https://thepurge.net/ Sun, 31 May 2026 21:44:02 +0000 MyBB https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=16498 Sat, 08 Aug 2020 23:02:13 -0400 Sithh]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=16498 Really quite stunned to find you all I'd be interested to hear how and why we have all seemed to circle around and end up here.
I searched  a lot over the last... Decade and change to find a meeting ground would find little 5 or 6 year old tidbits here and there but no concrete groups.
So glad to have found you all... Mom can we keep them?]]> Really quite stunned to find you all I'd be interested to hear how and why we have all seemed to circle around and end up here.
I searched  a lot over the last... Decade and change to find a meeting ground would find little 5 or 6 year old tidbits here and there but no concrete groups.
So glad to have found you all... Mom can we keep them?]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=11250 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:45:43 -0400 Airyth]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=11250 ce la vie

At least I can google tales of me wasting GM and Guides time in EQ keeping them from retrieving the corpses of people in real need and know it was time well spent in that game

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17430]]> ce la vie

At least I can google tales of me wasting GM and Guides time in EQ keeping them from retrieving the corpses of people in real need and know it was time well spent in that game

http://www.eqclerics.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17430]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=8577 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:31:38 -0500 Slamz]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=8577
So lately we've been doing "Red Zone Patrol" -- running around in fast ships, mostly in 1's, 2's and 3's and killing people that way. By being fast, we stop the gankers from catching us and can pick our battles better.

But when I say "fast ships", I mean ships that can still kill stuff. Mercy, Tigre Sleek, Mordaunt Sleek, etc -- tough ships with lots of guns which also happen to be fairly fast.

The Spanish really hate us for this and call us "fail boaters" and have taken to trying to one-up us by taking REALLY fast/nimble ships, like the Expedition Packet Boat or Corsair -- ships that can be even faster than ours, particularly on the open sea, but which have very little firepower. They love to try and gank us so they can say "oh, don't like failboating so much now, do ya?" (They would like us to stop using fast ships and return to using slow, expensive ships like they use...)

They think they're showing us up, but they're actually being pretty dumb about it.


So a Corsair cut me off downwind and got me into a battle. A Herc Sleek joined him. I called for help and had a British Herc Sleek join me. Then 3 more Spanish jumped in, so we decided to run.

We ended up running in different directions around this large island. A Herc Sleek and a Corsair chased me. The other Brit had a Macedon, Expedition and some other small ship chasing him. I noticed that the Expedition tried to cut him off and nearly got blown to splinters, making it away to hide behind the Macedon with a sliver of hull left.

Seeing this, I decided it was embarrassing to be seen running from 2 ships while the other guy was apparently fighting his way to the exit point with 3 ships. So I decided to rageboard the Herc Sleek that was chasing me and was right on my tail.

30 seconds later, I was on the deck of the Herc Sleek.

The other ships, seeing this, apparently gave up on the other Brit, allowing him to escape, and came to try and sink me while I was in boarding combat. Problem is they were 2000+ yards away and the only ship that could attack me was the shitty little Corsair. I was betting he couldn't sink me faster than I could beat the Herc Sleek in boarding combat.

And I was right.

I finish off the Herc Sleek, get out with about 800 structure left, I blow half the masts off of the Corsair and run. The other ships are closing but are still too far away to help. I make my getaway before they get in range, outrunning the damaged Corsair.


Net result:
5 Spanish try to gank 2 Brits and lose a Herc Sleek and don't sink anyone.

That's the difference between "a good plan" and "a spiteful, but shitty plan".]]>
So lately we've been doing "Red Zone Patrol" -- running around in fast ships, mostly in 1's, 2's and 3's and killing people that way. By being fast, we stop the gankers from catching us and can pick our battles better.

But when I say "fast ships", I mean ships that can still kill stuff. Mercy, Tigre Sleek, Mordaunt Sleek, etc -- tough ships with lots of guns which also happen to be fairly fast.

The Spanish really hate us for this and call us "fail boaters" and have taken to trying to one-up us by taking REALLY fast/nimble ships, like the Expedition Packet Boat or Corsair -- ships that can be even faster than ours, particularly on the open sea, but which have very little firepower. They love to try and gank us so they can say "oh, don't like failboating so much now, do ya?" (They would like us to stop using fast ships and return to using slow, expensive ships like they use...)

They think they're showing us up, but they're actually being pretty dumb about it.


So a Corsair cut me off downwind and got me into a battle. A Herc Sleek joined him. I called for help and had a British Herc Sleek join me. Then 3 more Spanish jumped in, so we decided to run.

We ended up running in different directions around this large island. A Herc Sleek and a Corsair chased me. The other Brit had a Macedon, Expedition and some other small ship chasing him. I noticed that the Expedition tried to cut him off and nearly got blown to splinters, making it away to hide behind the Macedon with a sliver of hull left.

Seeing this, I decided it was embarrassing to be seen running from 2 ships while the other guy was apparently fighting his way to the exit point with 3 ships. So I decided to rageboard the Herc Sleek that was chasing me and was right on my tail.

30 seconds later, I was on the deck of the Herc Sleek.

The other ships, seeing this, apparently gave up on the other Brit, allowing him to escape, and came to try and sink me while I was in boarding combat. Problem is they were 2000+ yards away and the only ship that could attack me was the shitty little Corsair. I was betting he couldn't sink me faster than I could beat the Herc Sleek in boarding combat.

And I was right.

I finish off the Herc Sleek, get out with about 800 structure left, I blow half the masts off of the Corsair and run. The other ships are closing but are still too far away to help. I make my getaway before they get in range, outrunning the damaged Corsair.


Net result:
5 Spanish try to gank 2 Brits and lose a Herc Sleek and don't sink anyone.

That's the difference between "a good plan" and "a spiteful, but shitty plan".]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Dustie]]>
seems familiar.[/quote]

So perhaps your first quote should say "“When facism comes [i]back to Germany[/i] it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying an anti Turk sign.”]]>
seems familiar.[/quote]

So perhaps your first quote should say "“When facism comes [i]back to Germany[/i] it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying an anti Turk sign.”]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Diggles]]>
I dont know what you're smoking Vllad, I'm not a console gamer and havent owned a console since n64 (which I sold after about 3 months)

[quote="Vllad"]FPS games are like war on crack. Super speeds and complete chaos with very little strategy other then pure fire power[/quote]

Sure a pub or pug server is going to be like this. Any community server with regulars, veterans or clanies is a completely different subject. So you might want to experience this before you make ill-informed stereotypes. Remember, I've played in amateur Teamfortress league for 2 years...there is no 'complete chaos' there. Unbeknownst to you there is strategy in FPS games. If you havent taken your weekly practices to go over a map and come up with strategies, offense & defense, you will get demolished in league play.]]>
I dont know what you're smoking Vllad, I'm not a console gamer and havent owned a console since n64 (which I sold after about 3 months)

[quote="Vllad"]FPS games are like war on crack. Super speeds and complete chaos with very little strategy other then pure fire power[/quote]

Sure a pub or pug server is going to be like this. Any community server with regulars, veterans or clanies is a completely different subject. So you might want to experience this before you make ill-informed stereotypes. Remember, I've played in amateur Teamfortress league for 2 years...there is no 'complete chaos' there. Unbeknownst to you there is strategy in FPS games. If you havent taken your weekly practices to go over a map and come up with strategies, offense & defense, you will get demolished in league play.]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Veraphim]]>
from there you can get alot more fancy, like only allowing them in certain regions, soil conditions, climates, etc.[/quote]


They already have this mechanic. You drop Mining Camps and Lumber Camps to automate the harvesting of the respective resources in the area. Not sure if the Granary just grows wheat/flax or if it is supposed to automatically harvest it too, I'll have to check into that.

Where it gets rough though is prior to getting those buildings up when you have to harvest everything manually. You need to make it a little bit of a chore so that it can be a specialized area, but you don't want it to be horrible. Some people have already suggested a form of Auto-Attack for harvesting. You target a node, go into "mining mode", and once every 10 seconds it checks your skills and you get a resource or not. If you get attacked it cancels, etc, but it saves you from having to right-click every few seconds. I think this might be a good solution actually. It doesn't necessarily make collection faster, but it would save on the tediousness of resource harvesting.

The [i]speed[/i] of manual harvesting right now is ok IMO. Takes me about 6 hours of resource collecting to get everything needed for a house. Probably will be about 16hrs to get everything for a warehouse, which I'm working on now. That's with just me doing it. A small group of people could put together houses in a couple hours, and something like a warehouse or watchtower in an evening. The larger buildings like Keeps, Lumber Camps, etc. might take 6-8 dedicated harvesters 3 days of 4-hour sessions to do. That all sounds fine to me.]]>
from there you can get alot more fancy, like only allowing them in certain regions, soil conditions, climates, etc.[/quote]


They already have this mechanic. You drop Mining Camps and Lumber Camps to automate the harvesting of the respective resources in the area. Not sure if the Granary just grows wheat/flax or if it is supposed to automatically harvest it too, I'll have to check into that.

Where it gets rough though is prior to getting those buildings up when you have to harvest everything manually. You need to make it a little bit of a chore so that it can be a specialized area, but you don't want it to be horrible. Some people have already suggested a form of Auto-Attack for harvesting. You target a node, go into "mining mode", and once every 10 seconds it checks your skills and you get a resource or not. If you get attacked it cancels, etc, but it saves you from having to right-click every few seconds. I think this might be a good solution actually. It doesn't necessarily make collection faster, but it would save on the tediousness of resource harvesting.

The [i]speed[/i] of manual harvesting right now is ok IMO. Takes me about 6 hours of resource collecting to get everything needed for a house. Probably will be about 16hrs to get everything for a warehouse, which I'm working on now. That's with just me doing it. A small group of people could put together houses in a couple hours, and something like a warehouse or watchtower in an evening. The larger buildings like Keeps, Lumber Camps, etc. might take 6-8 dedicated harvesters 3 days of 4-hour sessions to do. That all sounds fine to me.]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=7628 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:06:09 -0500 Abramzz]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=7628 Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Crice]]> Okay with me!

As long as you accept the disclaimer that there is no telling how long we will stick with this game. I think it remains to be seen how viable our "pew pew" idea will be long term.


Granted if you are slinging around billions of ISK, then ideas like gatecamping might quickly become more viable. Right now I think we have some people with the skills to do it but we don't have the cash or income to risk anything heavier than a cruiser (or anything heavier than a frigate, really). Our PvP so far has consisted of trying to find people to gank in asteroid belts (which is actually a lot of fun but is spread thinner than I'd like).[/quote]


No worries I understand. I have to do the alliance thing for corps to be able to use many of the game mechanics so no biggie.

The most fun I had in game was roaming pew pew parties in 0.0. Killing people mining high end minerals.]]> Okay with me!

As long as you accept the disclaimer that there is no telling how long we will stick with this game. I think it remains to be seen how viable our "pew pew" idea will be long term.


Granted if you are slinging around billions of ISK, then ideas like gatecamping might quickly become more viable. Right now I think we have some people with the skills to do it but we don't have the cash or income to risk anything heavier than a cruiser (or anything heavier than a frigate, really). Our PvP so far has consisted of trying to find people to gank in asteroid belts (which is actually a lot of fun but is spread thinner than I'd like).[/quote]


No worries I understand. I have to do the alliance thing for corps to be able to use many of the game mechanics so no biggie.

The most fun I had in game was roaming pew pew parties in 0.0. Killing people mining high end minerals.]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Jakensama]]> This list from the Heritage Foundation might be useful in our search:
[url]http://www.heritage.org/index/TopTen.aspx[/url][/quote]

So conservatives should move to Hong Kong or Singapore so they can be in paradise. Why isn't Dubai on that list with its 0% income tax?]]> This list from the Heritage Foundation might be useful in our search:
[url]http://www.heritage.org/index/TopTen.aspx[/url][/quote]

So conservatives should move to Hong Kong or Singapore so they can be in paradise. Why isn't Dubai on that list with its 0% income tax?]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Diggles]]>
hope you kept your original packaging though! you'll need it with your receipt where you purchased it]]>
hope you kept your original packaging though! you'll need it with your receipt where you purchased it]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Vllad]]>
still holding grudges after all these years vllad? <3 ciab

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[/quote]


I never had a grudge. It is just my opinion that in general they were disgusting people. I could care less what they did then or now but I am pretty confident in my belief that once you are a shit head you will always be a shit head. You either have good character or you don't.

We have put a gaming community together that goes back to the EQ years and will last for many years to come. It has been successful because we don't play or invite people of bad character like the players of 12P.


Vllad]]>
still holding grudges after all these years vllad? <3 ciab

-f
[/quote]


I never had a grudge. It is just my opinion that in general they were disgusting people. I could care less what they did then or now but I am pretty confident in my belief that once you are a shit head you will always be a shit head. You either have good character or you don't.

We have put a gaming community together that goes back to the EQ years and will last for many years to come. It has been successful because we don't play or invite people of bad character like the players of 12P.


Vllad]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:02 -0400 Zephyrs]]>
Memorize your SSN now.
Wear normal cloths to BASIC and have a normal haircut, not long and NOT shaved.
Tell your family to send you NOTHING but the occasional letter. No FOOD!
Keep your mouth shut.
Volunteer for NOTHING.
Follow each instruction to the letter.
Don't over achieve, atleast not at Boot Camp.

Never say 'OK'
Never smile or laugh.
Learn to stand at attention for long periods of time.
Learn to eat fast and load up on your water at chow time.

Use disposible razors and throw them out after each shave. Electric shavers are impossible to keep clean enough to pass inspection.

Fold a few pair of underwear and undershirts once perfectly and NEVER touch them or wear them. Have two sets of uniforms that you are either always wearing or in the laundry. Perpetually folding cloths to pass inspection is a pain in the ass and time consuming.

Snitches get stitches!

And I hope you don't mind taking showers with 30 other guys in an open 20'x20' room.[/quote]

All good tips!!!
Even in the Canadian Military!]]>
Memorize your SSN now.
Wear normal cloths to BASIC and have a normal haircut, not long and NOT shaved.
Tell your family to send you NOTHING but the occasional letter. No FOOD!
Keep your mouth shut.
Volunteer for NOTHING.
Follow each instruction to the letter.
Don't over achieve, atleast not at Boot Camp.

Never say 'OK'
Never smile or laugh.
Learn to stand at attention for long periods of time.
Learn to eat fast and load up on your water at chow time.

Use disposible razors and throw them out after each shave. Electric shavers are impossible to keep clean enough to pass inspection.

Fold a few pair of underwear and undershirts once perfectly and NEVER touch them or wear them. Have two sets of uniforms that you are either always wearing or in the laundry. Perpetually folding cloths to pass inspection is a pain in the ass and time consuming.

Snitches get stitches!

And I hope you don't mind taking showers with 30 other guys in an open 20'x20' room.[/quote]

All good tips!!!
Even in the Canadian Military!]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=4056 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:25:34 -0400 Slamz]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=4056 Pirates of the Burning Sea...

I saw Turpitude was getting close to 5k unrest, so I drove up there in my Deliverance Heavy. This had multiple purposes:

1) I could try and jump someone when unrest reached 5k
2) I could get sunk and finally free up a slot. I've been wanting a second Oliphant.
3) I could pick up nails from Thudz and ship them back to the Antilles if I don't get sunk.


When I got there, I saw 2 Brits in seperate fights: a level 50 and a level 40. I parked outside on a current marker and waited for the zone to go red.

Bing, zone goes red. Level 50 gets out of his battle so I go running in.

Looking...looking...looking... don't see him anywhere.

Bing, there he is. I go for him and 2 seconds before I click on him I see the level 40 get out of his battle.


Fight starts and it's 2v1. The level 40 is in a Myrmidon and the level 50 is in a Mordaunt 4th rate!


I turn and begin my plan of "Snare the big ship and fight the little ship". I'm trying to keep the Mordaunt as far away as possible while turning to broadside the Myrmidon. I keep bar in my rear cannons especially for the Mordaunt and heavy shot in my broadsides for the Myrmidon.

They're going after my sails, but not very effectively. Between Defense 2, Cut Lines (which adds defense, these days), St. Elmo's Masts and the ranges we were at, they just weren't putting any damage on my sails that I couldn't repair. I think the Myrmidon in particular was making the critical mistake of using Star Shot from a bit too far away, because as close as he was he was still whiffing majorly. Meanwhile, I'm blasting the shit out of him with cannon balls.

The Myrmidon is forced to run for it and barely escapes. I thought I could probably finish him off but I was afraid of catching too much flak from the Mordaunt so I let the Myrmidon go and prepared to 1v1 the Mordaunt.

I figured I'd shoot his sails up a bit and then turn and charge him and go for the board. Little did I realize, as focused as I was on what was going on behind me, that I was about to impact the shoreline. Worse, I had driven into a tiny little bay area.


So I turned on the Mordaunt a little earlier than planned. He was still going after my sails but seemed to throw some anti-personnel shot into the mix. I got a Plague Ship on him and was able to pull alongside, Decimate and climb on board.

The boarding combat was decidedly one-sided. I didn't die once. Just plowed through him and his crew.

I got out of boarding combat to find the Myrmidon parked on my nose, blasting off my masts. I captured the Mordaunt and used it to blow the Myrmidon out of the water. The Myrmidon was determined to board me, which wasn't a bad idea at first, but he failed the first attempt and never got another and spent way too much time firing grapeshot at me.


So now I have a Mordaunt and two British learned a valuable lesson about flipping pirate ports, like maybe, "You might want to practice a little PvP in less valuable ships first."


<embed src="http://thepurge.net/stuff/50 Pirate vs 50 British and 40 British.wmv" width="800" height="600" autostart="false">]]> Pirates of the Burning Sea...

I saw Turpitude was getting close to 5k unrest, so I drove up there in my Deliverance Heavy. This had multiple purposes:

1) I could try and jump someone when unrest reached 5k
2) I could get sunk and finally free up a slot. I've been wanting a second Oliphant.
3) I could pick up nails from Thudz and ship them back to the Antilles if I don't get sunk.


When I got there, I saw 2 Brits in seperate fights: a level 50 and a level 40. I parked outside on a current marker and waited for the zone to go red.

Bing, zone goes red. Level 50 gets out of his battle so I go running in.

Looking...looking...looking... don't see him anywhere.

Bing, there he is. I go for him and 2 seconds before I click on him I see the level 40 get out of his battle.


Fight starts and it's 2v1. The level 40 is in a Myrmidon and the level 50 is in a Mordaunt 4th rate!


I turn and begin my plan of "Snare the big ship and fight the little ship". I'm trying to keep the Mordaunt as far away as possible while turning to broadside the Myrmidon. I keep bar in my rear cannons especially for the Mordaunt and heavy shot in my broadsides for the Myrmidon.

They're going after my sails, but not very effectively. Between Defense 2, Cut Lines (which adds defense, these days), St. Elmo's Masts and the ranges we were at, they just weren't putting any damage on my sails that I couldn't repair. I think the Myrmidon in particular was making the critical mistake of using Star Shot from a bit too far away, because as close as he was he was still whiffing majorly. Meanwhile, I'm blasting the shit out of him with cannon balls.

The Myrmidon is forced to run for it and barely escapes. I thought I could probably finish him off but I was afraid of catching too much flak from the Mordaunt so I let the Myrmidon go and prepared to 1v1 the Mordaunt.

I figured I'd shoot his sails up a bit and then turn and charge him and go for the board. Little did I realize, as focused as I was on what was going on behind me, that I was about to impact the shoreline. Worse, I had driven into a tiny little bay area.


So I turned on the Mordaunt a little earlier than planned. He was still going after my sails but seemed to throw some anti-personnel shot into the mix. I got a Plague Ship on him and was able to pull alongside, Decimate and climb on board.

The boarding combat was decidedly one-sided. I didn't die once. Just plowed through him and his crew.

I got out of boarding combat to find the Myrmidon parked on my nose, blasting off my masts. I captured the Mordaunt and used it to blow the Myrmidon out of the water. The Myrmidon was determined to board me, which wasn't a bad idea at first, but he failed the first attempt and never got another and spent way too much time firing grapeshot at me.


So now I have a Mordaunt and two British learned a valuable lesson about flipping pirate ports, like maybe, "You might want to practice a little PvP in less valuable ships first."


<embed src="http://thepurge.net/stuff/50 Pirate vs 50 British and 40 British.wmv" width="800" height="600" autostart="false">]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=3667 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:03:26 -0400 Darkedoe]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=3667
"Target the Healers!!!"

Good stuff, the only reason i would ever play WoW again would be for the awsome experience with The Purge, you guys are great, keep kicking Alliance butt!]]>
"Target the Healers!!!"

Good stuff, the only reason i would ever play WoW again would be for the awsome experience with The Purge, you guys are great, keep kicking Alliance butt!]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=3066 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:14:13 -0400 Snowreap]]> https://thepurge.net/showthread.php?tid=3066
what do I do? what I always do when I see a rare spawn -- I attack it immediately before someone else can tap it and grab its loot. I sic my pet on it, lay Hunter's Mark down on it and start blasting. A few moments before it dies it occurs to me that maybe it would make a better pet than the run-of-the-mill wolf I currently have, the type of wolf that wanders every nook and cranny of Mulgore.

it died.

I looked up The Rake on thottbot; apparently it's considered a must-have pet -- alliance players come over to Mulgore to get it. I spent the next hour or so running around Mulgore waiting for the respawn. Fortunately, thottbot also says that The Rake is just about the commonest rare mob in the game...

I now have my first "real" pet, and hopefully the knowledge to think twice before killing rare mobs from now on...

-ken]]>
what do I do? what I always do when I see a rare spawn -- I attack it immediately before someone else can tap it and grab its loot. I sic my pet on it, lay Hunter's Mark down on it and start blasting. A few moments before it dies it occurs to me that maybe it would make a better pet than the run-of-the-mill wolf I currently have, the type of wolf that wanders every nook and cranny of Mulgore.

it died.

I looked up The Rake on thottbot; apparently it's considered a must-have pet -- alliance players come over to Mulgore to get it. I spent the next hour or so running around Mulgore waiting for the respawn. Fortunately, thottbot also says that The Rake is just about the commonest rare mob in the game...

I now have my first "real" pet, and hopefully the knowledge to think twice before killing rare mobs from now on...

-ken]]>