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what a week

Boop the snoot

Congrats on the win LB!

I'm honestly surprised that CI is still so dominant given how many large ones there were for most of the round. There was a lot of cheap oil early though, so maybe there was more grabbing / defending and then wars that bumped up the market prices.

We need more farmers at the top!

He was purpled three sets ago. I won two sets ago, and last set Cath RoR'd me and ended up on 6k acres.

Hey SF - quick correction, I don't do cross-server retaliation. The war this set is because he promised it to me last set in primary.

And someone is certainly seething with their beta male energy or whatever, but it's not me or Hess. I'll give you a hint, it's the guy who repeatedly sends threatening messages set after set.

I know nothing says calm and collected like sending 3 in a single hour today. And given this is the first time I've instigated a war with you ever, while you bring up my name and attack people out of the blue on multiple servers because it might be me, it's pretty clear I'm not the one dedicating and plotting.


Message from Temple of the Feathered Serpent (#35) sent on Mar 06, 2:50
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I’m going to play from here on out
just to war you after this stunt.
Don’t expect to catch me netting
again. Don’t expect to net again
either. I will be hunting after this.


Message from triangles are my favorite shape (#28) sent on Mar 06, 3:38
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That's what you said last set that led
to this. Cheers


Message from Temple of the Feathered Serpent (#35) sent on Mar 06, 3:41
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Yea and I obviously decided to back off
and chill, you saw I had a netter.

That won’t happen again. I’ll build
war machines now. I’ll fight you every
set I see you. You want a real war you
got it. I won’t even net after this
I’m coming to fight every single set
so you better expect it. Don’t think
the next big netter you have won’t get
hit. It will.

Message from Temple of the Feathered Serpent (#35) sent on Mar 06, 3:58
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I’ve actually never built a war
machine for anyone on this server but
that will change after this set. You can
bet on it. Every set I’ll be here for
war and I won’t net again. When jump
time comes I will have a war machine
ready. When I say I won’t net again I
mean for the long haul expect a war
machine.

For the record, Cath started saying people were cheating after he was hit with a single PS - which failed. (That is embarrassing, I didn't realize Cath had switched def allies from when I spied him previously, and honestly, I was surprised to see it was SF given that the reason Cath hit Hess and got purpled was because SF hit him and then Hess allied him up just to shore up his own defenses.)

You are allowed to get grabbed you know.

And specifically, I have good reasons. Not only have you targeted me repeatedly across servers in the recent past (like when you admitted to me and Vic and others that when you realized you were going to be #2 on tourny, you attacked the top player out of frustration (me) - in this analogy, you were never tmac, you realize that right?), but last set in primary we had a war.

Which honestly is fine - I was gaining a lot of acres by taking retals after I was war prepped, and some players might RoR, especially if they lost a lot in the exchange. You started off by complimenting me, but then as I was moving up the list of retals and realized I would get to you, you then asked who I was, because there was "a chance" you would RoR me. I told you truthfully who I was and you said you would 100% retal me. I said I've fought over full-set retal windows in the past and I expected that could happen, and hopefully we could leave it at this single set as a difference on retal policies.

Of course, you took it personally, started up with all the bravado and bluster, threatening that you were going to war me forever (again) and how you never liked me because one time I told you Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas (gasp!).

So this set, I didn't really plan to try too hard. And I already stopped playing tourny because you kept warring me (though for some reason, I got to keep the same name in game A and you had to keep coming back with a new one every other month...) because I figured you'd be coming after me once again. Cue my surprise when you were not war-prepped but that you even retal'd Blackpink 2.5 weeks after his hit on you for a juicy 2.7k acres. A hypocrite who does accept all set retals for lots of land when it benefits him, but not when he's on the losing end?

Once again, you're quick to blame everyone else when things don't go well, and threaten to attack every other player (and the mods?) because like Ektar, if you can't win then you take your ball and go home. There's no cheating or collusion here - you have admitted to playing like a jerk, and sometimes jerks get what they deserve.


TL;DR
Cath has attacked me for 11(!) sets when I've been netting above him, including many sets where he hit random people because he simply thought it was me or because he was angry with SF (I'm as confused by this as everyone else). He likes to dish it out, but I hit him once and he cries like a baby and says everyone's out to get him with the most severe case of persecution complex I've seen. Delusions of grandeur continue followed by hilarious confusion.

I was hoping it was guochel even before I knew he was on primary, but just because I love his tourny posts.

Okay, I will dip on this conversation but my comments were meant to explain how someone might want to hit you, and how it wouldn't be cheating to have someone landgrab you, and even give you explicit examples of YOU targeting people (repeatedly) when they were in a winning position.

It's cheating if you don't benefit, but when you do it the reason is "to prove it was absurd". I would be willing to wager real money that some of this is absolutely because you suicide everyone when it's not going your way, but then expect no one to return the favor when you're having a good set. How many players have you threatened with forever wars when they grabbed you once?

Also, I didn't attack you in this thread until you started throwing out these weird insults. Have a good one.

lol, what is this new delusion? I have played with tmac off and on since back in 2010. He was not about the drama, and when he said he was done - he was done. I have mad respect for him, and if anything, I defended him the most in the forums, to the point that people probably just skipped what I was saying at the time. And when we got blind-sided by LaF, I joined him in the warchats while you ran from the fight, going on a wild rant about how LaF was "cheating" for hitting you because you were told you didn't need to run defense in 1a, blah blah blah. Anyone can look back at your forum history and see it's clear you have a habit of this victim mentality that is legitimately unhinged.

I can guarantee if tmac was around, he would not be siding with you in this discussion.

Okay, I was going to step away and ignore these forums for a bit because Cath burned me with the beta talk, but kudos to both SF and Hess; it's actually making me smile, which is not often the case for EE forums. Semi-related, I miss Pony.

Is there any chance this is why people hit you? You've been doing this for a few years now, where you take out your frustration on random uninvolved players and then post in the forums how the game is not newb friendly. But there's always a lot of cognitive dissonance in your posts, so it's hard to know what thoughts you have any given day.

If I recall, I think you were purpled that set not because you repeatedly attacked Hess, but because you posted in the forums (and maybe in game messages?) that you purposefully wanted him to lose *and* your ally to benefit. I think that was the coordination part. For Tmac (and plenty of others) like in teams where LaF players came over and started countries just to mess with us - that was also not cheating, it was just not fun.

Just because you don't benefit, doesn't mean someone is cheating. There have been some other countries on the way to the top that you have warred when you didn't have a chance (actually, when you realized you were going to be 2nd in tourney, you suicided me in the top spot out of the blue), and I don't recall anyone calling that cheating either.

Also, without giving away any in game data, I do find it really interesting that it appears you allied with someone that you blamed as part of the problem with Hess (which led to your deletion). Kudos to you for burying the hatchet.

I think it changed a few years back - presumably it's the ad framework API's that have changed for mobile (presumably google, I think they do these full page mobile ads on a lot of sites). I believe this did come up as a complaint at the time, but wasn't a change on the EE side.

Unfortunately, there are no rules against cross-server attacks, and several of us have suffered. You have warred me on a ton of servers and not been deleted for it (and I wouldn't report it, it's just not a fun way to play).

You can come join coop with many of the other netters though, it's kind of nice to not have to worry about griefing.

I think the issue is for the market to get into this state means the big farmers have gotten into wars or otherwise are unable to sell / quit for the set.

This is already in the works for next set:
https://earthempires.com/...set-27-53394?t=1740434036

The biggest challenge... not messing up the destock. You're in good company unfortunately. T_T

I assume it's not actually down, but that there is a request timeout and so the website displays that error. There have been disk failures in the past that looked very similar to this, with varying solutions (all of this per qz in discussions over the last decade).

bonus

I do this with CI and farmers, but since I don't like the expenses / corruption that build up, I usually am doing it multiple times a day anyways.

https://imgur.com/...parks-next-to-you-G2M3V62

It seemed immediately better but it did have more issues through 5:00-6:00 game time. It's certainly improved, but it does seem like there's still an underlying issue.

Premium helps with that; Patron is purely a donation badge.

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<3 KoH

Still best server

Typically clearing your cookies fixes that issue for whatever reason.

ttt, sounds painful

Congrats LB and all the top 10!

Pretty nice techer too, KoH.

I've noticed this in other servers as well, like Primary.

Specifically, I think expenses can be off if you have military PS'd out, but that may not be the only mismatch.

Honestly, I thought KoH's response was moving:

Message from Cartel Del Norte Sicarios (#39) sent on Dec 26, 3:28
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F U lol

Merry Christmas :-)

Ah, I agree completely with it being shared on clan-based servers - partially because I assumed it was already working that way since I knew it did on coop and alliance (I haven't played Team much recently).

The argument I always heard about even having alliances on solo servers is to help develop community and get players to interact with each other. Similar to why there is a bonus for posting on the forums.

Personally, I'd extend the reasoning the other way and remove all allies (and I've felt that way for a decade) because it certainly gives an advantage to long-time entrenched players; if we were to go that route though, it would have a number of balance implications (and I don't mean to hijack this suggestion).

While I'm not against the idea entirely, this would make collusion on solo servers basically approved by an in-game mechanism.

*meep meep*

The reverse is almost more painful for these oil prices. I know a few of us have done that in 1a where we PS a bot with an extra 0 and lose a ton of military and oil, especially for commies who can easily send 30-60M jets for no benefit =/

Ouch.

Happy New Year everyone.

Seriously uncool.

*emails galleri and sov to join TSE*

Ginger bread man

*cries* won't someone think of the commies??

get the points

Get the bonus

Tech start - I think one of the farmers who typically goes straight didn't this set. After a few mass explores, the volumes will increase.

Same, I could use one more.

I think three claimed players will be plenty, even if there is a war it should be reasonable. If you want to bring the prices notably lower than in recent sets, you could be a farmer, to the benefit of cashers probably. So not necessary, but if you want to switch it up, you're always welcome!

Maybe I'll go farmer, assuming two out of three of us get into wars, the server is still okay.

Thanks and congrats all! It was quite competitive at the top with all the big commies.

Thanks for the details, Cath - seriously, facts are important to me. I should've had an asterisk - I only skimmed through 100 express sets so like 2 years. But you don't recall any of those other points? Like the one where four guys in team FA'd you daily and then walked you through how to jump to the all-time top NW since you admitted you weren't so good with math? I mean, that might actually explain a lot if you have some sort of brain damage that causes you to conveniently forget things and then make up fluff on the forums instead.

And then you keep moving the goalposts. The whole point of my post is that you like to dismiss arguments against you because you say you only respect people who can net and that you have bestest IQ, and then when I showcase that you're not actually top tier, now you 'were only saying that because everyone else did that against you and now they get what they deserve'? Who else was doing that? TC? Because BlackHole hounds him mercilessly for his silly comments about IQ and elitism. Even if a few players did, you use it casually against anyone who disagrees with your brand of crazy, which is most players on the forum.

As I mentioned in the other threads, engaging with you is neither fun or productive. Sure, you can get 1st place any time you want. Oh, except in Tourney where you were trying for the win, realized I had you beat, and then suicided me out of the blue. And that's a weird definition of smoked - I dislike rehashing cross-server threads, but I already posted all the receipts in the other one: I personally knocked you out of Game A three times (where you started the fight each time) while I kept the same name for a year. Even in this last one where you "molly whopped" me, at the end, you were a parking lot, I was mostly built, and I had 400m cash that I chose not to use so Ping could go through if he wanted.

TL;DR:
Keep spitting your half-truths and macho bullfluff. If you say it enough, maybe someone will start to believe it.

Oh snap! No shade intended, you just clearly have the most land in the top 10.

That said, nice self burn on admitting that you had a fight with someone and couldn't knock them out of the first place...

Congrats to the winner! I'm a little surprised Arthos didn't make more of his huge land lead from farming an inactive Vic, but maybe he got caught in some special attacks too?

My hippies are quite happy with my choice. I'm somewhat curious how next set will go with some of the fireworks between top players possibly continuing next set, so maybe I'll check in on the forums. Let me know if you can make it to A again Cath - I'm only like 70% sure it doesn't round up.

I told you I was out, I sold a bunch of military to save a spot for someone more deserving, but I'll admit I made a mistake if it rounds and #9 gets to stay in A with only 17 players. My end of set status below that I had plenty of cash to jump to 7th from my PM.

The Status of the Communism of Happiest Time of the Year (#16)

The Basics
Turns Left 14
Turns Taken 2046
Turns Stored 3
Rank 11
Networth $7,448,639
Land 4839
Money $396,129,437
Population 67,375
At War No
GDI Member Yes

Land Distribution
Enterprise Zones 0
Residences 0
Industrial Complexes 4072
Military Bases 0
Research Labs 0
Farms 17
Oil Rigs 16
Construction Sites 65
Unused Lands 669