My Enemy’s Enemy is My Friend

Well, the guy who has been bothering me in oGame went on vacation mode for the holidays. Then in the wee hours of the morning this morning he came back.

I’ll admit I had gotten lazy in his absence. I didn’t even bother to fleet save while I went to bed. I just sent out my fleet to attack a bunch of people at 100% speed, which meant they would be back well before i got up. When I got up… they were all gone. He had come back from vacation mode and as his first order of business, destroyed me utterly (again… for like the 15th time).

Once again, I thought about quitting. He destroyed about 600k worth of ships that I had worked hard for the last 6 days building up, and he stole a nice nice chunk of resources (about 175k).

Instead I looked five slots above me to the guy with the moon. His alliance is ranked 2nd in the universe, and he himself is ranked 24. I sent him a desperate plea for help. He responded VALIANTLY. You can take a look at the damage he inflicted here (loads really slow, so here is a screen shot):

I wasted 16 espionage probes (8 before and 8 after the battle) to witness my enemies decimation for myself:

About the Author

Christopher McCulloh

E-Commerce developer at Finish Line Co-Author of HTML, XHTML and CSS All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies Graduated from IU with a Bachelors of Media Arts and Science and a Certificate in Applied Computer Science. Tech Editor for Building Facebook Applications for Dummies and Building Websites All-in-one for Dummies 2nd Edition. Creator and maintainer of the Status-bar Calculator Firefox Extension Three years professional experience in Java E-Commerce Development and four years professional experience with PHP for a combined total of seven years professional JavaScript/HTML/CSS experience

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