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VicRattlehead

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Jun 14th 2026, 12:33:51

With the shared ops ethos of cooperation and alliance, there are times when I want to find types of countries in the pile of previous ops. Could we make the spy center previous ops page display the same info as the advanced search page, like govt and strat info?

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Jun 12th 2026, 0:43:48

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

Sick man, very nice work.

But yeah, smlandau was doing market aiding, running multies, and etc.

i though that Mr Titanium had some legit finishes no? or where they all cheat ones?

The 86M one was not legit.

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Jun 11th 2026, 17:13:50

Sick man, very nice work.

But yeah, smlandau was doing market aiding, running multies, and etc.

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Jun 7th 2026, 15:11:31

You can still come play with M4D again, come on back

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Jun 6th 2026, 18:59:04

Originally posted by Slagpit:

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?

That would be titty sprinkles

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Jun 5th 2026, 1:35:34

Second win, and a convincing win! Congrats to the rest of the t10, and GG everyone.

1 Narcolepsy (#10) Game profile 524,871 $1,510,906,234 R NAptime
2 Alica Schmidt (#8) Game profile 527,306 $1,287,100,534 F SKA
3 Your new nation requires a name (#92) Game profile 594,443 $1,200,647,172 C LaF
4 Allison Stokke (#4) Game profile 647,861 $1,191,389,425 C SKA
5 Alysa Liu (#94) Game profile 101,917 $1,090,928,793 D SKA
6 Will We Survive The Sleep (#6) Game profile 700,786 $1,007,385,219 T NAptime
7 B GRADE SLEEP (#196) Game profile 539,184 $947,908,480 C NAptime
8 Wood Sage Sea Salt (#13) Game profile 500,214 $936,115,660 F LaF
9 zzzZZZZZ (#85) Game profile 500,160 $910,730,717 F NAptime
10 What Are You Afraid Of (#5) Game profile 89,595 $890,636,810 H LaF

VicRattlehead

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May 31st 2026, 12:51:10

Originally posted by Sterlitamak_102:

I'm officially declaring this! Even one attempt to view my country or an attempt to attack from Lalaland gives me the FULL right to carry out all kinds of attacks without the possibility of retaliation or other attacks.

Nothing left to worry about here

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May 30th 2026, 13:29:35

Originally posted by LightBringer:

Talking about wars, do I get points for getting a kill on the first round of the server? I'd say that's just as good an achievement as winning!

Yes You and Taz got the first two kills on the new server, well done!

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May 29th 2026, 12:38:52

Yeah but no wars on the bot side of the server either, we were all navigating RoRs and risky grabs

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May 29th 2026, 0:03:02

Another notch on the belt, well done. GGs all the t10.

1 Conquest (#32) Game profile 18,169 $74,504,528 HG
2 Playing Theocracy (#14) Game profile 28,733 $64,463,264 HG
3 Midnight Cry (#1) Game profile 24,819 $47,446,054 RG
4 Abblationland (#7) Game profile 27,774 $44,174,817 RG
5 Hello me its me again (#6) Game profile 26,115 $39,913,249 CG
6 1998 Forever and A Day (#3) Game profile 27,158 $37,715,419 HG
7 bears dont eat egg sandwiches (#55) Game profile 27,006 $33,007,961 RG
8 New Phone Who Dis (#13) Game profile 25,339 $32,298,247 DG
9 Carnival Conquest (#43) Game profile 29,524 $32,149,321 DG
10 p h i l t r e (#11) Game profile 36,366 $28,508,304 RG

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May 28th 2026, 2:31:42

Originally posted by Bablo:

Originally posted by Slagpit:

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

give everyone 100 free chem missiles

Oh man, I've got to get Vermi to brush up the news feed, I wouldn't want to miss any of that action.

Originally posted by Molotov:

Sorry I mostly play Express and Primary/Classic

Nice, Express is really fun. Good luck with your bomb throwing. :)

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May 27th 2026, 17:18:52

Originally posted by Molotov:

I'm an old player who's been gone myself lol

Welcome back! You playing with a crew in either Alliance or Cooperation? We'd love to have you in M4D (best alliance tools these days on our Discord) or NA (classic big tent crew, focused on fun but still with some high tier players to help your finish).

M4Dcord: https://discord.gg/9fT9rkvTB

NAcord: https://discord.gg/A73JPrVFW

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May 27th 2026, 13:32:14

Originally posted by Molotov:

Bring back some old players

I'm back because a different old player reached out to me. Have you tried that?

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May 23rd 2026, 12:42:09

Originally posted by Locq:

cannot purchase the 100 credits spining ball of doom apon clicking

Yes the shop is broken, see the other recently commented thread about "new model for premium" in the announcements section to see what's up.

https://www.earthempires.com/...iption-53784?t=1779538983

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May 23rd 2026, 12:40:32

75M in the first round here would be pretty epic, I don't think I have a chance to hit that number but I certainly think I'm a t5 country as things stand

I think it's interesting that nobody seems to be headed for 30k acres, it's all petering out in the upper 20s

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May 23rd 2026, 0:15:06

Originally posted by major:

anyway that we can have an attacking news? Just asking because the GDI rules and numerous grabs can get difficult to remember. ghq gone and that's all I know. I am just trying to be a good sport here. Any replies would be appreciated. salutes!

I certainly have no authority to change the newsfeed, but someone gave me a good trick recently. You can set your "minimum days since last landgrab" search parameter to before the set began, and voila your search will exclude people you've hit.

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May 21st 2026, 18:26:51

I don't understand what you mean. Can you give some specific examples? We've gotten 2 new servers in the last 18 months or so.

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May 20th 2026, 2:12:39

What's it going to take to win?

t5 cutoff?

t10?

Seems like lots of warring has gone on, I think t5 will take 50M, and t10 will take 30, like a good express set.

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May 18th 2026, 3:58:40

Congrats!

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May 18th 2026, 0:37:03

Originally posted by Ratski:

My point is I had a good time playing.

Then it was time well spent sir.

VicRattlehead

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May 17th 2026, 21:00:53

If anyone wants to know, playing turn delayed on alliance as a casher is a bad plan.

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May 12th 2026, 13:45:09

Originally posted by LightBringer:

No idea. I wish I could look back on the stats of my old countries, I'm remember the time I won with a non-gdi country I had a stupid amount of turrets, like an absolutely inordinate amount of them. I was paranoid of the retals I was owed and it was my first time where I looked like I was going to clinch the win so I didn't want to take any chances lol.

This one: 67 1 Dadali (#4) 68,917 $144,291,552 C

We all want to look at your old countries, but you've got your profile set so we can't

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May 4th 2026, 12:05:15

15 goals in the Wild/Avalanche game last night, holy crap!

Tampa needs to shake things up. Fire Coop?

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May 1st 2026, 3:36:42

Originally posted by grelk:

4/28 UPDATE

1) Sir "Ballin'" (Paradlgm) - 359.2k acres
2) Havoc - (Omega) - 317.9k acres
3) LightBringer (EVOdigm) - 252.9k acres
4) tulosba (Omega) - 245.7k acres
5) cyref (MONSTERS) - 236k acres
6) Theosqua (Omega) - 225k acres
7) Beefhawk (Omega) - 223.4k acres
8) Goten (Omega) - 217.7k acres
9) Zygotic (Omega) - 210.7k acres
10) SkyLo (Omega) - 200.3k acres

SUSPENDED DUE TO THE REFEREE'S PERSONAL VENDETTA:
Vic Rattlehead (M4D) - 213.8k acres

This is an outrage. The people in charge need to be sacked. Those who put them there should further be sacked.

Originally posted by Sir Balin:

DEATH TO HUMANITARIANS

An evil theocracy then. Moloch? Baal?

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Apr 28th 2026, 12:55:17

Originally posted by Genuwyn:

So i had the itch to play this game again after so many years ago.

To be honest i was a bit bored in express not having any goals, then it happened, someone tap me more than a few times. So i went ahead and BR them to death, now i must chase this high again.

Heres hoping ya'll

Welcome back. You'll find a lot more chatter in the Express channel on this Discord than in this forum, we would be happy to welcome you to it.

There's a lot of channels, look for the "other servers" tab to find the express one.

https://discord.gg/5XmFT75jf

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Apr 27th 2026, 20:28:59

Originally posted by grelk:

Sorry if I missed you the other day, Vic! It might have been that someone was ahead for at the moment I was doing the post or it could be that I just plum screwed up.

A personal vendetta with the aim of embarrassing me personally, huh? I see how it is.

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Apr 26th 2026, 3:28:02

Tournament I want to love, but it has a hard time holding my attention these days. I think bots just playing in the same market but not available as targets will have a lot of unforeseen interplays and exploits, but just making it possible to actually sell all of your tech or on the flipside have enough tech to buy will be huge.

I see what you're saying, but there's frequently lots of action in game A as is now. Llaar, rockets, nitell, lots of people have warred in A plenty.

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Apr 25th 2026, 22:57:08

Oh, Commie's dominance threatened in Classic

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Apr 25th 2026, 15:04:20

Are you just leaving me off for funsies now?

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Apr 24th 2026, 3:15:44

Oil was too expensive. I have many turns in hand.

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Apr 22nd 2026, 14:25:22

Not that it actually matters, but my name is 2 words not 3.

Vic Rattlehead.

It's the name of this guy:

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Vic_Rattlehead

Scroll to the bottom for good art.

I do enjoy spreading the gospel of Megadeth though.

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Apr 22nd 2026, 14:05:48

Originally posted by Xyle SoF:

I don't have time to wall these days. Plus, I can't afford to sacrifice sleep.

https://earthempires.com/...ervers-52550?t=1720064216

War free 2 of the last 3 sets, no need to wall.

Many would welcome you changing that. Just sayin.

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Apr 19th 2026, 21:24:35

Also, Sir Balin wins too much. Country #17 declares on Sir Balin.

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Apr 19th 2026, 21:24:00

#17 is me. It's absolutely shameful you people let me claw my way on to this list after my major gaffe in planning early set me way behind.

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Apr 11th 2026, 21:10:17

Originally posted by archaic:

Remember when you had to put your clan tag in your country name?

Indeed, I only played solo servers for a while, I joined alliance right around when this was changing. I think I played only a set or two without separated tags. I was in a tiny tag until the Tiger bot incident, then I joined SOF.

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Apr 11th 2026, 13:52:03

Originally posted by momo:

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

Originally posted by momo:

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

First matchup is set - Dallas/Minnesota. That one's been basically set for months now but it's finally official.

The Pens punched their ticket to the playoffs by beating the Devils. Pens have first year head coach Dan Muse, who used to be a Ranger assistant, and a Jack Adams candidate this year.

Yeah, and Sully had the Pens in last and now has the Rangers in last, ugh.

Pens having a last shot with Sid and Malkin is a good story at least.

I think Sully lost the room in Pittsburgh, I know he lost EK65. Sid would always back Sully up, but you have to wonder if it was just lip service. Dubas made some good signings and has a cache of draft picks for the future. It would be a good story if Sid and Malkin rode off into the sunset with one last Cup.
Part of the problem with the Rangers is Drury traded a lot of good players away. Just two years ago they had won the Presidents Trophy, now they’re just a shadow of what they used to be.

Yeah EK had some wild stuff to say about Sully for sure, but I tend not to give credence to players in the all-time bottom 100 for +/- when it comes to coaching decisions. His career on-ice results speak for themselves, and not in a good way.

And naturally, as a Rangers fan, I'd prefer Sid and Geno *not* get a 4th Cup lol

As far as NYR, they're a lot closer to turning it around than their record would indicate. They've found a good first line, they have a strong top pairing on D, the goaltending situation seems settled. The 3rd and 4th lines should be good next year too. So bolstering the 2nd line and the 2nd/3rd pair on D will go a long way.

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Apr 11th 2026, 1:32:50

Originally posted by momo:

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

First matchup is set - Dallas/Minnesota. That one's been basically set for months now but it's finally official.

The Pens punched their ticket to the playoffs by beating the Devils. Pens have first year head coach Dan Muse, who used to be a Ranger assistant, and a Jack Adams candidate this year.

Yeah, and Sully had the Pens in last and now has the Rangers in last, ugh.

Pens having a last shot with Sid and Malkin is a good story at least.

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Apr 9th 2026, 12:56:17

First matchup is set - Dallas/Minnesota. That one's been basically set for months now but it's finally official.

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Apr 9th 2026, 12:55:43

Here in Illinois they have weed stores all over the place. I wonder if I can talk them into carrying some crack?

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Apr 9th 2026, 12:55:12

Originally posted by Cocoyy:

hey.. i can't believe this game still exist :)

Since Empy wasn't polite enough to send you in the right direction...

On alliance, M4D has the best Discord tools for both netting and war. We're the last "war" alliance, I guess, but all seems quiet on the front at this time. We have lots of active channels. :)

https://discord.gg/P7YPFU6YY

The other clan server, cooperation, is very different. There are no PvP military actions allowed, everyone landgrabs bots and competes strictly for high score. NA there is a fun, big tent with lots of activity.

https://discord.gg/GnPjNdyvn

We'd love to see you in either place, even if it's just to stop by and get directions to finding other people you know.

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Apr 7th 2026, 11:40:25

Yah, Garry and Sui are right. WTH were you thinking?

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Apr 7th 2026, 0:48:21

And the rest of the t10

1 Asparagus (#77) Game profile 43,729 $66,083,507 CG
2 The Forgotten (#87) Game profile 47,280 $63,385,768 HG
3 Manitoulin Snowdusters (#72) Game profile 41,978 $50,082,614 HG
4 Momma June (#80) Game profile 22,723 $38,413,415 TG
5 Bot Farmer With Brass Balls (#82) Game profile 43,048 $37,288,081 FG
6 Burden In My Hand (#79) Game profile 25,089 $30,100,099 DG
7 Link (#81) Game profile 50,145 $29,331,891 HG
8 radiation dumping ground (#85) Game profile 27,967 $28,714,208 HG
9 Smack Daddy (#88) Game profile 30,375 $23,438,523 HG
10 Encore Beach Club (#67) Game profile 20,321 $23,248,333 DG

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Apr 5th 2026, 0:05:20

And the rest of the t10, good show!

And now I realize I didn't make a thread for saplingg last set 😭

We were too busy cheering for him in NA's Discord haha

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Apr 4th 2026, 23:46:47

Thank you for continuing to improve the game.

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Apr 3rd 2026, 12:55:26

Originally posted by momo:

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

I'll be rooting for the Ducks and their young corps with my guy Kreider (one of only 2 sweaters I have, the other being Nash), unless the Sharks make it. I'm all in on Macklin Celebrini, that kid is ridiculous.

I'm with you on the Celebrini kid. I watched him against the Ducks, 2 goals and an assist, and he's got over a 100 points as a teenager. Only 6 players have scored over 100 points as a teenager, The Great One, Mario, Sid, Jimmy Carson, Dale Hawerchuk and Celebrini. That's hockey royalty.

Not only that, but he's already better defensively than Gretz or Mario ever were, and certainly better than Sid was at that age. Mark it, he's going to be the first to sweep the Art Ross/Hart/Lindsay/Selke one year.