You got me there, Vic!

Sure is, and for some reason, people still fail attacks a lot!

Pretty much yes, most top players spend half their turns exploring (or cashing for cashers) in the last half of the reset. The risks of eating a retal from good players are too high in the late set. Ask any of the top 15 countries last reset, they all explore 20 turns daily, because there is little else to do with the turns.

There are simply too few countries, and the risks aren't worth the rewards. Even a just a _single_ successful NM thrown in retaliation will negate any gains out of hitting any country twice.

This game doesn't reward warring, it rewards netting, it is the _threat_ of warring that keeps everything interesting.

Exactly! Toilet ducks are cool as fluff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXRcIuwKQq4

This may be true only years and years ago, but with the dwindling player base, there are less and less countries playing every reset. This means that there are less targets to attack, and targets are limited. If you only do exactly 1 PS on every country, you maximize your land gained from all of them without breaking GDI on any of them. If you SS countries, that means you "wasted" your 1 opportunity to attack them the entire reset by getting less land from them instead of a PS, unless you are sure it is safe to attack that country (i.e newb looking country, rainbow, no missiles, low SPAL, almost 1/4 humanitarians range, or a country that hasn't logged in for 5+ days, etc) more than once.

If you look at the stats of every single reset (in the stickied thread of mine), you'll see that overall finishing land sizes are on the downtrend (it used to be 60k-80k about 2 years ago across the entire top 10 other than techers), last set it is more like 55k-65k. Last set though, there was a logout bonus change made that allowed all countries to gain 30-60 turns depending on your play habits over the previous resets, so finishing NWs and land sizes increased slightly from the additional turn count.

Yeah, it seems like crest sounds very salty, or is sour a better word? I'm just having fun!

That's the problem with Luck. It does too many things, jack of all trades, and master of none. That literally makes it not worth using, the bonuses from it doesn't have synergy with anything other than all-explorers, and only until the point you are going to explore less than 1000 turns left in the set (i.e about 1/3 of the way into the set) because at that point, Turns bonus becomes better.

Well, I own 4 murloc (different colors) and a zergling/baneling transformable plushies!

Well, near the end of your grabbing, (where grabbing on no longer gives anymore benefits over stocking), you should start to narrow target selection down to "same strat countries", so you can grab an extra day longer.

<3 crest. #1146

Talking to yourself is a technique. I would like to educate you to its usefulness:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

That was quite hilarious! I'll be honest, I personally think that if a phone can be bent by hand, it is defective design. As Consumer Reports (or some other report) say, it is due to the fact that the iPhone6 uses aluminum that is not reinforced by magnesium. Something like that.

1374 defends on a single country!

My mistake was not recognizing immediately it was BRs (instead of walling mostly GSes), and was sitting on 250 pop (with 17 turns to wall) rather than 500 pop. :(

To be honest, anyone in the loop would probably already know what it is about, mrford already said it.

Well LATC, remember when Deezy topfed Serpentor over a forum comment? It happens.

@Serp Well, LATC is using an identifiable country name! :P

The Luck bonus already does this, that is, decrease time it reaches the market. By the stated Luck % I think. Can't be proven though, since there is a high variance on the amount of time taken for goods to reach market.

From the in-game help:
"Luck is the subtlest of the permanent bonuses. Investing in luck will lead to better explore returns, greater missile production, and lower market times. In addition, lucky countries have a greater chance of getting spy ops against countries with better spy networks and a greater chance of successfully attacking when oversending. "

You could also opt to turn off the auto-update, or to allow it to inform you of updates, but you choose whether to update or not.

This is incorrect. If you see an 80k country on Primary, they really have it all built. On at least 100-110 BPT.



This is correct. In fact, having extra acres for the sake of them is detrimental, because it lowers your tech%. That makes it counterproductive for the $/acre generated by the existing buildings and population.

There is one situation where having extra acres is a benefit, and that is if you're a country that is about to jump, you grab to increase your PM regen (it scales with land size), and that you are 100% certain you won't be spending any more turns for the rest of the reset due to upkeep exceeding any income you can get per turn after the jump. Your stockpile has to be huge for this to be true.

Definitely PCI booms. And cash those 2 turns.

Exception: You can't spend turns if your upkeep is higher than your income, even with PCI booms. Only in this case, PM regen is better. This requires having so little land that generally speaking, this only occurs on Alliance and FFA servers, where massive stockpiles are possible due to clan tag protection. In practice, on solo servers like Tournament/Express/Primary, you will be cashing all the way to the last turn of the reset, because stocking doesn't start until ~85% of the reset is over.

Well Furious999, if they did that, that would be too easy.

This was true of E:2025. This was changed in EE and is no longer true. The equivalent 1/4 defense power is now sent (up to double of the defender), scaled down to the number of units in proportion between troops/tanks/turrets, shared by the 2 D allies.

1 acre of land supports 12 population without any res/bus tech and buildings. When you explore and gain say 45a, you increase your maxpop by 12*45 = 540. Your pop gain pasted is only about +70 pop per turn, so it is very easy to fall out of 80% threshold.

By the way, the Rep -> Mon -> Theo switch only works if you have so much stock that after jumping, your upkeep is so high it is no longer worth spending any turns. Generally though, this is not the case if you are not a techer (only techers have small land sizes), and your income is still more than your upkeep all the way to the last turn of the reset. If so, switching is generally worse off, because if you didn't switch, you would be producing max income every turn until end of set.

To determine if switching is better, you have to spreadsheet it out, and make some estimations about your income after switching and after jumping, as well as the rise in upkeep during the jump.

Also, remember you lose more % of your infrastructure the higher NW you are. The minimum of 14% loss scales to the maximum of 39% loss starting from 10.5m NW (I think). Every 1.5 NW increases it by 1% (or every 1m NW increases it by 1.5%), i can't remember which one it is. Generally speaking, if your NW is more than 20m NW at the time of the switch, it isn't worth it unless you are certain you will not be spending anymore turns from the time of the switch.

It actually is the factor here. Look at his increasing population change. Population growth slow downs when your current pop is 2/3 or more of maxpop. Since it is increasing, he is not yet reached 66% of his maxpop, and thus his production is affected.

This phenomenon generally occurs when you do a batch explore, and is a known disadvantage, while the advantage is getting more land per turn since the entire batch is explored at the first turn's "land per turn" rate.

This! Apple is announcing the new iPads in about 2 weeks. :)

Dear Diary,

My farmers inform me today amidst the global food shortage that they have dug up some ancient ruins in their farms. There are stone tablets bearing the cryptic symbols about building a snowman in the ice age two millennia ago. Deciphering these tablets might be the secret to world domination.

- Xinhuan

If you follow the reports, you'll find that even though Android has the larger market share of almost 70-80%, you will find in almost every online report that the Apple App store generates way more revenue than the Android store. The problem is that 90% of that 70-80% is made up of really crappy Android phones that can't run any of the newer apps and games that are more graphically/memory demanding.


"Though Android dwarfs iOS in devices and downloads, Apple rakes in an estimated $5.1 million in revenue from the App Store each day, while Google banks just $1.1 million per day. And Citigroup analyst Mark May believes Google Play pulled in only $1.3 billion in revenue last year—just 13% of Apple's haul—even though Androidaccounts for roughly 75% of all app downloads(the App Store's share was just 18%)."

"Here are the numbers from April, which Macquarie says come from Distimo, the app download research company:
Google Play: $530 million, up 166%, market share = 38%
iOS App Store: $870 million, up 53%, market share = 62%"


Just to quote a few from this earlier year (i.e 2014 articles talking about 2013). It's obvious that if you are a developer, you want to be developing for iOS first; that's where the money is. Android may have a larger market share, but a large portion of that market share can't actually run today's apps, or are users that want a phone for what it is - simply a phone. These users don't care about apps, they buy the phone because it is a cheaper phone, they tend to be the older aging generation.


Edit: Also, note that Clash of Clans was ported to Android 1.2 years after its iOS release. Believe me, even though Android has a huge market share, it generates only a fraction of revenue compared to iOS users.

This is true of major apps. But not true for games. This really comes down to what Requiem is buying the tablet for. Major games titles like Bioshock, XCOM, Civilization Revolution, Faster Than Light, Hearthstone are only out on the iOS and with good reason (developing (i.e writing code) for Android is a nightmare).



I've had bad experiences on older Android tablets (when testing apps on them), the newer ones are probably good, as you say.



This is one of those things that, as a user, I *personally* don't need. I don't care how big the app icons are, or how many app icons show in the folder. I just want to be able to use the apps, if it takes me an extra 2 seconds to launch an app, it is not a big deal. I value the availability of apps far more than customization options for the home/dock/quick launch which users will barely spend any amount of time on, compared to time in actual apps.

Again, I'm biased as a software developer, but there are a lot of software hiccups when supporting Android with various features. It is incredibly annoying just to write app store code (for in app purchases) once for Google Play, then have to duplicate all that code for Amazon Store, because they are different stores and handle transactions differently, and then turn around and have to do it all over again for the Ouya store should you decide to support that. Store fragmentation is but just one problem.

Ultimately though, none of this programming and backend is of concern to the end-user, but it completely affects why apps always come out for iOS first.

You would stock an additional 5 days and 23 hours so you can jump higher. In fact, so would everyone else. Oil price would be the determining factor whether it is worth buying oil for additional stocking duration.

Dear Diary,

My farmers inform me of a shortage of food today in the global markets, and that they are extremely happy. Unfortunately for them, I have not told them that any profits will be used for the purchase of 5 million jets.

- Xinhuan

If you really have to use Android.... I don't know about you, but all my friends that have tablets of both say Apple is better than Android.

Generally, it comes down to better Apps, smoother UI that is snappy and responsive (particularly for games), a much larger and optimized App Store, particularly because all the major apps always release on iOS before porting to Android months later, and generally just a better experience. Apple products also have far better resell value 2-3 years later.

I'm generally biased because I'm a software developer, it is _THAT MUCH HARDER_ to write apps for Android than for iOS.

For these types of bugs that are hard to track, I would normally suggest/tell my programmers to put these checks at the login routine. i.e perform some maintenance/account upgrades at login time at the account level.

Obviously, finding what is causing the bug is a better idea!

You can recall tech, and non-tech goods independently! Well, it adds a strategic element to be an all-or-nothing recall.

Unlike Earthquakes.

@Getafix Sure, but that's what I call gambling.



Reselling requires you to stock first.

I suggest it should be changed from +0.5% defense bonus to just +0.5% weapons (multiplicative with your weapons%). So it retains its use defensively, but also works offensively. If you stack all your points on it, you'll reach about +30% by end of set. Useful for warring, but at least a good contender versus everyone just going for Turns all the time while warring. I'll even say I think +0.5% is too little.

(Believe me, If I'm sending 5m jets to PS you, sending 500k more is nothing to me. I see so many people on solo servers with Def bonus.)

Could also be useful for netting since it allows you to carry less units, spend less oil, giving a benefit much like a % reduction of expenses would.

Because players can't just hoard 360 turns and go full ham. You only get 54 turns a day, spend them wisely.

They sell $500 lower because it is probably the SO price lol. And/or their tech was stuck trying to sell it too high, and turns are near overflowing.

You lose permanent bonuses, same % as the rest of the stuff you do. You "don't lose" the ones you spent on Booms or Turns since those are already "spent" to make your country better, of which you're going to lose a % of anyway.

I can't say I've ever spent points in +Def Bonus before, that bonus is THAT bad, so... yeah. That bonus needs a massive buff or overhaul; currently it doesn't help netters, nor does it help warmongers.

This one is easy to answer. A lot of players download the game (it's free), and try it out once or twice. So they never get past even 100 trophies, some might get to 150 and delete the game. But there's a lot of them out there, it's pretty much the majority of the accounts.

What happens is that because these are inactive accounts, they get raided, enter 12 hour protection, their collectors gain 12 hours of resources, and are ripe to be raided again, in a never ending cycle. If you don't deal enough damage for them to enter protection, then the next player comes in and takes what is remaining (since you can only get a certain % of his resources, based on TH level difference). Many farmers actually try to not deal >= 40% damage so as not to trigger protection, so that they have a chance to queue into the same town later.

Sounds good. :)
So they did used to be affected by DR!

Tip for p1co.

1) Use http://www.eestats.com/primary. Go to the Primary menu, and check the Market link. Shows average price of last 6/12/24/48/72 hours.
2) Use in game market History search (it's below "Orders", and to the right of "Sell Tech") for more granular search on average prices on a per hour basis over the last 72 hours.

The displayed "default" price is just whatever price the good happens to be selling at, at the time you visit the Sell page.