It's not like there's some way we could remove DRs from special attacks and then scale special attack losses so that you still need roughly the same number of hits to get a kill or anything.

That's crazy talk!

See. Beltz remembers how the game is played ;)

Like the kids said, if you don't want to play politics, don't sign up. Or join a clan which has someone else to play politics for you.

If you don't want to do that you're just gonna be free land for the people that do.

Sheesh Dev. What gave you such a hard on for Rage anyway?

I can't see the news yet since BC is being wonky but it's just fluffing land grabbing. There was a time when we all accepted standard strikes as, ya know, a part of the game.

Ah yes, that makes sense.

Off to a good start then.

I think I already did back when you first went public... oh the group anyway. I guess there's a page too but no one seems to 'Like' it.

Great to see it climb so quickly on those but did you select lesser known rankings that made that easier or something? ;)

The 'free' spy report option is unbalanced. My uber-spy countries have survived FSes more than once because they just couldn't op me in a reasonable number of turns - even if you balance it so that you have to have a high spal to use it you're giving one free op a day to each spy country which after some initial probing they can use on the opposing spy countries, effectively killing the defensive advantage of spies. Spies are expensive to maintain because they're so specialized and operative defensively and offensively. Other than that you've got some interesting ideas.

Particularly the market bribe. I would see that needing to be moderately expensive so it's only useful on rare occasions but it would make turn around in the event of an alliance getting jumped that extra few hours shorter. Could really make warfare a lot more interesting.

Yeah, if there were a Time to captcha countdown with the answer now button at the bottom of the portal I could see that being helpful some days.

Well sure, three days later, Sancho Panza. I never said I was outpacing anyone but the other indies in the first place.

/I took the big ass raping from Sanct even though I was almost all def so there went that idea.

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Optional / None / Kill it with fire

Fast spy ops are win.

If we're trying to encourage land creation? Pretty terrible.

Pretty sure my all-X commie is out-preforming all the other commies ;)

Actual person to person recruiting would work a lot better. *shrug* Even that has a much lower success rate than ten years ago lol. Most people hear 'text based' and zone out, though I guess the popularity of fb games might be starting to change that somewhat. I've only ever recruited two... maybe three people IRL, only had one even make an attempt at sticking around.

But maybe my friends just suck ;)

/Still thinks the entire idea of an express server just SCREAMS massive 'coalition' war. Just enable clans, set protection to last until the last 24 hours and have a good old fashioned simultaneous fluff-kicking.

The winners would likely just be the ones with the most free time/amphetamines but that's pretty much how it goes anyway and only having to be available for one day is a lot easier than a two week war that everyone can predict the outcome of after three days.

Yeah man, and what about that Kennedy assassination. What's up with dat?

And you seem fandiddleyicous.

See, I can make up words too.

I think that hotmail restriction came in around the same time MP started giving out mail accounts. I think I was using an address.com email addy at the time so I'm not sure why I remember that :P

Well yeah - it's never going to be a strong endset strat. But I'm doing alright for only playing once a day.

Pretty much this. The Rage philosophy from the early days on has always been that anything not explicitly against the rules is fair game. That's what the rules are there for: to define what constitutes fair play.

Good balance job guys.

It was pretty unorganized as to judge selection at least toward the end. Pretty much whoever they decided to accept into the site, I don't remember if I got in as a Rage voter (since Rage seems to never have more than two or three people who even care about the community outside of Rage) or just because Ravers decided to accept me but I remember voting for a couple resets.

Hey! Hey! You'll get Ragers away from our whiskey reserves when you pry the cellar keys from our cold dead hands, thank you very much.

I think the problem is really that you're trying to play express seriously. There's no real investment of time (relative to the other servers) so most people there aren't really concerned with how their country comes out - they're either just killing time, testing something out that they don't really expect to work or messing with people for the fun.

I'll be honest the first thing I thought of when I saw the Dict change being rolled out was that I should go farm the fluff out of some people on express to get an idea for how much more viable a Dict/Farmer is ;)

That appears to be his idea, yes.

If you don't want a server full of insane anarchistic behavior you'll have to play on server with alliances. People don't take express play seriously so they just screw around. That's just how she goes.

HPK and civs killed are probably the most relevant publicly available info - though making that too formalized would no doubt lead to a lot more kill stealing.

How bout we all just score wars in terms of funny AT posts? :P

If the netgaining strats didn't have a higher growth potential than the war strats there would be no reason for anyone to play them. The game was designed as an example of efficiency through specialization.

In this specific case: Dictator has an large warfare advantage and in order to balance this a restricted ability to grow. It's intended to be a post-growth stage government and does that very, very well. Commies are basically the opposite: high early growth potential with no viable endgame.

Yeah, I agree with Ivan - the whole death of the dictatorship idea has been grossly exaggerated. It's still a great option if you use it properly.

The Anti-Kronos Alliance.

Or just Kronos.


Either way.

Collab is now ranked too high?

also sexually

Ya see back before people developed this crazy idea that politics in an online game were important we used to use this skill known as "imagination" to get together and use a system for posting up messages, a 'bulletin board system' if you will, to create a sort of on the fly multiple author narrative. It was much more fun than the Internet Is Serious Business attitude of today.

Not that I ever actually used the RP forum in the last 6-7 years but that's another story entirely.

I for one welcome our new automagical contact appending abilities.

/Ya know, long as people don't start 'compensating' for nothin' with 'em.

Rage Contacts

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My thread beat this one to the punch by seconds. SECONDS!

Memes die hard. Especially when (I'd guess) the majority of us have been playing for 6-10 years.

To kill things. A lot.

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Sounds so much better than ECT.