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Dec 20th 2013, 15:36:02

lol exactly when did express turn from a quick server for noobs to learn the game into,

HYPER ACTIVE OVERLY SERIOUS MUST WIN AT ALL COSTS server

you guys are fighting over who's the best in the noob server lol

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Dec 19th 2013, 22:09:46

Diminishing returns. Once a person gets attacked 3 times the fourth attack suffers diminishing returns meaning it will only yield 80% of the normal amount of land. As dr get larger say 10 you'll only get approximately 10% of what you would have gotten. Meaning a 300(600) attack with no dr. would get you closer to 30(30) with a 10 dr.

Dr wears off 24 hrs after the attack happens. Or if you make an ss or ps.

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Dec 19th 2013, 20:30:24

It depends. Are u grabbing or being grabbed? If you're attacked for 281A the attacker could get 600+ land. Which would make it a little bit better, but still not really worth it. Some people make grabs that really aren't worth it only because they are running out of targets and don't want to break someone's gdi.

So losing so many jets may be worth it to the person attacking. Might get better land, but have to risk missiles to do it.

I've run into this myself this round. Made a few grabs not really worth it so as not to risk missiles from easier to grab countries.

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Dec 18th 2013, 15:32:07

lol stay classy Herbs....

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Dec 18th 2013, 15:27:39

Seriously did some on break gdi, when guy has like 70 missiles? Wow...
Anyway no more missiles, let the farming really begin lol.

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Dec 17th 2013, 18:34:19

Looks like a demo is playing the market. Not too hard to amass that kind of money if you're not attacking anymore. Couldn't really see another reason why everything is gone.

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Dec 14th 2013, 22:15:41

What's up with this. First #106 takes up the front line fighting Crazy #91. Then Blue Fin Tuna Tooth (#106) becomes The Wrecking Ball (#3)'s little b1tch. How odd.....

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Dec 14th 2013, 2:32:59

I've long since stopped trying to explain to newer ones (and for some unknown reason quite a few vets) how to be a farmer. Getting militarty tech and selling your food instantly on private market for 34(35 for demo) is just too much for most to comprehend. They can't understand how much better off you really are than selling for 36-38. Even a demo doesn't benefit selling for 38. You lose too many turns putting it on the market, and lose more than you would think to decay. Not even to mention you get your money instantly so you can reinvest it quicker. Plus you lower the supply of food which increases the price on the public market.

(But then again, I do suppose this post is another attempt :P)

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Dec 11th 2013, 22:51:44

Originally posted by Xinhuan:
Originally posted by edfjr:
Granted I haven't played since round 14, but there seems to be a huge drop in countries playing. Don't remember having a hard time finding targets. Reached 59k land rather easy last round that I played. Still might get 60k this round, but not likely. Hit nearly everone 25%-50% my NW. Gonna have to start making mid grabs and try to out run retals or *gasp* top feeds.

Has this been a trend for a while, or am I forgetting something?


The number of countries that finish any particular reset has actually stayed about the same.

The land numbers have gone down due to the 1. Ghost acre being nerfed for Dicts, and midfeeding now gives less land 2. Building cost increases exponentially now instead of linearly 3. Bottomfeeding now costs more jets losses for the attacker (about 50-60% more attacking units die).


Yeah I noticed the increased jet losses right away, didn't know about the other 2. Think everyone will still stock at close to 60k? I'm trying to do the math to see if it's better to stock a little sooner, maybe 50k. Given the worst financial case scenario's (without losing any land) still see 90-110mil finish for me this round. Not to sound greedy, but I wantd closer to 125m NW.

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Dec 10th 2013, 18:24:13

Granted I haven't played since round 14, but there seems to be a huge drop in countries playing. Don't remember having a hard time finding targets. Reached 59k land rather easy last round that I played. Still might get 60k this round, but not likely. Hit nearly everone 25%-50% my NW. Gonna have to start making mid grabs and try to out run retals or *gasp* top feeds.

Has this been a trend for a while, or am I forgetting something?

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Dec 8th 2013, 20:49:47

lol I already bought nearly 2mil tech @1800-1900. I'm good on tech for quite a while.

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Dec 6th 2013, 15:17:52

lol looks like someone else wants to get deleted...

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Dec 2nd 2013, 12:19:05

TYPING WITH CAPS LOCK ON MAKE KITTIES CRY? FINALLY..... NOW MAYBE MY FOOT CAN GET SOME REST :P

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Nov 29th 2013, 18:27:36

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Nov 22nd 2013, 3:11:16

Marshal that kind of thinking is what keeps people down. This is basically an algebra game.

The X and Y values change constantly. You have to keep inputting the changing variables everyday to see what is best. Always having the same type of buildings isn't always best. For example if oil goes to $500+, All sorts of non F's will start building a small % oil rigs. Because even tho you're playing Demo farmer or C indy, the oil rigs are worth the investment.

Another example is at higher acreage, sometimes near the end of round it costs more money to teardown and rebuild then the income you'll get from the building.

Don't mislead people into a narrow minded field of vision. Let them do the algebra and decide what is best.

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Nov 18th 2013, 17:00:26

Everything fluctuates in the market. People will start storing turns to wait for food prices to come down. People stop buying food, then food prices come down.

Everyone with 80/60 turns start using their turns, food runs out and prices go up. Navigating and predicting the market changes is what makes a good player into an elite.

No farmers can really grow with food selling @36. So farmers are lagging behind the commies big time. Want food prices to stay under $100. Buy their food at $50 let them grow in size and supply goes up. Price stays steady.

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Nov 11th 2013, 20:51:16

Come now blid, I never said anything about who was involved selling tech for 9.5k at the end of the round. I don't know that. I just know which country # bought it.

I do still believe those who did the buyouts are gonna be posting here complaining about ebert.

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Nov 11th 2013, 4:30:41

lol all the hating is funny...
I did notice at the end of the round medical and military strategy both sold for over 9k. I know one person who bought it. I was in a war with them and saw them spend at least 1.2 billion on it.

I guarantee the ones in this post complaining about ebert are the ones who orchestrated the buyouts trying to even the playing field.

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Nov 9th 2013, 20:37:55

Doesn't he have 10 mil turrets. Haven't spied on him in a while.
2% of 10 mil is 200k.

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Nov 9th 2013, 20:14:12

*Thinking to myself*

Could always grab ebert's def. allies. Given their sizes ebert would lose close to 200k turrets each time he defends his allies. Keeps eberts turrets low without putting him into dr.

*Stops thinking to myself*

Hmmm.... I might be just enough of a dbag to do that lol

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Nov 8th 2013, 4:21:44

$26 dollar bushels are nice, but the $9 oil barrels are slightly easier to feed your main. Which is why I've never taken this game too seriously. I enjoy the game, and where I finish doesn't really matter to me.

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Nov 6th 2013, 23:31:48

lol i found about this the hard way last express set. Started a war, ended up with lost pop. and 80% food production. I found a simple trick to simply elimiate this penalty, and go back up to near full production. So it's not so bad.

Unless you're a theo, much harder to get to max pop.

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Nov 3rd 2013, 22:27:50

you know who you are...

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Nov 3rd 2013, 15:48:32

someone's REALLY hungry

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Nov 3rd 2013, 0:10:04

hahahaha... My F record still stands. But that jerk oldman kicked me out of the dict. Top 5. Oh well,

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Nov 2nd 2013, 3:49:28

Here's a thought. If RR keeps top feeding and you're sick of hits from him. Give him an intel ally. Problem solved. No more hits.

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Nov 1st 2013, 12:29:35

Send pm. Near 2 mil turrets plz, 200k spies.

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Oct 27th 2013, 2:39:04

No amount of def. is going to be enough in express. Had 20 mil turrets last set still got suicided on in the last few hours. One of those retal at all cost kinda players.

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Oct 26th 2013, 19:18:21

lol food avg. was 38 all set, and still peeps complain. I was 16k farmer, but had to teach jet heavy top feeder whats up.

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Oct 25th 2013, 20:56:25

I think something is wrong here, 3rd time i've logged in and seen 0 jets and turrets on the market. Still grabbing ok land, not much tho since no military on market really slowing me down.

Lots of nub builds too. Commie and rep farmers seem active.

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Oct 21st 2013, 2:20:02

lol answering that question will make me sound like a real jackass.

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Oct 21st 2013, 1:17:26

I made a few mistakes last round and it cost me a bit. Could've retal 2 hits, but didn't. Also didn't get quite as much for my food as i could have.
Althought the worst thing i did last round was mispell Wookiee lol

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Oct 18th 2013, 22:02:09

just filled up def. slots. sorry just 1 intel left

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Oct 18th 2013, 16:54:08

I was jedi last round. I did it to you last round. Finished 3rd with 26mil. I finish top ten 90% of the rounds I play in, when I don't go suicidal. If you go to eestats you can see the timeline from last round.

And yes it pisses people off.

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Oct 18th 2013, 16:31:10

It does work both ways,
If you choose to stay small for the first day and a half, you can be the one to retal for 10x the land u lose for an lg.
I usually do this, don't grow past 3k/4k acres until 5 or 6 people hit for 100ish land then i have some good retal targets for massive gains.

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Oct 18th 2013, 10:59:09

huh?
also i should've mentioned this earlier, no nubs plz

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Oct 18th 2013, 10:45:26

def. and intel. send pm 2mil turrets or 150k spies plz..

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Oct 14th 2013, 0:22:00

Well i got 3rd. Would've done a little better, but bounced a retal and only had 1 RA.

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Jul 28th 2013, 4:13:36

so i have some free time, decide to run one quick express round after a loooongggg break and my country is destroyed.

playing #141 what happened plz?

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Jun 14th 2012, 13:55:42

peeks in...
lol no one gonna break my F record. Peeps getting greedy. Get some military tech and sell on private.

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May 3rd 2012, 19:19:56

I also play Invisible on the Dict record list. A little more NW with that one and I would've owned 2 top spots for 2 different govs.

Maybe I'll go Dict again...

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May 3rd 2012, 3:46:42

Hehe 4th ain't so bad. No I didn't use corruption bonus. I went with -40.5% expense, then switched to food booms.


On a sidenote, I had zero DA's and OA's all round lol

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May 2nd 2012, 17:18:14

I'm still hoping someone will fa me a tank :)

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Apr 24th 2012, 15:12:37

If you want 100 mil without stocking it's easy.

1 stop attacking
2 buy military

Not very hard. Your expenses won't even be close to overtaking your income.

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Apr 18th 2012, 7:06:35

Well at this point it doesn't matter how many techers there are. The price and quantity sold is firmly based on who needs what and at what price they need it to be to make a profit.

I wanted to do one last push for a few techs, but with fewer turns left I'll need to pay under $1000 to get my moneys worth. So you'll get no money from me anymore. Unless you want to drop your prices.

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Apr 9th 2012, 8:40:35

This entire thread has become pointless. It's slowly but surely being dominated by cheaters.

Very soon every top 5 in each government will be filled by DR abusing nubs.

Kinda feel bad for oldman. Had to be quite a bit of effort to start this and look at what it's become.

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Apr 5th 2012, 0:25:34

Just sell your food on private and let it be. You're not gonna change anything.

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Mar 31st 2012, 8:22:34

330k is really long, but I tried it and it worked pretty well. I ended up with an allx Theo with about 25mil NW at the end.
Distribution was even through military, business, and residential. If I did some more reselling I could've finished higher.

I only use it when tech prices are still over 3k @ turn 500 or so. If you can buy tech @ 2300 or less I find tech starts aren't that beneficial.

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Mar 31st 2012, 7:59:12

Long tech start is 120k? Hmmm than what do you call my 330k tech start?

At what turn are you fully converted? I can get 330k with full conversion @ 700. With 3.8k land.(Theo)

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Mar 30th 2012, 23:26:58

You're farming got you quite a bit of land. Too bad you forgot to join GDI.

Someone taking my job from me. I wanted to suicide on you for having a land farm and abusing DR. Well I suppose I still can, but not gonna be as fun.