Utopia - Age 19 (An Era of Hope) - Page 5

Eli · February 25, 2003, 01:43

*****es.

Zopperoni · February 25, 2003, 11:23

Mehul sent an email to UT.com:

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As you all have noticed, the Swirve.com Network has experienced significant downtime over the course of the several days. This has been caused by a user (or group of users) with malicious intent attempting to bring our network down by flooding it with requests.

We are currently working on resolving the situation both in the near and long terms with a number of technical improvements. In addition, we will be pursuing a criminal investigation into the source of the problem and taking appropriate action where possible. The FBI has been notified and both Swirve.com and our ISP are requesting a priority investigation.

In the meantime, we apologize for the intermittent downtime and our technical people are doing all they can to get and keep the site online and functional.

Also, as a sidenote, Swirve Mail is still functional at http://mail.swirve.com.

Thank you for your patience,
Mehul Patel
Swirve.com, Inc.

Eli · February 25, 2003, 18:03

It's up again, though barely working. Page Not Found everywhere.

Zopperoni · February 25, 2003, 18:59

Yea, it's appaling right now.

Come to think of it: wouldn't this be the ultimate time to start a Dragon project?

star mouse · February 28, 2003, 04:30

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Originally posted by Zopperoni
Yea, it's appaling right now.

Come to think of it: wouldn't this be the ultimate time to start a Dragon project?

(Current situation: We're fighting war number 7, and we have 6 war wins. We have now been peaceblocked twice.)

My monarch is thinking the same thing. Dragon #8 is almost complete. We call all our dragons "Fluffy", so the "Fluffy's Going Away Party" thread is where you post your dragon donations. I donated 1 million gc, then I stole another million from a target with lots of gold, so I donated that too.

Here's the thread in our forum....

Zopperoni · February 28, 2003, 05:53

Hehehe, "Fluffy"...

I think we had "Poochie" once as a gag...

Anyway, we're on our way toward our first War-victory of the round.

Good luck to you with your War(s)!

Eli · February 28, 2003, 06:00

One of the most funniest things I ever saw on the net.

Gangsta Smurf is the BF of our Queen, and de facto he is like another King.

He uses the nickname Anubis, and some call him Anus because of that.

This is what he posted today :

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Gangsta Smurf (3:2) March 4th, YR6
Ok, Fooda wins. Tonight at 1:30 AM the phone rings. I pick it up and hear a nice, gentle womans voice say

Operator: "you are receiving a relay call, are you familiar with relay calls?"

Me: "Nope"

Operator: "The person calling you is at a computer. They will type things and I will read them to you. I will type your response back to the user. Will you proceed?"

Me: "Uhhhh... ok?"

Operator: "Is this Dale"

Me: "... yeah."

Operator: "... Anus, you suck."

Me: "...."

Operator: "Oh, the user has disconnected. Thank you for using our service, bye."

LOL I can't even begin to think of how to top that. I'll have to work on that 1 for a while.

It took me 30 seconds to narrow it down to Fooda or Super, and a quick trip to the webpage and I knew the culprit

- The Humble Viscount Anubis

Lemmy · February 28, 2003, 09:17

what must the operator have thought

Zopperoni · February 28, 2003, 09:53

Hehehe, cool...how do I find one of those operators? =)

Lemmy · February 28, 2003, 12:01

*mental note to self*
Don't give Zopper your phone number.

War4ever · February 28, 2003, 21:05

yeah those two are the crazy monarchs, actually it works out best this way IMO.....they can use each others accounts and do frequently....

doing an elite pump now,

zopper are you sure you don't want in our kd....

Zopperoni · March 1, 2003, 08:59

W4e, I appreciate your offer, and your KD is better than my current one, but right now, I feel comfortable where I am now.
We even got our first War-win of the round this morning =)

star mouse · March 1, 2003, 19:47

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Originally posted by Zopperoni
We even got our first War-win of the round this morning =)

Sorry to burst your bubble:

April 18th, YR6 location concealed has surrendered to us! Our people rejoice at our victory!

War Wins: 7

Yep, we just got our seventh. Seven wars, seven war wins. Not many kingdoms have more wins than us.

Zopperoni · March 1, 2003, 21:50

Bubble? Burst?

Nahhh, I don't care if you had twenty War wins; I'm happy with the way the KD's responded and performed

Eli · March 2, 2003, 02:54

And it's down again...

War4ever · March 2, 2003, 15:03

we have 5 wins, don't think we have had a war we haven't won, only been peaced or we win...pretty good..

damm servers/hackers

star mouse · March 3, 2003, 04:48

Yes, the server is spotty right now, I think it's still under attack. Partly by the criminal, partly by 80,000 eager players wanting their fix. The Forum server is running fine, which suggests the game servers are the ones under attack.

As for war wins, they're not hard to get if you know how.

War4ever · March 3, 2003, 19:23

we have been pumping sci and elites.... i have 20k elites now......so i should be good to go for the rest of the round by the time we enter a real war

War4ever · March 6, 2003, 01:37

25k elites.....and we are about to enter another fake war...sigh, this is out of hand.....this age has been a bust with the server going down

Eli · March 6, 2003, 01:42

24k elites, and i'm moving to a sci pump now.

War4ever · March 6, 2003, 16:52

27k elites, i too am going to pump sciences while the next war is on.....i would really like to break soemthing tho, its getting boring

Eli · March 6, 2003, 17:18

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i would really like to break soemthing tho, its getting boring

That's the whole point of the pump. When it's done we will be able to break much bigger stuff.

The Province of Nuclear Smurf (3:2)
[http://www.utopiatemple.com Angel v1.41 Beta]

Utopian Date: February 16th, YR7
RL Date: March 6th, 2003 (21:00 GMT)

Ruler Name: The Humble Baron Eli
Personality & Race: The Shepherd, Dwarf
Land: 1,690 Acres
Money: 23gc (69,862gc raw daily income)
Food: 179,664 bushels
Runes: 1,661 runes
Population: 51,658 citizens (30.57 per Acre)
Peasants: 22,536 (100% Employed)
Excited: b:100%, t:3.1gc, p:103%, m:104%
Trade Balance: 564,011gc (0% tax rate)
Networth: 298,836 (176.83 per Acre)
Thieves+Wizards+Science Networth: 19,670gc

Soldiers: 0 (53.8% estimated draft rate)
Axemen: 2,904 (11,616 offense points)
Archers: 0
Berserkers: 23,922 (143,532 offense and defense)
War-Horses: 170 (up to 170 additional offense)
Prisoners: 0

Total Attack points: 161,531 (95.58 per Acre)
Practical (50% elites): 86,894 (51.42 per Acre)
Total Defense points: 149,273 (88.33 per Acre)
Practical (50% elites): 74,637 (44.16 per Acre)

Thieves: 955 (0.57 per Acre / 100% Stealth)
Wizards: 1,341 (0.79 per Acre / 62% Mana)

Crystal-Ball on your province will show:
Max. Possible Thieves/Wizards: 3,278 (1.94 / Acre)
Estimated Thieves Number: 2,458 (1.45 per Acre)
Estimated Wizards Number: 779 (0.46 per Acre)

Buildings: 1,545gc to build, 772gc to raze
Away bonus: 112,680gc (12h) / 338,040gc (20h)

Eli · March 6, 2003, 17:20

And I havent pumped and havent trained another 12k off specs.

War4ever · March 7, 2003, 16:47

ihave 27k elites, and about to pump out another 15k+ offfies my self, my wpa is finally over 1 and my tpa is still 1.5

my leftover cash will go to a dump in sciences....

star mouse · March 8, 2003, 04:40

War Wins: 8 (from 8 wars)

Situation normal in our kingdom:
A Dragon ravages the lands!
It's the third dragon we've got this age. Given we've sent 9 dragons this age I'm surprised we haven't received more.

star mouse · March 13, 2003, 03:52

We just got our ninth war win. I also believe there's less than 5 kingdoms with more wins than us.

Eli · March 13, 2003, 08:39

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The Most Honorable Kingdoms in the World

5 Smurf Squad KLA (3:2) Britannia (#2) 67,700

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The Largest Kingdoms in the World

50 Smurf Squad KLA (3:2) Britannia (#2) 47,649 Acres

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The Most Powerful Kingdoms in the World

38 Smurf Squad KLA (3:2) Britannia (#2) 8,376,684 gc

Our current attempt on a war :

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** Summary **
We gained 3318 acres.
Aid packets sent: 6.

Lemmy · March 13, 2003, 09:11

nice nw/a

Eli · March 13, 2003, 10:18

Posted by Mehul :

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The Era of Hope will come to an end on Sunday, March 23rd. This thread will be used to post possible changes as they are developed. At this time, we are planning relatively few changes for the upcoming round - primarily just tweaks and such to deal with some balance issues. As always, this may change between now and the start of the round.
Mehul

So soon. We only got started.

DinoDoc · March 13, 2003, 13:04

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Originally posted by Eli
So soon. We only got started.

Probably has something to do with the DoS attacks.