DEN NEWS | Operation Blitz: Atlantis Invaded!

[Marselesk]

Congratulations on the operation o7

[Knot II]

Thank you, Avakael and Kleo.

[Tom Vasentius]

Just goes to show that we don't need tools to whip fendas, great op too bad I wasn't able to make it. o/

[Drop Your Pants]

Just goes to show that we don't need tools to whip fendas, great op too bad I wasn't able to make it. o/

Try to beat the tag record manually and i'll be impressed

[The Silver Sentinel]

Just goes to show that we don't need tools to whip fendas, great op too bad I wasn't able to make it. o/

Try to beat the tag record manually and i'll be impressed

Exactly. It seems to me that a huge asterisk should be put in front of any tag raiding record achieved in the last two years stating that it was accomplished with illegal tools.

[ChingisOtchigin]

What is the manual record?

[Tom Vasentius]

Just goes to show that we don't need tools to whip fendas, great op too bad I wasn't able to make it. o/

Try to beat the tag record manually and i'll be impressed

Okay! Looks like we'll have to get right to work

[KaiserAdolf]

Your Pathetic Raid has failed. Fools, HAHAHAHAHA.

[Gin Rummy]

Congratulations on the success of Operation Blitz, guys!

[Tim-Opolis]

this manually-triggered jump just beat all but the rarest of tool-assisted invasions. Even as this is being written, the democratization of traditional triggering methods continues.

Good to see DEN has rediscovered the value of manual triggering, after years of cheating the game instead. You make it's accuracy sound so magical, it's not like a Defender couldn't have told you that at any point.

Drop all the rhetoric you like, but congratulations on the win. I've got no beef with you folks if you get fair wins, with fair timing. It'll be nice having an actually fair playing field. It's just funny that you use this rhetoric so widely now, when just weeks ago you were claiming that Defenders should try harder to stop you when it turns out you were cheating your timing all along, something that knowing your General Staff and knowing that they are intelligent players, I refuse to believe wasn't widely known among the upper echelon of DEN.

[Lemmingtopias]

We would like to thank DEN for stopping by Atlantis and am glad you enjoyed our world class hospitality. The new Delegate is especially grateful for your visit.

Our former Delegate has prepared a fruit basket for you, though I'm afraid I got peckish on the way here. I saved you an apple and a couple of grapes.

[Knot II]

It's just funny that you use this rhetoric so widely now, when just weeks ago you were claiming that Defenders should try harder to stop you when it turns out you were cheating your timing all along, something that knowing your General Staff and knowing that they are intelligent players, I refuse to believe wasn't widely known among the upper echelon of DEN.

All of these significant operations reported in this thread were executed with the speed and precision of manual triggers and have led to the complete suppression of embarrassingly-terrible defender and native resistance. Rather than blindly throw around unfounded accusations through tinted goggles, as you defenders often do to compensate for the aforementioned incompetency shown on the battlefield, you may report evidence for illegal, DoS-worthy allegations to the moderators via GHR.

[The Silver Sentinel]

It's just funny that you use this rhetoric so widely now, when just weeks ago you were claiming that Defenders should try harder to stop you when it turns out you were cheating your timing all along, something that knowing your General Staff and knowing that they are intelligent players, I refuse to believe wasn't widely known among the upper echelon of DEN.

All of these significant operations reported in this thread were executed with the speed and precision of manual triggers and have led to the complete suppression of embarrassingly-terrible defender and native resistance. Rather than blindly throw around unfounded accusations through tinted goggles, as you defenders often do to compensate for the aforementioned incompetency shown on the battlefield, you may report evidence for illegal, DoS-worthy allegations to the moderators via GHR.

Uh huh.... And we are supposed to just take your good word for it? If Predator is so good at calculating perfect trigger times, why would you need to manually trigger Ivo? You can sit back and deny it all you want, but in the end it was you caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

Just goes to show that we don't need tools to whip fendas, great op too bad I wasn't able to make it. o/

So you managed to tag raid a region which associates with the FRA kick out a single person who was puppetflooding the region and it it some great victory? Congratulations. /sarcasm Your guys propaganda gets worse and worse by the day. At this point it is even worse than The Red Fleet's and I didn't think that was even possible.

[Knot II]

Uh huh.... And we are supposed to just take your good word for it? If Predator is so good at calculating perfect trigger times, why would you need to manually trigger Ivo? You can sit back and deny it all you want, but in the end it was you caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

My word is arguably far more valuable than your own, Mr. Pearson. I've always maintained my position to never rely on technology as it can always malfunction. It's something my mentors have taught me and something that I teach my own mentees. A grand total of three defenders know how to set manual triggers because everyone in that camp has been spoiled by FriarTuck.

I won't bother to attempt to correct your deliberate misunderstanding of our objectives, but I do have to ask why you've turned tail and fled back into the confines of WA immobility while actively idling in #jump. I enjoyed watching your confused antics at update.

[The Silver Sentinel]

Uh huh.... And we are supposed to just take your good word for it? If Predator is so good at calculating perfect trigger times, why would you need to manually trigger Ivo? You can sit back and deny it all you want, but in the end it was you caught with your hand in the cookie jar.

My word is arguably far more valuable than your own, Mr. Pearson.

Really? Pray tell how?

A grand total of three defenders know how to set manual triggers because everyone in that camp has been spoiled by FriarTuck.

Really? Three? You have these exact figures how?

I won't bother to attempt to correct your deliberate misunderstanding of our objectives, but I do have to ask why you've turned tail and fled back into the confines of WA immobility while actively idling in #jump.

Playing against cheaters who laugh and point while fucking over other people claiming they are terrible isn't really on my bucket list thanks. I started out in the game working in the GA, and I am pretty good at it. I thought I would go back to doing what I am good at, where someone just can't run an illegal script and destroy something at vote thankfully.

I enjoyed watching your confused antics at update.

Uh huh.... I suppose you are running, what? Three or four different IRC handles? Is playing fair really that foreign of a concept these days?

Claim all the victories you want Ivo. In the end it is just going to come down to one simple question. How much did he cheat to achieve those victories.

[RiderSyl]

All of these significant operations reported in this thread were executed with the speed and precision of manual triggers and have led to the complete suppression of embarrassingly-terrible defender and native resistance.

Portugal is a significant operation reported in this thread. During the same update, there was a 40-hit tagging run orchestrated by Varax. Do you happen to remember it, Ivo?
Is there a reason why it wasn't mentioned alongside Portugal's invasion?

Was it not significant enough?

[The Silver Sentinel]

All of these significant operations reported in this thread were executed with the speed and precision of manual triggers and have led to the complete suppression of embarrassingly-terrible defender and native resistance.

Portugal is a significant operation reported in this thread. During the same update, there was a 40-hit tagging run orchestrated by Varax. Do you happen to remember it, Ivo?
Is there a reason why it wasn't mentioned alongside Portugal's invasion?

Was it not significant enough?

May have had something to do with the Predator scandal just coming to light. That would be my guess (stating the obvious here).

All of those hours spent trying to acheive tag raiding records, all reduced down to nothing more than a doping scandal. I really is pretty sad if you think about it.

[Knot II]

Portugal is a significant operation reported in this thread. During the same update, there was a 40-hit tagging run orchestrated by Varax. Do you happen to remember it, Ivo?
Is there a reason why it wasn't mentioned alongside Portugal's invasion?

Was it not significant enough?

I cannot comprehend why you continue to make stuff up to better suit your argument. Your mentioned "40-hit tagging run" was accomplished on the major update of March 14th, while the invasion of Portugal occurred on the major update of March 15th. Constant factual inconsistencies aside, do you even see any regular tagging report in this thread? The High Command utilizes tagging as a form of training for new recruits, while other members enjoy the process.

I've struggled to "rebrand" DEN away from TBR ever since my promotion last summer; it's been made ten times more difficult, however, by several vocal, marginalized players who cannot see two feet past their egos through thick glasses. I already mentioned why I resent the general lack of distinction between the communities of these two organizations, but I can clarify. With our IC operation: two tagging reports a day minimizes the impact of these raids and causes annoyance to frequent forum-goers, as nobody enjoys reading bidaily cookie-cutter updates. The only remnant of an affected TBR officer corps that still exists is two members of the former General Staff and two junior officers. With our OOC operation: DEN cracked down on toxic elements in our community by banning the capable, competent players causing such, something the defender community hasn't done and probably never will. On GamePlay legality: we do not want to be rulebreakers and we have not been conscious rulebreakers. DEN does not enjoy the company of coders and other tech-smart people, as our real-life professions are about as far away from coding as raiding is from defending. People regard me as technical support here, but I know absolutely nothing about coding (several people can attest to this). Despite the amount of invader rhetoric that has been spoken, we do want a competitive defender corps because NationStates is a game and we enjoy playing the game. All members in DEN have been cooperative with Moderation and would like to see an end to this stain that apparently lies in our history as well. At your feet now, soldier, go take your rumors and false accusations somewhere else.

[Gest]

Before what I assume will be the mod's biblically epic punishment on much of raiding is handed down, I would like to dispel the notion that the raiders who used Predator knew it was illegal. Many well-liked and guileless players have used it since it's inception. Some decently tech wise people thought it was a legal tool and used it as well.

But you're not here for justifications but for a pretentious epitaph! We loved raiding not wisely but too well.

[Tom Vasentius]

Just goes to show that we don't need tools to whip fendas, great op too bad I wasn't able to make it. o/

So you managed to tag raid a region which associates with the FRA kick out a single person who was puppetflooding the region and it it some great victory? Congratulations. /sarcasm Your guys propaganda gets worse and worse by the day. At this point it is even worse than The Red Fleet's and I didn't think that was even possible.

Yep, and it ended a delegacy of over 600 days and you lot couldn't stop it. We've got the best propaganda, besides Knot's good posts and Tye's dank OC which are both good propaganda we've got the best and most effective propaganda: propaganda of the deed. Despite all the trouble this past week we can still get a great number of WAs out and hit good targets, we are victorious in our large OPs which we never used tools for anyways, and we're holding two good targets St A and Portugal, and Portugal is right after we paid the natives in anarchy a nice little visit and last time I checked our WAD in Portugal had an insane amount of endos and pretty soon we'll be back to tear up the tagfields classic style. So despite all we're still active and winning fam. All that is pretty darn good no? And power is what attracts people, I think it's our power, effectiveness and infamy as raiders that serves as the best propaganda and brings new blood over to our side.

[Festavo2]

Congratulations on the raid.

[RiderSyl]

We loved raiding not wisely but too well.

Is it time to love raiding wisely, Gest? Like the old days?

[Severisen]

What is the manual record?

Spartz triggered 28 tags manually in (iirc) 2012 for TBH, during a 1 hour update. He not only triggered, he also jumped on the raids. To put it in perspective, it shattered Halc's previous record of 19 in an update, at which point he became driven to best TBH. This, imo, is what led us down the path to where we are now

Even defenders congratulated us on the mark. Extrapolated to a 90 minute update, 42 would be equivalent. If I can be bothered, I'll dig up the posts.

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This is when 2 teams hit 38 regions in an update. Spartz triggered 24, Jakker hit 14.

[The Silver Sentinel]

So you managed to tag raid a region which associates with the FRA kick out a single person who was puppetflooding the region and it it some great victory? Congratulations. /sarcasm Your guys propaganda gets worse and worse by the day. At this point it is even worse than The Red Fleet's and I didn't think that was even possible.

Yep, and it ended a delegacy of over 600 days and you lot couldn't stop it.

Well I am currently on hiatus from defending at the moment, so I wouldn't have tried, but honestly tell me this? What reason would any defender have had to try and stop it at the moment, given the fact there is a high degree of probability it was triggered via an illegal script? How exact was the trigger time? Was it minute off or was it right down to the second?

So despite all we're still active and winning fam. All that is pretty darn good no? And power is what attracts people, I think it's our power, effectiveness and infamy as raiders that serves as the best propaganda and brings new blood over to our side.

And illegal scripts to give you a significant advantage in tag raiding have nothing to do with any of that right?

What is the manual record?

Spartz triggered 28 tags manually in (iirc) 2012 for TBH, during a 1 hour update. He not only triggered, he also jumped on the raids. Jakker also triggered a number of raids that update, and I think TBH hit 38 or 39 regions in one update, two teams. To put it in perspective, it shattered Halc's previous record of 19 in an update, at which point he became driven to best TBH. This, imo, is what led us down the path to where we are now

Even defenders congratulated us on the mark. Extrapolated to a 90 minute update, 42 would be equivalent. If I can be bothered, I'll dig up the posts.

See.. Those are numbers I can respect. Hitting 100 or so regions in an update should have been the first clue something fishy was going on, and I feel like an idiot for not catching on to it sooner.

[Tom Vasentius]

Yep, and it ended a delegacy of over 600 days and you lot couldn't stop it.

Well I am currently on hiatus from defending at the moment, so I wouldn't have tried, but honestly tell me this? What reason would any defender have had to try and stop it at the moment, given the fact there is a high degree of probability it was triggered via an illegal script? How exact was the trigger time? Was it minute off or was it right down to the second?

So despite all we're still active and winning fam. All that is pretty darn good no? And power is what attracts people, I think it's our power, effectiveness and infamy as raiders that serves as the best propaganda and brings new blood over to our side.

And illegal scripts to give you a significant advantage in tag raiding have nothing to do with any of that right?

This raid was after all orgs with people who trigger using predator ordered their members to stop using it until a decision was made, and now that it has been found illegal no one will be using it, so I don't think there's a high probability that anyone is still using Predator but hey, I doubt I'm going to change your mind.

As for the second thing yeah I'll give you that, the guys who triggered with Predator had a very unfair advantage against you guys and I I've been on raids with people using it and I don't feel so good about the victories that we've had since it's been found out that Predator was illegal. But now things will be done the old fashioned way till a new and legal tool is developed and if that doesn't happen so be it.