Istalris wrote:

Mintaka wrote:Or maybe it's placing a colony and farming planets that others have already claimed that has garnered you that attention.

Placing a colony? If a planet slot is empty isn't it then free for anyone to colonise? And claiming farms as your own is pretty greedy and just plain wishful thinking.

-Istalris-

not if your name is mintaka... and oh look at that. it is

I hadn't seen that post, until now that Thatguyeric brought it up again.
I will take some time to write some comments, mostly because there are a lot of players who wonder "why is everybody probing me these days" or "what am I to do to stop being attacked"? Although, other players higher in rank, have answered to such questions in the past.

1. Reason I attacked khan at that time: No particular reason. I saw a player name in G2 that I hadn't seen before, I checked his rank to see that it wasn't something like 10 (mine was about 45 - 50 at that time if I 'm not wrong), I probed and figured out that there were moderate resources on that planet, worth attacking, and, if I remember well, no fleet. Here comes the important part:
I wanted to test the player to see if he left those resources unattended (I think there were some LCs too, I can't remember) and therefore he SHOULD BE MARKED FOR FUTURE ATTACKS or he was online and he had plan to react if attacked, therefore this would "label" him as a cautious player, therefore MOST PROBABLY UNPROFITABLE for future attacks.

2. Reason I recalled the attack: As I have already mentioned, there WERE resources on the planet. 40 secs before the clash, I safety probed and saw no resources on the planet. Either he sneaked some cargoes from somewhere, or he buildsaved, I don't know.
And, with zero resources on the planet, I recalled the attack, because there was no reason for me to finish it. This marked khan as a cautious player: With extreme effort, I might have been able to catch him off guard maybe once. This does not compensate for the lost time and wasted deuterium of all the recalled attacks I would have to do till I achieved one successful attack, except if it was his whole fleet I would recycle.

Vary rare possibility, a player like khan to leave his whole fleet exposed.

The_Templar wrote:I hadn't seen that post, until now that Thatguyeric brought it up again.
I will take some time to write some comments, mostly because there are a lot of players who wonder "why is everybody probing me these days" or "what am I to do to stop being attacked"? Although, other players higher in rank, have answered to such questions in the past.

1. Reason I attacked khan at that time: No particular reason. I saw a player name in G2 that I hadn't seen before, I checked his rank to see that it wasn't something like 10 (mine was about 45 - 50 at that time if I 'm not wrong), I probed and figured out that there were moderate resources on that planet, worth attacking, and, if I remember well, no fleet. Here comes the important part:
I wanted to test the player to see if he left those resources unattended (I think there were some LCs too, I can't remember) and therefore he SHOULD BE MARKED FOR FUTURE ATTACKS or he was online and he had plan to react if attacked, therefore this would "label" him as a cautious player, therefore MOST PROBABLY UNPROFITABLE for future attacks.

2. Reason I recalled the attack: As I have already mentioned, there WERE resources on the planet. 40 secs before the clash, I safety probed and saw no resources on the planet. Either he sneaked some cargoes from somewhere, or he buildsaved, I don't know.
And, with zero resources on the planet, I recalled the attack, because there was no reason for me to finish it. This marked khan as a cautious player: With extreme effort, I might have been able to catch him off guard maybe once. This does not compensate for the lost time and wasted deuterium of all the recalled attacks I would have to do till I achieved one successful attack, except if it was his whole fleet I would recycle.

Vary rare possibility, a player like khan to leave his whole fleet exposed.

+1 Templar.
on the same note though, i wish people who do probe me, dont get upset and all uptight and start sending threatening PM's if i probe them right back ( which is usually the case since im at my pc pretty much all day/night ) lol.

Khan and SBT ive known from another OL game we play, and im not surprised one bit they are doing well since they seem to adapt and apply at a very high rate in OL games no matter what it is.

Thanks Templar.

The truth is when you have the assorted cast of characters coming after you that I did, you had better play it safe or you will lose your fleet in a heartbeat.

I complied with Mintaka's request to remove my colony and destroyed all records of its existence. Fortunately, my fleet was too small to be worth any further pursuit, but I still don't even scan other planet in solar systems where Mintaka has a planet. Paranoid? Yes.