Getting there soon. After the next 5-10 days I think most of the big Techers will be done land grabbing. At which point they will spend most of their turns Researching. The sharp increase in supply should cause a decrease to the price shortly after.

Problems seems to have been fixed or fixed itself. I didn't log out, just made a couple attacks before going back to check and it all works normal now. Weird..

I didn't change any of the default search parameters. Just clicked Market > History > [Insert Good] > Search. Just went back to do it again and it is set on Jan 24 4:00 to Jan 27 4:00, same thing happens. It is repeatable for me.

Just logged in and tried to check some market history. It is returning like 3-4 years worth of market history if it works (unless it is repeating, I am not going to verify that, I just know I saw about 3-4 groups of December's when scrolling through the huge list of data).


But I can't get it to even display bushel history:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /var/www/earthempires/www/include/mysql.php on line 321

Maybe he is bluffing to make you hold back turrets and reduce the supply on the market! lol

Thanks, I didn't know if we counted the first day or not. So if someone spent all their bonus points on turns they would have [60 days * (48+6 turns/day)]+(60 days * 4 bonus turns a day)+(~8 week set * 2 bonus turns a week) = 3,496 turns.

Price is only half of the equation of Total Revenue (TR=P*Q). You also have to look at the quantity sold. Just because you sell something for cheaper doesn't mean you are making less money. At a cheaper price, more of it will be demanded, and if demand is elastic, then you will increase revenue by selling more quantity.

You probably cant increase the quantity produced too much in the short run because you need to grab more land and build up on it first, or purchase a good bit of tech. However if you notice that all of your goods are not selling each day, keeping them at the higher price may not make you as much revenue as if you were to lower the price a little and be able to sell all that was put up.

How many total turns are there in a Primary set (not including bonus turns)?
Do we get a full 60 days or is it 59?

I only mention it because I have seen a one of them this set so far. Maybe they use it as a cheap way to insure you don't get grabbed by that person? lol

http://www.eestats.com

Just pick what server you want at the top!

Careful, while it is true that when their non GDI ally expenses equals .3% of their networth they are most likely to have 2 Intelligence or 2 Research allys. They could also have one Defensive (or Offensive) ally and two trade pacts as well.

The spreadsheet I use has been updated since I uploaded that one I linked. Tells you how much military is lost in the attack. Has a SPAL calculator on it. Also has a spot where you input their networth and land (if in GDI), then adjust 3 variables based on the limits of 0-3 alliance slots until you match their expenses. Of course it can't tell you what allies they have for sure and sometimes multiple combinations will work. But in Primary you mostly see Defensive/Intelligence/Research allies, so it lets you make a quick guesstimate and spy when defensive allies can be matched up.

hmm

Edit:

Nevermind, i found the thread:
http://forums.earthempires.com/...-yields-formula-nw-factor

A few notes on using the spreadsheet linked above (I made it):

1) Convert Government, Readiness, Def. Bonus, and Weapons Tech percents into a decimal numbers when entering into the excel.

2) If he has alliance expenses, make sure you spy alliances and get their information too, or send double his defensive strength.

3) The middle results row "P.S. Pwr." stands for Planned Strike Power, and should mostly be what you use to land grab. If you look to the far right box on the "P.S. Pwr." row you will see the % of Defense the attacker sends compared to the defender. Send enough forces to make this 110% and you should have 99% success rate.

4) To error on the safe side, in case my calculations were not 100% or to account for an extra luck bonus (ontop of the 110% sent), I added another multiplier called "Chance" to the calculation which can be changed in the bottom left green box. I have mine set to 110% multiplier, which means if the rest of my calculations were correct without the Chance multiplier, then I would be sending an extra 10% (or 120% total of their defense).

There are five copies of the same calculator so you can plan out five attacks at the same time. At some point I was going to test its accuracy in the express server, but I just haven't gotten the time recently. But so far it has worked 100% for me, the only attacks I failed were my own fault for forgetting to put something into the calculator.

Depends on how hard I would have to reach for the retal. If I have the jets or can get them fairly easily without spending too much cash and throwing off my game plan, then I go ahead with it. If retaling them means I need to stock up massive jets to pull it off, I take a look at their land vs mine and how much I would get for it. If I feel the land I would get from it justifies the purchase cost of additional jets/oil then I go for it. If not, then I just let it go.

I think those retals were coming regardless of anything that is said here. BiBiGon got a little greedy with his grabs and this is what happens. I am just wish somebody else did it sooner. Those who just let it go kind of encouraged it to continue..

Three techers in the top 20 just got done grabbing each other. Better hope that is as far as it goes. A war between three techers near the top would probably do a number on tech prices!

Maybe he is trying to enforce a policy where you are not allowed to retal his failed grabs, no matter how risky they seem to be.. lol

Just goes to show you how fast a techer can grow in networth when you provoke them enough to respond with a retal.

PromiseLand (#234) was ~$3.9mil when hit by both Klince (#208) then BiBiGoN (#92). In just under 2.1 days he grabbed both of them back after growing to $5.8mil net.

I just spied into a guy who had only GDI expenses on the original spy op (GDI expense = Land x 5 [Primary]). Then when I went to review the same spy op, it showed his expenses at $0.

If you have previously logged into your country, then logged out. Then use the http://www.earthempires.com/login page to log in to check how many hours it has been since you last logged in. If you then hit the back button on the browser and end up on a page when the country was previously logged in, then it logs you into your country and restarts the logged out bonus.

The high military prices are the Indy's way of paying the Techers back for the high Tech prices!

Playing under a different country name this time?

I am shooting for a one week policy and I am more than willing to dump my set on some fool who RoR's.

PS: Watch out Top 20, there are some topfeeders making their rounds now.

Below is a link to a battle calculator that I made in Excel and saved to my Google Drive space. You will need to go to "File > Download As > Microsoft Excel" in order to save your own copy and edit the values. The only cells you need to fill in are the ones highlighted in light orange, the rest are formulas that update based on the numbers you plug in.

The spreadsheet can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/...V5UUllQ09rTi0xME9aaUFLdnc

A few notes on how to use it:
1) Convert Government, Readiness, Def. Bonus, and Weapons Tech percents into a decimal numbers when entering into the excel.
2) If he has alliance expenses, make sure you spy alliances and get their information too, or send double his defensive strength.
3) The middle results row "P.S. Pwr." stands for Planned Strike Power, and should mostly be what you use to land grab.
4) To error on the safe side, in case my calculations were not 100% or to account for an extra luck bonus (ontop of the 110% sent), I added another multiplyer called "Chance" to the calculation which can be changed in the bottom left green box. I have mine set to 110% multiplier, which means if the rest of my calculations were correct without the Chance multiplyer, then I would be sending an extra 10% (or 120% total of their defense).

There are five copies of the same calculator so you can plan out five attacks at the same time. At some point I was going to test its accuracy in the express server, but I just haven't gotten the time recently. But so far it has worked 100% for me, the only attacks I failed were my own fault for forgetting to put something into the calculator.

All I see is a ton of Comies at the top, but military prices are still up there.

I like this feature, however it needs to be an option on the SO and not made permanent on all SOs. I imagine a check box next to each SO when made that allows you to specify if you want the SO to wait for more funds to arrive instead of cancel if funds are insufficient to purchase any quantity.

He isn't in GDI either, which tells me he probably isn't going to stay at the top for very long (one way or another). Maybe they are waiting for him to become a better target. Or maybe they are afraid that since he is not in GDI and grabbing big targets, that he is just looking to pick a fight and war with someone for the rest of the set.

If you want tech prices to fall, then no land grabbing techers! =p

The more techers produce and sell the cheaper prices will be right?

I got some of that cheap oil, but I didn't expect it to go up in price so much over night. Would of gotten a bit more..

Military market seems to be getting bought out daily. I keep seeing nothing for sale at certain times. Are the big comies storing turns waiting for tech prices to fall?

Seems like military prices are on the rise now as well, I am still putting my money on the Casher/Indy countries for most of the top ranks.

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Sorry, forgot to post here saying I filled up all my ally spots for now. May need to drop an Intel ally down the road, but I am trying to help him learn to play for now. If he doesn't want help then I will drop him.

I was viewing the changes last night but didn't have time to post. But I did notice that when I moused over the amount of Food I had at the top bar, it no longer gave me a mouse-over text telling me how many turns it would cover. I could still figure it out by going to the adviser page, but having the mouse over was very convenient.

But what does the person who camps their country all day really gain for an upper hand? Only thing I can think of is being able to keep an eye on a live market. Which you need to have money to buy cheaper goods and sell them for a profit. Is camping your country for 18 hours a day equal to 6 extra turns a day? I don't know, but I don't like it currently. Because my schedule does not fit well with the 18 hour wait each day for bonuses.

I assumed it was for the second reason of preserving the bandwidth. Although I have no clue how much bandwidth a text based game takes up.

Still need one Defense Ally who can place top 40 preferably.

Might want to handle this one early before anyone's set gets jacked up!

topfeeder extraordinaire (#194)

Who holds the record for best finish without joining GDI?

Still need:
1 Full set Techer
1 Defensive ally


PS: Sorry to those who messed me the past couple days, classes started for me again and I haven't had much time to play or respond to messages.

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It seems pretty random to get missiles for one. Also, firing missiles that are worth more networth could be more damaging to your own networth depending on the size of your target and how much networth you make missiles worth.

Also need one other serious full set Techer please.

I finished in 36th place at 43.6 mil networth last set with over 20mil turrets and over 1.5mil spies.

Looking for 2 Defensive and 2 Intel allies this set who can at least match my own defense and spies. Leeches will be dropped without notice.

Send me a PM please.

Predictions:
12 countries above 100mil
5 Indys
5 Cashers
1 Techer
1 Farmer

Numbers pulled completely out of my arse.