Just last reset, i was #1 for a while. I don't get it, i can't log in every 2 hours to play my turns. I have to run 100+ turns everytime i play else, i'll accumulate too much and lose turns. i'm not storing turns, i just can't play them fast enough or not enough cash to run them.
Usually, i can't spend all my turns because i don't have the cash.
Even when i see turrets selling at 144 and undercut to 134 to sell so i can play 2-3 hours later. That fluff seems to get get stuck in the market for hours longer because retards tends to undercut all the way down to 100 or less for some reason.

I logged out t10 more than half the time last set. I was the first country to hit 10mil net while 2nd rank was 9mil. At the same time, a spy op on old man revealed around 300 turns on hand. So please, don't make me look like the bad guy.

How are you going to tell me not to have a tech phase? lol you know that's stupid and completely my choice how i want to start. Not to mention, it's smart to have a tech phase.

No i will not start attacking at 3000 acres. That's dumb. At 3800+ is the logical choice. And what part of i can't log in often enough to make all those land grabs do you understand? That's why i batch explore!! After i get 9-10k acres, I only need to make up to 10 attacks and a few retals to hit 20k.

what you're telling me to do doesn't make sense. If i want to retal my way to 20k then i would skip the tech phase, get fat and look somewhat like a rainbow with buildings and military. I'll bet then I'll have at least 15 retals and probably get me over 20k just from that.

the market is the other problem... if you dont get lucky pricing fluff just right, run outta oil, food, fluff not selling.. its so hard to keep the war machine rolling... it always seems to fall apart thursday night for me.. logistics fall apart.. no oil.. cant sell... something always fluffs up.

cause thursday night is when most people plays their turns and lots of it. Especially the cashers finishing their tech phase and buying out all the oil and food.

how can you tell when they start? check eestats history. You use it to find targets anyways.

Hey Jack, why did you call me out like that? Right when I'm using a name that will not be associated with me, lol. The gal I warred with last set promised to hunt me every set for her entertainment so if anyone sees Nigeria on the list, it ain't me! Haha! Besides I need to stay away from her, after the raping I gave her she should be giving birth in about 9 months and call me a bad man, but I cannot afford another kid :-)

Going forward I will only be using Nigeria in my name when I want to further develop my war skills.

I don't store turns on purpose to retal people, it's just a side effect of me sleeping, working on Thurs and Fri, going out after work on Fri and spending Sat and sometimes Sundays with family and friends. When I'm at home, I try to maximise turns use by playing every other hour.

But I agree, the number of turns on hand usually deters people from hitting you. If I spy someone with 200 turns on hand, I will think twice before hitting him.

3800A is not optimal.. tyranny is probably better off attacking right from the start.. while a demo would need 1spyop+3toLG... would need 200A + to make it worth while.. often i dont waste a turn on spyop.. just calculate the max def.. save 1-2 turns.. plus dont need spies first 500turns..

sorry oldman and crest.. my point originally was you guys use same name.. you make almost 100% retals.. so its not even worth trying to get away with it.

Crest- was that a girl you beat on? lol

LMFAO!!!!!! Can I be the godfather??? :p

hey i got a quesion... from the old days.
my memory is bad.. booze and drugs have taken there toll.. :P

was it possible to drop to 1 acre(military base) instead of rebuilding MB's at end of set??.. i tried last set but my private market supply disapeared..

Might as well have been. Her use of a wet napkin to hit me was akin to a fly bugging you while trying to eat outside or in her case, a fly trying to smell my chit.

Yes, PM is contigent on your acreage.

how could 3800 not optimal?
after 1912 acres, your explore rate goes down. So from 1900 i batch explore to ~3800 which takes less than 50 turns unless you're unlucky.

I don't see much of a point to start attacking when i'm below 2 mil net. The % formula for landgrabs is based on % difference not the delta between nw. So at low nw, it is harder to get max gains when attacking because the difference between 500k vs 300k nw is the same as the difference between a 5mil nw country vs a 3 mil nw country. That being said, the gains are too low when i can still gain 22 acres per explore. Ok so 10 turns get me 220 acres vs 2 turns. But attacking cost me units, cash, and added risks of retals.

For my situation, it is best if i explore to at least 9k acres.

i played this in late 99 to early 02 and the pm definitely went down with the market. But the only people who drop to 1 acres are demos. Theos will get killed doing that against someone that has 3 nukes lol.

i can get 2000A with a tyranny... in 20turns..easy.. but thats hard to do ALL ROUND without multitappin..in express...

I don't see the point of grabbing as a tyr :)

Tyr is at its finest with maxed out warfare tech and launching missiles IMO :p

ttr = top feed ???????

theo tech reseller

jack i don't think you understand the whole risk/reward thing. Just play your style and i'll play mine. Everyone has their own thing and no one will completely agree with another person.

fine... be that way :P
as long as you agree .. im right ..you're wrong..=)

this guy is a joke. shouldnt be allowed to play

regardless of if you attack him, he will probbaly attack you unless youre super landthin

then doesnt bother finishing. ends up 40th.

why bother ruining my set if u wont finish. asswipe.

tech start is how you win though. because if not u just get fat and landraped.

i can agree with you about TD not getting rolling until day3 tho. he had freaking 400k nw and a whopping 7 spies and i was D/I allied to him. i texted him to see if he was still alive and going to play. rofl.

You say this but you sometimes like to offensive ally with him, heh.

I like Phreaker4Life, he's a cool dude.

He actually is cool, I've talked to him several times. I don't know why he plays that way though.

Last time he hit me randomly (not a retal) I was tempted to go multi-tap back but then I saw he'd thought of that and had a bunch of warfare and missiles... so people could only retal him once. I feel like there could almost be a good strategy somewhere in there but I don't know.

that's why you match nw and pump mil strat for a retal so it hurts.

ive allied with him once... maybe 60 resets ago.

i normally seek out my wb buddies and ally with them.

I remember you allied him in this round
http://express.www.earthempires.com/topplayers?round=113

THat's not quite 60 resets ago.

are u sure?

i dont remember honestly. so if i did that would be twice. but id gladly subtract those 2 sets for the other 5-10 where he hit me.

http://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/310/74

most notably this one

http://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/309/70

LMFAO@CheatTonyOfCowPooPoo (#60) ohhhh brother!

that reset is more proof phreaker runs all jetter.

i normally have 2 very good def allies (top 15 players)

and am never more jets than turrets that late in the reset...

he had to have like 80pct+ jets and good off allies to be able to SS break me.