7 million acres and counting - internal farming or not, that is unreal! It'll be interesting to see where you end up. :)

20m! :P Anything less and I'll be disappointed in llaar's n00bish netting abilities. :)

*humps*

thanks corfu :)

theres only like 3 sets of 126 turns left in the set for me to play with, 20m is not really doable :P sorry cx!

I'm guessing the hitting back in forth raping his BPT combined with his expenses would make building up the land not very lucrative heh..

based on some ingame messages i had with llaar, he makes money on food produced. i think he said he was making what a 40K acre farmer would be making when he was at ~500K acres. im curious to know how much food is produced on 7mil bare acres?

he should be deleted for this

:-P

no fair competion hehe, i still need to convert some cash into nw but i doubt that i'll reach that high :-(

well you can forget ghost acres in the future if this is all thats gonna happen

Why? Adds an all new strat to FFA.

who really cares. with the amount of time and effort llaar has to offer, he would be where he is regardless of self farming or not.

somone should LG him! lol

qz just posted there will be a change next set

and csites never seem to be lost with this form of landtrading, but it doesnt really matter since building land is so expensive

this method of gaining is way more effective than any other

you can double networth about every 300 turns using this method, 2b networth is trivial if you start doing this early and more effectively

then if you use other countries to speed it up....

its being changed for future, theres a discussion on B&S forum on it

and the population makes more than the food at the land level

woulda done a lot better had i not bought like 16 million agri this set i think.. turned out to be a waste. i made some techers really happy, and indies have certainly loved me this set, also stockers loved me this set for lower prices of bushels cause before the land trading my selling accounted for 1/3rd of the bushels sold daily on the market, which i promptly spent on tech. lol

i've lost all my CS... i had over 1000 CS per country, now have like 50 CS per country...

i agree 2 bill NW could be achieved with this method... i definitely could do better with another set of it :P i learn stuff every set still

maybe you lost them all at the beginning, when the % grabbed each turn is low maybe at some point you dont lose any

of course my countries started with a lot less CS, maybe only 220 per country and i ran a higher networth disparity so % of land grabbed was lower

Lol i'm waiting for someone to post the largest nuke hit in history lol.

It happened last set.

well if someone does llaar could beat them, since he has 2 countries with high land

Oooh nuke yourself llaar!

lol Havoc.

Just curious on how much that nuke would rip a 7M acres country for :P

largest nuke possible is based on attacker's land. if you had 10k acres and nuked 5 billion acres, you would only destroy 1k acres

exactly, hence why you need to nuke yourself. :P

Do it! :P

well, CX, turns out i didn't disappoint you!

wtf llaar???

last time i checked (yesterday) scores you had 10 mil acres. where the fluff did the extra 29 mil come from. holy christ. lol

I love looking at that top scores page. :)

I look forward to seeing your country status after the reset ends - I hope you make it available for all to see.

hint:

lots of jets
no buildings
a bit of tech (by bit llaar said he bought 10m agri tech or so)
maybe PS'd military, i havnt been paying that much attention

sure, i can post up an advisor end of set

pain: yep, 29 mill acre gain in a single day. i have 80 million total acres right now on my 16. lol :P

and enshula, you posted all about my strategy on B&S from watching what i did and about trying it yourself. i'd say you've been paying attention... :P

*displays my llaarpies proudly!!*

i meant to whether you run with only jets like i did on test server or have some defence

from doing quick networth calcs on the lowest bracket of your countries they looked like they had basically no defence jets or techs

would have been apealing earlier in the set to grab 50k acres but at this point the building costs are too much, and anyone going for big grabs or whatever cant compete with you anyway

but im not sure about the higher ones, since at this point in the set the people in humanitarian range that could grab you arnt a huge amount its probably not a high risk

do i get a medal if i try?

(and get killed as a reward?)

might still be worth it tho......

;-)

ACK! d00d! You're insane!

55 million acres now?

What the heck. You probably have more land on that one country than the rest of the server combined...easily. LOL

70,109,687 Acres now :P

total acres in the server: 129,797,920
i own 102,258,915 acres on my 16
therefore there are 27,539,005 other acres in the server are owned by everyone else

They should make a seperate server called 'Llaar' for people to do this. :P

lol... GJ llaar we honestly didn't see this loophole lol...

llaar didnt think it was as bad as it is either, i poked him a little to do it more but i get the impression he may have had to use LaE's resources a little to speed it up

enshula: what does that mean exactly?

i have received no aid from anyone, havent participated in any buyouts/transfers
i went "all-x", as i only hit my own countries
i didn't even take any of my own retals

i had absolutely nothing to do with that bushel buyout a few days ago. if i did i would certainly say so, i've never hidden/not admitted to what i've done with transfers/buyouts for any of my finishes

qzjul: it takes quite a while for the strat to build on itself until its actually profitable. i spent hours every day playing those countries to do this. :P but once its profitable... oh boy is it profitable! lol

i see a change for next set lol
but u certainly did a good job. dont see anyone getting more then that ever

i own 102,258,915 acres on my 16
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Awesome!


Loophole?

What loophole??

i just wasnt sure if your income was enough to keep it up, since you went tryanny which has one of the worst incomes

i dont mind if you did or didnt get help

i like that you did it so extreme it had to be changed

im trying to resist the desire to make a new tag with a name like

"note: this reset featured networth based ghost acre creation"

though

and i dont expect anyone to admit to buyouts right now since i saw some more food sold at 60 a while ago (i havnt checked the market in maybe 8 hours)


on country speed what i did:
seed the market a little bit with some tech and jets, this took a while, particularly jets
run 2 allx farmers up to 20k land, cash some turns couple of hundred or so just for some income
open attack windows in both countries
right click on tab bar "reload all tabs"
hit enter twice
repeat 76 times
cash 26 turns
repeat
and every so often id stop to buy/sell food, and buy jets in one country, buying a bit of tech every now and then too

tyrannies were slower doing only 19 hits, but since you only do 33 a day in ffa wouldnt be a big differance, just need to stop once

you talked about saving up 120 or 126 turns though, which would have reduced your ps's unless you did those anyway on other days

when playing countries i spent most of my time writing and playing with spreadsheets

idk who did the buyout but i don't think there has been any country reap the benefits yet. if not llaars

also they bought my like 3bil at 61 so i'm not complaining i logged in to like 12bil in each of my 16!

I can easily confirm that llaar had nothing to do with the buyout

one of the participants did text me though begging me to get online and help, lol

broke my heart to tell em that I was at a baseball game and that I hadn't run my countries in 2 weeks

i do make over 800 million cash when cashing per turn right now just FYI

with a tyranny i can cash turns for readiness... other strats cant. and i love the +10% bonus for grab results

i did save 126 turns before turn playing so that i didnt have to rebuy defense as often

only downside is fewer PS's but that didnt affect it too much i dont think

+20% Attack Gains
-25% Maximum Per Capita Income

so
.75*1.2=.9

or still less than mono

well 20% gained on how many attacks i did? i think that added up to be better, no?

oh and over 950 mill cash/turn now, jets sold :P

hitting down gets better gains than up, thats why im not convinced the high net country should be tyranny, and funelling all the land to the high net country slows growth

and imagine if you were theo with that private market on the last day

NICE WORK!