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Churchwork
06-03-2006, 01:52 PM
Command & Conquer 3 - Tiberium Wars (http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/cnc3_GDI_vs_NOD.htm)
"It was now the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius, the Roman emperor..." (Luke 3.1). Let us pray Tiberium does not one day rule the world. Tiberius died the same year Jesus died (AD 37). Is Jesus adequately documented in antiquity? Within 150 years of their death, 42 sources were written about Jesus but only 10 for Tiberius (see The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus, 128, by Gary R. Habermas).

One of the key aspects of the game is like how the Antichrist one day will fool many people into believing he is the answer. Kane (unsaved) is like Cain (unsaved), whereas Abel was saved. Nod is like the land of Nod. The Nod Obelisk is like the tower of Babel. The land of Nod is like an eternal separation from God in which the soul does not get annihilated as Cain does not perish as Kane does not perish in hell, after murdering. And the Bible says we are not to put to death those who commit such crimes for wrath will come upon them 7 fold. Kane seems to be like the Antichrist who was one of the 5 (Nero=Neron Kaiser in Aramaic=666), not the 6th (Domitian, 95 AD), died as the 7th (forerunner, like a clone), and is revived as the 8th (Rev. 17).

Philadelphia is like the church of Philadelphia period (Rev. 3) - the overcomer believers who kept the Word of His patience (v.10) and escape these things which are to come upon the whole earth by being raptured (Luke 21.36). They have abided in the redemptive design in the 66 books of the Bible, where God is separating Satan from man. 6 is the number of Satan, but also the number of man, because man like Satan's ways. Cabal is like the abomination of desolation of the Antichrist (Kane) that can speak for Kane. Pagans use to worship Baal which sounds very much like Cabal, where they would sacrifice their children in the fiery mouth of Baal. Who does Kane sacrifice? Islam sacrifices their own children teaching them to blow themselves up. The False Prophet would be someone second in command who promotes Cabal.

Nod is like Hezbollah living in poor areas and using human shields. It is also like Iran, building its forces like Hitler did, taking advantage of the psychology of the people in their destitution from the loss of WWI. Germany was evil instigator in both wars.

The location of the Philadelphia is approximately where the throne of God will be in the new city, 1500 miles above the new city in the new earth. Of course God's throne can not be nuked like the Philadelphia was.

Those in the line of Seth are both the saved and the unsaved which come from God because God allows people the choice to refuse salvation as well as to repent and come to the cross to wash away sins with the precious blood.

It is thought perhaps the Giants mentioned in the OT could have come from sexual relations with disembodied spirits (demons) that entered men to fornicate with women. Are the aliens like giants at all?

These are the comparisons that stand out to me.

Do you have any other comparison or suggestions of things that C&C3 programmers might consider including from the Word of God to make the game more exciting an intelligent? Only considerate and conscientious posts with something to add are welcome here. Please don't spam this thread with nonsense or any hostilities to Christ like last time. There are other forums for that. Have respect and tolerance for the faith that saves by grace in God's redemptive design through His only begotten Son who is Himself God.

I think applying the mark of the beast could be interesting with the number 666 encoded in a chip in its users. This gives the opposing team an advantage being able to know where our troops are if they are implanted with the mark of the beast under their hands. But it also gives a benefit, better coordination of units, and increased strengths, but also creates certain weaknesses due to the sores it causes as mentioned in Revelation producing certain negative effects.

Another idea might be to create some false peace in the game after awhile like the first 42 months of the 7 year Tribulation (Daniel 9 and mentioned in Revelation), then Kane breaks his promises at mid-trib and unleash his wrath (Matt. 24.15, Rev. 9.1) against GDI (God's Intelligent Design). Nod could underneath also have its own hidden name meaning? Any suggestions? Something to do with being separated from God's kingdom forever without being destroyed such as in the land of Nod.

Attack upon Cain will have 7 times the consequences. That is to say, someone today who commits a crime, you are not to seek revenge upon them, nor execute him. Let God deal with him in hell forever, the land of Nod.

I think that if you have issues with Biblical references in C&C, then you already have a problem since such references already are in the game, just like there was in Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. Are you going to hate everything then?

Call the temple the temple of GDI (mms://media1.winworld.cc/voe/mannafest_294.wmv), which has its hidden meaning of the temple of God's Intelligent Design.

I have lots of other ideas, but I would like to hear your original ideas and input and imagination. Anything to make the game better!

How about bringing in a special character like the commando, but even better that would be like Christ with extra special powers (who does not kill), almost as though He were the creator of the C&C universe? For example, give Him the power to resurrection after dying, but can only be resurrected once after He died to atone for sins of the world. After He dies he can only last in the game for 40 more minutes as in the 40 days Christ was seen resurrected and ministered additional spiritual words, but he gives extra armor or certain powers to all units for those additional 40 minutes. Then He is raised to the right hand of the Father, perhaps where Philadelphia (representing New Jerusalem because it is the obedient Church) is 1500 miles above the surface of the earth. Give units a kind of Holy Spirit power upgrade by a special obedience to this special unit in the game, having protected him for a certain amount of time during the game, especially in multiplayer.

I was also thinking there could be a Jerusalem temple in the game somewhere that is the center of God's Intelligent Design (GDI), where that special character in the game that can be resurrected after dying once, can return to reign in the temple, and could not be hurt.

It would be interesting that GDI could be like Israel where there are only 5 million Jews engulfed by 500 million Muslims surrounding them as Nod, for Islam is where Nod is.

Did you know Israelites where called the Palestinians first? This name was taken by Muslims in the 20th century after Israel reclaimed their land, because the mission statement of Islam is to wipe Israel off the face of the earth by any means necessary, pushing them into the Mediterranean Sea, and so they create this new 20th century nation to deceive. But by God's divine providence which was assured, it only took 6 days for Israel to reclaim Jerusalem. Islam has 23 dictatorships, and no democracies.

Islam is a racist nation against white people. I think it is entirely too greedy to take away that small piece of land that Israel sits on. But praise the Lord God says once Israel reclaims their land as they did in the 20th century, they will never lose this land ever again. In fact they will actually gain more territory according to the Word of God all the way to Euphrates River and to the Gulf of Aqaba which they already own. As time goes by you will see this is so. Nothing can stop God's eternal will. At His return He will set up Israel as the center of all nations from which He will rule with His overcomer believers over the nations with an iron rod during the millennial kingdom.

Islam directly teach that Jesus lied about His being deity, the 2nd Person of the Godhead and Creator. Islam rejects their Creator; they reject God's only begotten Son who is the Messiah for 1500 years the Jews were longing for that God promised who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I think it is pretty silly to overlook this fact.

The GDI - God's Intelligent Design - is like God's army.

Rev 19:14 And the armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

These armies in heaven are the overcomer believers who return with Christ to reign on earth for 1000 years.

The land of Israel first belonged to Israel and God gave it to them, but God also said because of their sin they would lose their land, but then one day reclaim it according to God's covenant promise. After 20 centuries it has happened. Wow! As you can see God's covenant promise is being kept by Israel reclaiming their homeland. You lose. Islam should have respected this instead of making up a fake name Palestinians that initially was the name for Israel. Consequently, Islam is going to lose even more land, like they are losing Iraq and Afghanistan and perhaps Iran. That's the consequence of sin. Israel will get the land to the Euphrates River as God promised and there is nothing you or anyone can do about it, because it is providence.

It shows that Islam is disingenuous making up the name Palestinians for themselves about a half a century ago. They will stop at nothing, as followers of Satan-Allah, to do as they pledge to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. This is their sin and as a consequence they are losing land to God's chosen people.

We cannot deny the Bible calls Allah Satan (http://biblocality.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2217&postcount=1), so you see your hostility is not really against me as much as God's Word which is Jesus Christ (John 1.1).

The name Allah is derived from the Hebrew Chaldee word Halal which is the NAME OF SATAN in the scriptures in Isaiah 14:12 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer (HALAL) , son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"

I think those who try to defend Islam have a real problem, because not only is your position losing ground, but you are not even born- again. All this ties in together to show that hell is needed for you since you will never repent and you can't be with God's people. God says you are already condemned to hell (John 3.18). I believe Him since He created you and me and He does not lie.

This is not suppose to be a preachy game for the religion of Satan that some might want. I trust it won't become that having started well with various Biblical references. Praise the Lord!

Thank goodness for Eve, which is the eternal will of God.

The Jerusalem above is the New Jerusalem, which is the woman whom God has prepared to have in eternity to come. She is none other than Eve in creation, the body of Christ in the dispensation of grace, this woman whom we see at the close of the dispensation of grace (Rev. 12.1), and the New Jerusalem God will have in the eternity to come.

Churchwork
10-14-2006, 10:18 AM
New pics. Yea!

Jack
10-15-2006, 12:37 AM
Wow...you had time to post all that? Well...that figures. Nice post, but I kinda disagree with the Commando idea, it's not really C&C...since you see...GDI means Global Defense Initiative, and they're not religious freaks, Nod are more of that though. Your idea would rather work in a game like Warcraft 3 (it would fit in so perfectly!), but C&C3 is not that type of game, it has crazy tech stuff, but whatever! (Even though I see a way it could fit in C&C3 for Nod, with some modifications to it, which could turn out good...)

Nice to see there's more than one C&C fan here. ;)
And yeah, you do kind of explain the religious background that Kane reflects on Nod, so nice job there!

Is Kane REALLY a madman? :undecided
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_cover.jpg
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_page1.jpg
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_page2.jpg
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_page3.jpg
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_page4.jpg
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_page5.jpg
http://images.ea.com/games/cc3/Dossier/kanedossier_page6.jpg

Time will tell...:)

Nottheworld
10-15-2006, 12:53 AM
People accuse Christians of being religious freaks, even Jesus freaks, but what does the evidence say? The evidence says if you are not a Christian, then you are a religious freak, for you call Jesus a liar without reason or cause and reject the redemptive for forgiveness of your sins. You would be worshiping some above God. This is the meaning of religious freak. Christians are a minority always, for only a small percentage of people are ever saved. So would it be true at Electronic Arts, even the programmers of C&C.

However, there are some unique comparisons to Christianity brought into the game, and Churchwork pointed those out well, such as indicating God's Intelligence Design. To reject this is a religious freak, since it is quite obvious nothing in nature happens all by itself. All things have a cause, so it is the uncreated that must have created: GDI-God's Design was Intelligent. Just look at the mountains and the stars and ask yourself if you did that?

There was a commando in C&C and hopefull this time around as well. What was the commando idea?

How about bringing in a special character like the commando, but even better that would be like Christ with extra special powers (who does not kill), almost as though He were the creator of the C&C universe? For example, give Him the power to resurrection after dying, but can only be resurrected once after He died to atone for sins of the world. After He dies he can only last in the game for 40 more minutes as in the 40 days Christ was seen resurrected and ministered additional spiritual words, but he gives extra armor or certain powers to all units for those additional 40 minutes. Then He is raised to the right hand of the Father, perhaps where Philadelphia (representing New Jerusalem because it is the obedient Church) is 1500 miles above the surface of the earth. Give units a kind of Holy Spirit power upgrade by a special obedience to this special unit in the game, having protected him for a certain amount of time during the game, especially in multiplayer.

Churchwork
10-15-2006, 02:01 AM
Time will tell...
We already know.

The Antichrist will also seem miraculous too people for he dies as the 7th, who was one of the 5, resurrected as the 8th as stated in Revelation 17.

The matter of Caine or Kane being Cain in the OT is inaccurate. Rather they are of like nature, murderers to the end. Cain killed his brother because he was jealous of the spirituality of Abel giving to God right offering. Kane tries to fulfill his worldly desires by his own strength. All God wanted was a lamb. Kane instead choose to work the fields of Tiberium, just as Cain worked his fields as an offering to God.

We can not save ourselves by our own strength is the point.

Kane seeks the use of technology to save falsely. Similarly, the Antichrist will be propped up by the False Prophet who will erect the abomination of desolations that will be able to speak as like some great computer in conjunction with the harvesting of the fields instead of receiving the Lamb unto those for GDI or God's Intelligent Design. The letters GDI are used for those who don't understand GID, just as the book of Revelation seems so confused to the unsaved, though it is really simple to understand if you have the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2.13 RSV).

Actually Kane did not prophecy Tiberium. He only said he did after it came. Many false prophets will use this technique of perfect 20/20 hindsight.

The real question the Holy Spirit is revealing to me is who is the False Prophet who creates this abomination of desolation in honor of Kane to exalt his greatness in the world? If you can see who the False Prophet is so you can see who he is pointing to, you will know who the Antichrist is.

The main comparison by which this fails is that God is loving and would never allow an alien species to terraform earth or invade our planet. That's the difference. That's why in God's Intelligent Design (GDI for the unknowing), He makes the universe so large and so difficult to travel from solar system to solar system and galaxy to galaxy.

He is pretty smart!

However, the probability of life on another planet is unlikely which scientists calculate less than 1 in a million to bring over 150 different constants in the universe together to make it happen and even then they have no idea how inanimate can become animated life. So the alien race aspect of C&C3 is not Christian, but all the same, it is a very interesting idea. They can be the demons and evil spirits in the supernatural realm that manifest themselves physically as in Revelation 9 in the coming Tribulation which would be like World War III to us: the Third Tibierium War.

The Bible prophecies that one day we will leave our solar system in the New City (1500x1500x1500 miles with walls 216 feet thick-see Revelation 21) when the resurrected-saved are without sin and God has loved us for a thousand generations. He has currently loved us for about 200 generations. Another 50 in the millennium, leaves another 750 in the new city ON the new earth.

Churchwork
10-16-2006, 01:52 PM
Let this be a testimony to the martyrdom of the Church unto the rewards of the kingdom.

Every time this discussion starts at EA, they ban it. Do you know why? It is because as soon as it starts it is spammed by dozens of agnostics and atheists and antichrists showing their hostility and reviling.

The moderate (Predator) consequently accuses the Christians. Why? Because the bottom line is more sales are generated from the masses who revile Jesus. This is the way of the world. Christians are in the world, but we are not of the world. The god of this world is Satan.

God help them!

The truth is not unreasonable, but it is unloved. Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. The truth will set you free.

You can see why Jesus spoke in parables, for to speak plainly, he would have been killed a lot sooner before his time.

Having tried to repost this subject matter, I am banned from posting at all now even though Predator says this subject matter is allowed on the specific forum it was posted relating to Tiberium Wars. Do you see the doubletongue? He contradicts himself because of filthy lucre and the demands of the corporation that sets his guidelines and his own stance against Christ.

Predator's position on the forums is that members should not "intermix" their "religious" views, but that is what they do every day. More doublespeak! Bottom line, Predator says this is on topic, then turns right around and claims it is not on topic. He is a flip flopper like John Kerry because he is trying to appeal to the masses, not caring so much for the truth.

His warnings were not to discuss this information on the relevant Tiberium Wars. After three warnings, I was banned. That's censorship concealing his subterranean motivation. Would Jesus have responded the third time that He is not God if the Jews told Him He had 3 chances to say He was not God? or the Apostles when they were murdered for testifying to His resurrection and being God? How much more does this happen on lesser things like the topic of the comparisons of Christianity and C&C3: Tiberium Wars disallowed?

The lesson we can take from this is the proof in the Bible that money is the root of ALL evil without exception. There is no money in the millennial reign of Christ that begins at His appearance of His return in Person. :horray:

Churchwork
10-17-2006, 11:32 AM
Somebody at EA is playing games sinning bearing false witness by claiming I am Agrippa III who made posts, after I was banned, saying some things I don't believe. Consequently, many others think now I am this poster, but I am not. I was registered as Agrippa II, not Agrippa III. I was banned as Agrippa II, and have not since registered under a new nickname. Just to set the record straight, know this fact. Agrippa II was an interesting character in the Bible for saying he would not have done what another leader did to Paul imprisoning him. This is the feature that I wanted people to take notice of.

My work was concluded at EA in posting what I wanted to say in agreement with the Holy Spirit. There is no need to return after being banned. Jesus said shake the dust off your feet as you leave a place that will seek to do you harm or refuses the truth.

And do note what I said in post #5 about aliens:

The main comparison by which this fails is that God is loving and would never allow an alien species to terraform earth or invade our planet. That's the difference. That's why in God's Intelligent Design (GDI for the unknowing), He makes the universe so large and so difficult to travel from solar system to solar system and galaxy to galaxy.

He is pretty smart!

Churchwork
10-25-2006, 11:05 AM
What is the definition of someone who is a bad person? I think it is someone who emulates the false accuser with mindless false accusations and has no conscience that his behavior is wrong.

For example, take the words of Milohai who is a member of EA forums. On 9/24/06 he writes,

Yeah... according to his own posts on his forums, he hasn't attempted to re-enter these forums. However, he's called just about everyone here either an Antichrist, athiest, or agnostic. Everyone except for Predator, whom he's implying is a reincarnation of the Serpent.
I have not called a single person there an Antichrist, so why accuse falsely? And I don't know who the Antichrist is yet. I don't think anyone does. We know he is Nero resurrected, but we don't know if he is walking on the face of the earth yet. We will know for sure who he is when a forerunner dies as the seventh and is miraculously come back to life as the 8th. He will set a peace treaty with Israel and much of the world will highly regard him as some kind of savior.

It is not I who accuse people of being atheists or agnostics, but the person admits that is what they are, so I confirm and acknowledge that is what they are. No need to pull any punches or beat around the bush. A spade is a spade.

Predator is not the reincarnation of the Serpent, and since I never said that, why accuse falsely?
I doubt that we'll have to worry about him anymore, let's just get back to the main point of this forum, and let this thread die.

The reason you are and were worrying is because you are unsaved, rejecting Jesus as your Lord and Savior, so you are going to hell. Whether I am at EA forums or not is irrelevant, since you still need to be saved.

Praise the Lord!

Churchwork
10-25-2006, 11:12 AM
He is from Canada (see his profile) which would have been night at his timezone when Agrippa posted his rants
He has been a member of this community fpr half a year now which corresponds to his saying that he is a long time community member

I rest my case.
I posted all sorts of different times. Yes I am from Canada, and so are thirty million other people.

Just so you know in no unequivical terms, I am none of these people who you accuse me of being.

I only had this one account (AgrippaII not Agrippa), now banned at EA forums because of a non-Christian moderator.

Churchwork
01-12-2007, 05:35 AM
March 28th, 2007 is the release date they say.

Churchwork
02-19-2007, 03:11 PM
The demo is going to be out before the end of February I am told. Yea!

Churchwork
03-02-2007, 01:11 PM
Try the demo here,
http://www.cncnz.com/games/cnc3/demo/

Churchwork
07-19-2007, 12:17 AM
I finished the first and only pre-season for Commander & Conquer 3 ranked #1 as Agrippaull on July 17, 2007, the final day of the standings.

Since then I have retired competitively to spend more time reading God's Word and praying. I might play a game every once and awhile though.

I actually finished with 2297 points, not 2296.

In 1995-1997 the first Command & Conquer Tiberian Dawn also had a ladder system using Kali. I was ranked #1 for the longest time as Bosco, so playing C&C 3 was very nostalgic for me.

Churchwork
07-25-2007, 07:53 PM
EA made a martyr of the Christian, the first one for C&C 3. My account at the EA Forums says Agrippaull is the first person to be permanently banned from the 1 vs 1 C&C 3 Ladder. They created a long post about it. I'm on display for all to see.

Look at the EA admins (esp. EA Apoc-he calls the Christian a "witch" and he admittedly is antichrist) screaming at the top of their lungs they warned me, they warned me.

But no, I received no official warning by email, just a flat ban by email. I deserve a warning for disconnecting, certainly, but it was never forthcoming.

If I was in charge of the C&C 3 1 vs 1 ladder, as a Christian, I would not commit to straight banning without warnings, especially after saying they would at least give a warning. I was expecting a warning as I am sure lots of people were, but none are banned yet, just the outspoken Christian.

I would first give a warning, before being so aggressive. This is what gives glory to God, by doing the right thing and not the unrighteous thing-making a martyr of a Christian. I have told you this not for my own sake. It is to give glory to Christ of how to do the right thing.

Banning without warning is the worse kind of censoring along with breaking a promise. I would feel guilty if I said I would do something then went back on my promise.

We ought to treat others as you would like to be treated. I would ban not even one person on the C&C 3 Ladder for disconnecting without at least first giving them a warning. And I would set some solid standard, not this approach where many months later they still don’t know how to handle the situation. It has been a very unprofessional experience, and after 12 years since the first C&C 3 ladder on Kali which I was ranked #1 as Bosco, they still have no idea what to do about it. Do all gaming companies have this problem?

Isn't it wonderful the truth? It shall set you free. I was waiting for my long anticipated warning, but it never came. Oh well, that’s mistreatment in the world.

My avatar said "body of Christ" and my profile quotes some Scripture and a link was given to my Christian website. Previously, I was banned from their forums (not the ladder) for talking about Christ when people kept pressing me with their issues about the Bible.

I do forgive them for their mistreatment. They know not what they do. I guess next time I should not take someone at their word, e.g. promising a warning first before permanently banning.

We should always do the right thing, despite what someone else says. I think that is the lesson of the story.

This is not an issue about whether disconnecting is wrong, because it is wrong. It is an issue about not keeping promises which affect peoples' expectations.

There were two benefits to disconnecting which was prolific on the ladder. First, you would be more likely to play a higher ranked player if you were high ranked (which increases our learning curve). Second, there was no way you could be in the Top 20 of 182,000 people on the ladder without disconnecting.

Everyone in the Top 20 was blamed for disconnecting.

Churchwork
07-26-2007, 04:55 PM
The email I got from Electronic Arts was:Hello again, agrippaull.I just wanted to follow up to note that I have reset your avatar. This is due to the complaints about its religious nature. Feel free to choose another avatar at your leisure, but I would advise making it more neutral if you wish to use it on the C&C3 forums. Thank you.

My avatar was this:
http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/bodyofchristbutton.gif

Churchwork
07-27-2007, 06:59 PM
I have since registered with a new username, "Partrib".

Azerate218
08-07-2007, 10:07 AM
I don't think they should have flat-out banned you or restricted the avatar, unless you were trolling the forum. But it doesn't sound like you were.

BTW, have you bought C&C3 yet? It's really fun!

Churchwork
08-07-2007, 02:45 PM
I was ranked #1 in the first and only pre-season (did you ready this thread where this was already said?) and like to play a little bit each day. It's like chess with dexterity.

It's interesting though. Since I no longer disconnect on my new account, my disconnect rate is actually almost double what my disconnect rate was before under my old account. I have not disconnected even once on my new account, but people disconnect so much, with the 1.06 patch, anyone who disconnects, causes a disconnect to the person who they disconnected against as well.

Plus, given this experience, it makes no sense how some people have such awesomely low disconnect rates, because just in my experience alone the disconnecting that is going on is rampant. Obviously, some people know how to prevent themselves from getting a disconnection even if there is a disconnection.

I actually had to start this third persona of "Partrib" (which I am sticking with for the long-term) because after my "Agrippaull" persona was taken off the ladder, I used the persona "Parture", but oddly enough, using two different searching methods for this persona, two different ranking stats were given which totally contradict each other. One was stuck on 6 wins and 0 losses and the other was 12 wins and 1 loss. After days of this not being resolved, I gave up, and just started up "Partrib". This makes no sense. It is still not fixed, even now.

Churchwork
08-11-2007, 08:16 PM
http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.aspx?id=56#NewsMain

C&C3 beat out Company of Heroes in 2007 according to G4.

Churchwork
08-14-2007, 11:22 PM
I can't believe it, I just found out there is a second pre-season that is underway which I thought would be the first season, but it is actually a second pre-season for 2007, before the first season starts for 2007 in August (patch 1.07) with only 4 months left to the year. EA changed its mind again. It did say we are in the first season already, but now we are not. Funny.

My hope and prayer is they do something to fix the disconnecting problem!

Churchwork
08-15-2007, 02:50 AM
I just realized how people can have such low disconnect rates. They pre-screen their matches to see if their opponents have a history of disconnecting. But this can only be accomplished if they don't play Automatch. Automatch is all I play, because it tries to match players of similar rank, saving me the trouble. That explains the high disconnect rate I have where I have not disconnected even once.

Churchwork
08-17-2007, 09:28 PM
Guess what just happened to me. Under my persona Partrib and even my EA user name Agrippaull (that is, my registration key for playing C&C 3 multiplayer), my account has been banned for no reason specifically. I am unable to play multiplayer ever again! It says, "The account has been disabled." It won't let me login at all. I just got an email from EA saying,EA Account Terminated for Exploiting. Your EA Online account has been permanently closed for a critical abuse of the Terms of Service.Violation: Exploitation of game/service mechanics As outlined, you will not violate the Electronic Arts Terms of Service (or others using your Account) to gain unfair advantage via the abuse of game systems or mechanics. (Stat Padding, Points Pumping, Excessive Disconnection or Exploiting)

I emailed them back with my sincere response (no reply as of yet),What in God's name are you talking about? I have been playing with my Partrib persona for several weeks. I have used no exploits, I know of no cheats, and I have not disconnected even once. Somebody is sinning bearing false witness against me! I believe it is because I am a Christian [see the above action taken by EA for changing my Avatar from "body of Christ" to a "bunny" in the forums as well as removing the same Avatar on the ladder. Is it right to remove Christian avatars while allowing others to keep their avatars, even Satanic ones?]Please reply immediately for this wrong committed against me.In things as a petty as computer gaming, there is unrighteousness out there, people who want to hurt you, for no good reason other than you are a Christian. And if that is not the reason, then it is some unreasonable procedure that has caused EA to do this, including their own carelessness or perhaps for money, because I am a prolific user of the online multi-player for C&C3. Maybe it costs them more money for those players who use the service alot or it increases product sales so we have to buy the game again. Who knows. All I know is a wrong was committed by EA and perhaps someone bearing false witness in a false complaint.

What is revealing is that Apoc the community manager admits he is antichrist. About a month ago he said he would like to see how I do under my new persona with no indication of planning to ban my registration key. Both EA and Apoc said as long as I don't disconnect, then they would not ban my persona again. But today, he said he was planning it all along. I guess that is why the Bible says be "not doubletongued" (1 Tim. 3.8) because it is two faced to say one thing then do another. It is very inconsiderate to others.

It's quite a turnoff. I suspect they saw my disconnect rate was quite high, but as I said, I have not disconnected even once; so, they can't find even one instance of me doing so on my Partrib persona player name, which is the only one I use (with over 400 games in the last month, about 10% disconnects, since I started using it July 27th).

Crazy unjust world! How true God's Word is, Satan is the god of this world! The more we grow in Christ, the more apparent the many unethical things going on in the world, so we need the shield of faith to block those fiery darts of wrongdoings.

One poster said he thinks this action was motivated by money (to hell with the customers who already paid for the product!), and another poster said Apoc is Jewish, not a Christian, so this may have had something to do with it.

However, I take all of this as a gracious sign from God to stop playing computer games and spending more time reading the Word and sharing the gospel, and building the body of Christ according to Biblocality as I seem to have this calling, because I understand, both in my soul and spirit, what the Lord is showing me in this area which so few others understand.

Churchwork
08-18-2007, 09:20 PM
To sum up the steps of unrighteousness:

1. The only way you can be, as it turns out, in the top 20 pre-season was to disconnect.

2. EA does nothing about their bad programming, but instead ban just a couple disconnectors without a warning they had promised; however, they said you can use a new persona, but don't disconnect again.

3. Then they went against their word and banned the registration key as well of likely less than a dozen people, even if the person stopped disconnecting, indicating there were other motivations. Apoc admittedly being antichrist banned the registration key of at least one person he knew was a Christian.

All I can say is this chain of events was one sin that led to another that led to another and remains unrepentant by the initiator. The Bible has a phrase for this: sin begets sin.

Consequently, I lost interest in the game and have no interest in buying the sequel or products from EA ever again.

The game was fun though. It was to my mind the funnest game I ever played. I think we still have to wait perhaps another decade before all these bugs get worked out with regard to online multiplayer. The game was too laggy if there were more than 2 players. Even two players can be offly slow sometimes.