You are having a better ending than expected for those that held on. Tech prices will probably hold for another week at least because so many of you got knocked out or blowing stocks early.

It's good to see the food volume going up and prices going down :)

lmao, this is too funny. He got you all hahaha

because you're a new member and you put peeps in dr

you declare war by calling the president of the salvation army and tell him kids will go without Christmas this year.

sorry stupid answer :)

regardless if someone is cheating or not, i don't have the resources to prove it. I can only bring it up and say wtf is happening, mods please investigate.

And i "try" not to resort to personal insults. Although, sometimes it's hard when some people are so worked up that I can't help myself but push them a little further.

can always count on you to go straight for personal insults lol

That makes me question my luck as some of these LG where i caculated the gov bonus + weapons of allies and still bounced.

Whatever, at my size, I don't even bother to spy on allies. It doesn't save as much on losses as the spies I might/will lose or the cash I will lose spending turns spying. I'll take the extra loss and walk away keeping my spal up. The extra cash i gained from hitting the cash button more tha cover the extra losses.
In fact, almost 1/2 of my LGs are blind PS this set.

I sympathize for your unfortunate loss

Don't worry, your glory and myths still makes you the bawse

Express is weekly chaos, and not for the faint of heart

5 days of 4 min turns and 2 days of talks.

lol probably because he doesn't have to wait 2 months to play again.

so are you saying their # of units use your govbonus + weapons. Or are you saying allies units does not benefit from any govbous or tech at all?

Honestly, DR works fine the way it is. I think in express, it just needs to drop off in 4 hours instead of 24 and lower the amount of turn a country can store. That way a country cannot artificially fall behind, and then catch back up instantly. Being able to run 1080 turns in one day is not a good thing when you only get 1800 turns the whole set.

DR abuse manifested from the 10x speed of the game while the DR time remain the same. All you need to do is lower DR time. Look at primary, tourney, etc... nobody can abuse DR.

The problem with fixing DR is that you create a synthetic retal advantage. You shouldn't be allowed to have any type of advantage for a retal. Almost all retals are higher than the initial attacks. Express is the only server where it's common to retal for 10x the land lost.

Confirmed!
Just staying in top25 will deter all attackers except topfeeders and retals. Keep up and stay ahead or with the front pack and you're fine.

the other day, i tore down 1200 IC, then i rebuilt it as IC instead of residential lol I did that 3 times already this set.

I used to have a droid with the 3.7 in screen. Now i'm on a droid x2 with the 4.3in. It makes a huge difference. A lot less mistakes.

too bad you're dead too

polo

well, obviously i bottomfeed and farm people because i want to gain and keep my land, buildings, resources, etc...

if you show the ability to take it away from me then why would i hit you?

That's why top players avoid hitting people that stocking.

oldman is on top. My lead is gone :(

Since i will probably be ahead of you. I don't think you can LG me next reset. And going cross resets is a noob thing to do.

There are cashers with less defense but with less land. They also have much more missiles. I'm not kidding when i say you are the best target. You should know by now that the only way for a rep to survive is to outgrow other governments. Look at the rankings.

if you're trying to avoid getting LG'd then there's a few things you should do.

1. Maintain good defense
2. Unless you're on top, leave enough cash to show that you can retal instantly for 3x acres they got from you.
3. Boat loads of missiles so that DT is not an option for the person attacking you.
4. Not invest in defense bonus unless you're a dict. Invest in defense as a rep is a noob mistake.
5. Stay in the top 25
6. Have enough land where if i LG you then it wouldn't hurt your productions that much. That's why i only LG commies with land below 32k. A 40k+ acres commie can jet up quickly enough.
7. Have a spal of 30. That way, i might think twice about farming you as that you shoot up your spal too high and you can bomb my jets/buildings/banks.


The only thing you're doing right is that you have a small stock of cash. But even if you can buy 20mil jets today with that money, you're still about 10mil jets short in a successful attack against me.
Sorry braden, i really could farm you and probably get away with it right now. Maybe, a nuke or chem will get through but i don't mind losing 2-3k acres/buildings while probably gaining 10-15k.

i was thinking of LGing you because you are one of those perfect targets i look for. Even if you blow your stock to retal me, it's still not enough. If you do that, you just increase the land you give me because of your higher net.
If you can make a successful hit, you can only make 1 and you'll have a hard time just buying oil to make a second hit lol. You spent your bonus on defense which is a bad idea.
I'm not worried about your missiles because there's very few :)

So you have limited choices.
1. blow stock and jet up which you are still about 5-10mil jets short to break me.
2. Wait for me to make a second hit, buy 3 million tanks to AB. But I know what you capable of because my 2.9mil spies bullies your 600k spies. If I multitap, which will be more like 2x hits per day til humanitarian protests, I will have 2.75mil tanks :)

It's not luck that people don't retal me. I know my risk/reward when i analyze a spy op :)

Yes there are peeps that can break me, but that's if they gave up on their set just to make 1 retal. Are you ready to give up on your set?

join gdi and you don't have to worry about tanks/troops

i had a bunch in stored. Not sure if it was overflowed. didn't check. But i would've been at 24-25k right now and probably 13-14mil net

lol well, i farmed him too :)

and whoever bob is, is unpurpled. And i also just refarmed him lmao.

why would you play a rep with low turrets/tanks and no tech??!?!?!?! lmao

and i never tried to hide it. I said it was me as soon as i found out i was purpled.

http://forums.earthempires.com/...p;p=1334852280&page=2

i have no idea. Maybe it looked like farm and GS thing because he retal'd with GS. But i had 500k tanks lol. He didn't have a choice.

wait, if you destock on pm, that means that you are selling food. Why would you have military bases. That lowers the price stuff you can sell in pm.

i've gotten 2 missiles in the same turn a couple of times

i'm in C :(
country just got unpurpled!! :)

I wasn't able to play a turn in a couple days so i'm behind now

tourney, team, express, primary board is boring already :(

Can't blame a man for taking advantage of a situation lmao

red alert! red alert!
*moves all my units to the other side of base :)

i'm pretty he got banned or something like that lol

you should keep watching. But you should know i have no intention to win any tourney game. And you should know by now that I will drop land, max warfare, buy 2 mil tanks, and AB/BR everyone that do as little as an attempted spy op on me.

And i had no idea why i was deleted. I picked 2 random countries and farmed them excessively all set to avoid retals from multiple targets. Didn't know that was looked at as breaking the rules.

you can never have enough defense especially when i can buy up to 16 mil jets a day. Right now, i might hit a commie for more land but i'm at the borderline where i'd rather hit a republic for less land but a few huundred bus/res. It costs me over $22mil to build 100 buildings and about 4.5mil to tear down 100 buildings. So I'll take the additional 500-800k jets lost to not have to build/tear down a few hundred buildings. Not only does that save me lots of cash, it also saves me turns that'll make more a whole lot more cash.

When food takes a dump below $40 then i'll stock. Until then, i don't feel like giving a 30% discount when i destock. I feel bad for the peeps giving that discount and also paying tax both ways :(

no it's not and nowhere close. When I have to build, i'm in the negative. and I lose out on the extra 7.7mil cash i get from hitting the cash button.
(72,500x 3 + 1500) x 120 bpt = 26.28mil + 6.7m(food)= 33mil
My people eat 118k bushels/turn x 57 per bushel

I only make 29mil without cashing. That means i'm in the hole by a lot when building. I built/rebuilt 2200 acres today costing me 481 mil. The cost is just going to run away from now and i don't feel like stopping so it will severely hamper my end nw.
I can make it to 100k but that means i may not make 100m net.

yes, i've been having a great time all along. But my anti stock will cost me the win :)
Hell, my dictator last set may have had a legitimate chance at 100m if i stocked too lol. Going from 70k-85k cost me billions just in buildings(~3.5b). Then you got the expensive oil, tech(2.4k price til last day), and food.

and that fascist's income is higher than mine. I don't really have a stockpile right now, unless you count tech as a stockpile cause i have almost 6 mil points :)

The fascist can stock better than me. since he's making the bushels lol.

I don't want to stockpile more than 3 days.

i wish i can win but there's at least a couple of peeps with 200mil bushels already.

i'm a casher with all my points in expense. With military tech. I'm paying about half of what i pay had I not invest in expense. Being fat and carrying high military(especially turrets) it's saving me about 250-300 mil a day right now in primary.

i generally get more chems than anything. But sometimes i do get mostly cruise or nukes. I would say 75% of the time, chems are my most abundant missile.

maybe i will play next set then :)

well, i did it excessively this time. I declared war and switch off 2 different countries everyday so i don't get DR. 5x ps a day for the entire set so far. They retaled with a bunch of GS on me and i lol'd and told them they suck lmao.

i couldn't either before, but after seeing a few people do it. Then seeing JJ pull away from me every set with that kind of farming. I just said whatever. But at least i make myself better by helping the noobs with some tips most of the time.

lol so no more farming noobs. Then how the fluff am i supposed to get fat in tourney. GDI doesn't protect me enough to hit 20 different targets.

wtf i just realized there's the 83 and 84.

tyr techer. i seriously thought picking on same country to farm all set is a common practice in tourney. Didn't know it could be against the rule.
Maybe it's the GS? but what can a country that makes 1mil per turn do against me that tech 5+k per turn with 5.5mil turrets and 500k tanks?

that's me. and i don't know why. I guess picking 2 noobs and farming them all set is against the rule now?

i just did an appeal because that is bs.

The only other thing i did that's anywhere close to breaking the rules is telling jj i will lower my tech sales price to 2.9k instead of 3k. Or is it because i sent a message to the noob saying he sucks at life. whatever...