Colmfinito's account given to Ashimar

[ashimar]

As you know I have a good relationship with Colm, a now ex diplomat of VI. He has grown tired of it and he realized his studies are suffering from it (very sensible and intelligent 15/16 year old, half Irish, half Dutch). He has expressed ideas of quiting before but now he has actually done it:

I spoke to him yesterday and he suddenly decided to make me the inheritor of his account ! I was astounded + shocked.
But it was also exciting. I didn't know wether he was serious, but i guess he is.

However, this is a tricky affair. read some of the mails in his account's mailbox. I'll give you all access to it !
I have just spend a couple of hours trying to make sense of his account. It's mindblowing and quite frankly, too much for me. How did he manage all that and playing an active role in VI ?!

Anyway, i'm tired and we'll just paste some messages and the codes to get in and take a look. I have made some efforst to ship ST, gold+wood and cats out to me. 42 cats avaialbel. I had expected more actually, but I suppose he has been handing them out to a select group already before he decided to give it to me. As far as i could tell he has informed Windmill that he has given it to me (my name is there). I had preferred complete anonimity of course...
<sigh>

Start the cabal !!!!! (here)

Message
Date: 10.10.2005 09:20
From: colmfinito
Subject: RE: Tooth
mix o the two, when i was toung i ate a lot of sweets, thats plagued me to this day.
im quitting my account, i cant be bothered with it anymore, you seem like a good as man as any to have it. the passwords 0sehka.

youll get bored eventually

Ashimar wrote:
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Hey Colm,

How's it going ?
Antibiotics kicking already ?
What did you get and for how long ?

Tooth coming out is bad. How did you get it to that point, sheer bad luck or less than advisable brushing ;~)

Marc


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Date: 10.10.2005 10:07
To: colmfinito
Subject: RE: RE: Tooth
Are you serious ?
I would be willing to guard it for you if you like. Alternatively, I would like to take it over if you are REALLY sure about it. In that case I would like to know how we can stay in touch by email or something. You are a good writer, and you are sensible.

That I too will get bored with it that I know for certain, and when that time comes I can perhaps helped by you decide om another sucessor, provided you want to go through with it.

Marc


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Message
Date: 10.10.2005 21:58
From: colmfinito
Subject: Part 1 har har
i am sure. the game side of it has grown so formulaic, just upgrade the same things in the same order, build more spearfighters.
the only side of things that i enjoy is talking to people, and i realised thqat sometimes diplomacy cant fix everything.

youll take good care of my account. one of my best friends in real life plays inselkampf too, rutters. i could have given it to him, but youll make better use of it, you have more sense of right and wrong, you wont just use this to steal colonies or anythign like that.

all i ask is that you help rutters and boouwhore out if they need it and they are right, the same goes for vi. well, at least whilst windmil is still there, hes a good guy, a good leader, when hes around.

once (or if) server 2 starts up, email me on [e-mail], i'll join the morkin on server two, it would be interesting to start afresh on a level playing field.

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Date: 10.10.2005 21:59
From: colmfinito
Subject: Part 2
its not just the game itself, i feel like im spending too much time on it, and i could be doing homework. i want to blitz these exams, get top marks, and i'm spending too much time on an online game. i really would like to know what chief_druid's employment status is.

once you get bored, give it to whoever you like, it can be like an office of justice or something. if you put it into morkin itll give you some extra clout. above all, enjoy it, dont broadcast that you control two accounts, the multi hunters will close in then.

ah well, goodbye Marc! ill see you when server 2 starts.

Colm


Now in the light of what we want to do and what we no doubt are using this for i felt a bit uneasy for a moment, but after reading a bit in what kind of a mess and tornado he has left me and his account (do read the messages there) I suppose it doesn't matter if we completely dismantle it if and when we can.

I started already. Nice amount of cats for my flotilla 2 "Architects of the rage" <rotflol>.

Anyway, Frei had some good ideas and Mads adviced to change the password and such. I put one of my alternative emailaddresses in place ([e-mail]) and the new codes for access are:

Server: 1
member: colmfinito
Password: gqj139

Do whatever you like, there is even a colony ship somewhere and colonies easily to take over.

[soiram]

I disagree a bit. Let's not loot it, let's decide wisely (and fast) what we should do.

He trusted more or less the account to you, so I am not so sure he would like to see it dismantled.

[ashimar]

There seems to be a contradiction here. Take a look inside and read through his stuff. Should change your views on it a bit (it did mine...)

But long and the short of it is, I wanted to have this for our Solstice plans. I am willing to think about his 2 friends (bouuwhore is a girl apparently) before calling in the apocalypse but I don't have time to manage his account, it's simply too much work !

[inyati]

Keep his main island heavily defended and using it exclusivly as our own "Farm" when needed. Bring his colonies under our alliance´s protection, ie takeover by members in ocean 3 and 1.
This is my opinion!

[soiram]

You are right MArc, it DID change my opinion. I firmly believe now that we should make as much use of the account as fast as we can, or else Wraith will.

I propose we move all discussion to the politics thread.

[ashimar]

soiram said:

Can you give us a rough estimate of Colm's powers?

Doesn't he have at least 3 isles with considerable power to launch attacks at Dark Isle, Shadow Isle and Haven?

I'm afraid not.

You see, Colm was on IK from the start but has never thought much of warfare or preparing for it other than deciding defenses were necessary. He hasn't stolen a single colony, developed them all themselves, but as it was, dear Colm did have a life outside IK, as most sensible people would propagate and ingame mostly enjoyedtalking to people. Somehow I can relate to that somewhat...<lol>.

He joined VI and used intelligent behaviour to stay on the background, only committing to alliance wars if there was no other way, from the point of view of loyalty to VI or his friends in and outside the alliance. Therefore he didn't have an awesome fleet to begin with and neither did he have horseloads of cats. He does have considerable amounts of spearfighters and some archers, but that's not really that useful to us now.

Of what he had of a fleet he lost quite a few ships and cats on the recent attacks on Lhunmoth. One thing that worries me a bit is that of the only one he told to that I got the account, he had to pick the one who also has DL up on his age as a friend and confirmed that to me. I'll quote Windmill:

Date: 14.10.2005 12:50
From: Windmill
Subject: RE: Several
'ello there m8

im pretty sure colm was involved, but im not sure if they are goin to go after him as they hav much more to worry about

Darklady i protect, because she is a friend - basically, lol!! she has told me about all that other stuff - so unless there is something she missed out, everythings fine

Ashimar wrote:
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Hello,

You do not know me yet, but we have a mutual friend, Colmfinito.
I've come to you for some information regarding a certain inheritance and some other things.

Was Colm involved in the recent attacks on Lhunmoth or other elements within [Wraith] or [Corsairs] ?

How would you -based on that- say the chance are members of those groups will come for his "stuff" now that he is no longer a part of [VI] ?

Why do you protect DarkLady ? May I ask on what grounds ? Surely not because she's honest or such an amiable girl ? >
Do you know what she did (plural!) ?

Regards,
Ashimar (Marc)


I think I'll need to feed him a bit more info one of these days. As DL said: "you guys are all so easily manipulatable"


Now as to the firepower Colm's account has:

From the main island Ithaca (2.18.6) I hope to have the following ready on sunday close to midnight:

398 LWS (I'm currently building like crazy, there are only 346 now, so nothing really bigger than Freiegeister has)
4 SW (yes, only 4!)
10 catapults (also building up right now from 1 currently)
As much archers as will fit (1672 here)
As much spearfighters as will fit (2075 here)
17 LM + 35 SM

That is the "impressive" suicide force of Colm. Waste it and it's gone.

And Argos (2.18.3) has 1 colonizationship ready for use !

I'm thinking of using that one on Shadow isle as it closer by when my colonyship fails. Being the most important isle DL has I think I need a backup colonyship for it and this one fits the bill. Alternatively, it's a lot harder for DL to take a colony from Colm perhaps. I need to think a bit more on the pros and contras of that one...

Now there are maybe 3 supportfleets, but it isn't much IMO :

Ogygia (2.18.1):
52 LWS
6 SW
no cats
150 archers
as many spearfighters as will fit (4023 here !!!)
44 LM + 26 SM


Tenedos (2.18.15):
48 LWS
25 SW
no cats
109 archers
as much spearfighters as will fit (4094 here)
24 LM + 76 SM


Argos (2.18.3):
43 LWS
10 SW
no cats
as many spearfighters as will fit (3455 here)
31 LM + 30 SM

And from here on it's down to bits and pieces, nice for colonies, and internal farming obviously with a nice amount of merchants, but not suitable for our plans in the short run:


Delphi (3.31.10):
23 LWS
spearfighters (*only* 875 here)
etc.


Mycenae (2.18.24):
22 LWS
spearfighters (4105 here !!!)
etc.


So, we have one major strike force, BUT not as impressive as one might have hoped a player likeColm would have had....

And we have 3 small ones ( I consider 40-50 LWs small if they go up against main isles) which can be sacrified, I have no problem with that one, but still doubt the general effectiveness.

And then 2 tiny ones (20+ LWs).

I can try to have two small fleets from 2 isles arrive at exactly the same time at an isle, that could be interesting. I will have the time to do that. Might be interesting project.