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Country owner:	braden
Country strategy:	Casher
Player experience:	Experienced
Best finish:	1
Total finishes:	136

hm.. i remember it showing an op of my country.. ?

anyways, at this stage of the game, how much more am i realistically interested in exploring / interested in cashing out turns

i can not for the life of me do the math for X turns cashing with +20% compared to X turns exloring to Y acreage and cashing from turn Z at 20%+ onwards.. this is where i miss certain alliances / alliances mates ;)

As a casher I usually stop exploring with 400 or so turns remaining. Farmers or inidies can explore longer.

i think i stopped at about 500 to go, but had to take a retal so that cut into my stock. i generally aim for that, too, but without landgrabbing, as a rep, what do we all agree might be the optimal acreage slash what do we think about tech starts, as a whole?

When tech is <$3000 cash starts are far superior to tech starts. It is hard in express to coordinate 3 good allies for a tech start. You are also behind on turns quite a bit.

The best all-x Republic Casher I ran was a cash start to 1900 acres with a 58 BPT. Batch explore to 3800 acres and then explore and build from there until 14,000 acres. I just took corruption during the stocking and sold tech in the last hour. I made some mistakes along the way, but I think I could repeat that almost every set for $24-$25M finish. If I cut out all of the mistakes and with a good casher set it can finish easily over $25M.

I agree with what AndrewMose just said.

I've always done a cash start and have finished consecutively in the top 10 as an all-x.

I tried Rep Casher this last set, and had a pretty solid finish and I made quite a few mistakes. Still managed over 22m.

Yep, this last set I ran a cash start Rep Casher. Cash started to 1900A w/ a 60 bpt and reached 137% bus/res; bulked to 3.9k, build, buy tech, repeated the explore/build to 13.5kA.

I would tweak a couple of things: I didn't sell tech in the last hour; I stocked ~35m food and never had more than 2.3b cash on hand at once; and, I camped for cheap military in the last 24 hours. <---- I'd play around with those aspects.

But 24.1m NW... I'll take it.

I have found that not playing for 24 hours before your jump is most effective. That way most of you're units bought are tanks and troops which have the best $/NW. Just put in orders to buy enough food and tech so you don't depend on the market in the last hour.

A few minor tricks are to sell tech after you run turns, sell all your spies before you run turns and cancel your relations when you sell spies.