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Is the tribute a static amount, does it go by percentage of total wealth/income, or does it let you choose what to set your demand at?
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President Ark posted:Are there trading mechanics? I'm not a very good offensive player in these sort of games but I'm a pretty good economic player and can spend hours just building huge cities and I'd love to get in fueling the (literal) goon fires of war. There are trading mechanics. There's a market to convert resources, and there's diplomacy with the various NPC towns and cities on the map. If you get them to sign the rights to a trade treaty to you you can start selling resources to them. You can also raise livestock and send it to the market in one of your armies (Essentially, you'd create a trade caravan that you send there.) to be sold off. Or you can just butcher it for food. I should probably add that stuff to the F.A.Q., since there's way too much stuff to cover in just a brief "Here's the gameplay!" description. There's way too much stuff to describe though. Also the thread is now up with a basic OP. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3556387&pagenumber=1&perpage=40#post416833224 I'll add some more tips on character and town creation in the FAQ a few. But basically, always be sure to pick the trait that boosts your soldiers. Each race has one, and orcs have basically nothing but ways to make their troops less cannon fodderish and more badass. Without the trait your troops lose a lot of really good stats out on the field. quote:Because everyone who plays an Orc is going to be someone who WANTS to get into bloody wars where you and the other guy salt and pillage and plunder each other. There are no carebears to kick in the face. Some of the more carebear friendly regions actually give a sense of triumph when you finally get good at conquering them. I actually fist pumped the first time I managed to take down a fully defended Southmountian fortress. That place was insane. Right from the start I had burning rocks from trebuchets slamming into the ground around my army and igniting the area, and the charge up to the walls the first few times looked like some sort of medieval battle that took place in Hell due to all the flames, impaled and immolated corpses, and gore everywhere. Honestly, if I hadn't of had my knights hanging back resurrecting dead troops in units, I probably would have broken and given him tribute on the first wall. But gently caress was it satisfying to see the broken look on the guy's face when I finally broke through his defenses and started slaughtering all his twinked out ranged units. 
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Jun 25, 2013 03:57
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Wait, this is Dawn of Fantasy: Kingdom Wars? I've basically glazed over every time I've seen the thing because its' got the most perfectly generic name ever. I may have to pick this up during the next Steam sale.
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Jun 25, 2013 07:11
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SynthOrange posted:Wait, this is Dawn of Fantasy: Kingdom Wars? I've basically glazed over every time I've seen the thing because its' got the most perfectly generic name ever. I may have to pick this up during the next Steam sale. It's an RTSMMO and is therefore the ripest field of gaming to grief the poo poo out of.
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Jun 25, 2013 07:30
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Of course someone comes out and tells me the game is actually interesting now that the 50% off coupon I had for it has expired.
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My memory is a bit foggy on this one. The general story is right, I might be off on the game. I think it was Saint's Row. There was a multiplayer prison level. You weren't supposed to be able to leave the prison area. I ended up in a very lopsided matchup and we were getting slaughtered. Soon I was the only one left and running for my life while being mocked by the other team. Somehow in my trying to flee and hide, I ended up outside of the play area. I was suddenly able to go anywhere on the map but the other team was still trapped in their area. Since they had kind of irritated me, I decided I will just wait them out and win the match. My PC is in the same room, so I just started playing some PC game while making sure the game stayed alive. Several hours later one of them was still hanging on screaming obscenities at me. I eventually managed to outwait him just out of general spite. This other one is reeaaaly old and isn't so much griefing as other people being morons but way back when I played the AOL Battletech game. Yes, I'm OLD. I was pretty good at it. I think I was ranked in the top 10 before they started charging by the hour and I quit. I would generally take a Jenner and run circles around the countless slow as hell Atlases people liked to use. The thing just like the board game, it took specific parts of your body being damaged into account. People took offense at all sorts of things. If you shot the head which is the least armored, it was an instant kill. They cried not fair on that. If you shot out both arms, they lost their weapons. That's unfair too. The back is poorly armored so of course you can't shoot them there. And if you shot out a leg they fell over and could never stand up so that was right out too. So basically when dealing with these people you were considered a jerk if you shot them anywhere but dead center chest....not a good idea in my tiny fast laser monster that would be crippled or dead from a single hit from practically anything I would generally alternate between a few things to amuse myself with these people. 1. Shooting off their arms and legs and letting them just sit there as a helpless torso for a while. Especially fun if I was the only one left on my side and I knew no one was coming to finish the job. 2. Literally running circles around them. The Atlas had a horrendous turning speed. Once I got into position behind one he could never hit me. Ever. I could drag that on indefinitely. The other option to drive people nuts was to use a Catapult. The way the game figured range, if you were out of range when the weapon was fired you could never ever hit, even if your target walked into range before it reached them. The Catapult had long range missiles. I got the timing down enough and found the proper speed at which I could instantly fire a full load and then go into full reverse before my opponent noticed 99% of the time. So many of them would scream that I was clearly cheating because I could hit them but they could not hit me as I was jumping back and forth across that invisible range line. I kind of felt dirty using this though so I kept it to a minimum but it was crazy effective.
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Jun 27, 2013 20:49
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If you haven't played it, you might like Mechwarrior Online (MWO). You can do some similar shenanigans there - when I played, the Goon clan (Word of Lowtax) made a perpetual habit of trying to anger pubbies as much as possible. One time we rolled a team then crippled their last guy (I think we blew off both arms and one leg, cause iirc one leg slows you like hell, both legs is a kill) then sat there knocking him over repeatedly for like five minutes spamming about being honorable Tetatae Birdwarriors and SQUAAAAAWWWKKing at him. Another time we trolled a kid into quitting MWO by calling him a furry. He went on the forums to cry about it, so someone set up a fake Deviant Art account and filled it with dinosaurs loving cars to frame him. When confronted about being a 'filthy, mentally diseased furry' he responded with "THAT's not my horribly drawn anime animal porn! THIS is my horribly drawn anime animal porn. There are band-aids over the nipples because I'm an ~artiste~." That was the best day. Everyone in that game loving hates Goons and it's wonderful. Fair warning, lots of EVE Goons. I don't think that's a bad thing - I generally like EVE Goons, but I know not everyone gets along with them.
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Jun 27, 2013 21:01
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Oh hells yes, Mechwarrior Online is ripe for griefing. Pubbies hate the Word of Lowtax and goons in general so much that SQUAWK-ing (our general purpose "we're goons" announcement) will either send the other team or your non-goon team mates into apoplectic fits of rage. Hell sometimes you'll even get people who will full on drop from that match and disconnect rather than play with or against us. Usually when I drop I'll type up an all chat saying "Is your mech ready for the rapture? https://www.mechs4jesus.org Mechajesus overheated for your sins" or "You've saved your mechs loadout, but have you saved its soul? https://www.mechs4jesus.net" This usually causes at least one pubbie to respond with something like "LOL, fuk ur god dude" to which I'll reply "Repent heathen lest mechajesus cast you into the pit of fire to overheat for all eternity." and make it a point to kill whomever responded. Fake religion really pisses the pubbies off. The other thing that will send spergy shitlords into fits of rage is saying in all chat "Kerensky was a war criminal." Any serious Battletech sperg will know who Aleksandr Kerensky (he lead an exodus which eventually led to the formation of the clans, and BT spergs love the clans) is, and start foaming at the mouth and dropping all kinds of racial and homophobic slurs. Which I then screencap and send to the support team.
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Jun 28, 2013 01:56
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UO Griefing from a few nights ago! I followed around 2 guys on the UO Forever shard for about 20 minutes as they went to multiple architects looking for the best possible price on a tower. Once he bought the tower, I stealthed after him to the bank, and stole the tower deed before he was able to recall away. 
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Jun 28, 2013 01:58
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Big Daddy Skar posted:Oh hells yes, Mechwarrior Online is ripe for griefing. Pubbies hate the Word of Lowtax and goons in general so much that SQUAWK-ing (our general purpose "we're goons" announcement) will either send the other team or your non-goon team mates into apoplectic fits of rage. Hell sometimes you'll even get people who will full on drop from that match and disconnect rather than play with or against us. I clicked on the website hoping for further trolling. Maybe y'all should make the site featuring mechjesus as one of those bird alians you guys squack as?
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Jun 28, 2013 02:03
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Posting Islam is the light in any game will send at least one person into a fit.
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Jun 28, 2013 02:36
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Oppenheimer posted:Posting Islam is the light in any game will send at least one person into a fit. Allahu Squawkbar.
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Jun 28, 2013 03:23
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Big Daddy Skar posted:Oh hells yes, Mechwarrior Online is ripe for griefing. Pubbies hate the Word of Lowtax and goons in general so much that SQUAWK-ing (our general purpose "we're goons" announcement) will either send the other team or your non-goon team mates into apoplectic fits of rage. Hell sometimes you'll even get people who will full on drop from that match and disconnect rather than play with or against us. So that's what that was? Some buddies of mine got me into doing the occasional game online, and I saw a SQUAWK come from my team at the beginning of the match. Then what I presume was the goons on my team started a 4v8 and bitched at everyone else for not helping.
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Jun 28, 2013 04:28
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SpaceViking posted:So that's what that was? Some buddies of mine got me into doing the occasional game online, and I saw a SQUAWK come from my team at the beginning of the match. Then what I presume was the goons on my team started a 4v8 and bitched at everyone else for not helping. The Mechwarrior/Battletech canon is known for having no aliens - it's all human on human fighting. However, there was a book where someone had a glitch in their FTL (I think Mechwarrior has FTL, I honestly forget) that sent them careening off into space, where they wound up at the planet of the Tetatae, aka sentient birds aliens. Mechwarrior grognards HATE the Tetatae and consider them non-canon, so reminding them of their greatest shame never gets old.
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Jun 28, 2013 04:34
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Haha! That is hilarious. I've been looking to get into MWO. I gave it a small look a while back and I liked what I saw, but stuff keeps coming out I want to play and I also got myself playing some old classic RPGs again so there hasn't been time. I especially love the bird people stuff. A friend of mine has been into Battletech forever and I haven't really kept up in a while, but mentioning the bird people book always gets a response. Big Daddy Skar posted:Oh hells yes, Mechwarrior Online is ripe for griefing. Pubbies hate the Word of Lowtax and goons in general so much that SQUAWK-ing (our general purpose "we're goons" announcement) will either send the other team or your non-goon team mates into apoplectic fits of rage. Hell sometimes you'll even get people who will full on drop from that match and disconnect rather than play with or against us.
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Jun 28, 2013 13:45
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Mechwarrior Online also lets you paint up your giant space robots. Serious business badass Mechwarriors leave their mechs olive grey (default) or paint 'em up in the best, most authentic camo they can dream up. Noble Tetatae, however, like to show their colors: Eggs and Ketsup  Safety First Raven  Super Soaker 50 Raven Word of Lowtax Goons kinda went nuts when they patched in the ability to do a custom paint job. "SQUAWK!"ing at the start of the match is the best though. We do it enough that everyone knows the call of the Tetatae. The Braver pubbies will remain and fight, but the more realistic pubbies will preemptively defeat themselves once they hear our noble Squawks. 
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Dauntasa posted:For a while you could do something similar in TF2: Pick soldier or demoman, launch a bunch of grenades or rockets at your team and then quickly switch to Spectator. The rockets would count as being on Team Spectator and kill your former teammates. That got patched out pretty fast, but then someone managed to go pyro, equip the Backburner(critical hits from behind) and then run behind a group of teammates, spray fire and quickly go Spectator so the fire would hit their team in the back and crit them(which would kill most of the weaker classes). TF2 exploits are awesome, but most often quickly patched. I remember using two: - For a while it was possible on CTF maps to capture the intel, join spec and you'd be a ghost carrying the intel. You'd just float around the map in spectator mode. Now ofcourse that made it easy to go into spec, fly to your own intel, back into your team (which made you drop the intel) and capture it or let a member of your team do it. But that's too easy. The best thing to do was pair up with a buddie, one joins red, the other blu, you both capture the intel, both go to spec and just hover in the middle of the map. No one could kill you, since you were spec and no one could take the intel from you. Either you had to re-join a team to drop the intel, or someone had to kick you. If the server didn't have a time limit, you could make a lot of people angry. - There is a weapon for the medic that heals everyone in a nearby radius when you taunt (do an animation). This lasted a few seconds, and then the healing would stop. However, if you taunted and disconnected, the people who were in your area (those getting healed), would never lose the effect until they died or disconnected. This would make the team extremely hard to kill, since the enemy would either have to do big damage in one go (i.e. a headshot from a sniper) or do damage very fast (i.e. a heavy doing critical damage or ganging up on someone). Combine this with arena, which is pretty much team deatchmach and you win the round either by capturing a point or killing everyone (you don't respawn until the next round). So just join the server with buddies, go into the same team, taunt, disconnect, reconnect, go back into the team (you will have to wait until the round ends and a new one starts) and repeat. If you had a few good players, there was no way you could lose. If I remember correctly, this was one of the rare cases where Valve released an update on a Saturday.
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Jun 28, 2013 15:00
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Just so I'm clear here, shouting fake accusations against a made-up character is enough to send MW pubs into a frothing rage? Also thanks for explaining SQUAWK, I've some gifs involving it and never new what it was about besides goons in a space game.
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Jun 28, 2013 15:04
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Just so I'm clear here, shouting fake accusations against a made-up character is enough to send MW pubs into a frothing rage? The weirdest part about it is that actually was a real Alexander Kerensky. Is Mechwarrior Online available in Russia yet? Because I want to see a Goon-Communist alliance form out of a misinterpreted trolling.
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Jun 28, 2013 15:44
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There's a shitload of lore for Battletech that goes way, way back. Some people take it very seriously. These are the people that make Mechwarrior Online so much fun.
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Jun 28, 2013 16:11
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The "SQUAWK" thing sounds kinda like a similar example from Age of Wushu wherein the Vietnamese guild bloc decided that goons were Chinese dogs. I yanked a Viet player off a waterfall one day, driving him to berate me in PMs about how I'm a China goon dog. I promptly responded with "BARK BARK BARK BARK BARK", which remains a GoonTang battle cry to this day, as far as I know.
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Kavak posted:The weirdest part about it is that actually was a real Alexander Kerensky. Is Mechwarrior Online available in Russia yet? Because I want to see a Goon-Communist alliance form out of a misinterpreted trolling. Well you see FASA wasn't too original back in the day. See all the anime mechs from Macross and others that are now "unseen" because the company lost the licensing rights. Also, yes defaming the glorious Kerensky sends pubbies into fits of rage. In the name of the noble Tetatae do we spread our dream of a glorious space North Korea. We also took over and marginalized one of the biggest clans that existed even back to AOL Battletech House Liao/Cappellan Confederation to the consternation of their leader the great Shitler Metro.
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I've always wanted to get into MWO so I can take part in goon Tetatae shenanigans but I am really bad at it, so I've been forced to stick to Hawken for stompy mech goodness.
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Grawl posted:TF2 exploits are awesome, but most often quickly patched. I remember using two: I really hope someone has the group goon pics of this happening on some bad 2fort server where they convinced some teenager that the server was haunted by the ghost of his past misdeeds and the only way to get the intel back was to apologize. They dragged it out for almost an hour and it was goddamn amazing.
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Jun 28, 2013 18:44
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Playing with SA forum posters in any competitive multiplayer game pretty much inevitably results in massive drama and being labelled public enemy #1. Whether that's a good or bad thing is entirely up to the individual.
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Jun 28, 2013 19:03
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What is this Age of Wushu you guys keep mentioning and saying has great griefing capabilities?
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masam posted:What is this Age of Wushu you guys keep mentioning and saying has great griefing capabilities? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3542608 It's Kung Fu Eve Online.
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/ Think I remember the in-game incident from this thread; maybe a goon was involved in reporting him? Fuzzy on the details now and couldn't find the post that referenced the incident.
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crowbb posted:I especially love the bird people stuff. A friend of mine has been into Battletech forever and I haven't really kept up in a while, but mentioning the bird people book always gets a response.
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Big Mad Drongo posted:Just so I'm clear here, shouting fake accusations against a made-up character is enough to send MW pubs into a frothing rage? It's also fun to make original Kerensky characters (please do not steal). 
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Polka_Rapper posted:It's also fun to make original Kerensky characters (please do not steal). Yup, Kerensky alts are a necessity. I'm personally Ghostface Killah Kerensky. Though I was thinking of doing Metal Gear?! Kerensky, or Amuro Ray Kerensky.
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bucketmouse posted:I really hope someone has the group goon pics of this happening on some bad 2fort server where they convinced some teenager that the server was haunted by the ghost of his past misdeeds and the only way to get the intel back was to apologize. They dragged it out for almost an hour and it was goddamn amazing. 
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Lonjon posted:
Super Soaker mech is a thing of beauty  There needs to be a super soaker mod for the game. Mix it with a nerf missile mod and you'd have the greatest game ever.
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regulargonzalez posted:http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/ You might be thinking of the time Cogwerks reported a guy to the FBI for threatening to shoot up a school over Space Station 13.
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Jun 29, 2013 05:55
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Christ what a poo poo thing to be jailed for. I remember a dude I used to play MW2 with who pretty much did nothing but send death threats over XBL to everybody on the opposite team, boosters, whoever.
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Jun 29, 2013 06:25
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I need to reinstall MWO and go back to challenging people to Trials of Possession for all their cocaine as Richard Pryor Kerensky. Also, advocating that using mech based flamers to freebase your drugs leads to horrible situations and you should avoid it unless you have no other way to smoke your drugs.
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regulargonzalez posted:http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/ Ahaha, that poor bastard got griefed from who ever reported him. Seriously, poo poo like that is why I avoid using the same nickname with every game. It filled with people who are retarded and might take sarcasm seriously. By the time we're all 50(those born in the eighties), we'll be hearing more and more of how people go to jail for the simple act of telling an joke online.
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Edit** NVM
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WaffleLove posted:Ahaha, that poor bastard got griefed from who ever reported him. Seriously, poo poo like that is why I avoid using the same nickname with every game. It filled with people who are retarded and might take sarcasm seriously. By the time we're all 50(those born in the eighties), we'll be hearing more and more of how people go to jail for the simple act of telling an joke online. If it leads to people making less dreadfully horrible remarks online over stupid petty bullshit like losing a match or not being as good at a game as someone else...
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