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Sir Balin

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Aug 31st 2025, 13:07:43

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 52,534 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 52,691 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 52,849 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 53,009 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 53,167 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 53,328 points of technology!

Sir Balin

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Aug 25th 2025, 17:26:51

Who says the game is in decline??

This kind of content has been the uninterrupted essence of AT since the time of Mehul wishing us a Swirvey day. I am worried about bans insofar as they diminish the sacred institution of the forum. For what is an Internet forum without the noble art of the straw-man argument, the timeless tradition of the ad hominem attack, or the proud legacy of insulting flair with only the faintest relevance to gameplay?

These are not bugs. They are features. They are our heritage.

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Aug 21st 2025, 16:45:09

Originally posted by Hessman123:

So I think I'll just see myself out the door

I appreciate you hanging on until I could get that fat retal off. Godspeed!

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Jul 31st 2025, 16:04:25

TBH it was my fault. I was not familiar with the rules. I read the server details and obviously understood there are no clans, but I did not read the forums post that has additional game rules. I appreciate that the mods gave me a second chance. When I was reinstated, I tried reporting SuperFly's message but no dice. :D

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Jul 31st 2025, 10:08:11

In Alliance, I had a small amount of building cost reduction bonus. It was not removed after activating inf bpt or after using the inf bpt to play a turn.

Edited By: Slagpit on Jul 31st 2025, 15:13:21
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Jul 30th 2025, 23:58:34

Originally posted by Cathankins:

Who is playing game D? He sure kicked the hornets nest.

This was my second round playing Tourney, and first in Game A. I saw Superfly griefing in the news feed and sent him an ingame message. He responded with 9x grabs and 4x missiles because he objected to me referring to his griefing of other players as "griefing". My first grab of the set was a NW match on BiBiGoN, and we had a pleasant 1:1 exchange of ghost acres (congrats on the win). My second grab was on Hessman, who responded with 2 PS and 20 missiles, launching a war of attrition. Superfly messaged me asking me who I thought he should hit next, then reported me when I suggested Hessman. All in all, I enjoyed my time at the apex of this legendary server. I even finished top 10!

Sir Balin

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Jul 29th 2025, 13:36:45

*the feet

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Jul 18th 2025, 18:55:11

What's the intent for GDI costs on this server?

- https://earthempires.com/tourney/manage/gdi: "On this server, GDI protection is free and required."

- Permanent bonus available: "Free, Permanent GDI"

- Alliance/GDI costs for my country: $$$$

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Jun 24th 2025, 19:54:20

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Jun 9th 2025, 13:06:52

- Players could "invest" in the market as a for-profit entity, e.g., a stock price could start low at the beginning of a set and gradually increase, the market could pay a pro rata dividend every X days to shareholders based on the player's holdings as a % of the total and the aggregate amount of commissions generated by the market.

- This could also be applied to each type of goods (e.g., Spy Tech might have a much lower market cap than Bushels), and/or the market-as-a-whole dividend could pay out based on different goods at different times of the set (e.g., it pays out based on commissions for bushels the first week, oil the second week, etc.)

- Perhaps in some servers (e.g., coop), a certain type of tech could lower a player's market commissions

I haven't thought too deeply about the second-order effects of these suggestions.

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Jun 6th 2025, 18:41:58

The homepage is up, but the site is still broken: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/boxcar/public/login.php on line 48

Sir Balin

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Jun 4th 2025, 15:05:07

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

How about second place?

Unknowable.

Sir Balin

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Jun 4th 2025, 10:57:27

Congrats to Taz for a record setting t10 Commie Indy. Congrats to Kingme for last place. Congrats to Paladin for 21st.

Sir Balin

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May 28th 2025, 10:09:49

*claps*

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May 20th 2025, 17:26:16

XXX

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May 16th 2025, 1:10:33

Originally posted by Slagpit:

https://www.earthempires.com/...premium-not-working-53541

good fundamentals

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May 14th 2025, 14:49:31

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8kwJ-kcVtk

+bonus

Sir Balin

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May 3rd 2025, 22:12:03

I pay monies for credits so I don't have to click the bonuses. Where's my friggin badge?

Sir Balin

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Apr 28th 2025, 14:18:05

Congrats, all. And thanks to Taz and Slagpit and Z for teaching me how to netgain.

Edited By: Sir Balin on Apr 28th 2025, 16:43:57. Reason: credit where it's due
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Apr 23rd 2025, 23:00:18

restart: ugomatically

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Apr 23rd 2025, 10:30:09

On a per-server basis, a “log in lock” could be configured when a player wants to stay logged out of the game, e.g., as part of a destock strategy. If the player attempts to log into that server while the lock is active, they would get a message such as: “Log in lock is configured for this server. Are you sure you want to log in?”

This would be helpful to prevent accidental login via fat-fingering/muscle memory when the player intended to log into a different server.

Edited By: Slagpit on May 28th 2025, 16:18:35
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Apr 18th 2025, 12:35:19

Join the grassroots movement to support Mehul Patel for U.S. President in 2028!

Sir Balin

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Apr 7th 2025, 17:24:35

Originally posted by SuperFly:

We just refer to coop as their server

Judging by the rankings, coop appears to be SKA's server.

Also, TAN for Prez. I want to see some heavy, irrational tariffs instituted on all servers.

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Apr 1st 2025, 23:58:49

Sup

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Mar 28th 2025, 23:07:09

😜

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Mar 17th 2025, 22:17:45

LaF is #2

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Mar 10th 2025, 12:48:02

Sun Ob.

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Mar 7th 2025, 21:14:02

Blood of my enemies

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Feb 27th 2025, 23:30:28

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Feb 24th 2025, 0:07:24

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Feb 10th 2025, 11:00:39

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Feb 4th 2025, 23:12:07

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Jan 31st 2025, 22:19:15

( . )( . )

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Jan 20th 2025, 15:49:23

Happy Orange Man Day

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Jan 16th 2025, 17:51:48

ttt

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Jan 6th 2025, 14:58:06

ttt

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Dec 30th 2024, 14:43:33

TTT

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Dec 29th 2024, 19:44:08

Camelot: https://imgur.com/Ij8rZVx

Edited By: Sir Balin on Dec 29th 2024, 19:55:23
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Dec 29th 2024, 19:16:33

Never thought this day would come.

Sir Balin

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Jul 2nd 2019, 11:08:46

hey!

Sir Balin

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Dec 31st 2015, 18:17:19

Hi everyone and happy new year!

Sir Balin

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Apr 5th 2014, 2:08:50

Issue seems to have resolved for me at home (using http://www.earthempires.com - didn't clear cookies here). Will check again at work on Monday.

Sir Balin

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Apr 4th 2014, 19:55:18

i kept getting logged out doing the CAPTCHA. finally got past it, but still experiencing the same problems (can log in after a few tries, then i get promptly logged out).

Sir Balin

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Apr 4th 2014, 15:22:15

Did not work - in fact, now I can't log in at all.

Sir Balin

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Apr 3rd 2014, 12:09:47

Happening repeatedly for me. I have to try 4-5 times to log in fast enough to buy my PM before it logs me out.

One browser tab / login. Have tried home and work networks with the same result.