Mr Meany

One of the most feared attackers on board of the Tortuga Nebula Thugs. He never cared much for economy and other wimp activities. Blood on his cutlass was enough to make him happy. He sometimes played self sufficient and sometimes in a team with Captain Morgan.

(Mr Meany about his IC-history, from Harkonnen forum Dec 2002, posted in here by Altruist:)

Well I was recruited by Captain Morgan after I had to listen on his IC-stories every day on the way to the university. so after two months I had an exact imagination of this game, history, players etc. without playing one tick...and one friday he cames to me and said: "congratulations you are now a pirate!" A pirate? I said to me ok I´ll play a few days and will say him that the game sucks or that I haven´t time or so. but it came different and like you can see I play stil this game... and this happend in beta4...

I played my first round with the tutorial of Ugly Whisky Smuggler, Captain Morgan, No 42, Brugal and Likedeeler and because I knew the most tactics and game functions (see above) I settled down fast in the game. Of course the best memory of this round were the tons of wizzards of Ugly and the aid shipment (iron) of Morgan. My name was Sir Francis Drake.

Next round we were allied with the Harkonnens and Spacebornes. I could also participate in the Donut Rumble and I had luck and could learn a bit about wars. Because we were surprised and also unprepared of the NAP-cancelation the war began difficult for our alliance. But on the way from the university to our homes (you all would be very surprised how much ideas Morgan and me had on this way ) we decided to give all our 600%+ overbuilt planets to Likedeeler to create a "super" pirate. the plan was risky but even tricky. The enemies shouldn´t notice that we give him the planets and because of FR and the 35%-rule it had to go fast. Of course we ensured that he get enough cash to build portals. And the best the enemies didn´t notice our plan...latter in chat they said that they thought Likedeeler grabbed the planets during the war (even if I am wondering how a player can grab more than 120 planets in three days during a war...). No 42 had tons of agents and nuked mightily the other alliance, however each time after he nuked them I was nuked also as "redress" . My name was Mr.Meany.

Unfortunately after the round the most harkonnens and thugs went away and I went to Triangulum because I didn´t want to leave...I had already much experience and I was luckly to join into a good family and good alliance. I played in a family with StreetDogg, Arti, Greatest etc. While the thugs were a family of good players, was my new family and alliance a package of middle good players but they were active and incredibly well organized. that helps us to become best alliance (families were ranked 1,2,3 in size and nw). with well organized I think that everyone without large discussion did the right in each cases. we had common diplomacy, the whole galaxy known that if only one family of the alliance was attacked the whole allaince strikes back (self in case 3 vs 1). Maybe not fair or hounorable but the galaxy known it. that was also my best round in the rankings. I was ranked on 2 size (after StreedDogg but before Arti.

After this round I was busy in rl and had much to write for the university so I took leave of IC. I thought forever. however after 6 months I heard that Likedeeler re-built the Thugs. of course I was willing to join but that was the round with the biggest crash. after one month we could play again and this time Morgan was also in. we built a banker/attacker-team and was successfull stil Smaug break his NAP and our allies droped us without any warning (that was #79 One Night Stand I think). Even if this was a painful experiance for me and the family that helps to get better organized. Next round Lazy joined us and latter in the round Terror and Sink. Now we had all what a good family need to become a "top" family. we were the top family in the last round until Lizzy spun and blocked a lot of top players in the top families. this time I thought again "that is!" ...but now I am playing again... well this time I had again luck with my family and it seems that the allies aren´t so bad so I think we could be the top- alliance.