This is becoming almost comical. It's like fatal attraction, I think he's secretly in love with Neilo or something. Must be the Fro

So. Kryo. Ya read that. Now i don't beleive for 1 second that that PM was sent from anybody but Harborne. So this ban of his is working great. And here he is admitting he has another exploit.

Harborne claims to have bought 4 copies of GC2...ok..Ban his arse from the MV and I will buy 4 more copies to make up for it right now.

This guy does not deserve to be apart of the community in any fashion or form.

honestly i don't care if he stays on the MV. all his points are coming from ZYWs, and in a few months his characters will fall off the map, as will his new empire. however, i would like to see something stronger done to keep him out of the forums, like blocking any account from his IP address(es) and email account(s). if such a thing is possible, it'd be great. i won't exactly lose sleep if it's not, but it would be nice.

I agree that keeping the ban enforced on Harborne from the forums should be upheld. These other accounts he can use makes his punishment void.

At a certain point, I wonder if continuing to acknowledge his existence does more harm than good.  If no matter what he does, no pays any attention whatsoever to it or to him, effectively he does not exist at all.  He's clearly not got much else to do with his life, and bugging kyro for action beyond that he's already taken seems unlikely to substantially alter his ability to make a pest of himself (and also seems likely to make kyro's voluntary involvement in the Metaverse community a lot more tiresome than fun.. btw, thank you kyro for all the work you've done!).  As far as I am concerned, "Harborne" is nothing more than an unpleasant figment of our collective imagination that needs to be forgotten as quickly as possible.

That's the position I took when the first cheating incident happened JustinSane.  I think any attention and interaction (negative or positive) was merely encouraging him.

Sentient species taste better...

Wise words guys, but harder to swallow when it's your site that has been hacked. Hopefully steps are taken to render any account Harborne uses useless and his ban enforced. He simply does not deserve to be apart of this community.

I guess though, barring any further incidents, it is time to move on.

I see Tampa Bay won.......

Aye, we need to just re-assert an understanding that this is just a game.

By entering/continuing this drama he has created, you entertain this ideal he has formed for himself on what him and his (ex) friends had vs the ToE/Kzin.  In his mind I see that he really hated all of us.  His infiltration of the ToE forums prooves this.  He took this beyond a game and really thought he had arch-nemisi (nemisis plural?) in us.  He was somebody in his mind since he had people whom he fought.  Think of Samuel L Jackson in "Unbreakable".

So I say we try to finish off this week w/o discussing "she who must not be named" and just speak of the game and other BSing that we enjoy.  If you so deem to continue the crusade in completely removing all traces from the MV, then I recommend you take it to PMs with those who have a say with it.  Continuing to talk about this on the forums will only fuel him.

I'd say 'hacked' is a strong word here.  He got in as anyone could, it's just he had malicous reason to.  Anybody can walk into a bank during hours of operation legally, even if their intentions are to rob the place.  That bank robber didn't break into the bank to rob it...Now if he had hacked the forum coding and bypassed the security put in place, then I'd deam it 'hacking'.

Also, since it is KP and I that weren't the one's whos forum was 'hacked', it may be best to heed what we say as we are a 3rd party assesing the situation.  We weren't directly hurt in this, so we have no immediate need for revenge/justice.  Since we have clear(er) heads in this matter, it may be something to simmer on.

Soo how about this weather?  I had to break out my winter jacket today WOHO!!!

Did you know that there is a hidden achievement medal? http://images.stardock.com/gc2/medals/AC-11.png

Don't really know why I was looking at the source page for the medals, it was 2am and I have random thoughts, but yeah.  Its not listed on the Legend.

Speaking of medals and such...can anybody tell me why my character Siam had 5GP and only 4W?  I consider myself quite good at math, but I swear I count 5 words on that screen that say "Victory".

it is because of the Ascension Vcitory.  The Metaverse hasn't been updated with its code to recognize them.  Its a rather large and annoying bug.  Something else that needs to get added to the list of 2.0 changes.

Mourn oh fellow travelers of the stars

For today, the Temple of Artemis is no more

Look now onto the once glorious temple

Where only ruins remain

Mourn

Hrm, that only makes me want to pop out a dozen or so more of those types to see what happens lol.

Last week on the Colbert Report (I think, perhaps the Daily Show) he said something along the lines of "see what happens when you ditch the word 'devil' from your name".

My money is on the Phillies though.  1) I have to go for my home team 2) Every game my mom goes to or sees on TV, the Phillies win.  She caught some out in San Diego last season and they won each game she went to.  Just this last streach of games she had caught one game on TV just as they turned the game around.  Coincidence...yes, but hey, you gotta grasp something to call it true eh?

Yeah, I heard it's a broken medal.  In fact I KNOW it is.  The AC stands for Awesome Canine.  You don't see that medal on my rack...so ya KNOW the medal's broken.

nemises. -i typically pluralizes words whose singular form ends in -us, such as cactus.

i saw that you disbanded the OG. and you moved your lowest-scoring character to the ToE JK of course.

its cuz im evil