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There is a returning player who wishes to play. Unfortunately, they're unable to sign up because of the problem described below.

Upon filling out Sign Up the form:
- https://earthempires.com/register
- https://www.earthempires.com/register
- https://slagpit.earthempires.com/register

The user is met with an HTTP Error 500. This is regardless of which address the user attempts to register from.



I've also tried to sign up, and as a result, got the same error message.

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It's possible that he isn't mad and the relations are just different for that server. I wouldn't assume being on good terms in one server would transfer over to other servers. It's possible to be allies in one server, but enemies in another.

Your frenemy :D

Doug for moderator? Certainly. +1. I too believe that he would make a nice addition to the team.

It's to do with him paying his bond, 10% of it. If he didn't have that kind of money to spend, he would be sitting in jail, just like those who can not afford to pay for such bails.

https://theconversation.com/...ystem-of-cash-bail-212179

https://www.cnn.com/...93c4f1a24ccc456c1ff4e8d34

It'd be nice to see reforms so that people don't have to go to jail to await trials and such. Especially for something that isn't dangerous to others.

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1. The developers don't appear to have enough time to work on the game as much as we want them to. It doesn't look like anyone is willing to step up to work on the game for free ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶b̶a̶r̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶y̶i̶n̶g̶.

2. The game in its current form is rather deceptive:
To become a superpower, you need a crazy amount of military units or a great economy superior to others.

The procedure to do that involves circumventing the game mechanics such as expenses, and corruption; and then deterring everyone from attacking you. The procedure isn't obvious to new players who will likely start with a nice economy, invest in a reasonable amount of defenses, and then go almost bankrupt because it's expensive to simultaneously play turns while maintaining enough military units to defend against good attempts made by enemies.

In an oversimplified summary: Avoid having defensive military units, avoid unnecessary buildings, store all assets inside the public market; avoid attacking players; ask everyone to not attack you; and then recall all assets from the public market and spend it on military units.

6. Looks like nobody was interested in discussing my proposal on what can change so that every attack in this game isn't devastating enough to make one quit (because all it takes is a few good hits to ensure they'll not finish well).

7. I do not know exactly what the moderating tools look like here. I have an impression that it's missing some essential features to make the task easier, seeing that this is a forum software apparently built from the ground up.

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The point of releasing unwanted land is to avoid having to buy a crazy amount of military technology. The more land you possess, the more technology you will need to retain the bonus that tech gives you. It's usually more costly to buy a lot of tech compared to releasing land to achieve the same desirable effect.

Tee-hee! Please pardon me for I was merely meme-ing upon whether or not this is a war game. Is this dank enough? 😜 https://i.ibb.co/...ire-primary-objective.png 😝 After noticing enough references about it, I couldn't resist.

On a serious note, I'd prefer to focus on addressing the player retention issue. I'd be most appreciative to see comments on my earlier suggestions.

Imagine, if you will: the possibility of engaging in war, winning it, and still having the chance to finish in rank one.

That's not going to work because this game has player retention problems that needs to be addressed. My earlier post has a suggestion on how to address the issue.

I'd appreciate such an announcement. Getting blindsided sucks.

Why would this be necessary? I wouldn't want to be locked into a clan when I am no longer affiliated with them.

I think people will avoid hitting bots all together if it's not worth the risk.

It's nice not having to worry about suiciders. On the other hand, there is less incentive to even have spies now.

In regards to marketing:
I don't believe that marketing this game will be wise while we haven't addressed the player retention problem.

This is part of the reason why clan GDI is a thing in the first place. In general, people don't like the idea of spending weeks building up something only to have it gone in a flash. I doubt any potential new player we may end up with would want to stick around for that.

To address this specific problem, it'd be a start to:
- Drastically decrease expenses and food consumption;
- Drastically decrease the cost to construct buildings; and
- Drastically increase build per turn.

I believe these changes would result in: players quickly recovering from attacks while still retaining the ability to finish with a good score; make griefing less effective; increase engagement between players/PVP; and allow other strategies such as industrial communist to be yet another good choice to play.

In regards to adding costs:
Adding expenses to clan GDI will likely result in a meta where most netters will stop using clan GDI to stay competitive for netting purposes. Then we'd be back to square one with problems unsolved. The perfect example of this is the GDI feature for individuals. The meta right now is to not use GDI to be able to attack more bots for land.

In regards to griefing in general:
It's a genuine problem, especially in games where it takes little to no effort to destroy than build. People in general would feel they're wasting their time. It'd be like building a house of cards while simultaneously dealing with multiple people armed with a leaf blower.

War game?
Can someone please link me to the exact page on the website that describes this game primarily as a "war game"? Please, no links to third party or user generate content. The home page does mention that we can engage in warfare, but it's not the primary objective.

Nice finish. :)

juuun! Here I am. :D

PRAISE ME SOME MORE, FU-WA-HA-HA!! ̶N̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶,̶ ̶>̶_̶<̶ ̶p̶l̶e̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶h̶p̶,̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶a̶l̶r̶e̶a̶d̶y̶ ̶d̶r̶o̶w̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶m̶o̶u̶n̶t̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶p̶r̶a̶i̶s̶e̶s̶.̶

Thank you very much for serving us, and keeping us all from becoming barbecued snacks.


Yay, my first task as Secretary of State/HFA!

The mouse cursor fairy, perhaps. ^_^

Until it doesn't. xD Now where's the fun in having no anxiety, relaxing rather than scrambling around to ensure that the pacts are signed, eating all my cookies instead of sharing some with the cursor fairy, not having to discern potential threats or jokes while trying to appear calm?

Can we get support for message formatting? So that we can do more than quote other users' posts?

Such as the ability to add bold, italic, underline, lists, pictures, different sized text, and such to our posts and signature. It would be great for in-game messaging as well.

More BBCodes, and it'll support Markdown.

This library can be used to implement this feature: https://github.com/s9e/TextFormatter

If there is a feature that we don't want/need, it can be disabled.

# Clan Relations Manager

Alternative to Clan GDI

## Based on what the forum is suggesting

1. Each clan can choose which clan to declare war against within Tag Admin.
2. To declare war, the clan must at least have 1/3rd the amount of members of the clan they wish to go to war with. Clan wars should be started by a clan, not by an independent country.
3. The other clan will get a war declaration notice.
4. The war will begin 48 hours since the declaration. To deal with blindsides.
5. It's not possible to attack a clan or perform spy operations without first declaring war in Tag Admin. To deal with griefing. An exception: If a clan member attacks an independent country. An independent country should be able to fight back.
6. Once agreed upon, relations may not change for at least 3 days. uNAP can not be changed. This to reduce abuse and surprises.

Possible error messages:
- You can't have more than one pact with clan X.
- You may not end this unbreakable pact.
- You may only have one active relation with clan X.
- You already have a pending relation with clan X.
- You may change this relation after X hours.

## Clan Relations Manager in Tag Admin

Create new relation:
- A drop down menu to list different types of relations (war, uNAP, LDP, etc)
- A small text box to type in the name of the tag. Or this can be a drop down box to list all the clans.
- The update relations button

List of pending relations:
- Name of clan
- The type of relation
- A button to accept request if your clan is the recipient
- A button to deny request if your clan is the recipient
- A button to withdraw request if your clan is the sender

Active relations:
- Name of clan you have a relation with
- Days since the relation is made
- The type of relation
- A button to cancel the relation if it's not uNAP

TL;DR:
1. Leaders get to control which clans their clan members are allowed to attack.
2. No more sudden war without any form of preparation. First strikes arguably gives too much advantage.
3. A clan should have enough members to start a war. It's not really a clan war if it's only one person which is likely a griefer.
4. An independent country can not attack a clan unless they are first attacked.