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Slagpit Game profile

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Mar 29th 2011, 23:45:39

We have expanded and updated the FFA "control" system to give players access to additional information and to simplify and streamline repetitive ingame tasks. The new system isn't quite complete yet, but it will be available to all players very soon. We ask for your help in reporting any bugs that you find.

Since it will be possible to perform certain ingame actions without logging into each country, the 12 hour and 18 hour bonus turn timers have become a pointless exercise in bookkeeping and will be removed.

The new interface will make stonewalling easier, but that seems like a small price to pay for the added convenience and ease of play. Besides, stonewalling is already rather difficult on this server.

We also made a few FFA specific changes to simplify things and to stop certain forms of abuse. This set of FFA will see the following gameplay changes:
-Countries will no longer receive the 3 or 6 turn bonuses for remaining logged out.
-Ingame alliances between two countries owned by the same player can be cancelled immediately with no 72 hour wait.
-As a result of the above change, two countries owned by the same player can FA each other without sharing an ingame alliance.
-Players who wish to enter vacation mode must put all of their countries in vacation mode. In addition, they cannot create additional countries while in vacation mode. To leave vacation mode, all countries must leave it.
-The bushel price changed announced here will apply to FFA: http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=8508

synoder Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 0:01:49

cool, FA chains FTW!

thanks for continually working to improve the game :)

Slagpit Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 0:02:42

It's now available for everyone. Two of the subpages aren't available yet.

Havoc Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 0:08:32

Nice:)
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synoder Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 0:12:58

•Sell food - automatically sell food on the private market after a turn is played


wohoo! i love it :)

took me forever to figure out how to tag my countries. lol
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Edited By: synoder on Mar 30th 2011, 0:29:46
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mdevol Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 1:04:16

i like most of it

I just dont like that you can purchase market goods without logging in. I think that if you do choose to purchase market good from the control page it should show that you have logged in. In the event someone is in a kill run you will have to guess if they are on or not if they can do that without logging in.


and as for showing you have logged in it shouldn't hurt anybody as there wont be bonus turns to lose.
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Prima Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 4:37:25

love the new FFA Control panel :)

This needs to be applied on the other servers!
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Slagpit Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 7:11:52

mdevol: that may be changed in the future. There are currently technical obstacles that prevent it from working like that.

Mathais Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 14:29:13

I am very interested in these changes.

Have I mentioned how refreshing it is to play this game with people in charge of trying to improve it on a continual basis? I came from the old school where when something needed to be changed people would scream 'Mehul!' at the top of their lungs until they couldn't scream anymore... And then nothing would happen at all.

mdevol Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 18:19:49

ok. outside of that i love it all!
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snawdog Game profile

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Mar 30th 2011, 23:05:13

I guess you could move this to Q&A but, if you use the auto-start ups, will they stop at turn 99 or 100?
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Slagpit Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 0:00:35

99

Bradman Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 4:43:34

Much thanks to you and the team for the improvements.

ou812 Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 11:06:14

Auto Startups are not working for me :( I'm still Mono have the 100 acres of land and I have 105 turns :-\

snawdog Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 11:27:34

Wont work for me either.
I have 110 turns,but my auto startup page says i only have 69?
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Warster Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 12:29:30

must actually log in to each country to update the turn count for the auto startup to work

well thats what i had to do
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snawdog Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 14:33:29

Yep,that worked.
Thanks.
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ou812 Game profile

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Mar 31st 2011, 16:55:35

worked for me aswell

QM Diver Game profile

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Jun 3rd 2011, 9:08:47

It tells me that it can't switch to rep, when trying to auto startup.. something about food??
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Bsnake Game profile

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Jun 3rd 2011, 9:27:35

nah ur just a n00b QM ;)
<bsnake> 68,270,386 turrets whats that in NW??
<Crippler> 115m NW
<Bsnake> 38 mill NW nub... thanks for your netting advice.. Stick to killing nub

Bsnake Game profile

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Jun 3rd 2011, 9:27:57

someone said there needs to be food on the market for the rep start up..
<bsnake> 68,270,386 turrets whats that in NW??
<Crippler> 115m NW
<Bsnake> 38 mill NW nub... thanks for your netting advice.. Stick to killing nub

Azz Kikr Game profile

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Jun 3rd 2011, 15:59:44

it says (or said) that somewhere around that startup.
To apply an automatic startup, a country must be a Monarchy with at least 99 turns on hand, 0 turns played, and have at least 100 acres. Some startups, like rep casher, require a nominal amount of food on the public market.

Slagpit Game profile

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Jun 3rd 2011, 23:51:55

casher doesn't work at this time

I never figured out what kind of startup to do

ICe Man

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Jan 3rd 2012, 2:54:12

Slag - I have some suggestions, if you're interested?
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Twain Game profile

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Jan 7th 2012, 13:58:49

Slag: Don't bother listening to him, they're all going to be about how the game should just be changed to LaEE from EE and silly things like that.

ICe Man

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Jan 14th 2012, 19:58:50

thats a pretty good idea -- but still I have ideas :P
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Twain Game profile

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Jan 14th 2012, 22:50:15

Originally posted by ICe Man:
thats a pretty good idea -- but still I have ideas :P


I reiterate: Not good ones.

bstrong86 Game profile

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Aug 26th 2012, 14:45:46

..
The Death Knights

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Twain Game profile

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Aug 26th 2012, 14:57:26

I held this one for over 6 months. That's a lot of win before bstrong fired up the lose cannons.

Stryke Game profile

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Jan 31st 2013, 7:27:16

And now... prepare to defend your title. :P
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Twain Game profile

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Apr 9th 2013, 1:34:04

I totally forgot about lose cannons. I'm glad I looked at this thread again.

KoH knows what I'm talking 'bout.

Stryke Game profile

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Apr 11th 2013, 9:03:41

Not quite up to your six months, I held this one for about three months. :P
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pollex

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Apr 13th 2013, 20:06:03

soooo where are the other changes?
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ZIP Game profile

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Apr 13th 2013, 20:09:12

next set
fluff your 300 Spartans fool - i have 32 of the biggest fluffed mother fluffers made of titanium !!
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Stryke Game profile

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Apr 17th 2013, 9:13:28

Dictatorship's ghost acre bonus is getting somewhat nerfed after this set.
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Twain Game profile

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Apr 27th 2013, 18:09:17

I'd imagine it won't be much different. We'll just have 85k land countries instead of 100k land countries.

Marshal Game profile

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Apr 27th 2013, 19:11:29

lol@twain
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

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Stryke Game profile

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Apr 28th 2013, 6:20:23

Still, it just means we'll have to farm ourselves that much harder. XD
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Marshal Game profile

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Apr 28th 2013, 10:08:18

or grab others.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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Apr 28th 2013, 22:39:00

Yeah... which will happen soon enough.
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Marshal Game profile

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Apr 29th 2013, 10:21:12

whih can lead to wars. win-win.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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Apr 29th 2013, 18:56:40

For you maybe... since you don't play.
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Originally posted by kemo:
this dudes either a great troll or a seriously stupid fluff. the kind that takes the pepsi challenge and chooses jiff

Marshal Game profile

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Apr 29th 2013, 19:30:47

like who doesn't like war once in a while?
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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Apr 29th 2013, 19:47:59

Those who find themselves with a severe disadvantage in numbers.
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Originally posted by kemo:
this dudes either a great troll or a seriously stupid fluff. the kind that takes the pepsi challenge and chooses jiff

Marshal Game profile

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Apr 29th 2013, 20:00:06

Gallery can't calc breaks but still she's prez of warring alliance.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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Apr 29th 2013, 22:12:51

I was a one time member of iMag, when iScode was president. It's fun warring when it's expected to happen. Beyond that, having your set ruined when you're not expecting war is another thing.
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Originally posted by kemo:
this dudes either a great troll or a seriously stupid fluff. the kind that takes the pepsi challenge and chooses jiff

Marshal Game profile

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Apr 30th 2013, 10:27:28

usually that side which got fs'd didn't have any hint about upcoming war.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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May 1st 2013, 4:25:52

Yeah... which is why FAPs are awesome to have, even if your set gets ruined, someone else would come along to completely fluff theirs over. :P
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Originally posted by kemo:
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Marshal Game profile

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May 1st 2013, 10:14:42

and 3 tags set is ruined.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Stryke Game profile

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May 1st 2013, 11:11:11

Which makes having pacts very important. :)
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Originally posted by kemo:
this dudes either a great troll or a seriously stupid fluff. the kind that takes the pepsi challenge and chooses jiff