I'd like to see ESD win TNW AND ANW.

I don't think we will. I think those sneaky PANLV bastards will beat us.

Can I get anyone to FS them to be sure?

*detags*

your wish is my command ;)

Hehe I dunno you guys might take it. Should be close.

Looks like it will be a good fight to the end between both. I gotta go with ESD winning TNW and ANW this set though.

I don't think it's happened since set 7 when TKO took like 80 top 100 spots.

That was a fun set....

Everyone warred and all our guys in PAN all actually had time to play regularly enough to win.

PAN v. ESD should be a close one. If ESD wins, you'll join what will then be a 4-tag group of TNW winners. :)

I am saddened by my display this set, but best of luck to all!

anw i think there is too far a gap at this point to make up // but twn is still open.

800m gap for us now.. Lets see what ya got ESD!

This is gonna be CLOSE.


I dunno what PAN has left, but with only a few hours left, it's still a two horse race for TNW.

PANLV up by $26 Million NW. Dragon has money left to spend.

wow this will be close //

now ESD by almost 200 mil nw

* has money to spend too :)

$$$$$ $pending now ; P

Pay me in FA next set and ill transfer my countries to your tag


Mwhahaha!

This is an intense competition though. I like it!

Almost $400 mil up ^…

*Jeopardy theme music playing in background*

WOW I KEEP HITTING REFRESH EVERY 1/2 HR OR SO AND IT KEEPS FLIP / FLOPPING.

*caps off now

this is going to come down to the wire -

who is holding out more?

Been checking in now and then myself. 2 hours to go. I don't recall a race for TNW ever being this close.

Definitely MY kind of battle!

the race for the most top 100 counties by clan is also very tight.

You guys seem to have gathered a group of solid netters.. Dragon excluded of course :P

They make even ME look good!

1 hour to go. ESD up by $36 million NW

All mine are between ranks 100-125 :(

less then 2mil NW difference with under an hour remaining.. fluffing wow

I suspect panlv is just toying around a bit until the last 15 minutes and will jump another billion or so :)

up by 100mil+ now, I think a few ESD'ers might be doing the same *eyes dabears and JP*

dabears who? Ah you mean that guy who always sticks around, but always ends up with 15m average net :) . Yea hopefully he will surprise us all this set :)

lol, his net hasn't moved an inch since he go that one at 150mil NW. And yeah, 25k acre PM might not do much but hopefully just enough!

believe me we are praying for him to log in too and jump

1/2 hr to go - i just blew the rest of my wad -

and i think i will lose my #2 spot as well :(

this noob jumped 1.5 days too early, when i did my calcs i forgot to add in what i already had in my PM lol


ESD up by 220 mil

Guess i was right about that 1 billion net :)

yeap I only had 150mil jump saved for the end, no where near enoungh to counter Pan's end jump. I was able to boost a few more into the top 100 so ESD did win the Top 100 countries battle.

Congrats PANLV on the TNW, it was a great battle.

that was fun

all we need to do now is steal 1 member and it would be about even

didn't see that coming actually heh, thank you Slayer..

Great set though ESD, grats on another deserved ANW. Maybe with my absence next set you'll take us:p

hmmm

Great job, PAN. Outstanding last minute charge. :)

I would like to join ESD or Panlv... hmmm thoughts?

join Pan, they're gonna need help next set =P

http://eepandora.com

go nuts

Our site being temporarily down won't help any recruiting :P Good race ESD, it's only a matter of time at this point if you guys stay motivated

If I was ESD, I would be a little worried about winning so much. TKO and Pan took the brunt of suiciders for the last few sets. With TKO hurting a little now, they might decide to go for Pan and ESD.

With these suiciders being back set after set you'd have to think it's more of a grudge thing than going after the top clans .. someone doesn't like PAN and someone doesn't like TKO even more

If they do, they do. Nothing we can do about that. I'd hate to think that there are people out there who are that petty and mean, but nothing I/We could say or do will stop them from hitting us if they want to. We'll just keep on minding our ow business and not bothering anyone or beat up on small tags.

We're certainly not going to TRY to be "less successful".

True dat, but small minds tend to be very jealous of those that succeed. Cheers to competition and to victories.

Don't get me wrong. Ever since I started ESD, my goal was to be good but maybe not so good as to draw a ton of attention.

I know where you're coming from. In part, that's why I've tried to have the clan policies I've made and only accept the members I think will help and support those policies.

I certainly can't stop some dude from whacking us because he has a hard on for some member of ours that fluffed him over in the past. In part, that's why I limit our clan's membership. I don't want guys with baggage.

Pretty much a crap shoot though. You can only do so much and after that, you just have to play like things will be okay. And be able to quickly dispatch unjustified or unwanted threats.

Here's the deal, smegma. Since 2001 (or so), ESD was ALWAYS the "little guy". I fought for the little guy, made alliances and friendships to HELP the little guys and tried hard to only attract members who wanted to play smart.

Not coincidentally, that's why ESD was always the "little guy". The game is different now. Relatively speaking, ESD is one of the "big guys". I still demand the "little guy" mentality out of everyone of my members.

If that's not good enough, so be it. I personally want every FFA player to succeed and more importantly have fun be that in a netting tag or warring tag. I have no control over the chaotic element. If they pick ESD for whatever reason, then we have to deal with it.

I think what you and everyone else should try to understand is that my clan is FULL of people who have played this game since almost Day 1. We've all "been there done that".

At this point, we just want to enjoy the community and fit in.

^ "HERE! HERE!"

*does a "big boy" shot wearing my "little boy" pants! *

and there is our not-so-secret weapon, MU-FAAASA!

If anyone has a problem with ESD 122-137 will have fluffty spal, NO defense, SDI, be fat a hell and pushing 400mil ANW.

(they're not tagged yet but that's because I'm lazy as you =P)

But on a separate note they few that we have had seem to go after those that are defended, so figure that out =P

You've always played with high morals Dragon. I hope it is respected by all.

I appreciate the comment. I think really, it's mostly that I was an old fart playing a kid's game when I started. Hell. I was 39 when I played my first round of Earth. In a game full of teenagers.

I remember the days of landtrading with no defense .. it was awesome

When you choose to run low defense land traders, if you want to be honest with yourself, you have to be ready to eat big hits. The cost of all those turns and all those days and all that money and food is that you might lose 10K acres in a hit or two.

Where the problem arises is when a player or players go to the well once too often.

Just as low defense land trading has to expect the occasional grab, the greedy Land Predator has to expect that greed kills.

Just because a player has 16 fat countries does not justify someone farming him or her.

In fact, hitting low defense, high acre countries is the same thing as land trading. It's an issue of opportunity. And cost.I run low defense land traders. I expect you'll maybe take a shot or two. You look for low defense land traders. Take too many shots and you'll wake up dead.

There's an unspoken protocol or etiquette involved here.