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Apr 4th 2023, 10:34:02

Bones

PS, is it true that bonus posts in this thread give double bonus?

Mar 27th 2023, 3:39:39

Where did Ektar place last round? he was very big very early! top 3? won?

Dec 31st 2022, 20:41:50

I dont know why you are putting words in my mouth, koheartsgpa. If you follow the discussion it's about grabbing or not, not about Tmac. In my mind, and I could be wrong here I have not played tournament seriously for, well years by now actually, is that most of the people who grabbed last round would have finished higher with all-explore.

Tmac won, and he would have won with all-explore as well because he is clearly adept at running a strong techer, grabbing or not. But everyone else who grabbed, seemed to have lost out on it.

Now if the arguement was that you need to grab to get 45m+ NW i'd be on board with that.

Dec 31st 2022, 18:44:18

Originally posted by Rocky79:
Twisted, do you (or does anyone else) think it is possible to surpass 47 million networth without making land grabs?

You can debate the merits of grabbing all day but if you can’t win without grabbing then you are debating about playing for 2nd or 3rd

When grabbing real players it comes down to luck and experience in knowing who to hit and who not to hit

Simply, when your goal is to achieve a higher networth than what is possible without land grabs you’re going to have to risk making land grabs

Do you, or anyone else, think 47m NW is a reasonable expectation for anyone who grabs in tournament?
I assume that was a techer, given it grabbed and had low ending acreage. Not to take anything from Tmac but there is probably a reason(or two) that doesn't happen every reset. It's not only the grabbing that needs to work out but also the tech prices were insanely lucurative last round and Tmac as an all-xp to 9-10k acres would most certainly have finished first with a WIDE margin anyway.

Dec 31st 2022, 17:27:25

All these news and only one player above 35m NW. I assume that means grabbing didn't pay off for anyone else?

Very well played. But also if 5-7 players grabbed, and only one passed what can be done with all-xp every round(I assume the 33m NW one is all-xp?), then I gotta question the merit of grabbing. Or perhaps did all those others just straight up botch it? Seems unlikely.