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What a Brilliant Idea
Posted on November 11, 2005 by Ching under Games.
You know how they have shot glass chess? Well, that doesn’t really work for us because Brian can’t drink. We found this at World Market today and thought it absolutely brilliant!
I mean, what better motivation to take chess pieces! Right?
Of course, you’d probably want to prolong the game for an opportunity to eat more chocolate chess pieces so that renders my four-move checkmate pointless.
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Ogame Players on Flickr
Posted on September 24, 2005 by Ching under Games.
Just when I decide to quit playing Ogame, I find other players on Flickr. Mostly foreign folks. I don’t know of anyone else that plays Ogame locally other than the guys at Cable Mafia, the alliance I first started out with. They took really good care of me when I was first starting out.
I left the alliance before I hit 60000 points but I was quickly rising in the ranks. I started out a henchman, then became a hitman and then Attila promoted me to snitch. It was fun to watch others advance within the alliance and also in the game. The camaraderie was out of this world. I thought so, anyway.
Brian thought otherwise and decided to split. He formed his own alliance, Mercenenary Inc, which I joined within hours of its formation. You gotta support your husband, you know?
At first it was a fledgling alliance that just consisted of Brian, his dad and myself. Soon others joined. We had a total of 14 people when I left.
Anyway, I was Brian’s biggest hitter at around 60000 plus points. He was next with half the points I had. I think what devastated him most about my decision to quit playing Ogame is now the alliance has dropped significantly in the rankings.
Brian is convinced that I will eventually return to the game. I’m prety sure I’m done, though. I’m ready to move on to the next thing.
The only sad thing is now I’m finding other players on Flickr, who I had no idea existed until now. We could’ve started an Ogame Flickr group or something. Granted most of them are not American but diversity is what it’s all about. You have to allign yourself with other alliances (though, surprisingly, there are lots of people in the top ten that are not members of any alliance). You have to team up to succeed. It could’ve been really huge!
It’s too late now, though. I’ve already declared my resignation. Bummer, huh?
P.S. I just found out that there are lots of bloggers playing Ogame, also. Thanks to the new Blogger search feature. I haven’t tried Technorati yet, but I’m sure there are many other players out there in the blogosphere.
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No More Ogame
Posted on September 21, 2005 by Ching under Games.
I bid farewell to Ogame. Gosh, that sentence sounds so calm considering how angry I was when I woke up this morning. I was so angry that I was actually contemplating audioblogging this post just so that you will know how enraged I was. I mean, no amount of exclamation points would have done the emotion justice. Anyway, yesterday Brian and I discussed that he would start playing my Ogame for me because I’m too busy to do much of anything with it other than going on 100 hour fleetsaves. So as my fleet were coming back from their three-day journeys, Brian was starting to send some of them back out on raids. I noticed the work he’d been doing and commended him for it. I actually sent him 200K in resources as payment for his services. I had noticed at that point that not much was going on at my main planet and I should’ve done something about it then, but I didn’t. I figured that Brian was playing and I would just leave my Ogame alone. I woke up this morning and my main planet was decimated. Over 200 ships, gone. All my solar satellites, gone. I was like negative 3K in energy and that was what tipped me off that I had been attacked. There was no message that I could find to tell me who did it and that frustrated me even more. So I did what any normal girl on the verge of a nervous breakdown would do. I pulled a “Seventh.” For the uninitiated, read that as quitting. I pulled the plug. It was time anyway. I’m just too busy to play anymore. I have never been a quitter but I was so angry that my first instinct was to delete my account. And if you know me, you know that I am a girl who listens to her instincts. Account will be terminated in about 72 hours. The deletion has commenced. I don’t know why it takes so long though. Maybe it waits for your fleet to return? By the way, the 72 hours is a rough estimate. The game uses some other time zone and I never know what time anything happens. It’s really dumb. You should be able to change it to your own time zone. But I guess the game programmers are too busy playing to worry themselves with finicky details like that. So anyway, now that I’m dropping a hobby I guess I’ll have to pick up another one down the road. I’m thinking of sex with strangers. What do you guys think? That sounds like a lot more fun anyway. Tell me what my next hobby should be.
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Still My Favorite Match
Posted on September 13, 2005 by Ching under Games.
This is still my favorite chess match ever. It was my first chess match with Joey. Whenever I’m downtrodden, I just think of my favorite things and then I feel a little less horrid. I still feel like committing suicide, but at least I’ll be smiling when I do it.
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Cable Mafia Ranks
Posted on July 8, 2005 by Ching under Games.
You all know how competitive I am. I never start any endeavor half-heartedly. I always go buck wild, full on, head strong into something. I am the same way with working out. I am the same way with poker. I am the same way with sex. And now, I am the same way with Ogame. Brian had been playing it for almost a month before I decided to give it a try. I figured that if it can captivate him for hours, perhaps it will be just as entertaining to me.
So we signed me up and he got me into the Cable Mafia alliance. It’s called Cable Mafia because almost all the members work for Cox Communications. They play the game all day at work!
Anyway, getting into the alliance was the smartest move ever. It gave me acces to the alliance forum and to other players who are knowledgeable and experienced. Attila, our kingpin, even sent me 10K in resources to get me started. JW helped me by giving me some leads early on. He gave me coordinates to nearby planets that I could easily raid because they had no planetary defenses. Rushdogg sent me some stuff, too — but he sent more stuff to Brian. Â 😛 Â I shouldn’t complain, though. It’s good to get resources from other people.
In our alliance, everyone starts out as a henchman. Within a week (a week and a few hours, if you want to be exact), however, I managed to get promoted to hitman. The titles are based on point values and they follow the mafia theme. Anyway, I was really excited to make hitman in such a short amount of time especially since Brian had made hitman only a couple of days before.
It took Brian almost a month to make hitman. When I first started the game, I told him I would make it in half the time. I totally blasted that since I made it in about a week. Go me!
Of course, I had some help. I couldn’t have made it to hitman so quickly without the generosity and guidance of Brian and the other players. But still, I rock!
In the picture above, you will see Brian’s current point status as compared to my own. Brian doesn’t know this yet, but the goal is to outscore him by the end of the month!
When he reads this blog I’m sure we’ll agree on a wager just to make things more interesting. Hmm… What should I ask for if I win? Any ideas?
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