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Points: 350 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 13:38
this is outstanding 
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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.
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Points: 1118 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 10:16
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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Points: 211 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:48
now that's how you do it
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Points: 6903 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:40
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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Points: 19 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 Apr 2012 at 08:34
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.




Five minutes later it looked like this:
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