January Talk Thread - Earth Empires Forum

blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:14:41

I played the random games and they only had about 400 players the sets I won. One of those wins WAS last millennium.

Edited By: blid on Jan 21st 2014, 2:18:27
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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.

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:16:26

no wonder you always get so annoyed when i call you a n00b

blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:20:05

It's still funny to me that I cost myself a win one set by destroying all my buildings and dropping all my land. I thought I could lower my private market prices but ended up making my market disappear... finished third on 1k land.

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.

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:20:32

well back then you actually could lower your pm prices by dropping land, couldn't you?
or was it just pm prices correlated to %mb's built on land, so it was worth it to stock on big land, then drop land to 1k, build mb's, and jump from there on pm?

Edited By: Vic on Jan 21st 2014, 2:23:37

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:21:01

i'm pretty sure ichi did that and won 1a and 1b and a few other people had success with it as well. ronnie won 1a once on 1k acres i think.

you went all MB on the 1000 acres or not even any mb??

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:26:43

I'm sure I made them MB but your market size is determined by your land right? And the market shrinks immediately upon dropping the empty acres. I didn't know it would wipe out my market like that. So when I went to spend my stock my market had like nothing in it...

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.

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:26:45

2014-01-21 02:25:18 PS Geranium (#278) i won 1b in a previous century (#204) 800A (1139A)
2014-01-21 02:24:12 PS Geranium (#278) i won 1b in a previous century (#204) 973A (1340A)

ok time to convert to tyranny :p
see you guys next set!

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:29:17

and yes market size is correlated to land now but i'm not sure if that was always the case

blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 2:39:53

I remember it being, because I remember after I did all that being like What the fluff

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.

LATC

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Jan 21st 2014, 4:07:23

Originally posted by Vic:

mmm that looks so juicy... let me TF it before u kill it lol

Originally posted by Xinhuan:

Are you guys stupid or what?

CX LaE

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Jan 21st 2014, 4:22:55

Vic -- I was t20 that set! LOL. My 2nd 1b set ever.

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oldman

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Jan 21st 2014, 12:16:01

pm doesn't diminish with land back in those days. people drop to 1 acre and build it with MB and had a full pm with MB prices.

I found my winning country back in 2000 lol...
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/Aug00/b.htm

blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 12:49:30

Dang you guys won the big one... but did anyone else win in pre y2k?
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/oct99/j.htm

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.

Cable

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:02:58

Did everyone drop land back in the days? No one has any sizeable countries back then

blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:08:51

There was a lot of risk of suiciders. I got a lot of net from the food market with it's $5 avg price ballooning up several times over.

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.

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:32:41

haha nice blid! if we are talking about the 'non important' servers there are definitely some early RoCK guys and lafers that won pre 2000.

i won on some junk server around that time but i dont think it was before 2000.
i wish i had my old emails from swirve with finish notifications!

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:34:57

lmao wow i didn't even realize there were games A-Z in those days!!! pure wildness!
was there any sort of skill level difference between games C-Z?

oldman

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:35:02

Originally posted by blid:

Dang you guys won the big one... but did anyone else win in pre y2k?
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/oct99/j.htm

Here, I found one that I won in May 1999
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/may99/f.htm

First top10 (ranked 10th) in 1a i believe...July 1999
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/jul99/a.htm

5th in 1b, July 1999
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/jul99/b.htm

There should be plenty more but too lazy to scroll through everything =P

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:39:02

lol get out of here oldman! you always have to steal the show :p

ALSO wtf!
that guy that two tap topfed me immediately after i retalled the first guy that topfed me was ALLIED to the first guy!...

Geranium:
Defensive Alliances:
Ally: Request For Production (#69)

shame these loser players!
if anyone knows who these guys are please pm me. this is not proper play in any way.
this is really really bad form.

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:41:53

and lmao in all my rage i just mistyped a PS by 100k and failed on this punk :p

Vic

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:49:26

ok this server is way too slow to switch to tyr and try to ab someone the same day :p
lemmings will have to do for now and i'll revisit this guy tomorrow hehe

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Jan 21st 2014, 14:53:18

You guys really have been doing this for a long time! I'm impressed

blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 15:28:58

I demand qzjul incorporate those stats into my game profile. DEMAND IT.

Nov '98, my first attempt
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/nov98/y.htm
Feb '99, the aforementioned 1000 land set
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/feb99/i.htm
Oct '99, first win, 100m
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/oct99/j.htm
Jan '00, second of back-to-back wins with same name, beating out some guy called You all suck who was attempting to shame us all!
http://web.archive.org/...earth/primary/jan00/k.htm

After that most my attempts got suicided and I stopped playing much, I don't think I got through any full sets again until EE.

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.

Xinhuan

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Jan 21st 2014, 15:52:34

Damn you guys. I didn't even start playing this game until 2001. :P

CX LaE

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Jan 21st 2014, 16:43:39

Oct '99 was your first win, blid? That was my first set - first semester of grade 9, finished top 500 LOL, oh how time flies...

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blid

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Jan 21st 2014, 17:04:11

Yeah except for possible lower rung Tourney wins it was my first win. I definitely won some of the crappy tourney games and I think I picked up a win in game B/C as well once, never rated in game A though.

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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Jan 21st 2014, 18:05:15

I usually played Randomized (1c-1l). Good times. Won more than my fair share of the games I was in. It was jokes. Loved it.

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Serpentor

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Jan 21st 2014, 18:13:43

Back in those days there was a group of players called the multi hunters working together to clean up the multi issue in 1B. Using multies to fight multies... Lol. I found that funny and figured it would be fun to round up an opposing army to fight them... With more multies. Lol. After a year long battle or so, The EEVIL Empire defeated the multi huntaz. We all had so much fun fighting together that we offered to join forces and move to 1A as a division or clan.

I think we ran some kill runs on the top ranked netters before we left though. Lol

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Jan 21st 2014, 18:13:45

Haha, I was too busy warring, my country name was "Mi Tierra" back in those days, I played in random games, mostly standard b with my brother, we were too busy lobbing missiles at people haha good times!

Mess with me you better kill me, or I'll just take your pride & joy and jack it up
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Jan 21st 2014, 18:16:57

Originally posted by Serpentor:

fluff Serp, you was war monger too :D

LATC

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Jan 21st 2014, 18:23:55

Back in the day I didn't understand the concept of stocking/destocking.. so I just killed things.

Originally posted by Xinhuan:

Are you guys stupid or what?

Serpentor

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Jan 21st 2014, 22:55:27

Yeah, I didn't understand people took this game seriously until moving to 1A. Lol

The EEVIL Empire

eManny

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Jan 22nd 2014, 22:46:05

Looks like weapons tech is pretty high right now, is that normal for this time of the set ?

silentwolf

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Jan 23rd 2014, 1:57:10

nice to see old timers here :) been doing this for the longest time 1998 summer is when I started.

never tried 1b.. was busy on icq with all the wars hehe. never got to netgain until I joined laf in 2002.

Xinhuan

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Jan 23rd 2014, 2:44:23

Originally posted by eManny:

Looks like weapons tech is pretty high right now, is that normal for this time of the set ?

No.

That's part of the beauty of Primary. The market conditions every reset are unique. I'm surprised techers aren't teching it more for more $ per turn.

blid

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Jan 23rd 2014, 2:46:17

Yeah, the bus/res is hovering at/under 2k and everything else is way higher.

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.

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Jan 23rd 2014, 3:59:37

The new GDI rules combined with the 25% Humanitarian level mean everyone is bottomfeeding like crazy. Targets are running low. Weapons tech lowers the minimum NW of countries you can grab, so its at a premium.

h2orich

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Jan 23rd 2014, 6:25:24

what new GDI rules?

Getafix

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Jan 23rd 2014, 7:02:12

The GDI rules that are now the same as the Express GDI rules.. I've been away for a year, aren't these rules new to Primary? It used to be like Tournament.

h2orich

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Jan 23rd 2014, 9:09:19

I've been playing Primary for 2 years and nothing has changed. Not sure anything before that.

Xinhuan

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Jan 23rd 2014, 9:26:31

Originally posted by Getafix:

The GDI rules that are now the same as the Express GDI rules.. I've been away for a year, aren't these rules new to Primary? It used to be like Tournament.

@Getafix Primary has been following identical GDI ruleset to Express for almost 3 years. Since Round 8, on 03 March 2011 to be exact: http://forums.earthempires.com/...ed-gdi-to-the-express-one

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Jan 23rd 2014, 12:32:04

o-O

blid

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Jan 23rd 2014, 21:33:19

Why are military prices so damn high when the entire top 10 is commies?

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.

blid

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Jan 23rd 2014, 21:35:41

Interesting to note though that the top land country is a tyrant. Is that a techer I wonder.

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.

Vic

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Jan 23rd 2014, 22:42:12

Originally posted by blid:

Why are military prices so damn high when the entire top 10 is commies?

it's the inverse effect. the top 10 is full of commies because military prices are so high. they were given a temporary economic advantage relative to the others.
now expect to see greater military production and falling prices and a leveling of each strats relative economic benefit

Cable

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Jan 23rd 2014, 23:05:08

Originally posted by Vic:

lmao wow i didn't even realize there were games A-Z in those days!!! pure wildness!
was there any sort of skill level difference between games C-Z?

Quite alot, A-C was top tier D-P second tier Q-Z third tier trash those were super easy games to top10 back in the day. Worst part was all you had to do was make country top 10 in Q and move up too C then make a country and come oop dont self delete and get moved back to the 3rd tier. Oh the good old days....

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Jan 23rd 2014, 23:11:26

Cable, that's true for Tournament but wasn't true for the other Primary-like "Random" games. The Random was just random. For Tournament, XYZ was the starter level, if you finished top 25 there you would jump to GHI, and if you finished top three there you could jump right to game A. If you didn't finish top three, you'd have to go to tier two which was games BC. Games DEF and JKL and QRS were the other tiers that nobody good ever would wind up in because how.

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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Jan 23rd 2014, 23:14:48

Started playing in 2003.

The Nigerian Nightmare.

Cable

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Jan 23rd 2014, 23:17:07

I dont recall random games of primary back then, I played in ptimary in 01-03 good old 1B skipped the allliance I was too cool for friends nerding out in high school.

blid

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Jan 23rd 2014, 23:28:26

Originally posted by Vic:

Originally posted by blid:

Why are military prices so damn high when the entire top 10 is commies?

Well maybe except that military prices started lower and have been steadily increasing.

http://www.eestats.com/primary/market

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.