Nice finish MountainYeti. I had a bit of a win streak going and you broke it. Now I feel the freedom to screw around and lose more often :)

That hit was with 11 hours left in the game on Sunday. The one before was with 13 hours left. They weren't Saturday hits.

Sep 04, 13:01
A brigade from mfrost (#90) has invaded your lands!
Their forces broke through your defences!
They took:
555 Acres (777 Gained)
818 Buildings (263 Stolen)
136,331 Bushels
$70,505,758
7002 Technology Points
Your military lost:
63,648 Troops
361,801 Turrets
24,116 Tanks
Their military lost:
624,000 Jets

$70m for 624,000 jets + oil? And it's not like the attack before this one was any better. That one got you $84m... didn't stop you from coming back though. You're honestly saying you believe I was the best target in the game here?

I never messaged you either. In fact I think you were feeling a bit snubbed, as you later began asking why I never engaged you.

I'm not buying that Clinton. "Sits fat"? You attacked me *5 times* and presumably would have kept going if I hadn't logged in and jumped. The 4th time, my land was only 13.9k. The 5th time, my land was only 13.2k. That didn't stop you, nor did the fact that I had high turrets when you started. Your intention can only have been to do me harm, and your post confirmed what was already obvious. Please be honest.

No, you did not opportunistically grab me when my defense was low. You deliberately made it your mission to damage me as much as possible in order to try to "slow" me.
http://earthempires.com/forum/post/780608/perm
http://www.eestats.com/express/oldranks/1167

You forgot to mention that you also obsess over people who are good at the game and will suicide on them round after round if they're doing too well.

You don't know what free land looks like or you were trying to stir up trouble, because you triple tapped a casher with 70k bus and 70k res tech and 150 turns on hand in the top ten on Thursday. Can't find many worse targets than that, and then you ROR'd.


You have the number of acres, number of hits, and type of hits are all incorrect here.

Mortcus is you isn't it.

Like you're nice? I'll repay your niceties in full.

They might not come back online. qzjul told me he's in Chile.

Does anyone else notice when the bots go down? You can feel the impact right away on the market. I emailed qzjul earlier today.

Food prices have been unplayable. $77 average over last 6 hours.

Yes, let the record show that drkprinc never wanted to attack me, but other people made him do it twice.

Message from DeddoriMetaruNidoru (#1) sent on Sep 11, 6:11
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you can thank the dummy commies for bottomfeeding me when I wasn't bothering anyone making me buy up ton of jets I wouldn't need.

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that was for buddy #43 you should tell them to be quiet when they help you, big mouths don't help ;)

The earth gods, along with some of the players, apparently didn't want me to score 50m. I see you :)

An earthquake occurred destroying 704 buildings!
An earthquake occurred destroying 534 buildings!

This game is cruel...

I've also only sold for $1000 for the last several hours.

Possibly one player creating one country, and it repeated and created three instead. When that player now logs in they always get the first one, so the other two are simply stuck there. It has been known to happen.

Earthquake?

They're back up and running, but they were down multiple occasions this reset which led to me emailing qzjul a lot. He resolved the issue after the third email. It's too bad they were down so much this set, but I'm happy that the admin here is so responsive to email, even if I keep bothering him over and over again, haha.

First time I emailed him, he got the "earthempires.com" shortcut back online but the bots didn't come back. Second time I emailed him the bots came back and ran turns (22:05) but then immediately went offline again. I emailed him a third time about it, nothing yet in reply but he's probably tired of hearing from me by now. In any case, running a techer feels like betting on the bots being up and I'd say I lost that bet this round.

:) I'd like to run a techer in a tech set that's quite good before I can move on to other strats though, and so I need the bots to stay online. I felt like a real horse's ass to be playing a Republic the one time tech prices were sky high, and now I go back to techer and the bots start going down. By the way, my experience with the Republic was quite encouraging, I think 50m+ scores are well within the realm of possibility for a player using that gov type.

These bot outages keep cramping my style...

Built land 80
Tech 2
Troop 0.5
Jet/Turret 0.6
Tank 2
Spies 1

None of the bots are playing, actually, and it's been almost 24 hours now. No more new land for people to farm, no more bots to buy tech.

Did anyone predict the bots would go on strike?

Counterexample: http://earthempires.com/profile/33888/alliance
This guy's 12,020 land from his dead country (unranked) clearly isn't being counted as his total land on the server is 650.

Actually, I have to revise what I said. Dead countries that get cleared (no rank in final standings) don't count, but ones that stay ranked are counted. Deletions are not counted.

Source: Bayrock's profile
http://earthempires.com/profile/37953/express

You get nothing for dead countries in your player stats.

Yes, he very obviously had "izmla" put him in a bit of DR to help him horde land.

Of course it has to be as soon as I don't play techer that we get a set with virtually no tech on the market.

I only commented here on the typical prices, not on whether the game is balanced. ;) In fact I think commie needed a nerf anyway:
http://earthempires.com/forum/post/776364/perm

That's the thought. The market has had very low military prices since a bot change a few weeks ago. At the same time, tech prices have been quite high. Of course, no two markets are exactly the same and things could always change this round.

Unfortunately, the bots don't read the forum.

Of course. But that means the wiki language isn't wrong.

TGAL can be <1 if no new turns have been created though... Just because there's no such thing as being logged in, and every refresh is a log-in, does not mean a turn has always been created at every refresh. The implications of that would be game breaking! ;)

It is true, read it again!

Key part:

It's not that the formula is wrong; it's only that it doesn't elaborate as to how the game handles log-ins. If anything, that would probably be a separate article.

In reality, you're always logged out. You can log into the game (as an action) but there is no such thing as being logged in (as a state of being). The log-in is a single moment in time. Try getting your head around that one.
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I'll provide you a concrete example to illustrate this apparent paradox more simply. Consider other servers where turns don't come so fast. For example, it could be 5:55pm and your Primary country is currently open in another tab, but the game portal will still say "Last played: 0.4h ago." I'm sure you've noticed this.

You didn't log out, but all the game knows is you had a log-in during that turn. If the clock ticks to 6:00pm, it will say your last play is 0.5h ago, even if the window is still open. That's because you're not logged in, as there is no such thing! But the moment you refresh the window, open a new page, or process an action, the portal will say your last play is 0.0h ago. You just logged in and gained a turn after log off!

Let me be more clear: There's no such thing as not logging out as far as the game is concerned.

The game doesn't make a special distinction for people sitting there with the window open. It can't tell the difference between that and me logging out and back in every 4 minutes. The result is that every time you refresh and a turn has passed, that formula is processed, with the TGAL being equal to 1.

Expert netters were posting those scores with commies because commies were the best government for netting, if you ask me. It would be quite a coincidence if the best players all simply loved playing commie for no particular reason.

Here are the 40m+ networth scores, from the introduction of bots (round 262) on through the last round before the bot changes impacted the market significantly for techers and commies (round 336):

314 1 VARIS (#26) Game profile 25,936 $43,059,742 CG
314 2 9 (#9) Game profile 28,287 $42,115,158 CG
314 3 Trial 1 (#48) 26,097 $40,136,216 CG
305 1 I Am Not A Bot (#66) 40,044 $54,756,500 CG
302 1 Viagra (#27) Game profile 33,235 $42,020,301 CG
299 1 LaResistance (#2) Game profile 30,954 $40,624,030 CG
297 1 ABCD (#78) 15,642 $41,555,930 DG
290 1 not much time to play (#23) Game profile 34,627 $40,128,922 CG
287 1 GLHF (#8) 28,029 $40,402,611 DG
284 1 Suicidal King (#48) 35,555 $52,994,784 CG
283 1 DeathFromAbove (#1) Game profile 17,186 $47,606,588 HG
282 1 Ecstacy (#28) Game profile 33,703 $45,093,096 CG
281 1 lol score (#10) Game profile 32,851 $44,184,751 CG
279 1 Nemsey Pemsey (#49) 33,625 $45,215,323 CG
278 1 password (#69) 30,753 $45,514,859 CG
270 1 HydroponicAvocado (#2) Game profile 32,366 $40,060,155 CG
269 1 YOU SHALL NOT TECH (#56) Game profile 32,000 $48,300,917 CG
269 2 (#70) Game profile 33,333 $45,869,226 CG
266 1 DeathFromAbove (#65) Game profile 13,913 $42,497,946 DG
264 1 SR20DET (#14) Game profile 27,625 $42,395,846 CG
264 2 I GOT BAKING SODA (#54) Game profile 28,149 $41,668,809 CG

The breakdown is as follows:
Commies 17/21
Democracies 3/21
Theocracies 1/21

Also, izmla spied on my market and bombed my banks, and then 5 minutes later bayrock messaged me asking how I had such a big stock on the market.

When WWWBAYROCKCHEATSCOM hit me and I retaled, I came out with a 400 acre gain after ghosts, but I calculated I probably lost over 2 million from my final networth. Of course land trades are worse for a techer than for any other government.

There's a ~10% random variance so always add 10% and you'll succeed 99% of the time.

After hitting me three times I finally retaled. He messaged back:
"attack someone else"
and hit me four more times. What a bully. As soon as I fought back he begged me to stop