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Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 13:10:26

No, allowing deleted countries to show up on final ranks means that a cheater could win even after being deleted. You can view the country owners of dead countries after the round ends by creating the right url: https://www.earthempires.com/express/753/ranks/91

Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 4:30:49

Would this still be useful? I tried to have this conversation in another place but it didn't go anywhere.

Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 4:30:21

I plan to investigate this at some point.

Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 4:30:13

I plan to investigate this at some point.

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May 10th 2024, 4:14:38

Need to add this information to the UI somewhere.

Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 3:58:41

I don't mind adding that but it'll be low priority I think I only added missing things as I personally needed them.

Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 3:50:15

Need to add this information to the UI somewhere.

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May 10th 2024, 3:39:15

This is now fixed.

Slagpit

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May 10th 2024, 3:26:15

This has been fixed on all game servers. The issue was caused by putting spy tech on the public market.

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May 9th 2024, 23:03:03

I added back the classic and old advisor. The setting to change it has been moved to game preferences. However, please understand that spy ops will change to the new advisor style in the near future.

Slagpit

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May 9th 2024, 23:01:39

Fixed, thank you for reporting.

Slagpit

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May 9th 2024, 4:41:37

I will add this back some time this week.

Slagpit

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May 8th 2024, 21:28:26

Will Iron Mike be paid to take a fall on Express?

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May 7th 2024, 18:05:06

Thank you for reporting the issue. There was a period of around 18 hours where this bonus didn't work but it looks to be fixed now. I'm seeing new bonus rewards come in.

Edited By: Slagpit on May 7th 2024, 18:17:03
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May 7th 2024, 1:36:24

This is probably fixed now but I didn't bother really testing it.

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May 7th 2024, 0:53:30

I've added a topbar warning for alpha servers to make it more difficult for players to accidentally ruin their non-alpha countries because they mistakenly thought they were playing on an alpha server. Players who don't like the warning can disable it by changing their game account preferences.

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May 7th 2024, 0:51:50

This is complete in change set 25.

Slagpit

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May 6th 2024, 22:02:39

I got 100 troops and 10k NW, can I join?

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May 5th 2024, 19:21:55

This is fixed for servers on change set 25. I believe that all of the issues mentioned here are fully resolved. If any premium users want to try it they can go to the Alpha or Alpha Cooperation servers.

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May 5th 2024, 19:20:27

This means that spying a country will show its tech percentages along with a bit more information than before. I believe I also corrected all of the previous discrepancies between the initial spy op and the saved spy op (formatting, missing defense bonus, ally costs, etc).

Edited By: Slagpit on May 5th 2024, 22:37:15

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May 5th 2024, 18:28:43

That lines up with some work I was already doing for a different server. I expect that it will be added to Primary starting with the July reset.

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May 5th 2024, 16:17:34

I didn't imply that m0bzta was a jerk. He's played the game as a warrer for a long time and I appreciate that. In general, the only things I have a problem with are rule breakers and people who maliciously chase others out of the game.

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May 5th 2024, 4:33:28

Instead of full attack history what you need is current DR and the ability to exclude countries that you've already attacked, right?

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May 5th 2024, 2:01:13

Do you guys want a better target search in game?

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May 4th 2024, 20:15:18

I made some changes to the saved spy op functionality. It only changes what you see when you click the "Review Saved Country Spy Operation Results" link on the spy page. It does not change what data is sent to third party sites via spy op upload.

1) Users will be able to see all spy ops done by their clan members.
2) Users cannot manually save or delete spy ops but they are no longer automatically deleted after 72 hours.
3) The saved spy op page will send less data to the client. This is intended to help mobile users in clans with lots of saved spy ops. I removed the javascript functionality we had and moved the requested spy op to the top of the page.

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think. Testing on mobile would be especially helpful.

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May 4th 2024, 13:56:46

classic advisor = blue headers, 3 columns, does not show tech percentages
old advisor = blue headers, 3 columns, does show tech percentages
new advisor = red headers, 2 columns

As far as I can tell, changing the advisor style for the user only changes what you see on your country's advisor page. It doesn't change what you see when getting a spy op (which is always classic) or when viewing a saved spy op (which is always new). I would like to retire the classic and old advisors and make everything use the new advisor. The new advisor shows the most information and it renders correctly even when the country has large numbers for some fields.

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May 4th 2024, 2:12:03

I can keep the sorting in cnum order if that's useful. I just assumed it wasn't.

No plan to add other informational ops. It would be too much for too little gain.

The system for uploading spy ops to a third party hosting site is entirely separate from the saved spy ops in game, so there should be no interaction between the two. I'm not sure what you're asking with the last question.

On a mostly unrelated note, does anyone prefer seeing the classic advisor for when you get the initial op? I've found it pretty annoying not being able to see tech percentages in the spy op itself.

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May 4th 2024, 1:03:31

The spy op html when you get the op will be changed to the new advisor style which shows tech percentages. I may change this immediately instead of waiting for Change Set 25.

I plan to make the following changes as part of Change Set 25:

1) The various display issues in saved spy ops will be resolved and saved ops will accurately reflect what was seen at the time of the original spy ops.
2) Users will be able to see all spy ops done by their clan members, but ops are associated with clans now.
3) Users will be able to delete spy ops only while untagged.
4) Users cannot manually save spy ops but they are no longer deleted after 72 hours.
5) The saved spy op page will send less data to the client (intended to help mobile users in clans with lots of saved spy ops).

Let me know if any of these proposed changes would cause problems for you.

Edited By: Slagpit on May 7th 2024, 5:38:25

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May 1st 2024, 16:53:51

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.

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May 1st 2024, 16:27:51

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

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May 1st 2024, 13:30:14

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.

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May 1st 2024, 5:01:46

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

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Apr 30th 2024, 15:55:50

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.

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Apr 30th 2024, 14:13:52

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:

Originally posted by Slagpit:

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?

Extra turns you have to cash to get enough money to grab again benefits one strategy: techer. Because it's turns spent earning are far more productive.

To balance tech with other strategies you need to have a tradeoff between income and growth. But in the rules you implement you need that income to grow, so the tradeoff is gone and it becomes the only playable strat.

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.

Edited By: Slagpit on Apr 30th 2024, 14:17:19
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Slagpit

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Apr 30th 2024, 13:59:02

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

Slagpit

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Apr 30th 2024, 6:07:23

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

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Apr 30th 2024, 5:03:14

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.

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Apr 30th 2024, 4:54:24

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

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Apr 30th 2024, 4:53:57

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

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Apr 30th 2024, 3:35:31

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

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Apr 30th 2024, 1:40:02

I added this

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Apr 30th 2024, 1:27:10

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.