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AndrewMose

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Mar 30th 2023, 13:06:02

Originally posted by Rocky79:

Okay I guess I’ve gotta send more spy attacks and missiles then

To be fair I don't know what their countries look like other than the scores sheet and news. They probably received enough punishment in full.

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Mar 30th 2023, 11:43:10

Originally posted by Rocky79:

I’m not sure who wins but I can be sure that #4, #6, #14 and #11 will not win :)

#4 and #14 still look like they have a chance. Although I think it's clear that #3 probably will win.

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Mar 28th 2023, 4:38:30

With 5 days left, it's not at all clear who the front runner is. For myself with food and tech prices this high still I would have to think a techer has the best chance.

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Mar 23rd 2023, 14:04:42

We have quite the drama unfolding in game A this set. I think quite a few countries have the opportunity for the win still.

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Mar 16th 2023, 21:00:13

Originally posted by Tertius:

Thanks qz - we appreciate the effort and the transparency involved in all of this.

Not all netters had stock on the market at unreasonable prices at the time.

I sold all my food for $36 and all my oil for $157... now I'm feeling like I missed out on a big opportunity.

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Mar 14th 2023, 21:16:35

I made some mistakes last set and got farmed. Just got to shake it off and give it another go. Can't take it too seriously.

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Mar 12th 2023, 1:25:44

Congrats all.

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Mar 7th 2023, 15:00:41

Bonus

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Mar 3rd 2023, 2:14:24

Thanks guys. There was more luck than skill that lead to my finish, but I will take what I can get.

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Feb 28th 2023, 12:09:26

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AndrewMose

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Feb 13th 2023, 21:53:43

Havoc is not Swamp Guardians. I play under the Swamp Guardians country name.

I tried to run a Demo reseller and FA a bunch of food...but the public market wasn't a good way to destock this set and there wasn't a lot of reselling opportunity either.

Techers are incredibly dependent on market prices. Food prices were low this set which was great for stocking, but tech prices were much lower than last set. FFOs are almost completely independent of market prices I used the build costs bonus until 100% and barely sold anything for the last 20 days. The only downside to running 16 FFOs would be finding farmer bots not in DR, but I built some Bus/Res this set to be able to hit cashers too, so I probably could have finished around $1.4B per FFO if I had run 16 and didn't send any FA throughout the set.

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Feb 9th 2023, 21:57:44

$18,577,250,887 TNW finish here. ~$850 for my techers and $1350 for my FFOs. I botched a couple destocks and had to buy $1200 oil, but overall I feel like I made the most of a low tech price set even though I had 8 techers.

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Feb 9th 2023, 20:36:28

I'm not familiar with typical end of set markets, do the bots typically stop transactions around this point? I was getting SOs filled up until about 90 minutes ago and then almost nothing.

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Feb 9th 2023, 3:36:09

Someone bought my $999 oil.... I'll consider it even now.

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Feb 7th 2023, 1:38:58

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Jan 30th 2023, 12:05:28

Last 10 days of the set. May the Jump be with you.

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Jan 30th 2023, 2:26:26

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Jan 19th 2023, 21:38:55

I'm pretty sure this will be my last FFA set. The server takes so much time and what makes it fun is the ability to play the market. When most of the supply and demand is turned off at random times it makes it impossible to take advantage of those dynamics and it just becomes 16 alliance countries. I'll try to average over 1B this set, but no way will I get to K4F's record. Maybe I can get some sort of most countries in the Top 10 in a single set record that nobody else cares about.

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Jan 18th 2023, 13:12:01

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Jan 14th 2023, 19:48:05

I'm confused... I'm number 4 and I don't know who #20 is. I was frustrated that I didn't get the opportunity to grab back my land. There certainly wasn't coordination between myself and #20.

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Jan 13th 2023, 15:30:09

Will anyone be selling food?

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Jan 12th 2023, 18:57:08

I can use another IA if anyone has a spot open still

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Jan 12th 2023, 14:18:38

Craziness has started early this round.

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Jan 11th 2023, 21:38:36

I have >40M of tech points stuck on the market with prices falling fast. This certainly won't be a record breaking set.

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Jan 11th 2023, 2:09:26

Republic Casher this time around.

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Jan 10th 2023, 0:18:27

Congratulations to everyone. It felt like a tough set no matter what strategy you were playing.

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Jan 9th 2023, 3:11:30

Well I didn't want to sell for $34 in the first month.... But supply and demand finally caught up. If you buy enough I'll have to buy military from the public market, so win win.

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Jan 9th 2023, 0:27:17

It's a tight race for top commie. Every turn counts. Make sure you have enough food to run that last turn. And don't forget to calculate military growth into the food you need.

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Jan 9th 2023, 0:18:15

The market is full...buy as much as you want.

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Jan 8th 2023, 22:24:13

I've got plenty for sale right now. Buy away.

AndrewMose

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Jan 7th 2023, 2:32:01

I assume that any untagged country with a capitalized name is a bot.

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Jan 4th 2023, 10:42:48

Well the bots ran turns last night. Let's see if they run turns again today

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Jan 3rd 2023, 20:30:38

Originally posted by raz:

can someone explain to me why this keeps happening?

That's a great question. I don't know if anyone knows. I suspect that a few months back some logic was changed and there is a loop that is attempting to pull more resources than the server has. This would explain why FFA's bots are stopping more than Alliance or Express, because I believe they run on the same logic - the only difference is count. But over the past 10 days the FFA bots have not played turns consecutively. They run through a batch of turns and break, and then get started up again. So the market gets bought out with 120 turns of play then the market gets flooded with bot tech/military/food but the bots stop playing. Also there is a DR component as well that is very hit or miss.

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Jan 3rd 2023, 17:50:24

It's been about 72 hours since the bots ran turns. This set has been a tech market disaster thus far.

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Jan 1st 2023, 21:38:53

Did the same thing again. They run turns and then no activity for over 24 hours. It's creating huge market swings.

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Dec 31st 2022, 0:40:26

Something must be very wrong with the server because the bots came on for a few hours and then broke.

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Dec 30th 2022, 9:44:11

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

2022-11-24 22:43:01 PS Motorcycle Time mafia (#8) Swamp Guardians (#1) 457A (786A)

2022-12-30 02:41:20 PS Swamp Guardians (#1) Motorcycle Time mafia (#8) 3596A (5128A)

OUCH!

The past 2 sets I've always been on the receiving end of these. At least in this case as a techer the value of that land over the last 10 days is much less than the previous 10 days.

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Dec 29th 2022, 19:40:58

It was me...your welcome

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Dec 28th 2022, 19:50:20

There are only 3 strats that can win (of course many nuances within strats). Of the 3, farmer is probably the most market dependent during the growth phase and Casher is probably least market dependent. Indy is probably easiest but is most capped in terms of upward potential. Of course once a farmer begins stocking it doesn't really matter what the prices are because they are only selling to cover turn expenses. My win last set was more to do with stars aligning and the right competitive environment then it was due to good play or good market conditions. So I would think that choosing 1 strategy each time wouldn't improve the odds all that much.

It may be interesting to reverse engineer what market conditions would be required for a techer to win. My guess is $2500+ tech during the 2nd month and food prices under $40 to stock, but I haven't done any math and am not a qualified techer expert.

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Dec 28th 2022, 18:30:01

I didn't realize that you have to run turns to come out of DR. That explains why I am getting < 300 acres per hit. But I am overflowing turns so I have no choice.

AndrewMose

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Dec 27th 2022, 11:59:36

Who is selling stock so cheap this early? This is killing me :(

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Dec 26th 2022, 20:43:32

They come on, buy out the tech market and then go back off

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Dec 22nd 2022, 20:41:53

Thats tough to keep those demo resellers growing when inelastic demand and cheap supply get shut down at this point in the set

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Dec 19th 2022, 10:46:29

Originally posted by Uticant:

Translation for Andrew: Buy my expensive oil

Oil is a lot less expensive now. Buy my reasonably priced oil :)

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Dec 16th 2022, 12:46:52

Originally posted by Uticant:

Translation for Andrew: Buy my expensive oil

I'm expanding supply as quickly as possible in hopes to keep prices reasonable for the good of the server.

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Dec 15th 2022, 17:48:23

Remember everyone that the big techers are soon going to stop making landgrabs so oil demand will not continue to rise. Don't be fooled into building oil rigs or anything silly like that. Look at the market history.

https://www.eestats.com/...ldmarket/3356/oil_barrels
https://www.eestats.com/...ldmarket/3216/oil_barrels