Its clear they're pruning all "six" of us at TFN and sw.com at the behest of Traviss. You can go to Forum Feedback on sw.com and see how they're treating Nex there.

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

That's fucking unbelieveable. They just make rules up on the spot. And Dark Moose is forgetting that Sue Rostoni welcomed a discussion on the issue.

And the thing is, they can do that because Mods have basically free reign over there as per the Terms of Service.

ROFL!



How are you supposed to PM someone if you're BANNED? At least they let me back in, finally.

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"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul

Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner

"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000

"Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away."

Looks like dp4m is on a banning spree again. I don't like that the mods edits the posts and removes the posted message. If you are going to object to something, then the original message is gone.

Well Jim Raynor it seems they got rid of your dissent right and quick now didn't they?

They are really going crazy over there.

According to them, I violated the TOS, which is pretty generic and vague, disallowing the usual offensive or hateful language. In case he decided to delete my post, I'll describe what I said. All I did was ask the douchebag mod why any accusation of lying would result in a ban, instead of just false accusations of lying. I also told him that it was reassuring that TFN valued "civility" over honesty. That's it. I didn't curse, or use any direct insults.

I'm really not surprised that I was banned though. But I won't be begging these fuckers to let me back in. That board is crap.

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"They're not triangular, but they are more or less blade-shaped"- Thrawn McEwok on the shape of Bakura destroyers

"Lovely. It's known as impugning character regarding statement of professional qualifications' in the legal world"- Karen Traviss, crying libel because I said that no soldier she interviewed would claim that he can take on billion-to-one odds

"I've already laid out rules for this thread that we're not going to make these evidential demands"- Dark Moose on supporting your claims

I issued dp4m an ultimatum via PM. If he wants me out of there, I will leave, but otherwise I won't stand for him telling me I can't use the second person in discussions with other people.

He edited my last message because I said, "You get in trouble on SD.net for not putting any effort into your posts (for instance by posting without reading the thread). It's not like it is, here. The environment there is different--some people prefer that one, some people prefer this one. It's clear that you fit in the latter category."

He also totally ignored the very next statement I made, "It may be surprising, but most people on SD.net much prefer the environment over there to the one on TFN--including many posters who also post on TFN. The rules are different, there, and clearly cater to a different population, but that does not necessarily make one better or worse."

Edit: What the hell: I don't respect dp4m, so I figure it's okay to post our private correspondence.



Here's his reply:



I basically told him to blow me:

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"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul

Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner

"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000

"Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away."

Hmm, all those interesting theads seem to be blasted into oblivion.

That's all via PM. I wouldn't DARE violate the rules of another forum, afterall, by bringing moderator abuse to a public forum.

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"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul

Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner

"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000

"Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away."

Should I post a topic of star wars vs star trek and see if they will be tempted to use the 200 gigaton figures...if they do..that means they admit defeat..

What the fuck is going on? Does Traviss have video of Lucas fucking a sheep or something? Randy Stradley vented on HIS MESSAGE BOARD about how he couldn't continue reading Traviss' "Triple Zero" due to the bullshit content. Then, he had to administer an immediate apology to Traviss!

But Hidalgo openly attacked Curtis Saxton on those very same boards....with no reprocussions.

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"Brian, if I parked a supertanker in Central Park, painted it neon orange, and set it on fire, it would be less obvious than your stupidity." --RedImperator

Can one of you guys with an account at TFN please go to the Odds thread and smack down LtNOWIS's latest round of bullshit? I was in a debate with him when I was banned. His arguments are pathetic and easily refuted (this retard actually thinks poorly-made droids are worse than no droids at all, and that there isn't any inter-system communication in SW). Amusingly, I've been owning him with retarded quotes from his own precious Odds. However, knowing the kind of people who go to that board, I can't be entirely sure that they won't confuse getting the last word with victory.

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"They're not triangular, but they are more or less blade-shaped"- Thrawn McEwok on the shape of Bakura destroyers

"Lovely. It's known as impugning character regarding statement of professional qualifications' in the legal world"- Karen Traviss, crying libel because I said that no soldier she interviewed would claim that he can take on billion-to-one odds

"I've already laid out rules for this thread that we're not going to make these evidential demands"- Dark Moose on supporting your claims

I was actually refering to the ODDS thread.

dp4m has posted several times, and he hasn't bothered to respond to my PM, yet, so I'm guessing that I'm not banned.

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"Sometimes I think you WANT us to fail." "Shut up, just shut up!" -Two Guys from Kabul

Latinum Star Recipient; Hacker's Cross Award Winner

"one soler flar can vapririze the planit or malt the nickl in lass than millasacit" -Bagara1000

"Happiness is just a Flaming Moe away."

At this time, any additional information might serve little purpose, but I did come across something that might be constructed as supporting multiple GARs:



Of course, it could be a general statement about all the various parts of the GAR fighting on different fronts, but if not, something like this could be used to retcon parts of the Insider 84 article as talking of one typical GAR among many.

Is that from the RotS ICS or VD?

OS profile on Chewie.

Also, General Grievous tells the Seperatist Council on Utapau that: "It won't be long before the armies of the Republic track us here."

If only we could retcon the Insider-article from "The Grand Army of the Republic" into "A Grand Army of the Republic" everything would be solved. No upper limit, no lower limit.

...but you see, his perceptions have ALSO been clouded by Master Of Deception Palpatine. They were actually tracking him with two clones, three girl scouts, and their adorable Jack Russel Terrier, Scraps.

Not Wishbone?

Next minute they are going to retcon that they fit driods into those armour and pretend every thing is fine and dandy.

They wanted Wishbone, but the budget just wasn't there.

Well, I was skimming through video.google.com, looking for some Clone War clips when I fell across this piece:

Link

Anyways, I decided to do some rough estimations (others are free to make their own estimates) and I came up with interesting numbers. I thought it would actually be easier to work my way from inside the battle outwards, as I wouldn't make double counts. Venator Star Destroyers which were the same ships in prior snap shots were labeled R and those which were not were labeled with a number.







After I went through each picture labeling the proper ships, I tallied up all of the ships and came to a count of 28. Then, using some rough proportioning, I slowly worked my way out again until the very final picture which had a picture size of 727 x 510 while the size of the selected green frame was 55 x 40 (with the green frame representing screen 3). Taking the two areas and finding how many of the green frames fitted into the larger picture, I came to a rough estimation of 169.





Assuming that the distribution of Venators is roughly the same as it was in the select frame, I made the following estimations. So, assuming a conservative Venator distribution of 23 per green frame, I came up with a figure of 3864 Venators. Assuming the 28 I found, I came up with a number of 4732. Assuming an upper estimation of 33, I came up with 5577.

Multiplying these figures by the Venator troop capacity (3,900; I couldn't find a source so I relied on wikipedia), I came up with 15 million, 18.4 million, and 21.7 million, respectively.

Using the same method for star fighters (with a compliment of 420 fighters per Venator), I came up with 1.6 million, ~2 million, and 2.3 million respectively.

Given these rough estimations, its clear that several millions of clone troopers were deployed in the naval battle and even several millions more (hundreds of millions at least) were deployed on the ground. Coincidently, this fits perfectly with the 1:50 rule.