The following changes will be in effect on the express server starting tomorrow:


-Maximum turns held will change from 450 (300) to 360 (360).

-Late starts will get 72(0) turns maximum, so a country would need to be created earlier than the five hour mark of the reset to avoid losing turns.

-Public market changes: max market sale size raised from 25% to 45%, time to market raised to 0.25-0.75 hours, time on market specified by player for each good (2 hours to 30 hours). Goods on the market will show what time they will return home. Commies will be able to sell up to 60% of their goods at once.

-Decrease maximum daily spy ops to 100.

-Oil on private market, sell at $30, buy at $300.

-Public market tech floor raised to $1000 from $500.

-Minimum ally time will be 24 hours.

-FAing will not be permitted.

-Drop land time is 24 hours instead of 72 hours.

-Declaring war will no longer be possible.

-Bomb banks will steal a small amount of cash as well as destroying a larger amount of cash.

-Change GDI
GDI will now serve as suicider prevention. The proposed rule set is as follows:
--Minimum GDI time is the whole length of the set.
--Cost is $5 per acre.
--Countries in GDI will only be able to do standard strikes, planned strikes, steal tech, bomb banks, burn oil, or burn bushels to countries which have not done at least 2 attacks or offensive spy ops towards them.
--Countries not in GDI attacking countries in GDI will only be able to do standard strikes, planned strikes, steal tech, bomb banks, burn oil, or burn bushels, unless the country in GDI has attacked them more than once.
-Only countries in protection may join GDI.

*creates a country*

Thanks Slagpit

interesting game changes. most interesting is likely the floor price for oil. wonder if it'll work it's way out onto other servers

excellent changes, great job of taking input from players

you worked out some of the kinks in the GDI from the original suggestions so it looks good to go to me)).

i see i lost the market argument to enshula re: hiding goods in the market, no shame there, he is a thoughtful player and game theorist. i think you did well with the market changes

hate the reduction in spy ops(((( i lost that argument badly))))

love the partial repeal of the Land protection Act
love the acquisitive nature of bomb banks
love the new ally time frames
love closing the early set antics window

good job

nice changes to help make express a more friendly place to play

great job to slag and qz for making these changes happen :)

I hope we'll start seeing more folks from other servers play around on express now as well!

what does the last one mean?

is there some kind of weird protection thin in express?

I approve! :)


Dragonlance: first 100 turn? you know?

so you can only join GDI in the first 100 turns?!?

Yes?

--Countries in GDI will only be able to do standard strikes, planned strikes, steal tech, bomb banks, burn oil, or burn bushels to countries which have not done at least 2 attacks or offensive spy ops towards them.

so if I spy op the country for the break ( 1 ) and then I ps it ( 2 ) then he can nuke me back -

but if i blindly send a ps ( 1 ) then he can't ? !!

I just thought of a way to exploit the new GDI:
If someone steals your tech, bombs your banks, or burns your food more than once and doesn't get caught and you're in the new GDI, just try to do special attacks on any country that you suspect. When the game allows the attack, you found the person who stole from you!

An easy way to fix this would be to only have unsuccessful offensive spy ops count towards the two offenses required to start a war (hopefully it's already programmed this way!). Of course this means that you could steal all the tech, money, or food from a GDI county that you want until you get caught and their only options for retal would be SS, PS, or return the spy ops.

Also, I hope that Spy, Spy On Alliances, Market Spy, and Military Spy do not count as offensive spy ops. Please confirm that they do not count and all other spy ops are considered offensive spy ops.

you left DR alone, interesting

whoever had the GDI idea, very imaginative.

[countries] can still land kill and ss lemming at set end but hopefully those will not be signifigant threats.

I believe normal spy doesn't count as offensive spy op.

I'm really digging the 45% public market sale size and choosing the time on the market so far!

Crap i wish there was a post directing us to this on Express Forum. I left protection and can't join GDI now lol

Can I ask that just as a general rule, could we all please stop using the announcements forum as a place to make politically motivated posts or start flaming.

There are countless other forums for that sort of thing. The announcements board is meant to be a place where the developers and staff of EE make announcements.

Thanks to everyone in advance for respecting the purpose of the announcements board!

Just noticed it was posted in the Express forum as a sticky. I guess that's my fault for ignoring the stickies as they don't change very often :P

Anything not a normal spy op, alliance op, market op, or military op is a "harmful spy op".

Thanks for confirming--very helpful!!!