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Sep 27th 2023, 16:38:27

The easiest strats to win Express is probably Fasc Farmer (sell food on PM the entire set, and you can do it for $38 actually, so isn't really market dependent), and Commie Indy (price at whatever allows you to sell immediately).

Then you probably have techer (theo or tyr), but very market dependent on how hard tech prices spike/crash.

Casher is probably the weakest of the lot in Express, owing to it being rather difficult to stock food as a casher, but probably the most straight forward strategy to play if you just eat corruption.

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Sep 25th 2023, 19:22:07

Why would it be considered coordination, if he hit everyone, and then they all independently decide to retal?
Unless you're sharing spyops in messages or breaks, or hit times.

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Sep 25th 2023, 14:53:17

How many countries has he got left to flatten?

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Sep 24th 2023, 23:21:22

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Sep 11th 2023, 15:41:27

Congrats LB on the win!

Made the mistake of a string of risky grabs whilst I was ahead (had no targets left), and that took me out. Well played LB for staying out of trouble!

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Sep 5th 2023, 15:48:19

Congrats on the win! Top 2 big NWs!

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Sep 4th 2023, 12:39:45

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Aug 28th 2023, 0:56:43

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Aug 11th 2023, 18:25:21

Express DR is actually part of the server details:

Diminishing Returns
This server has nonstandard settings for diminishing returns of attacks. DR half-life is 8 hours and country-to-country DR is 72 hours.

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Aug 10th 2023, 19:34:28

Players this set went from 68 to 69! Whoopee!

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Aug 1st 2023, 14:16:35

I wouldn't mind, though it's just going to be who runs the best 999 acre demo techer, given that's the highest production and you'd need to play the market. (Any challenge that limits the acreage, is almost always gonna be a demo techer challenge.)

I also wouldn't mind doing like the tyr casher challenge again - it was painful but at least there are more degrees of freedom on how one would play it vs 999 acre challenge.

Or best dictator finish. lol That could be fun too.

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Jul 23rd 2023, 11:54:55

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Jul 15th 2023, 19:53:53

Yes braden ska! Ah we had tried a micro reunion I think a year or so ago but.. it failed. lol Slag, bobby, kingme, trep were back ephemerally.

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Jul 15th 2023, 19:26:24

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Jul 12th 2023, 1:47:25

Congrats Gerd, that's a mad good finish!
Congrats Tmac on an amazing second place finish as well!

Did these both break the all-time record?

Also thankful to have squeezed into the top 10 in a poorly played set by myself. lol

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Jul 6th 2023, 12:39:14

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Jun 24th 2023, 14:06:47

Get well Koh!

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Jun 24th 2023, 8:45:40

Sadness

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Jun 22nd 2023, 17:22:45

Ah that's mad. ): Hope you get well KoH! Fight the fight!

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Jun 17th 2023, 9:55:32

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:
Originally posted by NitelL:
Like I said, whenever I pick farmer, food is 30 all set. Lol


Buy and resell


Conceptually what I'm trying to do, but someone needs to buy my first lot first, so I have cash to buy and resell. Lol

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Jun 16th 2023, 21:35:50

Like I said, whenever I pick farmer, food is 30 all set. Lol

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Jun 15th 2023, 21:29:59

Congrats Andrew on great finish! And well done team! (:

Also well done on amazing CI finish Gerd.

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Jun 8th 2023, 18:10:34

I've decided to try something silly and just tech everything I need for the entire set... and then grow as a non-techer. There's just not enough tech on the market during a non-bot set (not enough anything really), and not enough land as any country can kill anyone else with 360(360) turns. Let's see where we finish! (if I manage to..)

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Jun 2nd 2023, 22:57:58

Bonus

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Jun 2nd 2023, 22:06:26

TIL lol

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Jun 2nd 2023, 21:26:36

Did you account for the 10% random factor?

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Jun 1st 2023, 15:43:56

Congrats on winning convincingly! Haha

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May 22nd 2023, 17:23:19

I'm a farmer - what's up?

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May 15th 2023, 22:22:40

Originally posted by Aturan:
Originally posted by NitelL:
Does it matter where we post for bonus?


Posting for bonus in tournament thread only counts if you are in game A.


Thanks I didn't realize this - so it means I need to post on the appropriate board for every server I am on?

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May 15th 2023, 22:21:12

I am likely going farmer, which means food will be $30 all set.

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May 12th 2023, 1:48:12

Congrats Tmac! In a league of your own here.

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May 2nd 2023, 10:39:10

Originally posted by Gerdler:
Was that all-xp?


Nope, I had to grab and got grabbed too. Haha wasn't a clean set!

2a feels a little bit like the wild west with all the grabbing, and with the player count increasing 50% (20->30) in the last few sets.

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May 2nd 2023, 1:13:49

Thanks folks! Been a wee bit since I've won 2a. (:

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May 1st 2023, 21:54:24

Does it matter where we post for bonus?

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May 1st 2023, 1:14:49

I think it's 37m in this current changeset.

https://www.earthempires.com/express/598/ranks/10

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May 1st 2023, 0:07:21

Congrats! Happy to help upgrade the competition. (: Just ask away - as you can see, all the folks here are pretty helpful!

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Apr 30th 2023, 13:30:07

Kevro: The way you get the theo destock done is...

1) Spend all your cash on food so you have no cash on hand.
2) Put max of everything on the market (military, food, oil, tech), because stuff on market doesn't get hit the by gov switch penalty.
3) Switch to monarchy. You take a hit here.
4) Recall everything back. Sell your food at the monarchy private market prices (max 38 on this server).
5) Switch to theo. This should be free, cos going from monarchy to anything is free.
6) Buy military on PM, start with troops, then tanks, then jets, then turrets.

Enjoy!

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Apr 28th 2023, 13:59:47

Are 9 untags coordinating without a tag, really in the spirit of the 5-person team server here? Is this worth a purple?

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Apr 25th 2023, 15:02:35

Here's a specific all-explore strat to add more color to A-Rod's post above. This was written for Tournament to get a 21-22m nw finish (which would put you in the top 10 in game A), though you can adapt it for Express by following the phases A-Rod suggested, and grab the yellow bots instead of exploring. If you pick a strategy (casher, indy, farmer, techer), happy to give more specific advice!

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ALL X TTR
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Sell 100 troops and 100 Bushels.
Change tax rate to 35%.
Set production to 100% Turrets.
Government remains at Monarchy.

Build 20 CS (10 bpt)
Build 100 Farms
Explore whenever possible
Sell food on private market whenever possible
Build 20 CS (15 bpt)
Sell all food

Change Government to Theocracy (21 bpt)

Build 500 ICs
Explore when necessary.
Sell food whenever possible.

Note: If you can't build all 500, build CS 1 at a time and sell food every turn until you can build 1 full bpt of ICs. Stop at 500 ICs.

Build 140 CS (70bpt)
Explore and build ICs to 2k acres

Store turns
Batch explore to 3k acres
Build land as ICs

Store turns
Batch Explore to 6k acres
Build barren land as Labs
Convert the 3k ICs to labs 1 turn of building at a time

=Stockpiling=
At this point, its day 9 and you should now be a fully converted 6k acre techer. From now to day 24, tech all your turns. You can sell once or twice a day. If possible, remember to get the 3 turn bonus twice if you double sell. If not, just get the 6 turn bonus and sell once a day.

What to tech:
Bus/Res - Sells well, and gives you positive income
Agri/Indy - Sells for even higher, but has no effect on your country
Military - Sells the highest towards the end of the set.

On day 24, you should have teched a total of ~1,260,000 tech points. Sell as many tech points as you can but leave 60k military tech untouched. The 1.2m tech points would translate to ~4.2b cash. Since you can only hold 2b on hand at any one time, the rest of that stockpile has to be stored in bushels. So buy food while its price is still low.

=Conversion=
You should now start converting to full MBR. Destroy all your labs at one go, and rebuild them as Military Bases. This conversion will cost you ~$130m and take ~85 turns. You would thus be left with ~4b to destock with. Since you started conversion on the 24th, you should be done by the 25th.

=Destocking=
With 60k Mil tech, a 6k acres MBR would destock at $180/nw. On a 30 day set, you have 5 days of market replenishment left (from 26th-30th). Buyout your private market entirely, and logout with an empty private market. Login the next day and buyout the whole private market again. Remember to always logout with an empty private market to allow for maximum market replenishment. Just repeat this daily until the 30th. You should be able to spend 2.65b on your private market, which would translate to 14.7m nw. Since you started with ~4b, you still need to spend the remaining 1.35b on the public market. I suggest you spend this on day 26 while public market prices are still low.

As half of your stock is in bushels, remember to sell them so you login with 2b again the day after you blow your first 2b.

=Your finishing nw=
Start with 1-2m nw
Blowing 2.65b off private @$180/nw = 14.7m nw
Blowing 1.35b off public @$265/nw ($150 turrets) = 5.1m
Total finishing nw = ~21-22m nw

This strat was detailed without reselling. If you manage to make additional profits from reselling military on the last few days, you might end up with an additional 1-2m nw, giving you ~23m nw or possibly more.

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Apr 18th 2023, 17:45:25

That Fasc Farmer on top better be printing a new NW record with these food prices. xD

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Apr 1st 2023, 18:09:11

Given I'm not a paid player, I can't change my name in tourney, and if Jon Jones loses the defence, that would end my 2a reign as well.

On a side note, I was hoping for a more exciting fight, but he really obliterated Gane.

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Mar 31st 2023, 16:55:31

So you're saying if I name myself "UFC HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLDDDDDDD" I'll start winning 2a consistently?

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Mar 22nd 2023, 1:30:36

I don't really understand - why were they reinstated?

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Mar 15th 2023, 23:24:04

I am going CI, please don't farm me. Let there be less CIs too.

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Mar 12th 2023, 2:33:29

Congrats Tmac! Great finish despite the end set shenanigans.

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Mar 10th 2023, 18:59:17

Well, the finishing nw gap between rank 10 and rank 1 over the last (many) sets is anywhere from 30-50m nw. lol

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Mar 6th 2023, 18:13:31

Congrats Andrew! Strong top 2 finishes!

.... I forgot to login at the end, so game B here I go.

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Feb 10th 2023, 5:52:43

Thank you, and congrats to all on the nice finishes!

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Feb 1st 2023, 2:48:31

WP to top 2 on close fight! I hope to be more competitive next set. xD

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Jan 12th 2023, 17:33:59

Going casher, and getting ready to be farmed!