Casual Conversations

[alva]

Shiber: sometimes you scare me man

Dom: you do have a point, but isn't Vox doing this on purpose..?

[Dominae]

Originally posted by alva
but isn't Vox doing this on purpose..?

...to make us look bad? That's a possibility. Where then does that leave our friendship?

...or as a campaign of misinformation? That would be pretty cool. I would like to know if this is what Vox is really up to, though.


Dominae

[alva]

or as a campaign of misinformation?

We could ask them.

It will show them that we are on to them. There answer could shed some light on the subject, if not directly, it will indirectly.

[DeepO]

Hmmm... how long has our relation now improved? 3 weeks? before that, how long was our relation very tense, 3 weeks as well? we were talking a lot more about Vox to other teams when it was tense, so let's assume Vox did the same thing. Now, we have shut up, so it's possible teams are still using this old talk of ours to think nothing has changed.

I'm not sure if Vox would tell that they're planning to attack us, but they can tell they're still scared of us, and everybody would believe them. Also, it surprises me that there is uberhaupt talk on this, I'm sure everyone has their hands full with the situation on Bob (don't know where it comes from, but it seems a fitting name)

DeepO

[DeepO]

Oh, Alva, I agree. Why wouldn't we simply ask Vox what they are telling others about us, possibly creating a common image we would keep up. As long as we don't ly, I've got no problem with that whatsoever, maybe Vox isn't shrewd enough to start a misinformation campaign, but if they are been given the idea I doubt they wouldn't be able to do it...

DeepO

[Shiber]

I agree with Alva. We could mention, seemingly just out of chit-chat, that we have been hearing certain rumors about our relations with them and that we're very interested in knowing more of how the other civs perceive our teams and our relations, and therefore would like to "cross our sources" and hear from them what they might have overheard.
That's one way of bringing up this issue. I'd suggest more, but right now I'm too tired for this...

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Shiber - you should also have GS has a keyword too. So we can monitor if any of us gives stuff away.

[Shiber]

GS is already in my list of keywords ('gs' will also be triggered by hearing GS, because I've set the case sensitive flag off).

[Lawrence of Arabia]

If you tell me how to do it, I can help you monitor and analyze the texts. We can have our own intelligence agency.

[Theseus]

Scary... the GS NSA.

[DeepO]

I'm all for it, BTW, as long as it stays within the boundaries of the law (a bit unlike NSA after all )

DeepO

[Arrian]

Big GS is watching!

One thing we should always remember about our relations with Vox - we actually have more to lose than they do. Yes, in a full-blown war, we will probably win, provided they don't catch us totally unprepared. But they have a garbage starting spot to begin with, and thus have more incentive to gamble (though I must say, I've never been very impressed with our terrain either... but it beats the hell out of theirs, apparently).

The partnership idea works better for us than for them, IF one assumes that each team is trying to win. So yeah, watching our back is a good plan. BUT, that being said, being militarily prepared and building at the same time is hard. Balanced play means we will excell at neither aspect.

*sigh* Human opponents are so much harder to deal with.

-Arrian

[Shiber]

Lawrence, that's a very good idea!
Here is how you can all participate in storm gathering... I mean, intelligence gathering:
First of all, I'll assume that everyone of you uses mIRC. This is not a very rough assumption, since mIRC is the most popular IRC client for Windows, and the Linux port is quite popular too. Now, here's the deal.
First of all, open your options menu (fastest way is alt+O). Under the category IRC, choose highlight. Enable highlighting with the checkbox, and then simply add all the keywords you want (I recommend my own keywords; see my first post in this thread). You can also configure your client to beep when it catches this keyword, to color it red so it'd be easier for you to find it and to change the process window's title to something such as ATTENTION.
I stay in #apolyton and #apolytonisdg. When someone mentions any of these keywords, my computer starts beeping like crazy until I check it out. I also log everything, regardless of any keywords, and I suggest that you do the same (in options, under logging, log everything and set timestamping on, so it'd be easier to identify the logs by their filenames).

Good hunting!

[Harovan]

mIRC has a Linux port? Never knew that. I hate X.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Shiber
I stay in #apolyton and #apolytonisdg. When someone mentions any of these keywords, my computer starts beeping like crazy until I check it out.

I've noticed that you've been in those rooms almost constantly for the past couple days. Found any interesting info yet?