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I do thank you all for your input. I think I've sourced the issue. Just hard to test it in a dev environment if I can't replicate it in the first place

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Mar 4th 2014, 18:24:52

Yes xinhuan, I can't make it happen to me. And qzjul hasn't noticed it either. I've been making countries just to test it.

I have no idea why I would have said I cant replicate it if I could do it all along. Seems like flawed logic...

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Mar 3rd 2014, 21:31:02

yea, we are looking into this. could some players experiencing this issue please tell me do you get bonus when logged out? do you check your main country page directly after getting bonus?

a bit more information please. we are trying to replicate it.

thank you.

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Mar 3rd 2014, 21:03:37

deleted/banned both.

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Mar 3rd 2014, 20:43:13

great work Azz Kikr, thanks!

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Mar 3rd 2014, 20:38:33

Originally posted by ebert00:

It was not top 10 but no I was not purpled there either. 17th/37th or something I don't remember and am too lazy to look up now.

at least there wasn't any coordination this round. =)

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Mar 3rd 2014, 20:35:43

Originally posted by Riddler:

I love being trolled by a mod

that a challenge? =)

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Mar 3rd 2014, 11:34:04

i didn't really like the movie either.

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Mar 3rd 2014, 0:44:10

No 16 countries

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Mar 3rd 2014, 0:39:32

Oops. Closed thread by accident

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Mar 3rd 2014, 0:37:10

Lol he just won ffa

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Mar 3rd 2014, 0:16:13

... how is a game worth that?

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Mar 3rd 2014, 0:13:33

Cx you sold 24m oil at 21... Last I checked. Ha.

Thx for the troll

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Mar 3rd 2014, 0:03:23

...

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Mar 2nd 2014, 23:45:28

I only got 2m off u and failed loads. Haha.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 23:39:43

You made 2m more than I did in the exchange... And now u want me to buy turrets??

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Mar 2nd 2014, 23:38:21

It works in the way it was intended. It stops special attacks.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 23:37:19

Aren't turrets kinda low on destock priority list?

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Mar 2nd 2014, 23:34:54

Ah you're the one that I was hoping you'd flatten me for my ludicrous rentals for a single tap.

Nobody's got any backbone these days.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 23:18:38

hsifreta, you stole my cash first in a few grabs. Was just getting a tiny amount back and hoping someone would kill me for my antics.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 22:26:07

too bad i can't bring my $6b cash per turn country over from alpha =/

my cutoff is about 2mil NW this round. HA

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:28:55

Originally posted by Getafix:

The oil benefit is huge. I bought $8m worth at turn 360. By the time I played turns about 30 hours later I had multiplied the $8m to $90m and bought res/bus with it at $1800. I was at 170% res/bus at turn 375.

yes, Getafix, but you didn't arrange for ... that person to sell the oil at $21. i'm not sure I really see anything wrong. except for the two noob players who have sold about 80k between them at about $18/barrel, it's only been experienced players trolling teh staff this round.

i have seen previous resets where there was obvious coordination through selling oil on the cheap, but there's been a pretty even spread of players getting cheap oil this set.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:13:23

you're forgetting food where prices can be inflated because one player spends all set cashing $300k/turn to buy as much food on the pub market as they can, sell it on priv market, buy on pub, sell on priv, etc etc etc to eventually spend over $10b attempting to inflate prices.

tho this is happening, i feel that $10b is a pitiful amount. ha.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:10:37

heh. fun addition :P

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:01:50

Kill! Kill! Kill!!!

it actually has been a fun round. haven't seen the boards this active in a while...

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:00:56

correction, never stops on the express server.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:00:46

um. gdi never stops people from grabbing you. but if they grab you more than once, you can go all out war on them.

enjoy!

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Mar 2nd 2014, 21:00:01

/me waits for the three page response proving me wrong.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 20:59:47

but, honestly.. oil is probably the least effective market cheat on the express server.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 20:59:23

hmz. thanks for that ... idea. next troll? =)

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Mar 2nd 2014, 20:51:06

i've been watching the market this round and been looking at stats from previous rounds to look at ways of mitigating some of the most obvious methods of cheating but to still have a public market. not quite sure if we'll look at implementing them, leave the market as it is, or do away with it.

i've made it known that I don't really want it to go away. making it more of a solitaire server.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 20:37:53

ha braden. of course I don't really mean to say that categorically. maybe i should have rephrased it so say that i would make sure I would be on the petitioning side to allow other allies back in as well.

having good def allies is just as much 'coordination' as having any other ally type i'd say. i can see how the different ally slots can be exploited. but if you all want a truly solo server, I don't understand why you want to add the allies back in.

and thx crest23. i'm not the normal average joe. i have been around this game, not even playing, for about 2 years now. i don't imagine suiciding (a few failed SS, etc) a few people with their mates for def allies would slow me down that much. hmm.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 19:26:56

not exactly. but I can see your point in that situation. there are many situations where players have doubled defense simply because they ally with their mates who they know will have good defense, so they keep a lower defense banking on the def allies doubling them and then they're able to mid/top feed because of it, making someone with lots of defense have to either disregard the attack or 'jet up' to get a retal.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 19:23:28

i'm talking about defensive allies =)

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Mar 2nd 2014, 19:19:46

why should you have to majorily increase the risk to yourself to retal someone fully decked out with really good d-allies?

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Mar 2nd 2014, 19:05:06

Originally posted by Xinhuan:

Likewise, this is the reason why I disagreed with the removal of D-allies, because having it around gave landgrabbing a risk vs reward gameplay element (of spending turns to spy vs risk of failure of a blind PS).

if D-Allies or even I-allies returned, i would make sure that off allies arrive back as well. just maybe just not as unbalanced as before. no off allies and people having 2 def allies would make land grabbing pretty much a no-go. especially for those players who always share their numbers with others. they would just ally with each other, making it pretty much impossible for either of them to be grabbed all set.

if that were the case, i think that I would make a country just to SS suicide any of the top players with d allies. =/

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Mar 2nd 2014, 18:30:26

i was valuing at the average price over 60, which is pretty much exactly $125.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 18:21:14

he did annoy quite a few people.. and was it actually coordination? haven't looked at the news.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 18:19:40

yea. someone who I will not name has sold 24m+ barrels for $21. another person has sold 10m+ for an average price of $18. a few other noobs sold some as well. anyway. so far, seems that round average of oil, priced above $60 being $125, total sales is about 4.3b before taxes. take away the $680m it cost to buy the oil and about 12 people are sharing $3.6b in free money.

gotta love trolls ;-)

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