You finished 21st with an all-X TMBR in primary. I believe that you had the second best all-X country that set. I don't see the issue here. You played a handicapped version of an obscure strategy and still did fine. How well should you have finished?

You're keeping around tons of military for very little benefit. The least aggressive grabbing possible (PSing away 25% of your units once a day) would have given you a lot more land. I also don't see the downside of doing that.

By the way, I played a pure TMBR into the top ten in Primary around 7-8 years ago. Does that make me credible?

This was done before the expenses bonus existed:

http://alliance.www.earthempires.com/topplayers?round=6

You will be taken more seriously if you define "reasonable strategy" and state which servers you're talking about. I can certainly think of servers where a pure oiler will finish much worse than a pure MBR.

Have top players played a pure MBR to the best of their abilities in a set with decent market conditions? If so, what were the results?

You will also be taken more seriously if you post some kind of evidence for your claim. Two years ago, everyone thought that CI couldn't net on the alliance server and they were clearly wrong.

The rule was implemented to prevent countries that enjoyed GDI protection all set from suiciding on top players.

You have heard four (4) statements that your member received his bushels. If that is not sufficient, please do the obvious and ask your member if he received his bushels.

This is not a bug or a suggestion so this thread is getting closed.

This will be fixed when qz pushes out all of his other changes. We ask for your patience.

I have to mostly agree with Xinhuan. The amount of effort required to balance it is just too much at this time.

I believe you misunderstood. It was a theoretical concern about what could happen if the GDI "no attacks in the final six hours rule" was expanded further.

It will only be deleting the ones not marked as "saved". The UI was too cumbersome with all of your old ops from the entire reset saved.