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Mar 15th 2019, 14:56:03

Nydhog - many players are way too attached to their country and forget that this is indeed a game where warfare is a mechanic.


This is a game where the objective is to rank on a leaderboard of networth. Attacking other empires is a significant tool in order to both achieve this goal and prevent others from passing you in achieving this goal.

MANY players here are not playing with that objective at the forefront of their play. I am reminded a lot of some of the board games I used to play at home, where in a 4 player game if 1 person was wanting to 'let someone else win' they ABSOLUTELY ruined the game for the other 3 people since all semblance of fairness was removed and it gave a particular player an insurmountable advantage. To the extent that it wasn't even worth playing. So we stopped playing board games... (which I happen to love)

In my opinion, if you aren't 'playing to net' then you are disrupting the game for everyone around you in this way.

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Mar 14th 2019, 21:12:14

Originally posted by Getafix:
Do you really want Marshal to be the first person to answer every question from any new player that arrives? Its ridiculous! I'm sorry that you took offense to my post, but a lot of people have complained about Marshal and he's been going completely overboard in the last year. Its just non-stop, and I don't think if I was trying to attract people to this game that I would allow Marshal to be the main spokesman for our community on this forum.

Understandably, you don't want to ban the pathetic little fellow, but surely there could be some other tools at your disposal to encourage him to shut up. This is what I am suggesting. I think it should have been done long ago, but there it is. At least it should be done now.


I am, in fact, new here and Marshal has seemed fine to me. What really drives people off from the game is the way people behave in messages and through game mechanics. Many folks here are excessively rude and bizarrely attached to their empires in a way that dissolves the game into a "fluffing flufferfluff" to use the EE jargon ;).

TLDR;

Culture needs to improve to improve player base. No single player is responsible, and certainly not Marshal IMO.

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Mar 13th 2019, 4:18:33

NM I figured this out

Edited By: Nydhog on Mar 13th 2019, 4:20:50. Reason: Forgot the halting thing
See Original Post

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Mar 12th 2019, 15:07:13

How do allies work as opposed to clans?

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Mar 12th 2019, 14:55:33

Originally posted by DerrickICN:
Team server is mostly all explore for netters because half the teams are killers and will kill over single landgrabs


This is both bizarre and toxic for the way this game works. Very sad if you ask me.

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Mar 11th 2019, 19:52:49

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Mar 10th 2019, 17:11:24

There are definitely multi's here...

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Mar 8th 2019, 16:05:27

Ah, cumulative DR makes sense. Awesome, thanks guys!

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Mar 8th 2019, 6:00:59

I am trying to figure out how land grabbing works and am having a bit of trouble understanding. I keep getting hit for 2x or 3x the amount I am able to hit others for. I looked through the wiki and realize that there are diminishing returns, so the times I hit a single empire multiple times makes sense to me. I can't, however, figure out what is causing such a big difference between the amount I am able to take from a single land grab vs the amount I lose.

The empires I hit all had more land than me at the time and many of the people who hit me had more land than I did when I was struck. The tech bonus alongside the Tyranny bonus doesn't seem to be sufficient to explain the discrepancy to me. It also appeared, if I was reading the report correctly, that some or all of the bonus attack gains from tech/tyranny were applied after or separately from the value that I lost. Is there another factor I am missing involved in determining the amount of land gained from a single attack?

Here is my empires news so far for reference:

PS Mar 6, 18:37 King Gorilla (#110) Nydhog (#53) 261 A
PS Mar 6, 21:03 c3lph1 (#14) Nydhog (#53) DH
PS Mar 7, 02:21 Werewolves of London (#102) Nydhog (#53) 424 A
PS Mar 7, 18:05 XxxFODxxX (#22) Nydhog (#53) 579 A
PS Mar 7, 19:25 Beauty under the sea (#55) Nydhog (#53) 566 A
PS Mar 7, 19:25 Beauty under the sea (#55) Nydhog (#53) 399 A
PS Mar 7, 21:38 Nydhog (#53) Princess Gabriella Vicious (#65) 224 A
SS Mar 7, 21:41 Nydhog (#53) Princess Gabriella Vicious (#65) DH
PS Mar 7, 21:46 Nydhog (#53) Zio Wider (#85) 267 A
PS Mar 7, 21:50 Nydhog (#53) Zio Wider (#85) 163 A
PS Mar 7, 21:54 Nydhog (#53) Zyneste (#80) 108 A
PS Mar 7, 21:59 Nydhog (#53) Zyneste (#80) 77 A
PS Mar 8, 01:31 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 208 A
SS Mar 8, 01:32 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 99 A
SS Mar 8, 01:32 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 73 A
SS Mar 8, 01:32 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 56 A
PS Mar 8, 01:35 Nydhog (#53) Sleepy Scarecrow (#36) DH
PS Mar 8, 03:36 Nydhog (#53) Seriously Red Ibis (#25) 232 A
PS Mar 8, 03:43 Nydhog (#53) Seriously Red Ibis (#25) 149 A
PS Mar 8, 04:58 Little Blue Bug (#62) Nydhog (#53) 610 A

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Mar 8th 2019, 4:11:23

Originally posted by DerrickICN:
Between laf and evo I think I'd rather eat a bullet. Dude did say he wanted to kill right? Find him a warclan. Good luck!


I just never liked watching a set run without any major interactions, or anything other than light land grabs happening. Then watching some mage who was never touched all set spike 100mil in net at the end to win. I'm not sure how comparable or viable even a teching or spiking strategy is in this game in comparison to promisance yet.

That was definitely my no.1 pet peeve though was someone not participating in any appreciable way in the set and then taking rank 1.

Just from the little I have played so far, this game seems less polarized with things like maintenance costs and 'impossible' to defend angles of attack than promisance did. In fact, I like this system a whole lot so far...

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Mar 7th 2019, 16:22:01

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Welcome!, Is Promisance still out there?


Dead as far as I know, I used to play on QMT and EZClan.

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Mar 6th 2019, 15:34:51

Hi guys, I tinkered with this a while back but just now dove in. I'd like to join a clan and get active. Is there a procedure for that?

I haven't played this game up till now, but I am very familiar with Promisance and was extremely active in days bygone. I don't know the outstanding feuds or rivalries and mostly just want to be involved in making sure no one gets a free ride to top 10... Sign me up for mayhem!

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Mar 4th 2019, 21:09:15

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Nov 30th 2016, 6:23:56

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Nov 26th 2016, 3:22:00

So... are there a bunch of people who bot to sac their country killing folks? Not worth playing if people are running multi's just to be toxic.

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Nov 24th 2016, 15:48:42

That's what I like to hear! :). How often do full scale wars break out?

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Nov 23rd 2016, 23:19:40

Sounds like the pot needs to get stirred a bit...

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Nov 23rd 2016, 21:04:39

So people like to be generally passive?

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Nov 23rd 2016, 18:07:57

Hi guys, I'm new to earth empires. I am an old promisance pro and loved that game, but it seems to be totally gone. I found this and it seems extremely similar.

For anyone who knows, I loved playing orc and playing as an aggressive expansionist while flipping army on the market to run turns and then spiking towers to be heavily defended between turn runs. Is there a strategy that resembles this in this game?

Also, in old promisance days there was "etiquette" in attacking. Are there any unwritten rules about attacks in this community? Like 4 attacks max for land grabs, and non standard/planned strikes are wartime strategies.

Thanks for input, looking forward to playing!