I think im pretty good at all explore...... can i have a cookie?

KSF gained more land from dropping a member and farming him :P

yep, don't really agree that Oden "deserves" it either. but at least he made the free land count ;)

Fixed.

kaka

Havoc's in the t10 with a couple hours left in the set? What's this world coming to..

You can't just make a history of landtrading etc. disappear. I'm always more inclined to pick out RD because you guys do this crap every set.

And by history I'm referring to EE, not when you botted guys and stuff.

Seven different alliances represented in the top 10 right now. When was the last time that happened?

1 The Light After Darkness Past (#211) 57,789 $210,263,881 HG MD
2 Oden (#348) 78,001 $206,579,157 IG KSF
3 Blood on Excalibur (#254) 48,154 $201,438,528 F Paradigm
4 With or Without You (#49) 51,776 $196,487,965 DG MD
5 Buffalo Soldier (#146) 45,344 $180,895,791 HG ResDogs
6 Welcome to the Jungle (#10) 55,412 $180,541,323 HG MD
7 does anyone really even (#80) 45,971 $155,302,659 HG SancT
8 Mr Snow (#344) 42,479 $152,317,875 H ResDogs
9 Do yoU Need vodkA (#173) 50,719 $144,826,925 D Rival
10 an avid purveyor of whiteboards (#561) 38,714 $144,618,321 D LCNostra

balin: there was 6 last reset?

oh :P

Grats all =)

At least there is some sort of epeen competition. It's more exciting that way and people might actually try more.

look how low the networths are.

Hey, all I have to say is that this is probably my fourth semi-legitimate netting set in ~4 years playing, and I managed to achieve $50m better than my previous best.

I don't expect to stay t10 through the end of the set, but damn it's been surprising to be there at all :P

^hes still top 10 haha

SS hit the nail on the head, I suck. Most people are just unbearably awful at this game.

LT is the anti-highrock

all landgrabbing, no destocking skills :P

LT+highrock = hypothetical best player ever! (or worst if you see it the other combo :P)

I think its a fair question to ask and not trolling; Does this LT/Highrock Hybrid only count in sets where you have free reign over farming PDM while your buddies kill them with a nice topping of an RD buddy and a LaF buddy to grab 10k acres off later?

i didnt even realize this was a flame thread but since my name somehow got brought up i just want to say one thing:


don't include me in conversations with "elite" netters. not when i havent done anything in the last 8 years to deserve such credit. there is no "top" laf netter who half-asses every netting set worse than me. I have taken a handful of countries that *should* have finished in the 200m++ nw range and finished a mere 150-160 out of pure laziness. I typically only try hard enough to be a decent tech ally then just laze it up.

The only set I put half an effort into in the last 8 years was the one where i finished second like 2 or 3 sets ago. The only reason I even half tried was to troll xin, then realized that ss made an error in stocking and decided i would make him earn the win as well.

the fact i happened to finish t10 with half-assed countries is merely a reflection of how poor the competition for t10 is. but as far as "elite" netters go I don't think we have any that can compare to the days of old so why bother? you guys are arguing over who the "smartest" retard is. Guess what, at the end of the day you're still a retard.

I find it amusing that apparently all of the "genius" netters of old never developed skills that elevated their whole clans. They could only do well in their own countries. Now why would that be?

Are you a wizard?

You still need your hug!

Me? hah.

You guys are the ones (OK, everyone aside from six people) that somehow let me stay t10 ;p not my fault!

<no need for that>

Do you mean that they didn't help their alliance at all? :S Didn't all clans share info and strats etc? Or do you refer to a greater elevation?

It is because Math Geeks are socially inept.

Rumor has it pang has a country that was recorded as finishing t10. Rumor also has it that I taught him in that set. Considering how inept pang actually is at netting I don't know if I want to take any credit in that blunder. Then again, I guess I don't like to take credit for other people who finish well. But that's just me.

locket has gotten a t10.

and he can't net out of a wet paperbag

At least I'd stumble my way out of one before you would ;)

ive gotten top10 twice...

Well done, you totally missed the point. You look down on players who try hard today while simultaneously praising your fallen heroes who won because they spent eight hours a day playing this game, benefited directly or indirectly from cheating, or got lucky.

Here's a question for you, who is the better player: someone who spends the minimum amount of time playing the game and gets 175 M NW with an all-X or someone who grabs for eight hours a day and gets 176 M NW? You can make an argument for either player. However, if the question is who is the "smartest retard", the answer to that is pretty obvious to me.

I'd say it's the dude who spents 6 hours a day and gets 300m+ NW