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Untrue. You were with him the first time he shot me and the second. Proving beyond doubt that provided with a higher ranking target the Commissar will always shoot someone else first.
I think if you read between the lines (Commissar was in the post. Therefore everyone got shot) you'll find that I did get shot on all occasions. I just didn't lie bleeding all over the place about it. And then get shot again for lying bleeding all over the place about it. "But thothkins put office furniture in the way." Honestly.
Wrong. Only a physical being can carry and discharge a rocket launcher accidentally.The thothbot is an actual physical bot. A cross between a dustbin and a toaster made by Uruguayan students in 1974 convinced that Esperanto was the next big thing. It has to manually press the e-bay bid button with 10seconds to go. No brain, and a less than stellar winning bid rate to be honest. And they were accidents. All of them. Even if they included previous confessions that, if said, were also said accidentally and erroneously.
Who better to study than a team of only two people that nearly wiped out the Xenonauts with only a pistol and rocket launcher? The aliens had to study you as they were fearful that they were completely over-matched from the start.One homicidal bakery product and a malfunctioning toastbin thothbot, rather than people really...
As I pointed out, as long as higher ranking targets were available you are/were safe. As for the relatively slow speed of the "grand purge"...well, while the Commissar is good at discharging a pistol, having no appendages, it was difficult for him to perform the 3000+ spacewalks to go ship to ship and eliminate any vestige of command authority. Having killed the bosuns on every ship nearly immediately he had to perform his own transfers using the solar vaporization of maple syrup and butter as a propellant.I think it's appalling that you continue to suggest the Commissar is a suck up to the higher ranks. At the risk of starting a thread, I'd say that was an incendiary statement.
Space walks? Only to sow terror into the bridges of a few surely? When you can torture teleporting Xenos to do your bidding? When you can collide ships? When any shot fired in any direction will find it's target unerringly, through hull, through decks?
Legend has it that there were no Xeno suicides. Because there was a terror that the Commissar would bring them back from the dead to shoot them for eternity.
Legend has it that the maple syrup in the xeno-canteens rose up as if one sentient being to smother the catering staff of the invasion, punishing them for their actions against baked goods.
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tease
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A likely story. But there are some tiny inconsistencies that I will reveal one I have lit my pipe, written a short monograph on colonial tobacco, and adjusted the ear flaps of my deerstalker.
Flaw One: There's no chance of me being in the vicinity of the Commissar without being shot. This applies to everyone. This would have occurred way before any stun gas would have activated.
Flaw Two: Finding a brain in thothkins to attach alien electronics to. As was revealed a few months ago, thothkins is an aberrant e-bay sniping/Esperanto generating spam bot.
Flaw Three: If these guys fell for the old Trojan Aardvark in 1979, why did it happen again in Independence Day? Don't give me all that "we must study humans because of their intuitive minds." pants either. I haven't got one and the only things the Commissar has learned involve a variety of small metal projectiles.
Flaw Four: What held up the Commissar from eliminating the entire alien fleet? "Several Days"? Did the Commissar take a package hunting holiday with Galacti-tours in there? Me? Well I was either shot by the Commissar at an early point because no conditioning can affect the basic nature of determined baked produce. But more likely, I just didn't get out of the prototype when it docked. Again, inherent nature at work.
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Well, it did move, so it was a legitimate Commissar target. As opposed to things that don't move, that are...um...legitimate Commissar targets... is that right?
>BLAM<
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Gorlom: Is that thothkins?
Gauddlike: Hmmm. there's no limp, hunchback or drooling so I don't think so.
Gorlom: I wonder if not-thothkins gets a vote
Not-thothkins: Thn futtom yun
Gauddlike: Sorry? I didn't quite catch that through the heavy scarf and the Groucho disguise.
Not-thothkins: Thn futtom yun!
Gorlom: Hang on that's no fake nose! And look! Behind the scarf ...drooling! It is thothkins
not-thothkins-but is: um...Remember! rigging elections is bad! It's selfish and greedy and a bad thing to do against people who have luckily caught you or you would have got away with it. Darn kids....
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I hadn't read those either. They go into a little kickstarter folder along with updates of things I've backed. I believe my Kickstarter carrier pigeon ran into trouble too.
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I was really meaning that the game should have balance to it. So, for every request we have to add device X to the game for the Xenonauts, it makes sense to point out that the aliens should have a comparable device Y to balance things out. Hence, walking around in their mine fields.
You're right though, you can always forget where you put your own mines for comic and tragic outcomes. I imagine, that there would be enough squealing that the devs would have to add something to remind you though, should such a thing ever be implemented.
A further point is that a lot of the game focuses on the combat abilities of the soldiers. Having mines detracts from this a bit, as would support weapons. Having said that, there are the tanks...
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Possibly because you would curse every time you wandered into the land mines the aliens kept planting around their ships?
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The upper one gives me that Star Wars feeling. I'm off to rebel against something dark with grilles now...probably the oven...
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Thanks Gauddlike. I hadn't seen this.
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If you keep going a bit further back and shouting I'll know when I've heard the last of you.
That's it, just keep going. Mind the chair....oh that looked sore.
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I was going to steer the topic back on course, but I tripped over something on the way to the wheel.
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I've played several games of Target Earth, and tweaked it along the way, so I know that a UFO type board game can work nicely and be very enjoyable.
All the best for the kickstarter and the game Telparion. I'll take a closer look at the weekend.
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Now I'm getting a flashback of looking at your picture. When will the cycle of pain end? When?
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Yes, I've been aware of the rise in near misses on those fronts since I joined here. My last encounter involved a piece of rocket propelled furniture. Double Threat! Ironically, the person shooting at me was hit by a baseball sized meteorite. Funny old world.
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I stopped watching when every dinosaur programme had them wiped out by a comet at the end. Every one of them. It was keeping me up nights in dread trying not to think about the Oort cloud.
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well, once you get to cats that's pretty much it. You're not missing anything else.
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It's not like I told anyone that the password was Evil Shed or anything... ah.
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I though the sewer level was an aspiration. Just flash your ferrro rocher, do the Comissar-is-shooting-at-me dance and you're in.
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I'm not sure a lot of the posts are as close to the original post as the map suggests. Also, I've certainly seen no suggestions of anyone being serviced either, but perhaps there's a secret, hidden forum beneath this one?
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Congratulations! You have won $10 million in the Xenolottery. To release these funds, please forward a small administration fee of $10k to our bank in Nigeria before the next terror attack hits it.
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Did that change into being that you can't get tried by clone judges now? Bloomin' technology...bleedin' science...
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The mutineers? No, I don't remember them. They were all shot way before I got here to maintain the catapult.
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I'm in cahoots with the furniture. Mwahahah.
I've not heard it called "cahoots" before.
we should have a rising star medal for this forum,Rising star forum members usually involve flamethrowers, catapults and the Commissar. Is that something we should be promoting?
Besides, they're just more meat for the grinder. Just gonna die anyways...especially if they survive because they didn't fight hard enough."Meat for the grinder" used to just be a figure of speech. But not so on the Xenonaut forums. The Rising Stars considered themselves lucky...briefly.
Anyone else stop playing and waiting for the final release?
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It's come up before, but it would be nice if people getting to the latter stages could attach their save games. That would allow testing of particular late areas of the game. Sure, there's a chance that players may spoil it for themselves but it's offset against the increased scrutiny of the last third.