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PS Jul 30, 15:45 Neverwas (#80) Change (#32) 219 A
PS Jul 30, 16:17 Neverwas (#80) Seven of Nine (#22) 237 A
PS Jul 30, 16:17 Neverwas (#80) Seven of Nine (#22) 181 A
PS Jul 30, 16:40 torch (#46) Peppes (#77) 157 A
PS Jul 30, 18:15 Neverwas (#80) 123456 (#100) 162 A
PS Jul 30, 18:15 Neverwas (#80) 123456 (#100) 149 A
PS Jul 30, 19:16 Cows With Guns (#72) 123456 (#100) 182 A
PS Jul 30, 19:21 Cows With Guns (#72) Seven of Nine (#22) 366 A
PS Jul 30, 19:59 Cows With Guns (#72) CEO (#8) 158 A
PS Jul 30, 20:11 torch (#46) Seven of Nine (#22) 306 A

Lots of retal targets stacking up.

And you can't outrun a dictator. I'll have 120% Military Strat and 140% weaps when I do. Can't wait.....

Or you could try expanding a bit slower and protecting what you have a bit better.

Nah- I expand fast early on purposely. So that I get LGd and it provides me 1k retals later on in game.

This is what happened last set:

PS Jul 24, 11:55 Forsaken (#92) Seven of Nine (#20) 120 A
PS Jul 24, 14:06 Indrid Cold (#74) Seven of Nine (#20) 164 A
PS Jul 24, 15:43 DeathFromAbove (#4) Seven of Nine (#20) 102 A
PS Jul 24, 16:44 Bodega Bay (#110) Seven of Nine (#20) 284 A
PS Jul 25, 04:54 Seven of Nine (#20) DeathFromAbove (#4) 693 A
PS Jul 25, 13:07 Seven of Nine (#20) Indrid Cold (#74) 1026 A
PS Jul 25, 15:26 Seven of Nine (#20) Bodega Bay (#110) 927 A

Well, you would have grabbed anyway. Your "retal" idea just artificially limited your choice of target.

Satisfying, though, I suppose. If you are more interested in emotional aspects of the game than you are in winning.

How does that limit his choice of target?

What's stopping him from taking his retals, and grabbing others?

Answer: Nothing.

Yeah that's actually pretty genius haha. Tempting the suicide gods by declaring it on the forums though :P

Whats the point of being fat so you can be grabbed and retal later. You can always grab them at a later stage if you wanted to.

The point is this:

Method 1: (My suggestion)

Become landfat early on- (you become an early target for 200-300 A)
Later in set you retal each target for 1k+ A)

Method 2: (H20 suggestion)

Grabbing without getting hit 1st -Initiate 1st attack for 1k+ A but they retal for 700 A)
Yes, you are still in the green; but, method 1 maximizes gains.

Since both methods implement top-feeding, the retal country is less likely to 'throw' in their set by RoR.

good luck

thats darkling style baby and he got top 15 last set was 12th........... its okay

Hell it keeps up i might join in :D

Nah id be one of the top feeders later if i really wanted :P

Who on earth is "kill you" and why did he grab for 5-10 acre a lot of times?

And why did he abandon his first taget with 20 acres left? Humanitarians perhaps, but something of a coincidence that they cut in at just that point.

No, it is an exploit.

First kill you #118 makes numerous hits on I Will Suicide You #49, gaining nothing.

Next #49 uses a bunch of turns to mass explore and pops up in seventh spot

"7 I Will Suicide You (#49) 6304 $864,202 HG"

I take it the idea is to make it pointless to hit #49 because of diminishing return.

(edit) No, not an exploit. #118 went on to kill others - s/he plainly wants to win the "who killed the most (tiny) countries in a set" award.

Bit dodgy. If it's 2 dudes with a plan then nice work I guess... ^.-

Just to be clear, I am #49 and I have no connection with #118.

I have no idea why he hit me but he got me down to around 100 acres (98 cs and 2 spare) before I picked up again this morning.

I left myself yesterday on around 500 acres with no military which I *thought* would be fine, since who would bother grabbing for the same as they could explore for? My name probably caused him to attack me tbh, oh well.

Retals against me will be just as damaging and the DR will wear off in 18 hours or so anyway so I can't have low military for long.

The oddest aspect is that s/he stopped hitting you just at the point where you would have been landkilled within a very few more hits - and it was not that he ran out of turns because s/he immediately started the same process with someone else.

But you can hardly be asked to explain #118s antics.

I reported it so you may be contacted for an explanation. Or perhaps you might tender one now.

#celphineedslovin