Ashland

Regarding. Re !@#$ing garding.

To be clear, I approve of everything BUT the spies.

You realize he only agreed to have you "guide him" to troll you. I bet he was laughing the whole time. Sitting there in front of his computer, wearing a smoke jacket, saying to himself "I'm gonna do it again!"

6/23/2015 My !@#$.

You're feeding into him.

Guilty! Meh! Meh!

Lmao ahahahahaha! YES! RUN, KASTOR, RUN! Omg ahahaha. I love you. You're the greatest troll in the world. o/ Kastor

The spy system is already pretty gamey. Meaning that spies really reward know-how more than sheer strength of numbers. I would take 500 spies in the hands of people who knew what they were doing and in a proper spread for espionage attacks over 1000 spies in the hands of people who had never launched an op. Every time. Because the 500 would win, I assure you. I disagree with my friends that these changes make spies useless. What they do is make them more of an arcane and elite weapon. They make them even more gamey. Now some gameyness is good because it punishes pay to win. But I think this is too arcane and requires too much expertise. Allow me to put it this way: After punching some numbers into your espionage simulator and toying around in excel, I have found a way to exploit these new formulas, without even knowing precisely what they are, to absolutely crush people who do not know how to run a similar exploitation. The exploitation requires a great deal of know-how about the system, good timing and coordination, manpower, and spies (all things which new players, coincidentally, often lack). I entreat you to suspend these changes and allow me to explain it to you. Otherwise, I have the expertise, men, spies, and money to demonstrate my point very effectively. Love, Ashland XOXOXO

Rerolling is a mistake. Particularly if you tell people afterward it's you. You're just forfeiting points.

What?! He said only 35 mil. That son of a !@#$.

Uh... I just think that their conduct has been appalling, they aren't pleasant people, and that the game would be better off if they weren't playing it. So, yeah. Pretty much.

Couple things: 1: SK was criticized before, during, and after. 2: Tenages is more than happy to pile on criticism in similar circumstances. He's developed a reputation for it, in fact. This is your first rodeo with Tenages. It isn't ours. 3: Pretending that this is being represented faithfully, which it is not, SK's diplomatic reputation has been completely ruined. Can you really blame people for expecting this to be just another one of Tenages' underhanded bs moves? After the crap he tried to pull not just once but TWICE now? If SK lies to its allies, what's to stop them from lying ABOUT their alliances? SK is a sinking ship. Mensa can get off or become fish food. Leaping to their defense on the forums time and time again is very reminiscent of the behavior of an alliance that was very recently dragged down by SK's behavior. They learned from that lesson. You see, that's what this thread is. How long will it take YOU to learn? I look forward to reading an SK-Mensa announcement thread. Sooner rather than later, for your sake.

Just... just to be clear, how did he get 26 mil in debt? Because, like, did you count the taxes he paid against that? It's not like he was in your alliance, taking your money and doing nothing. Also SRD has a huge misunderstanding of Non-Competes. The biggest thing a non competitive clause says is that you can't take business with you to another company or a company you make. That's the big sticking point. Some of them throw in that you can't work a month after resigning from your current job. If it's longer than a month or two, tops, if you're really high level, it gets thrown out of court like 90% of the time as being unenforceable. And yes, you have to agree to it beforehand. And yes, poaching isn't a big deal. People will go where they want. Kastor tried to poach a couple people from BoC. They didn't go. We didn't give a crap. I tried to poach someone from Titan. They said no. Ironically Kastor got a bit bent out of shape, but whatever. BoC obviously doesn't want someone running off with debt, as was the issue here, but as long as we gave you the money a while ago we couldn't care less. Like, we're not going to hold you to money we gave you 3 months ago or some !@#$. But if you took out ten mil the day before leaving, yeah, that's not cool. At various times Rose, Guardian, CU (that was a while ago), and maybe a couple others have tried to poach me. I didn't accept their offers (I was actually already in Rose when abbas tried to poach me to Rose the last time; awkward for everyone involved) but it wouldn't have been wrong if I did.

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Tenages, your treaty was more short lived and more of an abysmal failure than Citadel Council ever was. Your thoughts?

No you didn't! \o/ You're very bad at this.

Indeed.

All detailed in the first post. You sent me a sell offer, not a buy offer.

... This isn't the real world. Over two weeks, 25% interest is almost nothing in Orbis. What are the chances you know more about this than I do? lol

*grabs his room* Shoo! Go on, get outta here!

Mm no. I'm not. Send me the trade offer, though, and I'll send it to you. I've given VE so much already, what's a little more? *eyeroll* But if there were any justice VE would recompense me for the millions they screwed me out of by allowing MF to hide behind their skirts. That's what this is about.

The Cirrus Bank approves.

25% if you pay 100% of it back within two weeks. If you don't, normal penalties will apply and it will revert to a standard loan format.

The money in your account was taken as payment for Morgan Fraser's debt when said debtor joined VE, VE declared his debt invalid, and thumbed their nose at me. I told your leadership that that's what was happening, they said that that was fine and that they'd just reimburse you. Figured they'd take care of it. It is all explained in our terms. Cirrus reserves the right to confiscate the funds of any alliance or member of an alliance that harbors defaulted debtors and obstructs our ability to collect. VE more or less screwed me out of ten mil. Your account was a trinket compared to that. This was some months ago. If VE wants to pay me the ten mil that MF owed me (which would be less than I saved them in destroying Guardian's nukes alone, let alone the countless missiles whose destruction I personally funded) I will gladly reimburse you the amount of your account with interest taken into account. But I can't break the policy for you without having to break it for everyone else.

Well aware. Losses happen. Risk of the business.