You make fair points. I was just a little salty. Taking a break from time to time is probably the best advice. Thanks for reading my post and responding :)

I'd be willing to write something similar to eestats for conquest if we have the feeds for it. I'm running on a cloud-managed mongo cluster with 512MB of data, so i'd only be able to store one reset at a time.

I'd also think a delay on the news feed could help with alerts. Like run updates every 15 minutes or something like that. That way users can easily search/filter news, see market data, etc. without getting immediate alerts.

I'm the farmer you land traded with last round and no i haven't been having fun. Right now getting a high NW finish requires minimizing expenses and risking getting grabbed. So a minority of players who don't care about netgaining are making the experience for a larger number of players who want to maximize networth worse.

This is why I feel like Express is fundamentally broken. Because of how many turns you get in such a short time it's essentially impossible to fully defend against a motivated attacker. So no matter how skilled you are there is way more luck involved in Express than any of the other servers. It's gotten to the point over the last few rounds that i'm considering quitting or taking a break from Express because I'm being attacked/suicided on more often than not when I'm trying to netgain and putting the effort into get 50-60k acres only to see it ruined most of the time just isn't really worth it.

Not sure if @Slagpit will read this or agree, but I've been thinking of ways that rules in Express can change to allow it to be more netting friendly while still keeping the human competition element of the game in tact. Here's what I have so far:

- Increase the DR rate of Human countries. Ratski took about 27% of my land in 6 attacks. With less than 24 hours to go there's nothing I can do to recover from that. So 6 grabs ruins my round. If the DR rate was higher and I lost maybe 10% of my land - that's annoying but recoverable.

- Increase the Human moratorium period to 36-48 hours (Keep bots at current time) . This gives players 24 hours to maximize bot attacks adding another dimension of strategy, and gives more time to recover from getting farmed.

- Change GDI back to something you can join and players in GDI can only have receive two offensive actions taken without a retaliatory offensive action. This would let players who want to hit humans still get grabs, limit the damage, and then allow the defender the decision on if they want to retal and escalate, or absorb the hits and focus on netting. This may also encourage more human-on-human grabbing.

- Significantly reduce the expense cost for carrying a certain amount of turrets. Because Bots have very little Jets you tend to have to carry much higher volume of jets than turrets. Add that to needing to min/max expenses and carrying turrets is generally counter intuitive right now. So reducing turret expenses would incentivize better defense without hurting netting chances. This one would imbalance indys, so probably not the best idea.

I need all allies. Also i'm teching.

Misslie Boat #14

Thanks Balin! We're very proud of this round. I hope we're able to keep our group together for a while, it's been a fun ride.

I'm not sure how I feel about this new server.

I like the bots being added to give the server more market stability, but this makes the game too similar to Classic and Express IMO.

The benefit of Tournament was you could get to a higher server level and limit some of the interaction you get with players who would prefer to focus on attacking other players/ruining resets, etc. So you could kind of choose if you want a high-level netting country by playing the same country and getting into A - or create a new country and know you'll need a bit more military in a lower server.

This removes that filter and makes min/maxing a country much more luck based depending on who decides to hit you. That's a big component of Earth, but I feel like we already have non-alliance Servers with that focus in Classic and Express.

Great set for cashing/indies. Cheap food and crazy low tech prices.

I have a lot of issues playing the game in Chrome with ads. When my premium isn't active I exclusively use Firefox.

I'll be teching this round if anyone needs research allies. I'm #7.

Thanks! This is my first #1. Glad I finally figured out a decent strategy.

I'm still mad at you for grabbing my like 35 times in round 849, but you've had a really impressive run of countries the last few months. Credit where it's due, great job.

Words

Yes, but we have Grelk's chicken.

Maybe a pacifist mode that only allows you to attack bot accounts, but your country cannot be attacked?

Hmm

yup

This thread is awesome.

did we win?

yar

I miss the MUD...

ziggy, does your password not work or does the iframe not load? I use the omega site on my android phone all the time.

But if you want to go check out another alliance, by all means. It's been like 10 years :-P

totte

totte

o_O

changing eq(5) to eq(4) and adding it to the Foriegn Aid page would cause it work for trades.

FF4's issue is that it's loading the mobile version of the game. There must be something different about the user agent that ee is being wiggy about.

NYUH!

This is a strange thread...

Oh hey, an omega thread!

MD has smelly hair. I was sniffing it last night and did not like.

i'ma queue the REM song

mag -4
sof 9
lcn 21
laf -15
evo 9
omega 15
rd -2
sanct 10
icn 10
pdm -12
monsters 11
fluff 3
wof 9
na 2
sol -42

hey, sup.

iMag -2
sof 5
lcn 14
laf 11
evo 4
omega 6
rd 0
sanct 5
icn 6
pdm -12
monsters 6
wof 7
na 0
sol -17

I'm a developer that works in the web marketing department. Not 100% what you're looking for but I have a pretty good understanding on how a lot of that stuff works since I deal with it on a daily basis.

yeah I enjoy the country themes we do every set. The best part is the number of members who participate.

yeah, you guys are gonna inspire me to actually play all my turns next set.

so where do i apply to join?

Congrats on winning ANW and TNW. I believe that's the record for ANW by almost 15m, and 3.2bil nw with 32 countries is just insane. Great reset.

I'd say you're the best pound for pound alliance in the game right now. Hopefully one of us can crack 100m anw next set!

zomga it's Shinigami!

And yes, i'm the blanket.

yeah no worries LaF, i'm sure you'll pass up Omega after this reset.