Hello,
Thought I'd try my hand again at this little game. Haven't played in about a year. Didn't miss am EE round 1-68. Bring me up to speed... what has changed?

There was a change to the mechanics involving attacking. The DR factor for ghost acres gained in land grabs was previously calculated only based on how many hits a country has taken in the last 24 hours. Now there's also a permanent factor that never wears off based on how many times you personally hit the guy. So if you hit him 5 times already, he'll be in "ghost DR" for you for the rest of the round. Also the special attacks have been watered down. You won't do much damage with GS/BR/AB unless you do dozens of hits and then the damage "ramps up." Exception to this is if the person has ZERO troops/turrets/tanks in which case you'll unleash massive devastation immediately. This was probably put in for Alliance server reasons since it's not a good change in the solo servers, but I don't think it's popular in Alliance either. :D

No other changes to the mechanics, but some abuse is being cracked down on a little more, like having friends put you in DR or doing joint killruns or something.

Thanks. Interesting change on the special attacks. More emphasis on Standard Strikes now?

Well, for netters, SS and PS were all they ever used.

For solo warring countries, missiles are comparatively stronger.