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Nov 14th 2024, 1:06:12

I am grabbing as I didn't see any rule against it?

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Nov 13th 2024, 18:42:19

(bar the country name, too late!)

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Nov 13th 2024, 18:41:58

I'm in

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Nov 11th 2024, 7:38:36

The real skill is not getting purpled!

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Nov 11th 2024, 0:14:40

Nice work, I was well off the pace this set. Can't seem to get a handle on primary.

Maybe I try something different next set!

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Nov 11th 2024, 0:09:49

And for the proper thread now. Congrats to the surprise winner Nitell ;)

1 UgolinoII (#5) Game profile 41,012 $50,854,585 H
2 UgolinoII (#16) Game profile 39,790 $39,726,219 HG
3 Juggernaut (#93) Game profile 24,803 $37,374,316 HG
4 UgolinoII (#92) Game profile 19,591 $35,470,979 HG
5 UgolinoII (#9) Game profile 31,141 $35,215,708 HG
6 Vicnic (#70) Game profile 22,843 $30,551,385 HG
7 UgolinoII (#7) Game profile 22,695 $29,431,377 HG
8 UgolinoII (#39) Game profile 20,960 $26,698,669 MG
9 The Forgotten (#15) Game profile 18,589 $25,559,411 HG
10 UgolinoII (#43) Game profile 21,480 $24,027,334 CG

I love you guys :)

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Nov 11th 2024, 0:04:29

Special mention to Commander1972 for jumping in on the nonsense unprompted :)

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Nov 10th 2024, 23:57:57

I think it was always like that but it didn't show what the % was before

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Nov 8th 2024, 23:20:24

Originally posted by Iron Mike Tyson:
Originally posted by UgolinoII:
I'm aiming to finish t10


The whole top 10?


🤣🤣🤣

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Nov 8th 2024, 23:20:00

Maybe he means the European Economic Area? That has 30 countries.

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Nov 8th 2024, 7:44:10

I'm aiming to finish t10

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Nov 5th 2024, 17:23:18

Cheater confirmed

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Nov 3rd 2024, 23:50:48

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Oct 21st 2024, 23:47:32

bo

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Oct 11th 2024, 13:10:54

sd

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Oct 10th 2024, 18:36:42

Thats a good question. Id assumed it was for any SS.

I think if it was NPC only it would most certainly increase PvP activity. I'm sure opinions would be varied about that :)

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Oct 5th 2024, 10:53:25

Join N(SK)A

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Oct 4th 2024, 14:29:42

After being initially gobsmacked at the 98% SS loss rule on co-op I've come to see it as being an absolutely game changing mechanic wrt preventing dumbass spam bot farming.

I think this would be an absolutely incredible update to express, as that seems to be the server that suffers most from this phenomenon due to people logging in with a bunch of turns and just spamming SS at bots.

Whilst there is some skill in selecting good PS targets from amongst the wreckage I think that making SS also require a little bit of thought would be a vast improvement to the current low-skill meta of DR camping bots.

Whether losses reduce on built acres would be less significant with the length of the set (but maybe final land goals would be a touch higher with fewer higher quality low DR grabs?). Whether or not this mechanic has the secondary effects of making med-tech worthwhile would possibly be magnified, but I haven't really run any numbers on that so...

tl;dr - see post title!

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Oct 4th 2024, 14:21:51

I think a month (at the same turn rate) might be a bit long at just under 11k turns!

Current round is 5 days, wed through Sunday: 180+5*360 = 1980 turns

If you run wed through to the Sunday after that would be 12 days: = 4500 turns

That would be about the same length as alliance and make for that wed though Sunday vibe of express, but with some extras days in the middle.

(FWIW: I think you'd need an extra week downtime between sets to avoid burnout e.g 9 days)

MOST importantly, it should have co-op style SS losses. Which should definitely be in express right now imo.

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Sep 30th 2024, 0:29:13

LCN are ranked too high

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Sep 30th 2024, 0:17:31

Congrats!

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Sep 30th 2024, 0:16:43

Originally posted by UgolinoII:

What's a guy gotta do to not finish t10 these days ;)


I think I figured it out :D

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Sep 26th 2024, 14:33:23

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:
Ugo has shamed his LCN heritage. One spot too high.


and I spent half my turns "FckaroundFindouting" those demo 3 turn attacks are killer! 😂

What's a guy gotta do to not finish t10 these days ;)

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Sep 26th 2024, 14:30:23

they are actually quantum entangled countries. true story.

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Sep 22nd 2024, 16:18:56

$685m

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Sep 18th 2024, 18:05:31

I see danger ahead on express... :)

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Sep 18th 2024, 7:49:15

/b/ enters the chat

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Sep 16th 2024, 0:11:21

ggs

looks like the top feeders are really just bottom feeders 😂

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Sep 15th 2024, 11:46:16

UgolinoII (#47) teching all set, all spots open!

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Sep 14th 2024, 20:58:00

Originally posted by fizzloges:
Get proper def for your size and there wont be any issues, I keep tellin y'all that!


That's because you don't understand how the game works.

2024-09-13 22:24:15 PS Bob (#3) UgolinoII (#63) 649A (1189A)
2024-09-14 16:05:42 PS Bob (#3) UgolinoII (#63) 1343A (2117A)

My defense is having 500 turns on hand, significantly more production, and the ability to retal for WAY more than what is taken:

2024-09-14 16:38:41 PS UgolinoII (#63) Bob (#3) 1405A (2064A)
2024-09-14 16:29:05 PS UgolinoII (#63) Bob (#3) 2161A (3034A)

But then thats not the point is it. These, frankly terrible, grabs are done by people that are bitter that they are bad at the game and so just try to drag other people down, with some imagined crusade to right all the wrongs of the server.

People that do this are not new or special. They are simply repeating the same banal pattern of behaviour that other bad players have shown over the years, with the same meaningless results. They do mediocre grabs, they get retalled for way more and then kid theirselves into thinking they have won some imaginary victory.

The thing is that anyone that has seen Wargames understands how pointless it is. You can keep doing it reset after reset, nobody wins, everybody loses. Perhaps you think you are somehow going to change the dynamic of the game? For what? Is it going to result in you somehow being better at the game? at the game itself being better? at the netters learning some lesson that you think needs to be taught? Spoiler alert: Nothing will change. You will eventually realise (some people take longer than others) that there is absolutely no benefit to doing this, worse still the supposed "fun" you are having is in fact underpinned by negative emotions that are probably best dealt with by seeing a counsellor, than they are being spewed out into the world via pseudonymous internet activities.

The longer it takes you to realise the more hollow you will feel when you finally come to the conclusion that you have simply been wasting your time, and the more painful it will be coming to terms with who you are and what you have done. I do not wish this on you, in fact I wish for you to realise this sooner rather than later and come join the rest of us in being decent human beings. Don't worry, no-one will hold it against you, we've all been there.

The second type of player doeas it because they are trolling to get a reaction on a forum, from a fellow anonymous person on the internet:

"Hoo hoo I made someone post, haha they really lost it, hahah I am so cool man this is so much fun."

This is next level degeneracy, quite a journey ahead of them, Godspeed!

My advice is try playing to win, rather than pretending that winning is something else. Otherwise you just look like a dumbass, everyone can see you and what you are doing. You are not fooling anyone, except perhaps yourself.

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Sep 14th 2024, 16:58:42

I don't know of you are aware of the recent events where Cath hit Hessman in primary because they were on for the win, they got banned because it was deemed assisting other players.

Sure you can argue you are not doing that, because it's all a very grey area. Whatever your reason, it's obvious your intent is just to ruin other people's resets, which isn't really very big or clever. So you cannot argue that what you are doing has any merit.

It might seem like fun, but I can assure you that it is not good for the soul. Perhaps reconsider your raison d'être.

In the words of the immortal Hodge Twins: "All this is just advice man, do whatever the f* you wanna do."

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Sep 12th 2024, 22:58:13

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

...negative PCI = death right?...


Confirmed

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Sep 8th 2024, 13:25:26

What's funny is both these 2 are my def allies 😂

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Sep 8th 2024, 13:24:45

An equally manly response

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Sep 8th 2024, 10:01:38

Originally posted by Slagpit:
New strategy: break GDI on everyone and no one hits you back because they are all waiting for someone else to start the war. Is Vic a genius?


A very manly genius

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Sep 7th 2024, 21:44:32

You were probably capped.

What was your land at the time? How many units did you send?

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Sep 5th 2024, 18:19:06

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Aug 27th 2024, 23:22:57

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:
It's a linear decrease right? Maxes at 8% at 300k or so acres IIRC? Do dicts also benefit from this mechanic?


AFAIK its same for dicts but stacks (I assume multiplactively) with -50% Military Attack Losses

ie start out 49% and at 300k built would be 4%

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Aug 27th 2024, 23:19:12

yes it was removed at start of first round.

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Aug 27th 2024, 23:17:45

IIRC it was discussed in the original "new server rules" thread but it's not on the boards anymore.

It was like that from the start of the first round though, no ghost bonus for dict.

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Aug 27th 2024, 19:20:25

I get the feeling people think demo is a bad war govt, but I think it is quite good for a protracted war on a solo server...

I don't usually play farmer, but I can see the attraction - you get full production every turn.

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Aug 26th 2024, 23:05:31

bah, foiled again.

just to check though was that definitely plural?

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Aug 26th 2024, 22:06:05

Originally posted by Saphire:

Also, who is “Sapphire”? Probably some chick that can’t spell.


sounds hot!

Edited By: UgolinoII on Aug 26th 2024, 22:10:01. Reason: fix quote
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Aug 26th 2024, 16:36:37

I think pumping defense and making big hits that require even bigger retals, in dry oil market is a viable strat. High risk high reward.

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Aug 26th 2024, 14:51:01

Originally posted by SuperFly:
Originally posted by UgolinoII:
Originally posted by SuperFly:
Originally posted by Cathankins:
The last 5 countries are all strong enough to retal you so you were going to not last until the end anyways. We all knew that already.

Are they strong enough to buy 25m jets and still have enough turrets to defend against my 20m jets? That is the question.


no


Based on your retal that you made less than 69 seconds ago you are butt naked as confirmed by my op. You sir are asking for it!


I respect your hit, I think you expected (wanted?) the retal :) I hope I did not disappoint.

I've calculated the risk of RoR, I don't *think* I am farmland (but I could be proven wrong).

I decided to take the chance., I wonder if anyone else will have the balls to :)

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Aug 26th 2024, 14:32:16

Originally posted by SuperFly:
Originally posted by Cathankins:
The last 5 countries are all strong enough to retal you so you were going to not last until the end anyways. We all knew that already.

Are they strong enough to buy 25m jets and still have enough turrets to defend against my 20m jets? That is the question.


no

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Aug 22nd 2024, 17:44:13

Originally posted by SuperFly:

any bets on Ratski still finishing dead last from all human players and behind 90% of the bots?



rofl 😂

I still love you ratski :)

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Aug 22nd 2024, 17:42:59

Heheh. I feel your pain brother. Did the same last set :)

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Aug 18th 2024, 9:32:27

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