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BEM684

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Oct 18th 2023, 13:57:02

Originally posted by Syko_Killa:

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Originally posted by Syko_Killa:

This is the way Earth is supposed to play, may the best Clan WIN! In my humble opinion no matter what happens from here on out, LaF is cemented as the Greatest netting alliance this game has ever offered.

Farming bots with 0 defense due to inability to have player vs player attacks is the correct way to play earth2025?

Might want to have your boy QZ fix the front page game description as it’s literally telling everyone the exact opposite lol

No bots, No game.

You all don't realize this game is already dead and has been for years. You've gone from Professional Bowlers Association to bumper bowling.

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Oct 18th 2023, 13:48:36

Originally posted by Rokkie:

So everyone who helped Chevs are his lapdogs... Got it. Thanks for Clarification.

Not me. I wasn't even in TheBOMB most of the set. I volunteered to FA him cuz the only thing I know about LaF is what I see on the forums and TC makes ya'll sound like a bunch of fluffsuckers. I'm not some long time player with an axe to grind, I'm here only 5 months. But I can promise you LaF has an image problem and it starts with members gloating on AT and obsessively fluffing about being treated unfairly in the past.

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Oct 17th 2023, 18:05:39

You shall henceforth be known as Turdle.

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Oct 17th 2023, 15:42:36

The Delorean will still be around at the end of time. But only if Doc Brown is real.

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Oct 16th 2023, 2:10:50

After 3 or 4 sets of the same fluff even the people who asked for this will get bored of it. They've guaranteed an outcome, and nobody plays games with guaranteed outcomes.

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Oct 11th 2023, 16:27:12

Maybe that's why cats don't wear pajamas lol.

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Oct 10th 2023, 14:31:17

That's exactly it. Carry no military, no SDI, and no spies, and have no worries because nobody can hit you. It's an entirely new game.

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Oct 10th 2023, 8:44:39

Originally posted by En4cer:

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

Originally posted by En4cer:

Originally posted by BEM684:

-Do not post in game information that can only be retrieved by taking an in game turn(This means no spy ops, no military breaks, no attacking results etc etc)

Does this apply only to the current set? I would like to post something that could only be known by spending turns but will wait until the set is over to do so.

Originally posted by Requiem:

I know of a country that is playing turns with 100% decay bonus and has 240,000,000,000 dollars on hand!

Only with ClanGDI is this possible now that all risk has been removed.

"Oh no - we have been drinking so much of our own cool aid that we actually believed we were the good guys - when in fact we are the scum of the server. I can't believe that noone would be watching what we are doing and caught on to us hooking a country up with 3 big tech allies and Offensive allies and then mass aiding it also to try and go out with a win and a server record and bragging rights"

"Well sH!t.... now we worked out someone is doing it better - lets throw our toys out of the cot again and claim to be the good guys"

Best of luck guys - ill leave u with this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0obbOH5keR4

LaF is so incompetent they have to move the goal posts so they can score......lame

We didn't move them - The Bomb moved them - and we scored more - now they are upset - go figure

The difference is I’m upset because the game is now broken. It’s not the same game anymore. You’re fine with that because you’ll still win. Win a broken game. That was altered to cater to your playstyle. Very impressive.

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Oct 9th 2023, 22:09:05

Originally posted by Requiem:

I know of a country that is playing turns with 100% decay bonus and has 240,000,000,000 dollars on hand!

Only with ClanGDI is this possible now that all risk has been removed.

Do they also have zero military and zero spies? And no SDI tech? I guess I won't wait until the set ends to say so lol. It's ridiculous. There's no better example of a broken game mechanic.

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Oct 9th 2023, 21:11:30

Requiem if I did that right now the country would still be obvious just because of the numbers involved. But I'll happily do it after the set ends.

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Oct 9th 2023, 19:50:48

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Oct 9th 2023, 16:20:17

I don't know you Doug but I loved your TV show on Nickelodeon back in the day. Regards to Skeeter.

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Sep 27th 2023, 20:59:59

I didn't realize that point before this thread. When clanGDI was announced I was still trying to remember how to play the game at all lol. I've only been back since April and the last time I played before that it was still E2025.

That has to change. It doesn't even make narrative sense within the context of the game. Humanitarians kinda make sense. Joining GDI kinda makes narrative sense as does declaring war to get around it. But it should never be completely impossible to attack a country your own size! And certainly shouldn't come without a cost for the benefit.

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Sep 27th 2023, 20:54:16

Bear with me I'm either slow or just incredulous about this.... to get around regular GDI you just declare war.... but that doesn't work on clanGDI? And there's no cost to it?

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Sep 27th 2023, 20:50:10

I don't understand how clangdi works. Declaring war is not enough?

Edited By: BEM684 on Sep 27th 2023, 20:52:52
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Sep 27th 2023, 20:15:03

I'll never win first place, I'm not in one of the "big" tags (HAHA big tags in 2023, hilarious). I'm gonna get one top ten finish and then just randomly attack people in future sets!

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Sep 27th 2023, 18:51:34

I'm an accountant. Which means I'm a freak in the sheets. The spreadsheets.

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Sep 27th 2023, 18:20:45

I checked on Democracy and it works the same way. Leave the "max" at 83.33 and set the GvtEff to 1.1 and you end up with 81.66.

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Sep 27th 2023, 18:17:58

AHH very good makes sense thanks.

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Sep 27th 2023, 15:32:26

Ruthie you don't know me but I remember you! lol. Come back! I used to play as MAZ, as part of vVv, then Phoenix, and for several sets as a founder and FA of DJustice.

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Sep 27th 2023, 15:28:06

So using the above formula and playing around with the land/tech values,I do get to 83.33% military tech for normal governemnts. But the max I can get with Theo is 92.95, not 89.16 like the wiki says. Has the max been changed or is my theo formula wrong?

This example assumes 5mil tech points and 10k acres.

=100+(89.16-100)*0.65*(1-EXP(-1*5000000/(780+5.75*10000))) = 92.95%

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Sep 27th 2023, 14:43:05

Oh I didn't realize it's an excel formulation. All the other abbreviations in there are ingame terms.

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Sep 26th 2023, 21:35:18

What does EXP mean here?

Tech% = BaseTech%+(MaxTech%-BaseTech%)*GvtTech*(1-EXP(-GvtEff*TechPts/(C1+C2*Land)))

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Sep 26th 2023, 17:37:28

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Sep 20th 2023, 14:22:16

Does food decay below 2bil bushels or only above?

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Sep 18th 2023, 14:05:19

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:

NW records are falling right now because the # of bots made was increased and a few people have quit. This means you can probably get 1.5B unaided when before it was about 1B.

And yes the oil jumps fundamentally changed the game, made stocking oil a bit component, which made facist farmer strategies the dominant t10 strategy.

Why would there be changes to the game specifically to enable new NW records? Is that the only reason people are playing? And doesn't that cheapen the record anyway? What's the point?

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Sep 14th 2023, 20:50:06

So there are no more retal policies? What if an untagged player hits an alliance member?

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Sep 14th 2023, 18:23:11

Folks used to post their retal policies at the beginning of each set I remember. But I just realized it's barely relevant anymore. I've been in a tiny tag all set and not been hit once. I assume it's because all bots are untagged and it's safer to hit bots. Seems like the days of 1:1, 2:1, and accidental retal on a retal arguments are long gone?

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Sep 14th 2023, 16:30:50

Originally posted by NukEvil:

https://i.imgur.com/HlIvSyP.gif

Will never be finished or totally accurate, but there you go.

That is freakin awesome. And I found Talon/vVv/Phoenix right away in the top left area. Good times.

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Sep 13th 2023, 16:56:01

So I'll ask here what i asked on the alliance forums. Why not put in a big recruitment effort to this server? I loved E2025, never played EE until this year. The biggest issue I keep seeing is the lack of players. Adding more bots to alliance just obscures the issue and helps the land-obese top players play as if the game is somehow still competitive. It's not. Placing top ten in alliance server is like beating a six year old in one-on-one basketball. I know nothing about this game as it stands today (except what I read on the outdated wiki), but finished 21st in my 1st set in alliance because there are so few real players. I'm not even proud of it, after realizing how easy it was.

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Sep 13th 2023, 14:28:23

So I'm a recent returnee to the game and I never played Team server until this reset. Do you play in both team and alliance? Why do you play on team server? Educate me.

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Sep 11th 2023, 14:11:18

Originally posted by Havoc:

hmm I could definitely flesh out Omega's, we kept detailed accounts set by set for a long while.. but who is actually reading this fluff lol

I think some number of really old timers will show up in the next year as we get close to 2025. They might read it?

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Sep 7th 2023, 16:24:30

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

Whatever happened to good old diplomacy? That's the key, not altering the code to protect bad politics....this game had always been about diplomacy, if your clan can't survive it's a clear sign that you failed as leaders.

This is the point, Syko. I'm not the one missing it.

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Sep 7th 2023, 13:47:16

Originally posted by Syko_Killa:

Well, I have a little bit of an idea, if you want clan GDI removed, you come to an agreement with LaF, whatever that may be, but that should include that you will not FS and or Suicide them just because you can. Now heres where it gets tricky, since we know it will be difficult for some people to honor their words or agreements(unless its hostile), they also agree to be deleted and banned from the game for an undisclosed amount of time should they ever abuse the agreement. Signed by mods and game developers. If you can't do that, you are not serious about making a pact with LaF that you intend to honor.

As somebody with no skin in this game, I wanna comment that this is ridiculous. Mods and developers should be purposely distancing themselves from any in game politics. No in game alliance should have the power to affect game dev decisions more than any other clan.

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Sep 6th 2023, 13:50:35

Speaking of IKEA, enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Q2zzdpr34

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Sep 6th 2023, 13:47:54

Originally posted by NukEvil:

Originally posted by Coalie:

On May 2, 2012, the game administrators announced on Alliance Talk that Hanlong, with assistance from former game administrator Turtle Crawler, had gained access to the game's database, allowing the two to view all countries without requiring the turns needed for spy operations, change anything in any of the countries, and view private messages sent via the Earth forums as well as those sent in the game itself.

I'm curious. Where exactly did you get that verbiage?

I saw it before, it's somewhere on the wiki.

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Sep 5th 2023, 22:06:25

Originally posted by Lord Milk:

calling this game an MMO is a bit of a stretch these days its more like an MO

It's actually a single player game. You're the only one. We're all bots.

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Aug 31st 2023, 20:07:25

If people really want to bring in new players now is the time to do it. As we get close to 2025 more old timers will suddenly remember they used to play Earth2025 and inevitably some of them will show up. If the game brings a few of them in plus some new faces it could actually be significant. Even 50 new players would totally change the landscape since there's probably not more than 150 human players in total. And such a wave could be used as a snowball effect to bring in old timers who feel the game is dead. But that would take some real effort. Also, I think there needs to be an alliance for all those new players to join in their first set. They'll learn the game faster and get some protection at the same time.

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Aug 25th 2023, 14:11:34

https://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/Moral_Decay

Reading that felt like opening my highschool yearbook.

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Aug 24th 2023, 17:03:31

GDI costs money and might prevent you from getting that top networth spot. Free GDI only caters to people trying to squeeze the max possible networth. For any other playing motivation it makes sense to have a cost to GDI.

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Aug 24th 2023, 15:17:00

Copied and pasted here on the recommendation I got in this other thread:

Originally posted by BEM684:

Originally posted by BlackHole:

I used to. I don't anymore. Got a lot of hate for trying to recruit from reddit.

That's interesting, that's exactly what I was thinking we should do. I wish I could bring a surge of 200 new players to alliance server.

The game would benefit from a bunch of random new players forming clans, randomly attacking others, and finishing in the top 10-20. I know you all have been arguing over the direction of the game for years, but having just come back, it's clear to me the game has drifted in a direction to benefit a very tiny number of people competing for the top networth spots. A surge of new players is the only thing that will revive real competition here, both in netgaining and war.

Originally posted by BEM684:

Originally posted by Coalie:

Last time a new group came in, we tried to set them up with irc/clanhosting etc. But then cottonball Pat came in and manipulated them to grief his competition and he used as cannonfodder against 3 old warring clans.

What’s to stop that from happening again?

https://imgur.com/a/SedoMBx

Just because it could happen doesn't mean there should be no recruitment. New players are the only thing that will keep the game going. I don't know the numbers but it seems to me there are probably less than 100 real players left and 400 bots. That's pathetic. Placing in the top ten 20 years ago was a real accomplishment. Placing in the top ten like this is like beating a game on "easy" difficulty.

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Aug 24th 2023, 14:22:50

Originally posted by Coalie:

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Aug 24th 2023, 14:17:08

Originally posted by BlackHole:

I used to. I don't anymore. Got a lot of hate for trying to recruit from reddit.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:58:59

Originally posted by Requiem:

The oil destock allows you to play your turns until the last 5 minutes of the game, and using all of them turns on high acres to add incredible amounts to your end result.

In the past, jumping might take several days to a week losing out on a lot of production and, of course, on much fewer acres than today.

It sounds like a lot of changes were made to enable higher networths.

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Aug 22nd 2023, 17:20:20

Doesn't having more land make it less necessary to convert oil to units? Meaning more land causes the private market to carry more units anyway?

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Aug 22nd 2023, 16:57:42

Which explains this weird thing I noticed that at the end of every set the top ten is filled with countries with next to no land. They drop land to get the max tech/MB benefits of private market prices. Is this the main reason the net worth records keep getting beaten? It seems not comparable to the records before the change because countries were forced to either destock over longer periods or buy at higher prices on the public market.