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Jun 6th 2010, 8:45:57

Oh cool thank you for this... good timing with eestats being down (my usual route to checking my last action time across the servers)

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Jun 4th 2010, 20:17:58

Non-clan servers - show countries you already have other alliances with (i.e. suggesting to new players that they are better to ally with people they already know)

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Jun 4th 2010, 20:09:31

I made a post saying that then deleted it 'cos I wasn't sure.

I used to play ages of strife (good game for those with time available: not me anymore), and they opened the translations up to the community... got 4 languages done in a month or two... similar content and quantity to earth.. just have to trust people before you let them at it.

It's a good idea, but probably not essential given that everyone online (especially in text based games) will have to understand basic web-english even to find the game... and to interact within it (at present).

If it's not a priority why not setup a page specifically for it (either on sthing like wiki or just make a quick database clone solely for translations).. gets the ball rolling for development much farther down the line at a minimal cost/time requirement.

Edit: Slagpit's post came while I was typing... yeap, that's a pretty important pre-requisite :D

Edited By: afaik on Jun 4th 2010, 20:06:10

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Jun 2nd 2010, 17:07:07

p.s. Market wise - choose your commodity here and you can see http://eestats.com/primary/oldmarket/72

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Jun 2nd 2010, 17:04:04

Yea but less so... express is a bit mental like that. I survived the last couple of sets sitting up high in primary but it's always better to jump late anyway. Depends how many enemies you've made (earned?)

And most do not switch to mbr to destock Ice - I'm amazed at how few do.

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May 26th 2010, 6:34:00

yea it messed up when they split the server into 3

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May 25th 2010, 17:01:06

lol agreed... an em is just a red rag... if he's gonna get annoyed at you missiling, you'll get him annoyed... if he's not then you're still not doing any significant damage. save your em's for the end or to soak up spy ops ;)

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May 20th 2010, 17:57:33

Cool just checking ;)

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May 20th 2010, 17:56:48

A
France
Uruguay

B
Argentina
Nigeria

C
England
USA

D
Germany
Australia

E
Netherlands
Cameroon

F
Italy
Paraguay

G
Brazil
Portugal

H
Spain
Chile

I've some doubts around group A, as South Africa and Mexico are on par with Uruguay so could easily take it; and group G, Ivory Coast are on fire so could test Portugal on a bad day…

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May 20th 2010, 17:39:21

isn't ghost acres a difference?

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May 19th 2010, 11:47:18

Before the abolishment of the 2Bn limit I remember talking about how inconvenient stocking was on 8 hour cycles... so I vote for 8 hours. It does say in game in the market page so easy to check when the next reset starts.

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May 16th 2010, 18:50:30

Yes, also I just got this message despite this being my only standing order (express server):

Your have the maximum of 3 standing orders for Military.

Your standing orders:
Waiting for activation: Purchase up to 80,000 Military at $3000 or less. Cancel Order

edit: I should have opened by saying I've been getting the unable to buy bug too... possibly linked?

Edited By: afaik on May 16th 2010, 18:55:18

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May 7th 2010, 18:42:10

Isn't is relative to your comparable nw's? (i.e. a straight %age wouldn't give it - it depends on the attacker & defender nw's)

I don't have an answer but it should be very easy to test in FFA.

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May 4th 2010, 0:05:22

damn fascists... I had 300 turns left I couldn't spend because there was no food. Had to buy off pm and still ran out... I'd have been easily competing for the top otherwise.
Sees red (#111) 14,107 $16,179,798 C

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Apr 30th 2010, 18:53:50

19M http://eestats.com/tournament/oldranks/82

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Apr 30th 2010, 15:04:13

Yes I expected #13 to jump again. I don't know if the date changed mid-set but I had thought that the last day of the set was today (30th)... I had another $5M nw in the bank. Perhaps the same happened to Political Ponerology?

nw's were much higher than last set but still low overall... here's the ranks anyway

http://eestats.com/primary/oldranks/72

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Apr 30th 2010, 10:21:58

I thought country names were fixed as well in tourney - appears not though

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Apr 30th 2010, 10:18:17

lol wait, weren't YOU #148 Grim?

I got top commie anyway but should really have put it in the top 3 - could almost have pushed for the win if I'd stocked a bit earlier. The new changes really help.

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Apr 28th 2010, 12:21:11

what server you play rick? there should be a commie the top ten of primary this set, or thereabouts anyway. don't forget the increased max for indy tech is 160% now - really helps.

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Apr 26th 2010, 19:10:48

lol NukEvil, when I said 'stealing' I meant 'stealing from the people who actually made the kill', not stealing from the dead sucker.

i.e. I sit there netting, see a country killed and run some spy ops to rape the food/cash - completely stolen from under the nose of everyone who killed it... better?

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Apr 26th 2010, 17:45:38

I like that too... first 3 offensive spy ops against a dead country yeild 50%, 30%, 20% of it's remaining bushels and cash - not enough to make it worthwhile killing someone for, but still a bonus.

Some things to consider:
Would it make sense to have it so one single player couldn't get all 3 ops?
Would it make sense to limit the gains to only those who attacked it in the last 2 hours? (help stop opportunistic stealing - although you could choose to leave that in... he says hopefully)

I don't like the idea of directly rewarding killing - there's too much suiciding already - but a spy op feature sounds good.

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Apr 25th 2010, 10:02:02

Nice, a question and a few comments:

q: do you mean to reduce grab losses, but increase ghost returns (so you lose less land but the attacker gains more?)

Tourney has a high proportion of all-x strats already, which increased explore gains would add to. I think the increased ghost acres would be enough in itself.

Really like the idea of a 1b limit to force stocking...

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Apr 25th 2010, 9:53:56

I'm not sure about contstantly selling troops - that would imply a commie would win most sets or a reseller, which isn't usually the case.

qz is spot on in that grabbers usually win. I won a couple of sets back as a farmer, but it was a grabbing strat... I took 8k acres on my way up & was lucky not to hit any clans or suiciders... netting and grabbing are not mutually exclusive.

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Apr 24th 2010, 23:47:28

TAN - I mean eestats.com, not earthstats

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Apr 24th 2010, 23:46:29

oh right, i misread the question anyway -_-

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Apr 24th 2010, 23:40:49

if you check the attack on eestats i know it's shown there as [grab acres (total grab acres inc ghost acres)]... so compare what the newsfeed says and there's your answer.

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Apr 24th 2010, 23:34:03

.. also (particularly in express) due to the high risk of disproprtionate retals. No grabs = less risk of logging in to a parking lot.

If you further reward grabbing what's to stop two clannies from exchanging blows to gain more nw? It's close to being worthwhile doing this already, when you are of similar nw. We already have examples of clannies gs-ing each other to put dr in effect in single player servers.

Skillful attacking isn't the question IMO, it's skillful target selection that's key... even then, you never know when you hit a clan member in disguise and spend the rest of the set having ab-wars with 15 players you've never touched (happened to both me & my ally in primary, despite being a no-clan server.. yeh right!)

I am usually a grabber rather than all-xer btw

Edited By: afaik on Apr 24th 2010, 23:36:11

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Apr 24th 2010, 19:02:53

yea same ^^, but ABC are all happening plenty right now. Both in express and primary. You just got to live with it or fight your corner.

I don't like the idea of tying names down, as the new players would be identified fast and farmed forever more. Anonymity is a benefit to both new players and those wanting their allegiance to remain unknown, so it cuts both ways.

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Apr 24th 2010, 18:49:52

This thread has my only idea so far, which was pretty half-baked (or I was...) and wasn't well received...

http://forums.earthempires.com/...es-should-each-level-have

Difficult with just 250 players to do a ladder that'll work.. I've nothing else. Someone have an idea quick before the set ends.

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Apr 20th 2010, 0:01:42

well played... damn low nw finish, i thought someone would jump and beat you to it, well done

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Apr 14th 2010, 21:10:49

No the actual game works fine as well...

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Apr 14th 2010, 12:00:10

It's much better for this server as 8 hour stocking cycles aren't very practical IMO - I like it, but don't think it would benefit the other games as much.

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Apr 14th 2010, 11:49:50

yep, they both work fine

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Apr 13th 2010, 17:57:37

Hey bore, thanks for that alternative link it works now through the firewall... finally tested it today cheers.

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Apr 13th 2010, 6:07:28

I didn't play for the last few hours but ended up 5th... I didn't have a single attack, defend or ally all set.... talk about quiet

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Apr 11th 2010, 21:33:08

I was mainly thinking of ways to make a few tiers of a few hundred players each... seems a difficult one to split out with such a low playerbase.

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Apr 11th 2010, 14:46:43

Off the top of my head, how about:
- each user has 3 countries; 150 countries per tier (or weight it as forgotten suggests 150, 225, 225);
- you are relegated or promoted on the nw of your lowest country each set (or poss ANW?);
- you can only ally with your own countries, making a true solo-game;
- each of your countries must have a different govt type at all times;
- if any of your countries is killed, you restart next set in the lowest tier.

This would add numbers to make the tiers more plausible and also provide a more true "solo" or tournament game.

Edited By: afaik on Apr 11th 2010, 14:52:28

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Apr 7th 2010, 9:13:49

Don't you just love all the helpful replies to "tired" :)

They're still figuring out how to tier it with so few players, so they've got it up and running while they work out how to run it.

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Apr 6th 2010, 11:26:11

Lol, I guess you don't qualify for a final score... must be because you took land off me & don't deserve it :P

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Apr 6th 2010, 11:06:29

A great site for those who don't have access to tools elsewhere, check it out.

@bore, I just noticed that the final scores don't appear to be accurate for the last express reset. It's taken the scores on the penultimate turn as the final standings (so missed the final jumps)

Not a biggy but thought you'd want it flagging up - I'm well impressed by how the site's shaping up.

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Apr 6th 2010, 10:23:53

Wooo new forums...

Agree tech prices were ludicrously low for the last two days. It was a good set for farmers though - pity about the suiciders spoiling things for a lot of folks.

Edited By: afaik on Apr 6th 2010, 10:51:39