FA packages aren't allowed, warfare and SDI tech are removed, tech leeching is less effective, countries can put goods on the market for up to 60 days, and standing orders were changed to make low price market transfers more difficult. The server isn't designed for players to aid a country to as high of a NW as possible, but of course players are permitted to attempt this if they like.

How would a player's tag be meaningful under those rules?

Thanks for checking. I think that Pang created it originally but it only showed up for users who had access to Alpha servers before we had Premium.

The toggle button should appear now. Are you able to see it?

I think I see the issue why it isn't showing up on desktop and will fix it later today. There's a bunch of "hidden-phone" stuff that I don't understand so I don't know if it should show up on mobile.

If you have a suggestion to make techer more balanced I will consider it. The server isn't live yet so it's not too late to make changes. Perhaps it will help to know that the npc countries on this server will not infinitely buy tech like they do on the Alliance server. They only buy tech at prices that they think will benefit them.

It's on the portal: https://imgur.com/a/vFB14nx

Which browser are you using? Are you using a phone or a desktop?

During the round, you can see game profiles for all countries in your clan. You can also see country statuses for countries in your tag if the owner allows it based on privacy options. The links are visible when viewing country ranks for your clan. You can't see statuses for other clans.

I added this to give players an easy way to see how well their clan mates are doing. This feature is only available on the Cooperation server.

It's just a display issue. You aren't losing resources or anything.

It's for the current ui. I see it on the mobile version but I'm on desktop.

It looks to be? I thought we didn't support that site anymore though. Maybe I heard wrong.

I added this

We always had a button to show and hide alpha servers but some users couldn't see it. I changed the code so all premium users can see the button on the portal page. I've heard scattered reports that alpha servers don't always show up and I'm hoping that this button resolves the issue. Please post here if alpha servers are incorrectly hidden for you and the toggle button isn't working.

Would you be so kind as to post the optimal farmer strat then? Since all players are going to play optimally anyway there's no harm in you posting it, right?

There are a number of things that players can do to mitigate the higher SS cost:

* doing a tech start
* getting offensive allies
* getting medical tech, weapons tech, and mstrat tech
* having your clan get a sufficient number of spy ops
* saving turns
* building cs later than usual
* playing as the right government. dictatorship is the obvious choice to reduce the cost of SS but there are others that are helpful

Your ending networth is entirely up to the choices that you make. I expect elite players to make the right choices to maximize their networth. If anything, I expect this server to be more competitive than Alliance in that highly skilled players are better able to distinguish themselves.

That's intended for change set 25 (which Cooperation will start on).

Dedicated testing is finished at this point but please let me know if anything feels off while playing on Alpha Cooperation.

There's a bug right now that prevents users from getting their Patron status displayed on the forums after making the purchase. We're investigating the cause of the issue. I believe I already fixed all users who were previously impacted by this bug, but message me if you think that you're missing the Patron badge on the forums.

does mr ford still drive a chevy?

Thanks, this was fairly valuable data. A few comments:

* We used to grab each other back in the old days before NPC countries so it is possible.
* In the current era, I think part of the problem is that there aren't enough countries punishing those who run with very low defense. I personally think the game works better when the player feels a tension between buying enough defense and enough tech. Perhaps making the NPC countries grab will solve this problem.
* It feels pretty hard/annoying to play techer and indy right now because the public market is too slow at times. A single player can easily dominate the market as well. I think I checked a few years back and as a farmer I bought around 33% of all agri tech sold on the market? It was some ridiculous number.
* Changing the culture to one where countries should expect to get grabbed with low defense may make indies easier to play. If we can make the NPC countries good enough then we can increase the number of them to improve public market activity.
* I am starting to like more and more the idea of reducing max turns to 240 (240) or something. Players can hold up to 40% of the round's turns right now without losing any. The current setting of 360 (360) makes retals too unpredictable, can lead to huge spikes in market activity, and makes private market destocking incredibly powerful.

Who is your FA?

This has been added for style = 2. If there are problems please post in the API users forum.

There are other threads that you can find using forum search. I guess the info is spread all over the place.

This post probably provides the best single post info for how the NPCs changed: https://www.earthempires.com/...pril-13-2021-50020#974910

I also totally forgot the round where I grabbed on a single oil rig and just did 100 jet SS the whole time: https://eestats.lafamiglia-ee.eu/express/oldcountry/2327/18

I'm guessing that what you're seeing here is either rainbows which deliberately have bad countries or countries that highly prioritize buying tech instead of military. There are different "buying schedules" now. You can read the NPC code for more details~

Well it's not all bad. Tech and bushels are cheap and oil is a reasonable price.

It's still there: https://www.earthempires.com/alphacoop/main

It seems there's some bug that makes it sometimes not appear that I haven't tracked down yet

You're looking at resets with different turn counts. They got 2900 turns for round 889 but only 1900 turns for round 954. They also didn't get farmed by players the whole round. For round 889, bushels spike so high that some NPC countries end up stocking tech and military instead. If I remember right one or two techers could often destock before the bushel market crashed. That's why https://www.earthempires.com/ai/889/ranks/139 had such a large victory. The market dynamics for some of those rounds were honestly quite educational, though military demand was of course too low to be realistic.

The NPC code has effectively been the same since 2021. Qz only fixed a few small bugs since then.

Sounds like a price fixing attempt to me!

My initial impression is that it's a bit too annoying right now to play techer or indy on Express but I'm not sure what, if anything, could be done about it. I wonder what changing max turns to 270 (270) would do.

no collusion

TAN is so dumb that not only did he have to name himself after a color, he also picked one of the shortest ones that's easy to spell

Please don't do that. It's honestly a major inconvenience.

The new PS system is now in place.

Ratski: the dictatorship government is able to do 50 spy ops a day. There is no GDI.

Land can now be purchased on the magic market

You can use the magic market on alpha servers to acquire goods for free.

Damn, he got me.

You can't spell permanenT bAN without TAN!

TAN is permanently banned

The PS mechanic isn't implemented yet but I expect it'll be implemented before the game day ends.

Thanks for catching the 5/10 typo.

Both of these statements are against the forum rules:

"Player X cheated on his wife so he's a terrible person."

"Player X cheated on his wife, he's a terrible person, and you can't trust his alliance to honor their pacts as a result."

The game-related part in the second statement is just a pretext to personally attack the other player. You aren't fooling anyone.

That is not the purpose of these forums. It doesn't matter if someone is a good or bad person. Keep it related to the game. If you want to accuse his alliance of having multies, great, go for it. It's also fine to mock his alliance for having a low average networth, poorly run countries, a poor war performance, or for other game-related reasons. But stop with the personal attacks.

Yes. You can click the game profile link by his handle to see countries from last reset.

GDI currently prevents tech stealing. Countries can get hit and not be able to retal due to the humanitarians range restriction. That's part of the reason why I'm considering a mechanic like this.

I recommend against holding off on any mass recruiting for the next two months.

Much of this will be listed in server details or inside the game itself but I thought it would be helpful to have everything in one place.

On this server, it is not possible to attack or to perform harmful spy ops on player countries. Countries will start with 180 turns, will gain 1 turn every 24 minutes, and can hold a maximum of 240 (480) turns. Each reset will last about 2 months.

This game server will have a number of special rules:

* Players cannot spend turns if they are untagged.
* Players cannot leave a tag after joining.

* A tech point is worth 4 NW instead of 2 NW.
* Base military expenses for jets are $0.20.
* The networth component formula for military expenses = 1. Military expenses per unit do not change with NW.
* Standing orders will be changed to make them more fair and to make market transfers more difficult.
* The warfare and SDI technologies will not be present.
* Government switches will not remove bonuses.
* Users will be able to specify how long goods remain on the public market.

* Countries cannot drop acres.
* Only SS and PS attacks are permitted.
* A country can only PS up to twice every calendar day. A country can still do SS attacks if it has done its daily PSes. It works in the same way as the spy op refresh system.
* Base attacking military losses for SS are 98%.
* The Dictatorship government loses 50% less units when attacking.
* The maximum standard benefit of medical tech is 50%.
* Medical tech reduces military losses from attacking.
* The minimum acres per grab is 1 instead of 5-20.
* There are no humanitarians range restrictions.
* GDI is not available.

* Players can only form ingame alliances with other clan members.
* Research allies provide HALF the typical benefit to allied countries that have less than 20% of the TPT of the techer.
* Offensive ally military losses are impacted by their government attacking military loss modifier and medical tech.
* Offensive ally military losses are not impacted by the SS penalty for attacking military losses.
* FA packages cannot be sent.
* NPC countries would use the latest code ("express style") and would not be able to get allies.

* The daily spy op limit per country is 50 for dictatorships and 5 for all other governments.
* All information ops are allowed against other players.
* Espionage, Bomb Banks, Raid Food Stores, and Raid Oil Reserves are allowed against NPC countries and use the "express style" formulas