I don't play this server because it is basically run by large alliances. One way to change things up is to create a team market. This is only available to the 4 other players in your team and units/tech can be bought or sold with 0% commission.

This would add a whole new level of teamwork and strategy. It would be hard to create an efficient market between 5 people, so there should still be access to the public market. But for those teams that could balance their internal market best, they will have a large advantage.

Probably wouldn't be too difficult to have all of the private markets be linked, or just allow you to click a link that takes you to any other team member's PM to buy at their prices. Could make for some pretty interesting TMBR team destocks, but make it very easy to shatter NW records to have one person destock last day on their teammates' PM.

so each would need to have 1 techer, 1 farmer, 1 oiler and 1 indy or 4 double strat countries.

I'd kind of like to get into team server but I want it to be team oriented (ie not big alliance oriented). Any suggestion that works toward that would help.

There was a thread with suggestions before:
http://forums.earthempires.com/...&z=team-server-change

I would love going around trying to recruit a cool 5 person team and then to compete us 5 against other teams, that would be different and fun and not just another alliance server.

It'll be very very easy to pump one member's NW...

It would be very easy, but the goal should be total team NW. Fixing the team market so that your techer is selling at 4k the whole set would just slow down the rest of the team.



I'm not sure that would be best. My instinct says there should be 2 cashers, 1 techers, 1 C/I, 1 Farmer. Another setup may put 3 techers, 2 cashers to maximize the research alliance. The techers would be able to sell techs, troops and tanks internally and everything else would be bought with the 6% comission

that would attract more cheating

I like the idea, to stop pump and dumps just limit base prices end of day its about avg net in team, only thing a weak team or incomplete team would struggle

Could always trst it tho

What am I missing? How does this make it easier to cheat?

commy would have hard times to win and techer too.

a 5-person team, which had a market exclusive to themselves may not work with only 5 people, but perhaps if teams were increased to 7 or even 10 people, you may be able to create more of an 'ecosystem'.

I do like the idea of personal team markets though.

all in private team market would need to produce oil in that case there comes war (if only 1 or 2 producing oil then killing those 2 would mean win for attacker), team of 10 players would be better since some strats like farmer and techer are needed more than 1 and prolly indy too.

i do like this idea

and yeh oils like that would be useful or remove oil in team altogether as realistically who would go oiler to finance a 5 man team he would sell maybe 100k barrels a day unless there were retals or something but either way its quite easy to produce your own oil or surplus you will never sell to 4 others lol

if it would be 5 person tag then no room for dedicated oiler since better strats would fill those 5 slots.

Don't need a dedicated oiler, just need a guy willing to produce some oil.

Or produce buy from the public market? Just have a public/private/and internal to the team market.

The original post does mention access to the whole server market still, so there shouldn't be too much worry about a team not having a certain strat within it (unless you are changing the suggestion somehow).

You are right.

Andrew Mose, then you might as well remove the individual ranking, and make team server ranked by TNW only.

That's the idea he is pitching.

even you had a situation that forced everyone to run rainbows.. its all about strategy. It would make people have to think about different ways of playing (think outside the box, not go with the grind as usual). Also, individual NW never really means much, it's about TNW/ANW anyways.

not true GE. I haven't seen any posts congratulating ANW/TNW winner since a few mths ago... Don't think that really matters :p

What is this TNW and ANW you talk of! Glory of first place!!!

I'm not sure if it forces rainbows. But the 6%/10% savings of the internal market make it much more attractive to netgain as a team.

You would absolutely still need the Public and Private markets as well. So oiler is still a valid strategy (as valid as it is now).

I'm going to bump this up since there are currently some big ideas being floated around about entirely new servers. While I'm sure a "Team Market" isn't the quickest coding exercise, it's probably easier to do than other ideas being floated around. I've always liked this idea as a way to reward closer collaboration within the team. Currently a team can setup a techer to leach from and 4 FFOs and play the entire set without any communication. On the war side, there already is a need for collaboration, but it would be interesting to provide a better team dynamic for netting.

I support this idea also.

Doing this change is more complicated on the backend then it appears.

As I understand it, the public market on Team isn't in a good state right now. Adding another clan market would make that problem even worse. So I'm very hesitant to make a change like this. The Team server also doesn't have a strong identity right now.

To make Team better, the only thing that popped into my mind is giving each team an exploring pool and making exploring subtract from that pool. So for example, there could be 50000 acres for each tag and the countries in that tag would have to cooperate in how they get allocated. Countries would explore for 0 acres a turn once the pool runs dry. The purpose of the change is to encourage players to landgrab each other. I suspect the outcome instead would be that everyone would just do tech starts.

The easiest way to add land grabbing to any server is to use the primary style GDI. I like that idea too.

What do you see in the team market to show that it's in a bad state?