Post by Clausewitz on Sept 12, 2007 0:58:15 GMT
Attained from the highest levels. As always, don't ask how. This conversation took place between DIGG Admins...
I can't copy and paste a forum page well, so here's the order of conversation, verbatim, nothing omitted...
1. Phil299, in response to intelligence report they received...
"Operatives within Valheru are reporting that Valheru is being actively recruited for the Pantheon merger.
They're being told that respective alliances will work relatively autonomously, and devolve back into their respective alliances once the war is over.
Merda! Merda! Merda! ..that is one convincing way to pull them in...this is starting to look more touch and go"
2. Loafnut
"I just love how all these alliances will ally with cheaters just over their jealously of us.
Looks like we are doing a Merdoso! job with our hegemony keeping the minor powers warring one another."
3. Loafnut again
"Phil, we need to face the music here. We must split, sooner rather than later."
4. Meatpopsicle
"How the Chiavata! is splitting going to help?"
5. Phil299
"under these circumstances not at all..if anything we need to draw our outer orbit digg friends in to digg ..dugg and aces for example who will be targeted next no doubt...unless what the admirals suggested.... that morkin would be next but that would be a tall order don't you think.
No splitting is not an option now ..loaf I seriously thought about it but with this collective forming we have to face the music together."
6. Loafnut
"I feel strongly that moving ourselves into the #2 spot will cause quite a bit of fracturing within Pantheon.
I also feel strongly that relations with morkin will never be stable until we are out of the #1 rank."
7. Scoots
"I agree. We can play the same game as smaller alliances that are tied in together. The big difference is Pantheon will have the Merda! storm thrown at them. Hell it would even be fun to play for a week or two starting IK forum topics where we claim Pantheon is ruining the game. Too bad diggers would not ever stoop to that level."
8. Meatpopsicle
"These forums are our glue. Hell, I barely do anything through the IK interface other than queue a building and read an IGM.
Split along Ocean regions in game. Aside from the 1 day hiccup of people diverting into new alliances, most of us probably wouldn't even notice as long as the forum remained the same.
But o14 should remain the region with the DIGG name. =)"
9. scoots
"Split along ocean guideline. perfect. or along new regions. Does not matter. We will have about 4-5 diggs in the top 15. Hell we do most things along regional line anyway in this game."
10. Loafnut
"I was thinking we don't even have to a big ocean by ocean split. Just pull enough points into something else to be #2. No need to make this official.
Maybe [Kennel] for the big dogs."
Marc, I think I've just effectively raised the bar on covert intel ops
I can't copy and paste a forum page well, so here's the order of conversation, verbatim, nothing omitted...
1. Phil299, in response to intelligence report they received...
"Operatives within Valheru are reporting that Valheru is being actively recruited for the Pantheon merger.
They're being told that respective alliances will work relatively autonomously, and devolve back into their respective alliances once the war is over.
Merda! Merda! Merda! ..that is one convincing way to pull them in...this is starting to look more touch and go"
2. Loafnut
"I just love how all these alliances will ally with cheaters just over their jealously of us.
Looks like we are doing a Merdoso! job with our hegemony keeping the minor powers warring one another."
3. Loafnut again
"Phil, we need to face the music here. We must split, sooner rather than later."
4. Meatpopsicle
"How the Chiavata! is splitting going to help?"
5. Phil299
"under these circumstances not at all..if anything we need to draw our outer orbit digg friends in to digg ..dugg and aces for example who will be targeted next no doubt...unless what the admirals suggested.... that morkin would be next but that would be a tall order don't you think.
No splitting is not an option now ..loaf I seriously thought about it but with this collective forming we have to face the music together."
6. Loafnut
"I feel strongly that moving ourselves into the #2 spot will cause quite a bit of fracturing within Pantheon.
I also feel strongly that relations with morkin will never be stable until we are out of the #1 rank."
7. Scoots
"I agree. We can play the same game as smaller alliances that are tied in together. The big difference is Pantheon will have the Merda! storm thrown at them. Hell it would even be fun to play for a week or two starting IK forum topics where we claim Pantheon is ruining the game. Too bad diggers would not ever stoop to that level."
8. Meatpopsicle
"These forums are our glue. Hell, I barely do anything through the IK interface other than queue a building and read an IGM.
Split along Ocean regions in game. Aside from the 1 day hiccup of people diverting into new alliances, most of us probably wouldn't even notice as long as the forum remained the same.
But o14 should remain the region with the DIGG name. =)"
9. scoots
"Split along ocean guideline. perfect. or along new regions. Does not matter. We will have about 4-5 diggs in the top 15. Hell we do most things along regional line anyway in this game."
10. Loafnut
"I was thinking we don't even have to a big ocean by ocean split. Just pull enough points into something else to be #2. No need to make this official.
Maybe [Kennel] for the big dogs."
Marc, I think I've just effectively raised the bar on covert intel ops