Sorry, I had another kid in 2024 and it's sort of sucked down all my energy and availability :(

I did get a better dev environment mostly done using Docker so it would make it easier to build the game, but haven't had time to finish that.

Try pangaea [at] earthempires [dot] com Ruth!

FWIW, I think most of the developers/admins would rather spend time building stuff than dealing with drama or dealing with abuse. It's the primary reason I lost interest originally and whenever I get a bit of a mindset to come and do something, I inevitably start getting messages about that drama and roll my eyes and lose interest again.

People take bans personally like they are targeted or someone has it out for them. But almost all of the time it's just a "I don't want to deal with this fluff anymore" type situation. Either because it's bad for the game or bad for their/my ability to do things for the game. It's not worth the effort and energy to engage with it but also not something that gets to go unfettered -- like the "terror" thread that precipitated the ban being discussed here. Even this post I'm writing right now comes at the expense of me finishing up the docker image to make development possible locally. Which is a precursor for being able to do the 2025 stuff. So there's an example for you that's literally happening right now!

At this point, the people playing here have probably been adults for 2 decades or more. Can everyone just chill and try to enjoy this for what it is?

Thanks all! If you can send them on Discord to me that would be excellent :)

Also high res would be better. Some of the lower resolution images might not work quite as well.

Hello!

I am looking at getting some stuff together for 2025 and wondering if anyone has access to some of the logos from old clans and alliances.

Thanks!
-pang

I don't see any transactions for your country or account email around the time of this post, assuming you just tried when posting.

Is the checkout process completing and saying the purchase was successful? It sounds like it's not completing from what I can tell from this thread + the data.

It'd be odd, but maybe it's a browser problem? Either way, as far as I can tell you have NOT been charged any money, which is good.

Sad to hear this :(
RIP to a long timer

This should be fixed now -- I made sure anyone who missed credits had them correctly added to their account.

Some other accounts were credited too many credits, so I adjusted that too so it should all be accurate.

Sorry for the hiccup! Let me know if something doesn't look correct with your recent transaction on Discord.

Re: recruiting, I hope we'll get there :)

Hi!

I noticed there's a problem with the payment integration where it was no longer adding credits for the last few orders.

I will manually add the credits to the impacted players and am working on a fix.

Thanks for your patience!

If you use a regular credit card, it runs on Stripe under the hood.

The store abstracts multiple payment providers

PEBKAC!!!



There might be a slight delay because it takes a little time for the shopping site to talk to the game, but it should be on the order of seconds. Maybe minutes at the very latest if everything is under a lot of load

That being said, I was able to get o the final screen to confirm my payment :thinking:

Did you all not even get that far?

Interesting, I'll try it out after work. Alternatively, I'll turn it off :D

What's broken about it? I don't see a problem as far as I can tell on my side so I haven't been able to replicate any problems.

Try https://alphaui.earthempires.com/ on mobile -- it should have attacking working and IMO is a better experience!

Sent you a ping on discord to get this resolved.

This should be fixed now. Sorry for the delay, busy week IRL :(

Yea, I'd be interested in seeing how something like this could work

I tried doing www instead and it still failed. But I'll try again when I find a moment

Good luck! :-)

lol wtf, I'll ask Bug to take a quick look

I'm not aware of any changes other than the language in a long time.

If it was changed, it would be announced in a changeset.

If you're confident you were able to attack recently, maybe that was some sort of bug so please provide the info about it so we can investigate!

Thanks! :)

It did.

Just be happy we're not turning on tornados again!

I PM'ed you to see if something is broken, but yes -- Patron is the "hey thanks for the 10 years of running the game!" status/forum access and Premium is the in-game benefits moving forward

Everything looks like it worked on my end as far as I can tell, but you just haven't applied the credits to your Premium time (we don't explicitly toggle it on up front so that you can choose when you want to start it)

PM me if you want the tag back

Yea, enshula's post is correct -- also once you get credits, you'll need to apply them to your account to get the premium time :)

Let me know if you're still running into issues and thanks for helping support the game!

Should be fixed now!

Hi!

It looks like the evolution2025.com domain is having problems, and since Boxcar was piggybacking on some config from there it's sort of broken.

we'll get it fixed asap

sorry about the inconvienience!

Cheers,
Pang

It would be a lot of work, unfortunately :(

I feel like I coded this with the clan GDI stuff that I haven't yet released. I added a bunch of lookups that made checking for previous attacks easy.

we added some filtering to the new UI for this, but it's not fully baked yet

:( Sad to hear this news

He was someone who had been playing for as long as I can remember. He'll certainly be missed by our community.

yep!

Ya, it's not against the rules -- if we didn't want it to happen, we'd restrict it specifically

I'd say the ability to not declare peace after 5 PS is a bug. Maybe it'll get fixed, but the new UI should work properly to let you declare peace even after 5 ps

No one banned that account and no one deleted the thread.

The Elitez folks I interacted with were always nice folks. But I don't remember interacting with very many people in Elitez :)

Nah, not dagga -- dagga has been unbanned for a long time and we stopped enforcing it years ago lol

Ya, my minimal interactions with Mehul were more positive :p

But the person who it is, not sure what their goal of this is :shrugs:

But still some valid points -- we have lots of things we could improve on!

Looking at the user account, I'm not satisfied that's actually Mehul.

So take what he's saying with a grain of salt.

Sky Elitez comes to mind :)

If that is actually Mehul (and the IP is from Texas so maybe!) -> If you need a point of sale system for your coffee shop, give me a shout!

Otherwise, I'm disappointed to see you bring that attitude to the forum. fluffting on the next iteration of something you helped create and those who have spent their limited time trying to keep it going is a fluffty way to end my Friday.

I'm sorry you're bitter for whatever reason.

Nice to see you again :-)

And yes, boxcar is back up. The database broke yesterday but should be fixed now

It's actually mainly newsbot stuff. Should be fixed now

ya, HD is full

need to clean a bit off -- looking into it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LKoEv6erIA

Yep! I appreciate the suggestion to spice things up but a feature like that is very hard to build and balance. There's a ton of other maintenance work that is taking priority in order to help maintain and grow the game/community :)

I looked into it a bit tonight -- the bots need a bit of updating to referenced updated URLs, use the new mailer I set up and to actually be turned back on, but it shouldn't be a ton of work.

Need to sync with qz quick to see if we can just change the mailer setup so I don't need to run it through SwiftMailer first -- that would cut down on the amount of work needed :D

For clarification, the "Earth" in "Earth Empires" does not refer to the dirt on the earth, but rather the whole of the earth -- including the land, water, air, space, etc.

That being said, we have no plans to add a naval element to the game.

Ya that's a good point -- I'll look at putting something in

Thanks for the feedback and for being a Patron member :)

I sort of like the idea of increasing the number of bonus acres you get as the set moves forward

Also changing the nature of that bonus as I think it's done by calendar day right now whereas I'd like to see it based on how many turns have passed so it promotes more activity.

But I haven't looked into that feature in years so I may be foggy on how it works