No you make some good points blid.

Are you saying RD and PDM are "fluff" alliances?

Let's hit someone 1/12 our NW that has no opportunity to even think about a retal. Now that takes skill...

I'm just trying to understand the logic of tech allies are bad but every other ally is good. I'm not saying he is right or wrong.

So you want more teamwork in solo servers?

Why would anyone want less than 100% production? I cannot think of a reason. If you want lower production destroy indies.

That could work to prevent leechs for sure. That's actually a good idea.

But the question still remains: what is the reason to have alliances in solo servers?

Yeah, one negative side effect would be that it weakens the Techer strategy. As a techer turns teching are key so tech allies help offset the turns you have to spend getting land and building. Other strats such as indy, casher, farmer, etc do not have that problem as they produce the goods they sell every turn regardless of what they are doing.

If you take away the tech alliance you hurt that strategy, cut supply, and the price of tech will go up a bit.

For me if you're going to cut tech allies because of that reasoning you need to cut all other allies too.

Message spy: this op would allow you to see all private messages that a country has sent and received.

Blid-- It's not that I disagree with you. A person leeching does give an advantage to them however like I said it is, most of the time, not a completely free exchange. Sometimes it is. But that is a slippery slope. Would you call someone who is allied with good defensive allies that perfectly double their defense power while they do not provide the same benefit to their ally? Is that a defensive leech? Where do you draw the line? Or is it only tech allies that you see as cheating? That is one reason I've lobbied for no allies in solo games. This isn't supposed to be a team game in primary and to keep the spirit of the server I don't think we should be able to ally anyone for anything.

The only way to prevent leeching would be to eliminate alliances in solo games completely.

That is a bit strange about Oceana 9. I can think of two possibilities:
1. It's a buddy of his giving him a favor
or
2. He manipulated him via messages.
or
3. The guy he hit didn't think he could cause any damage to JJ but he could the others.

I would avoid speculation however it only makes you look like you're jealous of another person achievement.

This game is full of grown men acting like little sniffling babies. I didn't include the women that play this game because they arn't usually as big of tear bags as you guys are.

But with that said JJ being a leech isn't against any kind of rules. You're allowed to be a leech, most of the time though the leech gives something in return i.e. an offensive alliance. Also farming 'noobs' that don't fight back is a risky business. Each person he farms like that has the chance to AB, missile, etc... It's simple risk vs. reward. If you're jealous of that and decide to attack him because of that, that's fine, just be honest as to why you did it. You didn't do it because you think he did some grave injustice to the noobs, you did it because you were envious that he had a leg up on you because you didn't do it yourself.

I've always tossed around the idea to the admins to remove all allies on solo server games. If you are indeed intended to play this game, primary, solo you shouldn't ally with anyone. You already can't FA anyone.

I don't know an exact formula but in general it is proportional to the amount of land you have. More land = a higher cost per building

Ivan you're not a bright guy huh? Well I can't say I expected you to be but now I know you are far below the average... Monkey.

Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and they all stink.

I smell a lot of fluff in here... Sov did you open your legs again?

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All you little girls quit crying.

Anyone have deep pockets here>? Lets pay for a game developer to code us super smart bots for this game :p

Like the unreal engine for earth empires ;)

What exactly do you mean by that anoniem?

Then you are blind.

jesst, hit me up you can make it as a small alliance but it will take a few bits of strategy to pull it off... You can find me on IRC or message me on the boards.

JanPaul that is deff the worst job ever, god damn!

Zip, I'm sorry!

With ghost acres you could hit people about the same NW as you and as long as you only get retaled 1:1 you'd still gain land. Although that wouldn't be optimal if you keep getting retaled.

Nope he still doesn't understand!

Xin-- free gdi!!!!!!!

I think you misunderstood my post, read it again and think about it for 5 min.

Yeah PP whether or not they attack back doesn't matter to me because most of the little guy who get farmed now rarely get a chance to attack back. When you can hit people 1/12 your NW makes it hard for the little guy to retal.

The 2billion bug has been removed you can now go over 2 billion dollars, there is corruption however and money decays for any amount on hand over 2 billion but you can have more than 2 billion on hand. Also if you use the resource decay bonus and get it to -100% you have no corruption. A guy I knew last set in Alliance had 45 billion dollars on hand and was still using turns :p

I do agree in the fact that you will never be rank 1 unless you stockpile. My guess is he gets bored with stocking, which is understandable. While you stock pile it is boring. Spending your stock is fun and exciting however but the actual stocking phase is boring.

I hate the politics side of the game, ruins it for me.

So that might make since because if there were a lot of commies chances are military prices were low(er)? People may have noticed that and tried to play casher to buy up all that stuff? You're never going to know for sure what the server break down is going to be but you can make an educated guess.

If you look at trends you can sometimes try to predict what people will play. A lot of times if something does real well the previous set more people will try to play that strategy to cash in which if enough people do that it will water down the market for that commodity.

Very lame, 153 should retal that 10:1 :p

RD is not the same RD of the past. And you should have blamed mehul just as much as them for that because he allowed it go on.

For all the report type ops:

Spy
Spy On Alliances
Market Spy
Military Spy

There is a chance you "capture" their spy and get the op on them instead. It makes since that if you block their spy you capture them and get the info from them. If someone was spying on you it is most likely so they can attack you so this would add a bit more risk for failing spy ops other than just losing spies.

Hey different people get enjoyment out of different game play. One way to have fun is to try to get the highest networth another way is to get the most land... To each their own; I say both are legitimate.

Don't try to devalue someone just because you didn't do it. You obviously have beef with him over other issues otherwise you'd see the error of your way!

Well that is disappointing maybe AT&T is better than others. I've tested sprint and AT&T for my work and they both work very fast 99% of the time.

Well I wouldn't make it a new spy op but rather a % chance that could happen while defusing. If you had a new spy op for it you'd want to make the spies killed a lot more than if it was just a failed op because that would be over powered otherwise.

At least for AT&T it is... I do it all the time. Just send a regular email to:



and it goes through as a txt. I have unlimited txts per month = free!

email to txt is free.

I suggest that you add in the preferences of a country your cell phone carrier and cell phone number. And if your country is attacked you receive txt notifications to your phone automatically.

Sending txt's is free and most carriers support email to txt. If you know the carrier and cell number you can send an email and it will go as a txt to their phone so this would not have any cost to the game and would be completely automated. Here is a list of the email addresses that work for carriers.

You'd want to at least support the big ones: sprint, AT&T, etc..

So for example if I have AT&T the system would just need to email:



Complete list:
http://www.emailtextmessages.com/

Not many conservatives on this game ;)

Yeah that would be also a good negative to it also. You'd lose as many spies as you would for a failed op, only disable one missile that turn, however it blows up in your targets country causing damage.

Well yeah if you're going for a land record the assumption is you won't be fully built... That is a given. I remember in old school earth when Elliot (i think that was his name) got 100k acres in a randomized game, it was a fun set.


Net gaining is more difficult than total land; however that doesn't many anyone who wants to get a land record sucks.

Land records are fun and a good change of pace if you net a lot. The scores are ranked by NW but again it is nice to change things up sometimes.

Hmmm tduong ;)

Well whoever drinking purple juice 49 is he looks to be over 80k!