Hi revol. I understand what you mean by too much clutter. Clutter appears suddenly at times here. 
Hi Cass. You surely have more than that. 
Hugs both.
Hi Asto Vidatu. thanks. it's all a mind trick. There is a disturbance in the force today.
Hugs everyone
lol nice to see you too. 
Happy Star Wars day.
Going to buy 2 issues, one in mint condition and for safe keeping for future, and second to read.
Who else is a collector of Star Wars stuff?
Haircuts = $5 Euros
Seems the Stormtroopers To Return In Next Episode, according to director Kevin Smith.
He was reported to be emotional on the set after signing a non-disclosure agreement and so far, not one iota of any details of the upcoming movie and everyone is tight lip.
JJ Abrams', when asked about the Stormtroopers, he was very excitement and he gave a nod and was smiling from ear to ear. :p
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Quote from manreadborg- i dont like cameron but i do agree with him not letting an independent scotland use the pound, firstly if scotland does go independent it will be a 1 party SNP state (see ireland when they got their independence)
Well, any economist will tell that the more people who use the pound, the better it is for the UK economy and I really don't think Cameron or any other leader, would deny themselves a better economy. There will absolutely be friendly negotiations on separation of the debt and also on national separation of army/navy/air force since Scotland is taking on part of their share of the debt and will expect their fair share of the national buildings inside their territory. UK has no choice to negotiate...if scotland seperates and UK refuses to negotiate...there UK will of made a nice gift to Scotland...who leaves without taking their fair share of the debt because UK refuses to negotiate these things. Logic and past case of other countries separating.
The reason the Crimea situation is illegal is because Ukraine has in the past spent part of the Ukraine budget in Crimea and in eastern Ukraine...they can't just leave without negotiating first parameters and rules to l hold a referendum ...there is the question of the debt to discuss....just like Scotland and UK have done...both recognizing international rules on a fair referendum.
Eventually...Ukraine, Russia, Crimean and pro Russians in East Ukraine will have to discuss the debt and the conditions which all have to agree on international rules for fair referendums and what rules will they all agree on minorities and such. It wont be easy, but this is what will happen eventually.
Uk will not risk a severe recession by refusing the use of the UK pound. Cameron will try everything to smooth UK's economy and that is why Cameron will not refuse the Scots the use of the UK pound. It is a moot point.
Quote from manreadand scotland is already running at a £12 Billion deficit even with all the north sea oil revenue and such, so I wouldnt want him racking up debt with the GBP (yes UK is at a deficit but the tories are tackling that, even if i dont agree with the implementation).
Probably you will agree that any modern economies are running deficits year after year. Scotland will have to shoulder their fair own share of UK"s debt before finally leaving for good or after they have negotiated with UK a type of sovereignty association that benefits both.
Also, many economic reviews have singled out UK for their failing economic policies and especially on young adults and students. That generation is getting no help atm.
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Also salmond is a socialist so I wouldnt trust him with a piggy bank, much less a national economy, though that is more on principle. As for national debt salmon should get 9.9% of it as thats how much of GDP scotland contributes to UK total GBP, and if I were cameron that wouldnt be up for negotiation, at all.
With how crooked politicians have been lately all over the world, it is sad that in the future that there will be extreme elements to profit from future chaos.
but that is another story.
Quote from manreadWith regards to the 'UK family' the only people pushing independence are the SNP who are just anti english and naive idiots who buy into his lies. The last I heard was that the no vote was polling at 70% so im not too worried about it per se.
That is a first I hear this. I exchanged emails with some of them from my country and read more closely news on Scotland and in Spain's Catalonia and Basque.
Most Scots feel no ill will. BUT like many other countries....there are idiots on all sides. Just cause someone thinks differently, does not mean they hate UK.
Also, do you have insider news that SNP are anti English? Don't they have a right to self determination and challenge in a fair referendum to separate from UK?
Surely you can see that their desire for self determination will logically not be part of UK's plans and thus opponents? So if SNP loses the referendum, what international law will prevent them from doing another referendum in say 15 years when winning conditions are present? To do a fair referendum or do anther one when winning conditions are there, nothing really stops them. That is why I say it is in UK's interest to negotiate with SNP on what Scotland needs to be vibrant inside the UK family and better to be good brothers rather than fighting opposing brothers.
Quote from manreadHowever, regardless of the outcome of the vote, relations between scotland and the rest of the UK will be permanently damaged imo
I disagree. There will be hot controversial statements made by all sides, but just like elections, political foes will respect each other in parliament and outside while they still hold their own views on the political situation. If any UK government starts painting the SNP as the dark evil party...then UK will sow responses from them too.
Here in Quebec, the PQ government that was defeated on April 7th, was able to negotiate with the Federal government of Steven Harper. Respect is still in fashion even if they both dislike their political positions.
It is better to negotiate peacefully and respectfully for all sides to gain a stronger UK and Scotland. An opportunity for UK to seize.
Quote from manread, and tbh i think thats the real reason salmond has been allowed to get this far, divide and conquer that is all devolution has brought, the IRA in the form of jerry adams are in the NI parliament and the welsh nationalists are in the welsh parliament (slightly off topic but worth noting). Another thing worth noting is that while wales/scotland/NI have their own parliaments england doesnt, and westminster doesnt count.
I would never compare SNP to the violent actions of the IRA. That is another story too. UK will have to either negotiate a fair federation or risk falling apart in the future.
You never win using violence to gain political points...no matter what side one is on which I am sure you believe the same.
Sharing power to regions, the stronger the country will be in the long run.
Quote from StagI doubt that many board users are particularly old,
Nuclear power seems to be a trend lately but like Cass said here,the waste in the end is not worth the energy we get out of it which the waste will stay problematic for hundred of thousands of years.
I still believe that the UN can be useful to host an international research team in improving solar power and also improve battery technology for the betterment of humanity to use clean power where scientists from many countries work together and gets appropriately funded by each country. Just like the international cooperation at the moment on international robotic race to build a robot capable to enter the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Most will agree that we are almost at the point of no return... humanity has to come together in their own long term common interest.
It is not easy to align many countries to come together on clean power...but someone has to take a first step..
There is a lot of spin coming from UK's David Cameron concerning Scotland...
'If' Scotland wins a referendum to become a new country, there is nothing stopping Scotland from using the British Pound or ECU or even the American dollar..unless UK is silly enough to play such games and hurt itself from potential.
Also, Scotland will want to discuss with UK after a successful yes vote to discuss the National debt and how to divide assets that Scottish citizens paid through paying taxes in the past to UK.
If Cameron refuses to sit down to discuss about issues, then Scotland owes nothing to UK's national debt. It is easy for Cameron to spin and say silly things such as saying that Scotland wont be able to use the pound.
And as mentioned in my previous post on May 7th 2013 (post # 32 in this thread), there is absolutely no doubts that both will suffer economic negative effects...it is more advantageous for them both to stay together.
Now what is needed from London is openness to negotiate with Scotland to try to settle what Scotland needs to feel as part of the UK family.."perhaps" through having their identity recognized in the constitution as maybe a nation within UK.
For Cameron. it is better to to come to a agreement NOW with Scotland than to negotiate with them after a yes vote.
Cameron still has time, but seems he prefers to spin.
There are a couple good suggestions in here that would be worth to be posted in Suggestions. 
Would be worth to look into the for and against for sSubscriptions and such.
*Edit: And Rogean, good conspiracy theory. If you have such proof, you can always talk to Paci about the proof you have.
But please stay on topic about V5.7.0 in here. Thanks for understanding.
I speak not as a staff member but as a player.
I don't like the update anymore than the others here.
But personally it is no threat to me as a player and here is why.
Before update 5.7.0 and for the past 9 years, whenever I started playing a new universe, there was always players with more time or more talent that ranked above me.
I would start playing that first day, and I was always in the range of top 200...aprox 200 players above me.
With this new update, even if there is 20 more players ranked above me who would use this "DM = insta-resource", as the uni matures, I would slowly climb as before.
Its no threat to me. I will still find targets to hunt and I would still mine just as before. If I attack a target that insta builds, it was pretty rare.
Talent and skill will still be needed just as before. In my opinion, I dont care if there is 20 or 200 above me...I just know I will climb and eventually surpass those above me.
As a player, I will still be able to hunt just as before and still climb rank. I really don't care what the players above me do as long it is a fair FREE game. This is just my personal opinion as a player on this new "DM = insta-ressource" and I am sure there are many here that also think the same. and some that don't.
Main thing, we respect each other's opinions.
We have plenty of times received spam messages from fake spam bots creating those accounts to send messages which get immediately deleted when we have proof.
It is very easy to assume a theory that its all GF's fault.
It is frustrating to see this for GF, staff and players. :/
But we try our best to keep the game fair.
Quote from "The Game"A retarded monkey could have bashed it's head against a keyboard ,and have gotten the same result as the quote above.
I can tell you right now that more than 80% of the Ogame population plays this game, only to insult people they hate.
Anyway, GL with the war.
When did board mods have the right to say who can war and who cannot?
That is ok. If you only play here to break the rules, there are consequences for those who want to break rules.
This war thread can remain open. The other war thread was closed due to excessive trolling by the same certain people.
And specifically it was closed after repeated posts by staff that the trolling please cease. There are absolutely consequences when people don't listen to repeated warnings to stop.
Yes, we do encourage and give certain room to express yourselves with posting banter be it words or images that are on topic. But when it comes to specifically gnawing trolling posts on the same people by the same people and especially after a Mod asks politely to stop the trolling and those people ignore the mods and even troll the mod, then it is a sure fire way to get that thread closed.
For those that are not sure what trolling is, it is like when a fisherman throws/casts his fishinglineand troll constantly trying to catch a bite, so does the troller who tries to catch a reaction constantly from others with his words against a person.
It certainly is not fair to the majority of the players who respect the rules here and it is a good thing that most of our proud old timers here in uni 1 do respect the rules and the staff.
Trolling ruins the game for everyone.
There has been a proposal suggested to me about how to prevent the trolling in that specific thread and I will consider it a few days and see how everyone behaves until then.
Thanks for understanding and have a good war.
Pleease do not open a thread like this or try to bypass the war closing or else you will be warned.
Thank you.
You have been continuously informed to stop.....War over and troll feast over.
What DestroyerX is saying....intead of having multiple war threads because of one of the 2 warring alliances changes names, just send a polite private message to DestroyerX if one of the 2 warring alliances wants to continue war even if there is a name change and he will edit the title to the original thread and make a post to announce it to everyone of the name change and a new war.
There will be a 12 hour period where bashing rules applies each time one of the warring alliances changes names.
This is to just to prevent multiple war threads.
Thanks for understanding
Enough cheating accusations and trolling, please...
