[spartan_0214]

about a eighteen months ago a few of my friends joined O-Game. They talked nothing of it, and even tried to get me to join. Being the non-conformist I am, I didn't oblige them, but let them keep talking about it. About one month ago, my friends stopped playing it all at once. O-Game is for people who don't have a life and need one. . . 

[Unknown Target]

Being that I just flamed him in the last thread, I'll refrain from it this time. Someone else can take the torch

[spartan_0214]

I'll take it!!! 

[Energiser]

I like how their ranking insignias come from star trek.   

Yeah, there was a website right there with all of them, wheras, if we wanted all the freespace rank badges I would have to start again from scratch and earn every single one of them. With work and Uni I just don't have the time to do that. Especially when you consider that even when I had nothing to do with my life and just played freespace almost constantly, I only ever got to Commodore...

[Nuclear1]

Being that I just flamed him in the last thread, I'll refrain from it this time. Someone else can take the torch

But he's still right. OGame really is a waste of time, as it demands a nightmarish amount of time devoted to it just to get anything done---basically, you can lost weeks or months worth of devotion to the game in a few seconds when some assholes decide to gangrape you, leaving you to start over from scratch.

Seriously, it's not really worth the time if you've got Real Life to attend to.

[watsisname]

Not necessarily true.  I'm quite capable of maintaining a high (top 1000) rank in Ogame even when logging in once or twice a day for about 15-30 minutes.  At the same time, I'm also able to keep up with my college and social life. 
If you can't control yourself enough to not play during all of your spare time, then perhaps you should find something else to do.  

[Nuclear1]

Not necessarily true.  I'm quite capable of maintaining a high (top 1000) rank in Ogame even when logging in once or twice a day for about 15-30 minutes.  At the same time, I'm also able to keep up with my college and social life. 
If you can't control yourself enough to not play during all of your spare time, then perhaps you should find something else to do.  

That probably was my problem then; it was a little too slow, plus I could always get much more entertainment out of a two-hour game of Risk with some friends.

[Polpolion]

Being that I just flamed him in the last thread, I'll refrain from it this time. Someone else can take the torch

*dips torch into a bucket of water

Flaming = not fun

(unless the other guy started it and it's okay)

[Unknown Target]

Being that I just flamed him in the last thread, I'll refrain from it this time. Someone else can take the torch

*dips torch into a bucket of water

Flaming = not fun

(unless the other guy started it and it's okay)

Unless I'm flaming you as well

[spartan_0214]

I'll shottie you before you start flaming. . .

[Mars]

Is this going to be added to the "Related Sites" tab?

[Colonol Dekker]

The Way FS2 sites are blipping around us, we need to get all the sites we can find and band together "zombie survival style"........

[Energiser]

For people saying that you need to put HEAPS of time into OGame to get anywhere, take me for example. In total I spend about 50 hours at Work and/or University per week, and am only able to log into ogame for about 10 minutes before work in the morning, and at some point during the 4 or 5 hours between when I get home, and when I go to sleep. Yet I have managed to get to about 650th, AND am still climbing slowly. If someone fleet crahsed my entire fleet (about 30 battleships, 40 cruisers, and 150 heavy fighters, it'd take me all of 4 days to completely rebuild it, not that I really would, since I never use it, and currently it just sits around asking for people to attack them and steal the debris.

As I said, the speed depends on how you play, as does the amount of time that you have to put into it in order to be successful.

Also, PLEASE DON'T turn this thread into a flamewar. Back when I used to regularly lurk the HLP forums I swear I didn't see as much of that stuff as I have been seeing over the last few days.

[Mars]

For people saying that you need to put HEAPS of time into OGame to get anywhere, take me for example. In total I spend about 50 hours at Work and/or University per week, and am only able to log into ogame for about 10 minutes before work in the morning, and at some point during the 4 or 5 hours between when I get home, and when I go to sleep. Yet I have managed to get to about 650th, AND am still climbing slowly. If someone fleet crahsed my entire fleet (about 30 battleships, 40 cruisers, and 150 heavy fighters, it'd take me all of 4 days to completely rebuild it, not that I really would, since I never use it, and currently it just sits around asking for people to attack them and steal the debris.

As I said, the speed depends on how you play, as does the amount of time that you have to put into it in order to be successful.

Also, PLEASE DON'T turn this thread into a flamewar. Back when I used to regularly lurk the HLP forums I swear I didn't see as much of that stuff as I have been seeing over the last few days.

Did you post this in the wrong thread?

[Ferret]

For people saying that you need to put HEAPS of time into OGame to get anywhere, take me for example. In total I spend about 50 hours at Work and/or University per week, and am only able to log into ogame for about 10 minutes before work in the morning, and at some point during the 4 or 5 hours between when I get home, and when I go to sleep. Yet I have managed to get to about 650th, AND am still climbing slowly. If someone fleet crahsed my entire fleet (about 30 battleships, 40 cruisers, and 150 heavy fighters, it'd take me all of 4 days to completely rebuild it, not that I really would, since I never use it, and currently it just sits around asking for people to attack them and steal the debris.

As I said, the speed depends on how you play, as does the amount of time that you have to put into it in order to be successful.

Also, PLEASE DON'T turn this thread into a flamewar. Back when I used to regularly lurk the HLP forums I swear I didn't see as much of that stuff as I have been seeing over the last few days.

Did you post this in the wrong thread?

Why don't you try readnig the bloody thread yourself?

[spartan_0214]

Don't Get Started. Else I have to whip out the flak cannon I hid in the smuggling compartment....

[BS403]

I just built a small cargo now how do i start raiding?

[Colonol Dekker]

Jump th' scurvy layabouts withouth said consent.......Tis raiding to be sure !!!!!!!

YArrrrrrrrrr

[spartan_0214]

I just built a small cargo now how do i start raidin'?

hit Alt+F4, and you're sure to win

[Energiser]

I just built a small cargo now how do i start raiding?

Before you raid I suggest you build some espionage probes, rather than just doing blind hits. Then, once you have them, go to the "Galaxy page", and look at the players there, over to the right hand side of the screen, beside each players name, etc, is a little button, and if you hover the mouse over it, the text "Send Espionage Probes" will appear. Click that button. Once the espionage reports get back (In the messages page) you might be able to info about the person you espionaged, like how many resources they have, their planetary defences, their fleets, their technology levels, etc. If you can't see any of these things, it means that the person is WAY too strong for you at the moment.

If the person has no defence, and no fleet, but some decent resources, remember their planet co-ordinates, and go to the "Fleet" page. Select how many ships you want to send, enter the coordinates you want them to go to, select "Attack" and DON'T PUT ANY RESOURCES IN THEIR CARGO BAYS (this would stop them from capturing anything at the other end, because they would already be full of resources). Now that you have sent the fleet, simply go to the "Overview" page, and it should show you an ETA for arriving at the enemy, and arriving back at your planet.