It is not acceptable to do any of the following under any circumstances:

- harassing other players
- threatening other players to prevent reports of rule breaking activity to the game staff
- sending forum private messages that break our rules

We're at the point where repeat offenders will have their game accounts disabled. Such players will no longer be welcome on any Earth Empires property.

The fascist bonus effectiveness bonus will decrease from 15% to 10%. This means that 8 bonus points will grant -1.4% building cost reduction instead of -1.5%.

SS military loss will reduce slower with built acres and now cannot go below 14%:

0 buildings: 98% for both
100k buildings: 68% changes to 70%
200k buildings: 38% changes to 42%
300k+ buildings: 8% changes to 14%

Changed point 3

This is so the round doesn't end on a US holiday and to give myself a little more time to test the new features.

"Earth Empires is a free browser based strategy game where you take control of your nation's military and economy. Command your country's military to attack and defend against your enemies. Execute attack strategies to relieve opponents of their resources and land. Strategically invest in technology to outpace the economies of other countries. Ally with your friends or make new friendships by joining a clan. Conduct military operations, govern your country and build your empire."

There is no secret, hidden game where players use country names, forum posts, forum private messages, discord, or any other means to attack the integrity of the game staff or to attempt to interrupt the game's operations. Any players caught doing this will face severe penalties. As always, we invite players with legitimate concerns to escalate privately with a mod boss or administrator.

"The forums are provided to enhance your enjoyment of the game. Please attempt to keep most discussion friendly and related to the game."

Aphrodite777, feel free to create a new recruitment thread for your alliance if you want to.

LaF didn't ask for the coop server (or if they did it didn't reach my ears).

No, alliances lying about other alliances is part of the game. It would be impossible for the mods to enforce such a rule in most circumstances anyway. With that said, the language used shouldn't be in the form of a personal attack and it shouldn't rise to the level of harassment.

I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

"Do not insult other players based on personal characteristics including race, religion, origin, or sexual preference. Trash talk is fine in moderation but it should be focused on a clan or a country instead of a personal attack."

Yes, NPC countries will sometimes have turns on hand. For example, a country may choose not to play turns if there's no food available on the public market.

We didn't make any changes on our side. If the ads make the game unplayable please use an ad blocker or purchase premium status.

You are permanently banned from the discord for calling a game admin a "fluff". If you continue to evade your discord ban then you will be banned from the forum and game as well.

Sharing ops as in the site auto-upload?

Are you asking why the coop server was created?

I don't have a perfect and complete definition on hand, but the most troublesome behavior in my eyes is insulting other players based on personal characteristics including race, religion, origin, or sexual preference.

Ok I messaged him and he replied pretty quick. He only said the following: "don't care".

I wonder what he meant by that.

Thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to scold him for daring to hit the country of the mighty Suicidal.

We are all in awe of your legendary prowess.

You act as if falsifiable and verifiable facts are something that are a matter of opinion. They are not: https://imgur.com/a/k3zc2aK

What do you think he was passing on? A chili recipe?

Spin Coalie spin, dance dance dance!

We told SOL that we'd be open to a ceasefire and they responded by killing the country that sent the offer. SOL is choosing to continue the war, not us. Perhaps their arranged war isn't as important as you think?

I don't think that 5 days is enough to tag up, establish pacts, and so on? The round would be over before alliances were fully established?

I'd be willing to do a PCI killing missile.

https://imgur.com/a/wxMGDvz

True. I suppose it's better to talk about in terms of daily turn storage. Express can store 2 days of turns. Coop could store around 8 under the new rules.

(Hessman let me know if you want me to delete this)

Hessman messaged me a while ago asking to be taken off military sanctions because he wanted to try to win Primary. Honestly, at the time I wasn't sure if I should believe him. Glad to be proven wrong. Congrats!

I know that this is a joke but I'd actually be willing to do this on OCCASION without the video part.

Nearly all game accounts that are permanently banned from the game engaged in botting or some other kind of criminal activity.

Amnesty has already been tried in the past regarding forum accounts. My understanding is that it didn't go well.

Alternate forum handles have a rich history in earth empires. For example, they can be used for whistle blowing and anonymous criticism ("SOF Watcher" to pick a random example) or as joke accounts to entertain the community ("bot clan leader" is a personal favorite of mine). However, recently we've had a flood of alternate accounts which seem to spend most of their posts engaging in personal attacks against other players. In some cases, these personal attacks tip over into a violation of our posted forum rules. This is not acceptable.

Going forward, any alternate forum handle will be permanently banned upon its first offense. In addition, a forum ban will be applied to the main account.

As a reminder: the forums are provided to enhance your enjoyment of the game. Please attempt to keep most discussion friendly and related to the game.

Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

Building 400k empty acres all at once without any building cost bonus costs around $480 billion.

It was meant to be a differentiator of this server since we can't do it anywhere else. The benefits were to make it easier for casual players and to give advanced players more strategic options on how to play their turns. I think that the current numbers at 240 (480) led to too much market distortion and benefits casher and farmer too much. 180 (360) is still more saved turns than any other server allows.

Hi all,

I apologize for doing a poor job last round implementing the planned changes. I hope to do better this time. Here's what I'm currently thinking:

0) Remove tech allies. The purpose of this change is to lower the amount of tech on the market and to allow tags more flexibility in strat choice (a tag of 10 might feel obligated to run 4 techers every time under the old system).
1) Reduce max turns from 240 (480) to 180 (360).
2) Remove the Communist bonus effectiveness penalty.
3) Add a bonus called something like "Supercharge construction sites". THIS CAN ONLY BE USED ONE TIME PER ROUND PER COUNTRY. This would cost 24 bonus points and would do the following:
a) All permanent bonuses accumulated so far are removed except for earthquake damage reduction.
b) BPT is infinite for the next turn only. Normal building costs still apply.

Option 3 could be used for demo techer conversion, MBR conversion at low land, tech start switches, and general switching of strategy in the early part of the round.

Please comment as soon as possible if you have any feedback on these or other changes.

Here are my rough notes, but I don't know if it's understandable to you guys:

Civil War Server

7 day signup period begins
A player must have a linked forum handle to sign up.
Upon signing up, players will see their rankings from the last round. These rankings partially determine how many points they get.
Players can add an optional team identifier if they want to play with their friends. There would be a limit on the number of players per team identifier of 10.
No more countries can be created after signup is over.
Signup ends

7 day build and coordination phase begins
Players are evenly divided into 2 tags. The game will attempt to keep players with the same team identifier together when possible. It will also attempt to balance by total points.
Tags will get respective access to the fluffY and TBD private forums.
We expect players to figure out discord/war leaders/other types of coordination during this time.
Players will spend points to build their starting country which only has 5000 acres and 400 cs. Points can be used to acquire turns, land, buildings, spies, and missiles. Unspent points will be turned into money.
The starting point value will be randomly decided per round. Players can also get up to a 25% bonus for each of four categories. Finishing in first gives +25%, the top 25% gives +12.5%, and the bottom half gives 0%. The categories are total number of attacks, NW, pop killed, and total defends taken.
The initial point value with bonuses will be saved to the country table to be used for a new leaderboard metric.
Build and coordination phase ends

The 7-14 day reset begins.
All players are in protection during the first 0-24 hours (protection ends at an announced randomly decided time that is the same for all countries). TODO: what are the most common FS times? Pick randomly from those?
During the protection phase, each country can get a single info spy op on another one.
There will be a giant NPC country which sells goods and buys them with SOs. You can assume that it has infinite money. These prices will be randomly decided at the start of the set and won't change. It will sell a limited number of goods. The prices for goods are randomized each round and announced during the build/coordination phase. So players may modify their starting countries based on initial market conditions.
Protection Ends
Everyone starts warring.
Players can restart when they die.
The reset ends. We'd have the usual clan and player rankings, but the winner should understood to be the alliance with the most TNW.

Part of it is that we had 3 members online with 200 turns in total. We already know that SOL alone would be more than we could handle.

I am sorry to hear that you aren't enjoying the Coop server. The Coop server definitely takes a different set of skills than playing on Primary. I think that some great Primary players would do poorly on Coop and some great Coop players would do poorly on Primary.

Personally I view that as a good thing. In my mind, the servers should be as different as possible and each should offer a unique playing experience.

So you already knew that arsevamp wasn't my forum alt? Why the fluff did you engage in this pointless semantic debate then? Your lack of reading comprehension is not my problem. Who gives a fluff if you think I misworded something? That is the definition of bad faith engagement.

fluff off and leave me alone.

You are telling me that he doesn't understand the difference in sentence structure between "don't accuse me of having multiple forum handles" and "don't FALSELY accuse me of having multiple forum handles"? You're telling me that he thinks that a game/forum admin wouldn't create multiple forum handles for testing purposes? You're telling me that he thinks that I would make an obvious and provable lie (that I've never created a forum handle) for no reason?

Why didn't he ask me for clarification on what I meant instead of immediately making accusations that I was lying? Don't debase yourself by defending someone who obviously wants to act like a pest.

You have a reason to be in this thread. This dude is on my nuts for no reason. He's pretending to not understand that "don't falsely accuse me of having multiple forum handles" means "don't falsely accuse me of having multiple forum handles [that aren't mine]". What kind of sad, terminally online perspective leads someone to post "take the L" without a hint of irony?

I don't give a fluff what you think. You engage in bad faith, refuse to answer my questions, and prattle on like a pest deliberately misinterpreting my words. What is the point of all of this?

If you're what passes for a PDM leader these days then it's not surprising that you guys got tagkilled last round. What a disgrace. I miss the old PDM.

No, I said not to make false accusations. Don't you have anything better to do than to be obtuse? What is your problem? Do I enter threads with posts from you in it and try to start inane arguments? This is absurd.

I'm not dodging anything. You aren't even involved here. You're deliberately inserting yourself into a situation that doesn't involve you and acting in pretty obvious bad faith.

I was told that SOL was planning to hit AT Sucks because they were concerned that the tag was hiding members which could interfere in their planned war. As I already said before in this thread: "Everybody knows that SOL and Mercs are easily capable of both FSing AT Sucks first and doing an arranged war later."

Let me ask you a question since you're demanding so many answers from me: why do you think that so many posters on AT consider lying and misleading others to be virtuous?

Are you seriously tricked that easily? That post says "MOST of the DOW is BS". Which parts are true and which parts are false? That is vague and could mean anything. It is not a clear and direct denial at all.

SOL had over 48 hours and 119 posts to deny that they planned to FS us in the war dec thread. They did not do so. But sure man, keep talking about burdens of proof. I'm sure that you'll cut through the spin and enlighten us all.

I'm only going to respond to the part that I have to for I think pretty obvious reasons.

People are free to accuse me of posting as "Buster Douglas" because that's one of my handles and I've never made any attempt to hide that. On the other hand, people are not free to accuse me of using "drow" as a forum handle because that's not one of my forum handles and that breaks the rule against staff impersonation.