There were 96 countries in the Express server.

Rank Country Land Networth Special
1 Blow Stock to Retal (#85) Game profile 20,466 $47,775,087 HG
2 DENVER Hates Us (#93) Game profile 33,087 $47,623,516 HG
3 Ye110w L3dbetteR (#82) Game profile 41,918 $45,782,240 HG
4 Tortoise (#15) Game profile 60,472 $38,878,564 TG
5 Tyri (#31) Game profile 52,091 $36,813,992 CG
6 Alive in 2025 (#79) Game profile 47,903 $33,326,029 TG
7 Highway to Hell (#88) Game profile 19,141 $30,655,057 DG
8 RunAmock (#50) Game profile 23,767 $30,590,850 HG
9 The Gallows (#2) Game profile 37,989 $26,868,194 FG
10 Vicnic (#33) Game profile 19,620 $24,980,586 HG

Congrats Kingme on the win! And Saphire and A-rod on 2nd and 3rd. (:

Welcome back A-rod! You're coming back at the most unopportune time with lotsa suiciders.

Congrats Kingme!!

Ty! Yeah my thoughts logging in today was… same game same toxic players. Doesn’t matter how much defense you get, these Chad’s just do what they do.

Grats Kingme!

Thanks!, this was my first back to back win in express so that's something I suppopse.
It's a shame some good countries are getting taken out every set.

I farmed the robots to oblivion, didn't get attacked all set, and still couldn't crack the top 3.

acres don't matter? Skill does though clearly.

Gg wp

60k is impressive! You have your profile hidden so I can't see your country status to give any tips (if you even want any).

Sap if you make your country visable, there’s a strong community here that likes to help. We all want to win, but we like the competition, and we like talking the strats!

I'm happy to share all sorts of tips that I guarantee will help you finish above 50m at the very least. Just tell me the strat you wanna play. (: (And open your profile, that would be easier too.)

Thanks Kingme, ARod and NiteIL for the generous offer of advice. NiteIL I think you win this server every set? so it's amazing to be offered tips from the best player in the world haha

Can't figure out how to make my profile visible on mobile so I think this is the page I need to share

https://www.earthempires.com/profile/18708

I usually play a techer but this set tried farming

I felt in strong shape with 24 h to go, 60k acres and no vendettas.
I wasn't carrying any stock at this point though as all my production went into build cost and tech.
Maybe should have stopped grabbing earlier and focused on building a stockpile

Definitely didn't build enough CS early game either and made the mistake of building them in the endgame rather than say cashing my turns

Bought a bunch of mil tech, Traded in oil rigs and ent/RES for 5k mil bases and jumped off the private market without switching govts at $36/bushel

50m seems a stretch but I am game to try if you got any suggestions!

I'm not familiar with the mobile setup.

However, on desktop you need to go to the portal page. Then click the gear icon (in the top right). Select "Preferences".
Scroll halfway down the page and you should see: "Game Profile Privacy". Make sure both of those options are ticked on.

As of now, yours still isn't visible.

I'm nowhere near the best players in this game, but I try!

Go to https://earthempires.com/preferences and change "Game Profile Privacy" to allow other players to see status of your countries (we can't now).



This seems like the problem here. You don't want any other buildings other than farms and CS as a farmer. Whether you buy rigs or not, depend on what you think the market prices for oil will be; if you're Fasc (the easiest gov for Farmer), you prob want to have some rigs for self-use at minimum.

In general, you probably want to start stocking at turn 1500, so aim to get to your target acreage and max income techs by then. CS works best when you build them earlier, balancing need for growing production. Ideally try to get to your target CS by 10-12k acres, and 50-60k by turn 1500 is a respectable land target.

Also worth pointing that Express has different food prices on PM: it's $38 max for all govs except Demo (which is $39 max).

Cheers you both I've managed to open my privacy settings now.

Nite, thanks for those pointers I'll keep in mind to be converting the buildings as I get them.

How many CS would you try to build for a 50k land target? 400 or more?

Depends on your government, and how many relevant buildings you'd grab, but for non-theo/dict, prob 100-110 bpt ballpark (380-420 cs). You'd want to buy as much (income) tech as you can whilst building CS.

Personally, I've found it pretty difficult to get to 50k by turn 1500. Granted 1500 turns isn't the absolute answer to when to stop, but it's a good starting point. I wouldn't focus so heavily on land if it's at the cost of not stocking. Different strategies require less land to be successful as well. You'd be surprised what you can get away with if you have great production levels (good tech, fully built, etc.).

What I'm trying to say is, don't be afraid to experiment and try 20k, 30k, or 40k as a goal and adjust your CS accordingly.

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for that. Maximising the efficiency of each turn played instead of land gaining seems to be my learning point this set. It's nice to be able to reflect with feedback in this somewhat complicated game :)

I think my approach for now will be to just build CS as I gain land as a way of cashing turns earlier on and not be too focused on a fixed target.

Something I wonder about this set Selling bushels on PM. is it a 50/50 investment in agri and military tech as I grow? Or do you target a certain % for each

I sell on private the entire set, and i try to get to max agri before going for mil tech, unless the differential between agri and mil is very big (e.g. agri at 5k, mil tech at 1.5k).

you can do a lot with various amounts of land if you plan what you'll need and when to stock to make up for it. BUT you might lose by 30k nw to NiteIL because he grabbed 10k more than you g=)

xD

this place is still plagued by T's that cant lg for crap putting the whole server in dr...

Guilty as charged lol

Plenty of shooting blind and sending SS when I meant to do PS over in my country

Hey, I was a T last set and won!
This set I'm a T with even less land, but I certainly won't be winning. I was too busy feeding my fat self during the holidays.

There is nothing wrong with being a T. g=) It drives me nuts seeing people have zero cares about the 8hr DR and just spam targets until they are worth 42a. At least they're not topfeeding I guess.

I did that last set.
When the break is 50 jets and I can explore 6 acres per turn that's still a 36a gain with Tyranny ;)

Is this the prisoner's dilemma? If we all waited and just take turns hitting once we'd all be better off?

Could be in play for those bigger targets, but for the robot countries that don't buy turrets it seems last one to the free meal loses