Crap, Castle - how many hit points do you have? :eek::eek::eek:
1310. Strength soldier. I was KO'd once. And came close tonight.

Peter's awake...anybody in the neighborhood?

I am in Hick Village now. Just KO'd Darweene. I can take a run at Peter and soften him up as there is no way I can defeat him.

Gramm -- if you meant me (i.e. "John") I'm an adventurer not a worker. Just for clarity's sake & what not.

Sorry about that, I thought you were a worker.

I am in Hick Village now. Just KO'd Darweene. I can take a run at Peter and soften him up as there is no way I can defeat him.

Probably better let it go, at least for now. He's back home and has gone heavy on the Tactics gear.

Dola. Chris P. Cox is town-less at the moment and back in Hick Town...I'm guessing it was a shopping trip.

I am a worker, and got dueled 2x in a row by Jimmie Jackson of Hick Village, I believe. Sucks. I can't do any questing and making money if this keeps up. :)

Anything we could do to stop it? Just wondered. First time hit really since the town decided to go on a retribution spree. Been quiet for a week almost 2 it seems like.

DeTox, if you have the relationship w/ La Vie perhaps mention to them that those guys are now attacking workers?

We can't really put the hammer to their whole town because we don't have low enough level guys ... everyone is L40+. But maybe the LaVie towns have more top-to-bottom depth and could help pass along the pain to all of Hick-land and get them to tell their leadership that they are tired of getting KO'd?

If we are going to continue the battle then the best we can do is have our duelers putting their top 5-6 guys on ice regularly. And I guess we can extend it to their duelers as well, although I've personally refrained from that up to this point and I think that is true for the vast majority of us.

DeTox, if you have the relationship w/ La Vie perhaps mention to them that those guys are now attacking workers?

We can't really put the hammer to their whole town because we don't have low enough level guys ... everyone is L40+. But maybe the LaVie towns have more top-to-bottom depth and could help pass along the pain to all of Hick-land and get them to tell their leadership that they are tired of getting KO'd?

If we are going to continue the battle then the best we can do is have our duelers putting their top 5-6 guys on ice regularly. And I guess we can extend it to their duelers as well, although I've personally refrained from that up to this point and I think that is true for the vast majority of us.

You mean extend it to their workers?

I'm open to a group think here. I'm sitting (well, sleeping) in Hick Village and while Jimmie Jackson is asleep, their town founder/worker is sitting there unarmed.

On the one hand since hoosierdude was hit I'm happy enough for the cheap win, given that even unarmed the final score would probably be closer than the losses I've taken to duelers. On the other hand, if our workers haven't been routine targets, I don't necessarily want to escalate just because they've got one guy whose a bigger idiot than all the rest.

I'm fine either way. I think I've now outleved Jimmie so I can't put a hurt on him but I would hope that he does not get more than a couple of minutes of non-KO time for the duration of our war.

Their workers have been staying out of the fray and I'm fine leaving them out of there but it is extremely annoying how the Hicks will choose the unfair fight every time they are given the chance. They clearly are just going for as many KO's as they can possibly accrue and a large part of me wants to repay them in kind.

That said, the people who really ought to be talking about this are our workers because if it does escalate into an all-out war then they are the people whose lifestyle changes the most.

I'm 10 minutes & counting from hitting Jimmie Jackson. I'm 12 duel levels higher than him & on what amounts to my max attack build, so we'll see how that turns out with my lifetime record of 5-26 and him at 106-13.

Win or lose, I still have no love for dueling by any stretch of the imagination but my figuring this morning was this: I'm not planning to go out & do any work just to be a target, might as well shoot once & get blasted to bits and sleep 16 hours instead of just sleeping 16 hours. This whole mess has been disruptive enough that my World 7 character has now leveled past this one.

G'night sweet prince.

(My lost)Total health points - 147 HP
(He lost) Total health points - 500 HP
Jimmie Jackson passes out. Luke Warmwater wins the duel, gains 30 experience points and steals $33 from Jimmie Jackson.

Dola. Chris P. Cox is town-less at the moment and back in Hick Town...I'm guessing it was a shopping trip.

And he's now a resident of Hick Village.

I'm 10 minutes & counting from hitting Jimmie Jackson. I'm 12 duel levels higher than him & on what amounts to my max attack build, so we'll see how that turns out with my lifetime record of 5-26 and him at 106-13.

Win or lose, I still have no love for dueling by any stretch of the imagination but my figuring this morning was this: I'm not planning to go out & do any work just to be a target, might as well shoot once & get blasted to bits and sleep 16 hours instead of just sleeping 16 hours. This whole mess has been disruptive enough that my World 7 character has now leveled past this one.

I am becoming more along these kind of lines. If I can't do the jobs I need to, then I will buy the best stuff for me dueling-wise, and go shoot up some folks myself.

I can sleep 16 after getting my body swiss-cheesed, and be glad I didn't have to tell others I was attacked again by idiots. :) I can just go after folks that piss me off and then sleep.

I see Peter and Chester are awake. I can soften one of them up. Just need someone else to go for the KO.

Well, they got me before the firestorm of a complete town knockout. Well done

Well Chester Nutsack beat me 160-106.

Don't know how we missed each other, except for 1 hit each.

Right after Peter goesintight hit me, and I lost that one as well 372-365.

I was on my way to duel Chester as it was, so not really a big deal, but hopefully when I hit him the outcome will be reversed.

I've only got about 300 health left, so once my duel is over, I'll be resting in either their hotel or ours.

I've only got about 300 health left, so once my duel is over, I'll be resting in either their hotel or ours.

Are you attached to El Dolado? If so, head to the Fort...you'll regain health and energy faster.

Nope, Troutville.

I'll have to re-join El Dolado so I can take advantage of the fort, but will wait until my duel is over before doing it.

I should be back in action late tonight to take shots at their guys, if needed.

I should be back in action late tonight to take shots at their guys, if needed.

Somebody did a number on both towns as everyone is out for 48 hours, so no need to do anything for a couple of days. They must of pissed someone off as the workers were KO'd as well.

Woohoo! Good News! :D

Let's find out if our old friends from La Vie were responsible...ought to send the a case of beer or something if they're the ones that did it.

Q: What is best in life?

A: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women

*adds Conan the Barbarian to his Netflix Queue.

Damn you Cartman! :D

Somebody did a number on both towns as everyone is out for 48 hours, so no need to do anything for a couple of days. They must of pissed someone off as the workers were KO'd as well.

See, this is the kind of quality information I miss out on when my screen says that I cannot duel anyone for 48 hours :)

OK, guess I'll have to continue getting my kicks shooting others. Honestly, I can't see how this is long-term profitable for them. They are out of the dueling mix more often than they can duel, which should be slowing their character development.

Honestly, I can't see how this is long-term profitable for them. They are out of the dueling mix more often than they can duel, which should be slowing their character development.

I'd say you're probably trying to find logic or reason to something where there really isn't any. They strike me largely as a bored set of punkasses who aren't particularly interested in anything longer term than immediate gratification.

Somebody did a number on both towns as everyone is out for 48 hours, so no need to do anything for a couple of days. They must of pissed someone off as the workers were KO'd as well.

Umm...which towns are you looking at exactly? Peter, Chester, and Chris are all active.

Nutsack absolutely wiped the floor with me today. 650-14 and KO'd me. I didn't have my best dueling gear on, and he's 14 dueling levels higher than I am, but still that's crazy. I think some re-specing is in order here.

Yeah, I was wondering if he had been knocked out and had the same view I do for the next few hours.

Umm...which towns are you looking at exactly? Peter, Chester, and Chris are all active.


Well I am red faced. :confused: Since I got knocked out, that is what I am seeing that there is no one able to duel because I CAN'T . I am a dumb ass.

Go back to kicking their ass and I will go back to my corner.

You mean that wasn't the lamentation of their women that I heard?

You mean that wasn't the lamentation of their women that I heard?

No. I feel terrible about that.

Well I am red faced. :confused: Since I got knocked out, that is what I am seeing that there is no one able to duel because I CAN'T . I am a dumb ass.

Go back to kicking their ass and I will go back to my corner.

No worries...we all make mistakes.

cartman: Afraid not.

ok, just what the hell was it I heard then?

:D

ok, just what the hell was it I heard then?

:D

Oklahoma fans at the BYU game?

So, anyone interested in coordinating hits tonight around midnight EST? I'm probably going to make sure I'm in their town the minute I'm eligible to start carpet bombing their town for whatever number of hits I have in me, crash in their hotel and then take another crack in the morning when I get up at whoever is left around (7AM EST).

I'm up for it. Chester and then Peter hit me earlier today. They both won, but did not KO me.

Math is hard - I won't be able to hit until about 1AM EST.

Does it look like all of the twits in the Hick towns are available for shooting? Anyone nestled in bed at the moment?

If we have our pick, do we want to try and hit some of the weaker sisters first and go for knockouts or do you want to go for the gusto and hit the guys who are our level? I did pretty well against Nutsack last time and it does not look like he has tweaked his gear to incorporate any more Tactics stuff into it so I'm more than willing to go for him. In fact, he is probably my first choice because he is so much better to attack than to be attacked by.

After that, Ping, Chris, and Chester are all pretty close to the same in my eyes. Peter is still a load for me, and will probably continue to be for another few levels until I can get the next round of gear upgrades.

Donald Trumpet hit me twice today while I was working. KOed for the first time. Hick Town definitely needs some asses whipped.

I don't care, I will go after any of them. If we are going to take Peter or Nutlessack, both soldiers, we probably need 4 people to make the hit for good measure.

Nutsack at about 12:20 eastern.

Alright, then Hoops can clean up at 1am eastern.

See you there, Castle.

Just to confirm - are these guys awake at this point? I can't see it for another 90-100 minutes ... everyone is just unavailable for 48 hours.

See Professor58 posts for how this works if you are like Castlerock and never get knocked out :)

Actually nutlessack is asleep now. Peter is still up. Chris P. Cox is still up in Hick Village. Everybody else is asleep, a worker or too low to level to duel.

nutsack and peter are awake now.

scratch that... Chester Nutsack is asleep. peter is awake.

Who do you want to go after between Peter and Chris P. Cox?

Hmm, I just saw Nutsack make his way into town - which makes me think that he is sleeping in town. Otherwise not a lot of reason for him to be there, other than maybe quickly dropping off money or something like that?

I'm fine with hitting Cox as well.

We can take runs at Pete, but I'm guessing we would have a much better chance of knocking him out with one of our three big guns (DeTox, DK, McGrain) in on the attacks. I'm not wild about handing him experience if we aren't putting him out of commission for 48.

Yeah we need sombody that should be able to beat peter to hit him first. Lets go for Chris P. Cox. He has been awake for a shorter period of time, so he is less likely to go to sleep in the next hour or so. He is on a job branding cattle right now.

Chris P Cox at about 1:00 AM eastern.

Enter DataKing - if he is along for the ride then we should be able to put two Hicks out of commission this evening.

I'll be there in about an hour. Peter's still a problem...basically with the Tactics buff soldiers get, whichever one of attacks is pretty much guaranteed to lose. We'd really need another one of the big guns to have a shot at him I think.

OK, can you guys confirm that Ping007 is awake as well? I see him out working near Hick Village so he could be target #2 if we want to hold off on Peter for another time.

Peter is asleep and Ping is down for 48 hours (not by my hand)

Got it - sorry for asking stuff that is obvious to everyone who is not knocked out.

Also, as long as this war is going on I'm going to do my best to keep accurate info on when the 48 hour timelines end for our Hick buddies so we can try to shorten their window between knockouts as much as possible. Starting tonight with Chris P Cox.

DatKing and I are in Hick Village right now. Should we start the attack?

I think they go in successive 10 minute runs. So one would hit at 12:51, then one at 1:01, etc.

DatKing and I are in Hick Village right now. Should we start the attack?

Go ahead. I'm already hitting him.

I'm rolling, should hit in 10 minutes.

or ten after you :)

I'm two minutes out of Hick Village, working out the last twenty minutes of my "penalty box" time by building coffins. So I'll be third man in, I'm guessing.

Or maybe 4th, as it appears that Castlerock has also arrived. Chris P Cox is very popular this evening ... wish we could put him down for 96 hours :)

He ducked us...he's sleeping.

Ugh - what a disappointment. So there is no one to hit tonight?

Not right now...maybe try to play wack-a-mole. I'll stick around and check periodically.

Yep, I may take a couple of shots in the morning.

Their worker Rusty Shanker ducked into the hotel too. He had just awoke a little while ago, so at least we probably made him quit his current job.

I'll go work a close job and keep an eye out for a while too.

lol, I hit a level 70 soldier a couple days ago while they were using a trumpet instead of an actual weapon. That person came to duel me tonight. I won and they passed out.

Man, I just got crushed when I attacked Trumpet this morning ... I did not hit him once. He must have really buffed his Tactics a ton. I'm probably going to have to shift a few more points to Appearance.

Headed to attack Peter and chester before I have to leave for the day

Peter got me pretty good in the duel, I only hit him three times, so I mist have had a bad set up as far as where I was aiming.

And then I lost to Chester by 1 point. Not my day for dueling I guess.

Can I get an invite to El Dolado please? Got a couple things left to do then it's definitely go time on the dueling front.

I'm going after Chester - hopefully he has not gotten to rest in between Danny's attack and mine.

Loss - put 175 points of damage on him. Don't know what Danny did, but he had about 4 hours to recover (not sleep) so I'm guessing he is low if someone takes a run this afternoon.

FYI, Chris P Cox is now awake as well. So if people are planning on making runs against the Hicks they are all up and around at the moment. Well, except the still KO'd Ping007 and Jimmie Jackson or whatever his name was.

Looks like they just picked up a new L48/60 adventurer as well. I guess we can probably expect Dex Dex to be dropping in sometime soon.

I've been getting pinged like crazy. We need to slaughter these fools!

Going after Chester Nutsack in a few.

Let me know your ETA, as I'm in town now so I can have an attack running on him basically at the same time as yours. I'm still licking my wounds a little bit from an hour ago but should be good to go in another hour for sure.

looks like 27 minutes from now

Castle, I got held up by a work issue but I'm heading in now. Did you just hit him and head out? I do not see you in the town. I do, however, see shearenz from the Shearing Shed so it looks like the La Vie group may be making a return engagement.

Crap, KO'd after putting another 292 points of damage on Nutsack. Will someone please come in and put him under before he gets to rest again? Otherwise I just lost 2.5 days of dueling for nothing :(

Dola - it looked like he shot left shoulder every time.

I hit him firing:
2nd - right shoulder
3rd - left hand
4th - left hand

Not a particularly proud day of dueling for me - 0-3 when attacking the Hicks and got myself KO'd.

I hit him but lost and did little damage. where did you hit and where did he hit?

1 - missed head
2 - hit right shoulder
3 - hit left hand
4 - hit left hand

Dex Dex is sleeping in Troutville right now. I'm assuming she will try to duel someone soon.

Let me know if anyone wants to coordinate anything against a Hick tonight.

Wow. A level 82 dueler tried hitting me and I beat him.

GormanT passes out. DeToxRox wins the duel, gains 248 experience points and steals $6 from GormanT.

Let me know if you guys want another around for the ride. I'm waiting on an invite for El Dolado, but once I'm back to being a member of a town I'm up for finding out just how poorly I've actually built my guy for dueling :D

I'm waiting on an invite for El Dolado

Sent, until I saw this post I had no idea you needed/wanted an invite.

Sent, until I saw this post I had no idea you needed/wanted an invite.

Thanks. I saw a bunch of posts had popped up since my request on here and wasn't sure who to bug in game. Nice to be home again :D

KO'd Charles Darweenie 550 vs 90 and got $72 for the trouble.

Aw, poor Peter attacked me and lost .. 517-0.

DEADcadence wins the duel, gains 254 experience points and steals $2 from peter goesintight.

WOw, GormanT had attacked my adventurer and lost after I hit him for over 600. He is an awfully bad dueler to be going around dueling.

I am going after Ping007 in 15 min. If he doesn't get to sleep, someone should KO him

I am on my way to duel Peter now

I am going after Ping007 in 15 min. If he doesn't get to sleep, someone should KO him

I lost 575 to 376, so if anyone is around, go get him.

dammit...dex dex knocked out my adventurer while he was in his last hours of silver mining....grrr...my son's soldier is headed to hick county and if it moves it sleeps regardless of build.

Okay, I know I'm late to the party, but who are you guys going after and where are they located? We have to travel to their town and initiate the duel through there correct?

Okay, I know I'm late to the party, but who are you guys going after and where are they located? We have to travel to their town and initiate the duel through there correct?

Hick Ville and Hick Town. Just search the rankings for towns and you'll find them. Once you initiate a duel it'll travel you to their town.

They're in the SE corner of the quadrant north of ours.

Are you guys currently bombing them or is that going to be going on more so tonight?

I'm heading over to get a few shots in then going to sleep for at least 8 as I'll be afk for the most part tonight. Anybody in particular I should take a run at? (I'm level 43 right now)

ok..calmed down not going to shoot up workers...and son's soldier build is saving up cash to buy one item to try and complete the soldier quest line (fancy boots so he can sell guns to indians)

I am going to stay the course and keep saving..(He has 22 points in skill not allocated making him week for his level at dueling these days.)

question for our soldiers and duelers...

how do you cash for gear?

I am thinking of starting a new character on world 10, and if so I think I am going soldier and pure trader until I can silver mine (including equipment buys) which is easy and quick cash...from there turn over to a more traditional strength melee fighter keeping only enough trading to keep me silver mining when dueling is tired....

thoughts?

Frankly I've always been cash-poor compared to others of my level. I've spent lots of time building coffins. Also, every once in a while you will duel a pigeon out there with a bunch of cash on them...that helps, but you can't rely on it.

lots and lots of silver mining.

I'll be taking a crack at Ping in about 15 minutes. Any suggestions on shot/defense from those that hit him already?

Frankly I've always been cash-poor compared to others of my level. I've spent lots of time building coffins. Also, every once in a while you will duel a pigeon out there with a bunch of cash on them...that helps, but you can't rely on it.

Ditto - by trying to accelerate through levels quickly (often via dueling) I've found that I do not have much cash for my level and that I have challenges putting together good battle gear. I've been rectifying that during the time that I'm knocked out.

Interesting that DK is still doing the same stuff that I've been doing for the past couple of levels - building coffins. I will mix that in with building railroad stations, beaver hunt, and printing newspapers in order to balance XP/Gold.

Ditto - by trying to accelerate through levels quickly (often via dueling) I've found that I do not have much cash for my level and that I have challenges putting together good battle gear. I've been rectifying that during the time that I'm knocked out.

Interesting that DK is still doing the same stuff that I've been doing for the past couple of levels - building coffins. I will mix that in with building railroad stations, beaver hunt, and printing newspapers in order to balance XP/Gold.

For like a month I didn't even duel and I re-speced just Charisma. Then I was leveling a lot because I finished every quest I could do except for one right now and I put everything in trading.

Now I have 12K in the bank and usually make 600 bucks a day with silver mining and Charlatan.

exactly I make 200-250/hour silver mining withmy adventurer plus an average of 5 silver bars / 8 hours so I can make 2100 in 8 hours.....

Now my/my son's (it is honestl yhis character though I often tend to sit it for him when he loses interest for a week or so at a time) soldiers has been saving for some fancy boots for 3 weeks and building coffins, beaver hunting and transporting ammo (hoping for drops) have netter me about 4k in 3 weeks

So I am thinking if you went straigt to silver mining you could cash up for good dueling gear and maybe grow very quickly after a slower start. I would think the best trading clothes could probably have you silver mining with little loss of points for duelings skills

btw peter goes in tight came and knockced out said soldier...

Dex Dex knocked me out today. 317 to 271 the first time, then came back 2 hours later and knocked me out. Kind of tough when you don't get a chance to change your aim and dodging.

I'm going after Chester Nutsack once again. The duel will be over in about 10 minutes.

Hopefully I'll fair better against him this time, but I seem to do better against peter goesintight.

Dola,

I finally beat him.

224 to 189, gained 192 xp and stole $28.

I'll have to rest for now though, as I have no Energy points left to use. I used most of them up Stealing Horses for some cash.

Dueling nutsack, will be over in 8 minutes.

Beat him 490-306, Ill hit him again if he is still awake when it the hour is over.

he went too bed, oh well

was in my construction gear and got dueled by madmax and A-Aprile of rock ridge back to back and beat them both pretty handily. Nice free 170 xp.

Poor Dex Dex.

Dex Dex passes out. DEADcadence wins the duel, gains 151 experience points and steals $52 from Dex Dex.

I won 623-336.

Poor Dex Dex.

Dex Dex passes out. DEADcadence wins the duel, gains 151 experience points and steals $52 from Dex Dex.

I won 623-336.

Thank you, sir. Glad to see that $28 I lost found a good home.

Chester is currently town-less and Peter is a part of Beer Village. Shopping trips, or have perhaps the Hick towns decided to kick out their bad apples?

was in my construction gear and got dueled by madmax and A-Aprile of rock ridge back to back and beat them both pretty handily. Nice free 170 xp.

Mad Max dueled me too and won.

Chester is currently town-less and Peter is a part of Beer Village. Shopping trips, or have perhaps the Hick towns decided to kick out their bad apples?

Peter is back as a member of the smaller Hick town. I'm guessing he purchased a new gun over the last couple of days in preparation for his next level.

Peter is now in Troutville. He appears to still use the precise pepperbox revolver.

and he bitch slapped me....but only won 212-193 while I was in trapping gear.

I am out of commission until tomorrow. I wanted to see how I would fare against a level 70 soldier from one of the Sunday towns yesterday when I had around 950hp. I did not fare well, but instead bit farewell.

So how are people doing with this as of late? I haven't seen hide nor hair of the Hicks over the past week and I've taken my dueling action elsewhere to avoid creating any difficulties for others in our two towns.

One good thing that came out of the short-term war with those guys, for me, is that I got some very good feedback on changes I needed to make on my character to be a more successful dueler. I've upped my Appearance significantly and been doing more "high money" (relatively speaking) work so I can purchase gear with better Tactics values.

Other than that, I'm splitting my time about 50/40/10 on work/dueling/quests. My old timeline was to do quests when I was KO'd by a Hick, but now that they are gone I'm having a hard time finding the motivation to go hunting for wood or fools gold when I could be getting real money to help me towards my next 5,000+ purchase of items.

Haven't seen them in several days either, which is good since I probably haven't done more than 4 hours worth of work in a day in several days either, and haven't remembered to put the character back to sleep for a second shift when he was idle.

Truth is, I think that whole mess kind of started winding the game down for me. Keeping the character asleep for 16 hour stretches wasn't very compelling & once the routine was broken it's been hard for me to really get back into it.

Sounds like the Hicks' collective attentions have moved elsewhere...I haven't seen hide nor hair of any of them lately either. I'm back to my routine of three duels per day (HP and desire permitting), otherwise splitting my time between XP- and cash-jobs. I'll be hitting the big five-oh soon and I'm looking forward to getting my hands on a precise no1 revolver.

Same here, no sign of the hicks, I've been doing jobs and some dueling here and there.
I'm looking at getting the Charlatan gear for some variety.

Hey guys. I'm bored, so I have founded a town. It is called Dolaville and is just slightly north of the La Vie fort in the middle of the map. The town will be finished by about 4:30 CDT. If anybody wants to join in and donate money/help construct, I'd appreciate it. Let's see if we can't get some good set items in our shops.

well crap I spent over 10k this morning....but am on my way to slap mugrige about so Ill have more soon

send warm hand luke an invite in about a 12 hours

No worries, at this point the construction speed will probably be the limiting factor on growth. I did found a town strategically close to an oil well for some quick cash.

I have an ass ton to donate. I'll stick out in that town if you can send me an invite

Haven't seen them in several days either, which is good since I probably haven't done more than 4 hours worth of work in a day in several days either, and haven't remembered to put the character back to sleep for a second shift when he was idle.

Truth is, I think that whole mess kind of started winding the game down for me. Keeping the character asleep for 16 hour stretches wasn't very compelling & once the routine was broken it's been hard for me to really get back into it.

game has lost much of its fun when I ran out of missions to do. Been pretty much doing only high exp jobs for the last couple of weeks now, alternating between two or three jobs. I even put my guy to sleep for a few 16 hours periods since I couldn't care enough to switch to a new job when the one I was doing was at 72% motivation.

FM

game has lost much of its fun when I ran out of missions to do. Been pretty much doing only high exp jobs for the last couple of weeks now, alternating between two or three jobs. I even put my guy to sleep for a few 16 hours periods since I couldn't care enough to switch to a new job when the one I was doing was at 72% motivation.

FM

I am gettin' there, though I am gonna just start dueling soon if I must. Anyway, do you know if more quests are coming?

Hey guys. I'm bored, so I have founded a town. It is called Dolaville and is just slightly north of the La Vie fort in the middle of the map. The town will be finished by about 4:30 CDT. If anybody wants to join in and donate money/help construct, I'd appreciate it. Let's see if we can't get some good set items in our shops.

Sounds good

Is it the ghost town you're heading to? I haven't seen it otherwise.

And I understand the luster coming off as well, I still log into DanKD, but only because I do it right after huckleberry. Only thing really keeping it interesting for me on Huck is the dueling.

Is it the ghost town you're heading to? I haven't seen it otherwise.

You will see it in about 3 hours and 17 minutes.

You will see it in about 3 hours and 17 minutes.

Sounds good. I have about 10 K to donate as there is nothing I want to buy at all right now, so by the time we get built up I'll have a lot of cash again and hopefully have better options to check out.

I am currently a resident at HA Fort Nashborough with my sons soldier (needed some fancy boots)...let me know if we need any intel work...

They are warring with March Rabbit, and offered a free shopping invite to any FOFCers...

The town is live. Dolaville - FOFC. The first couple of invites have been handed out. I'm going to try to push the hotel first so we can regen while building the rest.

The town is live. Dolaville - FOFC. The first couple of invites have been handed out. I'm going to try to push the hotel first so we can regen while building the rest.

I have 5 hours till I can join but I'm working over there.

I am currently a resident at HA Fort Nashborough with my sons soldier (needed some fancy boots)...let me know if we need any intel work...

They are warring with March Rabbit, and offered a free shopping invite to any FOFCers...

Well, I inadvertently helped them out earlier this week by putting kanashintolic in a box for 48 hours. Been meaning to do that for awhile, finally got around to it after the Hick stuff quieted down.

BrianD, can you send me an invite? I'll start putting some cash aside to help out. It will be fun for me to actually take part in building a town as both were done, for all intents and purposes, when I signed up in July.

And I understand the luster coming off as well, I still log into DanKD, but only because I do it right after huckleberry. Only thing really keeping it interesting for me on Huck is the dueling.

I'm surprised on DanKD, as I've seen him making pretty steady progress up the top levels in the game. Although it looks like a pretty slow go for you at this point ...

I've been keeping an eye on Huck + Data King on the dueling rankings to see if I can catch up. You have not made it particularly easy over the last month or so.

BrianD, can you send me an invite? I'll start putting some cash aside to help out. It will be fun for me to actually take part in building a town as both were done, for all intents and purposes, when I signed up in July.

Invite sent.

I'm surprised on DanKD, as I've seen him making pretty steady progress up the top levels in the game. Although it looks like a pretty slow go for you at this point ...

I've been keeping an eye on Huck + Data King on the dueling rankings to see if I can catch up. You have not made it particularly easy over the last month or so.

I still take care of DanKD as it only takes a few seconds to log him in and set a couple jobs (I never have to switch gear for my top jobs) after doing what I need to do for Huckleberry. But if I only had DanKD I would probably forget to log in a lot. Dueling is still fun though and I finally cracked the top 100 in dueling rank. I actually had some goals for DanKD which kept the game interesting for him, but I met them all (top 100 level rank, and some others)

Just donated 11 grand to the new town.

What is the plan for building up the resources in the new town? In the short-term I could use a bit more storage in the bank as I'm trying to save up for a couple of items that are 5,000+.

I understand that there are likely to be other higher priorities, and that is fine. But I figured it made some sense to begin these discussions so we can all plan accordingly. If Bank is near the bottom of the list then I'll probably just pop in on the town once a week or so to make deposits.

Bank first makes the most sense. Well, that and hotel. I am no builder though so whatever is decided is fine.

The bank will probably be upgraded as we have items in stores more expensive than what the bank can hold.

Just an FYI ... "Evan" asked for & received a temporary shopping invite, just a $100 fee, nothing out of the ordinary. And then he basically says "umm, well, you see ..."

Here's the entire conversation on that
Evan O Today at 10:30 PM
If you dont mind, id like to stay here for a while as you have all the weapons I will need for the levels to come.

I will contribute once I make some money because as of now I have no money or items at all.
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Luke Warmwater On 10/2/09 at 2:11 PM
Happy to send you a shopping invite, so long as you agree to our standard $100 shopping visit fee to be paid to the treasury. If that's agreeable simply accept the forthcoming invitation & happy shopping. If not, kindly disregard the invitation.
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Evan O On 10/2/09 at 11:13 AM
Hi,
Could you send me an invite so I can do some shopping please.
Thanks.

So here's my reply,
Evan, typically players don't accept a shopping invite without having the cash on hand to pay the clearly stated fee. We also do not accept anyone for anything more than temporary residency for shopping purposes. I'm inclined to be patient for a couple of days as we are not currently tight on residents but I cannot emphasize strongly enough the temporary nature of your residency, so please conduct your business (including the deposit) as quickly as possible.

I'm currently planning to give him a couple of days before he's kicked. First time I've actually seen the shopping invite thing get abused since we started playing.

Well my sons soldier is a Fort Nash resident so I could kick his azz...

Well my sons soldier is a Fort Nash resident so I could kick his azz...

Let's see how he responds to the reply, I'd just as soon it provide him a wakeup call & he behave himself. If that fails (and I suspect it will, seems like a guy who isn't in any hurry to get back to his home for some reason), then pack carefully (dueling level 66) and blow his fucking head off afaic.

dola check that ...probably not he looks to be better...i assumed from the conversation he was a chump

dola check that ...probably not he looks to be better...i assumed from the conversation he was a chump

More like a kombat kiddie I think.

well now what...

I just finished the adventurer quest line with my adventurer and I am really at a loss.

With silver mining at only 20 points, I can already make ~2k/day when i need to cash...any further cash jobs seem to be a reach (100+ points away) thought about completing all sets just for a goal....or maybe respecing to start dueling..

Just not sure what comes next.

Jon, any luck dislocating that guy?

Also, can I get another invite to each of our cities? I'm anticipating some movement between them and Dolaville as we build that city up.

Jon, any luck dislocating that guy?

Yeah, he paid up & skedaddled.

Also, can I get another invite to each of our cities? I'm anticipating some movement between them and Dolaville as we build that city up.

El Dolado sent shortly

Quickie question ... we're still paying shopping fees at the La Vie towns, right?
Just trying to make sure that I should charge one of their residents likewise on a shopping request that's sitting in my in box.

For whatever my opinion is worth, I would not charge a shopping fee.
We can not get that money out and it is essentially lost money...we would be better served to leave him more money to spend to ostensibly help us out should the need arise.

Also my last shopping trip to La Vie Boeheme I was not charged as they said the town was done and they didnt need the money.

We can not get that money out and it is essentially lost money

Actually it isn't necessarily permanently lost, as there are costs associated with attacking other forts (according to this (http://www.the-west.net/help.php?article=fort_sizes) anyway) as one example. I have to think sooner or later someone is going to take a shot at our current fort and I kind of figure that eventually we'll want to take a crack at someone else's in reply. I'm darned sure not in any rush about that but I've always sort of expected it would come up eventually & am pretty surprised it hasn't already.

Also my last shopping trip to La Vie Boeheme I was not charged as they said the town was done and they didnt need the money.

If someone else has gotten the same deal from them, I'd be quite content to reciprocate going forward, that's why I asked & I appreciate the confirmation that it has happened at least once. I thought I remembered something mentioned about it but darned if I was going to search through the whole thread to find it. Failing any further comments one way or another I'll probably just run with a freebie for this guy as a payback for yours & we'll deal future requests case by case.

I'm about to go to Shearing Shed for a shopping trip. I will ask about a fee again. I asked about cash when I sent the request. They sent an invite and did not say anything about paying.

I'm about to go to Shearing Shed for a shopping trip. I will ask about a fee again. I asked about cash when I sent the request. They sent an invite and did not say anything about paying.

Glad you posted. It was Shearing Shed that I had in the back of my mind (that wasn't charging us) not La Vie XYZ. Which leads me to look 'em up, which leads me to realize that they're apparently full sister towns & not just affiliated town (like us & them). So that probably clears it up for me until/unless someone has to pay 'em to shop, in which case I'll go back to charging 'em.

Glad you posted. It was Shearing Shed that I had in the back of my mind (that wasn't charging us) not La Vie XYZ. Which leads me to look 'em up, which leads me to realize that they're apparently full sister towns & not just affiliated town (like us & them). So that probably clears it up for me until/unless someone has to pay 'em to shop, in which case I'll go back to charging 'em.

I didn't get a response on the question from Shearinz. But since Shearing Shed is still completing buildings, I dropped cash into their coffers.

Can I get an invite to El Dolado?

Can I get an invite to El Dolado?

Sent

Dat King can use an invite back to El Dolado, when someone gets a chance. No rush.

Dat King can use an invite back to El Dolado, when someone gets a chance. No rush.

Sent

Are any of our workers able to go help build in the new town? I am not a builder but I am donating money since I have some big money jobs unlocked and we're at like 16 K to use to build but just Brian doing the building.

I can help but I am not as good as the other builders. If you want my help give me a shout. Remember I am not a great setup for builders but I will do my best. Let me know if I am needed.

At this point, anyone is welcome to build. We have great ability to earn money at this point, so I'm not worried about wasting any on less-efficient building.

has this officially ran its course with everyone?

Eh, I logged in today for the first time since the weekend, mostly just to keep the characters from being deactivated. I never really caught the groove again after the whole shooting war thing, I'm still checking to see if there are invites needing to be sent but that's about it.

I think one of the bigger flaws the game has at the moment is the big gap in quests once you get into the 50's levels. I'm several levels from being able to do anything new at this point & that definitely hurts after being "gain skill for quest X" oriented for so much of the game.

I'm still actively playing, but it definitely feels more like an individual sport at the moment.

I would like to be involved with the Dolaville buildout, but I need to have a bank at the moment since I'm still both actively dueling and buying. I just can't swallow getting shot up and paying someone hundreds in the process. When I last checked I saw that the bank was up to Level 4 - what does that let you save?

Eh, I logged in today for the first time since the weekend, mostly just to keep the characters from being deactivated. I never really caught the groove again after the whole shooting war thing, I'm still checking to see if there are invites needing to be sent but that's about it.

I think one of the bigger flaws the game has at the moment is the big gap in quests once you get into the 50's levels. I'm several levels from being able to do anything new at this point & that definitely hurts after being "gain skill for quest X" oriented for so much of the game.

about the same for me. Did not log in at all during the weekend, or maybe once to set my guys on 16 hour sleep cycles.

Same thing has led to my getting away from it. Once you're out of quests to do, and the towns were pretty much done for, it got kinda lame to log in, set your guy to do high exp jobs and then back out...

FM

Ah, the little wins:
I've taken over the "best dueling opponent", per the Mortician, at Death Valley - CA in my first ever fight with my new gun at Level 43. 680 damage is not exactly off the charts, but I did not get to fire my final shot on account of the opponent bleeding out early.

Still here and yeah, it's wearing thin.

DK, why have you stopped dueling? I'm on the verge of passing you, but I wanted it to mean something when I did :) You not firing a gun for three weeks (or whatever the number actually is) kind of diminishes the "achievement".

Danny, looks like McGrain gone on a rampage - just about to crack the top 50 in dueling. I'm hoping you can catch our old buddy Peter Goesintight at some point, I think he is up to around #30 overall.

I stopped dueling because I haven't had the inclination to do so lately. I've been logging in just long enough to set my next set of jobs, but that's about it. Dueling requires me to pay more attention than I am prepared to at the moment.

DK, why have you stopped dueling? I'm on the verge of passing you, but I wanted it to mean something when I did :) You not firing a gun for three weeks (or whatever the number actually is) kind of diminishes the "achievement".

Danny, looks like McGrain gone on a rampage - just about to crack the top 50 in dueling. I'm hoping you can catch our old buddy Peter Goesintight at some point, I think he is up to around #30 overall.

It would be cool to catch him, My dueling motivation right now is about 70%, so I'll probably drift back a few spots before jumping up again.

So I think that I'm going to explore some of the ground blazed by Huckleberry McGrain and start testing myself a little more regularly against the Rock Ridge towns. Between them and the Sunday towns, they have a high enough concentration of Dueling Level 65+ guys to keep me from having to bounce from town to town to town.

I'm just not sure how well this character will take the response if they decide to send out a posse and string me up.

Hoops, something I found that works well. At the end of your dueling period after hitting a town or two really good and your motivation slips to 80% or so, duel until you get knocked out on purpose. This keeps you from having to worry about retaliation for the next two days and by then the town has forgotten about you.

I can't seem to do more than three duels before I lose too many health points anyway. Do you guys rest in the town for a bit so you can keep going before you bug out?

Most of my forays are for 2-3 fights, but if I'm a couple of squares away I'll crash in another hotel so I can get more duels for the long trip. I usually go in a hotel that is next to the town I'm going to shoot up (with people who are not in my level range) so as not to alert the inhabitants to put on their battle gear.

I can't seem to do more than three duels before I lose too many health points anyway. Do you guys rest in the town for a bit so you can keep going before you bug out?

All of my points are in strength and I am a soldier, so i have around 16-1700 depending on what gear I have on, so I am usually able to do several duels in a row depending on who I duel.

Also, I am pretty close to catching Peter now for duel rank. Another week or two and I should be ahead unless he starts going off with duel points.

Should be passing Peter in the next two days. I just went to duel him and knocked him out, so Im only 200 xp down and he is out of commission for two days.

Awesome work, Danny. I found myself on the wrong end of a knockout against a Sunday soldier I attacked yesterday. I was unpleasantly surprised by how hard/often he hit me for a guy with no Tactics bonuses in his items at all.

Looks like the first fort battle (that I know of) at La Vie Magnifique is coming up. The server clock keeps throwing me off, but I believe it starts in about 18 hours.

What happens if we place ourselves at the fort, but can't actively participate?

Don't know, I've never participated in a fort activity before. Hopefully someone can give some pointers.

Here is the Fort FAQ

Forts! Frequently Asked Questions - Forum The West (http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?t=22032)

Here is more from the fort battle rules when you go to join a battle:

Fort battle rules

* Maximum number of attackers: 128
* Maximum number of defenders: 128
* Maximum number of played rounds: 50
* The fort falls if the flag is being hold 10 rounds by the attackers.
* Each round in which the flag is not held by attackers, the flag round counter will reset to 0.
* Each round in which at least one attacker is holding the flag the flag round counter goes up by 1.
* If all rounds have passed, the defender wins.
* The battle is not an exercise, participants can be hurt and can pass out as a result of the caused damage.
* If the attacker wins, the fort will fall into his hands. The attacker gets all the items from the storage as well as all the money that is in there.

I need an invite to El Dolado.

We should max out people in El Dolado to participate.

I need an invite to El Dolado.

Sent

You need to be at the fort for the battle and cannot be asleep. It starts in 21 hours and 42 minutes

Oh, yeah you need a gun for the fight, not a dueling weapon.

You shouldn't need to be a member of El Dolado to fight in the battle. Just travel to the fort and choose to be on the defense. If you aren't going to be able to take part in the battle, choose a starting position near the flag. You may not get any action, but you'll be a good last line of defense. It is probably the route I'll have to go.

Thanks Jon. I need to get a dueling weapon for the battle, then I'll hop back to help work on the new town.

Question - Where is everyone aiming? I am currently set up facing out the fort, or should I face at our flag assuming people go there?

I hope I got things done correctly. I put my guy in one of the corner towers, where it seemed he had the highest points allocated. Then, ala Battleship, randomly clicked on one of the squares in a close target area.

Here is a good fort battle strategy guide:

HotNSexy's Guide to Fort Battles - Forum The West (http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?t=24508&highlight=fort+battle+strategy)

Here is a good fort battle strategy guide:

HotNSexy's Guide to Fort Battles - Forum The West (http://forum.the-west.net/showthread.php?t=24508&highlight=fort+battle+strategy)

Gracias. I am thinking of just aiming into our fort I guess. We'll see.

Looks like the cluster or phalanx defense it better.

Looks like the cluster or phalanx defense it better.

Agreed. I am not sure how we're communicating this but it seems ideal.

Is anyone already communicating with the La Vie people on strategy?

When I am selecting my target area for the battle what do the little icons means, like the two tomahawks, the shield and whatever the other thing is. I dunno where to aim still. I was aiming near the entrance but is that ideal or what?

Wow sweet, Bill Doolin (6th ranked dueler on server and three levels higher than ne) dueled me twice today while I was in class. I won both times (pretty handily overall too) and got 500xp.

Nice and fort battle coming up, I'll need to get a better fort weapon

We need one of our leaders to ask La Vie about defensive strategy. I think we should go with the cluster/phalanx defense. It maximizes our situation. Everyone places their icon in the center of the fort. This requires us to move less and means offline players are less of a hinderance. It also requires the attackers to be more mobile and it makes it more important for the attackers to be online so they can move thier icons in to attack.

Just a bump for people who have West characters and are not taking part in the Fort Battle. You may as well take advantage as you can gain some serious XP apparently.

Dola, Cherrypie telegramed me asking for people to support on the towers and walls because we apparently get bonuses for keeping those under our control.

So, do we need to be monitoring anything when a fort battle occurs, or does stuff just happen automagically? 25 minutes to go until the action starts.

So, do we need to be monitoring anything when a fort battle occurs, or does stuff just happen automagically? 25 minutes to go until the action starts.

I believe you can make adjustments to your placement and such between rounds should you want to.

I see you are next to me in the tower. Time to bring the pain!

I see you are next to me in the tower. Time to bring the pain!

Damn right. I am amazed at how many people are there. It's gonna be massive.

there is some sort of app that loads if you click on the tactics button now. trying to make some sense of it

Petergoesintight is on the right side of the fort, three rows down from the top. I hope he bites it early.

Well I got hit by about 6 different people and was KO'd in the 2nd or 3rd round.

Made it 5 levels before passing out

OK, I see I have 0 health. How do I find out what happened between start and now?

It sure doesn't seem like this is going very well for us lol.

It sure doesn't seem like this is going very well for us lol.

That's what I thought as well when I saw those guys get into the fort in the lower left corner. But next round they were vaporized within the first 5 seconds.

Cool, I shot Glomis and he passed out!

That's what I thought as well when I saw those guys get into the fort in the lower left corner. But next round they were vaporized within the first 5 seconds.

Yup, just was going to post that. It seems like there is a lot of stalling and such. At least I know what to do next time around. It didn't help my fort weapon was terrible.

Well, now all our guys are clustering and their guys are not all jumping on the wall. That seems like a good sign.

Round 39, looks like we will likely win.

We won. I picked up 225 XP. Not bad for 3 rounds worth of work heh.

woot!

Looks like I got knocked out round 1, but at least we won.

Not bad, I picked up 596 exp and two medals! I'm thinking we all got the medals.

I had 9 hits for 1,529 points inflicted and one KO.

Not sure how far I made it before I got ko'd, but I did pick up 529 xp's so that ain't bad. Also, if I'm reading the report right, I dished out 1898 in damage. So at least I gave better than I got:)

I did 1228 in damage (32nd among defenders) over 8 hits, while suffering 0 hits or damage, rcvd 555 XP.

Not bad considering I was nowhere around & was actually hooking up my mother-in-law's TV at the time :D

I think I got about 681 XP, took 0 damage and dished out around 1400. I was also responsible for 3 KOs...tied for second most. I like hiding in the middle of the fort. :)

Chester Nutsack sniped me. We got the same number of hits, but he got me on the damage.

Prolly upset on their big fort battle loss against us, ha ha.

Looking for another invite to Troutville.

Crazyboy Joe

Neither founder in Troutville is active at this point. Might want to get one of them to "pass the hat" if you want to keep the town alive.

just made dacman and a couple others whom I knew where FOFC founders in Troutville. Sorry guys, just lost the drive to keep on logging. Maybe some day I'll be back, who knows...

FM

Dac, can you extend me a Troutville invite? I'm going to need to do some shopping in the near future. Thanks.

Just a quick note. :) Folks have decided to stop by the new developing town and shoot me up whilst I and others build the town.. 3x in two days. I didnt get blown out, but, I almost won 2 of them, but I was garbed in builders setup.

They didnt get much money from me, but, frustrating nonetheless.

FYI.

Dac, can you extend me a Troutville invite? I'm going to need to do some shopping in the near future. Thanks.

Sent

Just a quick note. :) Folks have decided to stop by the new developing town and shoot me up whilst I and others build the town.. 3x in two days. I didnt get blown out, but, I almost won 2 of them, but I was garbed in builders setup.

They didnt get much money from me, but, frustrating nonetheless.

FYI.

Who are the shooters? If they are in my range I'll retaliate with a potshot back in their direction.

Who are the shooters? If they are in my range I'll retaliate with a potshot back in their direction.

I will too. What is the name of the new town?

Dolaville. I will get you the names asap. My son deleted the duels by mistake, but, I think I can get you the names.

I'll help get your revenge to if I am able to.

I'll help get your revenge to if I am able to.

+1

I haven't been dueling much, would be a good time to get back into it.

Danny, congrats on cracking the Top 20 duelers. I thought I went on a crazy rampage yesterday shooting up six people only to see that you had +7 on your ratio ... you are making it very challenging to meet your pace.

DataKing, welcome back to the world of shooting people.

Has development on Dolaville ground to a halt? I have not seen it move in the town rankings for a few days now ...

Milkman Gramm wins the duel, gains 329 experience points and steals $13 from krompierre.

Sweet, this is the most I have ever gotten in one duel. He bushwacked me while I was in Grizzly Bear Hunting gear, is 8 actual levels higher than me and is a melee dueler with a weapon the does on average 20 points more damage. I must have really lucked out on the random part. He must have been pissed when he saw the results :lol: