This is a game where the objective is to rank on a leaderboard of networth. Attacking other empires is a significant tool in order to both achieve this goal and prevent others from passing you in achieving this goal.

MANY players here are not playing with that objective at the forefront of their play. I am reminded a lot of some of the board games I used to play at home, where in a 4 player game if 1 person was wanting to 'let someone else win' they ABSOLUTELY ruined the game for the other 3 people since all semblance of fairness was removed and it gave a particular player an insurmountable advantage. To the extent that it wasn't even worth playing. So we stopped playing board games... (which I happen to love)

In my opinion, if you aren't 'playing to net' then you are disrupting the game for everyone around you in this way.

I am, in fact, new here and Marshal has seemed fine to me. What really drives people off from the game is the way people behave in messages and through game mechanics. Many folks here are excessively rude and bizarrely attached to their empires in a way that dissolves the game into a "fluffing flufferfluff" to use the EE jargon ;).

TLDR;

Culture needs to improve to improve player base. No single player is responsible, and certainly not Marshal IMO.

NM I figured this out

How do allies work as opposed to clans?

This is both bizarre and toxic for the way this game works. Very sad if you ask me.

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There are definitely multi's here...

Ah, cumulative DR makes sense. Awesome, thanks guys!

I am trying to figure out how land grabbing works and am having a bit of trouble understanding. I keep getting hit for 2x or 3x the amount I am able to hit others for. I looked through the wiki and realize that there are diminishing returns, so the times I hit a single empire multiple times makes sense to me. I can't, however, figure out what is causing such a big difference between the amount I am able to take from a single land grab vs the amount I lose.

The empires I hit all had more land than me at the time and many of the people who hit me had more land than I did when I was struck. The tech bonus alongside the Tyranny bonus doesn't seem to be sufficient to explain the discrepancy to me. It also appeared, if I was reading the report correctly, that some or all of the bonus attack gains from tech/tyranny were applied after or separately from the value that I lost. Is there another factor I am missing involved in determining the amount of land gained from a single attack?

Here is my empires news so far for reference:

PS Mar 6, 18:37 King Gorilla (#110) Nydhog (#53) 261 A
PS Mar 6, 21:03 c3lph1 (#14) Nydhog (#53) DH
PS Mar 7, 02:21 Werewolves of London (#102) Nydhog (#53) 424 A
PS Mar 7, 18:05 XxxFODxxX (#22) Nydhog (#53) 579 A
PS Mar 7, 19:25 Beauty under the sea (#55) Nydhog (#53) 566 A
PS Mar 7, 19:25 Beauty under the sea (#55) Nydhog (#53) 399 A
PS Mar 7, 21:38 Nydhog (#53) Princess Gabriella Vicious (#65) 224 A
SS Mar 7, 21:41 Nydhog (#53) Princess Gabriella Vicious (#65) DH
PS Mar 7, 21:46 Nydhog (#53) Zio Wider (#85) 267 A
PS Mar 7, 21:50 Nydhog (#53) Zio Wider (#85) 163 A
PS Mar 7, 21:54 Nydhog (#53) Zyneste (#80) 108 A
PS Mar 7, 21:59 Nydhog (#53) Zyneste (#80) 77 A
PS Mar 8, 01:31 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 208 A
SS Mar 8, 01:32 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 99 A
SS Mar 8, 01:32 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 73 A
SS Mar 8, 01:32 Nydhog (#53) Andonna (#68) 56 A
PS Mar 8, 01:35 Nydhog (#53) Sleepy Scarecrow (#36) DH
PS Mar 8, 03:36 Nydhog (#53) Seriously Red Ibis (#25) 232 A
PS Mar 8, 03:43 Nydhog (#53) Seriously Red Ibis (#25) 149 A
PS Mar 8, 04:58 Little Blue Bug (#62) Nydhog (#53) 610 A

I just never liked watching a set run without any major interactions, or anything other than light land grabs happening. Then watching some mage who was never touched all set spike 100mil in net at the end to win. I'm not sure how comparable or viable even a teching or spiking strategy is in this game in comparison to promisance yet.

That was definitely my no.1 pet peeve though was someone not participating in any appreciable way in the set and then taking rank 1.

Just from the little I have played so far, this game seems less polarized with things like maintenance costs and 'impossible' to defend angles of attack than promisance did. In fact, I like this system a whole lot so far...

Dead as far as I know, I used to play on QMT and EZClan.

Hi guys, I tinkered with this a while back but just now dove in. I'd like to join a clan and get active. Is there a procedure for that?

I haven't played this game up till now, but I am very familiar with Promisance and was extremely active in days bygone. I don't know the outstanding feuds or rivalries and mostly just want to be involved in making sure no one gets a free ride to top 10... Sign me up for mayhem!

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So... are there a bunch of people who bot to sac their country killing folks? Not worth playing if people are running multi's just to be toxic.

That's what I like to hear! :). How often do full scale wars break out?

Sounds like the pot needs to get stirred a bit...

So people like to be generally passive?

Hi guys, I'm new to earth empires. I am an old promisance pro and loved that game, but it seems to be totally gone. I found this and it seems extremely similar.

For anyone who knows, I loved playing orc and playing as an aggressive expansionist while flipping army on the market to run turns and then spiking towers to be heavily defended between turn runs. Is there a strategy that resembles this in this game?

Also, in old promisance days there was "etiquette" in attacking. Are there any unwritten rules about attacks in this community? Like 4 attacks max for land grabs, and non standard/planned strikes are wartime strategies.

Thanks for input, looking forward to playing!