Players with New Members accounts can now get them automatically promoted by playing on the Express game server. There is no longer a need to message a moderator to help with this.

Yes, you can make a case for modernizing the entire site. There are a lot of reasons that make that incredibly difficult and time consuming. I am trying to figure out ways to make the playing experience better for you via small improvements that can be accomplished in the short term.

For example, you pointed out that there are some scenarios on the Classic server where you need to search beyond the past 7 days of ingame news. I've already removed the 7 day limit on my development version and that change will be available in the game soon.

With respect to target searching, I could change the DR column in the advanced search results to be a link to ingame news for that country number and add links to attack, spy, or message the searched country in the news. So the flow would become:

1) Run advanced search to find targets.
2) Click on DR column on a potential target to see its news.
3) After reviewing the news, click one of the shortcut links to attack or spy it.

Would that be helpful?

The game is intended to be fully playable without any third party tools. The Conquest server currently doesn't have any game feeds and we were all able to get through the first round together. It sounds like you want the ingame news search to go past 7 days? I can get rid of that limit and change it to cover the full round for the non-clan game servers.

With respect to third party tools, they are always going to be better (or at least different) from what the game offers because they only focus on a single thing, don't have our UI constraints, and don't have any of our obligations. There are a lot of different ways to show market data: ingame search does it one way, eestats has that table you mentioned, and LI's site has graphs. Players can pick and choose whatever format they like the best. I have no interest in trying to put those sites out of business.

Besides, there are reasons why players would want to check market data or NW changes while remaining logged out of the game. Third party sites can also offer data and visualizations for past rounds which really don't fit at all within a live round of the game.

You can say that it's "extremely unfriendly" if you want to but that doesn't give me any information on how to improve it.

This site seems to be currently working: https://li.servegame.com/...y.php?cnum=15&snum=11

Yes, you should definitely farm Fresh Meat For Superfly (#75) and see what happens!

The game account registration process now automatically creates Express countries for newly registered players. Based on historical data, we should expect to see around 7 new countries appear every round. Please be welcoming and friendly to any new players that you encounter.

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║      Name       ║ Wins ║
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║ Gerdler         ║   30 ║
║ Rob             ║   12 ║
║ Hank Scorpio    ║   10 ║
║ ingle           ║   10 ║
║ Tmac            ║    9 ║
║ AndrewMose      ║    9 ║
║ Rockets276      ║    8 ║
║ NitelL          ║    7 ║
║ BiBiGoN         ║    6 ║
║ oldman          ║    6 ║
║ shtorm12345     ║    6 ║
║ Gazza           ║    6 ║
║ cyref           ║    5 ║
║ mac23           ║    5 ║
║ Molotov         ║    4 ║
║ afaik           ║    4 ║
║ LightBringer    ║    4 ║
║ Getafix         ║    3 ║
║ DancingBear     ║    3 ║
║ VivaNick        ║    2 ║
║ Tertius         ║    2 ║
║ beest79         ║    2 ║
║ beerdrinker75   ║    2 ║
║ Armadillo       ║    2 ║
║ Grimstad        ║    2 ║
║ bakku           ║    2 ║
║ Cathankins      ║    2 ║
║ Gogy            ║    2 ║
║ hyoau           ║    1 ║
║ zydx            ║    1 ║
║ Charles         ║    1 ║
║ mikers          ║    1 ║
║ Bug             ║    1 ║
║ boneSAW         ║    1 ║
║ h2orich         ║    1 ║
║ Navisis         ║    1 ║
║ MountainYeti    ║    1 ║
║ Trippster       ║    1 ║
║ ebert00         ║    1 ║
║ Furano          ║    1 ║
║ Shadow          ║    1 ║
║ Zorp            ║    1 ║
║ guochel         ║    1 ║
║ jedioda         ║    1 ║
║ mc2x            ║    1 ║
║ Ti annichilisco ║    1 ║
║ Mr Cheese       ║    1 ║
║ GreenMan        ║    1 ║
║ Uticant         ║    1 ║
║ saplingg        ║    1 ║
║ silentwolf      ║    1 ║
║ moronic1        ║    1 ║
║ diez            ║    1 ║
║ Porky           ║    1 ║
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https://www.earthempires.com/tourney/194/ranks

Extra turns at start are enabled for the Cooperation, Conquest, Classic, and Express servers. No immediate plans to change FFA and Alliance because it might take some players time to tag up.

What's the scenario here? You meant to click "all" to sell all of your bushels but sold all of your oil instead by accident?

I have updated the help text for the spy op to make the behavior more clear.

The Dictatorship government will now have the +33% Ghost Acres bonus already present on other game servers.

Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

Planned strike unavailable time has been reduced from 20 hours to 10 hours.

Maximum daily spy ops has been increased from 50 to 75.



I hope that everyone enjoyed the first round. Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

I agree that the incentives are somewhat bad but am still trying to find the best way to try to fix that. Some of the best historical finishes in Express were countries that kept decent levels of defense all round. Express also offers unique ways to keep your military expenses down:

* You can play up to 18% of your turns at once and buy defense only at the end of that. That's up to 360 turns with reduced expenses compared to other servers.

* You can sell 45% or 60% of your turrets in a single public market sale before playing a big block of turns. That dramatically lowers the amount of time you spend under-defended and your NW stays high until the units actually sell.

* In some cases it's even profitable to sell some of your defense on your private market, play a big block of turns, and to rebuy after that.

The advice that I would give you is threefold:

1) Don't be predictable. If you play a 60k acre very low defense country every round then other players are going to notice that pattern and punish you.

2) Take risks at the start instead of the end. I can understand why a player would forgo defense at the beginning of the round in order to focus on tech while they haven't invested too much time yet, but is it really necessary to take big risk towards the end even though your tech levels are good by that point?

3) Take a break from time to time. We used to offer Express about four times a month and now it runs six times per month. The server will still be here five days from now!

The second round of a new non-clan server (Conquest) starts on June 1. Could be worth a look if you prefer the non-clan game servers.

It would be way funnier to give everyone 1000 EMs instead.

Should be fixed now, thank you for reporting.

Should we do anything special for round 100? Any good ideas?

cordycsw
anyone doing tech start?

need some research allies



Crackhead
rep/cash tech start ally would be excellent



DeLpHiNuS
1 spot available for defence ally, can send me pact.. thanks!



TheoSqua
I need all allies. Also i'm teching.

Misslie Boat #14

There are a bunch of 35 M NW all-X finishes in Express and Conquest has more turns and a lot more bonus points. I don't know if top all-X finishes will be seen in round 1 but the potential is certainly there.

We recently created a rewards system so that players could earn premium credits simply by playing the game. I understand that some players are not able to play on more than one game server, so we're introducing a new way of acquiring premium credits. Players can be awarded 12 months of credits (28800) if they donate the equivalent of $50 to a charitable organization. To do so, send a forum message to me with the following information:

1) Your game profile link - can be found in the little icon next to your forum name and in other places. Format is https://www.earthempires.com/profile/XXXXX/
2) Simple proof that you donated $50 or more to a charitable organization after the date of this announcement post.


Please understand that this a temporary measure that may be discontinued at any time. Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

The first step is we'd need one of the third party site maintainers to commit to supporting the Conquest server if feeds were available. We would then need to make some adjustments on our side if we wanted to support feeds because we've never had feeds before for servers with multiple games (players are in game A and NPC countries are in game Z).

I think that the market and ranks feeds could be offered without negatively impacting the playing experience. I'm unsure about news feed support. Some players use it to set up alerts on their country. It doesn't really feel like a non-clan server if the guy you're ABing logs in to stonewall within a few seconds, know what I mean?

I've changed the number of break days between alliance rounds to 1 day, so there will be less downtime in the future.

If you really feel that strongly about paying then you can send me a forum message to try to make custom arrangements, but I can't make the old shop work again on the site.

I made small improvements to the fa and manage subpages. There's a change in behavior in that the fa page now sends 10% of all goods by default.

I changed how this page works a little bit. Can you confirm that there aren't any issues on mobile?

Key differences:

* NPC countries can stockpile money, bushels, or tech depending on market prices.
* Techer NPC countries will no longer accumulate money forever.
* Casher and farmer NPC countries will no longer accumulate tech forever.
* Indy NPC countries will be able to build all of their acres.
* I believe NPC countries will reject any ingame alliance requests.


There will be a bit of erratic behavior during the final round of this set because many of the NPC countries are playing with the wrong strategy, but this should not be an issue starting with round 99.

Anything that I can do to make it more clear? The problem is I designed it so everything makes perfect sense to me.

Go to https://www.earthempires.com/preferences and check "Allow other players to see the status of your past countries (dead countries are always visible as of mid 2024)". You will then be able to see those statuses. You can uncheck it after viewing them if you want, but IMO it's more fun to show off your great historical countries!

The final status turret record is a bit over 140 M.

Improved the "New SO" subpage.

Should be fixed now.

I agree that successful attack percentage should change, perhaps to only count rounds from the previous 12 months.

In theory this will be added after the next leaderboards refresh.

This has been added.

Is this still happening? I reviewed the code and I don't see any reason why only the first op would be sent to a hosting site.

That's eventually planned for the Express server.

Hi Ratski,

You are not able to attack NPC countries on this server. I hope that you give the server a try. I'm sure there will be lots of banks for you to bomb.

Not that I plan to do this often, but there are some unique benefits gained when creating a new server. It is significantly easier to try new things and to make changes. Some of those changes typically move to all game servers and improve the game experience overall. For example, the advanced ingame search was developed as part of Cooperation server development because it was easier to do that than force a hosting site to support a new server. That ingame search is now available everywhere else and was also supported to the support the new FFA bulk attack NPC page.


I agree that the Tournament server had some unique elements to it. In my mind, here are the relevant questions:

1) Is there a feasible path to improving the server?

2) Do the unique elements offer enough value to justify our limited number of server slots?

3) Is the balance of the unique elements positive or negative?


I have my own answers to those questions, but I don't want to get too far off topic. I'm sure that you can figure out what I'm implying here.

addressed

I am pleased to announce the creation of the Conquest game server. The first round for the new server will begin on May 1. This server does not allow clans and will replace the Tournament server. All player countries are assigned to game A and all NPC countries are assigned to game Z. This means that it is not possible to attack or perform spy ops against NPC countries. NPC countries will interact with the public market which can be helpful during time periods of low player activity. Otherwise, the game rules are very similar to the Classic game server.

The various server details pages (https://www.earthempires.com/conquest/serverdetails) are quite thorough these days, so I will copy and paste some of the notable properties of the Conquest server:

* The Major Change Set number of this server is 32.

* Turns are given every 20 minutes.

* Countries can hold a maximum of 160 (160) turns.

* Initial countries are awarded 160 extra turns at the start.

* Initial countries are awarded 2 nuclear missiles at the start.

* The minimum time for market goods to arrive on the market is 3 hours. The maximum time is 4 hours.

* Each country can launch 2 Planned Strikes per day. Additional daily planned strikes can be earned through SDI technology. Available Planned Strikes refresh at midnight game time.

* GDI authority prevents offensive actions against another country which is 6 times bigger or smaller than it.

* This following ingame alliances are not permitted: defensive, offensive and research

* An ingame alliance must be kept for at least 720 hours.


This is a monthly server that should start on the first of the month most of the time (assuming I configured that correctly). I hope that interested players give it a try and have fun.


Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

The Cooperation, Alliance, FFA, Primary, and Express servers will be upgraded to Change Set 32 after their current rounds end.


Change Set 32:

Changes to all servers:

* Unit calculations for type 1 ghost acre returns now include readiness and the attack power bonus from declaring war. With this change, all attack power modifiers now apply to the number of units sent calculation for type 1 ghost acre returns. As a reminder, type 1 ghost acres are extra buildings (along with acres) that can be acquired from landgrabs. One limit placed on type 1 ghost acres return is based on the number of units sent by the attacker. As of Change Set 32, the formula is as follows:

20 * ALL_OFFENSIVE_POWER_MODIFIERS * (TROOPS_SENT_ON_ATTACK + JETS_SENT_ON_ATTACK + TANKS_SENT_ON_ATTACK) / LAND_OF_ATTACKER


* Recent intended changes to government bonuses were done through an ancient internal system and were not applied as expected. This system has been removed and now all government changes are directly tied to a server's Change Set. The bonus effectiveness benefit for the Fascist government has been reduced from 15% to 10%. For now, the industrial production bonus for the Communist government will remain at 125% on the Cooperation server and at 135% for all other game servers.


Changes to non-clan servers:

* Public market commission for the Communist government has been increased from 10% to 12%.


Free For All server only:

* This server is no longer exempt from the type 1 ghost acres cap based on sent units.



Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

The alpha conquest server is available for players with active premium access.

There's still a little bit of time to change game mechanics before the start of round 1, so any strong opinions should be posted right away.

Players must follow all of the standard game rules while playing on the Conquest server. This includes, but is not limited to:

* Players may only have one game account.
* Players cannot create countries with offensive country names or send ingame messages with offensive content.
* Players should report any bugs or exploits they find by posting on the Bugs & Suggestions forum or by messaging an active moderator or administrator.
* This server does not have clans. Playing in order to benefit another player is not allowed. Working with another player to disadvantage another player is not allowed.
* Players who repeatedly engage in rule breaking or play to ruin the experience of others may find limitations placed on their game accounts.

Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

The forums are provided to enhance your enjoyment of the game. Please attempt to keep most discussion friendly and related to the game. Below are a few examples of prohibited actions for players who want more details:

-Do not post in game information that can only be retrieved by taking an in game turn (This means no spy ops, no military breaks, no attacking results etc).
-Do not insult other players based on personal characteristics including race, religion, origin, or sexual preference. Trash talk is fine in moderation but it should be focused on a clan or a country instead of a personal attack.
-Do not link to adult, offensive, or obscene content.
-Do not impersonate game staff.
-Do not post anyone's real life information, including names.
-Don't be a pest (this includes such things as topping ancient posts for spamming or other reasons).

Please note that posts can also be deleted or edited by the forum moderator team for any reason, including those not listed above. Breaking of the forum rules can result in your thread/post being edited or deleted. Breaking forum rules multiple times in a short amount of time could turn into a forum ban. You will be banned for an X period of time which will be decided upon by the moderator team.

Thank you for playing Earth Empires.

Previously it was possible to get bonus turns from pending pacts. This has been corrected.

fixed it the lazy way

I'm 82nd. Ingame search filters out countries outside of your humanitarians range.