly.
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I remember we (Xanadu) had them in our arbiter for some reason, don't know what exactly the reason was, probably ties with Legion. Why am I telling this, hell I don't know, just for old time's sake.
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14 Dec 2004, 14:18
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
which was the round of parallels rather than clusters? was that round 4?
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14 Dec 2004, 14:19
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Guy next door
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
Yeah
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14 Dec 2004, 14:23
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
i was in a GD gal that round then heh
(and in parallel 11, home of the fantastically hated x11x)
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14 Dec 2004, 14:24
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Bored
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Nottm ->Shef ->Croydon ->Manc ->Durham ->Sheffield
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
I got stuck in the damn 8th parallel that round. (t8p grr)
Was great fun though, eventually...
That was the last BIG round. and the only round I played all the way through...
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14 Dec 2004, 14:32
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
i played up to round 10, then left with a massive argument over on AD, that i only posted to wind people up cos i was drunk heh
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14 Dec 2004, 15:52
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Happy
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canada eh
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
i thought this thread was funny. it's the same funny as ' lets ask for love advice on gd' (though it's changed now since more people seem to be more 'experienced' now.
but 'let me ask a forum of people who don't or never have played pa if i should play pa again'
maybe it's just me :\
but rr i think you should play. i think we should form a GD gal next round and kick ass... or something. at least it could be fun.
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14 Dec 2004, 15:55
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
a lot of the people on here actually play or have played pa, but thats why i asked for it to be left on here rather than moved, i actually wanted to get people talking about if if they had played or not
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14 Dec 2004, 15:57
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Happy
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Canada eh
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
i know
it was a poor attempt at a joke
anyway.. i've never missed a round. not sure whether to laugh or cry but hey.
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14 Dec 2004, 16:08
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
seriously? you still play? excellent!
is it getting a bit better nowadays then?
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14 Dec 2004, 16:42
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
You can play alot less actively nowadays. Given that you can only lose value and not XP, some players have about 60-80% of their score in XP, and its only if they don't land anymore attacks that they *might* get knocked out of the top 20
So, yes, alliances still require alot of activity, but you can play solo and still do well
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14 Dec 2004, 16:43
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Registered User
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Location: South Pacific
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0
note to mods: i have put this on GD rather than one of the pa boards cos i only know the people from around here now, i dont know any of the in game type people anymore, and i therefore respect the veiws i will get from the people i know more, so please dont move it
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move it. you know you want to.
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14 Dec 2004, 17:34
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Rawr rawr
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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i was in a GD gal that round then heh
(and in parallel 11, home of the fantastically hated x11x)
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I remember that.
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14 Dec 2004, 17:38
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Miles Teg
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Dom City
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
x11x ****ing rocked.
tbh i am only good at speed games, just top 100 at normal :\
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14 Dec 2004, 17:40
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
PA lost a great deal after r4. There was an entire world underneath the main wars that round. I can remember at least 30 active people I knew who just quit when pay-to-play came in.
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14 Dec 2004, 17:52
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cynic
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Re: it might be a bad idea but...
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x11x ****ing rocked.
tbh i am only good at speed games, just top 100 at normal :\
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x11x were as big a bunch of sneaky backstabbing bastards as this game has ever seen
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