Changes to FFA control page - Earth Empires Forum

Slagpit

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Nov 9th 2025, 20:20:20

* Unimplemented alliances, readiness, and vacation pages have been replaced with unimplemented build, explore and cash/tech pages.
* Other pages have been moved around to support the above change. I also tried to bucket things more logically into the top four categories.
* Email notification (which did not work) has been replaced by selling turrets on PM option on the preferences page.
* Startups page has extra restrictions and can no longer be applied to restarted countries. Note that this page still isn't working how it should. At some point it should be updated to actually simulate the turns played instead of just applying an assumed end state.

ironxxx

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Nov 9th 2025, 21:13:39

would be kind of awesome to have UI for cash, tech, explore and build.

what do you think about adding UI specifically for ops like raid food stores and commit espionage? (resource stealing ops)

also what do you think about possibility of enabling bomb banks to steal cash, similar to raid food stores? even just for ffa?

Slagpit

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Nov 10th 2025, 3:58:38

Fixed some redirects and added explore page.

Harmful spy op page would be tough because countries get spied out quickly.

TCO_NBK

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Nov 10th 2025, 15:39:28

Nice! What is the timeline on having those implemented?

Slagpit

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Nov 11th 2025, 5:41:41

Cash/tech page is likely done but I'm not ready to push it live yet.

Slagpit

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Nov 13th 2025, 3:25:59

All done. Any type of feedback is helpful, even something as simple as "I tried it and it worked as I expected".

ironxxx

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Nov 13th 2025, 20:20:56

I'm guessing on the tech page in order to tech you actually need to have labs built.

Any way to customize the building ui more then by proportion?

Slagpit

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Nov 16th 2025, 2:10:21

Teching is only available for countries with at least 1 tech point and at least 30% labs.

What would you like the building page to do that it cannot do currently?

ironxxx

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Nov 16th 2025, 22:48:40

quick example for build page features

option to build 1 turn of farms, 1 turn of indies, 10 turns of farms, 10 turns indies similar to the individual build pages

farms is just an example it should be able to do the same ent/res and labs determination as well

Slagpit

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Nov 19th 2025, 16:08:25

I've combined the tag and GDI subpages into one subpage in order to save space.

Originally posted by ironxxx:

It could be changed to act more like the quick actions options, but I'd want to hear from more players first before making such a change.

TCO_NBK

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Nov 19th 2025, 16:38:38

I love it!

I will focus my feedback on the tech part.
So for me this works once the country is developed. If working a wargain country, I may want to focus my teching on a specific tech. Perhaps creating a selection option that allows you to distribute tech evenly or select yourself which tech the chosen amount of turns are spread across. Not sure ofcourse what the effort to implement this would be.

I will spend some time reviewing the build option tomorrow.

Slagpit

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Nov 20th 2025, 3:41:40

Tech page improved

TCO_NBK

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Nov 20th 2025, 11:12:03

Awesome. That came out even better than I had hoped. Nicely done

TCO_NBK

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Nov 20th 2025, 11:14:37

Do something similar for building? I see the same option to build specific buildings being very useful when growing or quickly adapting countries.

Slagpit

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Nov 23rd 2025, 1:23:46

Improved building page

TCO_NBK

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Nov 23rd 2025, 17:13:28

Looks great!

2 minor things I found

1) When you selected the war tab, tech/cash tab still shows as TBD

2) on the build tab, being used to the tech/cash tab now, would be great to also have the option to select the strategy (tech vs non-tech etc). But this is just my personal opinion at this point and simply throwing it out here

For all those that have not played FFA before….this makes running 16 countries soooooo easy!

Slagpit

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Nov 23rd 2025, 18:56:08

Moved auto food sales and auto turret sales to the manage page and got rid of the preferences page. Everything left on the preferences was low value and some settings may have not worked correctly. Also moved around the bonus page and API pages to plan for future development.

Originally posted by TCO_NBK:

1) When you selected the war tab, tech/cash tab still shows as TBD

That is expected for now because I still haven't developed the new page yet. Stay tuned!

Slagpit

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Nov 24th 2025, 1:02:31

Removed the "new sales" and "new news" bits from the econ and war page because they did not work correctly.

Added a new login page to allow players to refresh their turns, get daily bonuses, and clear unseen news. It is now possible to perform a full gameplay loop for FFA without logging into the individual countries. For example:

1) Use the login page to get new turns
2) Use the bonus page to spend bonus points
3) Use the explore page to get new land
4) Use the build page to construct buildings on the new land
5) Use the public market page to buy and sell stuff

TCO_NBK

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Nov 24th 2025, 19:54:48

Sweet! That really helps too!

No more excuses now, only thing that requires some time now is a grabbing spree….

ironxxx

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Nov 26th 2025, 10:07:46

been using the new build page and cash page

they're working great

will prob use the tech portion next set during the early part of the set...but feedback from whooze is: "now i really like bulk teching"

i'd say your new pages are hit

the login page is also very handy!!!!

Slagpit

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Nov 27th 2025, 16:32:48

I've changed the top menu so that all pages are always a single click away in a 3 row by 7 column configuration. The general, build, and war pages have been removed but the custom page now allows country names to be hidden to free up space to show more information. Please let me know if there are important column options missing from the custom page.

ironxxx

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Nov 27th 2025, 17:21:34

how about the general page columns showing hits against and hits per

Slagpit

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Nov 27th 2025, 17:25:51

The 24 hour attack and defends columns?

ironxxx

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Nov 27th 2025, 17:36:12

yes

Primeval

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Nov 27th 2025, 17:54:49

Originally posted by Slagpit:

This definitely threw me off for a minute mid way running turns earlier.

I agree with adding a general tab since there seems to be an open slot (TBA). Id put it in the first slot, though. A sortof mix of the previous general and economy tabs. I like knowing if I have recent defends from the former general page but I mostly liked the economy tab that showed cash on hand plus summarized my market activity - OM Tr, OM J, OM Tu, OM Ta, OM B, OM O, OM Tech.

Army away/generals home would also be nice. I typically used the 24 attack column but PS was technically 22 and wouldn't help much if you PS at different times.

Might be a bit crowded on one page so maybe include the above minus the OM summary.

Could also just allow adding Att/def to custom options to simplify

Edited By: Primeval on Nov 27th 2025, 17:58:18

dragnars

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Nov 27th 2025, 20:51:32

Would be nice to see time since logged in aswell.

Primeval

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Nov 27th 2025, 21:36:55

Originally posted by dragnars:

Would be nice to see time since logged in aswell.

☝️

Slagpit

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Nov 27th 2025, 22:05:47

That's already available as "Last turn".

Slagpit

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Nov 27th 2025, 22:47:46

Changes made:

* New column limit is 16 instead of 12, but players may see line wrapping depending on which columns they pick. Hiding country names is recommended if you pick a lot of columns.

* Made some columns and totals denser to save horizontal space.

* Cleaned up the page to select columns a little bit.

* Added 24 hour attacks, 24 hour defends, and time until the earliest PS brigade returns as column selection options.

I am able to fit everything that Primeval mentioned along with extra stuff without line wrapping: https://imgur.com/a/MTaiwKx

whooze

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Nov 28th 2025, 23:59:45

Yay, nice changes SlagPit!

Slagpit

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Nov 29th 2025, 18:56:43

Improved bonus page and added strategy name as a custom column choice.

UgolinoII

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Nov 30th 2025, 0:13:09

I couldn't find anywhere to sell military on private market. I thought I was auto selling turrets as indy. I was not (probably didn't do select all when setting the option, as I was able to set it when I tried again, but at that point it would only sell newly generated turrets)

TCO_NBK

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Dec 2nd 2025, 14:56:47

Nice!

Used it for a few days now and getting used to it. Mostly positive. I somehow keep missing the old war page that gave me a one snapshot overview….I’ll give it a few more days now that I kill more actively again to see if the current pages satisfy my need :-)

Slagpit

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Dec 2nd 2025, 15:17:23

Originally posted by TCO_NBK:

Why not use the custom page to show the things that you liked to see on the war page?

llaar

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Dec 3rd 2025, 4:01:57

fantastic quality of life upgrades here for the FFA control page, loving it!

whooze

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Dec 4th 2025, 21:35:01

Issues with Status-page:
https://earthempires.com/...-panel-53914?t=1764569122