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Serpentor Game profile

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Jul 28th 2014, 6:13:39

$36
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Xinhuan Game profile

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Jul 31st 2014, 7:35:44

It looks like WouldntYaKnow (#73) just self-deleted. What's the story here?

Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 1st 2014, 4:20:36

Wouldn't you like to know. :-P
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h2orich Game profile

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Aug 1st 2014, 4:24:53

thats for you to find out Xin.

Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 2nd 2014, 3:18:55

No work for almost 2 weeks starting today...woohoo!!! Gotta love holidays.
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Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 2nd 2014, 16:02:40

Oh and why didn't someone bring up that new bonus turns thing. I had no idea until yesterday.... You people are supposed to figure this stuff out and keep me informed for gods sake!!! That's it, you're all fired!
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Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 2nd 2014, 18:55:23

You read this forum daily. Just check in on Announcements too.

Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 2nd 2014, 21:01:20

No, that's out of the question... Anyways, I fired you already....."SECURITY!!!!"
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Viceroy Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 4:58:18

3.9 mins ago
Neon Knights (#91) attempted to spy on your country! You killed ######## enemy spies.

3.9 mins ago
Neon Knights (#91) attempted to spy on your country! You killed ######## enemy spies.


I don't know what happened or why he self-deleted four minutes after spying my country, but I'm taking credit for the kill! :-D
And, Monsters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.

Comrade Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 5:09:03

Ahh, I was about to ask how come it says country "destroyed" but there are no records of it being attacked... weird.

Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 5:09:54

Bored and not having a good set probably. One less Indy kickin around now.
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oldman Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 5:10:48

The communist ruler of the country probably went on the spy mission too and unfortunately got killed in action.

cyref Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 5:13:52

hmm that is odd though, rank 9 and 5th fattest country on the server when he self-deleted.

Helluva kill Viceroy!
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Chewi Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 6:13:34

Too lazy to play and got tired of failing ops on people with half my spies.

Viceroy gets credit for the kill!

Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 6:35:47

Thanks chewi!
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Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 9:20:25

Oh god, military prices are going to rise back up. Dammit.

crest23 Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 9:43:23

Originally posted by Chewi:
got tired of failing ops on people with half my spies so I went with them to show them how it is done, unfortunately, the problem was more widespread than we thought.


Originally posted by oldman:
The communist ruler of the country probably went on the spy mission too and unfortunately got killed in action.


LMAO! oldman seems to have nailed it. The communist leader was probably thinking he could do the spying better than his people and got caught.

Edited By: crest23 on Aug 3rd 2014, 9:46:28
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Chewi Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 13:09:35

Originally posted by Serpentor:
Thanks chewi!


I was sitting on 100+ turns so I didn't have as big of an impact as you would like.

Viceroy Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 17:48:48

Sorry to see you go, Chewi.

Originally posted by Chewi:
Too lazy to play and got tired of failing ops on people with half my spies.

Viceroy gets credit for the kill!

My SPAL isn't //that// bad...

For what it may be worth, this is only my second kill ever and the first since late 2000 or early 2001. :-)
And, Monsters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.

Serpentor Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 21:27:06

I had double the spal of a guy today and it took forever to get an op through. What's the deal? He must have had 2 allies with spies like... Well... mine.
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Marshal Game profile

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Aug 3rd 2014, 21:32:21

spying got changed too not that long ago.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

blid

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Aug 3rd 2014, 23:30:34

Well, I now need a new intel ally. Inquire within.
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

blid

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:16:18

I have more spies than your intel allies. PM me immediately!
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Chewi Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:19:56

I had 700-800k spies and was almost hitting my 35 limit each day due to failures.

blid

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:20:26

Haha, how is that possible?

I only hit it when I tried to grab twice in the same "day."
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Chewi Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:35:12

A country + his allies could take 10 ops =\

blid

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:36:45

You gotta know when to back off bro! The more spies you lose on a failed op, the more spies the other guy has. If your losses indicate the other guy has unholy SPAL, either blind hit or move on I guess? I will certainly admit, I feel like every set I have more trouble getting ops through than the last, but i've never run out of ops spying for a single set of grabs!
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

blid

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:37:06

If your other intel ally had good spies please PM me his number.
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 1:45:16

Viceroy, are you trying to beat eManny's all-explore top 5 NW? Hehe.

Chewi Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 2:01:04

I don't think I ran into anyone with more than 400k.

crest23 Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 2:27:39

http://www.eestats.com/primary/toptencountries

According to eestats, there are no all-x countries, looks like eestats is broken cause there are several.
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Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 2:41:20

Bore specifically mentioned he removed showing the top 10 all-explore countries, because it was an operation that was too slow and killed the database. You essentially had to go through all the news from the start of the reset. Especially searching for "all time top 10 all explores", that took minutes.

Source: http://www.earthempires.com/forum/post/511041/perm

Edited By: Xinhuan on Aug 4th 2014, 2:44:36
See Original Post

Viceroy Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 3:10:49

Originally posted by Xinhuan:
Viceroy, are you trying to beat eManny's all-explore top 5 NW? Hehe.

My days of competing for the all-explore title are over (at least on this server). I'm an unabashed bottom-feeding bully these days :-)
And, Monsters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.

Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 17:09:05

This is one of the best Commie resets I've seen for a long time.

Top Commie: 37k land
Top Techer: 28k land
Top Casher: 27k land
Top Farmer: 25k land

That's ~133% land compared to the Techer, and ~150% compared to the Farmer.

Kingme Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 17:16:30

I'm trying! I'm new to primary!

seriously though, I can't keep up with those C/I's

blid

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Aug 4th 2014, 17:30:55

Commies are gonna run out of targets soon?
Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:
Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Kingme Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 17:34:13

Originally posted by blid:
Commies are gonna run out of targets soon?


I would think they are close to the point of having to find more risky targets.
This is assuming they aren't going to DT, which I don't know why you would risk it.

LATC Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 17:58:52

I'm surprised prices can sustain so high w/ 8 of the top 10 being commies. Patience is important I suppose.. maybe the rest of us should just hold turns for a day =P
Originally posted by Xinhuan:
Are you guys stupid or what?

eManny Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 18:27:25

I think 75M NW is possible for an all-explore. I got 65M NW but I got grabbed and food wasn't that cheap that round.
But the odds of getting 75M NW is probably as hard as hitting 150M NW as an attacker.

LATC Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 21:25:31

Originally posted by eManny:
But the odds of getting 75M NW is probably as hard as hitting 150M NW as an attacker.


CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
Originally posted by Xinhuan:
Are you guys stupid or what?

eManny Game profile

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Aug 4th 2014, 22:20:09

LATC, you cannot play an all-explore, because I will just grab you and you will retal me. LOL.

oldman Game profile

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Aug 5th 2014, 11:16:10

food's not looking too good now, day 31 and food is still at $35 lol.
oil too.

Too many farmers and oilers after seeing how well farmers/oilers did in the past few sets.

LATC Game profile

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Aug 5th 2014, 17:35:33

dang it I wasted my money on $142-$145 jets.. they were just on for $110 and $136 now asldjk;falsaf

Oh by the way, great set to be casher if you are patient enough for military market.
Originally posted by Xinhuan:
Are you guys stupid or what?

Marshal Game profile

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Aug 5th 2014, 19:35:51

Originally posted by LATC:
dang it I wasted my money on $142-$145 jets.. they were just on for $110 and $136 now asldjk;falsaf


that happens, 1 day when buys jets price is ~150 and next day price is 100-120.
Patience: Yep, I'm with ELK and Marshal.

ELKronos: Patty is more hairy.

Gallery: K at least I am to my expectations now.

LadyGrizz boobies is fine

NOW3P: Morwen is a much harsher mistress than boredom....

Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 6th 2014, 1:54:48

It seems like part of the reason why CIs are doing so well this set is because of the announced game changes. One of them was that the NW attack penalty loss for the attacker (cube root of the NW ratio) was supposed to be removed as announced in the Announcements. Only that it wasn't actually removed. People feel that military demand would drop this set, and fewer are playing CIs.

Well, except demand is just as high, but supply is far lower.

Comrade Game profile

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Aug 6th 2014, 10:41:42

Why is the goods-to-market time so long? From my estimates around 3-4hrs? This should be on the order of 15 minutes I think, seeing how nothing else is realistic in this game..

oldman Game profile

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Aug 6th 2014, 11:17:28

Originally posted by Comrade:
Why is the goods-to-market time so long? From my estimates around 3-4hrs? This should be on the order of 15 minutes I think, seeing how nothing else is realistic in this game..


Goods takes 4-6 hours to reach the market on primary.

Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 6th 2014, 11:22:58

The only server it is 15 min is Express.

The duration to market is scaled approximately with the server's 1 turn every X minutes.

For example,
Primary is 1 turn every 30 minutes --> 4-6 hours for goods to market (8-12 turns).
Alliance is 1 turn every 20 minutes --> 4-5 hours for goods to market (12-15 turns).
Team is 1 turn every 15 minutes --> 2-3 hours for goods to market (8-12 turns).
Express is 1 turn every 4 minutes --> 0.25-0.75 hours for goods to market (3.75-11.25 turns).

Edited By: Xinhuan on Aug 6th 2014, 11:25:27
See Original Post

Xinhuan Game profile

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Aug 6th 2014, 11:29:10

Sorry Indies!

I just killed military demand by about ~20-30%: http://www.earthempires.com/...emoved-32543?t=1407299980

Comrade Game profile

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Aug 6th 2014, 11:34:45

Thanks for clarification. Still, would be nice if it was at least 1-2hrs on primary.. I might try Express to see how it goes