Recovery into Progress

So I am officially fully recovered from whatever it was that I was sick with. I have been for a while now, I guess, but at the same time, there hasn't been too many things for me to talk about on the blog lately, despite there being plenty of things for me to do. My current goals are to get more Deity Wars galleries out since that project's been on hold for long enough it seems. Just that the events don't seem to stop on these games, so it constantly keeps you busy. Other than that, there are (barely) efforts in bringing more images to this text-covered blog. It's just a matter of balancing how I use my time at this point. In the meantime, however, I wanted to talk about several things, including my usual video game progresses that I've been seldom doing lately.

Pardus Rant - War in Artemis

Oyyy... This is like... what, the 5th war that the Federation has been in out of all 5 wars we've had on this server? I was thankful that we didn't have this 5th war during Christmas season like how we had the previous 2 years, but still, I was hoping that we can sit by the sidelines and watch a war between the Empire and Union for a change. This time, I'm not even in a fighter ship either, so I'm having to pick up the slack on traders while everyone else is out there, getting war medals.... or getting killed. Whichever. Regardless of me mostly staying within FHC, I've picked up a shield and packing some missiles in case I get attacked, or to participate in ambushes or something, if I'm available. It certainly does hinder my trading capabilities though with how much space these equipments take up.

The Waiting Game

It has been a fairly uneventful month for me, and I honestly haven't had too much to write about either. I'd like to move onto doing more reviews, but I haven't exactly completed any games recently either. I HAVE been working on several games, and some new ones that aren't listed in the backlog as well... just that I feel like I'm not making enough progress in them fast enough. But before I get into the details, here are the results for last month's poll.

Crawling for Progression

It sure has been a while since I've done one of these. A lot of the reason why I stopped doing this was due to the lack of popularity in these posts where I talk about the progresses I've been making in the games that I play, and I don't blame you. Reading text about what part I'm at in each game is not all that interesting, especially if I try to go with no spoilers. Well, not this time! I might as well make use of the spoiler button when appropriate. It also doesn't help that I've been awfully slow at most games since I'm juggling too many at once, making small progress in each. I have been keeping myself from starting up new games though, in hopes of finishing up some more games before I do.

Pardus - Alliance Merger

So I'm currently sitting in a chatroom for Pardus, with the leaders and senior members of Open Space Alliance (the alliance I'm in), and Federal Force (our neighboring alliance, and ally). Lots of technical, detailed stuff are being discussed at the moment. Things like, the territorial rights after merger, economic changes and taxes, internal structures and who will uphold each position within the alliance, etc.

As you can see in this image, Open Space already has a lot of space that we own, and with the addition to Federal Force's territory, we will own nearly half of the entire Federation Human Core. Also with the combined number of members, we will be allowed 7 congress members as opposed to the 5 OSA has, giving us more democratic power within congress.

Some changes I'd like to make within Cesoho where I manage, would be to adopt FF's commodity pricing to encourage traders to upkeep buildings more-so than the building owners taking much of the profit. That way, I won't have to be the only person that supplies all the upkeep for all the buildings in Cesoho by having traders that would be willing to do the work for me for the bigger profit they'd be making by trading. A good 60% to 80% of my Action Points are spent upkeeping buildings, the planet Ook, and my Star Base, Cesoho Urban Nook Terminal. Of course, it's easier said than done, because I need the cooperation of all the people who have buildings built in Cesoho to make the necessary price changes, after I've already recently changed to tweak the prices of stim chips lower.

As of now though, the only thing keeping us from merging right away is how the merge should be done. Federal Force seems to want to keep their name as it has more of a meaning than our Open Space Alliance does, and making a compromise with the name doesn't seem to be an option as doing so will require us to create a whole new alliance just to change the name, apparently. So it's either OSA joins FF, or FF joins OSA, and at the moment, it looks like OSA would join FF and ... pretty much take over FF due to our greater number. >_>; I'm okay with the idea, and so are others, except for a few that feel attached to the OSA name. Being that OSA has been around a lot longer than FF, and how we are more established than FF is, some feel that it would make sense for the FF to join OSA. I'll leave it to the forum to help convince them that the merger would be beneficial for both alliances.

On a side note, The New Pardusian Alliance and The Guild are still discussing... or rather, quarreling about the possibility of having a drug nook within the Federation Human Core. I'm hoping we don't end up with a civil war between them over this, especially when winter is coming. D= Every winter when I've been playing, the Federation always ended up in a war with either the Empire or Union, and it might look like we'll have another war with the Union again this year. I'm sick and tired of wars honestly, because of how demanding the game gets to defend ourselves against the enemy. I mean, war got declared on Christmas day last year. @_@ Who wants to spend their Christmas fighting a war? Seriously...

Not-Quite-Weekly Game Log

Made a few progress here and there, so just laying it down here now before I miss my chance to write another entry here.

Disgaea - Pushed through to Chapter 12. Sort of power leveling now on 11-1 though after having transmigrated Laharl as a Genius since I really didn't know what to do with the 5k mana I had on him. ._.;

League of Legends - Got myself to Summoner level 28. Haven't been playing as much though because of several things that had happened. One being a day of horrible solo queue match-ups with me getting the crap end of the stick twice in a row. @_@ 3 Tanks, 1 support, and I was Akali. Obviously the enemy team would focus their attacks on me immediately, and the tanks weren't really tanking for me either. But I get blamed for feeding and they just surrender immediately. Might as well, cause of how bad of a team composition we had.

Frozen Synapse - Did a few more campaign stuff. Nothing special. I'd like to upload some videos of my gameplay on YouTube or something, but I haven't done anything spectacular in it, so.. >_> I haven't bothered to at the moment.

Pardus - You know.. I didn't really talk about this much in that other post. Well, I'm a Rear Admiral now in the Artemis Server. Still the owner of the star base, Cesoho Urban Nook Terminal. Preparing for war at the moment since there's been talk of war during winter... AGAIN. D= Last year, war got declared on Christmas day. Like, wtf. Who declares war on Christmas? I wanna enjoy the holidays, not have to protect myself against war-mongering people who wants to destroy your buildings and kill anyone they come across. Sure, us Federations have been winning most of the wars, but... it annoys me that the Empire and Unions have never been in war against each other yet on our server. It's always Feds VS someone. Give us a break already.

Kingdom of Loathing - Just finished my Oxycore run as a Disco Bandit while HC perming Kung Fu Hustler in preparation of the Way of the Fist run. Now doing an Oxycore run as a Turtle Tamer. After that, I'll do an Oxycore Accordion Thief run and I'll have all the Plexiglass equips, hopefully in time for Halloween. I'm going to want to prepare for this year's Christmas event too soon.. Which means, I'll be in aftercore for a while. I may be doing some more clan dungeon stuff in which case, especially with all the skills and items I have now.

Anyway, I'm looking at my blog and I'm starting to see more colorful ads for games and stuff now. I'm gonna try to make some banners and pictures to "decorate" the blog with. It'd be better if I can do a whole re-design, but not until I can come up with a nice layout or something. ... Also, is the text too small? Would anyone like me to make this larger or something?