Jul 8th 2011, 5:20:00
Originally posted by Watertowers:
This game rewards people who are mathematically inclined, and landtrading using ghost acres do exactly that. In fact, landtrading is one of the most difficult, risky, and time consuming strategies, and accordingly should be highly rewarding.
SemperFi had the countries with the most land, some approaching 40K within a week and half of the set, but were attacked by SALT and lost many more countries. This is an example of when war was one of the main balancing factors that keep landtrading in check.
With that said, i tip my hat off to Rockman who has done the best job ever of landtrading.
SemperFi had the countries with the most land, some approaching 40K within a week and half of the set, but were attacked by SALT and lost many more countries. This is an example of when war was one of the main balancing factors that keep landtrading in check.
With that said, i tip my hat off to Rockman who has done the best job ever of landtrading.
You are way off on your facts. Salt declared on SemperFi on June 19th, 20 days into the set. At that point, Walding's tyranny bottomfeeders were neck and neck with my land-trading countries for largest countries on the server. The largest of his countries at the time Salt FSd was 19k acres, he didn't have any countries over 20k acres on day 20, much less 40k acres a week and a half into the set like you're claiming.
You also neglected to mention that Walding's countries were not landtrading, which means that war was not a balancing factor at keeping landtrading in check. The largest country on the server at that point was a self-farming commie indy in SemperFi #2444.
Whereas SemperFi had very few countries that were big, almost all of Mercs was quite big at that point, and Mercs was well ahead of SemperFi in average land.
I think it is worth noting that Walding's bottomfeeders kept pace with Mercs' landtrading countries, and were much higher in networth (to their own detriment for landgrabbing gains and target selection) due to the far smaller amount of acres that he was required to build to get to the 15k to 20k acre range on day 20.
You can make your claims about how good SemperFi was before they got FSd, but unfortunately for you, eestats and boxcar both have country data for this set, including the landsizes of countries on day 20 of the set. The data does not confirm your claims.