the quality of players in express is low

trainboy

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Nov 13th 2010, 13:24:00

Discuss.... there seem to be a lot of players running Very average countries. Lots of rainbows lots of low acre high net country how do they make money? I don't get it can someone explain where all the talent is or do I need to wait until the end to see it?

trainboy

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Nov 13th 2010, 13:24:34

O and most players don't seem to have mastered grabbing wtf?

CrisX1

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Nov 13th 2010, 13:33:21

Some people just know how to maximize use of their land, I've seen some have 5k land finish 20m to 15m or so in express.

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mrford

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Nov 13th 2010, 15:12:27

Too much land gets you farmed to the ground

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trainboy

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Nov 13th 2010, 19:36:51

I agree. But low land low nets. Otherwise its all on expensive. Like a 4-5k country only makes 2_3m a turn. And expenses kill u if your paying 1.5m to take a turn

Pain

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Nov 13th 2010, 19:55:22

if you only have 5k acres and your expenses are 1.5mil youre doing something very wrong.

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CrisX1

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Nov 13th 2010, 20:12:43

Indeed, I only spend less than 100k on expenses on mine in another server.

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NOW3P

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Nov 13th 2010, 20:34:17

I would kinda tend to agree with this notion...

The model in Express seems to be that if you stand out above the rest, you start to attract the folks who don't care what happens to their country just so long as they screw yours in the process. This drives folks who want to do nothing but net away from the server.

Thankfully we have gregg to save us.

Edited By: NOW3P on Nov 13th 2010, 20:40:53
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Havoc

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Nov 13th 2010, 20:39:06

A lot of good netters I know are too lazy to play express:p

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mrford

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Nov 13th 2010, 20:50:05

Well, I was at 5k acres till today because I just finished my tech phase

I don't really plan on going over 10k acres though

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

Pain

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Nov 13th 2010, 22:14:05

there isnt a single player in this game who is to unskilled to do something about a double tap. GDI will not protect you from missiles. your best be is to not double tap.

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NOW3P

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Nov 14th 2010, 3:41:11

JJ - GDI doesn't keep some asshat from declaring war on you to wreck your set, nor getting to 1/2 your NW (or even 2x if they're running an indy). Nor does all the defense you can buy.

Simple truth is, if you want to net in peace and be left alone, Express likely isn't going to be your first choice.

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mrford

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Nov 14th 2010, 3:46:11

NOW3P apparently doesn't know about the new GDI rules for express

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

Spear

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Nov 14th 2010, 3:59:36

Yeah, he's a little behind the times.

lincoln

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Nov 14th 2010, 4:00:59

typical HWCNG post

no concept as to what is happening
a little surprised that fordy could detect that

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mrford

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Nov 14th 2010, 4:06:00

U tarded Gregg

U tarded

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[21:37:01] <&KILLERfluffY> when I was doing FA stuff for sof the person who gave me the longest angry rant was Mr Ford

NOW3P

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Nov 14th 2010, 5:58:50

I haven't run an active country since the new GDI stuff went into place, so yes, it would be fair to say I don't know a whole lot about the new set up.

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Thunder

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Nov 14th 2010, 7:18:02

That's it! N0W3P is hereby removed as leader of LAEx. Gregg will assume command at his descretion!

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trainboy

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Nov 14th 2010, 14:18:01

I'm only on 9k having been hit down from 10k. But I make 1m a turn in cash and can tech 2700 points. I see some that maybe make 100k bushels but pay 2m a turn meaning they get just 1m. Don't get me wrong I'm not going to have a great set. Teacher sucked this set/on this server. U miss a day and prices collapse. Farmer or industry all the way next time

Lord Tarnava

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Nov 14th 2010, 21:57:20

tech was garbage, but the 45% selling ability makes up for it...

This set though if a country stands out... it gets screwed.

My first set trying in express I won with 12.8k TTR 27.5m net, set the server record for quite a while... the following set I hit over 14k acres 200 turns earlier, and was suicided. Someone has screwed my set(that I didn't grab...) every time sicne then that i tried express

trainboy

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Nov 15th 2010, 0:04:01

I did specialise. That was a positive cash flow through military ent and bus and low expenses. I know how to specialise lol if I hadn't recalled with no turns on hand I would have scraped a top10 just think about 8th

dantzig

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Nov 16th 2010, 2:35:58

Many players use express as a server to test new strats or practice for upcoming wars on other servers. That doesn't explain the rainbows but I do see quite a few of those...

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NOW3P

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Nov 18th 2010, 1:15:28

apples and oranges

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