You've never tried self-farming, yet you claim its easy. Have you tried spending a few billion dollars a day on buildings while running a rainbow? Rainbows cannot landtrade, and keep up with non-rainbows. It will not work. Landtrading places a huge strain on the economy of one's country, which separates the skilled players who can handle an economy from the unskilled players who cannot maintain a good economy.

You also really suck at counting. There's 22 countries over 100k acres right now, and there will probably only be about 25 or so over 100k acres this set. Given that you will be shocked if there are not well over 100 countries with more than 100k land, I guess you need to prepare to be shocked.

In previous sets, people tried the strategy of putting all their eggs in one basket and boosting one country at the expense of all the others. Due to IMP killing off countries like these two sets in a row, and Mercs doing mutually beneficial landtrading more efficiently than anyone has done before, we're seeing more 100k acre countries this set. Of the 22 100k acre countries, 16 of them are by two players in Mercs, 4 are from one player in PANLV, and 2 are from SemperFi.

Three of the four countries between 85k acres and 100k acres are done grabbing. There's a ring of 8 between 80k and 85k acres each by the same player which haven't grabbed in 36 hours, and may or may not be done grabbing for the set. There's another country there that is done grabbing for the set, and there's one country in SemperFi thats still growing. Then there are two countries at 74k acres in SemperFi still growing, and then by that point you're down to 70k acres.

That leaves 4 more countries that may make it to 100k acres this set, unless someone with under 70k land right now decides to go all the way up to 100k acres.

You claim that self-farming doesn't take any skill, yet you've never tried it. Go compare what Mercs has done with self-farming to what SemperFi, Focus, and others have done with self-farming.

The 3rd largest tag on the server in avg land is a 1 man tag with 21,398 acres. Mercs has 32 all-explore countries, the smallest of which is 21,339 acres. Only two tags have managed to outgrow our all-explore countries. Are you going to demand that our all-explore countries not explore so well?


I think you know that your assertions are blatant lies. You know that there's nowhere near 100 countries over 100k acres and 200 more over 60k acres. I think you know that if you tried self-landtrading, you wouldn't come anywhere near what Mercs has done.

Look at the difference between the land generated by how Mercs landtrades, and compare that to what other alliances have done. There is a huge difference. If it doesn't take skill, then how is there a huge difference in the landsizes people have gotten?

If you have to lie to support your position, you must believe that the truth is harmful to your position.

Give it up... Its useless...

The Game Mods/Administrators Self Farm. They don't want to give up there only advantage and only way they can make the Top 100.

They don't comprehend that if you can Self Farm up to 100k Acres, you should be able to SS/PS others to hit 100k Acres.

They don't comprehend the need to defend your country with military, so they allow you to use DR as defense.

Instead of looking at Troops, Jets, Turrets and Tanks as Military, they look at them as NW. They've already ran off alot of players, and more, including myself will be gone soon too.

Wow, I guess you had to join in with Jade Penn in saying stuff that you knew to not be true.

How come they do so much better than you on the alliance server? I guess they are self-farming there, too right? How come they do better than you in primary, express, and tourney.

I guess they can't comprehend the need to defend their country with military, yet somehow succeed on those servers?

I know it hurts your precious self-esteem to admit it, but just face the facts. Earth Empires is a really simple game that hasn't had any major rule changes in the last 10 years, but its still too complex for you. They are far better players than you, and even without self-farming, they'll still kick your butt.

Its easy to succeed when you level the playing field between netters and warriors by adding "Quick" attack buttons, so the netters are not at any skill disadvantage anymore.

Wrong. The Admins/Mods have created a Netting Friendly game and have been pushing the warriors out of FFA for a while now. Almost EVERY change has been in favor of netters, and created a new game where warriors no longer have any advantage anymore.

I don't plan on playing this game much longer anyways. Its not the game I loved to play anymore. And its because of attitudes like yours and the Game Admins that I will find some other game to play.

Keep bad mouthing the admins for no reason and you'll find yourself banned. No warnings after this.

Keep bad mouthing the admins for no reason and you'll find yourself banned. No warnings after this.

They've already ran off alot of players, and more, including myself will be gone soon too.

Keep bad mouthing the admins for no reason and you'll find yourself banned. No warnings after this.

I don't care if you're sore that no one implemented any of your ideas. It is impossible to implement everyone's ideas and to make everyone happy. If you can't play in an environment where ideas are judged on merit and practicality then this isn't the game for you.

Every single thing you posted about the admins is factually incorrect. Just because you think it's true doesn't make it a fact. Furthermore, none of it has any relevance to this thread.

The Game Mods/Administrators Self Farm. They don't want to give up there only advantage and only way they can make the Top 100.

They don't comprehend that if you can Self Farm up to 100k Acres, you should be able to SS/PS others to hit 100k Acres.

They don't comprehend the need to defend your country with military, so they allow you to use DR as defense.

Instead of looking at Troops, Jets, Turrets and Tanks as Military, they look at them as NW. They've already ran off alot of players, and more, including myself will be gone soon too.

dedly, join NBK and fight for your right not to self farm

People on FFA shouldn't be allowed to not self-farm

LOL, you more or less have made my point that it's to big an advantage to ingore. Self-farm or get lost in the pack.

that's my point again Ozzite. I'm really not anti self-farming. I just think there should be other ways of netting that can come close to equaling it. You know different strokes for different folks. Diversity of play styles can only be good for the game as a whole. you know more choices more styles.

lol JP is more then welcome to self farm if he chooses, but he chooses not to because he doesn't agree with self farming. he's arguing that self farming shouldn't be done at all because it is a form of "cheating" like market buyouts, fa chains etc. If this was Earth 2025 you would have been deleted for self farming maybe that's where he learned his hatred for self farming?

not at all, I'm saying you should be able to achive similar results with FA, and buyouts or other ways. I'm saying that with ghost acres and a 16 country limit self-farming is way to strong.

Rockman in a way you can. On the total networth of your countries you have to hurt the others to make the one strong. Do away with the ghost aces and I would have no problem with self farming. With land trading you don't hurt your other countries. You don't give up anything to make your gains. There is no give up this to gain that. That's why self-farming is so strong.

Yes, but that still doesn't get me a country in the top 10.

So your claim is that actions between countries which are not mutually beneficial are perfectly fine, but mutually beneficial actions between countries are bad? Isn't that opposite of how it should be? Shouldn't we encourage mutually beneficial interactions between countries and discourage actions which force one country to grow rich at the expense of another country?

Yes, but that still doesn't get me a country in the top 10.

So your claim is that actions between countries which are not mutually beneficial are perfectly fine, but mutually beneficial actions between countries are bad? Isn't that opposite of how it should be? Shouldn't we encourage mutually beneficial interactions between countries and discourage actions which force one country to grow rich at the expense of another country?

nope, I'm saying just cause you want something (the same thing many others want) it should not be made easy to obtain by limiting the way you can get to that goal.