Thanks Bug!
I'm in Stones but wasn't aware this was part of the TMBR strategy. Makes sense

I'm curious as to the rationale of dropping land near the end of the set (I see it in the Tourney set, so maybe it is just there?). What are the benefits?
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I see he/she has been purpled. What happened here?

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That's just way too much numbers and text. You need to appeal to the exciting part of it, and let's be honest, the market ain't it until you get into the game.
I feel you need to focus on two things: the empire building and the war aspect...graphically is by far the best approach for this. Think of jets versus turrets, troops attacking tanks, spies stealing or blowing up stuff, and then maybe maps showing your land increasing; something that when you just breeze by the website you do a second take and look more.
At the end of the day, it's a pretty cool game and the more people that play it (and therefore the less need for bots) the better; I recall back in the late'90's there was close to a thousand players, no bots, and NO country had above 20K land unless it was war (because you got a serious retal when you attacked). Fun times and I still feel there are plenty of people that would be interested if exposed to it.

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Dadgha

Ahhh, good to know and not a bad idea when you know what exactly is going on :)

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I have to agree with most people here that some graphics would make a huge difference. Too much text is a turn off. You don't need to have any fancy, even some basic graphics that underscore the aspect of the game would go a long way.
And yeah, fix the links!

Had a weird experience today on Alliance server and wanted to see if maybe I just missed something:

Finished cashing and bought a small amount of military; I'm 100% casher with 25K acres and my food consumption went from 31K to about 36K after buying the military. Not too bad.
I then used all my cash to buy an additional 8M bushels, recalled the 20M I already had on the market (storing it at $500) and over the 3 turns it was being recalled the bushel loss was still ~$36K. All good.

However, as I waited for the one extra turn to put the 28M bushels back on the market, I looked at the advisor and it now says food consumption is 61K!!! I bought nothing and population stayed steady, so I have no idea how this happened!

Any one got any idea what might have happened? is there any way you can see/calculate food consumption for your country? I tried looking around on the Wiki, but can't seem to find it any where.

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Now that I have the link i will certainly use it. thanks

Thank you!

Maybe I am missing something, but I cannot find the final rankings in Tournament once it finishes. Can you at least allow us to see the final scores for maybe the 24-48 hours after the set ends?

What game are you in? A, B or C?

My people are going hungry...come on you farmers, get busy sowing, reaping and selling!

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Postman

Ahh, thanks, good to know (thankfully my SDI was high).

Just curious
I thought here was a no-attack allowed policy for the last 24 hours in Tournament, is this not the case? Sucks that some idiot can launch a ton of missiles and spy attacks hours before the end of the set.

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That was it. It was full and deleting some of the message set it back to normal.
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Only happening to me in the Alliance server, but about a quarter of the screen is cut off when i go to my messages and I'm not able to read the whole thing.
Country is #99.
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4 points please

Excessive? Not at all, you should be aiming for a bpt of at least 60 and the faster you get that out of the way at the beginning the better.

Not sure if you are in any alliance, but there are a ton of First 100 strategies. I personally like the Farms and CS....by turn 100 you should have close to 80 CS and ~120 Farms. After that, it all depends on your strategy

That's me, and no, I wasn't getting mad at you guys at all. In fact, I'm impressed at how you actually seem to be able to get your sh!t together. I'm just fed up of turning up for war and half the team are missing and don't even bother to let you know. On top of that, it's not a Teams server at all, it's pretty much "guessing game" alliance because it sure as shi!t isn't 5v5. I'll stick to the Alliance server.

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It is, and you included a "moderate". That's great!
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I can give you one that just ahppened to me right now

Me:
Spies 76,693
Land 2584 Acres
Spy Effectiveness: 113.0% of Normal

Target:
Spies 1,080,641
Land 10,524
Spy Effectiveness: 116.0% of Normal

Chance of Success: High!!!!

It's nothing got to do with expecting it to succeed every time Prime, that's an assinine response. But I would expect it to be a bit more than 10%, which is exactly what it has been on a number of occasions during war.
The point I am making is that you wouldn't do 10-15 spy ops in a row (for readiness or whatever) if it says "low", but you are much more inclined to do so if it says "high". In two recent examples, the target had a SPAL of 146 versus my 43 (as I found out after) and there is no way that that is a "high" chance of success, yet it clearly says high when I went to do the op. That's not even a perk, it's a detriment!
I would expect High to be >75%, medium (if it exists) to be 35-74%, and low <35%.

I mean seriously?

Meant to be a perk of Premium and it invariably says "High". Complete nonsense! I had a SPAL of 43 vs a country with a SPAL of 146 and it said "High". I've never seen anything but a 'high" message and its complete BS!

Please fix this friggin thing because it is a detriment and not a help! I would never have tried any of those ops if it wasn't for the stupid thing saying my chance of success is "high". Come on!

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Just to reiterate, and despite what the Chinese propaganda arm is trying to claim, there has not been a single, documented case of COVID-19 transmission through touching a surface (any surface). While it is theoretically possible, the chances are astronomical against it happening. The source of infection is, and always has been, respiratory droplets in the air. I think this can't be overstated enough.
Also, when you are vaccinated and become immune to the virus, you cannot shed it (at least once the immune response has hit it's peak, ~ 2 weeks after the 2nd dose). To shed the virus, it needs to replicate in your cells, if you are immune, it can't do that, period.
As for my Father-in-Law, there are plenty of precautions I've taken around him long before COVID, and I'll continue to do them, but one thing I won't have to worry about is giving him COVID if I am vaccinated and have had a full immune response.

And Cerberus, the fatality rate for over 85's is >25%, it's 0.026% for infants and children aged 1-10, and runs the entire spectrum in between that depending on age. As for the safety of the mRNA vaccine, I've already said my part earlier. It is far more safe than any previous vaccine technology and instead of freaking out about it, you should be rejoicing that this technology has been developed. It is a game changer, not just for this disease, but for a host of illnesses.

I'll also add that I am taking the vaccine not just for my own peace of mind, but also for my Father-In-Law who is 82 y.o, on Chemo, and can't take a vaccine. The last thing I would want to do is infect him unwittingly, he has ~ 25% of dying (and nearly 100% chance of being hospitalized) if he were to catch it. Unfortunately, there are a ton of people who are in his same position. Maybe it's the European in me, but I see it as my duty to society in general. I'm also a huge believer in the power of vaccines and the use of mRNA instead of attenuated virus is really revolutionary.
Anyway, let's just hope we can reach herd immunity and we come out the other end of this as soon as possible.

Yes,

We don't know everything about the virus, but there are over 25 million recorded cases in the USA and there is a ton of evidence to show this is a contagious virus, but it is still no where close to being as contagious a virus as say measles.
I can assure you though that the reason his girlfriend did not get infected has nothing to do with her being immune to it. When you look into these cases more you usually find a simple explanation for this, such as taking precautions even if subconsciously.

So, if you don't have antibodies to this virus there is absolutely no way you are immune. It's really that simple. This is a novel virus and a naïve population, so everyone is vulnerable to infection. Everyone! Now, how you respond to that virus is a completely different thing, but you are certainly not immune without antibodies. Even T-cells don't make you immune, they just help you fight it off (while you make antibodies).
There are plenty of reasons why you haven't been infected despite your exposure, the most obvious one being that those you have been exposed to likely had a low viral load by the time you came in contact with them. The basic criteria for exposure is close contact in a confined room with little ventilation and talking loudly, singing or shouting for over 15 minutes. There is a reason why some events are super-spreaders and others are not and it all comes down to the person that is infected and how much virus they are carrying, and more importantly, shedding. You're using anecdote as the basis of your theory and even the most cursory examination of all the literature out there will show you that you are simply mistaken.
As to your whole sentence about asking that you "should be tested to see what I have that prevented me from getting the virus". They were absolutely right to look at you as if you were mad. That makes absolutely no sense in the absence of antibodies. What exactly would they test you for? It's antibodies that make you immune! In short, you do not have something that makes you immune and I guarantee that if you go into a room without a mask, and expose yourself to someone with a high viral load and is shedding this virus, you will get COVID-19. Guaranteed 100%. You might be asymptomatic, but you'll absolutely get infected and might very well spread it to others.
Not trying to be an ass here, but this is pretty basic immunology. This is one weird virus and for now there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to who gets symptoms and who doesn't, but everyone is vulnerable to it and there is no such thing as natural immunity, and that is a fact.

Damn,

$300 for an antibody test? That's outrageous. Antibody tests are $10 here in Washington DC and you get results 24 hours later!

That's just not true. The immune response and longevity is varying widely. Both myself and my wife caught this back in March. We are both in our 40's, in pretty good health (I am 170 lbs and have been doing MMA for almost 10years). I spent 10 days in bed with zero energy (including one day in the hospital, though it was for dehydration because I had gastrointestinal symptoms also) while my wife had pretty mild symptoms. We have tested for antibodies in June, October and just 2 weeks ago. Mine are still present (but have decreased almost 80%), while my wife lost hers by October. As I've said earlier, just do a quick search for this in Pubmed and you will find a ton of literature outlining this.
The vaccine, thankfully, provokes an immune memory response similar to a full blown infection, so yeah, I'll still be lining up to take it. I work in healthcare, I've watched people die from COVID-19 at my hospital, but I also turned down the vaccine 3 weeks ago as I felt it was better to have others without antibodies get it first. But I will certainly be getting it when it becomes more widely available. If you knew anything about mRNA (and I've a PhD in Microbiology and have studied and worked with mRNA for over 20 years), you would understand that this approach to vaccines is revolutionary and so much safer than traditional methods. It is a monumental achievement and we should be rejoicing and lining up to get it. But, as in keeping with this social media era, people like to think that because they spend 5 hours on google (and usually unwittingly going down rabbit holes), they know so much more than the experts. It's truly depressing to watch the flood of fake information from so-called experts. Fear sells, of that there is no doubt.
There won't be mandatory vaccinations (at least here in the US), never gonna happen; people are too selfish and self-centered (take that post above about" spitting on the graves of all of our war veterans " as a prime example of how ignorant people can be). But we can at least me thankful that we just booted out the worst president and administration in the history of this country and are finally letting the real experts tackle this issue. I for one am delighted.

Talk about trying to alter perceptions .
I did a single strike on what was the fattest country on the server. You retaliated with 8 missiles and close to 40 spy attacks. So, yeah, that is by even the most liberal interpretation an overreaction. If you can't see how that is just being a tool, it's all a matter.
It is tourney servers. No allies, no nothing. The only efficient way to gain land is grabbing, so there is no way to play an "aggressive" strat, whatever that's supposed to mean. I hit about 10 people on the server and not a single one retaliated, they do what's natural, pay it forward, just like I did last set.
And this is actually only my second time playing this game in over 20 years, so yeah, not hiding behind anything.

Ahh, so this is who Astral is. Don't you think that all those missiles and spy attacks were a bit over board for a simple strike, especially when you were the fattest piece of land in the entire set?
I would have left you alone for the rest of this set, but not now. And switching to Dictatorship is not going to help you one bit. I can guarantee you won't be in Set A next set!

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Can you link to that data? I can't find anything that supports that anywhere. ICUs there are currently at 85% capacity, that's certainly no where near the average of flu season for the last few years.
Considering that seasonal flu cases are at about 5-10% of what they usually are, and non-elective procedures are down on average 15-25% across the country, having the same rate as last year is nothing to boast about. Not really amazing at all when you think about it.

There has not been a single documented transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the actual virus that causes the disease COVID-19) via fomite. It is now abundantly clear that transmission is almost entirely via air borne droplets (I say almost, because as a scientist, we never deal in absolutes). Wearing a mask reduces the dispersion of those droplets (the extent being based on many factors, but even the most standard mask will reduce it to some extent). You can wear it as much as you like, you can kiss it, fondle it, lick it, wipe your nose (or a$$, not recommended) with it, and the chance of you spreading SARS-CoV-2 is miniscule (and as I have already stated, this has yet to be even documented).
Being infected and not wearing that mask however is an almost guarantee that you will infect all those around you. Again, many factors involved here, but essentially a closed space with poor air circulation and loud voices is a recipe for almost guaranteed transmission after longer than about 20 minutes. I myself caught it last March from an indoor cycling class..not a fun experience and I'm pretty young and in good shape.
This is now common knowledge for those of us that work with SARS-CoV-2 and keep up with the literature. A quick search of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 and masks at Pubmed will provide you with the literally 100's of papers you will need to show you that wearing mask most certainly does not spread SARS-CoV-2, and wearing it will help you control this nasty virus.
Anyway, stay safe and wear a mask when you are in a situation where you can transmit, if not for ypourself, then as an example to those around you.

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It's been down for me for almost 3 days also. Pain in the bu**

I'm having the same problem with mmorpg top 100 arena since last night. I've tried a few different browsers and my phone, but no joy. Keeps coming back as a broken link

That would be cool! I would certainly be down for TIE reunion!
Thanks for the offer TaSk1. I'm gonna clan with stones for now.

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