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Jun 25th 2010, 6:38:01

10/3 < 5, so I'm not sure if they would be more effective.

I have a few objections to this. Giving countries 4% warfare off the bat will have a chilling effect on landgrabbing and will directly reduce the land pool on the server. In addition, suppose that we increased the number of missiles while keeping their efficacy constant. This would make tyrannies stronger and make SDI less valuable.

It would also make cash starts better, though I'm not sure if I have a problem with that.

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Jun 25th 2010, 2:06:17

no leave me alone

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Jun 24th 2010, 0:07:27

0% PCI doesn't cause PCI kills.

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Jun 23rd 2010, 20:27:57

Dead allies don't provide any type of support. Why do you think we allow removing them early in the first place?

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Jun 23rd 2010, 17:22:23

You can cancel them now, you just have to wait for a scores update.

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Jun 23rd 2010, 5:18:21

I copy and pasted a table that I made a few months ago.

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Jun 21st 2010, 18:25:07

It probably works now as it should.

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Jun 21st 2010, 17:53:10

There's a level of DR past 0.15.

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Jun 21st 2010, 17:37:13

Yeah, but it was changed back when I redid auth_country. I'll get to this soon.

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Jun 21st 2010, 7:55:22

If you wish to play as a small tag, ally up with other small tags. If you don't wish to play as a small tag, try recruiting.

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Jun 21st 2010, 7:48:31

So now you're reduced to crying wolf at a simple statement that's been true for at least the past ten years? This whole "warrers versus netters" false dilemma honestly comes across now as a bad joke. We were nice and let you mouth off on AT, but it looks like no one agrees with you. Better luck next reset?

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Jun 21st 2010, 0:01:03

Your idea of what is "good for the game" appears to be random destruction. The end of set rankings are determined by final networth, not total networth destroyed. We encourage countries to resolve legitimate disputes in whatever way they see fit, but we also try to prevent abuse of game mechanics. For example, a country should not be able to drop to 1A with a few minutes left in the set in order to do destructive spy ops on any country in the game.

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Jun 20th 2010, 21:13:14

fluffffffffff

Edited By: Slagpit on Jun 20th 2010, 21:32:48

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Jun 20th 2010, 20:38:47

The amount of tech you steal is determined by the relative amount of each in each category. If you didn't have any SDI and your target had 1000000 you would still get nothing.

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Jun 20th 2010, 16:59:59

ata runs cashiers

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Jun 20th 2010, 16:58:41

If you used tanks or troops your o ally would also lose tanks and troops. In the old system, you could send 100k jets and have your allies send 50k tanks in support, but your allies would not lose any military. Grabbers could double their offensive power essentially for free by allying all-X countries with decent amounts of tanks and troops.

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Jun 20th 2010, 6:07:28

Your slant is too much here. I'll give your ideas more consideration once you stop acting like a lobbyist.

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Jun 19th 2010, 23:17:04

Platitudes aren't a substitute for an argument, orkin.

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Jun 19th 2010, 20:37:16

There is nothing to fix. Click on the country. Click "Reject the X alliance offer."

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Jun 18th 2010, 7:47:51

you don't even know how to war

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Jun 18th 2010, 7:47:22

In the past your allies would help with their troops and tanks but wouldn't lose units. You'd essentially get free allied help.

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Jun 18th 2010, 0:44:04

PM me your country number and the server this occurred on.

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Jun 17th 2010, 23:24:01

It wasn't changed.

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Jun 17th 2010, 23:21:26

What would be the benefit?

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Jun 16th 2010, 18:43:39

I didn't mean you TAN.

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Jun 16th 2010, 16:31:00

What is your country number? I will tell them to hit you instead.

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Jun 15th 2010, 15:18:25

pie, not pie charts

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Jun 15th 2010, 15:14:21

I spelled "&" wrong. This should be fixed, does it work now?

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Jun 15th 2010, 6:29:26

If you think there's cheating going on you should submit a report.

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Jun 15th 2010, 6:09:27

Your interpretation is not correct. It will not prevent the strategy that you submitted.

If you wish to look at it in a simple way, the ease of killing a country is related to how much land a country has. Countries with very small amounts of land are vulnerable to landkills. The first numbered change makes it more difficult to stonewall landkills. The second numbered change removes a defensive option for some countries. If a country has a lot of population, it can drop its land to increase tech and spal levels while still retaining its former population. The fourth numbered change prevents countries from putting 2B worth of stock on the market, going into vacation, logging in, spending the money, putting 2B more worth of stock on the market, going into vacation, and so on.

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Jun 15th 2010, 5:38:17

I can post some war strategy tips for you guys

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Jun 14th 2010, 18:33:14

Euros instead of dollars!

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Jun 14th 2010, 16:43:27

Billion isn't a standardized term. Blame the canadians!

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Jun 14th 2010, 7:14:12

We started with a set of principles and created a spy operation success formula based on those principles. One of those principles was that a country should never have a 100% chance of successfully carrying out a spy op. Against countries with 0 spies, the chance of failure is very low (less than 5%).

We are currently reviewing that formula.

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Jun 14th 2010, 7:03:13

We had something like that in a war stats section but had to take it out for the time being.

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Jun 13th 2010, 6:14:33

Wasn't our change.

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Jun 11th 2010, 5:31:49

In the meantime, remember that ingame alliances are free on the team server. Thus, there's no reason not to ally everyone in your tag. Communicating with the "message all allies" option (we have that, right?) should be fairly efficient.

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Jun 9th 2010, 19:27:59

I moved this here because it's something that should be decided by the ffa community. Is this really such a problem? We changed things so that users could login to their dead countries to see how they died.

What is the best way to treat dead countries on the mainffa page?

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Jun 8th 2010, 23:06:09

I think I heard somewhere that ridiculous laws like these were related to lobbying? Any history buffs know if that's true?

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Jun 8th 2010, 5:59:36

wtf, no one invited me to the farmville clan?

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Jun 8th 2010, 5:02:45

I think this is fixed now, thanks.

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Jun 8th 2010, 1:31:16

FFA countries get SDI in the first two weeks? What is the price of SDI, $10000 all set? :P

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Jun 7th 2010, 23:39:32

Fixed, thanks.

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Jun 7th 2010, 17:24:26

I will teach you how to netgain

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Jun 7th 2010, 4:15:45

You didn't answer my question and you made up more crap? Ok, I think we're done here.

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Jun 7th 2010, 3:12:09

You asked me a question and I gave an honest answer. TIE offered us a challenge. We accepted it and fought fairly. When is the last time LaF won a 1v1 worth bragging about? Running tyranny indy startups and surprise FSing a smaller tag than yours during the first few sets is not worth bragging about. The fact that you think it is shows how incompetent you are at warring.

Your obsession with EVO is pathetic, as is the new lie you invent and bring to the boards each week.

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Jun 7th 2010, 2:09:07

EVO won a 1v1 war around a year ago after we accepted TIE's challenge.

Your comments about enjoying war are pretty hilarious considering you've done nothing in the new game except get killed and run untagged suiciders. I've won a variety of wars on a variety of servers, some worth bragging about, some not.

Edited By: Slagpit on Jun 7th 2010, 2:18:00

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Jun 7th 2010, 1:24:59

Yeah SS, clearly EVO got FSed in the Aug-Oct set because they FSed SoF in the Oct-Dec set. That's some brilliant political analysis right there. Let's also look at the "current situation" for EVO:

-war win
-net
-war win/net
-war loss

If only EVO had someone like SolidSnake to lead them.

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Jun 6th 2010, 20:38:48

We included a version of Detmer's idea. Thanks Detmer!

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Jun 6th 2010, 18:31:22

We're glad that you like it. To read the official announcement, go here:

http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=1957