Prdgi,
You seem quite confused. YOU are the toxicity in the community.
You got bored, you decided to organize a group to screw with the game. You posted a “Press Release” stating that you were an evil monopoly that we needed to evict from the game.
So, we are. Trying to do exactly what you asked us to do.
And now, like every bully, you are angry that we are fighting back. Because you didn’t expect a response. You thought we would fold and let you have a copper monopoly for a couple of months.
And why did you want a copper monopoly? Because you think it will let GDP lock everyone else out of ship building. That way GDP can have the first player built ships. If the rest of us can’t hire Technicians and higher, and can’t build electronics, you think we can’t do ships. Only GDP can do that, and GDP will again “rescue” the game from a debacle created by GDP.
But no, we aren’t going to fold. We aren’t going to hand over our lunch money and cower in front of the bully. We are standing up and fighting. We are telling the bully no more. And like every bully, this bully is trying to setup a bunch of rules that make everything the bully does ok and everything anyone does to the bully unethical. Yep, that’s how bullies operate. They shift the lines of ethics to benefit and protect themselves.
And let me be clear…letting the cartel operate in relative peace for a month and then taking the planets back from them at the next election is letting the bully win. We must respond in a way that brings you to your knees now.
The bully accusing me of character assassination is quite rich. Maybe you should think about what you have pushed Bobemor, of all people, to. He is the kindest, most agreeable person in the game. When he is mad at you, it should tell you something about your behavior.
You have driven people out of the game. You have thinned out our already too thin community. They left before we even started to respond, so you can’t blame that on us. That is all on you. Yes, it is on you, YOU are the toxicity.
I’m not sure how to approach your last paragraph, because, well, I’m not the leader. It’s not my team. There is a group for whom I agreed to be a public spokesperson, but they aren’t taking direction from me. We are agreeing together on some specific actions. But there are other people who you are complaining about who aren’t part of that group at all. I know there is another completely independent group taking action as well. Because everyone but you realizes that you are the toxicity.
I offered you a way out, and you have declined it. It would have been much better for the community had you taken that offer. Now deal with the consequences of YOUR choice.
Oh, by the way, Comrade:
- There has been ample CUO and CU supply for the number of people running the buildings that consume it. Much of it is traded away from the exchanges near production because of its weight. But many of the people working with CU use the exchange prices to benchmark that LM trade. The thing is SCN and IND/HMS are much easier to transport than the CU or CUO, so you produce onsite or nearby.
- We would have gladly welcomed additional CU players to the market. Honestly, one of the biggest problems I had was that, due to thin supply, my SCNs were frequently bought out by flippers and reprised much higher. We probably would have even given you a loan to help you establish a CUO base had you chosen to do so in an honest manner.
- I fail to see how raising taxes to drive all the existing SCN and HMS manufacturers out of the market helps you to fix the problems you claim you are wanting to address.
- But I’ll take you at your word…lower taxes on your planet back to reasonable levels, and help us put an ample supply of CU based products on the exchanges. We would be glad to work with you to achieve the goal you claim to be pursuing. The problem is your actions suggest you actually have different goals.