Comments on: Issue #27

By: sken

sken — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:06:00 +0000

blagggarevagfdtuihfiuixfhjfihythcui tribune rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#

my dream is to be in the tiacken so i may go on a rampage to get famous

By: lordmoore

lordmoore — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 04:28:08 +0000

“Every so often, the bigger alliances go through the ranks and clean house. With large numbers of members, its difficult for a single person to know if certain people are active, pay dues (if required), or even log in. So every so often, the bigger alliances will have a cleaning. Give members a certain time period to check in, and if they haven’t replied to a PM/e-mail, they are booted from the alliance. This makes it easier on all involved. Recently, the Freeholders Alliance went through their summer cleaning, booting 17 members from the alliance after a given time period. While the number may seem large, the efficiency of the alliance will likely not be affected, as the members that were booted, well, weren’t doing anything. Which large alliance will be cleaning house next? Time will tell.”

None…. I don’t recall another alliance cleaning house to the extent I have done twice now.

By: TRSobsidian

TRSobsidian — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:22:57 +0000

heres an idea for the tribune: Insider Stories- sneak peaks at the lives of top trader, famous fighters, wanted Pirates, and other things like that?

By: The Unseen

The Unseen — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:44:55 +0000

dont worry, kre and his evil smerf bretherin will fall before the wrath of my power

By: Sylos

Sylos — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:31:31 +0000

ya, it does seem abit short…but still entertaining and *dare I say it* educational for pardus, as always.

By: nickpan

nickpan — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:48:46 +0000

If anyone have got stories to share on content ideas, please shoot them to Brackard in the in game PM. I bet he will love to hear from you.

By: Shini

Shini — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:11:19 +0000

This week’s issue seems awfully short

By: Lenderz

Lenderz — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:23:34 +0000

Oooh get you…

My paper was late, I want a refund :P

By: Darmani

Darmani — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:01:45 +0000

“Try to give yourself several stops before being forced to make a decision on how to run your missions – for example, in the Federation, start in the Dragon’s Den and go through Ook, before deciding whether to go up through Mirian, Lave, and the Weasel SB, to go through Andexa, Orevre, and the Weasel SB, or go through Andexa, Siberion, to Tau Ceti or Beta Proxima. The more lead time you give yourself, the better chance the turns you use will be more efficient.”

To that, I will say “No.”

When doing missions, you can only carry a few package missions at once. Thus, you will achieve maximum capacity very early. You are likely to have missions mostly for a few sectors away at a time. But if you see a really good mission, then you should take it. Thus, at Dragon’s Lair, you might take a mission for Andexa and a mission for Ericon. Now most of your run is set in stone, because you’d be a fool to spend 800 turns traveling through Miarin only to go to two low-pop SBs.

Now, having just proved why Miarin->Lave is a mistake, I’ll explain why Andexa->Dacees->Siberion is not a good choice either: There is not much of a good route. You waste turns going through Dacees for only 3-4 high pop planets/SBs. Using very few turns to go through Orerve and XH yields the huge rewards of Ericon, Alpha Centauri, Sol, and Epsilon Eridani. Then of course you can extend your trip back to where you started via Olexti.

But with so many high pop planets in one place, you can always do most of your missions as runs back and forth between those aforementioned four sectors, and take extensions as needed into neighboring sectors. I used that when ranking Lt. Commander->Captain.