Quincy Holmes was just back from his holidays in Italy when he was submitted this report:
Melbourne, July 17th, 2008
Dear QH, i was bombing in melly and torched the map as u can see in the following screenshot:
After i finished bombing and the whole place was all on fire, all landholders had negative monthly profit, some of them around -150k. Around 07.46 netrotime, all comps went online. These are their stats at 07.55 netrotime:
1) Jubilation £223484 2) Pinnochio £218316 3) Aurevoir £147046 4) Secret Agencies £138566 5) U 1 By 1 £126995 6) Imminent Danger £120312 7) The Mind £53636 8) Lesbos R Us £40092
I submit this to your attention: It's A Kind Of Magic? Or Is It Hands Art?
Regards
XXX
When Dr Watson entered QuincyHolmes bureau, found him rolling on the floor laughing...
This the message I received from an old USA friend:
"This 10 mins after 8 nukes landed!"
The pic and the alarmed tone of the letter made me took the decision: Q had to be informed immediately, there was no time to waste!
I found QuincyHolmes in a little cottage close to the sea. I thought he should have been surprised to see me invading his privacy without any previous warning, but not as much as i was, when he anticipated my words and stated:"I see that something alarmed you, my old friend... is it related to our fellow on the other side of the Ocean?" I had not the time to ask how the hell he was aware that his help was needed in the USA, but with the corner of my eye i noticed that his bags were packed close to the table. The day after, we entered Washington DC. I could not believe my eyes when i noticed the big warning at the door:
but Mr Holmes seemed not impressioned at all. After a very short siesta at the Melrose Hotel, a luxurious oasis in the heart of one of the world's fastest-paced cities, we received a message by our american friend, inviting us to reach him immediately. This what appeared to our eyes when we reached the crime zone:
QuincyHolmes invited me with a silent gesture to the closest bar, ordered a coffee ("We're in America, and there's nothing worst than American Tea...") grabbed his notes, and wrote down the following data:
Bombing started at 06.40 Netrotime Who's online in this city now?
A Trace of Senileness00 A Trace of Senileness01 A Trace of Senileness02 A Trace of Senileness03 A Trace of Senileness04 A Trace of Senileness05 A Trace of Senileness06 A Trace of Senileness08 A Trace of Senileness09
08.05 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now? A Trace of Senileness00 A Trace of Senileness01 A Trace of Senileness02 A Trace of Senileness03 A Trace of Senileness04 A Trace of Senileness05 A Trace of Senileness06 A Trace of Senileness08 A Trace of Senileness09
Who's online in this city now? A Trace of Senileness00 A Trace of Senileness01 A Trace of Senileness02 A Trace of Senileness03 A Trace of Senileness04 A Trace of Senileness05 A Trace of Senileness06 A Trace of Senileness08 A Trace of Senileness09
Do you remember Mr. Hide? Well, that needed an extra investigation. So this morning someone (lmao) decided that it was time to hit Philadelphia. Bombing started around 4 AM Netrotime, and soon the map went a mess:
Now here's a little detail of my investigation:
Bombing started ar 4.15
05.30 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now? Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich (bomber) Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine (bomber) Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville (bomber) Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Milwaukee (bomber) The Garden of Allah (landholder) Puddle of Mud (landholder) Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde (landholder) The End of The Innocence (landholder) The Heart of The Matter (landholder)
STATISTICS
286) The Matter £-30057 289) Mr Hyde £-40990 290) The Innocence £-43086 293) Allah £-59776 294) Mud £-62436
06.15 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now? Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Milwaukee The Garden of Allah Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde The End of The Innocence The Heart of The Matter
(Mud disappeared but belongs to the same set of companies...)
STATISTICS
287) The Matter £-60327 288) The Innocence £-66660 290) Mr Hyde £-70630 293) Mud £-77980 294) Allah £-81651
Here's a pic:
06.59 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now? Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Philadelphia of Flyers007 The Garden of Allah Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde The End of The Innocence The Heart of The Matter
STATISTICS
287) The Matter £-84230 290) The Innocence £-90084 291) Mud £-92402 292) Mr Hyde £-98161 294) Allah £-103844
and another screenshot:
*Note: PC clock is set on Italy time, that's GMT+1.
07.33 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now? Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Louisville Philadelphia of Flyers007 The Garden of Allah Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde The End of The Innocence The Heart of The Matter
STATISTICS
286) The Matter £-89296 288) Mud £-92977 289) The Innocence £-94518 291) Mr Hyde £-97764 295) Allah £-116791
08.15 Netrotime Who's online in this city now? Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine The Garden of Allah Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde The End of The Innocence The Heart of The Matter
STATISTICS
284) Mud £-82822 287) The Matter £-88519 288) The Innocence £-89537 291) Mr Hyde £-97870 292) Allah £-100836
Even if it seems that they started doing something, it's not the case: simply, many of their lands went deros, and Irvine started building stalls:
1) Hyatt Regency Irvine £42462 Company: Hyatt Regency Irvine Director: Hyatt R. von Dehn Holdings: £24,773,855 Percent map owned: 28%
09.05 Netrotime Who's online in this city now? Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Greenwich Hyatt R. von Dehn of Hyatt Regency Irvine The Garden of Allah Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde The End of The Innocence The Heart of The Matter
STATISTICS
283) Mud £-70199 288) The Innocence £-80611 290) Mr Hyde £-87656 291) The Matter £-90289 293) Allah £-99812
Paris, saturday early in the morning. My map viewer shows me that someone is doing a great job in there, so could I have missed it?
I logged into one of my *cough* 40 or 50 comps in there. The bomber asked me to join the party, 'couse, he literally said "i smell 24/7 login ". So i dropped a few bombs here and there, nothing serious, but here's what interested me most:
05.30 Netrotime
Comps online:
Who's online in this city now?
broker of stocks (bomber) Producer of Hit Records (landholder) system of fsystemON (landholder)
Stats
1) HitRecord £98760
06.30 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?
broker of stocks (bomber) Producer of Hit Records (landholder) system of fsystemON (landholder) VeniVidiVici (bomber - myself)
116) Hit Records £-162250
07.10 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?
broker of stocks Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus (starts renovating/cleaning his lands) Producer of Hit Records VeniVidiVici (bomber - myself) Note: system of fsystemON liquidated due to the heavy bombing
117) Hit Records £-213638
07.40 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?
Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus Everlasting of TheLastEver(starts renovating/cleaning his lands) Producer of Hit Records
116) Hit Records £-231603
08.00 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now? Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus Everlasting of TheLastEver Producer of Hit Records Avenging Phoenix of Forgotten Ashes
116) Hit Records £-197990
Note: some of its lands gone deros, now he loses less than before: no fire gone out, none of those not ruined have been renovated yet. Here's the pic:
08.20 Netrotime
Who's online in this city now?
Bloody Butcher of Slaughter Haus Everlasting of TheLastEver Producer of Hit Records Avenging Phoenix of Forgotten Ashes
116) Hit Records £-161220
Well, I could not spend all my life watching that blatant 24/7 cheat log in, so I went out for a little shopping. When I was back, around lunch time, it had just finished renovating/rebuilding. But it was 4 hours later. I did hit him a little bit, but had to go away. Will be back, I still have to visit Louvre and see if, at least there, a genuine player still exist.
Oh, Another player said to me that The Hit Record Producer is the same that promote his shit in some other places, as Olympus. I was not surprised. Chapeau, Muppet.
First of all: that you believe or not, I am not against anyone, nor i have been in the game. Sure, I sometimes went pissed off with this or that player, like anyone else. But nothing that could not be managed via the game board. I was recently accused to point my finger toward a group of people, without having any proof or at least with the aim to make dirty reputation to this or that player, or maybe to have an advantage from this in the game itself.
So i'll try now to tell you a story.
I will provide pics and videos, and try to explain what is running in Netro. Then I'll try to expose my reasons. Make your own idea, trying to start from this point: once again, I am pissed off, but not for my comps destiny, or my game goals.
It has been months that i am investingating netro maps. Game is a bit stagnant, and even before last minireset, it did not take that much time to look after my lands. So I started looking at those places that seemed to have more matters. What I have seen for months, I will try and resume with the most recent events, happened in Olympus. How you can see even now, that map it is more than half ruined/empty. Yesterday, I noticed that heavy bombing was running in there, and above all i noticed a message on my mapviewer:
So i logged into a comp I have access to in there, to follow things.
There was a long fight, but bombers were more persistant than current landholders, so the map went 100% deros as shown in the following picture.
I went out to lunch, and when i was back, after 30 minutes, most of the map had been reclaimed, with 3-4 comps building Hot Dog Stands. "Damn, they're fast", I thought, so i decided to have a closer look. The following video (it's really poor, and map was really really slow - I can guarantee I am really at least triple faster in loading pages) shows you what was happening: there were 3 comps building hotdogs at the same time. Hot dogs were built row by row on 7x7 square basis: two comps always left to right, the third from right to left. Each plot was built one by one.
Again, I am aware of the bad quality of the video, and how partial can be what it represents... it was impossible to do a better job, so take it as it is, a partial view of a more complex situation.
A couple of personal considerations: any experienced player, having to reclaim bombed lands fast, would not build one plot by one, expecially concidering they were not buildin properly. And we were in a height, so do not tell me they're newbies. Anyone else, would build 10 plots at a time. Second fact: it is just odd that one player uses that technique, but having three players doing the same thing at the meantime, it not doubious, it's 100% a script.
Ok, let's go on. Map was rebuilt the way i said, and comps went briefly offline. I decided to grab a coffee, and when i was back, the 3 comps were back online. I zoomed in the map in various sectors, and what i saw is that they were changing all the hotdogs into proper building. It was done again in the same way: always in the same direction (left to right), always in 7x7 blocks. Suddenly, one of the bombers came back online, they had to stop, and the map was massively bombed again. So i took a look at the way he bombed, above all becouse i knew that comp: i bombed it years ago in Manchester to help Ashley. For what I could see, the bomber was working the right way: 7x7 blocks, left to right then right to left for alternate rows, sometimes top bottom other times bottom up... in few words, it was 99,9% working manually (for what you can witness looking from outside). He did a nice job, it took him one hour to wipe the map again. While he/she was bombing, I went to action a comp in Valhalla, and i found out that there were 40 new comps. Few of them had thrown a few cherries, a friend had helped, so I took back my lands, sorted what had to be sorted, and looked to the sky 'couse i understood that this was related to Olympus... even becouse all comps, both in Oly and in Valhalla, belong to the same player/ group of players.
I left the game in the late afternoon, went home, dealt with daughters, ate some food, washed dishes, then i logged back into the game to find out the same scenery i had seen in the early afternoon: landholders in Olympus were building again hotdogs in the same way they had done in the afternoon. They had done half of the map when some new bombers came online and started wiping them again! After a few minutes, i had the idea to take a look in Valhalla and.... There were some of the new comps online, prolly actioning, but not using one of my plot... So I asked a friend to give a look at Midget's comp events and.... They were fireouting an undeveloped plot (that's the first cheat). My friend had the idea to take it over, and change to a HTC. Next serie of pics shows you what went on.
Now. Olympus is still ruined with plenty of free lands. This would never have been happened in the good old times: lands would have been grabbed by many many people trying to get their little piece of Heaven, and there would have been war for weeks. Ok, the place is a rathole and so easy to bomb that many of us do not have the courage to face a daily cheap bombing, but it is still clear that this is not the only reason. Let's be honest: why shoud anyone go to try and grab lands that are managed by poor people blatantly scripting without any self and others' respect?
What pisses me off, is that in this low Era of the game, with no competition at all, or very few, there'd be "no need" to use scripts! And even if a script is a script and there's no real excuse for those who use them, i can still "justify" and try to understand if it was used in a particularly critical situation, with boss at work stressing you with less important things than your lands, or your lover who wants more when you ran out of condoms.
I hope you can believe me: that's a set of scripts, the same witnessed in so many places and exposed in my previous posts, used by the same people who come here and anonimously posts ridiculous comments about me scripting. Or that writes silly speeches in temples, trying to offend me (their italian is as low as their moral...) To those I want to say few things: I will go on denouncing your activities, and trying to make your life not so easy at least until I will love this game the way I love it now. I will do this here, on MY blog, where I post and share MY ideas, with MY name signing each and every post. I wonder how poor people you are, blatantly cheating and scripting in a game. Supposing you will succeed in making all players leave (won't be easy, the microcosm experiment was successful, after all...), what will you do when your wonderful tools will let you manage all Netro?
To those who have the gentlness to read my bad english: I know that we should only speak about how great is the game, trying to make it look unique as it is. But enough is enough. My denounce has no different aim than to fight the plague. Removed it, the game will be cured.
A prayer to the reps and above all to Tiscali and Alex: I know it seems that it does not worth a single penny, but I know it would not take so much time and effort to implement a serious anti-scripting policy. With this, you could discover the gold mine in the game and its honest players (there're so many out there...)
People will never learn. So I am starting a Name And Shame Campaign on this blog. We had few examples in the past few days, and I will try to keep infos updated on a regular basis.
Location: Melbourne Comps scripting:
Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS01 Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS02 Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS03 Its Just The Start of YOURPROBLEMS04
Few days after more than 20 maps went free, Netro life, goes on as usual, more or less. The week started with Chicago on Fire
and after a busy strike day in Austin, we had a couple of interesting landscapes: in Quito
and above all in Sydney
The most interesting situation was in Philadelphia. The map was torched starting around lunch time. A couple of comps have been continuosly online, in particular
Dr Jekyll of Mr Hyde
It is still online, and here is a screenshots of its lands at the moment I post:
It is losing
268) Mr Hyde £-58129
but while other landholders are slowly trying to sort their stuff, that one stays there, continuosly logged. Shame!
So So So, Quincy Is The Scripter, Not To Speak Of Some Nasty Comments On Some Previous Posts... In This Brief Video, Look What Happened Against Me And Midget In The Sacred Lands Of Valhalla This Afternoon. I Have To Admit, It Was Difficult To Resist And Not Sort Things Immediately, But In The End I Gained This Nice Video.
Ah, Let's Name & Shame: The Comp To Script Was "Bull of Madeds"
HYPOCRICITY...This report just in, comps were well known yyyyy's ones, around netroworld yyyyyConscience says:I cannot figure out where to hit **** yyyyy says: Really... why do you want to hit him, first of all... yyyyyConscience says:Well, i accused him to have stolen my comps... yyyyy says: What a bastard! He has to pay for this crime! yyyyyConscience says:Erm.... yyyyy says: What? yyyyyConscience says:To be sincere... was not him to steal them... yyyyy says: Argh! So you accused him with no proof? yyyyyConscience says:Yes... but who cares, if not mine, he prolly did steal someone else's yyyyy says: Sure, everyone say that he is a liar/scripter/thief/murderer... and he eats pork too! yyyyyConscience says:But still I dunno where to hit him... yyyyy says: Hit his friend! It's widely known where he's got lands... yyyyyConscience says:Uh... but I know he's quite alwasy online and damn, he's fast! yyyyy says: Well, you know exactly how to do... don't you? yyyyyConscience says:Be clearer, please, i did drink a couple of Martini and I an not a good drinker... yyyyy says: Simple as water... you load a couple of instances of our script... and bomb with... yyyyyConscience says:Nothing new, then... yyyyy says: Yeah... and do not forget nasty memos... yyyyyConscience says:Ok i won't... yyyyy says: Oh... and do not forget to fritz the map... you know how to do that yyyyyConscience says:Everyone knows... he will accuse me of this.. yyyyy says: he'll prolly won't do... yyyyyConscience says:Damn, i'll hardly land my main again after this... yyyyy says: Aren't we the greatest alliance of all netro? Aren't we the Lords of Netro? Don't we rule it? yyyyyConscience says:Erm... i am alone atm... yyyyy says: :( yyyyyConscience says: :( yyyyyConscience says: One last thing, yyyyy... yyyyy says: Sure! yyyyyConscience says: Are we going on accusing ***** of cheating/scripting/eating pork? yyyyy says: Oh, yes... I'll always find someone ready to believe me... but i've to pay attention... I will name comps supposed to be his on my site.. but i will use asterisks intead of his name... pork eaters can hurt! yyyyyConscience says: But you'll look like a coward then! yyyyy says: erm... let's skip this... yyyyyConscience says: OK yyyyy says: :(
A Few Snapshots Combo Of Some Firebombed And D-Bombed Lands This Morning In Manchester. Shame That You Did Not Grow Up Since The Time You Kicked My Ass In There Using The Same Nasty Comps And Nasty Messages. You Know Who You Are. I Did Not Censor Becouse All These Were Public On The Game Board. Still If Someone Is Offended, Just Let Me Know And I'll Provide To Put Asterisks In The Right Places. Obv, You've Been Reported On The Reps Forum.
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My Name Is Franco. But Most Of Netro People Know Me As "Quincy" I Have Been Living In Netro For Many Years, Enough To Achieve Some Decent Results In The Game But, What Count Most, Enough To Gain Maybe Some Respect. And Many Enemies For Sure. Yes. In Netro, You Can Make Friends. And Enemies. And More, Your Worst Enemy Can Easily Become Your Best Friend. And Viceversa. What An Amazing World Is Netro. You Will Spend Sleepless Nigths In Trying To Defend A Little Block Of Land. Or To Get It From One Adversary. You Will Spend Hours At Work Watching A Red-Blue Squared Map, And Won't Answer To Any Phone Call If Something Is Happening In The Place(s) You'Re Watching. Oh. You'Re Here. So You Know Damn Well How It Works. I Will Simply Try And Show You Things From A Different Perspective. I Will Show You Some Secrets, And Reveal Some Unrevealed. Maybe. Or Simply Will Share With You, One By One, My Common Days In Netropolis, The Best Online Game That Was Ever Created. C'Ya, Mate. ---Content and views expressed within this site are not necessarily endorsed by the Netropolis games team or Tiscali.---