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Dec 14th 2024, 14:48:40

is it your heartbeat?

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Dec 11th 2024, 5:22:56

g=)

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Dec 7th 2024, 17:37:19

yeah its super annoying.

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Dec 2nd 2024, 12:58:18

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Then he wasnt good enough if he got double tapped lol

btw, its on the main page:

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So its a strategy game? There is no such thing as good enough defense in express. 4m turrets, 200k turrets. Niether has made a difference for me in the past g=)

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Dec 2nd 2024, 3:01:27

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Originally posted by Ratski:

Have you forgot Earth Empires is a war game, you have to expect to be hit at any time, just say'n.

Correct. Listen to supreme general Ratski and get gud noob. If you don’t wanna toughen up follow the easy path to coop nerd server. That one doesn’t have SDI or turrets cuz you don’t need them!

You of all people know there is no wall that cannot be climbed in this mode g=) I've been allied to yodaleet when he was multi tapped towards the end of the game with over 15m turrets lol. g=)

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Dec 2nd 2024, 2:59:26

360 turns a day in express. there is no ready. It's never been a war game. There have never been war stats for the game. your projecting your ideology because you CAN war.

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Dec 1st 2024, 22:42:45

This would be a fun server if there weren't so many players that are just here to watch the world burn... or is is all 1 person pretending to be multiple?

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Nov 30th 2024, 14:31:42

There is nothing wrong with being a T. g=) It drives me nuts seeing people have zero cares about the 8hr DR and just spam targets until they are worth 42a. At least they're not topfeeding I guess.

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Nov 29th 2024, 22:50:45

this place is still plagued by T's that cant lg for crap putting the whole server in dr...

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Nov 28th 2024, 8:17:38

Originally posted by Kingme:

Originally posted by saplingg:

Cheers you both I've managed to open my privacy settings now.

Nite, thanks for those pointers I'll keep in mind to be converting the buildings as I get them.

How many CS would you try to build for a 50k land target? 400 or more?

Personally, I've found it pretty difficult to get to 50k by turn 1500. Granted 1500 turns isn't the absolute answer to when to stop, but it's a good starting point. I wouldn't focus so heavily on land if it's at the cost of not stocking. Different strategies require less land to be successful as well. You'd be surprised what you can get away with if you have great production levels (good tech, fully built, etc.).

What I'm trying to say is, don't be afraid to experiment and try 20k, 30k, or 40k as a goal and adjust your CS accordingly.

you can do a lot with various amounts of land if you plan what you'll need and when to stock to make up for it. BUT you might lose by 30k nw to NiteIL because he grabbed 10k more than you g=)

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Nov 25th 2024, 2:15:09

Sap if you make your country visable, there’s a strong community here that likes to help. We all want to win, but we like the competition, and we like talking the strats!

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Nov 25th 2024, 2:12:14

That’s why we play the game right? g=) we’ve all had it happen to us! On to next time.

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Nov 25th 2024, 0:21:02

Originally posted by NitelL:

There were 96 countries in the Express server.

Rank Country Land Networth Special
1 Blow Stock to Retal (#85) Game profile 20,466 $47,775,087 HG
2 DENVER Hates Us (#93) Game profile 33,087 $47,623,516 HG
3 Ye110w L3dbetteR (#82) Game profile 41,918 $45,782,240 HG
4 Tortoise (#15) Game profile 60,472 $38,878,564 TG
5 Tyri (#31) Game profile 52,091 $36,813,992 CG
6 Alive in 2025 (#79) Game profile 47,903 $33,326,029 TG
7 Highway to Hell (#88) Game profile 19,141 $30,655,057 DG
8 RunAmock (#50) Game profile 23,767 $30,590,850 HG
9 The Gallows (#2) Game profile 37,989 $26,868,194 FG
10 Vicnic (#33) Game profile 19,620 $24,980,586 HG

Congrats Kingme on the win! And Saphire and A-rod on 2nd and 3rd. (:

Welcome back A-rod! You're coming back at the most unopportune time with lotsa suiciders.

Ty! Yeah my thoughts logging in today was… same game same toxic players. Doesn’t matter how much defense you get, these Chad’s just do what they do.

Grats Kingme!

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Nov 24th 2024, 23:59:20

Originally posted by Kingme:

Originally posted by saplingg:

Originally posted by NitelL:

I'm not sure what you think he's getting away with.. he finishes rank ~70 every set.

If he grabbed humans and got the win, that would be getting away with it.

Still, what are people doing with their missiles

Holding onto them for their precious NW value!

exactly. lost 3.5m nw just to stupid topfeeders while i let my PM grow... to many trolls in this mode g=/

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Nov 23rd 2024, 22:56:28

This mode is chalk full of players that could watch that video...

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Nov 20th 2024, 16:38:20

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Mar 20th 2024, 2:05:32

Short of a harsh personal DR, idk how you deter the land greifers outside of limiting either total SS's or how many can be made in a period before they reset.

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Mar 10th 2024, 20:59:17

Totally agree on some kind of attack limit. not for warring countries, but a limited amount of grabs per set or day or something. shake things up a bit.

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Mar 3rd 2024, 18:20:48

be fun to see a limited number of LG's allowed. cap it at say 100. make them count.

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Apr 30th 2023, 18:25:37

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Alright I may have misread your intentions. The way I see it nothing that Blackhole is doing is new, and since then nothing has happened. I'm just pointing out the fallacy in removing just the last player who did this when a bunch of others have been allowed to do so again and again.

IF Blackhole gets deleted for doing what has been allowed to be done by others countless times, then I must assume it will be applied to all who did this recently, not just Blackhole. Theres gonna be a lot tears flowing on these boards.

I understand what you are saying, and would agree if THIS player didn't admit to doing this. I feel like THAT is what makes him different from the others. Otherwise, yes it wouldn't be fair to do to one and not the others. It is what it is. It's frustrating that 1 turd can ruin all the things and people that are fun and good in this game.

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Apr 29th 2023, 22:20:48

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Originally posted by A-Rod:

You're good with people going into other games and randomly tearing into people because it's been done before? So you'd be good with me wrecking your 1a finish for the next 4 sets because someone did it to me here?

I'm just saying that it's a poor and possibly biased observation if what you are suggesting is that the whole situation is magically resolved by removing one player.

There are a lot of people who have been doing things they shouldn't, either because they wanted to or because they felt they needed to.

I like how you go immediatly to threatening me because I don't agree with you. That shows the strength of your arguements.

Again, one person is admitting to it, you can't skip over that and mention the strength of my argument. I didn't threaten you, I gave a hypothetical, read it again. I asked if you were good with that, because you justified his doing it when it didn't affect you. When it does affect you, are you good with it? I don't know why you feel threatened, we're having a discussion, should have addresed my comment to superfly? He gets whats going on.

I've had fights with many other players in express, teams 1a. I talk to them all the time, I always ask what they're doing and why. Often times it produces good banter and additional fun. There's a difference between removing a toxic player who's only there to wreck other peoples fun, and people playing a mode they way they like because it's fun for them. I've run into many including Superfly that like a little action and will try and start a war because they like to fight. That may not be my prefered method of play, but i'm not here advocating for them not to be able to have thier fun.

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Apr 29th 2023, 21:50:25

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Blackhole is doing for a month what others have done for years.

While it would be preferable if everyone just played solo servers for top ranks and fought organic wars when they popped up(burying the hatchet at the end of every round) we are so far removed from that state right now. Asking ONLY Blackhole to change how he plays is a bit hypocritical.
Blackhole came into a game that had gotten rid of sanctions and quickly learned by the things done to him and his group what is fair play. That is regrettable, imo.

If i had in-game messages from another person admitting they were doing this on purpose then I wouldn't be talking about ONLY Blackhole. People can fight if they want to, this guys just in here do wreck other people and countries that fought back were purpled i'm assuming for "coordination" when they encouraged others he had done this to, to also fight him.

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Apr 29th 2023, 21:44:44

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Apr 29th 2023, 21:17:02

I want to know why blackhole continues this behavior, and has been permabanned? The guy just griefs griefs griefs, and aparently thats ok, but if you message other countries he's hit encouraging them to hit him back you can be purpled.

This game barely has any players left... why is one rotten apple allowed to play like this?

Can we please take out the trash?

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Apr 29th 2023, 18:25:51

He doesn't care... he is going to continue to grief like a baby throwing a tantrum.

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Apr 28th 2023, 0:10:10

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Those two countries are terrible. If you gonna be a server nuisance using my name at least do it right.

Farm some fat low break SS countries till you get 50-60k. Build it as all farms making 600k food per turn PM at $35 and try to wall all of the hits that you gonna take for voiding GDI on 10+ people…

I've yet to see that work for you, though i have watched you die doing it g=)

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Apr 23rd 2023, 23:40:52

Thats a good question. g=) To answer, i'll explain the phases in this mode and it will hopefully make a little more sense why you see them seemingly come out of nowhere at the end.

Phase 1: start up, turn 1-500. Building CS and buildings, setting up what kind of strat you will run like farmer, indy, techer, casher.

Phase 2: grabbing and growing, turn 500-1000/1500. This is where everyone is getting thier target land and tech by landgrabs or exploring in the case of the bots(yellow npc's). Different strats vary, but somewhere between 1000 and 1500 you switch focus.

Phase 3: Stockpiling. turn 1000/1500 to the end. You've reached your target land and tech levels, specialized into a Net gaining machine. Now you store up all your resources and prepare for a big jump at the end to spare expenses.

Phase 4: Destock. All those resources you saved. Time to turn it all to cash and buy military! go from 5-10m to much higher depending on your stock.

The bots are all destocking. You are seeing them convert several billion $ into military to jump at the very end.

g=D gl!

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Apr 22nd 2023, 13:52:23

Originally posted by Cumorah:

Originally posted by A-Rod:

What if we turn the woman into a man? isn't that the thing these days? g;)

It is a thing. It’s called ‘make believe’.

BAHAHAHAHa

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Apr 22nd 2023, 3:54:32

What if we turn the woman into a man? isn't that the thing these days? g;)

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Apr 21st 2023, 15:32:57

Primary probably offers the most diverse experience of the modes, though its slow for my liking g=). Like every one of the modes, there is a "style" of play you have to learn that you can't get around. As long as you are willing to accept how it works, you can do well in every one of the modes. If you insist on banging your head on the wall, you can and will be farmed or killed in every mode. KoH has been trying to give you useful info, you just don't want it g=)

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Apr 21st 2023, 15:23:18

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, but a woman tells a man it made a sound, should the tree actually fall?

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Apr 21st 2023, 10:14:41

Originally posted by Ratski:

Another 420.

come and gone g=)

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Apr 11th 2023, 2:20:26

NP! If you have questions, you should always ask! There is actually a great community of top notch netters here. In game, on the boards, they're happy to share what they know or talk about a particular topic!

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Apr 11th 2023, 0:41:07

1B is primary now. 1A is alliance

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Apr 11th 2023, 0:25:49

The difference in tech between $35-36 is worth it, you can pick it up via orders at $1500 or less on the last day. It takes a LOT more tech to get to $37, so it depends on your stock.

Originally posted by the sick:

I'm so confused by this.

What government do you start out initially before going Monarchy?
Are you saying to do a "Tech Start"?

[quote poster=the sick; 51486; 1008874]I'm so confused by this.

Run you strat normally with your selected Govt such as fac farmer, burn all your turns stocking food. "Protect" your goods/tech on the market, then eat the small penalty switching to monarchy. Recall tech first then food and remember to sell your food as monarchy (I've too many times skipped this detail to my own sadnes, Cathankins keeps telling me to read the guide as I destock lol). With your stock now in many billions of $$ you swap to Theo from monarchy and it's free, no penalty. If you have been logged out long enough your PM will have generated enough military for you to blow your entire stock on cheap goods for a nice fat NW! GL!

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Apr 11th 2023, 0:16:19

Originally posted by Kevro:

Nice! When you say Theo destock, you mean you made the government switch right at the end, correct? I think I remember there being a pretty hefty penalty when switching governments a second time. So did you stay monarchy til the end or actually do a second switch? Just wondering how your prep for the switch. Do a big sell off, put all your money into bushels and put them in the market and then make the switch? Sorry for all the questions, but somewhere along the line I feel like I'm failing at the end game/destock. I can't seem to get much more than 30 mil nw.

I 100% agree about the bots. I do think express would get old without them for many people. I won't speak for the other servers as I've only played each of them a handful of times in the past 10 years or more. There's just not enough real people to get enough land and not have all hell break loose every set with wars in express. The bots are needed.
But I was just understanding where Daniel is coming from, they have changed the game a lot. People have adapted to having them, and the change in playstyle can feel bad when I think back to how the game was back in earth 2025 when there were thousands playing. I never remember anyone running with zero defense and finishing well.

So you want to run whatever strat you are playing normal through Saturday to whatever your target land/turns is.
Saturday night have all your tech or put in orders for any military tech you still need and don't log in again until you're going to jump Sunday near the games end. Log in, burn your turns, theo destock. https://www.earthempires.com/...estock-51486?t=1680943538 <--- this is to the strategy boards on this forum where Cathankins posted the steps. I usually get my PM bushel sale price to $36 not $35, because the cost to get there isn't terrible if you buy the cheap stuff at the end, but to get to 37 is significant and IMO not worth what it cost to get there. You will take a slight hit changing from your govt to monarchy, but its worth it, and you will take NO hit changing from monarchy to Theo afterwards. Upping your private market and destocking theo you should see an increase in finishing NW

I don't know why everyone thinks servers were thriving with real people back in the day. They were flush with multis, bots and land farms. That's predominantly what ppl were hitting and countries MUCH lower in size than them that had no chance to retal. Alliances pacted anyone that could hit them. The alliances that topfed did not run top countries, did not have the best finishes.

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Apr 10th 2023, 16:04:17

Originally posted by Kevro:

A-rod, I was just looking at the winner last set and saw it was you. Congrats on a nice win! Did you run as a Theo farmer the whole set or do you switch governments at some point?

Thanks! I ran farmer -> theo destock. I overflowed 100 turns waiting to see if the bots would start, almost didn't play this set like a few others. A lot of ppl ran lower than usual defense for longer this set because of the late bot start. We were all running a day behind, so there were more aggressive top feeding than normal, and it was REALLY tough to find non DR targets. There is a line you have to walk between having enough defense to deter, and staying in range of the targets. You can normally hit on Saturday for 500-600 acres plus buildings, add in that we were all sitting on 5-600 turns trying to stay in range. It was an ugly reset.

Say what you want for the bots, but i've found the botless sets to be the most boring ones. low porduction, most the server all Xplore except the indies. With this setting and so many turns anyone can retal, so no hit is safe, you can't outgrow someone that can cash out 300 turns and sell out for a retal. Thats why if you like that style primary is better for that. Slower limited turns, creates strategy about who to hit, when to hit, when to break GDI and when not to. In express the separation is in market manipulation and quality LGing.

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Apr 10th 2023, 15:50:04

Originally posted by Kevro:

As it stands now, I only attack bots unless I'm retaliating, I learned some lessons a few years ago when I started playing express, and as you said, you really never can have enough defense and those late game retals hurt. Usually I'm only getting hit if I'm doing exactly as Daniel said, running very low defense. It can be very frustrating, but it's definitely a risk I know I put myself in when running zero defense. I don't feel like anyone is wrecking my set or farming me when I'm only hit once, but I will definitely retal once. And it has caused me to change up my gameplay to focus a little more on defense. It's when they take multiple runs at me that I feel like they may be trying to wreck me.

Had one guy hit me 3 times this set, 2 of them were pretty late game and could have been in response to my earlier retal. I wanted to smash him, but I was still on track for a good finish for me (ended up in 4th with about 28 mil nw) and it seemed like he was just throwing his set cause he did the same thing to at least one other guy. I left it alone.
Those are the type of people that I feel ruin the game for others, and that's not really what I thought Daniel and I were talking about.

I feel you on those late game topfeeds. I hate getting hit on sunday when i'm stocking my PM before jump. At that point it isn't worh the retal. I lost ~40k bushels per turn for my last 340 turns right before jump because a guy retalled my retal, and I had a reasonable amount of defense and D allies. He was just being a turd g=)

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Apr 10th 2023, 2:49:52

Your hitting people with hundreds of turns, offense, and $$. It isn't Turret defense, but in this mode it is a deterrent for people interested in a decent finish. Yes you can take their land, but their not going to let you do anything with it. If your playing this mode just to wreck countries that play differently than you think should be done, that's pretty lousy. g=) Having low defense isn't inviting a regular player to farm you, a regular player knows KR's coming after that. Play however you want to play, but back in the day it was bot farming just like it is now, only we pretended they were real people back then while hitting 1/8th to 1/10th of our nw...

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Apr 9th 2023, 23:03:52

Farming someone because you feel they have no defense invites kill run retaliations, so yeah.. consequences. You can almost garuntee retal on retals in express, cause those guys don't really care. In this mode where you get 360 turns a day, no amount of defense is enough. It doesn't make you semi competent to play "police man" and topfeed people because you feel they've farmed bots too much. If you prefer a mode like you've been describing with no bots, it's called primary.

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Apr 8th 2023, 5:37:55

They started late. Ppl went so crazy with thier DR lg's though... this will be a thinner set. g=)

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Apr 7th 2023, 22:18:02

I don't think the bots much mind. The majority of them spend the game in DR and giving up not much, then out-netting the same guys farming them with half the land but twice the stockpiles LOL.

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Mar 23rd 2023, 1:13:25

Congrats boobie!

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Mar 23rd 2023, 1:12:40

There is a point when the easy land isn't worth the turns you spend on it. ~150 acres with buildings just doesn't compare to the $15m+ per turn you didn't tech. Your talking about ~50tpt there.