That's the position I took when the first cheating incident happened JustinSane.  I think any attention and interaction (negative or positive) was merely encouraging him.

Sentient species taste better...

Wise words guys, but harder to swallow when it's your site that has been hacked. Hopefully steps are taken to render any account Harborne uses useless and his ban enforced. He simply does not deserve to be apart of this community.

I guess though, barring any further incidents, it is time to move on.

I see Tampa Bay won.......

Aye, we need to just re-assert an understanding that this is just a game.

By entering/continuing this drama he has created, you entertain this ideal he has formed for himself on what him and his (ex) friends had vs the ToE/Kzin.  In his mind I see that he really hated all of us.  His infiltration of the ToE forums prooves this.  He took this beyond a game and really thought he had arch-nemisi (nemisis plural?) in us.  He was somebody in his mind since he had people whom he fought.  Think of Samuel L Jackson in "Unbreakable".

So I say we try to finish off this week w/o discussing "she who must not be named" and just speak of the game and other BSing that we enjoy.  If you so deem to continue the crusade in completely removing all traces from the MV, then I recommend you take it to PMs with those who have a say with it.  Continuing to talk about this on the forums will only fuel him.

I'd say 'hacked' is a strong word here.  He got in as anyone could, it's just he had malicous reason to.  Anybody can walk into a bank during hours of operation legally, even if their intentions are to rob the place.  That bank robber didn't break into the bank to rob it...Now if he had hacked the forum coding and bypassed the security put in place, then I'd deam it 'hacking'.

Also, since it is KP and I that weren't the one's whos forum was 'hacked', it may be best to heed what we say as we are a 3rd party assesing the situation.  We weren't directly hurt in this, so we have no immediate need for revenge/justice.  Since we have clear(er) heads in this matter, it may be something to simmer on.

Soo how about this weather?  I had to break out my winter jacket today WOHO!!!

Did you know that there is a hidden achievement medal? http://images.stardock.com/gc2/medals/AC-11.png

Don't really know why I was looking at the source page for the medals, it was 2am and I have random thoughts, but yeah.  Its not listed on the Legend.

Speaking of medals and such...can anybody tell me why my character Siam had 5GP and only 4W?  I consider myself quite good at math, but I swear I count 5 words on that screen that say "Victory".

it is because of the Ascension Vcitory.  The Metaverse hasn't been updated with its code to recognize them.  Its a rather large and annoying bug.  Something else that needs to get added to the list of 2.0 changes.

Mourn oh fellow travelers of the stars

For today, the Temple of Artemis is no more

Look now onto the once glorious temple

Where only ruins remain

Mourn

Hrm, that only makes me want to pop out a dozen or so more of those types to see what happens lol.

Last week on the Colbert Report (I think, perhaps the Daily Show) he said something along the lines of "see what happens when you ditch the word 'devil' from your name".

My money is on the Phillies though.  1) I have to go for my home team 2) Every game my mom goes to or sees on TV, the Phillies win.  She caught some out in San Diego last season and they won each game she went to.  Just this last streach of games she had caught one game on TV just as they turned the game around.  Coincidence...yes, but hey, you gotta grasp something to call it true eh?

Yeah, I heard it's a broken medal.  In fact I KNOW it is.  The AC stands for Awesome Canine.  You don't see that medal on my rack...so ya KNOW the medal's broken.

nemises. -i typically pluralizes words whose singular form ends in -us, such as cactus.

i saw that you disbanded the OG. and you moved your lowest-scoring character to the ToE JK of course.

its cuz im evil

evil verse evil.... CAN THIS GALAXY GET MORE CONFUSING THAN THAT!

At least we agree on something...

Digressing some more..

Do you guys catch Austin Stevens (The Snake Guy) on Animal Planet? This guys is fasinating...he is such a personable guy who really knows his stuff.

I just caught a doco of his where he showed the Black Mamba..how'd ya like one of them DA....What a scary and fantastic reptile it is. The one in question he was capturing was about 12 feet long and was standing up to about 3 feet high!!

It was an awesome display.

I havent been following the entire season, we don't get as much MLB over here as i'd like but i think Tampa Bay can win.

My money is on them anyways...

@SB. Sorry to gear about the OG mate...Though i am glad to have you back in the Fold.

Oh yeah....

@ Hidden Medal.............

I need help, I am making a mod based on the MV Empires for TA, I am including

1.Kzinti

2. ToE

3. The Diplomats

4. HCH

5. The Confederation

6. The Gerontocracy

7. The Colonial Fleet (Originaly the Olympian Gods)

8. The Geckodon Alliance

Now since the ToE consist of HCH and Diplomats, I thought that some of you could help, I need someone to work on a tech tree for the Diplomats as well as a ship style and somebody to work on the HCH ship style and tech tree. Now if people here only play on the MV, I will do is release a series of custom races based on the playable races so that you won't have to play the full mod, although the full mod will add new events, diologue, improvments, campaign and maps. Also I need more empires to use for races 9-12. Any ideas?

While technically not an Empire, the Year Zero Club features high ranking, expert players from many origins. It may be worthy of an appearance.

My free time is extremely limited, but it may be possible that I can do a shipstyle (especially since the inclusion of the ship designer in the latest beta).

Okay then, we have the YZC. We now have 9 races now. we need 3 more.

I would love to help Seth, unfortunately my computer skills are up there with my hairdressing skills.

by "hairdressing" do you mean holding a girl's hair back while she pukes?

I've never heard that one before.

I have an alliance proposal for the ToE. Do you accept?

If that makes you feel safer Seth, then why not. Remember though, we could decide to devour you at any time. I expect the souls of lizards are as tasty as kitties.

Great, I got some fresh Kzinti slaves. We'll send them right over.

Someone light the BBQ!!!

ooh, Chinese food