[00:14] <trojal-at-work> 6:13:26 am Trojal2 just cut their foot while chopping down Xirah's fence! (Time to Heal: 00:00:14)
[00:15] <Catelite> lolol // Emphasis for people who think Cate is some lovely innocent bystander. Fuck you, Cate.
[00:16] <Gogoat> adorbs
[00:16] <trojal-at-work> He said he was really busy tonight/tomorrow
[00:18] <trojal-at-work> 300 down, 1400 to go
Basically right after he'd realized that I had gone to bed he set to work on this little project.
Note: just a few minutes to get through nearly a fifth of a layer of fencing. Level 20 fences can be penetrated in under an hour. Just over an hour if you want to do it basically for free.
Also note: Even if I was awake, he attacked the same fenceline where he had abused a bug to scoop up my glider from behind my fences. Yes, he reported it (because he's such a good guy) and I got my 100 toadkens back. But I'd have to buy the glider again and walk back from an SWI portal to get back to my fences and place the glider again. A ~10-15 minute task that I hadn't had time to do yet. Because trojal couldn't resist taking goodies that were right in front of his face even when in the middle of exploiting a bug and knowing he would have to report it to continue playing the game "legally".
[14:05] <trojal-at-work> I scooped up a hanglider site of yours, I'm trying to get Travis or [twisti]'s attention to give you one back
[14:05] <trojal-at-work> Because I picked it up due to some bug
[14:05] <trojal-at-work> It's the one just touching a bunch of your fences
[14:06] <Xirah> Where?
[14:06] <trojal-at-work> Near 18S, 10W
[14:07] <trojal-at-work> 18.9S, 10W
[14:08] <Xirah> Uh huh, and how did you get it? Placing gliders in water so you can walk over water?
[14:08] <trojal-at-work> Just some bug
[14:08] <trojal-at-work> I swam around the fence yes
[14:08] <Xirah> Using the method I described?
[14:08] <trojal-at-work> Not sure
[14:08] <trojal-at-work> :p
[14:08] <Xirah> Uh huh.
[14:09] <trojal-at-work> Is it a known bug, or just because I was talking about it yesterday?
[14:09] <Xirah> Because you were talking about it.
[14:09] <trojal-at-work> Yeah, I didn't want to lose my last hanglider, so I found a spot where I could just swim one space to scoop one up :3
[14:09] <Xirah> I guess scooping my glider was just too big of an itch not to scratch, even when you abused a bug to get access to it
[14:09] <trojal-at-work> Sorry if it inconveniences you a lot
[14:10] <trojal-at-work> I'll make sure Travis or [twisti] gives one back though
He knew exactly what he was doing. His plan to "test the bug" was to spend his only glider "swimming" to steal somebody else's glider. Mine, it so happens. Maybe the next bug he tests will require 200 statues. But he can't be arsed to farm 200 statues to test it, so he'll just abuse the bug to steal 200 statues. But it's okay, because he's just testing bugs and he'll report it afterwards. Yeah I guess you'll get your statues back. That's okay, right? No, it's not fucking okay.
This is a bit of an exaggeration but the point is not invalidated: I was not compensated adequately for the damage caused to me by trojal exploiting a bug at my expense. Trojal later leveraged this to his advantage when raiding me- attacking the very spot that was still weakened because of the previous bug abuse.
Anyone who continues to claim "trojal is mostly a good guy" or "he's just joking, mostly" is a naive idiot. Should probably pay attention to the word
mostly and realize that it just means that he doesn't have enough time to be a raging dick to everyone at the same time. What a "good guy" that he isn't fucking with
you because he's just busy fucking with somebody else. Every single day he has spent terrorizing IRC chat and creeping around the world to gather information to support his higher-effort attacks on the community.
I hope you guys enjoy your farming edict that I'm sure you'll work very hard to pool your resources for and then plant crops all day long. Don't plant too many though, because I have little doubt that trojal will keep an eye on that and make it his next little game - to poke into your base and raze your 50M gold worth of crops or sneak in and pick all the rares/seeds and leave you with shit.
I guess I was a fool to share anything about my upcoming day (that I was having one of the worst days of recent weeks and that I had a *ton* of work to do: meetings to prep for, appointments to go to, a midterm to study for and take) or anything else about my personal life. Good thing I didn't mention publicly that I was going on a 24+ hour road trip to see a concert a few days ago. Probably would have been a good time for trojal to fit in the mere 13-16 hours it would take to infiltrate my base and begin phase 2 of his plan: completely destroy the base that I've worked on for nearly a year now in just a few days. Note: this is possible and I would even venture to say it's probable.
I've never taken my defenses around my main base lightly. I've had 5 out of 7 workers on fences pretty much the entire time that I've been playing. I barely have any holdings outside of my main base, and I have resorted to 1-3 layers of fence for those holdings to support increased defenses on my main base. It means nothing, really. All of that effort spent on defenses will barely keep trojal out for longer than it takes me to sleep. And it's not like there is a whole lot that I can do once I wake up. He'll have burrowed into my fences placing his own in his wake and/or can chop from an outhouse for safety. Regardless, if stopped he can just wait until the next time that I sleep. Maybe he'll get through then. God forbid I have to do anything more time consuming than sleep. Oh shit my internet went out for a day.. good bye, base. Once he's inside, make no mistake: it is no longer "your" base. Expect PPs and gliders pointing to several dusty corners of your land. Expect a bunkered glider that would take you just as long (or longer) to remove as it took him to get into your base. Don't even bother chopping his glider bunker; he'll just bellow deep laughter out of his cornhole mouth watching you in your futile efforts and right before you break through to the center of his bunker you'll realize he's just set up a new bunker and he'll come in to scoop the glider at the last minute so you don't even get that. Still, you better finish the last couple layers anyways so you can finish invalidating that first bunker.
It takes roughly 19 fences to start a 9-layer-thick bunker in a corner somewhere. More if it's not in a corner, but far likely: less, due to choosing a more efficient spot. Drop your outer layer first, pound 19 fences, then you're home free to build the remaining 8 layers around your glider that you can rest assured will take upwards of 13-15 hours to remove. Trying to get your base back after he's compromised it will be orders of magnitude more effort than it took him to get in in the first place. Regardless of how much effort you put into your defenses. It's actually not possible unless he cuts you some slack. But the harder you try, the less slack he's likely to cut you, as he's no doubt attacking you in the first place just to watch you struggle.
Even Ex's land is pretty decidedly not safe, behind many layers of the highest level fencing in the game.
In-game defenses are meaningless. If someone is dedicated to raid you, you're fucked. If you don't have a gold subscription for a personal island: you're fucked.
All of you people being nice to trojal in some vain effort to get on his good side [even while he's busy spitting in somebody else's face] fucking sicken me. Cate, giving him a DCM that you found? On the verge of giving him a glider that you found in your land because you aren't a subscriber and thus had no use for it? You miserable fool.
Whatever. Maybe people think that groveling and asskissing is the only defense they have because the in-game defenses aren't enough. Just know that it comes at the cost of my respect for you, and I hope it comes at great cost to your own pride.
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