You were in the game yesterday.
For playing your turns today, you receive 1 experience point(s).
and your alignment went up by 1 point(s).

2 27,820 -129,164 5 Cruncher Viper X
5 13,182 1,658 5 cougar Imperial StarShip
6 12,491 -20,495 5 Xanos Viper X
9 4,606 1,741 5 Timberwolf Imperial StarShip

We should have been penalized 435, but were not.

1. How much did you lose?
2. Are you sure that the above were current at Extern?

The penalty is applied at extern not when you log into the game. Check your message log for extern and you should see a penalty message.

LOL. Uhm, yeh. What scrat said. The penalty happens at extern, not login.

I'm EST, the server is CST.. I'm sleeping at extern
But seriously, a few days ago when my exp and alignment was not that high (low) we were getting the penalty, and it showed the first time I logged into the game that day.

Because it comes in as a message. It doesn't happen when you log in, it happens at extern. It also sends a message to you, that if you haven't cleared, will show up if you pay attention.

But seriously, this stuff has been known for a long time now. It's not a bug, it's PEBCAK.

round here we call it a PICNIC...

PEBCAK ?

You guys have created so many new acronyms since I last played, I sometimes wonder if we're talking about the same game.

Uhm. This is an old acronym.

Not old enough, come on.. give!

Googled answer:
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

PICNIC is problem in chair not in computer, and these are old acronyms indeed...

OK, Now my opponent has played pod wars, has a red an blue max align and after extern they both have 0 exp. This is what I would expect to see happen. My question is where's the breaking point? At what point do you start getting the penalty?

AND is the red wth 0 exp, max alignment now fed safe?

This just really sounds like it's distorting the game, seriously. Back in the day we'd play red/blue teams, never mixed corps. We'd play pod wars to get our blue's alignment up, but the red would also gain exp.

This mixed corp is too easy, mega rob bug is too easy... seems this game has lost some of it's challenges.

Red with zero exp, any negative align, is dogfood in fedspace. IIRC, mixed corps have always been allowed under TWGS, or did this come into play after you quit? I played TW through the change to TWGS and thought mixed corp was always in TWGS, but getting old and brain might be going

It's a 'mixed-corp' penalty, so it applies whenever two or more players are on a corp together and have different alignments.
Even 1 and -1 align is mixed, just the penalty is sub-integer.




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