all are welcome we hold no enemies or grudge except those who only PvE bots

why dont you join us in growing?

Why do there seem to be rules in every server that are not described in the rules section?????????????????????

Beautifully said!!

This should sound the alarm bells. You all complain so hard when your set gets "ruined" by suiciders but all cannot see where this game is headed right now. If we don't start playing this game properly, improving it, gradual updates, more PvP and more actual gameplay, yes I agree it WILL die.

If we prop this game up, improve it and head it in the right direction again, qzjul and pang WILL NOT kill off this game when they are done they will simply PASS IT ON just like Mehul and Swirve did.

Suicider? Haahaa... go take a look on Alliance and take a look at my news feed. You think I'm suicider?

The truth is that any new player is left in the dust as the veteran plays have cozied up in their own groups, protecting each other against "suiciders" while bottom feeding not off humans but get this bottom feeding off of bots that cannot even retal - haaahaaaaaaaaaa.

But I was here 20 years ago and in fact longer than that. Probably something like 25 years ago

I'm sorry since 2009 so that makes it 13 years for Express not 20

What happens in 10 years when the people here start dying off in real life? You are only one generation and you have all failed to bring on others from the generations below us - tell me which playerbase is left after our generation is gone? There is none you have not invited ANY OTHERS to come and play this wonderful 25+ year old game.

Before you hit that send army button, think to yourself - by attacking this bot - am I playing the game? 380 players on this server, most of those with the historical lowest defense per acre that you've ever seen!!!! My god how things have changed for the worse for Earth 2025.

Myself and Jiklo are building numbers with our primary goal of the disruption of the bot-farming metagame which will lead to the eventual death of Earth 2025. We will only be hitting humans who think they are going to be able to get away with low DPA, low NPA, land fat, bot farming all set for free and eventually getting top networth while not having to hit a single human once!!!! Not on my watch and not on Jiklo's watch.

Some may call this suicide. Well.... it was never suicide back in my day because attacking bots for land was never an option. The only reason this is called suicide today is because of the conglomerate LaF and others banding together to change this game for the absolute worst!!!!!


The bot farming metagame MUST GO IN ALL FORMS OF THE GAME ON ALL SERVERS!!!!!!! If you want bot farming metagame single player then just CREATE A NEW SERVER DEDICATED TO IT!

Can someone explain how that is allowed on Team???????????????

Any historical post about this or anything? Seems nonsensical

Bots are only here because the game became boring because everyone left - that's a fact I was here 20 years ago I remember vividly what Express is about. The solution is not to make the game even more boring. The solution is regular updates, even minor ones, and a constant gradual improvement of the game.

I'll be FIRST PERSON TO SAY the Express is a bot server THE VERY INSTANT that the developers prevent attacks against humans or they remove destructive attacks such as AB's etc.

But I know it won't happen :)

Express is not a bot server. It has bots but its not humans vs bots.


Anyone running very low defense per acre and just afk hits bots all set is going to have their set ruined I'm going to absolutely bring at least 10 afk bot farmers in to war this set and it will bring them all down with me. I will take all the free land, I have no regard for GDI and I know the response will be hard and fast attacks from all directions on me. No matter because it's just more DR for me and less the other afk bot farmers will be able to claim back!!!!! Please nuke me please AB me and please please please GS - use all your turns !!!!!


The Express metagame begins its ascension now

What is a bot server? None of these servers has historically been a bot server. The only reason they are bot servers is because the players numbers have gone too low which has changed it to lame PvE game.

Very well spoken and presented a great argument - not the type of stuff we are used to seeing in here

There is FREEDOM and FREEDOM2 with more than the max members is that allowed?

yeah wow that sounds pretty lame

Let's discuss for sure. Just want to say that me and BaDonkaDonks are not the same person even though we posted at similar times

It's quiet because of the developers, moderators and administrators over the last 20 years doing nothing except causing trouble without making any improvements to the game.

i did not play as a team at all in Express AT ALL - not even ONE BIT

so I got removed from Express because I don't want to hit bots only want to hit humans?

Can anyone tell me how I can get my news log after the Express set so I can post all of the evidence showing that me and Jiklo did not coordinate and then we can try and get in contact with another moderator or qzjul or someone else higher than this moderator.

Once I post the evidence and the full set's log everyone will clearly see that me and Jiklo were not attacking or in coordination.


Please this moderator did not get any reports on me and Jiklo this moderator simply saw "bayrock" in the set and sought after any reason anything at all that could get us removed from Express again just like what happened 3 years ago. I assure everyone we are not the same person and we don't coordinate in Express.

No-one even reported us for coordination it was the moderator that went and did it all alone. NO-ONE REPORTED US FOR COORDINATION BECAUSE WE DIDNT COORDINATE

Please can anyone help me what are me and Jiklo supposed to do? We know what will happen next set in Express just like what happened 3 years ago galleri will continue to ban me and Jiklo because this mod holds a grudge against us from 3 years ago HELP PLEASE

Please can anyone help me what are me and Jiklo supposed to do? We know what will happen next set in Express just like what happened 3 years ago galleri will continue to ban me and Jiklo because this mod holds a grudge against us from 3 years ago HELP PLEASE

There is no evidence because we were NEVER in coordination EVER we play on multiple servers including Alliance, Team, Express, Primary and we are FRIENDS we only coordinate on the alliance-allowed servers and never on Express.

If you think otherwise SHOW US THE EVIDENCE since you have deleted both of our countries

Please show your evidence as I have requested. Me and Jiklo at no time were in coordination and I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about - PROVIDE THE EVIDENCE - PROVIDE ANY EVIDENCE - ANYTHING?????????????

What kind of moderation is this where I can be removed, then when requesting the evidence of what happened the mod is unable to provide any evidence?? SHOW US ALL THE EVIDENCE

That is factually false for I am more than willing to take over moderation of Express and I am the most fair unbiased and most importantly I have almost zero friends in this game meaning that I cannot favour my friends

bayrock (#385) on Alliance

hello Cathankins maybe you can join my clan called BAYROCK with me and Jiklo we don't have rules ur quotas like that hehe plus you can teach us

Thats bullfluff mate why would u hit me ????

How could you know this?

Yes that's right just making sure u aren't accusing me of doing something that deserves my country be deleted though???

Does anyone have an idea of how long it will take to get a response from here? Could another moderator come in to check it out if galleri has no time?

I assume you are referring to this:

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Originally posted by bayrock:
here we go and beautifully done - me and myself jiklo enter the arena and suddenly the bot-farming-metagame is starting to crumble under the pressure. g0nz0 i take it you will be joining me and jiklo next set we will not be farming bots that cannot retal we will only be hitting land fat dogs thinking they are playing single player.

I will single handedly force a metagame change in Express which is OVERDUE we already had two massive changes with alliance pacts and MAX 10% gains based on your own acres - but no metagame shift - wow!!! You guys really are stuck 20 years ago
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You have misinterpreted what I have said if that is the case. Maybe you are not aware but on 2 May 2022 there were two threads created calling for a "no bots challenge" and another one for a "ratzilla" challenge - this was just last week's set. Myself and Jiklo have subscribed to the no bots challenge and we will not be hitting bots next set.

Is this why I have been purpled? Because I have said that me and Jiklo won't be hitting bots next set?

Not sure what you meant by Barney and also not sure what rule or coordination you are talking about. If you have more information maybe you could put everything you have here because I have no information at all and apparently others know more than me.

Thanks

Not sure what you meant by Barney and also not sure what rule or coordination you are talking about. If you have more information maybe you could put everything you have here because I have no information at all and apparently others know more than me.

Thanks

No we didn't work together if you can please provide the evidence here I'm sure we will get to the bottom of this. Was there some spy operations or attacks and logs and timestamps to accompany that?

My country in Express keeps getting deleted I don't know why three years ago this person also kept deleting my country they have something against me I completely forgot about this until now when I logged in and country deleted again. Me and Jiklo came back to play after 3 years this mod thinks we are the same person. HELP

here we go and beautifully done - me and myself jiklo enter the arena and suddenly the bot-farming-metagame is starting to crumble under the pressure. g0nz0 i take it you will be joining me and jiklo next set we will not be farming bots that cannot retal we will only be hitting land fat dogs thinking they are playing single player.

I will single handedly force a metagame change in Express which is OVERDUE we already had two massive changes with alliance pacts and MAX 10% gains based on your own acres - but no metagame shift - wow!!! You guys really are stuck 20 years ago

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Literally decades bro

Uh mate I've seen people complaining about this for DECADES hahahaaa

So my suggestion is to make the help and mechanics pages actually available IN GAME not on an external wiki. We are trying to get NEW PLAYERS IN there must be help guides that are relevant. Please make sure they don't go out of date because of out of date is WORSE than nothing at all

From the in-game help guide itself:


"The standard strike is the normal attack used when you want to attack an opponent and capture their holdings. Standard strikes cause the readiness of those forces to fall about 18-20%, so it is best not to send too many forces for no reason. These attacks take no time beyond the two turns. Standard strikes capture between 3% and 8% of your opponent's land, along with money, food, buildings, and technology. The percentage of land you receive depends on the size of your opponent (bigger opponents yield a higher pecentage of land), but successive attacks bring lower returns."


Wow - that couldn't be more inaccurate!! When is the last time that got updated? back when Mehul was doing things properly?

Sorry I couldn't think of a good name.

This tournament mode is the same as the existing tournament mode except:

1) half way through the tournament the current rankings resolve and players are moved to their new brackets in a similar way as the existing tournament mode; however...
2) when players shift in to group A, B or C based on their performance half way through the set - they retain their current country and continue the tournament in their new group (similar to when a poker tournament shuffles players to another table).

Players in the same group are now in competition with each other AND allied simultaneously - struggling to get in to the top 50% whilst at the same time the entire Group is trying to prop each other up and help each other get bigger for phase 2 of the tournament - amazing potential for diplomacy, social interactions and new strategies!!

Guys please. These posts are about people crying and screaming out for something new. At this stage it does not even matter what the change is ANY change would be good and welcome and refreshing - my suggestion is just go and MAKE THE CHANGE in Express which will last ONE WEEK ONLY and then at the end of the week either REVERT or KEEP the change - so simple!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worst possible outcome is 1 weird set of Express (1 week only!!!) - so refreshing though - maybe it'll draw new players and old veterans will come and play on the new changes!!!!!

Forums that no-one even uses? Open your eyes. You should be grateful there's someone active on the forums if I was you I would be like oh yeah nice finally someone who gives a fluff about the future of this game I'm going to listen to what he has to say because whatever I'm doing right now is not working - can you disagree with that - if so please show us the player numbers over the last 5 - 10 years?

Here I will think of a few tweaks off the top of my head right now - all a dev needs to do is choose one or multiple for next set, add the code changes, get the code reviewed, push the changes and wait a week and see how it goes - so easy!!!!


1 - Turns now instead store at 300 (420) instead of 360 (360)
2 - Medical, spy and SDI when researched now give 20% more than before.
3 - Construction sites are not destroyable when land grabbed
4 - GDI does not break until you have attacked your enemy two attacks more then you were attacked. For example if you are attacked once and then retal, your enemy attacks you again, this will not break GDI.
5 - GDI does not break until 4 attacks instead of 2.
6 - Construction sites are capturable from land grabs


So many easy options!!! Just pick one or many or think of your own!!!