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Would those who have API feed keys contact me 3 241 qzjul wesliey 1.1 days ago

A 24 or 48 hours DR on ghost acres would IMO be almost entirely useless.

Warster, is that 13 hits for each of the countries or for both of them? I mean, if I do 4 hits on a country, I assume he then will still 100% ghost acres in a retal and not 80%?

When does the ghost acres DR reset?

I would suggest that ghost acres DR (GA-DR?) to go down much quicker (25% per hit or so) and then stay at zero for the remainder of the reset.

My preference is still with #2 though with an around 10% point drop per hit, i.e. 1.0, 0.9, 0.8 etc, for the ghost acres with reset long GA-DR. There is of course nothing preventing the two methods to co-exist.

I should perhaps clarify that in 2) I meant a DR that only expired at the end of the reset.

@qzjul, what kind DR exists on the ghost acres?

I would like to see some changes in line with how the game works to reduce the land trading.

My suggestion would be to introduce a diminished return (DR) on ghost acres, similar to how gains are reduced for land grabs with multiple hits in a 24 hour period. I have a few more specific suggestions:

1. When two countries hit each other repeatedly (land trading), reduce ghost acres by 50% for every hit. DR could last the entire reset.

2. For every land grab a country does, reduce the ghost acres by 10-15%.

3. Land grabs within your own alliance/team/FFA whatever gains no ghost acres.

I imagine the second suggestion would be both effective and rather easy to add to the code.

Getting bonus points for posting on the forums is a bad idea!

I propose a user-configurable URL field against the country. A link to the URL could then be seen by the other players on the server, perhaps as a small icon before or after the country name in the scores/clan list, or when you search for a country.

My own usage of the field would be to a picture or a page hinting at the meaning of the name of the country.

2 it is.

Well said Cyref.

Unfortunately, ethics and respect don't tend to sway troglodytes.

I thought only missiles stopped lowered the SDI.

Do dead allies ever contribute in any way?

I expect the answer to be "no", but would like an authoritative answer.

Perhaps it is just me, but for the last couple of days (after emptying the browser cache) I no longer see the Earth logo picture in the top left corner.

Do you have some form of web "accelerator" plugin/addon?

Thinking about my previous post a bit more, wouldn't using your bonus points for extra turns (practically) always be considerably better that any boom if you consider its marginal value (I think that is the correct English term)?

Any extra turn you gain during a reset can be considered an extra turn at the (future?) time of the reset when you are at the maximum production, but the benefit of all booms are calculated at the time/turn they are taken, so taking turns for your bonus points should almost always be better (assuming turns are in shortage).

Perhaps someone with more in-depth math/logic education could verify or refute.

Sorry for going off-topic in the thread.

4 (including 2 that had 125 M NW)


0 (Highest had 137 M NW)

Using a definition of all-X as "Did not do any landgrabs" and that we are talking about the Alliance server.

I have never considered playing an all-X TMBR in the same way I haven't considered e.g. an all-X dictator casher...

I think the balance between all-X and those that grab is pretty OK with the highest NW all-X in rank 29 and 8 all-X in the top 50. I normally play all-X and I accept I won't get close to a top 10 playing lazy like that. If changes are done to make all-X unfeasible I would probably just stop playing as it would require to much effort to play.

I would myself like to see a bit more quality and less quantity in the number of grabs. Hammering in 15-20 SS a day on small countries is in my mind not beneficial to the game. To me it creates a too hostile environment to introduce relatively new player into. I would trade a little bit less harshness against an increased user base.

And I see a small point in combining the bonuses. As it is today, the non-cashing boom bonuses are usually less beneficial than extra turns. But if the boom bonuses were merged, most people would use them all the time and nothing else and the entire bonus system would be no enhancement to the game. My suggestion would instead be to boost the non-cashing booms 5-10%.

I'm guessing at 47.3m :)

And 0.02% off the max tech is way off??

Am I right in thinking a Demo need about 81.69% out of a max of 81.67% and that would mean about 77.5% of the tech points needed to maxing out the tech?

Or am I way off?

What military tech percentage is required for a Demo to sell for $36 on the internal market?

Should it really be possible to send FA to a dead country?

I suppose I'm to blame for not checking if he was alive, but I would have expected the game to prevent that. I sent quite a lot of military and money and I guess they just disappeared... :-(

Awful idea IMO. Please do not reduce explore rates.

Your ISP could be using NAT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/...etwork_address_translator

I would like to see the TPT of my tech allies at least.

I often got something similar on the Top 100 Arena site and just the other day I figured out what it was. Another player is playing from my work, so using the same gateway. The site appears to log the IP number, so for whoever of us is doing that bonus first in the day it works, but for the other you get a "you have already voted today". The other two sites works fine. Not a big problem, I just do that bonus from home instead when I remember

In case you haven't seen it, Eestats have something similar to this at the bottom of this page:

http://www.eestats.com/team/toptencountries

it's up now

..in the oh so majestic top 10 all-explore rankings

Rank  Id   Name                              Land    Networth  Tag       Gov NW/Land
1    #1    HeglumeH QaQ jajvam_____________  17040   46428552  Lords     F   2724
2    #2    fyfhtdgtgrdgfrg_________________  16109   45551657  Ragnarok  R   2827
3    #67   Bonuses Options Welcome Back____  16579   44417497  ETFT      H   2679
4    #121  Hoover was a Fascist____________  19150   43716807  FBI       H   2282
5    #36   FknBigIdiot_____________________  15997   42449169  Rigor     H   2653
6    #83   I R WoG Melody__________________   9859   41611963  RAGE1     D   4220
7    #72   fluff Tits GTL__________________  16763   39565859  RAGE2     H   2360
8    #49   Chai Shen Ye____________________  14382   36362661  ETFT      D   2528
9    #63   gang banging your mom___________  11694   33869614  RAGE2     R   2896
10   #17   17 Again________________________  19166   33275227  ETFT      H   1736

To qualify you cannot have done any PS or SS during the reset.

I just had the in-game captcha appear even though I answered the three bonus captchas 22 minutes earlier.

I don't see why it should revert back to force an in game captcha every day when you do the bonus captchas, so I think something got broken.

On the available bonus page it says we should get 3 bonus points from "Top 100 Arena", but I only got 2, so 7 in total.

Do all spy ops cause spy DR or is it just the damaging ones?

...in the most important top 10 all-explore rankings

Rank  Id   Name                              Land    Networth  Tag       Gov NW/Land
1    #549  Pangolins_______________________  27258  176680272  TheOmega  D   6481
2    #442  Going Wild______________________  24553  155066276  TheOmega  H   6315
3    #191  Jack Daniels Single Barrel______  27935  150962838  EVOdiez   D   5404
4    #468  LaFing All The Way______________  30379  136978000  LaF       D   4508
5    #117  Rudolf The Red Nosed Reigndeerz_  29544  135917509  LaF       H   4600
6    #141  Mamba Monster___________________  27543  130201767  MONSTERS  D   4727
7    #172  Engulf and Conquer______________  23152  129770792  MONSTERS  H   5605
8    #341  Militia X_______________________  23823  128540168  MONSTERS  H   5395
9    #294  Bakon Vodka_____________________  28440  126078618  EVOdiez   D   4433
10   #23   Chocolate Disco_________________  19153  125513637  RD        H   6553

To qualify you cannot have done any PS or SS during the reset.

...in the top 10 all-explore rankings

Rank  Id   Name                              Land    Networth  Tag       Gov NW/Land
1    #128  Mr Gainsboro____________________  18287   43388317  xxRDxx    R   2372
2    #7    Fat A1bert______________________  15911   40781758  Rag1e     R   2563
3    #23   Alcoholocaust___________________  13654   38142245  ETFT      H   2793
4    #66   Mr Iris_________________________  18546   34640579  RDRDRDRD  F   1867
5    #61   Mr Reseda_______________________  14354   32030776  xResDogx  R   2231
6    #3    Killing Me Slowly With__________  15315   29536469  RDxKILL   H   1928
7    #1    Intrepid________________________  15526   29432959  Ghall     R   1895
8    #50   MADMARK_________________________  18291   26136680  Ghall     R   1428
9    #40   Death by Defenestration_________  12839   25794536  DBD2      R   2009
10   #101  Strange Famous__________________   9629   25064979  Rag1e     H   2603

To qualify you cannot have done any PS or SS during the reset.

Which apparently is already known...

When using the -70% food consumption, I instead got a 70% reduction in costs and no reduction in food consumption.

Perhaps the minimum (rounded) bonus could be made 1 APT

When he did 30+ CDs instead of grabbing him back.

... in the most important all-explore top ten list:

Rank  Id   Name                              Land    Networth  Tag       Gov NW/Land
1    #2    Death By Disgavel_______________  19912   57845720  DBD       H   2905
2    #72   Lost in Masterbation____________  18220   53762723  ETFT      H   2950
3    #79   Death By Darbies________________  19758   51102144  DBD2      H   2586
4    #3    Premier Foods___________________  20335   47614626  OG        H   2341
5    #82   Mr Gainsboro____________________  21119   45123820  ResDogs   R   2136
6    #53   Histidine_______________________  21073   44684754  fluffy    D   2120
7    #95   Mr Reseda_______________________  17276   43157000  xRDx      H   2498
8    #78   Death By Deforestation__________  16034   40384727  DBD       R   2518
9    #64   Death by Doom___________________  18175   36570943  DBD       R   2012
10   #49   hot buffalo_____________________  14557   35959276  Lords     F   2470

To qualify you cannot have done any SS or PS during the reset.

Yes, transaction prices on jets were about 4.5% lower in average on the public market when excluding the last 10 days of the reset.

Transaction volumes were about 99% of the turrets (about 2.8B each), so a difference in demand doesn't appear to fully explain the price difference.

Still, prices on the public market and usefulness in military strength/war doesn't (at least not to me) explain why they have different networth per dollar on the private market.

Before anyone gets upset because I'm arguing (as tend to happen on these forums), this is not something I consider to be particularly important. To me this is more an "Earth 2025 legacy blemish".

Can you elaborate please?

Would it make sense to adjust the buying prices on the private market to give all the military the same networth per cash?

A suggestion would be:

Troops   150
Jets     180
Turrets  180
Tanks    600

Which would be $300 per networth.

I'm thinking that while destocking and reselling, turrets is currently a second rate military type.

I'm not arguing for this, but I don't think this would particularly strengthen the Theos. Mostly it would only drive up the prices on food at the end of the reset and to a lesser extent in the beginning of the reset.

... in the all-explore top ten list:

Rank  Id   Name                              Land    Networth  Tag       Gov NW/Land
1    #227  GROOT___________________________  23001  166612262  MONSTERS  D   7243
2    #168  Corrupted Apple_________________  14546  147493086  Toonmega  D  10139
3    #185  Mr Reseda_______________________  26846  147313194  xRDx      H   5487
4    #388  Turtle Power____________________  28164  146430913  Toonmega  H   5199
5    #482  Vampyronassa____________________  30662  142537363  EVOdiez   D   4648
6    #115  I cant destock__________________  29823  138714241  EVOdiez   H   4651
7    #212  MicroteK________________________  30438  137472034  Toonmega  H   4516
8    #222  Engulf and Conquer______________  23905  135378739  MONSTERS  H   5663
9    #435  James P Sullivan________________  23600  134987723  MONSTERS  H   5719
10   #566  Schmetterling in Gummi Glen_____  27083  134502287  Toonmega  H   4966

To qualify you cannot have done any SS or PS during the reset.

Is there a particular reason for requiring people to log in before they can use the search?

I think it has been like that since it was set up to be 5 man teams and that is is intentional.

Shouldn't that be:
total offence = 3250000 + 125000

Actually by answering a correct captcha on the bonus site, I managed to get into EE...

Yay

The "Delay 8 hours" doesn't work either, but the same (re-)captcha does work on the bonus sites, so it looks to be an EE problem.