Thank you, Vern. :P

LMAO!
I'm wondering how I could live the past years without all this?
Dragon: you haven't changed a bit. lol Only your posts have become shorter. We used to read huge texts from you.

Lol! that's how you remember me? I was already in the game when the original MPE got created. Worked myself up from noob to pres. in FFA. That should be about 15 years ago now? OMG!

Last night I talk to my wife about old games, like eart2025 and I wondered if this was still 'alive'.

I'm suprised this is still the case.
It's great to actually see quite some familiar names here!!!

So... how is the game now-a-days?

happy b-day crip!

*ignores everyone*

nice job. I like it!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay to much explaining again.
lol@Dragon

I have a demo with Medical @ 64%

lol! With each an individual connection to the internet (so everyone a different IP) or through a central server with only 1 (or a few) IP's? You'd better be telling the truth to the mods !! :P




I work for a big multinational. I've mailed all my European colleagues to start playing this game and they all agreed.
All communication of our European plants go through centralised mainframe servers in Italy though. So mods, please concider all 16x12000 (I could be a few off) countries tagging xFocusx as being individuals playing through the same servers and IP's. Honestly, we won't be cheating, I promise !


And I suppose there are more dutch-speaking people around here than one would expect.

I saw you starting at my oil yesterday @350 but I figured you ran out of cash somewhere because you didn't buy all of it... :P

I often feel sorry for that sheep...

depends what you're selling :P

*spoken with a very deep voice: Buy my tech, buy my tech...*

Awesome addition. Thx !

I'm from Belgium, speaking Dutch, but I have no problem with English.

Another option could be leaving the actual game in English but give the option to get the frontpage and helppages (info on gov., info on tech, etc.) in another language while keeping the ingame used syntax.

Example (in Dutch) :
Tyranny
+20% winst bij aanvallen
-10% Militaire onderhoudskosten
Slechts 1 beurt per aanval
-25% Maximuum inkomsten per inwoner

This way it shouldn't be hard to get around with the game, even if you're new and aren't very familiar with English.

So you're saying people find it easier to judge when it can end on any day during the last week rather than for example always ending on a first saturday of the month???

Why would the length of the reset (in turns) have to change? I'm starting to think we're on a different path here. Now the starting day is always in the first week of a month, making the endingdate somewhere (startdate + x*30 days later) during the week. What I'm suggesting is adjusting the startdate so the end of the reset falls in the weekend, but keeping the same length of the reset. (startdate = enddate - x*30 days)
BTW: in FFA Set Jan-Mar: 61 days; set Mar-May : 62 days; current set: May-Jul: 59 days...

Let me point you at something easier : When you start the 60-day set at the first wednesday after a reset ends, you (nearly) always end at the first saturday of the month 2 months later, apart from a few exceptions (like when the month February is involved, but you have the same problem now).
The 30-day sets in team and Tourny are more difficult (read impossible to schedule to always end on a weekend).

btw, sorry for the long posts.
edit: because of typo's

The reset starting in a weekend or ending in a weekend? (or during the week?)

Does it actually matters when a set starts? Even if it's in the middle of the night, you'll have to wait for turns to do something anyway. Be honest, what can you do in the first hours of the set? The earliest, people can even get OOP in alliance is after 31hours. People run startups/their country at a time that's good for them.

Only maybe the 12/18h bonus turns can matter. It depends if the counting starts from the first login after the start of the set or the actually start of the set itself.
Then again, is their one person on any server that's capable of login exactly after every 12/18h of the entire set? I've tried it once on Swirve and I must say it demands a LOT of effort and compensating when you have a family.

I don't think it's really important for anyone when the set actually start. Most will agree that it's better to be able to play till the end of the set.

Ending in the weekend gives the majority of people at least the chance of being there, even if it's in the middle of the night. During the week this just isn't an option if you have to get up for work at 6am.

The break between sets would be exactly the same as it is now, but the focus would be on the set-ending instead of the set-start.
Another option would be making the length of the set variable like ending on the first or last saturday of the month and starting again on the next sunday or monday. Breaks between sets would be minimised that way and everyone would be happy. :P

Apart from the excessive farming then, you mean...

I know you just can't do good for everyone if it comes to time of day, but ending a set during the week is worse than in the weekend.
An end of set on saturdaynight (keeping the same time) should possibly give everyone the opportunity to be online.

Some people just don't have any respect at all... (meaning the guy(s) running the untags)
*shakes head*

What's so funny at destroying someone elses efforts and good intentions while cowardly hiding behind untagged countries? Pathetic and lame, really...

Lol@Vern.
So, when are you coming over to us? We all know you want to...

Is there a way to take people from outside the US in consideration when determing the end-time of a reset?
Like in Express, we're missing out a lot of turns because the reset end at 2am, on a monday night, West-European time.
I don't think a lot of players can justify staying up that long for a game when they have to get up early for work, school, etc...

Maybe determine the end randomly at the beginning of the reset so it aren't always the same that have the disadvantage?
Or find a day or time that fits more than just one continent? Why not end somewhere between Friday @midnight and Sunday@noon?

I realise most players are from the US, but if the game grows, sooner or later one will have to consider this, I guess.

In a fast game like Express, there is a big difference in selling stuff if it's LIFO or FIFO.
If it's FIFO, and you want a bigger change for your stuff to be sold fast, then you have to sell at a lower price than someone else.
If it's LIFO, then you can just as well put it up at the same price as the market. Yours would sell first anyway.
FIFO sets more competition at playing the market.

I bet if you would check all the countries the first week(s) of the set, you'll find 3/4th of them running the same startup strat and are build the same.
Just out of lasyness I guess. I have also several of my countries build nearly identical.

I have 65-75 bpt mainly

Can you add a "to the top"-link at the bottom of posts that brings you back to the top of the page and maybe one to directly go back to the forum-topics?

hmmm, a name that pops into my mind for primary is "Basics server", as you say it mostly attracts new people to start from and it hasn't any complicated politics going on with clans etc. The "unofficial" rules within the game as "basic".

I'm trying primary out for the first time ever now and I have to agree with Snawdog. If you're used to playing in Alliance, FFA and/or Express, then primary seems extremely slow.

Vern, pick up your ass and join us, man, I know you want to...

about time, you lazy bum lol!

Yeah! After impatiently waiting 2 days, I decide to start killing your country myself. Which wasn't hard at all with hardly any turrets as defence and no SDI.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

The smart guys stayed away and got a life. And if they came back, they stay away of FFAt.

The juvenile idiots from back in time are now the adult idiots still playing.

Non-build acres shouldn't generate food or population as it does now. It actually shouldn't generate anything unless build. In RL you aren't getting anything for land you do nothing with either.

Forcing people to build the empty land in order to benefit from it would make it more competitive for all and make self-farming less interesting without removing it from the game.

Is is possible to add a timer for when things return from the market or how long it stays on the market?


example :

Your goods for sale:
446,784 Turrets on sale for $175 each - 15:54:05 left
124,784 Turrets on sale for $165 each - 29:14:35 left


It doesn't change gameplay, but it would be helpfull in many ways I guess.

well done, donny.

I got 7th.

he who is without sin, throw the first stone...



Just let it go. The truth has come out, and dealt with and that's the most important. Now let's move on and stop the whining.

Does anyone remember what made the game nearly die out in the past? Cheaters/bots...

I believe it's in the best interest for all of us that these admins and mods kick in when they discover something not right.

Playing from 2 different locations doesn't get your countries deleted otherwise mine would get deleted several times a reset. :P
When I play at home It goes through an Belgian IP. When I play at work, it passes Italian servers which result in Italian IP's. I've never had a problem with that.
My only concern would be someone else on the same network (and that are a few thousands of people) would start to play the game too.

yup, no problems on Win7 x64 (with firefox) either.

If you would decide to add Dutch, I'm willing to translate everything. I read/write both English and Dutch fluently.

Hey Dragon !!!

That's definately "our" Dragon. LOL! Only he would make such long posts trying to pproof something.

I'm glad you named some peeps from long ago there. I had forgotten their names (I'm getting old?): Wild Bill, Alcimedes, DJTrance,...
Great memories...

When I login to the forums I first get the message with my nickname and that the login is succesfull then the screen goes to this :

Access Denied!
Possible Reasons:

* The Username / Password you entered is incorrect
* Your session expired (in which case relogin to continue.)
* You might have been logged out. If this is the case please re-login. We periodically update the site which might require a relogin
* You may lack sufficent access rights to view this page (contact an Administrator if you require access to this page)



When I then click on the forums-link (next to the online(x)-link), I'm logged in and can post as if there isn't a problem.

Some names I remember :

Potomac
Domacius
Outlawz0
Dark Angel
Dragon
Dabears
Roadkill
Nighthawk

lol@ketchup

You know you're all always welcome in FoCuS too, bud.

Michelle

hmmm, raise the limit to like 5bil but make it easier to grab cash in LG's.

Well, in fact we should boot Despi for that, but I have no say about it. :P

;) @ Despi

Maki,
These boards are ALL about making assumptions. They live by it. You, as mod, should know that.

Fact is, I haven't seen ANY post of you or anyone else from AODT in any of his posts to even try to stop him there. He didn't only harm his image but that of the entire clan with his whining and you did ... nothing? Or does that mean you don't have any control over your own clan?

I'm sure If I would be trashtalking like that, Crip or Despi would tell me to put a sock in it or something.
I remember a time where one could get booted for excessive trashtalking on these boards.

Who's ou812? :P

In need of any manlove, ou?

Donny,

You made one big mistake. You took it all personally.

Impulsive reactions on a board like this is never good. Too many assholes around who's only light in a day is to stir things up. You were probably right about a lot of things, but the truth is... eventually nobody really cares. The real talks are on IM's, not here.

I'm sure you're a great guy and a great player. Leaving the game would be a loss for all of us.

AODT (or whatever):
Nothing personal but you guys should have protected your member from making a fool of himself this set. No, I bet you guys were amused how he was being ripped apart on this board. Protection also sometimes means protecting him from himself.