Last set when LEMM was fighting SSRP there was at one point a large TNW advantage to the LEMM side and a significant 30 to 18 originals advantage for the SSRP side. I think both sides agreed at that point that LEMM was winning, but according to the tag kill principle LEMM would lose if the reset ended at that point because we had fewer originals left. In the end we won, no matter which metric we used, but TNW predicted it before.
If the sides are similar(doesnt have to be equal) in skill, prep, organization and numbers I suggest TNW is the best indicator of a war win and a TNW graph will tell you when one side was doing well, who did the FS and such.

And if either one or several of those parameters are vastly divergent from one side to the other there is often no one metric that can encapsulate and tell the whole story of a war. A 30 vs 10 war is not supposed to happen and if it does its supposed to be a slaughter of the 10.

I also like to point out that we all agree that the restart bonus in its present for creates more issues than it solves, and we all have different arguements for why it should be removed or at least be nerfed.

bigdogcwg played like 3-4 sets in LaF since I came to LaF if it was indeed him. Not years. I dont know him personally and I dont judge anyone before knowing all the facts. I think the main takeaway from this thread is the demeanour that a 'Forum Moderator' sets as precedent for the boards he is meant to keep civil.

I updated the original post so that what seems to be the current sides are there as well.

A few weeks ago Chevs blamed us for trying to force others to play the game our way. The irony is not lost on me that you now take pride in forcing others to play the game your way... something I never did and never have and never will.

I suggest merely that this game needs to have something for everyone in order to retain people with a different amount of time on their hands and different motives for playing. People who are adrenaline junkies who need to wall to get any enjoyment from this game as well as people who are analytical and have other needs need to both get something from the game. I'm the rare breed that likes both netting and war, but far more like only one of those. If this game is interesting for only one type of player you lose 80-100 players, which is 30-40% of them by now.

Lastly bigdogcwg, who are you to tell others that grabbing bots is somehow not in the spirit of the game? QZ added them, and the first thing he did when he came back to work on the game for a bit last year was change the bot code and add more bots. He is very happy with that the bots have allowed small tags to not be farmed to death.
I remember what it was like when farming players instead, we hit countries with zero chance of meaningful reprisal. Bots don't quit, those tags and players did. I dont see who it was better for before tbh.

10/10

Can you please state their country names?

ended.

You just use the concept of 'Freedom' as another religion. It's flawed tho, you have less freedom than anyone else because you constrict your opinions and actions into a tight space that actually encroaches on your freedom even if the purpose is the opposite. You are in a prison of your own making and you call it 'Freedom'.

Similarily to Trumpoz, I was never killed by them, probably due to being in RED and then Evolution. I even grabbed them once by misstype and it was sorted without me dying.

Theres no expense change, additive or multiplicative, with with spy tech on alphaffa as long as nw is compensated for.

There are different status screens and they show different information (some erroneous). You need to post an image on imgur so we can see what exactly is going on.

hybrid kills would slow it down even with no limit to the attack speed. switching over would require some time always.

Yeah sol is putting in some good work so far. A little misleading right now are the missiles. LaF didn't really have any and sof+sol mostly sent theirs which inflated their total hits quite a lot.

I think its cheating if you help with the math on the specific hit but if you give her a formula/spreadsheet or a way to calculate it on her own its absolutely not cheating. The reason its cheating is because you then have to learn the targets military size without taking a turn.

go through how to calculate it then let her do it on her own.

I think we should be able to buy spies since they are the main reason netters cant afford to prepare for war/suiciders and still compete with other netters today. Make em cost 400-450 and let them replenish like tanks.

Yes, you had explosions and a cookie recipie but no boobs. It's 2 out of 3. It's like you are trying to build a car and you need wheels, engine and a chassi, if you forget the chassi its just an engine next to some wheels. Useless.

I still think VicVixvi has a good chance. If that commie is built proper he will be untouchable all through the war and breaking all with min readiness losses.

Pathetic, no boobs. I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.

https://www.eestats.com/...mp;badside%5B%5D=VicVixvi

or

https://www.eestats.com/...NES&badside%5B%5D=PDM

15 vs 27, could be interesting if the FSed side shows up.

Good luck to both sides.

Edit: so maybe the war has grown a bit and this is more representative of whats going on now;

https://www.eestats.com/...mp;badside%5B%5D=NesBetch

http://earthgraphs.com/...sbetch&warreport=Show

Because the tags are not all hitting the tags on the other side this is not really the full story but its closer at least

Some of the wars on team server with ZZ I did the bots job calling out the breaks. :) It works. Either way we dont really need to remove warbots, they are not the problem. If anything they make life easier for us all. Kills are very efficient at removing resources compared to maiming and for that reason we have a killing meta.

One way to make walling more likely would be to make attack type specific DR on special attacks and missiles to promote hybrid kills. QZ told me that he hoped to see more hybrid kills so changes in this direction might actually happen.

If DR on special attacks added up 1/50th as fast as for landgrabs you would have 350-500 hits on a GS kill but a hybrid kill of GS and then BR would take 200-250 hits similar to now. It would be more important to match NW and more important to have MStrat. In order to balance walling you could make it so all ingame actions (taking turns, buying, dropping land) instantly clears this attack specific DR. That would make walling much more likely while not as overpowered as now.

maybe turn 3000 with 220 stored?

Its a hollywood ending. "everyone lived happily ever after". its the only thing they had time for if they wanted to end the story, which I'm not sure was needed anyhow.

I have seen Avengers Endgame twice on the cinema. It was epic. I really hope it beats Avatars box office, because that was a really bad movie.

Then you had too high expectations. There had been a steady decline in the dialogue and the story since season 5 or so. I think it all started when Barristan Selmy died (This I think was the first big mistake of the writers, tho it may have been forced upon them by contractual issues).

I dont think there are any 'good' written strats any more. I know that LaF doesnt have them and I know that Monsters doesn't either. The players are better than the written strats.

It's not ideal but the new/returning players learn now mostly from players and not from written strats. Imo it limits the ability teach new/returning players, but in a game with 300 players you would write a text that three players will read at best. :/

Only a section of the wall got destroyed. You see it in every credit.

I think what we liked about the show was that nothing turned out the way we wanted, there were steps forward and steps backward.

Some people died that had to die and some people died that we didnt know. The ending was too good, too hollywood, way too little Game of Thrones. "And everyone lived happily ever after" is the fastest way to end it, its the sensible way to end it, but it doesnt feel like the Game of Thrones we all fell for years ago. What got us stuck with it was that Khal Drogo got a deadly infection over a pointless fight, that our favourite characters died at the red wedding and that Arya was made blind and Theon was mutilated.. We loved to hate Cercei and Jamie from the start and then realized at least that Jamie had two sides. In the final episode no one had two sides. Everyone was just good or bad.

That said I'm glad I saw the final season and they did tie up lose ends in a very efficient manner in just 6 episodes and pay off a lot of things they foreshadowed. It felt stressed tho. Im mostly puzzled by the choice to do it in 6 episodes instead of say 10.

Primary is one of the servers where stocking food can sometimes be worse than just buying straight military. buying food at 55 or 60, that the price is sometimes at, and then selling it a few days later at 35-40 is a huge loss.

If you can buy food cheaper its usually really good for you but when thats not possible you really have to get creative. Thats what I like about this server, the fact that some art and math have to go into your stocking/destocking decisions, unlike on team or alliance where its pretty much just to stock the same ratio every set and then follow a 15 point plan to destock.

If you finish 20th it just means that there are fewer than 20 players who cared enough and didn't war or get suicided. There may still be 50 players or perhaps even 100 who would have beaten your NW if they netgained.

Sinistril, for instance is most certainly better than you but I think you beat his rank most of the time because he rarely nets.

Theo is amazing to war with in some circumstances.

"Who is it playing techer on every server and lowballing the current market price by $1000."

Whats it to you? If you are a techer you should be happy that they are not selling at a proper price, because then the bots/players who buy tech wont have money to also buy yours.

This is especially true in games with bots since bots wont buy X tech points but instead will spend $Y no matter the price, so the lower your competition sells the more likely it is that your tech will sell.

Even if there are no bots like in team tournament or primary you can still assume there is some price elasticity in the demand. What you dont want is to be undercut by $1, thats a terrible place to be at.

AOC is just as much a populist with outlandish claims and policies as Trump and Bernie.

#MAGMA (Make America Go to the Middle Again)

Any hard progressive tax will make people stop working/earning or find alternate ways, legal and illegal to get around it if they are about to pass a tax threshold. I see it every year:

Legal:
Self employed people who stop taking out salary once they reached the draconian leap from 30% to 50% marginal tax.
Salary workers who stop working overtime when they realize they reached the limit.

Illegal:
Doing jobs on the side that pay less but isn't taxed.
Steal from your own company or take cash payment without reporting it.

You have an 'era'? Are we still in your era? When does it end? When you reach 30000 posts and you stop posting forever?

Really? people quit over earthquakes?

I don't know if they serve much of a purpose, but everyone gets them so I dont really care if we have eqs or not.

Then its our responsibility to show him, is it not?

Yeah I agree (for once). There should be a legal vote auction and an option to make ones vote public (in order for this to work I suppose).

Both sides are buying marginal voters in most countries afaik.

Wow, I was sure you already had your first win! This was long overdue, especially considering the margin and that the raw NW number is amazing! Congrats man!

He is rightfully shocked because its bayrock who is trying to teach everyone what a proper defence is.

So now you no longer stand behind your friends trumpus osloos and pp1 who you helped by hitting ebert every reset for 4 months last year?

You are making eberts point for him. He broke GDI without killing you and payed the price.

You are the aggressor here and the guy misplayed, next time if he learned his lesson he will kill you straight off, like ebert would. You want to force everyone on this server to misplay like this guy yet your play clearly demonstrates why thats not a feasible way to play on this server.

Fascists are great for both war and netting. They we were fascist heavy last set when we warred and we have more fascists this set than last. They also win 1a 90% of the time, so there is that.

I Always predict war.

And by the way. It was pdm who put their own agenda ahead of the server war last reset. LaF did not. Maybe its your time to do something for the server.

Hold on. LaF just warred to make the war tags happy. And now we have to do it again because what exactly?

I dont know about everyone else but i joined alliance to net and i have warred far more than I have netted. Thats not the case for any other netting alliance. Its in the best interest of all that netters get to net every once in a while.

just to clarify; the non-player countries are run by a bot that QZ made, the game developer, in order to create land and market volume on some servers. He has a set number of bots on each of three servers: Express, alliance and FFA.
Three servers are without bots: Primary, Tournament and Team.

the bot code and bot numbers have recieved significant changes at 3 times the last 2 years if I remember correctly. basically when QZ has some time he works on the bot code. It is in fact possible to make changes to the bot code on your own and show those changes to QZ, who will then elect to ignore, be inspired by or straight off implement your changes. I did this once and that change is still in effect and working nicely.

The ones who complained were not the ones who got suicided/topfed/harmful ops last set. If Lewis Hamilton loses his next race because a spectator throws a beer can onto the track that gives him a puncture and crashes him into a wall and Sebastian Vettel says something like "That's not how i like F1 races to be decided" it doesn't make either of them "snowflakes" or "salty little fluffs", does it?

BTW, Derrick never nets on alliance, he does net on other servers so I suppose he has both mindsets close at hand which is why he argues against throwing beer cans onto the track.

Same goes for netting (and war for that matter): you let the netters net and compete amongst themselves. Netters don't generally tip wars by farming the crap out of one side or FAing the other side, that has been dealt with in pact terms and been generally agreed between alliances years ago. Maybe that was agreed when you were out and that means you want to throw beer cans onto our track. But it just speeds up the death of this game because just as warriors we netters want our rank and NW be decided by our merit valued in skill, effort and tactics instead of some disgruntled spectator who is just mad we are doing 350 km/h when he never gets to go past 65, or 450k acres vs 60k acres.

He also spoke to mods on IRC recently. Didn't exactly help him but getting into touch with them didnt seem like a big problem for him.

This thread teaches very well why I dont tech start, haha.

Synching up strategies and allies who tech 70 turns in one go with no regard for allies. bleh. Just do straight farmer, straight casher or straight indy and avoid the headache. :)

First off Bayrock is an idiot who keep making the same flawed statements over and over again. He states QZ has not updated the bots at all yet this version of the bots is less than 10 months old.

EagleEye you have a proper attitude to this game and you will learn very quickly if you maintain that. Bayrock did give you a very useful link if you can read the code at least somewhat you will see the words which the bots choose their names from. You can look at last resets or previous sets scores as well to see the yellow countries(non-player countries) to see a selection of the typical names they use. At some point the bot names become very easy to spot, but remember there every now and then are players who work to impersonate bots, some of them have named their countries properly and you will need more knowledge to counter their deceit.

Old scores list:
https://www.earthempires.com/express/492/ranks

Welcome back I suppose! :)