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Mar 21st 2024, 23:55:30

Not sure why outside tools are getting a lot of flack, they've been part of the game for over 20 years including SMS bots and highlights, they're not new and most of them haven't been developed in years.

Bots need to bite back, being defenseless landfarms has nulled a lot of what made the server fun, earning the respect to net and allying with other clans for defense. ClanGDI was the final nail in that coffin.

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Mar 12th 2024, 0:06:07

Milk rejected your advances too? Honestly there are better sites out there for dating than here.

What you're in need of is a big hug. Aim higher! You're worth it.

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Mar 11th 2024, 23:20:43

Ever thought that maybe they're not posting because a) they don't really care, b) they don't have to justify it to you and c) what is posting actually going to gain apart from you ranting more about how you can justify your own cheating because someone else did it.

I don't know you, I don't know Doug, I don't know any of the parties involved, but reading rants like this honestly makes me think you've tried to get it on with Doug, been rejected and you're the spurned lover seeking redemption from a community to make them out they're the bad guy when you already have a reputation.

Seek therapy and move on.

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Mar 11th 2024, 10:00:50

TTT

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Dec 30th 2023, 23:19:23

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Dec 22nd 2023, 22:20:18

My best ranked finishes were warring sets. Just shows killing the competition is also beneficial.

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Dec 22nd 2023, 10:27:02

I'll pact you if you send pizza.

Standard terms. 1:kill

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Dec 18th 2023, 12:36:11

ClanGDI needs to have a cost associated with it which adds a balance because of the protection it offers, much like regular GDI and government types. If you're having to rely on ClanGDI because your leadership fails at the basics of deplomacy it shouldn't give you the right to farm anything else in the server and be protected from everything else in the server. ClanGDI only "works" because there are bots, alliances used to fight wars over every scrap of land to get the best finish but that got dumbed down with the use of bots. If you had ClanGDI but no bots, clans wouldn't join ClanGDI. It would go back to the old ways of grabbing and retals.

ClanGDI should be a last resort, not the mainstream.

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Dec 3rd 2023, 17:56:24

Originally posted by meti:
Clan GDI is total crap. Kill it!


This. The feeling that war could be any time by any one is what made the game fun.

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Sep 8th 2023, 20:20:33

You can't declare war on another clan, you're in ClanGDI.

Score is still 0-0

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Aug 18th 2023, 0:05:19

Unstable dynamic? It's already broken.

Make all bots retal so the clanGDI countries have to carry turrets too and don't get a free ride farming with no risk. Add a dynamic where if a bot gets farmed too much it can suicide at will if it gets really unhappy, then if alliances of bots feel like they're being pushed around too much they could declare war and start to kill the clans abusing them...

Starting to sound like how the game used to be?

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Aug 17th 2023, 23:29:11

Relative sanctuary already existed, it was called diplomacy and many other netting clans seem capable of doing that.

Might as well dumb the game down further and randomly give countries 500-3000 acres a day instead of 20a on login so there's no requirement to farm bots. Then you don't have to hold any military at all and can netgain even better!

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Jul 31st 2023, 11:04:42

Originally posted by BlackHole:



wah wah wah


Glad that got you triggered, there's nothing left to do apart from wind you up on AT as you can't hit me in game :)

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Jul 30th 2023, 23:09:56

Why bother recruiting? Having clan members used to be about safety in numbers, no one wanted to hit the big clan or be retalled by someone stronger. Now you can join ClanGDI as anyone with absolutely no cost and you're protected from the entire server.

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Jul 30th 2023, 22:36:16

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Jul 21st 2023, 17:17:08

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:

Yeah it's funny. I had zero impact on ClanGDI. Only cameback midway through the recent set of wars, so had zero impact on any reason why it sarted, and had zero impact on any pacts that are signed.


So you came back because of the warring aspect of the game? The part which has now been removed.

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Jul 20th 2023, 23:18:35

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:


People need to respect and allow other people to play the game how they want, regardless if they disagree with it or not.


And yet clanGDI takes that allowance away by putting a hard block on the game.

Other clans seem to be able to net peacefully set after set, are they just better at playing in an alliance server?

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Jul 19th 2023, 14:54:26

Why can a country in clanGDI farm one of my allies, but I'm not allowed to help them retaliate and they have to retal themselves?

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Jul 19th 2023, 10:37:54

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Originally posted by Steeps:
Last reset my tag was hit by LaF without any provocation, one country killed and another hit with no communication. This set I cannot hit them because the game has been changed to protect them. I don't see the point trying to bring back players when the fun has been taken out of the game.


LaF does nothing without provocation. Hit them back last reset.


We had to hit back because you dragged us into the war, but it was completely unprovoked. All we wanted to do was separate ourselves out and enjoy the game and you hit us, but that's how the game works. You for some reason saw us as a threat and chose to hit us, we accepted that and hit back. Now that option has been removed. We didn't go crying to the game developer stating how unfair it was, we joined the fight and played the game. Now that has gone, the risk has gone, the fear that something could happen at any time, to actually have to defend what you've built. Even worse there's no cost to this change so there's no balance.

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Jul 18th 2023, 21:58:43

Last reset my tag was hit by LaF without any provocation, one country killed and another hit with no communication. This set I cannot hit them because the game has been changed to protect them. I don't see the point trying to bring back players when the fun has been taken out of the game.

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Jul 12th 2023, 12:59:07

Originally posted by BlackHole:


I agree with most of what you're saying Derrick. Here is what I'm curious your opinion on though.


You cite that being able to build with zero defense is incredibly lame. That's the problem with Clan GDI, you don't even need defense anymore. You literally can just play farmville and do nothing.

I agree, completely.


However - isn't that kind of what we've had for awhile now for half the server? My whole saga on Alliance got started when I attacked players who had, basically, zero defense. And then I was murdered for it, which cool, whatever. But due to the dwindling player base, we have come to a point where Tmac and his crew (and some others) literally have nothing to fear in terms of people hitting them, because they know 100%, that if they get hit, their attack dogs will kill the enemy over and over and over, for a year plus? Eternity?




And yes, I know that Evo could be attacked. And that any server a suicider could do their thing. But generally that doesn't happen. And when it does, the suicider (me, for instance) pays an extreme price. Which discourages anyone from ever doing that again.



But that's the cost to the clan running 0-def too, they had to use turns and resources which could have been used for netting to stop you from hitting them, or you could hit them again and do more damage. A lot of clans used to have policing or retal teams which were set up purely to kill off suiciders or maximise the effectiveness of a retal to protect those who wanted to net

With clanGDI It's like playing snakes and ladders but with no snakes or ladders, you're all rolling a dice just to get to the end with no risk or reward. If there's 15 people in a clan all gunning for a top 10 finish you'd secretly want an external element to allow you to get into the top 10.

Originally posted by BlackHole:


If I were in charge, I'd split alliances up into smaller groups. And I'd enforce strict no cooperation rules outside that alliance. I think the server would be soooo much more fun if you had alliances of 7 or 8 people, but we had 10 legit alliances that were either going to war, or net. And we knew none of those alliances were going to cooperate with others.


That's what Teams server is for

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Jul 8th 2023, 3:04:55

Pretty much, once you're in ClanGDI you can run a defenseless country and continue to farm bots with no downsides or cost.

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Jul 4th 2023, 19:49:18

Last time I tried I couldn't declare war on any country in clanGDI as they hadn't hit me first.

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Jun 28th 2023, 21:34:54

I can't declare war on anyone in GDI, which means if you're in GDI you don't need any def because no one can hit you.

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Jun 27th 2023, 15:59:57

How exactly are you supposed to declare war to hit a country, when the act of declaring war is in itself an attack and you can't do it due to clan GDI?

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Jun 23rd 2023, 9:05:07

I seem to rememeber last set my networth was more than any LaF country. I must be good at netting. The stats don't lie.

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Jun 22nd 2023, 21:12:56

Give it the same features as standard GDI where declaring war is required to hit countries more than twice your size / less than half your size unless declaring war.

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Jun 19th 2023, 21:56:21

But there has to be a cost, otherwise it's an unfair change to the game which only serves to benefit a select few while disrupting some major dynamics of the game. With so many bots on the server it shouldn't be difficult to hit a few extra a day for the additional protection this clan wide GDI offers, or let bots retal. I'm sure if bots adopted L:L it would make the game more interesting. Back in the good ol' days alliances used to have kill squads to take out farmers and suiciders to protect the rest of the clan.

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Jun 19th 2023, 19:06:26

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Originally posted by Steeps:
This needs to have a cost associated with it. If GDI is to protect the tag from being farmed/suicided/hit then it should also limit the country being protected from farming unless declared war. It should restrict the country to 1 attack per target per day so it isn't abusing the resources available while being protected.


It doesn't enable any special ability to farm bots. Where do you get that idea? This doesn't change play style in any way. Why would it? It sounds like you aren't in disagreement with how it was implemented but rather the idea that people should be able to netgain effectively without being randomly suicided, which is a very long running problem in the game that this makes a large step towards fixing.


Where did I say it gives an advantage to farming bots? I never mentioned bots in my post so where did you get that idea from? All I suggested was as you have suggested this tool is to stop mass suicides which apparently is a big problem on this server that it would be a fairer place if the protection offered also limited the ability to attack, much like current GDI restrictions if a country pays to be a member.

If you want to restrict and protect your clan from suicides (but an individual untagged can still hit) then the ability to suicide on masses of untagged should also have some form of restriction. It's still possible to netgain fairly.

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Jun 19th 2023, 16:31:32

This needs to have a cost associated with it. If GDI is to protect the tag from being farmed/suicided/hit then it should also limit the country being protected from farming unless declared war. It should restrict the country to 1 attack per target per day so it isn't abusing the resources available while being protected.

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Apr 29th 2023, 13:09:01

I'm a bad girl

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Apr 23rd 2023, 23:47:20

What she said

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Apr 16th 2023, 0:11:30

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Feb 20th 2023, 13:44:58

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Feb 15th 2023, 16:23:09

I can confirm SuperFly has a lot of flexibility

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Feb 12th 2023, 23:20:52

Pop

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Jan 22nd 2023, 16:18:23

Yup