One thing I've found with the changes in GA DR is that it almost forces you to play all 16 of your countries with the exact same strategies to maximize gained acres into desired buildings.

Yes, I know that you have to tear down "unwanted" buildings you get as a result of grabs on a country that is of a different strategy, but prior to DR of GA's, that was a acceptable cost of doing business and still allowed for diverse strategies across 16 countries.

That's really no longer the case.

I hate how i bounce on a KR even if i over send and how the civis counts are all over the chart :/

I'd say that bounces shouldn't be an issue, but I've had some myself on obvious oversends.

Yeah, my "rainbow" ol' countries ain't playing well with eachother.

You can play 8 and 8 and still get land fat Dragon, more than 2 strats though and you're gonna have a bad day :/

8 rep/cashers - theo/techers
8 tyr/techers--theo/techers

my countries always suck... its what i do..

sell more bis res tech under cut them fools!!

i haven't netting in 8 mos so i haven't been watching the tech market... but is it high or is it just me

High, yup.

thats why im stuck.. went too war b4 i could convert...

so may as well keep selling tech while it is high..

I played my 16 Theo Cashers pretty well before this change... I would love to know what kind of effect this will have if I decide to play again.

not much

Really doesn't have much effect. In fact, other than if you're looking to get one or more of those 1 million acre countries, you wo't notice any difference as long as you don't take more than 3 land trade hits in any one day or more than 5 total between any two countries in a set.

Jade Penn has a nice trading rotation down pat and his countries average about 90K acres each. But then, JP is in the top 1% of net gainers in the game too.

I doubt I'd be able to get a 1 million acre country. Now getting all sixteen to an average land of 100k+, quite possible... granted the poor bastards I grab the land from don't get too uppity about it and do something irrational afterwards. Hell, back in May I managed two $100M+ NW countries, one of $101,778,288 on 49,383 acres and another at $100,170,471 on 50,758 acres. :P

If I had double the land I'd *love* to see the networths I'd hit then :P

JP got 90K acres per country lad trading with himself.Didn't have to do a single grab outside his own countries

I landtraded a little, but mostly grabbed outside of LaE hitting untags and taking retals others weren't equipped for.

1,197,190 land , just not all in 1