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Rob

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Feb 9th 2011, 7:40:57

I placed a standing order to buy oil for ~100 when the most expensive standing order was at 30 or so. A few hours later I see the market news stating 20k barrels were sold for ~70, and not to me. How is this possible?

Are standing orders not immediate?

Rob

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Feb 9th 2011, 7:36:03

Please pm me if interested

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Feb 9th 2011, 6:24:09

Sell some oil people. There is no way I can beat afaik like this :p

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Feb 9th 2011, 4:02:04

I think there should be oil on the pvt market similar to express. I want to attack but can't as there is no oil on the market, and have been in this situation many times before

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Feb 9th 2011, 3:28:46

I think that was me you were stealing from, lincoln.

Improving spy efficiency any further will actually be detrimental to the game. Its very easy to build a country with a high SPAL and it will be very tough to defend against if you are a huge country.

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Feb 9th 2011, 3:19:40

Steal as much tech as possible from as many people as possible?

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Feb 8th 2011, 9:01:13

I'm very tempted to play a dict and get it into the top10

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Feb 7th 2011, 11:58:45

Which is something I learnt the hard way this set. 1 solitary landgrab on this guy and I get barraged to the ground 3 days running. 20k acres empty. I think ill just stick to Express & Tourney

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Feb 7th 2011, 11:55:06

Thanks, afaik. Nicely done yourself too. I think i'll try my hand at running a commie next set - hopefully I can emulate the master commie indy player himself...

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Feb 7th 2011, 7:47:36

Just play a commie then. You rarely ever go wrong with a commie.

I choose one hell of a set to play techer again, after swearing to myself never to ever play techer in express anymore some time back.

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Feb 7th 2011, 2:45:11

Tech prices sure were sweet. If I played it a bit better, and throughout the period when the tech market eventually crashed - I could have broken 35-40mil instead of having to dump 1-1.5mil tech pts for 999 instead.

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Feb 3rd 2011, 21:43:58

Will be teching all set. Send me a pvt msg if you're interested. Full techers only please. Thanks.

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Feb 3rd 2011, 8:57:57

Anyone interested pm me

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Jan 29th 2011, 21:10:18

Question: In a PS do you add your offensive allies contribution then x1.5 or is that excluded? I always thought it was included first than x1.5. That how I have been calculating and have not failed an attack with that on someone without defensive allies.

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Jan 26th 2011, 15:49:04

Sorry to hear that dantzig, really tough luck. Your countries were looking really good, esp the tourney one.

Ivan, multitaps are all right for violent retals but single taps like the one dantzig did certainly doesn't deserve being hit like that.

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Jan 26th 2011, 6:30:43

If an ally is dead, do you still get the benefits of an off/def/intel alliance? I know the answer is probably not, but thought i'd ask anyway

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Jan 22nd 2011, 8:49:06

In need of a defensive ally. Mine just got killed. PM me

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Jan 20th 2011, 10:37:38

Anyone interested pls pm me.

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Jan 18th 2011, 10:43:39

Yeah, me too. I have been wanting to play a techer for quite some time.... until dantzig convinced me to play a casher instead :p

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Jan 17th 2011, 12:20:17

What determines how much ghost acres one gets from a grab?

I noticed some countries are grabbed for a significant amount of ghost acres and some almost 0 and even 0 at times.

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Jan 17th 2011, 10:29:17

I really fluffed up this set - like almost all other sets before this. Should never have multiple tapped near the end.

Anyways, from the past few sets, it appears that commies are really strong in express. Probably the strongest strat in Express.

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Jan 14th 2011, 9:44:56

Yeah, I had a bad set. Got into a missile war & finished top 10 but nowhere near the top.

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Jan 13th 2011, 8:10:05

I am looking for defensive and offensive allies in Express. PM me if anyone is interested

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Jan 10th 2011, 17:35:41

Looks like I wasn't alone in not being able to destock. In my country reset ends at 8am and my alarm didn't ring. Damn iPhones. I was cashing close to 10mil with plenty of turns and cash on hand

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Jan 10th 2011, 0:46:49

Crap, i overslept and missed the finish by 20 mins. What a waste.

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Jan 8th 2011, 19:55:24

I noticed there isn't somewhere to see the the record networth (by reset) for each particular server. A top ten perhaps also indicating which reset that was in?

Wouldn't that be a good addition?

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Jan 7th 2011, 20:42:03

Anyone interested in Def or Int pls pm me.

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Jan 7th 2011, 8:34:41

Stop saving the market. Sell Bus & Res below 2000 please.

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Jan 6th 2011, 18:56:33

Very nice finish indeed mikers. Congrats

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Jan 6th 2011, 3:52:28

Too expensive. Sell it at $99 turrets $90 jets, $1800 bus and res please

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Jan 5th 2011, 11:46:33

I need def, intel, off if your're interested. Send me your country number

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Jan 4th 2011, 6:13:33

Nothing is gonna change anyway. They will just send a "in game messages" for the sake of it and continue working outside the game to kill.

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Jan 4th 2011, 4:17:55

Why mass missile people that did not attack you?

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Jan 4th 2011, 4:10:51

I think it was afaik, if im not mistaken

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Jan 3rd 2011, 8:40:07

I do hope the admins would consider a change to current tourney GDI rules to encourage grabbing as well as higher networths.

This would increase the competitiveness of tourney - similar to how Express became more competitive after the rule changes.

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Jan 3rd 2011, 8:21:16

Rob

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Dec 25th 2010, 7:25:33

I'll take you up on that offer JJ, thanks.

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Dec 23rd 2010, 18:22:20

I play quite a lousy casher. Unfortunately I dont have much choice anymore since techer is no longer a viable option. Will do a cash start the next time around

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Dec 23rd 2010, 9:03:34

I'm going to be starting my tech phase. Anyone who is teching or going through a tech phase (casher) interested for a brief alliance?

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Dec 22nd 2010, 18:15:44

Below is basically a re-post of a comment of mine from another thread, which is relevant to this discussion.
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Tech leeching is in effect foreign aid. Why is it that foreign aid was removed tech leeching is allowed to go unchecked?

Tech leecing does not give a small advantage, but a huge advantage. Think about this situation:

A casher who gets 3 tech allies with 1000tpt early game. I buy some bus and res tech off the market. (just enough to get the 10% each turn from tech allies). For 50 turns spent researching at 1000tpt, I get 15k worth of tech free (3 allies) - which would have cost me 50mil.

Keeping in mind that 1000tpt only requires 4k+ acres, that 50mil savings at that point in the game is a huge advantage, taking into account the compounding effect.

And this is just talking about 50 turns of leecing from each ally at 1000tpt. Taking into account increasing tpt as the game progresses and over many hundred turns spent teching, the advantage is enormous.

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Dec 22nd 2010, 11:44:57

Correcting, 1000tpt.

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Dec 22nd 2010, 11:44:29

Tech leeching is in effect foreign aid. Why is it if foreign aid was removed tech leeching is allowed to go unchecked?

Tech leecing does not give a small advantage to a player as some of you have stated, but a huge advantage. Think about this situation:

I am a casher who gets 3 tech allies with 1000tpt early game. I buy some bus and res tech off the market. (just enough to get the 10% each turn from tech allies). For 50 turns spent researching at 1000tpt, I get 15k worth of tech free (3 allies) - which would have cost me 50mil.

Keeping in mind that 1000tpt only requires 4k+ acres, that 50mil savings at that point in the game is a huge advantage, taking into account the compounding effect.

And this is just talking about 50 turns of leecing from each ally at 100tpt.

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Dec 22nd 2010, 3:39:02

I have won with a techer before & had a set which I was poised to finish between 25-30mil nw before getting gang suicided.

It used to be a winning strat, but no longer with the increase in the amount allowed to be sold on the market.

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Dec 22nd 2010, 3:36:57

What about the amount of tech you receive should depend on either:

1) The amount you can research per turn

or

2) How much tech pts you have researched in a certain timeframe, say 12 hours perhaps

That would eliminate leeching & any incentive for deception.

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Dec 22nd 2010, 3:23:03

Nope. Too many techers again i predict

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Dec 21st 2010, 7:12:34

Perhaps we should all name our countries after sex icons next set? Unfortunately I already made mine this set, perhaps the following one.

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Dec 21st 2010, 7:11:11

Congrats JJ, very impressive. Very impressive indeed. Now, if I can only complete a set...

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Dec 21st 2010, 6:50:47

Thats why we need Express GDI in tourney. The GDI now is not conducive to landgrabbing. After a while there are only a handful of people you can hit.

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Dec 21st 2010, 6:49:08

All tourney games share the same marketplace? I didn't know that. In that case, someone sell some SDI pls!

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Dec 21st 2010, 6:31:46

I would like to suggest a revision to tourney GDI.

Suggestion: Similar to express where missiles & special attacks only allowed for more than one landgrab.

Reasoning: Players dedication and effort don't get ruined randomly. Two landgrabs and you run the risk of being barraged or missiled, which is fair. For example this set after 1 landgrab, the country I attacked decided to load up on warfare and missile me everyday. The ability to do something like that over one attack, or sometimes completely unprovoked at times ruins the game.