Just don’t do it on this server because I will make sure your country is dead.

Thank you for reporting the issue. There was a period of around 18 hours where this bonus didn't work but it looks to be fixed now. I'm seeing new bonus rewards come in.

There are more of us than every other tag. If I ingame message someone to recruit them, I am not then going to message all the countries in our tag that "hey I reached out to this guy don't hit him." If you want tag protection, join a tag, otherwise, as everyone else keeps saying, it's in the name of the server. Solos are automatically regarded as hostile suiciders, because they so frequently are.

I have notified Sir Jouster of your post. He will be along....

Does anyone still try and bring people to this game


just need to ask

After much critical acclaim….

and over countless threads across all Servers….

….The Josey Wales Experience has decided to satiate his fans by giving back to them…. by suiciding and annihilating his enemies for the next undetermined number of sets.

Stay tuned for show dates.

To sweeten the Experience, Josey Wales will be performing under numerous pseudonyms so that there will never be a dull moment for the entrenched contingent of geriatric clans that can’t get away from gumming their soggy cookies.

At a Josey Wales Experience Concert….the Amps will make your ear drums bleed….The drink will make you drunk, and the food will give you the Gout… and your countries will weep.

And there will be guest appearances from a lineup of bloodthirsty performers.

Josey thought he could take his final curtain call this morning but the fan mail and adulations poured in.

And really… how can he let those people down?

The promise of an all out Server War was too great an enticement.

More to come, but here’s a great preview for all of you effete snobs in the wasteland…. The JW Experience has hammered out a Pact with a clan that you would least expect….

And…… There will be blood and utter anarchy.

With Sincere Regards….

and Josey’s Spittle on your Faces,

….The JW Experience / Redux

Well…. I gave it a shot. I tried to fight in this War game but at a certain point Warring isn’t allowed.


You Old folks are cooking your own Goose. You say that you want new players but how’s that going to work? LMAO.

Some new player signs up only to be raped down to 500k NW by the bullies of the game.

Then he tries to fight back. But he can’t.

You think that “New” player is going to stick around?

Good luck with that.

So it’s a safe retirement home. Where old gamers go to nibble on each other then fade away.

Could be my last set.

People have posted a lot in this thread and I've read every single word of it. But it's still not enough for me to figure out what changes, if any, to make to the alliance server. You are correct in that I'm willing to challenge some of the comments that players are making here in an attempt to get to a solution.

The most popular suggestions in this thread just don't seem to be enough to turn things around.

A more elegant and perhaps simple solution is to code the pacts into the game (and possibly prevent untagged yadda yadda– close other loopholes) so they cannot be broken. That way, an alliance could still pact out and have a peaceful netting set, maybe one set, someone doesn't do the pact, etc. This would still have a certain level of uncertainty but without taking away _all_ of the other aspects of the game.

This would still require some level of cooperation between players. My concern with your netting server idea is that its too much change. You are proposing going from Earth Empires v2.0.0 to v5.0.0 in one leap. Small incremental change is the smart and safe way to go about this.

All that is just my opinion on the matter. Take it, leave it, or disregard it at your own convenience.

I'm of the opinion that the most disappointing thing to happen in the game (besides the player count plummeting) is the culture shift many years ago that implies the two have to be separate. I feel clan servers are already mostly designed to accomplish the goal being suggested by simply allowing large group cooperation - players changed the meta themselves. At some point attacking, stealing resources from, and/or destroying an opponent became taboo and those that joined or rejoined this community after that shift simply accepted it as truth.

I haven't played on the alliance server in over ten years, so my information is a bit outdated. I'll go ahead and share my understanding of what the alliance server is and which parts are fun or not fun.

I view the alliance server as a place where stronger clans take advantage of weaker clans.

Positive netgaining experiences:
* Competing with your friends to get the highest individual NW
* Competing with the entire server to get the highest individual NW
* Working together to win average networth or triple crown
* Outrunning retals against a smaller clan
* Making a big retal as a small clan

Negative netgaining experiences:
* Not being able to successfully netgain due to war, suiciders, or other issues
* Losing an individual competition to a country that was heavily aided by their clan


Positive warring experiences:
* Stonewalling successfully
* Leading and participating in and leading war chats
* Planning and pulling off a successful FS
* Winning a war, especially when the odds were against you

Negative warring experiences:
* Getting woken up in the middle of the night to stonewall
* Your warring country that you worked hard to build gets killed in ten seconds
* Spending most of the reset not actually warring
* Not having anything to do after winning a war
* Getting FSed by a larger clan with no hope of victory


Positive political experiences:
* Dominating a weaker clan

Negative political experiences:
* Too many to list

For netgaining, it seems that the real problem is that many players view the alliance server as the premier netgaining server but the server isn't designed to provide that kind of experience. Clan GDI is one method to try to solve some of the problems with netgaining on this server, but it causes other problems and fundamentally changes the nature of the server. Personally, I would like to understand what parts of netgaining are fun and to design a server that provides the ideal experience. With that said, this post doesn't mean that Clan GDI is forever dead as a concept. I am making this post to get feedback from players after all.

For warring clans, I think that the issues are easy to understand.

For players who enjoy the political aspect of this server, I don't see any way to meaningfully improve the situation without getting more players into the game.

What are your own thoughts? If you're currently playing, what parts of the alliance server don't you like? If you aren't playing on alliance, what do you think would need to change to get you to start playing again?

NOTE: We cannot remove outside tools for the alliance server because players would scrape the data from inside the game.

Any answer? :/

There's a community discussion about this idea here: https://www.earthempires.com/...ers-no-44676?t=1520566227

It's not something that we plan to do at this time.

Can a country view your adviser when they send you an alliance offer and you haven’t accepted yet?

It's been a long long long time.
Anybody want to help me out with a quick refresher?

The last you and I spoke was fixing your account. I don't have a message from you about safelisting.
For this: send me a message, we will go from there.

The last you and I spoke was fixing your account. I don't have a message from you about safelisting.
For this: send me a message, we will go from there.

+1. So many times I want to recall one item only

GDI is broken by making 2 or more SS or PS on a target. Many players don't break GDI on targets they know can't retal them with SS or PS because they know they will retaliate with harmful non-land gaining attacks and ops. I'm assuming you are looking to use one of those methods because someone grabbed you and you aren't able to SS and PS successfully. This is pretty common in Primary and, again, discussed in several other threads over the years.

GDI is broken by making 2 or more SS or PS on a target. Many players don't break GDI on targets they know can't retal them with SS or PS because they know they will retaliate with harmful non-land gaining attacks and ops. I'm assuming you are looking to use one of those methods because someone grabbed you and you aren't able to SS and PS successfully. This is pretty common in Primary and, again, discussed in several other threads over the years.

The text about declaring war is misleading. There is no declare war function on Primary. By getting that message in the first place, it sounds like you are attempting to use attack methods other than SS or PS in order to retal, which you cannot do unless they break GDI on you. I'm not sure if your GDI page explains this completely, but it has been asked and explained many many times on the forums.

https://earthempires.com/forum/search