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AndrewMose

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Aug 19th 2023, 17:45:07

A plan is only a plan. Cath executed it perfectly. Ironically I botched my destock by burning oil before dropping land ... so it's a very good thing we were weren't pumping up my country.

AndrewMose

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Aug 16th 2023, 18:28:47

Thanks all, and congrats Pteppic on a record setting techer finish with the lowest tech prices of the past 4 sets. https://www.eestats.com/alliance/serverstats

I will also say that TC's country was in excellent shape prior to the early attacks, and Chev appeared to be running a strong country before the aid as well. Congrats to both of you as well.

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Aug 15th 2023, 17:37:04

Or lets say 30 oil standing orders for 5,000 barrels are filled at $22 per barrel and then 1 lucky country gets their SO filled for 371,737,318 barrels at $22 per barrel.

My experience is that the SOs are filled in order they are placed independent of the qty open on the SO. So if 50 SO's qualify for the price that the goods hit the market it will be the one that was first placed or last filled.

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Aug 11th 2023, 16:29:56

This one time

AndrewMose

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Aug 7th 2023, 16:57:03

It feels like there aren't nearly as many targets this set. I'm sure there will be many more retal opportunities as players have to become more aggressive.

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Jul 30th 2023, 10:43:59

Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong. An attack contributes to DR for 3 days but has a half life of 1 day. So after 24 hours an attack is contributing .5 Dr, after 2 days .25 and the formula is continuous not discrete. In express the values are 24 hour timeframe and 4 hour half life I believe.

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Jul 29th 2023, 18:08:35

A suggestion. We currently don't have a correct DR calculation. If the can be fixed on one of the sites, that would be very valuable.

AndrewMose

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Jul 28th 2023, 0:55:00

[quote poster=ツ; 52020; 1017189]I don't think it's griefing if your intent is to finish higher than your opponent. [/quote]

I like this criteria. If you landgrab a netter once they may just retal and get the land back. But if you do something knowing full well the only result will be a kill run, then your intentions aren't to improve your own finish but to lower someone else's. Tmac has been top fed plenty of times on many servers and typically just retals. I don't think he's playing alliance this set though.

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Jul 23rd 2023, 12:16:43

AndrewMose

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Jul 18th 2023, 10:20:10

Is there any chance this get's changed...I'm asking before I sell a couple million spies :)

AndrewMose

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Jul 16th 2023, 0:28:28

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AndrewMose

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Jul 13th 2023, 3:08:30

You are close to figuring it out yourself but you need to figure out your NW to cash conversion rate if you don't convert to MB and then if you do. You also need to figure out if you have enough time to destock now or if you are going to need to use oil or public market.

AndrewMose

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Jul 13th 2023, 2:38:37

I'm jealous. a few days back I sold 175M for 38 to start my destock. I knew that was a bad decision a day after I did it. You should start destocking now...you'll need all the time you can get unless you have oil...and if you have too much oil you should probably sell your oversupply of oil and destock now either way.

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Jul 11th 2023, 23:42:26

Extremely well played. I thought I was just as good during the first few weeks and then I kept screwing up and they made all the right grabs. I never would have imagined that finish was possible based on the first 30 days.

AndrewMose

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Jul 11th 2023, 14:05:10

Looks to be a photo finish. There has been some exceptional grabbing this set.

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Jul 8th 2023, 21:12:05

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Jul 3rd 2023, 17:28:27

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AndrewMose

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Jun 27th 2023, 23:22:40

I think Clan GDI has some positives built in. The protection from untagged suiciders is within the spirit of the game. On any server with Clans having someone hide untagged and operate outside of diplomacy or alliances doesn't seem like fair play. Requiring a clan to declare war on another clan is a good fix to that problem. But not allowing a clan to declare war unless a prior attack has taken place, seems like it may be a step too far.

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Jun 25th 2023, 18:45:54

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Jun 19th 2023, 23:52:23

This mechanism shifts the burden of diplomacy from netters to war clans. In previous sets if one side wanted to war, then there was going to be a war. If you wanted to net you had to make friends with the war clans. Or oblige them with a war set every so often, and fight with dignity so that you would have peace the next set. That's at least how it was supposed to work, recently it seems that there hasn't been enough common ground. I personally would have benefited from this for the past 3 sets, and I was unable to find peace with the few people that didn't want to see me finish. But I can see how this can further separate the netting clans from war clans. With that said, harmful spy ops can be quite powerful.

AndrewMose

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Jun 19th 2023, 1:51:23

I see the GDI column on the clans page in team, is this mechanism live on team server also?

AndrewMose

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Jun 16th 2023, 13:28:55

Derrick, well said. Team isn't the only server this is happening. I've noticed some wars starting out of nowhere on tournament also. And it's happening to both sides of the Alliance server war. I'm hoping this will be a shift of change and we can go back to fighting across all the competition for top NW.

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Jun 15th 2023, 3:27:47

Thanks Derrick. It was very nice to have a clean set. Seeing a CI and a techer approach $80M in the same set was very impressive. There is a lot of good competition in this server, including a lot of people who war prepped just in case. I'm hoping everyone gets an equal shot to net next set.

AndrewMose

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Jun 13th 2023, 13:33:15

I know you all had a fascist casher competition in express a while back. I've considered trying my hand at an all explore rainbow to see if I can reach 25M. The rule is you can't use the public market for anything. You would have to build farms for food, research your own tech, and buy military from private market or build indies.

AndrewMose

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Jun 12th 2023, 0:01:44

I had an FA available from #1 to #5 which would have put me to the top spot. Good win K4F you are seemingly impossible to beat

AndrewMose

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Jun 12th 2023, 0:00:46

I didn't finish my destock...and I didn't finish my last FA package....I've never been so disapointed in my finish:(

AndrewMose

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Jun 9th 2023, 14:43:47

1 oil enables you to buy up to $1.65 NW on your private market. So if you are a theo destocking around $220/NW and you buy $200 oil...then your total cost of destock is $128+$220 = $348/NW. So you will want to buy out the jets and turrets on the public market up to $196 before buying oil. Of course then you lose the productivity of turns on your last 4 days so there is additional cost of buying military now. If you wait until the last day, the military may not be there on the public market. But either way you should be able to spend all of your money if you are starting to spend now.

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Jun 8th 2023, 19:01:11

The public market military is still cheap and deep as well. 2.1 Trillion is a lot of cash though

AndrewMose

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Jun 7th 2023, 0:17:21

We are within 5 days of the end. Good luck and don't forget to destock.

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Jun 1st 2023, 0:14:17

Congrats Ippon on reclaiming the top spot after letting some of us mere mortals experience a taste of victory for a few sets. There was far less war going on in game A this round. Many of the top 10 were rather reserved in their landgrabs.

1 Ippon (#3) 23,809 $36,495,206 CG
2 Ufo full of nefilim landed (#29) 15,736 $29,196,611 RG
3 Swamp Guardians (#9) 50 $28,860,540 HG
4 Finite Simple Group of Order Two (#26) 15,455 $25,429,679 CG
5 p h i l t r e (#1) 17,974 $23,999,766 DG
6 Lemmings (#7) 5483 $23,563,090 RG
7 GCS (#10) 19,953 $22,469,938 RG
8 ASTRAL (#20) 13,081 $21,037,531 HG
9 I Braineater (#28) 12,289 $20,573,205 RG
10 The Aturan Empire (#16) 8453 $19,692,464 HG

AndrewMose

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May 29th 2023, 1:39:16

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May 19th 2023, 23:20:02

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

Too many techers....faaak

No tech on the market...

AndrewMose

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May 12th 2023, 9:34:37

Is there a way to figure out who was playing a country that self deleted?

AndrewMose

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May 11th 2023, 20:18:47

Sorry the sarcasm didn't show in my post. I just thought it was a funny trend. He is definitely doing an oil destock and will almost certainly win this set. Because he will tear down all his buildings he needs money and isn't necessarily afraid of losing land at this point. Also the lower your NW the less you lose on government transition costs. So to be clear, he is trying to squeeze out every bit of NW possible, and it is almost impossible for us on the outside to guess how high he may jump. I ran a F oil destock a couple sets back and did something similar, but this country was run much better than my old country so it will finish much higher.

https://www.eestats.com/primary/oldcountry/3636/1

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May 11th 2023, 16:20:23

Look at the NW graph of this country. Clearly this is a classic example of a mediocre player who grew too quickly profiting off of market conditions and now that food prices have fallen is losing a lot of land and doesn't know how to finish the set.

https://www.eestats.com/primary/country/22

AndrewMose

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May 7th 2023, 11:04:20

Nope

AndrewMose

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May 2nd 2023, 0:48:49

Congrats NiteIL, well earned.

AndrewMose

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Apr 30th 2023, 3:06:11

Thanks for this Galleri.

AndrewMose

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Apr 28th 2023, 13:55:14

That's a lot of hate BlackHole. I don't remember ever taking any aggressive action towards you. Feel free to message me directly if I ever do something to upset or offend you. I'm here to try to win, not make enemies.

AndrewMose

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Apr 27th 2023, 0:14:53

Nobody in Evo was hiding. Our country names clearly tell who was playing each country. This set I chose to do the same for transparency. I might rethink that next set and on other servers.

I'm still perplexed at why hitting Evo ( which right now is just 2 people) will impact the war at all. If there was nobody tagged Evo, the war would still be going on. I'm not enabling anything or aiding or even encouraging LaFs opponents. I'm also not setting records. This was my 4th set in alliance and my first set was the only clean set and my finish was nothing spectacular.

AndrewMose

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Apr 26th 2023, 18:53:07

For what it's worth, I returned about a year ago, and when I played a long time before that I wasn't part of an alliance or team. I got to know people in this past year through asking questions on the forum and looking for allies for primary server. So I do agree with Slagpit's comments about developing a need for community. But I can also agree with Gerdler that it is a barrier because having good allies is important and when you are unproven it can be hard to find good allies.

I got lucky after getting farmed in my first set back I was able to connect with LB and Tertius as DA's and it helped me through a couple successful primary sets. If they hadn't taken a chance on me I may have finished lower.

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Apr 26th 2023, 1:42:29

https://www.eestats.com/team/country/5

AndrewMose

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Apr 22nd 2023, 23:24:19

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AndrewMose

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Apr 16th 2023, 0:51:52

A bad apple

AndrewMose

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Apr 14th 2023, 15:49:50

Very well played Pteppic and Havoc. I hope to give you some competition this set.

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Apr 10th 2023, 12:48:08

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Apr 3rd 2023, 16:53:29

Stamina is a good player and played a very aggressive round. Sometimes in Tourney it's hard to tell if a target is going to be capable of retaliation. In the end he just picked a couple early landfarms that were capable of catching up before the set ended.

AndrewMose

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Apr 2nd 2023, 11:48:59

Great misdirection story. I've now been knocked down 2 sets in a row. Before the kill run last night I saw a LAF spy op on my market sales. I'm sure that had nothing to do with wanting to estimate where I may finish this set. If this was about FA from 2 people then just kill those 2 people and that would have stopped it. This was a cheap shot that won't be forgotten.

AndrewMose

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Apr 2nd 2023, 9:19:46

Congrats GCS. Great job staying out of the fights and well deserved win.

AndrewMose

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Mar 30th 2023, 19:09:32

Originally posted by Aturan:

There are no clear paths to victory in tourney.

I disagree if you play the country name Ippon, then history would say you have better than an 80% chance of victory.