To catch a thief?
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Topic: To catch a thief?
Posted By: NumNum
Subject: To catch a thief?
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:34
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What in the world is this player doing and how did he/she do it? Rill thought it might be a player trying to expand diplo bubble to catch a thief. This awesome sight passed through my diplo bubble today at 07:09:35 and maintained it's Z shape the whole time.  http://s16.postimage.org/svzw6qb0l/07_09_35.jpg" rel="nofollow - http://s16.postimage.org/svzw6qb0l/07_09_35.jpg Five minutes later it looked like this:  http://s10.postimage.org/4h2k4b0ll/07_14_35.jpg" rel="nofollow - http://s10.postimage.org/4h2k4b0ll/07_14_35.jpg
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:40
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If that was player-generated, color me extremely impressed. To maintain the configuration, they would have to be sent from a number of cities and precisely timed. Thanks for pointing it out, Num.
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Posted By: lokifeyson
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:48
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now that's how you do it -------------  |
Posted By: Albatross
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:16
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That's someone having the map pointing to an area fairly distant from their town (the suspected source), and doing [click, Send Diplo, (back)] on a line of squares, back and forth. I must say that the timing looks very regular. Incidentally, it would have been more efficient to space them out a bit more, unless the target is really far away. ...and if someone really wants to, they can examine the screenshots to see where it came from :o)
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Posted By: Albatross
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:22
| It's probably the first letter of a scrolling message. Morse code (using pulse width modulation) would use less diplos, but would take longer to send. It's incorruptible, but not snoop-proof, though I think Huffman encoding and encryption would be taking it a bit far. |
Posted By: SugarFree
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 13:38
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this is outstanding ------------- Nuisance |
Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 16:34
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I kind of suspect someone used a script to pull this off but who knows, maybe they just had some incredible timing... -------------  |
Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 17:17
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Judging by how far the formation drifted over 5 minutes, it probably took about 10 minutes to launch them all. Over that large a span, the timing of individual launches needn't be all that precise. With that in mind, it was very likely not intentional, but simply the result of methodically launching diplomats to cover a fan of territory, sweeping back and forth. ------------- "Apparently, quoting me is a 'thing' now." - HonoredMule |
Posted By: Hora
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 17:46
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Hi all, those diplos where mine, actually.  And those only was the middle part, with two smaller Z's coming in front and after. The Z happend by covering three rows of land one after the other, using four kinds of diplos, and no program was used here, just some 10 minutes of constant clicking, sending out 170 diplos each on it's own. After those 3 rows I gave up, else it would have become a W... or VW or even worse  The foto was taken after round about 1.5 days travelling. It was made out of pure boredom, but I was highly amused about all the theories made above, and the idea to use that to catch a thief really might work
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Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 18:55
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Congrats Hora -- very nice! /me foresees a trend of interesting diplo configurations floating over the map. An Illyrian form of smoke signals?
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Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 19:17
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Someone should do this but make it spell muskrats. ------------- |
Posted By: Rill
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 19:35
| /me adds to to-do list |
Posted By: NumNum
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 23:29
Awesome. I had very little hope of ever finding the infamous Z maker. Very cool! Thanks for letting us know.
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Hora wrote:Posted By: Nokigon
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 23:34
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The diplos, carrying the message of sleep across Illy. Zzz.....
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Posted By: JimJams
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 23:41
| It's ZORRO, signing the map :-) |
Posted By: Hora
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2012 at 01:17
I fear it might look like the "N" in "Nonsense" 
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