Yes, that's correct.

Players with premium access can try out the new search here: https://www.earthempires.com/alphacoop/search

Everything should be working except for the defense calculation from saved spy ops.

https://www.earthempires.com/alphacoop/search

Everything should be working except for the defense calculation of saved ops. I need to start a new game round to fix that. Features of the advanced ingame search:

* 28 different search parameters
* pulls in data from your clan's saved spy ops
* automatically filters out dead countries, countries under protection, and human countries (on the Cooperation server only)
* saves the parameters from the last search and uses those values as the defaults for the next search
* displays up to 100 results in the specified sort order
* you can click on a country name in the search results to easily attack it
* you can click on the defense total in the search results to view the saved spy op

Please try it and let me know what you think. This same UI will eventually be rolled out to all game servers.

On primary? Saved spy ops won't delete after 72 hours starting with the next round.

That's only populated for countries for which you have saved spy ops.

Country number does not determine strategy with the "new" style of NPC countries.

Are you in GDI?

Attack and spy DR do not "unwind" as the target country plays turns. Both decay based on time passing. I'll let others answer the other questions.

Your population may decrease if you lose land, destroy residences, lose residential tech, or raise your tax rate.

Moved to Bugs and Suggestions

Where's Iron Mike? Did he already go back into retirement?

https://imgur.com/a/DGRscAQ

Up to 100 results will be shown. Results will always exclude ingame allies, countries in protection, countries in vacation, dead countries, and countries out of range. Sort options are land, networth, DR, NW/acre, defense in turrets, and country number. The game will default the search parameters to the last search that was run.

Any feedback?

https://imgur.com/a/DGRscAQ

Up to 100 results will be shown. Results will always exclude ingame allies, clan members, countries in protection, countries in vacation, dead countries, and countries out of range. Sort options are land, networth, DR, NW/acre, defense in turrets, and country number. The game will default the search parameters to the last search that was run.

Any feedback?

First you complain that it's missing then you demand that it not always be 0! You people are so demanding.

Should be fixed now?

What is the country number for which you are seeing this?

https://www.earthempires.com/preferences

"Ingame Advisor Style" at the very bottom.

This should be addressed. You got lucky!

Earthquakes will destroy, on average, half of as many labs compared to other non-cs buildings. This change is part of Change Set 25.

https://www.earthempires.com/...s/luck-bonus-50898#997128

In that case, wouldn't it be better to have a way to automatically allocate bonus points to a category as they come in? Countries would benefit from reducing their building costs as quickly as possible.

What's the use case? You want to lower building costs as much as possible but you forget to spend your points and get turns instead?

I'd be in favor of a server where only the bots can attack and the human players have to play as the landfarms.

Thank you. I was able to play with confidence because I had good defense allies.

Theocracy has only won once in the past 3 rounds!

What's your country number and who are you trying to attack?

Yes, it'll be on all servers once they are on Change Set 25 or higher.

We already have "all-X servers". My understanding of the complaint is that servers get boring when both the explore rate is low and grabbing isn't practical for political or other reasons. I don't view increasing the explore rate as a good way to solve that problem (it arguably makes it even worse).

Scenario:

Country 1 is a democracy with $20 M cash and a standing order for 1 million oil up a price of $103.
Country 2 has $1 B cash and 3 standing orders for 1 million oil up a price of $102.
1 million oil arrives on the market with a price of $100.

Old behavior:

Oil is allocated based on timing of the creation of the standing orders. It is possible that country 2 would buy all of the oil and country 1 would get none of it.


New behavior as of Change Set 25:

Oil is evenly divided among orders when possible. Round 1 of buying:

Country 1 order 1 can buy up to 250k oil. It buys 200k oil and runs out of money.
Country 2 order 1 can buy up to 250k oil. It buys 250k oil.
Country 2 order 2 can buy up to 250k oil. It buys 250k oil.
Country 2 order 3 can buy up to 250k oil. It buys 250k oil.

Round 2 of buying:

Country 2 order 1 can buy up to 16667 oil. It buys 16667 oil.
Country 2 order 2 can buy up to 16667 oil. It buys 16667 oil.
Country 2 order 3 can buy up to 16666 oil. It buys 16666 oil.

There are no plans to do this at this time due to game balance concerns and significant coding effort (it's not "just a few lines of html").

I assume by "all-X servers" you mean tourney and team? We don't really want to have "all-X servers". Those playing environments don't sound healthy. I also want to address the bot land inflation that we've seen in Express and Alliance. So there are no plans to make this change at this time, but players who really want higher explore rates can invest in the luck bonus as Tertius said.

I added a forward lookup in the country search results. It only finds the next country, if it exists, and doesn't search recursively.

I assume that this meets the primary need?

I plan to change the "Your country was destroyed because it was deleted for rules violations." message to include information about the suspected rule violation. That should make it more efficient for players to communicate with moderators on their appeal if they feel that the deletion was done in error.

I can't believe Iron Mike didn't throw the first punch. Did he lose a step in his old age?

Can you clarify where this feedback is coming from? I don't see any deletions on your game account over the past five years. We already have an ingame appeal workflow built into the game. Players should use that instead of trying to hunt down game mods. Is this not working?

No, allowing deleted countries to show up on final ranks means that a cheater could win even after being deleted. You can view the country owners of dead countries after the round ends by creating the right url: https://www.earthempires.com/express/753/ranks/91

Would this still be useful? I tried to have this conversation in another place but it didn't go anywhere.

I plan to investigate this at some point.

I plan to investigate this at some point.

Need to add this information to the UI somewhere.

I don't mind adding that but it'll be low priority I think I only added missing things as I personally needed them.

Need to add this information to the UI somewhere.

This is now fixed.

This has been fixed on all game servers. The issue was caused by putting spy tech on the public market.

I added back the classic and old advisor. The setting to change it has been moved to game preferences. However, please understand that spy ops will change to the new advisor style in the near future.

Fixed, thank you for reporting.