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Feb 6th 2020, 0:19:00

Originally posted by Marshal:

Originally posted by trevjo:

How do you know which countries are bots? Is that really a real thing?

2 or more words as countryname and each starting with capped letter (like Captain Yellowbeard) and a lot defs and no attacks and besides indies spyop shows that no jets.

There are one word bot country names too

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Feb 5th 2020, 10:16:06

Originally posted by trevjo:

Originally posted by UgolinoII:

and start grabbing bots (PS is better).

How do you know which countries are bots? Is that really a real thing?

Bots are the countries with weird names - for examples check the top players > prev reset, all those countries in yellow were bots. Bots can be grabbed without fear of retal.

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Feb 4th 2020, 18:37:39

Isn't this to make it more difficult to work out the Ally's break from their losses?

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Feb 4th 2020, 15:56:45

Originally posted by Cerberus:

I'm just glad that the Brits reclaimed their sovereignty.

We've regained nothing just potentially lost access to the biggest free market in the world. It's already cost us billions and will cost us billions more. The sovereignty you talk about was not sovereignty but sensible regulation, the highest food standards in the world, workers rights etc. Now to all be eroded by a government of millionaire eton graduates

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Feb 4th 2020, 9:59:54

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Techer is pretty straight-forward on this server, very similar mindset as playing techer in Alliance calls for.

When you want to play farmer or casher thats when you need to start really thinking. Commie indy is consistently strong on this server, because of the short reset, and it is not all that difficult to play either, you get defence and NW as a byproduct of your income so that helps to protect against theo techer topfeeders for instance. :)

Yeah commie shoukd be an easy 30m finish just through buying enough tech, grabbing plenty and burning through your units.

Correctly taking advantage of the market gets you to 40-50M

No idea how a commie gets over 50m in express though but I might start playing again to try.

I always thought farmer was not viable in express due to the lack of turns?

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Feb 2nd 2020, 18:26:24

Leeds, England

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Feb 1st 2020, 8:44:16

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Feb 1st 2020, 8:44:01

First confirmed cases of Corona virus here in the UK yesterday only 20 miles from my location.

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Jan 27th 2020, 9:59:07

Is there a list of these per mil tech level? What I want to know is, if I'm already selling bushels on the private market for 35 and I'm not planning on maxing tech to be able to sell at 36 is there any purchase price benefit to reducing my mil tech by a few more fractions of a percent?

Thnx

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Jan 26th 2020, 16:20:45

Could someone else please confirm that you sell at the price you list your goods for cause I don't think it's been sufficiently clarified yet.

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Jan 26th 2020, 10:53:55

https://youtu.be/ltLp_ALZBJk

You're eating bats Michael

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Jan 20th 2020, 8:21:15

Clrrrghko

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Jan 13th 2020, 22:49:21

Thanks for looking into it

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Jan 13th 2020, 22:23:42

Here's what happens, as soon as I type even one character the text box expands to cover the send box (it wasn't the ad shifting as I had thought) this is on mobile chrome. I checked on fire fox and it doesn't do it with that.

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Jan 13th 2020, 21:47:16

It's chrome on mobile - I tried a different browser and it was ok on that.

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Jan 13th 2020, 18:33:18

Yeah the ad probably has something to do with it. It's right where it should be and then as soon as I type the ad shifts up. Thanks

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Jan 13th 2020, 17:38:53

I can't send in game messages. As soon as I type anything the send button disappears - what's going on?

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Jan 11th 2020, 22:57:34

Npn

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Dec 30th 2019, 21:56:32

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Dec 27th 2019, 9:44:28

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Dec 16th 2019, 13:50:54

Originally posted by Gerdler:

Norway pays about the same net per citizen to be in Schengen and that is the deal the Brexiters are looking to get. The difference is that they dont get to vote in the EU parliament but they get access to the EU market pretty much.

Now the clincher is that Norway has a lot of that freedom of movement of people towards EU that the Brexiters have promised to do away with. No country has the deal that the Brexiters promised that GB would get, and the EU reps have been consistent from the start that such a deal is impossible.

So they either get a no deal brexit, which will
-cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs, in the short and medium term due to not having free access to the EU market.
-Stir up a lot of dissent in Scotland and Northern Ireland and possibly wake up IRA. ultimatly the union could possibly have breakouts of their own.
+full control of their own environmental policies, fishing waters, agriculture etc
+They can fully control of migration in whichever way they please.
+they no longer pay the 9 billion (tho the cost could be an order of magnitude or more higher in lost jobs)

Or they get the "Norway deal" which is pretty much
+/- unchanged net cost
+/- unchanged migration
+/- unchanged control of their own environmental policies, fishing waters, agriculture etc
- they can no longer vote in the parliament on decisions that could potentially affect them

True but most people who voted Brexit just don't want to know or are jobless benefits claimants who it won't effect much either way as the state will continue to pick up their bill. Brexit is pretty much all about racism and nationalism. People here think that Britain will just turn the clock back 100 years and become a superpower again after Brexit.

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Dec 15th 2019, 0:09:29

I don't know what will happen but I'm sure it won't be good. Best case scenario we become the worlds biggest tax haven. Worse case scenario is some sort of Mad Max distopia.

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Dec 14th 2019, 18:15:24

No one, literally no one in England cares about the Northern Irish border. It's only an issue for people who live there. So long as whatever happens there works it's ok. Scotland is a different matter, they will push hard for independence now. Could be the start of the break up of the Union. No idea if that's a good or bad thing.

On the British food thing, yeah our traditional food is not that apetetising stuff like shepherd's pie, roast beef dinners, stew and dumplings, Cornish pasties etc.

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Dec 14th 2019, 16:37:50

We are screwed. Leaving the biggest free market in the world that has brought prosperity for decades, goodbye to our food standards soon we'll be forced to eat US chlorinated chicken, we'll be paying through the nose for US medicine basically we are about to see exactly how much the big economies in the world can screw us over in our desperation to get a trade deal. Yeah we'll be able to catch as much fish as we want and keep Spanish fishermen out of our waters but what good will it do when we can't sell any of the fish to Europe.

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Dec 6th 2019, 12:20:58

Pxr5

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Nov 27th 2019, 6:54:58

Originally posted by Mr Titanium:

Originally posted by sfbob:

Not in express. You can bomb anyone's banks GDI or not.

Thanks for the info SFBob, you learn something new every day

You're welcome.

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Nov 26th 2019, 20:46:59

Not in express. You can bomb anyone's banks GDI or not.

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Nov 25th 2019, 21:51:44

Originally posted by Mr Titanium:

Originally posted by sfbob:

You're acting like you didn't bomb my banks first - or at least try to but most of yours failed. Anyway I appreciate your concern and advice is duly noted. BTW you didnt drop me to 20m NW, that was me selling turrets to buy 2 million barrels to grab you with.

Actually, I didn't bomb your banks first. If you got your banks bombed it wasn't from me.

And Yes, I do understand that I only took away about 10mil NW off you with my attacks and ops - but you panicking and selling all your turrets on the private market to buy oil to attack me? Yes, I get to take credit for that NW drop too. You got owned you little fluff. Go play candy crush this game is too manly for you.

Ok I must have imagined the 'Mr fluffty fluff head Titanium tried to bomb your banks but failed cause he only had 160k spies' messages. I don't want to get involved in your manly games thanks.

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Nov 25th 2019, 16:52:19

Also I don't have $200 million on me at the moment but I can send it next set. $10 million installments strapped to a missile ok for you?

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Nov 25th 2019, 16:19:30

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Nov 24th 2019, 23:40:50

Sometimes its worth not winning to wind up flufftards like you

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Nov 24th 2019, 23:28:16

Also you've just posted info from spy ops - my turns on hand - mods delete him please

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Nov 24th 2019, 23:26:54

Crybaby

At least you won't win now

2019-11-24 23:12:39 NM Skeleton and the Roundabout (#39) Mr Titanium (#9) 1456A
2019-11-24 23:12:31 CM Skeleton and the Roundabout (#39) Mr Titanium (#9) 1079B 44775 C
2019-11-24 23:11:57 EM Skeleton and the Roundabout (#39) Mr Titanium (#9) 8344MU
2019-11-24 23:11:48 EM Skeleton and the Roundabout (#39) Mr Titanium (#9) 5232MU
2019-11-24 23:11:24 EM Skeleton and the Roundabout (#39) Mr Titanium (#9) 8481MU
2019-11-24 23:10:07 PS Skeleton and the Roundabout (#39) Mr Titanium (#9) 1974A (2761A)

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Nov 24th 2019, 7:49:32

Forum ban Mr Tit for spamming the boards please.

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Nov 19th 2019, 17:28:41

Even with the ag tech prices farmers are giving away bushels at 33.

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Nov 12th 2019, 9:31:01

This is the third post about it recently but can only find this one:

https://www.earthempires.com/...kfires-47808?t=1570519653

I've had it myself, it says you've poisoned your own water but you lose no civs. The target had zero spies and I had a lot of spies so very unlikely to have actually failed. Bioterrorism is working cause I've been poisoned I can only assume (though I've not proved it) that there's a bug causing the wrong message to display.

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Nov 10th 2019, 8:29:24

It's a bug - its been happening for a few weeks at least, the bioterrorisms do actually work even when it says they've failed.

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Nov 9th 2019, 18:31:14

Originally posted by Berserker:

Is this a new thing? Bot Posing ? I had the same thing..Country had a Bot name, 240 cs & no turns stored...Now its AB's Missals & nasty messages..I didn't even retail, because I can get better returns from a bot.

I think they are bullies in real life & go around saying to their friends..." Hey look at my finger" then poke them in the Eye..

Ppl have been doing it for a long time but it's increased recently

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Nov 9th 2019, 0:28:08

I was sat on 50 something mil when someone kicked me out of the top ten by killing 15 million of my troops with spy ops - nice work batman

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Nov 4th 2019, 9:43:47

2nd

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Oct 29th 2019, 6:50:31

Ok I get you want to stick up for your friend and good luck to him as a new player, maybe he'll learn not to play like an ass one day. #feartherainbow

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Oct 28th 2019, 6:28:35

Originally posted by Ratski:

Well met Maj 1, #13 and he is not me. I was #11 RatZilla, I watched a Rainbow# 13 rocked your world, He fluffed you up, even after you AB'ed him, All most to a parking lot and he finished @53rd, and you ended at your board number # 97 and finished 97th.. place lol.

sigh...if you knew anything about this game you'd know that farmer can't win express, there are simply not enough turns for it to be viable, once you get the buildings / tech needed you are about 1000 turns short of what you need. My set therefore was an experiment with a pure 50/50 farmer oiler, basically I wanted to see if I could just sell oil to buy tech and everything else and stock bushels from day 1 and see what the result was. That's why when your friend started his bullfluff I was already down in 60th place...but of course I had a lot of turns and stock I could sell to easily buy tanks to AB, which I did. I don't know why I'm bothering explaining this....but anyway after I was multi tapped and then I ABed (and spy opped) your 'friend' (funny how you were both messaging me at the same time? I guess you were coaching him on his 'strategy') my 'netting' experiment was over. I only logged on for a few ABs on 36 who also multi tapped me and then your 'friend' again yesterday as I logged on to full turns I decided to use them all spy opping #13s buildings again.

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Oct 26th 2019, 10:59:58

Originally posted by Kahuna:

Originally posted by sfbob:

Originally posted by trumpoz:

#13 and #97 must be Ratski' 'friends'

Ratski's sure taken a keen interest. #97 is not technically a rainbow, just an experiment that now looks a bit like that cause I haven't been playing other than winding up #13 with ABs and spy ops and the same with #36. I'm claiming victory though, whatever that's worth against these fluff players as I've knocked both #13 and #36 out of the the top ten. Not that that required any real skill or effort and they would never have finished anywhere near the top 10, I just hastened their demise.

Translation ="#13 is fuggin me up long time." Lol
na I hate when ppl LG in the middle of conflicts like that.

No, the translation is if you're going to break GDI and threaten to kill a country buy tanks first. No one gives a fluff about your stupid opinion anyway. You probably are #13

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Oct 25th 2019, 22:49:04

Originally posted by trumpoz:

#13 and #97 must be Ratski' 'friends'

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Oct 25th 2019, 21:04:39

Originally posted by Kahuna:

Idk man that rainbow is fugging you up.

Wrong

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Oct 25th 2019, 20:23:13

You're rooting for the rainbow but he's got some more rebuilding to do now so he won't be doing much for now.

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Oct 24th 2019, 19:43:48

Message from #13: 'Watch me kill your country'

What, my farmer / oiler I only made cause I was bored of finishing in the top 5?

Not with that rainbow you won't...have fun cleaning up the ABs!

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Oct 23rd 2019, 21:27:33

Originally posted by Marshal:

dead like server.

no wars no action.

Some people just like netting here most of the time, war every few sets is plenty, constant war can be boring too.

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Oct 21st 2019, 22:12:16

Originally posted by nosluoc:

Originally posted by CX LaE:

nosluoc -- what strat do you usually run? Maybe I can provide pointers.

That would be appreciated. I honestly stopped playing the game a long time ago and just recently came back to it a few weeks ago (only have 2-3 resets under my belt so far). I'm basically running a Theo/Tech strat from what I remember a long time ago, but I've been avoiding land grabbing because I don't want to end up melted since I don't have a good "pulse" for how the game works these days.

Do you know there are now non player bots you can grab with impunity?

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Oct 21st 2019, 6:31:16

Congrats Ebert, we couldn't get close, SF you beat me into a faily distant third in the end. With only a few Indies playing I should have done a lot better but messed up the buy out-bounce and didn't even break 40m in the end! Also thanks to CX LaE for doing everyone a favour and taking out Kahuna.