I heard there were a bunch of deletions in primary for some people who were working together in "too large a group" and "destroying the spirit of primary". Seems to me like that's either a policy that should be nixed, or should be applied equally to Team.

Ain't that the truth!

Hold up... You're getting into LCN's manifest destiny, there. Any propositions of moving into our territory requires a valid, signed approval from a LCN FA-type.

I don't know if it's "better", but I'd like to confirm that that was the old case. I don't know that the system is "too complicated as it is". I liked the fact about Earth2025 that formulas weren't always readily apparent, and in order to create a successful strategy one would have to think outside the box and get creative.


Does anyone know how this mysterious url in boxcar gets modified? I'd still like to check on it.

oh, and the policing too.

Confirmed, we are sexy devils.

Purposeful1
LCN President

hahahaha, sorry for bumping this thread from the bottom.

Oh, that should be just a really quick update!


;)

The problem is, those "really quick updates" can add up pretty fast...

That's exactly what I'm trying to ask about. I think that evidence is available if anyone has the news/histories of countries for the last half dozen sets of Earth2025 or so.

i just broke the tie

I think this is one of the things "in the works", from when I brought this up a few months back; I understood they were focusing on other game mechanics & a facebook application as a higher priority for the time being.

I don't think the whole partial DR thing ever became public knowledge (and I certainly have no idea what the formulas are), so old forums aren't really what I'm looking for.

What I am looking for is actual country histories/news from the last ~year of E2025. That way I could take a look at my own countries' history/news to actually find some evidence, rather than everyone here thinking I'm the resident kook.

Squish the bug!

I mean countries would have a reduced DR amount after 12 hours and 18 hours.

E.g. returns would often be better on a country hit 8 times within 24 hours (but zero hits within 18 hours) than an equivalent country hit 5-6 times within the past 6 hours. Usually the "reduced" DRs would go back into full DRs after just a couple of hits, but it was an interesting way to skeeve a few extra acres.

I *know* that they existed in Earth:2025. I routinely used and abused them the last year of E:2025. Can someone please direct me to a method of checking country histories for that last year of old Earth, so I can once and for all prove to you that they existed?

I'm not sure I am getting all the formulas straight, but I have a relevant question...

Do ghost acre DRs automatically reset after 24 hours, or do they link when continuous?

i.e. if an untagged gets hit once every 6 hours for 48 hours, if someone tries to hit him at the end of the 48 hours, are the ghost acres at 4 DRs or 8?

wait, nevermind. i get it now.

In Scenario I of the "Second Idea", shouldn't Country B end with:
900 land
850 buildings


since 50 of those buildings were destroyed?

Word on the street is that organizing politics outside of ingame message results in mass deletions.

I'm actually just KeltBot version 2.0. Ravi, Assassin, Theseus, and occasionally Japri still pull all the strings. Osloos reprogrammed me, but then he went awol; now Trumper handles most of the maintenance issues. POL submits user complaints.

full =/ shall i join somewhere else or wait?

hmmm... does that have anything to do with me getting the 404 error whenever I try to recall goods from my phone browser? I'm on a palm pre, so pretty much everything else renders properly, with the sole exception of recall goods. Which can be really frustrating when trying to destock while on a road trip.

yuck. godaddy? webfaction + name.com are so much nicer. They don't try to nickel and dime you with all those unnecessary add-ons.

I am indeed! I remember playing with Sioux!

Is there a reason why you guys haven't enabled "http://earthempires.com/";? I occasionally type that in rather than the full "http://www.earthempires.com", and it seemed odd that you guys hadn't enabled both to work. Should be a simple matter of enabling no prefix with your web host.

Oh my god. I haven't thought about TLK in AGES. I played Ages 2-7 or so, usually as a foreign affairs leader, usually with Portuguese India. I used to play with Draco and Miscreant a lot; I think Draco is now an admin there...

You guys playing next age? I'd be interested in playing again.

yay commie indies!

=)

japri's jealous she doesn't have one.

::dances::

next reset for America occurs in 2012.

ttt--still not fixed for failed attempts!

googling "condom termites" yields interesting results.

We established retaliation policies many years ago. We enforce them. Playing games with us, and thinking you can take advantage of us trying to finish a netting set won't fly here. You didn't take your antics somewhere else, and we are fed up. Goodbye, Imaginary Numbers. Never really believed in you, anyway.


p.s. Did letskillstuff crash? It's like you're trying to treat AT as your members forum. Although I'll admit it's entertaining to watch your internal organization unravel publicly, you really should think about switching to Boxcar.

what's a "big difference" in nw?

this made me laugh out loud :)

EPIC?!

Thanks for responding to this, llaar & bug. Although it doesn't address every concern (like who exactly was involved in the multi-running, etc.), I for one appreciate that you took the time to answer this and offer at least a bit of clarity to the situation for we onlookers.

Purposeful1
LCN President

hm. and PS is what, around 15%?

right.... that gives info on CS destruction, different returns on bottomfeeding, and ghost acres, but nothing about what the range of returns (in theory) could be. I suppose what I'm looking for is a an approximated max and min % of land taken (not incl. ghost acres). If qzjul or anyone else has the information available, it would also be interesting to know how exactly the likelihood of each value in the spread would occur--ignoring variables like nw, etc.


In case it's unclear what I'm looking for, let me give an example:
Country A is 15k acres, Country B is 22k acres.
Country A hits Country B for 3.5k acres (plus 1500 ghost).
Country A is now 20k acres, Country B is 18.5k acres.
Country A & B's representatives discuss retals--Country A's representatives assert that Country B can retake all of the land lost in a single hit.

I'm representing Country B, and I want to know how feasible it is to take back 3500 acres from Country A in a single hit. If Country B gets some milstrat tech, is there a 10% chance of taking back the 3500 acres? 5%? 30%?

Hopefully that wasn't too convoluted.

Is there a particular range for returns on SSes and PSes that is public knowledge? I thought they were somewhere around 7% and 10%, but I was wondering if there were any more specifics on those numbers.

This has come up in several FA issues recently, so any information would be helpful.

Thanks

May 04/10 12:23:16 AM SS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 343 A (+156 A)
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May 04/10 12:16:32 AM SS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 576 A (+261 A)
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May 04/10 12:12:36 AM SS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 473 A (+216 A)
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May 04/10 12:12:32 AM SS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 628 A (+286 A)
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May 04/10 12:12:27 AM SS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 672 A (+306 A)
May 04/10 12:11:52 AM GS m0m0 (#570) () m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) 5300 C/66776 F
May 04/10 12:11:50 AM GS m0m0 (#570) () m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) Defence Held
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May 04/10 12:10:32 AM SS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 552 A (+251 A)
May 04/10 12:10:17 AM PS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 862 A (+392 A)
May 04/10 12:10:15 AM PS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 1133 A (+514 A)
May 04/10 12:10:12 AM PS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 1192 A (+541 A)
May 04/10 12:10:08 AM PS m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) m0m0 (#570) () 1254 A (+570 A)
May 04/10 12:09:12 AM PS m0m0 (#570) () m0m0 multi (#625) (SoF) 616 A (+813 A)



i especially love the directly subsequent logins/attacks.

Apr 27/10 7:55:46 AM PS Poisson Rogue (#109) (TheFist) In the Garden of Eden Baby (#522) (LCNostra) 2329 A (+954 A)
Apr 27/10 12:54:45 AM PS In the Garden of Eden Baby (#522) (LCNostra) Poisson Rogue (#109) (TheFist) 2332 A (+1106 A)


^I think that counts as a profitable land trade. Each came away with 1k acres (and maybe had to rebuild 600-800 acres each).

LCN is looking for more active community members to add to our team :)

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I'd say, remove the cap, but have the "FDIC" only protect $2b. In other words, any successful SS/PS would take 50% of the $$ above $2b. Similar with bombing/raiding banks.

hi imperial!

The DRs are sort of whacked here...

SG kills babies.

I'm willing to limit my "hard-farming" on any designated "learning servers"--Servant has a good point. Recruiting rather than smashing is a much better long-run strategy.


Regarding Pang's talk of recruiting the high schoolers and twenty-somethings.... I would think that the Express Server would be good for marketing to them. Cell phone apps and browser games for kids with too much time mean they'll be wanting new turns, fast. If they get hooked after that, they'll spread to new (and probably multiple) servers, and get more involved in the politics of the game.

Older and more casual players would probably be most ideally introduced via Facebook to a Team or Primary-style server.

Forgotten erased his LCN endorsement? =(

We've had a lot of old players rejoin recently--it's been good times in LCN, especially with a nice variety of netting and warring (and without getting lost in the masses).

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