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Thinking more about these changes - which on the whole are fun, I'm a bit sad about #1 - I didn't think SS losses were a problem even when they didn't reduce with built land. (I'm still banging the drum for bringing it to express!)

I strongly agree with Gerdler's point that it makes #10 much less impactful.

Overall I feel like we are just going to see rampant farming, but maybe grabbing was too easy... gonna be an interesting set for sure!

You made MB's great again! :D

https://www.earthempires.com/...-again-53007?t=1722553646

Thankyou!

I wonder what strat I will be playing next set, heh.

I agree

It is indeed impossible to build a defense larger than the chip on some people's shoulders...

I think not losing bonus make it way too OP.

Trying to balance the number of acres you can use this for (ie how late you can leave it) with the bonus still available over the rest of the set feels like a difficult problem with no right answer that creates diversity in strategy.

Another option, as is, might be a total late set switch on a lower acre strat choosing to sacrifice any other bonus one might have benefitted from until that point for a significant change in direction (make TMBR great again?).

If you were able to keep bonus then I think the optimum switch would quickly get 'solved' and would be more line with the oil destock where there was little nuance and just a series of steps in the endgame to maximise net worth based on how much stock you grabbed over the rest of the set prior.

Don't get me wrong, I am a low effort ez mode player, I liked the Oil Destock. However, I think the game is better without it as it injects more chaos and variety into the endgame.

Yes, but not as well as I wanted the market kicked my ass at the worst time

Rules can't be hidden behind, they can only be played by, I can only assume you mean I'm hiding by making sure no-one knows who I am so I can war prep and blindsi.. oh wait...

Primary - PvP
40 UgolinoII (#4) 7505 $1,281,623 RG

Tournament - PvP
10 UgolinoII (#13) 11,196 $10,176,361 RG

Express - PvP(e)
34 UgolinoII (#6) 20,058 $4,461,761 CG

Alliance & Co-Op aren't even PvP, but both are still obviously me:
32 The Road to Wigan Pier (#211) 149,161 $33,922,774 H MONSTERS
16 La Canto Nostra XXXIII (#11) 292,737 $227,675,359 H SKA

You know full well I am not complaining about players who play "hard mode" go look up my primary news - you dont hear me saying anything about double/triple taps going on over there - those guys are hitting me because they are playing to win. What I am doing is expressing my opinion about players who don't play to win. Also, don't waste your time with the whole 'seething' thing. People can have opinions, and discuss the differences therein without it being an all consuming passion. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

To be clear: bro dragged my rep casher ass into a fight with war prepped dict and still finished half my networth. By what measure was this guy even trying to win? Perhaps he wanted to be seen as biggest clown of the reset? In that case - congrats bro, you did it, dm me your address and I'll mail you one of those flowers that squirts water.

White knighting for clowns isn't something I had you down for, but whatever!

(see you all again next set ;) )

I'll take 10th :)

do keep up... :)

Aha, that explains it perfectly :)

Actually I don't, there are always people who end up there by accident (because B and C are even more dismal) and having not the slightest chance of playing a decent country, just wave their tiny dicts around a bit and go straight back down.

What makes it more pathetic its that it is obviously some cross server BS because there are very few people that play this game that would build such a pitiful country.

Here is your food aye, troll, chow down.

I was enjoying it until someone started prodding me with their tiny pee-pee.

I sympathise, it must be hard (no pun intended), though tbh I couldn't really tell...

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

(bar the country name, too late!)

I'm in

The real skill is not getting purpled!

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!

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 :)

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

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

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

I'm aiming to finish t10

Cheater confirmed

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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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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!

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.

LCN are ranked too high

Congrats!

I think I figured it out :D

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 ;)

they are actually quantum entangled countries. true story.

$685m

I see danger ahead on express... :)

/b/ enters the chat

ggs

looks like the top feeders are really just bottom feeders 😂

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

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.

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."

Confirmed

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

An equally manly response

A very manly genius