When do I stop grabbing? Almost to 1200 turns and thinking about cashing out from here.

Meh, that’s what I’m gonna do. Good luck on your finishes everyone.

Yep that's what I do - 1200 turns start cashing

Grab longer next time.

I think as a CI you should grab til 300-500 turns left(on express) depending on a lot of factors, but mostly your size.

Was already at 26k land

I always stopped around turn 1100. Meh.

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Make a spreadsheet then calculate how much extra income a grab will give you., ie. lets say grabbing an indy bot that gives you 200 buildings will give you something like 750 extra jets per turn and maybe you can sell those for 130-130*.1

Grab until
87750*turns left in the set - cost of a grab (oil, jets, etc) < income from cashing 2 turns

(you could add in other stuff like tech stolen, etc but keep it simple to save time)

Do the same for buildings

It will take less time to do than making forum posts (maybe a couple mins a day to readjust the spreadsheet based on the returns you're getting) and its a better strat than using an arbitrary amount of turns left in the set and land goals. If I were being lazy about it though, I'd take Gerdler's advice. 1200 turns defo seems like a lot of lost potential :P

Express is not that serious...

Takes like 5 mins to make an excel file and maybe 5 mins a reset to update it lol

wat?

he means that you play more efficiently with help of excel/libreoffice/etc spreadsheet calculations.

Guess that's why some people finish top 3, and I finish top 10. 99% of everything I do is in my head. Sometimes use a calculator for attacking.

routines, after doing it 100s of times it comes from backbone w/o thinking it.