Land grabs - Earth Empires Forum

Crowgora

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Feb 8th 2013, 21:08:08

I seriously don't understand grabbing in this game. I was grabbed twice in the past hour and lost over 2k acres, all while im 90 percent defense and have two defense allies. 1k per grab is more around 13 percent of my land per hit, not counting buildings. Also, why is express so focused on spies and suicide countries?

crest23

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Feb 8th 2013, 21:34:03

You must be new I see. How is it that you understand the term suicide country, but somehow do not understand how you got jacked for 1k acres.

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Crowgora

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Feb 8th 2013, 21:46:19

Uhh explain to me how when doing. Planned strike you get 3-5 percent, and im losing 15+ percent every hit. I understand the logistics of this game, but losing 5k acres in 4 hits is unreal. Especially when my country is backed by a massive defense and defense allies which give me an overall 50% boost.

Crowgora

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Feb 8th 2013, 21:46:41

Not to mention im extremely far from land fat.

Magellaan

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Feb 8th 2013, 21:53:09

If two countries have the same nw the returns are larger. So they probably bought up jets, got closer in nw, and thus got larger gains. Maybe they had more mil strat than you too.

Not MD, fake Magellaan.

Crowgora

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Feb 8th 2013, 21:55:45

Ok. In 3 hits i lost an average of 1800 acres. So 18% hits from people that were sno where to be found 8 hrs ago.

Crowgora

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Feb 8th 2013, 22:27:00

Meh. Pointless complaints honestly. Theres an odd dynamic to express where people average 1500 acre land grabs, and drama ensues for a number of things. For instance, i top fed and one person in particular threw a cry fit about it, when in all honesty it worked well until lower people top fed on me haha

blid

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Feb 8th 2013, 23:02:00

You have to tell your country number so people can look at what you're talking about

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Crowgora

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Feb 8th 2013, 23:11:12

A little late for that, selling off tons of defense for offense at this point

blid

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Feb 8th 2013, 23:34:53

I want to see if you really lost 5k acres in 4 hits. I don't believe that.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

crest23

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Feb 9th 2013, 0:22:46

He's making up stuff, pay him no mind. Only 2 countries have lost that much land as of this moment. None fits his description which leads me to,...

Originally posted by crest23:

You must be new I see. How is it that you understand the term suicide country, but somehow do not understand how you got jacked for 1k acres.

The Nigerian Nightmare.

CX LaE

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Feb 9th 2013, 1:22:34

Maybe he's taking the ghost acres into what he assumes he lost.

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blid

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Feb 9th 2013, 2:47:49

That's what I was thinking, and that's why I wanted to see his country #

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

CX LaE

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Feb 9th 2013, 3:04:34

Methinks he's 75.

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Akira

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Feb 9th 2013, 5:22:26

Guys, this is my second set and till now I still don't get ghost acres. Please explain it to me :)

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zerozerozero

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Feb 9th 2013, 5:37:02

what i understand is that it's free buildings on top of the land grabbed... These buildings are not from the country that was attacked, just randomly added by the game and mirroring the buildings of the country that was attacked, thereby 'ghost' acres.

errr or am I wrong?

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Feb 9th 2013, 5:58:13

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Akira

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Feb 9th 2013, 6:05:58

So its buildings? From the name I thought it was acres gained added on top of the acres lost of attacked country. It should be ghost buildings then :)

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Akira

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Feb 9th 2013, 6:07:12

I find it really hard to grab. All the juicy land fats are deep in dr.

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Crowgora

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Feb 9th 2013, 6:11:52

I didn't fully understand ghost acres, so if i take that out of consideration i lost around 2400 acres in 3 hits. Normally land frabs never hit me that bad. This is like my 5th set back from a ten year layoff so obviously some stuff changed. But, wow. I deleted my country this set because express got so drama filled. I will quote one angry player "im the best player ever, retired in 04 and consistently win this set and you ruined it by top feeding." but tthere was another 10 messaging crying.

Akira

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Feb 9th 2013, 6:37:41

Haha maybe the best player ever ought to retire for good.

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KoHeartsGPA

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Feb 9th 2013, 6:51:29

What the fluff, dudes!

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The (#) is ghost acres, that's what you gain, the # before the ( ) is what the lost acres of the other country is, theres more to it but that's the basic.

afaik

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Feb 9th 2013, 6:56:25

Of the land you win in a grab, 50% of the buildings are captured and 50% destroyed (at least i think it's 50/50).

The 50% destroyed are converted into 'ghost acres', which basically increase the gains of the attacker without affecting the defensive losses.

The defender should never worry about ghost acres, it's the core losses that are relevant to your own strategy.

The attacker should never worry about the core gains, it's the total gains that are relevant to your own strategy.

This is the mechanism through which attacking is encouraged.

blid

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Feb 9th 2013, 22:01:21

Originally posted by Crowgora:

I'm still confused, there's not a lot of deleted countries. I don't see which one got hit for that many acres and did a top feed.

My best guess is that you're Vic's buddy The Round Table hehehe. Vic, did you send him messages about being the best player ever?

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

Billi_AoDT

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Feb 10th 2013, 0:33:33

hmm

Vic

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Feb 10th 2013, 11:36:27

lmao blid who else would msg someone something so comical in nature :p

<------- why, the best player ever would ;)

silentwolf

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Feb 10th 2013, 17:06:28

vic .. ur hilarious ! :)

braden

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Feb 10th 2013, 17:51:07

hi sw! you should join rd in alliance!

Crowgora

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Feb 12th 2013, 15:55:56

im just saying, taking 1k acres to start, add on ghost acres or whatever and then add the buildings taken. Not just adding in Vic here, but people on express servers seem like girls on periods over trivial things and I dont get it.

Fatty

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Feb 12th 2013, 19:59:27

LOL

this thread is funny.

forget land grabs, get yourself some armor and some nuclear fission!

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