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Jan 24th 2022, 9:18:37

No, I got the idea from a youtube video I just watched lol.

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Jan 24th 2022, 4:11:28

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Kinky!


*Koh is imagining borat in gstring suspenders* lol


Clearly you have a thing for the male thing....


Ya right am not you.



You love male parts....

Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by NitelL:
I have to say that Commie Techer is turning out to be nowhere close to Tyranny Casher rough where I was struggling to even get it off the ground. lol


...*inhales sharply* Nite cant even get it up.*mic drop*




That doesnt mean nothing KoH, and he didnt even reply lol.

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Jan 23rd 2022, 23:02:03

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Kinky!


*Koh is imagining borat in gstring suspenders* lol


Clearly you have a thing for the male thing....


Ya right am not you.

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Jan 23rd 2022, 22:08:41

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Kinky!


*Koh is imagining borat in gstring suspenders* lol

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Jan 23rd 2022, 5:10:46

Originally posted by NitelL:
I have to say that Commie Techer is turning out to be nowhere close to Tyranny Casher rough where I was struggling to even get it off the ground. lol


...*inhales sharply* Nite cant even get it up.*mic drop*

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Jan 21st 2022, 16:56:52

Originally posted by galleri:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
0% tax rate, Kahuna just pulled a Jayr LOL

it gets better.


No it doesnt it only gets worse and uglier

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Jan 20th 2022, 2:48:02

[quote poster=mac23; 50656; 988846][quote poster=KoHeartsGPA; 50656; 988842][quote poster=Kahuna; 50656; 988841]
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Tsunami was just a couple extra foot swells in US coast lines, nothing to see, surfers enjoyed the wave booster ...


e east coast with tsunami bigger than that. So no lot lizards for KoH.


KAHUNA IS THE GREATEST EVER AT WARRING US fluffROACHES!!!

Idk KoH man they had said they found some rocks from the ocean floor high in the appalachian mountains from the previous time tha.


both of you are assteroids.....runs!


lol I ll astroid your house.
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Wut


Geological tidal wave

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Jan 19th 2022, 20:44:49

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Tsunami was just a couple extra foot swells in US coast lines, nothing to see, surfers enjoyed the wave booster ...


Right but still though, next time it will be 100 feet high swell see you surf your car and house into the country side. Lol


Only an asteroid could cause that size tsunami, so no.

Um astroids are a possibility too, n ya right La Palma island land slide was threatening whole east coast with tsunami bigger than that. So no lot lizards for KoH.


You should take some geology 101 not media sensationalism.

Idk KoH man they had said they found some rocks from the ocean floor high in the appalachian mountains from the previous time that la palma land slide happened.. maybe if I was in highschool again or something. Speaking of astroids, one just passed by too.

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Jan 18th 2022, 12:04:23

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Tsunami was just a couple extra foot swells in US coast lines, nothing to see, surfers enjoyed the wave booster ...


Right but still though, next time it will be 100 feet high swell see you surf your car and house into the country side. Lol


Only an asteroid could cause that size tsunami, so no.

Um astroids are a possibility too, n ya right La Palma island land slide was threatening whole east coast with tsunami bigger than that. So no lot lizards for KoH.

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Jan 18th 2022, 11:58:46

Originally posted by Kill4Free:
It is because you need to have some tech to get tech. It is further limited by a maximum you can tech per batch. Go buy 1k tech points of everything in your non techers, then just tech one turn at a time until you are getting the correct amount of tech sent to your allies.

This guy here man, thanks K4F. Ya I kinda figured it was because of that.

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Jan 18th 2022, 2:51:27

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Tsunami was just a couple extra foot swells in US coast lines, nothing to see, surfers enjoyed the wave booster ...


Right but still though, next time it will be 100 feet high swell see you surf your car and house into the country side. Lol

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Jan 17th 2022, 1:41:18

Originally posted by Gerdler:
You are claiming that cordy colluded with Cumorah by participating in the tyr casher challenge? Your tinfoil budget must be huge.
Also I will go out on a limb here and say Cumorah never once hit you with a tyranny casher, so this similar strategy BS doesn't have wings.


Gerdler go back to your mediocre life man, thats why I think you little women are so damn mad. Gerdlers arguments are just not real. I just said your buddy cumorah didnt hit with a tyr but am not going to ask around to find out any mysteries. Just go on with your life like nothing happened, geez your making a big commotion out of nothing. Oh and stay away from the beaches if you're on the western coast of north and south america, there was a tsunami warning. Kahuna is otherworldly.

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Jan 16th 2022, 23:16:08

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by NitelL:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Lol I wasnt even going to play this set either. I think nite is the guy who is playing dumb and gerdler as well. Am telling you a lot of this identity crisis going around everyone trying to be like Kahuna. 💪


You're a suicider plain and simple.

Both Cumorah and I have public profiles - you can literally see every one of our previous countries.

If you bothered to look, you'll know I've not touched your country in my entire history of playing Earth. lol I really don't even know who you are.

But this week, you definitely ruined someone's set.


Ok I woulda looked you up but idk how to so ya lol. As for the suicider crap, I think your colluding with xumorah so this woulda happened. What are the odds that I get hit after, I killes nite, and killed him good too bad I built a pos under developed country to take advantage of nites low turrerts.. Cumorah was blind siding me since decwmber, and you wanna call me a suicider pffft please I think you guys are the suiciders/griefers here behches.

Look me up KoH #107


Yeah...I knew that was you lol, culero!


Lmao next set wei, tyranny/casher right? I ve done thats strat a few times on here actually.

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Jan 16th 2022, 23:13:57

Originally posted by NitelL:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by NitelL:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Lol I wasnt even going to play this set either. I think nite is the guy who is playing dumb and gerdler as well. Am telling you a lot of this identity crisis going around everyone trying to be like Kahuna. 💪


You're a suicider plain and simple.

Both Cumorah and I have public profiles - you can literally see every one of our previous countries.

If you bothered to look, you'll know I've not touched your country in my entire history of playing Earth. lol I really don't even know who you are.

But this week, you definitely ruined someone's set.


Ok I woulda looked you up but idk how to so ya lol. As for the suicider crap, I think your colluding with xumorah so this woulda happened. What are the odds that I get hit after, I killes nite, and killed him good too bad I built a pos under developed country to take advantage of nites low turrerts.. Cumorah was blind siding me since decwmber, and you wanna call me a suicider pffft please I think you guys are the suiciders/griefers here behches.

Look me up KoH #107


To be fair, I also don't know who Cumorah is. LOL


Right but it doesnt stop ppl from being a jealous and/or petty, and that have been noticing the same country getting suucided 3 sets in a row, for you to mimic "cumorah" while being defenseless and with similar strategy and country build to try and take the hit off him, just because got nothing better to do, but to be griefer.

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Jan 16th 2022, 21:34:04

Originally posted by NitelL:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Lol I wasnt even going to play this set either. I think nite is the guy who is playing dumb and gerdler as well. Am telling you a lot of this identity crisis going around everyone trying to be like Kahuna. 💪


You're a suicider plain and simple.

Both Cumorah and I have public profiles - you can literally see every one of our previous countries.

If you bothered to look, you'll know I've not touched your country in my entire history of playing Earth. lol I really don't even know who you are.

But this week, you definitely ruined someone's set.


Ok I woulda looked you up but idk how to so ya lol. As for the suicider crap, I think your colluding with xumorah so this woulda happened. What are the odds that I get hit after, I killes nite, and killed him good too bad I built a pos under developed country to take advantage of nites low turrerts.. Cumorah was blind siding me since decwmber, and you wanna call me a suicider pffft please I think you guys are the suiciders/griefers here behches.

Look me up KoH #107

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Jan 16th 2022, 5:10:41

I think everyone is just envious as all hell, and mad as af because theyre not getting their way. Way to rub it in the faces of unbelievers, but hey at least world war 3 should be starting soon and if not global warning should finish off anyone. I guess no lottery or singing for me. All that insight for nothing. Its the little things in life right mosca.

Edited By: Kahuna on Jan 16th 2022, 6:22:08

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Jan 15th 2022, 21:11:58

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Why did you have to ruin our fun?
I didnt that was before I read this post.

Btw you saw my country build yet? Koh?

Edited By: Kahuna on Jan 15th 2022, 21:27:16

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Jan 15th 2022, 19:43:55

Lol I wasnt even going to play this set either. I think nite is the guy who is playing dumb and gerdler as well. Am telling you a lot of this identity crisis going around everyone trying to be like Kahuna. 💪

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Jan 15th 2022, 19:41:31

Mobs needs to die off or something....lol mob wants a comeback. He said no coming back from....⚰💩

Edited By: Kahuna on Jan 15th 2022, 19:47:49

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Jan 15th 2022, 18:44:05

Na weiiii

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Jan 15th 2022, 18:42:27

Originally posted by Gerdler:
I think Kahuna is playing dumb when he says he thinks its nitell he's been warring for the past few sets. I mean he had every opportunity to look him up and Nitell has been t10 every one of those sets that Kahuna and his friend was warring.

I elect to believe nature/gods/God has filters built in to remove stupidity of this magnitude. I elect instead to believe that Kahuna is actually a mastermind who used the mutually agreed wars with cumorah as a false flag for this sets blindside kill of what was obviously a country participating in the tyr casher challenge played by a player who never did anything to Kahuna.


As usual am not even going to bother see through all the nice things Gerdler has to say. I actually think he means to say, "Kahuna has become a Legendary Supreme Supernatural powerhouse a true heavensent champion walking among men that of which was yet to been seen and foretold since the ancient times. Ironically only to bring doom to us all. (And Lol)"
.."cumorah" and #89, both had similar builds and both waited, except for the tyranny part. Almost seems scripted I swear you guys are always doing some weak stuff like that, but ya I will not let no one try to bully me into GDI, is the way I view things. I do not like suiciding to ruin peoples sets its not my style.

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Jan 15th 2022, 18:42:04

Originally posted by Gerdler:
I think Kahuna is playing dumb when he says he thinks its nitell he's been warring for the past few sets. I mean he had every opportunity to look him up and Nitell has been t10 every one of those sets that Kahuna and his friend was warring.

I elect to believe nature/gods/God has filters built in to remove stupidity of this magnitude. I elect instead to believe that Kahuna is actually a mastermind who used the mutually agreed wars with cumorah as a false flag for this sets blindside kill of what was obviously a country participating in the tyr casher challenge played by a player who never did anything to Kahuna.


As usual am not even going to bother see through all the nice things Gerdler has to say. I actually think he means to say, "Kahuna has become a Legendary Supreme Supernatural powerhouse a true heavensent champion walking among men that of which was yet to been seen and foretold since the ancient times. Ironically only to bring doom to us all. (And Lol)"
.."cumorah" and #89, both had similar builds and both waited, except for the tyranny part. Almost seems scripted I swear you guys are always doing some weak stuff like that, but ya I will not let no one try to bully me into GDI, is the way I view things. I do not like suiciding to ruin peoples sets its not my style.

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Jan 15th 2022, 13:32:52

Originally posted by NitelL:
Anyone keen?

The rule is... be a Tyranny casher (50% ent/res, some indies for spies). No tech start, only cash start. No theo switch allowed for destock either - you stay tyranny casher all set.

There's no real way to verify if you've been a tyranny casher all set, but really, do you wanna cheat in a browser-based text game that's 20 years past its prime?!


He's really going to act like he didnt suicide me 3 sets in a row. Specifically me, Idk how he kept finding me but nite kept getting his arse handed to him. Next time watch some black and white television instead like a old person should.

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Jan 15th 2022, 5:06:22

Am I tweaking or werent we able to buy oil from the private market before?

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Jan 15th 2022, 4:59:06

I suspect foul play. I have all my countries pacted with research allies but none of my countries are able to obtain tech points as usual. Why?

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Jan 9th 2022, 7:45:51

Originally posted by SuperFly:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
I grabbed the fluff outta people last two sets, lots of rainbows..


Careful you don’t want to be accused of griefing here. Please be content with farming in DR bots it’s ok. Don’t hurt the snow flakes please


Git em Koh!

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Jan 9th 2022, 7:44:44

Originally posted by Gerdler:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
...but people haedly ever grab each other, cause they're scared of ruining each others sets, so no point in not adding more bots.

Originally posted by Gerdler:
Too few bots, and only tyrannies will be able to hit the bots. This is bad

Too many bots will circumvent DR altogether and create very easy grabbing as a result. But it will also shift the dynamics of the server in a problematic direction because all acreages will be larger, stocking will be later and there will be fewer strats because only a few strats can take advantage of this. This is bad.


No, Kahuna is the greatest alive..Anywho Gerdler has no proof of his statement. No DR and what not, any strat can play with lots of bots I cant imagine any strat that can have a hard time with lots of land so ya. Maybe you would have to switch up how you execute your strategy? Idk what you really mean Gurdle.

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Jan 9th 2022, 4:19:37

Originally posted by Gerdler:
Bots grabbing is dumb imo. Bots retalling could be done well and could make the game a lot better, but it would be so easy to implement it in a way that completely wrecks competition. For instance like what you described.

I think the main reason that it was not implemented by slagpit this spring/summer is because he got tired of dealing with all the griefers and cheaters with all his time here rather than develop nice stuff for us which was the reason he really came back.
So he redesigned the bots(implemented on express only) and made a few improvements in Express mechanics (such as GDI being automatic and you can opt out of it, humanitarians not stopping intel spy ops in the endgame, bugfix for ABs/BRs and landgrabs), fixed a few other minor/major bugs. This was all done in just a portion of the time, but the majority of his time was spent stopping a small number of people from abusing the staff, cheating/breaking rules and griefing a large portion of the player base.

We get admin activity in short bursts here. Looking at the announcements board its been that way since 2014.


...but people haedly ever grab each other, cause they're scared of ruining each others sets, so no point in not adding more bots.

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Jan 8th 2022, 4:38:08

Originally posted by galleri:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by Gerdler:
Essentially, as long as the bots don't hit back or are otherwise redesigned you got a goldilocks zone for how many bots we should have on a server with bots.

Too few bots, and only tyrannies will be able to hit the bots. This is bad

Too many bots will circumvent DR altogether and create very easy grabbing as a result. But it will also shift the dynamics of the server in a problematic direction because all acreages will be larger, stocking will be later and there will be fewer strats because only a few strats can take advantage of this. This is bad.

The right amount of bots is an interval ofc and it will vary over time and with the bot code. I'm only comparing now to the last 5 years when I say this is the best balance have ever been. Doesn't mean its perfect, at all. Improvement can be made and should always be sought after.
Originally posted by galleri:
Originally posted by Rocky79:
I appreciate your explanation of DR and how it works Mr. Gerdler. I had no idea how it worked and I still don't!

My suggestion of adding more bots was just based on the fact that this game was a lot more fun 25 years ago when there were a lot more players. If you look at express this round, the server has approximately one hundred players and Earth 2025 used to have several thousand players on each server.

It's kind of sad to log in and see that there are only 103 countries in the entire express server this round

I personally think it would be more fun and interesting if there were 500 or even 5,000 countries in the express server each weekend,




The internet was different then. You are trying to play like it is 2004 in 2022. Everyone here is old AF. Everyone not here is YAF and playing PS5.




Originally posted by Gerdler:
Essentially, as long as the bots don't hit back or are otherwise redesigned you got a goldilocks zone for how many bots we should have on a server with bots.

Too few bots, and only tyrannies will be able to hit the bots. This is bad

Too many bots will circumvent DR altogether and create very easy grabbing as a result. But it will also shift the dynamics of the server in a problematic direction because all acreages will be larger, stocking will be later and there will be fewer strats because only a few strats can take advantage of this. This is bad.

The right amount of bots is an interval ofc and it will vary over time and with the bot code. I'm only comparing now to the last 5 years when I say this is the best balance have ever been. Doesn't mean its perfect, at all. Improvement can be made and should always be sought after.
Originally posted by Rocky79:
I appreciate your explanation of DR and how it works Mr. Gerdler. I had no idea how it worked and I still don't!

My suggestion of adding more bots was just based on the fact that this game was a lot more fun 25 years ago when there were a lot more players. If you look at express this round, the server has approximately one hundred players and Earth 2025 used to have several thousand players on each server.

It's kind of sad to log in and see that there are only 103 countries in the entire express server this round

I personally think it would be more fun and interesting if there were 500 or even 5,000 countries in the express server each weekend,

Obviously, we would all prefer to add 500 or 5,000 more human players instead of bots but it doesn't seem like there is anyone with a financial interest who is concerned with promoting and marketing the game in order to make it grow.

It doesn't seem like anyone in development or management of the game is doing any marketing at all for that matter.

Originally posted by Gerdler:
DR has been the same since february 2014. There are things I dont like about it but because I can understand it I can make a coherrent arguement as to why and what should be done about it. I have talked to developers about some of these issues and I've more or less realized they won't do anything about them.

Such as the reason for having an unknowable unknown in the variability of the DR halflife dictate my grabbing returns. What if the formula is bugged in some situation? We as players, even if we know 100% of the formulas concerning this, can never actually test them and evaluate them, because we don't actually know what the DR halflife is. I consider this a minor issue.

But by far the worst thing about the way DR works presently is that for most of the active interval, the curve is far too steep, the result being that the more hits a country takes, the less land it loses in total. Yes, not less land per hit only, less land in total. Look at which bots get fattest each set in express! Its always a rainbow bot that gets most land, because its least defended. THIS is a huge flaw in the current DR mechanism.

Fattest bot last set:
https://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/2905/57
Total defends 75
Land 13,951 acres
Total land lost 6,975 acres

Total land explored+recieved= 20,926 acres

its a monarchy rainbow with no defence. Why not a republic casher with lots of defence? No, because while the rep casher will explore much more, it will lose all that land and then some more because it gets hit half as much:

Some random rep casher bot last set:
https://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/2905/27
Total defends 39
Land 12,243 acres
Total land lost 11,322 acres

Total land explored+recieved= 23,565 acres
PS this is partly exacerbated by NW proximity but if you actually do the math, which I have you will see that I'm right; all other things being equal, more hits mean less land loss.

^^Now if you said this, 'hey look the DR mechanic is bugged/suboptimal, lets change/remove it' then it would have merit. Now all you are saying is you want a key component of the game removed because you dont understand it and you think that players who have taken time to actually understand it and read up about it gain an unfair advantage against you.

And if you just want the TL;DR of this and the last post:
1. The DR number on eestats is WRONG. The real number is lower. DR decays smoothly with time from the time of the hit.
2. Continuous DR formula: DR_MULTIPLIER = DR_HITS<13 ? MIN( 1, 0.1+((DR_HITS-13)^2)/135) : 0.1
(DR under 2 means the hit is unaffected by DR and a DR over 13 means you get 10% of the land you would have if the target had no DR. In between 2 and 13 you get between 10-100% of a 0 DR target, dropping with more DR)
Originally posted by Celphi:
Originally posted by Gerdler:
If you add 5000 bots, DR will be <2 on all bots and therefore the mechanism will no longer be in use.


False. DR would still be in use protecting your land as a defender.

More bots please


This works great for you ..... see my signature


Yes I ll be able to get 100k acres no problem on express and bully everyone. N lol.

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Jan 7th 2022, 22:40:42

Originally posted by Gerdler:
Essentially, as long as the bots don't hit back or are otherwise redesigned you got a goldilocks zone for how many bots we should have on a server with bots.

Too few bots, and only tyrannies will be able to hit the bots. This is bad

Too many bots will circumvent DR altogether and create very easy grabbing as a result. But it will also shift the dynamics of the server in a problematic direction because all acreages will be larger, stocking will be later and there will be fewer strats because only a few strats can take advantage of this. This is bad.

The right amount of bots is an interval ofc and it will vary over time and with the bot code. I'm only comparing now to the last 5 years when I say this is the best balance have ever been. Doesn't mean its perfect, at all. Improvement can be made and should always be sought after.
Originally posted by galleri:
Originally posted by Rocky79:
I appreciate your explanation of DR and how it works Mr. Gerdler. I had no idea how it worked and I still don't!

My suggestion of adding more bots was just based on the fact that this game was a lot more fun 25 years ago when there were a lot more players. If you look at express this round, the server has approximately one hundred players and Earth 2025 used to have several thousand players on each server.

It's kind of sad to log in and see that there are only 103 countries in the entire express server this round

I personally think it would be more fun and interesting if there were 500 or even 5,000 countries in the express server each weekend,




The internet was different then. You are trying to play like it is 2004 in 2022. Everyone here is old AF. Everyone not here is YAF and playing PS5.




Originally posted by Gerdler:
Essentially, as long as the bots don't hit back or are otherwise redesigned you got a goldilocks zone for how many bots we should have on a server with bots.

Too few bots, and only tyrannies will be able to hit the bots. This is bad

Too many bots will circumvent DR altogether and create very easy grabbing as a result. But it will also shift the dynamics of the server in a problematic direction because all acreages will be larger, stocking will be later and there will be fewer strats because only a few strats can take advantage of this. This is bad.

The right amount of bots is an interval ofc and it will vary over time and with the bot code. I'm only comparing now to the last 5 years when I say this is the best balance have ever been. Doesn't mean its perfect, at all. Improvement can be made and should always be sought after.
Originally posted by Rocky79:
I appreciate your explanation of DR and how it works Mr. Gerdler. I had no idea how it worked and I still don't!

My suggestion of adding more bots was just based on the fact that this game was a lot more fun 25 years ago when there were a lot more players. If you look at express this round, the server has approximately one hundred players and Earth 2025 used to have several thousand players on each server.

It's kind of sad to log in and see that there are only 103 countries in the entire express server this round

I personally think it would be more fun and interesting if there were 500 or even 5,000 countries in the express server each weekend,

Obviously, we would all prefer to add 500 or 5,000 more human players instead of bots but it doesn't seem like there is anyone with a financial interest who is concerned with promoting and marketing the game in order to make it grow.

It doesn't seem like anyone in development or management of the game is doing any marketing at all for that matter.

Originally posted by Gerdler:
DR has been the same since february 2014. There are things I dont like about it but because I can understand it I can make a coherrent arguement as to why and what should be done about it. I have talked to developers about some of these issues and I've more or less realized they won't do anything about them.

Such as the reason for having an unknowable unknown in the variability of the DR halflife dictate my grabbing returns. What if the formula is bugged in some situation? We as players, even if we know 100% of the formulas concerning this, can never actually test them and evaluate them, because we don't actually know what the DR halflife is. I consider this a minor issue.

But by far the worst thing about the way DR works presently is that for most of the active interval, the curve is far too steep, the result being that the more hits a country takes, the less land it loses in total. Yes, not less land per hit only, less land in total. Look at which bots get fattest each set in express! Its always a rainbow bot that gets most land, because its least defended. THIS is a huge flaw in the current DR mechanism.

Fattest bot last set:
https://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/2905/57
Total defends 75
Land 13,951 acres
Total land lost 6,975 acres

Total land explored+recieved= 20,926 acres

its a monarchy rainbow with no defence. Why not a republic casher with lots of defence? No, because while the rep casher will explore much more, it will lose all that land and then some more because it gets hit half as much:

Some random rep casher bot last set:
https://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/2905/27
Total defends 39
Land 12,243 acres
Total land lost 11,322 acres

Total land explored+recieved= 23,565 acres
PS this is partly exacerbated by NW proximity but if you actually do the math, which I have you will see that I'm right; all other things being equal, more hits mean less land loss.

^^Now if you said this, 'hey look the DR mechanic is bugged/suboptimal, lets change/remove it' then it would have merit. Now all you are saying is you want a key component of the game removed because you dont understand it and you think that players who have taken time to actually understand it and read up about it gain an unfair advantage against you.

And if you just want the TL;DR of this and the last post:
1. The DR number on eestats is WRONG. The real number is lower. DR decays smoothly with time from the time of the hit.
2. Continuous DR formula: DR_MULTIPLIER = DR_HITS<13 ? MIN( 1, 0.1+((DR_HITS-13)^2)/135) : 0.1
(DR under 2 means the hit is unaffected by DR and a DR over 13 means you get 10% of the land you would have if the target had no DR. In between 2 and 13 you get between 10-100% of a 0 DR target, dropping with more DR)
Originally posted by Celphi:
Originally posted by Gerdler:
If you add 5000 bots, DR will be <2 on all bots and therefore the mechanism will no longer be in use.


False. DR would still be in use protecting your land as a defender.

More bots please

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Jan 7th 2022, 12:31:46

Originally posted by Gerdler:
More bots need to have a purpose. Right now the balance is, while certainly not concievably perfect, it's better than its ever been.
The last 5 years of express can be summed up in 3 eras:
1. 35-bot era: Back in 2017 the only viable strat was tyranny techer to demo tech, because techer was best but the DR was so huge that the 1 turn attack was impossible to compete with. How good is a game if only one strat is viable?
2. The 50 bot era, with bots that buy some defence: This lowered DRs a lot which meant that theo techers, mon -> demo techer, and straight demo techers as well as commie indies could compete. Sure there was 1-2 cashers and 2-3 farmers that won in those 150 resets, but it was 70-80% techer wins and the rest CI wins. Not very balanced, tho better.
3. We got 60 bots since like April 2021 and some changes to bots tech buying and the way bots destock: Now CI, FFO, Demo farmer, dict Farmer, theo casher, as well as all the techers all viable.

Given more bots would reduce DR so much that it's likely that fewer strats would be viable. Further, grabbing would be too easy.
The state of balance on this server is better than it has been at the very least for the past 5 years. So many strats can win almost every reset. This is what made so many vets come back to the server this spring. We had Molotov, Tmac, Nitell, myself, Kingme, cordy etc etc all come in to try the new bots, and compete to try and find the new ways to play in this environment.

I would invite you all to grab to 50k acres fully built in 1500 turns on this server, without grabbing a player. This is something all decent players can do. If you stop there and get good techs + play a proper endgame, get you 65m+ NW. If you can't do this, it's not because there are too few bots, it's because you have a lot to learn and should focus on that.


Meh, its still the worst its ever been theres less than 100 players left and a good portion of them are non players, when there used to be more players before. Now it has less people is what am saying.. n yes add more bots please.

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Jan 2nd 2022, 23:50:07

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Yeah not me, just laughing at those two cats lol

Ya right trying to show off lol.

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Jan 2nd 2022, 22:29:22

Damm nice, they got greedy.

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Dec 31st 2021, 4:17:05

They turn on the earthquake machine on you.

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Dec 31st 2021, 4:16:32

Originally posted by Getafix:
Originally posted by Rocky79:
Originally posted by Getafix:
I once played Express for about three years straight, every week. When I stopped I had a sleep disorder that lasted for years, waking up every two hours.


That sound insane


Just because one's purpose in life is completely useless doesn't mean you shouldn't put in a good effort


Speak for yourselves.

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Dec 31st 2021, 0:24:38

Originally posted by Bug:
?


Am referring to strict Austrailian covid restrictions. Damn I need to do some more reading.

Edited By: Kahuna on Dec 31st 2021, 21:48:42

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Dec 30th 2021, 23:42:53

Tfu KoH

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Dec 30th 2021, 22:09:24

....wait, wait. Markets picking up.

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Dec 30th 2021, 16:30:34

Originally posted by SuperFly:
Originally posted by blue3:
land grab getting harder


Lots of Easy human targets with 0 defense. Just gotta be assertive and go for it.


Not with this market

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Dec 30th 2021, 12:57:54

Originally posted by slip:
Bug doing gods work.


Bug is in permanent quarantine or else he gets fined

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Dec 30th 2021, 12:55:46

Originally posted by m0bzta:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by Aquillonia:
I may be too old for this game. I played back when it was called earth:2025.


Nonesense I miss the earth2025 days, but welcome back.


*rips a part of mobs afro off* lol

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Dec 30th 2021, 5:28:31

Originally posted by Ratski:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Wasn't it 2hrs???? Mandela effect activated! 😆 🤣

I'm losing it!


Just found that out today too. Wth man.

Ha Ha Ha. I used 3 PS's in the beginning of the set, and for my last hit before I go to bed, and wake up with fresh forces and what ever I sell at that time too. The 4 hr recovery time sure did cut down the PS's in express for me.


Ya I kinda got around it. Am not the kind of person to log in every 2 hours to do 5 PSs and log out...even though I was going to do it this set. Even set my alarm, just to find out my forces were still out on rest.

Originally posted by SuperFly:
Bring more bots to express! We should all have 25 bots each as personal farms!

Yes more bots to buy all that cheap crap on the market.

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Dec 30th 2021, 3:10:20

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Wasn't it 2hrs???? Mandela effect activated! 😆 🤣

I'm losing it!


Just found that out today too. Wth man.

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Dec 28th 2021, 2:41:54

Originally posted by Aquillonia:
I may be too old for this game. I played back when it was called earth:2025.


Nonesense I miss the earth2025 days, but welcome back.

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Dec 27th 2021, 12:41:51

Originally posted by galleri:
Originally posted by Kahuna:
Everytime she leaves I get suicided.

Originally posted by SuperFly:
Have a good vacay Galleri. Don’t forget! No glove no love!!!


Pffft thats no fun


Tell them to stop it and wait for me to return.

Merry Christmas!

No, no you enjoy your vacay. I'll handle these guys.

Oh and happy holidays to you too Galley.

Edited By: Kahuna on Dec 27th 2021, 20:53:50