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BEM684 Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2023, 16:49:13

As I've mentioned in most of my posts, I've been away from the game for 20 years and I missed the implementation of all these new features. What was the intent behind allowing oil to be converted to units? Doesn't that nerf the public market?

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Aug 22nd 2023, 16:52:32

When the public market runs out of military to buy, you can replenish your private market using oil, instead of having to wait...i think it works best if you play the mil reseller strat...
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Aug 22nd 2023, 16:57:42

Which explains this weird thing I noticed that at the end of every set the top ten is filled with countries with next to no land. They drop land to get the max tech/MB benefits of private market prices. Is this the main reason the net worth records keep getting beaten? It seems not comparable to the records before the change because countries were forced to either destock over longer periods or buy at higher prices on the public market.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:15:18

The main reason is that land has never been easier to obtain. People can grab 500-600k acres in a set reasonably easily.

Oil jumps certainly are also part of it but maybe reason #2.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:17:46

What's the reason #1 mr smarty britches?
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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:20:20

Doesn't having more land make it less necessary to convert oil to units? Meaning more land causes the private market to carry more units anyway?

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:22:33

NW records are falling right now because the # of bots made was increased and a few people have quit. This means you can probably get 1.5B unaided when before it was about 1B.

And yes the oil jumps fundamentally changed the game, made stocking oil a bit component, which made facist farmer strategies the dominant t10 strategy.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:23:18

Originally posted by Jayr:
What's the reason #1 mr smarty britches?


Land.

Originally posted by BEM684:
Doesn't having more land make it less necessary to convert oil to units? Meaning more land causes the private market to carry more units anyway?


Yeah, but to hit billions in NW, you need 6 billion bushels and tons of oil... So you need the production to even have enough stockpile to reach it.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:27:26

The oil destock allows you to play your turns until the last 5 minutes of the game, and using all of them turns on high acres to add incredible amounts to your end result.

In the past, jumping might take several days to a week losing out on a lot of production and, of course, on much fewer acres than today.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:28:25

The point of releasing unwanted land is to avoid having to buy a crazy amount of military technology. The more land you possess, the more technology you will need to retain the bonus that tech gives you. It's usually more costly to buy a lot of tech compared to releasing land to achieve the same desirable effect.
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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:33:37

Originally posted by Jayr:
What's the reason #1 mr smarty britches?


Steady Jayr lol
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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:42:38

Originally posted by Auk:
The point of releasing unwanted land is to avoid having to buy a crazy amount of military technology. The more land you possess, the more technology you will need to retain the bonus that tech gives you. It's usually more costly to buy a lot of tech compared to releasing land to achieve the same desirable effect.


To get $35 dollar bushels on the private market so you can convert your stock into instant cash. With your one BPT of MBs and such few acres, you can just install-sell your stockpile.

It some ways it makes the game more laid back and enjoyable and in some it makes it very easy for bad players to do well.

Edited By: Requiem on Aug 22nd 2023, 17:44:50

BEM684 Game profile

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:58:59

Originally posted by Requiem:
The oil destock allows you to play your turns until the last 5 minutes of the game, and using all of them turns on high acres to add incredible amounts to your end result.

In the past, jumping might take several days to a week losing out on a lot of production and, of course, on much fewer acres than today.


It sounds like a lot of changes were made to enable higher networths.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 18:42:02

Originally posted by Doug:
Originally posted by Jayr:
What's the reason #1 mr smarty britches?


Steady Jayr lol
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Aug 22nd 2023, 18:43:00

haha yep Jayr is a bro 💪

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Aug 22nd 2023, 19:39:34

Jaye told me he likes stretching holes

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Aug 22nd 2023, 19:48:22

Originally posted by Coalie:
Jaye told me he likes stretching holes
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Aug 22nd 2023, 19:56:50

/runs

Doug Game profile

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Aug 23rd 2023, 2:48:06

Jays spending some time with us, so he will her plenty of holes. LOL
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Aug 23rd 2023, 2:48:44

Originally posted by Requiem:
haha yep Jayr is a bro 💪


Wait I thought in was your friend for like 15 years? Dorkus!
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Aug 23rd 2023, 3:04:45

sucky sucky?

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Aug 23rd 2023, 6:15:25

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Sep 18th 2023, 14:05:19

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
NW records are falling right now because the # of bots made was increased and a few people have quit. This means you can probably get 1.5B unaided when before it was about 1B.

And yes the oil jumps fundamentally changed the game, made stocking oil a bit component, which made facist farmer strategies the dominant t10 strategy.


Why would there be changes to the game specifically to enable new NW records? Is that the only reason people are playing? And doesn't that cheapen the record anyway? What's the point?

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Sep 18th 2023, 14:25:51

Originally posted by BEM684:
Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
NW records are falling right now because the # of bots made was increased and a few people have quit. This means you can probably get 1.5B unaided when before it was about 1B.

And yes the oil jumps fundamentally changed the game, made stocking oil a bit component, which made facist farmer strategies the dominant t10 strategy.


Why would there be changes to the game specifically to enable new NW records? Is that the only reason people are playing? And doesn't that cheapen the record anyway? What's the point?


We don't have any idea why, that isn't something that was explained. Never the less change makes things more interesting, requires building new targets and optomizations. I don't really care much about NW records, imo no one should.

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Sep 18th 2023, 17:57:12

Originally posted by BEM684:

Why would there be changes to the game specifically to enable new NW records? Is that the only reason people are playing? And doesn't that cheapen the record anyway? What's the point?


Great question. What is the point.