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I want them to try scanning my location.

It's a purely cosmetic thing.

I had mine set to 'the Game (which you just lost)' until this whole thing cropped up. It did not break anything, nor did it fool anyone of anything into thinking I was from a mindvirus. The only danger it poses is that, if you put your real location and it's specific enough or you drop enough other clues about your location to narrow it down, somebody could use that information to find you in real life. Setting it to an address none of us actually come from does not have that risk.

Donk2.0 wrote:

Beaulion wrote:

Donk2.0 wrote:

Its just a text input, not scanned or anything.

Are you sure about that?

Yes. You can enter any text that you'd like there. Same with phone number and alliance.

Maybe so - hence why I've never used those fields to put actual information about myself - but everyone entering the same address shouldn't cause any problems if it's fake. Google can tear its hair out about how all these people could possibly be living in the same house all it likes.

Sure... but they may trace that all those people are on the same forum by scanning the residents of that house...

(And then wonder why that grumpy old lady in your review isn't)

K.Rokossovski wrote:

Donk2.0 wrote:

Beaulion wrote:

Donk2.0 wrote:

Its just a text input, not scanned or anything.

Are you sure about that?

Yes. You can enter any text that you'd like there. Same with phone number and alliance.

That's what YOU think... but the NSA and Google together connect EVERYTHING.

Carking the 6th wrote:

Trust me, if I can’t (yet) do it then the US government and a big evil corporation won’t be able be find a British statue woman somewhere in (or out) Leeds or something.

The only thing they know is that I'm somewhere in Britain. That doesn't narrow things down a lot. Similarly, tracking you down would be a headache as all they know about you (that I know of) is 1) you're somewhere in the United States, and 2) that somewhere is emphatically not in New York, current meme be damned. (Citation: the Manchukuo playthrough.)

I refuse to believe that you would step foot on wales or Scotland, it’s like a vampire flying towards the sun! England. Still, that’s like 50 million people to find a statue woman through…on the territory of a government that they don’t control (unless the tories get a few more sea-) that may cause a diplomatic incident if they try to grab, as they’d be going after an allied counties citizen with no permission from the British government.

No comment, other than 'if you want to narrow it down to a single country when that could mean leaving out the place I actually do live I'm not going to stop you'.

If you’re living in Scotland or Wales, then I don’t need to find you to bring you to justice or do something that causes you discomfort in any way. You’re already in Scotland or Wales…

One could argue that Britain in general at the moment is ample punishment.

You've also left out a third option.

Northern Ireland? That’s not an option. The Isle of Man is for Men, therefore you don’t live there.

If either of those are what you want to believe, thus narrowing down options at the possible expense of The Truth^TM, again I'm not stopping you.

Again, if you live there, I don’t need to find you. You’re already suffering enough. It would explain why you escape to the internet to avoid the realities of life there…

You're a dumbo, Car... she lives in the Falklands... Eastern island to be exact.

Now that would be funny. It also begs the question of why I haven't personally tackled this Argentina guy yet, instead leaving the job to the other Brits.

K.Rokossovski wrote:

You're a dumbo, Car... she lives in the Falklands... Eastern island to be exact.

She's probably Canadian but a loyalist.

That one I'll rule out entirely.