gratz all!

Turned red, not purple

2 purples, uh oh

LOL they are in last place in the Eastern Conference, and Igor and Fox are still out. They had a good diff as recently as like 3 weeks ago but they've really nosedived since then.

Latest is that the Ducks told the Rangers and Panarin that they are out. Might have been a good fit. 🤷‍♂️

Word is Panarin and his agent have been given permission to talk extension with potential trade partners, and they have been in touch with all the California teams. Him feeding Celebrini would be pretty sick. Or, driving a second impact line behind Celebrini. Either way I see the Sharks as having the highest upside from this trade of any teams outside of maybe Minnesota or Carolina.

Thanks, it was a great round for tech so I picked a good time to drop back in and run a techer. I thought "Fukushima" was going to beat me with 28 hours to go but then he got in a war.

/darthvadervoice

I find the lack of tech... disturbing.

Welcome back! I responded a little more thoroughly in your tournament talk post.

If you used to be in SoF or SOL, they're both gone. Omega, LaF, SKA, Monsters, IMP, PDM, RAGE, and more are still around in one form or another. Most of them are in M4D's warchats, because we all had so much fun together in a recent big server war, so anyone you want to look for I can send up a batsignal for.

Welcome! Don't know who you used to be buds with, nowadays most of the socializing is on Discord. We have people that will help you remember what to do.

I'm in M4D for alliance and NA for Cooperation, they're different kinds of fun places and you'd be welcome at either, even if just to hang out in the public areas and palaver.

M4D: Known as a war tag, we have lots of awesome Discord war tools, and market tools, and other netting tools. Really the best functionality around. Also a regularly active public Express chat. https://discord.gg/af7Kb42w

NA: Known for always having a lot of people, and being laid back. We still had 3 top 10 countries last round, so we know what we're doing too. A big, fun, laid back tent. https://discord.gg/TFkT4b23

I can testify it's hard to get a kill on this server

Kill?

Alright techers come on, it's time to supply the market some, the rest of us have citizens that need new iphones

I can't spend days doing CS and tech if there's no tech

Yeah, Bobby's a bit before my time. Sounds like Brett was built the same but Brett was feisty more than tough.

Speaking of old goalies, RIP Glenn Hall, one of the greats. His record is one of the 2-3 most unapproachable records in sports, with Walter Johnson's 119 complete game shutouts.

Al Iafrate, no hesitation. MacInnis probably second. You?

Oh man, that's a hell of a memory. Before my time a bit. My earliest hockey memories are the '92 season, when the Rangers won the President's Trophy but got pasted by the Pens in the playoffs. I knew some player names before that and probably saw some games but that's the first year I was really a fan. So when the Rangers won in '94, I assumed we had a period incoming like what the Red Sox had after they broke their curse - a slew of Cups!

...we all know how that turned out.

I leeched tech bots last round, finished 11th with a disaster of a destock.

Love the old bumper sticker

Jesus Saves... but Esposito gets the rebound, goes top shelf, AND SCORES

WB braden! Glad to have you.

Congrats yall!

Maybe I can avoid war next set and make that list finally

Aren't you Canadian? You're repping a *Bruin* as the GOAT?

Also, WB!

And also fluff the fluffing Bruins. 10-2. oof. It's over, time to sell everything that isn't nailed down and get all the picks.

Sorry to hear that. RIP.

The Winter Classic did not suck.

Many Ranger fans are clamoring to sell off everything and rooting for losses. I am old fashioned I guess, I always want my team to play well when I watch.

Zibanejad had the first ever hat trick in an outdoor NHL game, and also the first 5 point outdoor game.

Congrats commander!

Merry Christmas yall! And Happy New Year!

It is normal for people that were successful in the old way of doing things to miss the advantages of the new ways.

Stop with the stupid whining for, as I said, the EXACT SAME BEHAVIOR that results in deletions every time. You were pretty obviously feeding info to the other country, the timing is too perfect. Spending your turns on behalf of someone else is in fact cheating, and you know it, and you HAVE known it for a long time.

Well, I adapted to everyone else's retal policies on this server, but someone else didn't get the memo. Arathadoxia and Nitell are the last two I owed retals to, but breaking GDI on me = war every single time, so you're getting away with it this time dammit.

Why do you always have the exact same objections when the exact same behavior yields the exact same results?

Also I saw the news from the country in question, you did more failed spy ops than is justified by just "curiosity."

You are mistaken. If the game is to be reinvigorated it will be with modern tools like the total Discord integration offered by tags like M4D and NA.

Regardless, your post is somewhat nonsensical. If you agree that the security and integrity issues are that bad, then the only possible course is the one taken.

Clarifying remark -

Your PM will decay once you have A) logged in and B) gotten a turn.

So Nitell is of course correct, but that second bit is important to plan stuff out.

I thought GHQ was down and out?

Come join us at M4D, we have great tools in Discord.

Yes nearly every C/I in alliance classifies as a rainbow now

And the rest of the t10. Low scoring round, grabbing was tough. GG yall.

But...

Have you ever seen an elephant fly?

Thanks! Gratz all!

You automatically get credits. No purchase necessary. Just play 3 servers and you'll get them all.

He is in fact taking a break from the game. I can reach him if you have a message to get to him.

Nicely done

Hope everyone had a great holiday, and if you're not murrican I hope you had a great regular day.

If you don't even play this server, your feedback isn't really helpful.

Another one in my family is the "Mystery Walk."

To understand this one, you have to know that my family is into scaring. We were the ones in town that was legendary for our haunted house on Halloween.

So, the mystery walk is when, post-pigout, a large group goes out for a long walk in the dark. Meanwhile, a "senior council" of family would designate someone the Mystery Walker. The walker feigns that they are staying behind to help with the cleanup (always several people actually doing this), or sleeping on the couch, or being obsessed with football, or whatever. Then they sneak out and overtake the group and find opportunities to scare them... while remaining undiscovered.

The forms of the scaring would vary depending on the terrain/whoever is hosting, but might be stuff like finding a good tree to climb and dropping stuff as they pass under, or scaring up some animals in their direction, or what have you.

There have been instances of someone being tapped to be the walker after overindulging at the buffet table and losing their massive dinner into the bushes after chasing the group around 😂

That's not bad, 12 points might be too light though. That's 2 ticks of booms, is a free govt change worth the same as 1 turn with triple production? I'd say it's worth considerably more.

The Random games were 1C-1[whatever it went to]. Tournament was 2A-2Z.

This means that for a fascist, their bonus points get more bonus. In cooperation, for example, a fascist can actually achieve 100% building cost reduction, but no other government can.

I will add, regardless of what the meta is in any gaming environment with PvP, there will always be ways to exploit going off-meta. That said, I do see Resource Decay at 10x being potentially the most problematic. A techer can't afford to wait around and stack up full turns before breaking protection due to market forces but can easily get to 75% while still growing and have crazy stock at home. Having to pay the stocking cost of turns putting bushels on market is a strong balance against a techer's power currently in Express.

I don't want to put this into B&S without hearing from the express players on their thoughts.

As currently structured, the permanent bonuses from bonus points are of extremely limited utility in Express. For the most part, the play is spend on earthquakes, spend on turns if your a techer, save and spend on booms if you're not a techer.

I think it would be good for gameplay if the permanent bonuses were useful in Express. Toward this end, I think it would be a good idea to multiply all the current bonuses by 10. So building costs in this plan would be 12.5% instead of 1.25%, PM units would be 5% instead of 0.5%, etc. This would add a lot of variance to the game as far as useful strats, and could really change the risk/reward of playing out all your turns early vs. stacking up turns and spending bonus points before playing. Think of a commie breaking protection with 360(300) and 25% expenses reduction. Would that be enough to overcome the players who came out of protection early and kept up spending turns so to take advantage of the easier land from frontrunning? Would a defensive bonus of 5% change the endgame for people going into a long logout and trying to avoid end set grabs? Or would increased netting utility outweigh that functionality?

Given the turncount, and the compressed nature of the round, care must be taken to balance such an idea. a factor of 10 might be too high, it might be too strong an advantage. An FFO breaking protection with 25% building cost reduction could just be an unstoppable juggernaut, and a 5x factor could be more appropriate.

What say you?

I have a huge family, literally about 4 dozen first cousins on my mom's side. We have various levels of family getting together every year, since it's tough to fit all of us together. We are mostly up and down the east coast, but some are a bit far flung.

This year, we will have 12 at our dinner table, coming from as far away as a 3 hour drive.

Since I was 13 (I am 45 now) I have made the mashed potatoes every year. My youngest sister only eats mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving - not joking - and has been really upset about it the few years I wasn't around to handle the duties.

Ya, Express is great, and yes the game was a different beast with 1000s of players.

When I first started my favorite were the "random games" that would have like 80-120 players each.