Lots of folks land grabbing other folks and not attacking bots this set

I like it

finally a real game instead of those little scared people only hitting bots.

I like it too.

Some one kicked Ginger 5, #1 Arse.. lol

#82 did a nice retal and then #1 unloaded his missiles.. and then #82 showed up with his tanks

it seems they have both moved on though, good fun

Ratski is #82 confirmed...pumping his own tires lol!



Or is it Hess?!!

Serious note how do you destock what little stock you have on express?

I'll usually just use the public market

last set I had about 100 mil bushels stocked.. sold them all on the public on the last day

And I pretty much jumped off the public market as well.. using standing orders

I only bought out troops and tanks off PM

100m bushels buys you how much NW?

No clue how these dudes are getting 30m+ NW when I look at past scores....

Can do the math.. with some assumptions

100 million bushels, assume average sell price $36 = 3.6 billion cash

Assume an average purchase price of $125 troops = 28.8 million troops

Troops are .5 networth.. so 14.4 mil net worth of bushels

I also had 2 bil cash.. and I think I finished around 45 mil net worth last set

35-45m has to be considered pretty standard for a CI or techer.

I am not running a tyranny gov. But I am still in the top 20.

When should I put my bushels up for sale? If you wait too long they may not sell?

if you sell them at 35 in the end they should sell if theres any demo in the game.

How many you got? I will buy them all at 29.

I'll pay 30!

I didn't know there were bots......

how do i tell

Same as 1a.

Also I’m gonna really mess things up here before too long just for funzies

Nice, do it bug

bots: lots of defs no attacks, names (3 syllables) start with capped letter and other things.

bots names are created by this: https://github.com/...r/NameGenerator.class.php

disclaimer: not all which meet above reqs are bots, some are human players just biding their time before wrecking attackers.

Which one is you? ;)

Bug are u fcking with me

Nah, failed a big retal cuz of ss instead of ps and now I’m probably just gonna grab humans and see what happens

You two should post your country name every set and I'll make it a mission to hit both of you each and every set, ball is in your court gentlemen....

I think you missed the point entirely but I’m not surprised

Nah bro, you did. Vatzooland is the guy I was retalling and failed. He grabbed first ;)

Did I strike a nerve?

Wow #82 got wreckd RIP

I wouldn’t say that even a little bit

Should you jump in the last hour or when?

I usually do my jumping jacks in the mornings

Essentially you want to maximise your $/NW ratio and there are a number of factors that play into that.

For example, if you are a Theo with a nice cheap private market you will want to try and spend all of your stockpile there, you need to figure out regeneration rate and how for out you should start buying it out. In doing this you are taking on additional military expense in the closing stages, so you want to look at how much that hurts revenue. In express the numbers generally work such that its better to jump wholly off your private as a Theo and take the hit on expenses. If you are lower acreage, then your private might not regenerate fast enough and you might have to seek some support from the public.

If your private is not so hot, then you need to be looking at whats going on in the public and remember its really thin, so take your chances soon.

If your revenue per turn is low (e.g a lower land techer) then it might be better jumping early and not running turns in order to be able to unload all your stock on your private.

Mostly trying to a do a full oil destock isn't going to pay dividends, as the oil market tends not to be big enough to support it.

Lots of variables, you kind of have to play it by ear.

whats this jumping you speak of? Don't you just keep playing your turns like normal until the time runs out?

So during the normal course of play, a well run country will by around turn 800-1000 (sooner the better) stop growing and start stockpiling (indy excepted - thats a whole different ball game!).

so for the rest of the round they will run turns and there production will be such that they end up with too much cash on hand to run turns (> $2bn and you start losing money to corruption). In order to get around this you will want to convert that excess cash to goods that you can then store on market (sell it at a high price that is unlikely to sell) - typically this would be bushels. Similarly for a farmer, you would want to be storing the majority of bushels, as they too suffer from decay if they are left "on-hand". These bushels are know as your stockpile (or just stock).

At the end of the round (or whenever you decide you need to jump) you would liquidate these either by selling on public or private depending on what you feel will get you best results, the immediacy with which you need the funds, the risk you are prepared to take with pricing etc

When everything comes together you can end with well over 100m bushels to liquidate giving you several billion in cash that you need to spend. You spend this on military, and your NW jumps.

The reason you don't put (all) your revenue into military as you go along, is because military upkeep costs (aka expenses) begin to compromise your profitability.

This assumes that you are running a specialist strat and not a rainbow. Rainbows don't really work very well, and I doubt have any need to think about jumping as they live a fleeting hand to mouth style existence.

Jumping jacks are when you jump in the air and simultaneously well jumping you spread out your legs and lift your arms so you land in a bit of a straddle wide leg stance with your arms up and spread out

And then you jump again and simultaneously you bring your arms down to your sides and bring your feet back together so you land in more of a pencil like standing position

then you repeat step 1 and 2 over and over until you work up a sweat and/or feel the need to stop, it's quite enjoyable

It's actually not as complicated as you might think, and most people can master it with little practice

So I’m supposed to sell my bushels at 35?

or 34.. or on your PM if you can get mil costs tech up and get your PM sell price to 34 or 35

Sounds like to much effort, I will pass on jumping.

Hal Johnson would be disappointed in you

I only care about what Joanne McLeod thinks.