Who is your FA?

This has been added for style = 2. If there are problems please post in the API users forum.

There are other threads that you can find using forum search. I guess the info is spread all over the place.

This post probably provides the best single post info for how the NPCs changed: https://www.earthempires.com/...pril-13-2021-50020#974910

I also totally forgot the round where I grabbed on a single oil rig and just did 100 jet SS the whole time: https://eestats.lafamiglia-ee.eu/express/oldcountry/2327/18

I'm guessing that what you're seeing here is either rainbows which deliberately have bad countries or countries that highly prioritize buying tech instead of military. There are different "buying schedules" now. You can read the NPC code for more details~

Well it's not all bad. Tech and bushels are cheap and oil is a reasonable price.

It's still there: https://www.earthempires.com/alphacoop/main

It seems there's some bug that makes it sometimes not appear that I haven't tracked down yet

You're looking at resets with different turn counts. They got 2900 turns for round 889 but only 1900 turns for round 954. They also didn't get farmed by players the whole round. For round 889, bushels spike so high that some NPC countries end up stocking tech and military instead. If I remember right one or two techers could often destock before the bushel market crashed. That's why https://www.earthempires.com/ai/889/ranks/139 had such a large victory. The market dynamics for some of those rounds were honestly quite educational, though military demand was of course too low to be realistic.

The NPC code has effectively been the same since 2021. Qz only fixed a few small bugs since then.

Sounds like a price fixing attempt to me!

My initial impression is that it's a bit too annoying right now to play techer or indy on Express but I'm not sure what, if anything, could be done about it. I wonder what changing max turns to 270 (270) would do.

no collusion

TAN is so dumb that not only did he have to name himself after a color, he also picked one of the shortest ones that's easy to spell

Please don't do that. It's honestly a major inconvenience.

The new PS system is now in place.

Ratski: the dictatorship government is able to do 50 spy ops a day. There is no GDI.

Land can now be purchased on the magic market

You can use the magic market on alpha servers to acquire goods for free.

Damn, he got me.

You can't spell permanenT bAN without TAN!

TAN is permanently banned

The PS mechanic isn't implemented yet but I expect it'll be implemented before the game day ends.

Thanks for catching the 5/10 typo.

Both of these statements are against the forum rules:

"Player X cheated on his wife so he's a terrible person."

"Player X cheated on his wife, he's a terrible person, and you can't trust his alliance to honor their pacts as a result."

The game-related part in the second statement is just a pretext to personally attack the other player. You aren't fooling anyone.

That is not the purpose of these forums. It doesn't matter if someone is a good or bad person. Keep it related to the game. If you want to accuse his alliance of having multies, great, go for it. It's also fine to mock his alliance for having a low average networth, poorly run countries, a poor war performance, or for other game-related reasons. But stop with the personal attacks.

Yes. You can click the game profile link by his handle to see countries from last reset.

GDI currently prevents tech stealing. Countries can get hit and not be able to retal due to the humanitarians range restriction. That's part of the reason why I'm considering a mechanic like this.

I recommend against holding off on any mass recruiting for the next two months.

Much of this will be listed in server details or inside the game itself but I thought it would be helpful to have everything in one place.

On this server, it is not possible to attack or to perform harmful spy ops on player countries. Countries will start with 180 turns, will gain 1 turn every 24 minutes, and can hold a maximum of 240 (480) turns. Each reset will last about 2 months.

This game server will have a number of special rules:

* Players cannot spend turns if they are untagged.
* Players cannot leave a tag after joining.

* A tech point is worth 4 NW instead of 2 NW.
* Base military expenses for jets are $0.20.
* The networth component formula for military expenses = 1. Military expenses per unit do not change with NW.
* Standing orders will be changed to make them more fair and to make market transfers more difficult.
* The warfare and SDI technologies will not be present.
* Government switches will not remove bonuses.
* Users will be able to specify how long goods remain on the public market.

* Countries cannot drop acres.
* Only SS and PS attacks are permitted.
* A country can only PS up to twice every calendar day. A country can still do SS attacks if it has done its daily PSes. It works in the same way as the spy op refresh system.
* Base attacking military losses for SS are 98%.
* The Dictatorship government loses 50% less units when attacking.
* The maximum standard benefit of medical tech is 50%.
* Medical tech reduces military losses from attacking.
* The minimum acres per grab is 1 instead of 5-20.
* There are no humanitarians range restrictions.
* GDI is not available.

* Players can only form ingame alliances with other clan members.
* Research allies provide HALF the typical benefit to allied countries that have less than 20% of the TPT of the techer.
* Offensive ally military losses are impacted by their government attacking military loss modifier and medical tech.
* Offensive ally military losses are not impacted by the SS penalty for attacking military losses.
* FA packages cannot be sent.
* NPC countries would use the latest code ("express style") and would not be able to get allies.

* The daily spy op limit per country is 50 for dictatorships and 5 for all other governments.
* All information ops are allowed against other players.
* Espionage, Bomb Banks, Raid Food Stores, and Raid Oil Reserves are allowed against NPC countries and use the "express style" formulas

https://www.earthempires.com/alphacoop/main

A few of you quickly noticed that the Alpha Cooperation server is available. Feel free to test things out and let me know if anything seems off. Currently everything is implemented except for the standing order changes.

Yeah that'll be available in a few days

I haven't had a chance to investigate this yet. Does this happen on all servers with standard GDI?

It was previously possible to create a clan with a blank password that no one else could join. This should now be fixed.

On the team server, restarts would sometimes see an incorrect clan page. The clan page would say that they were not in a clan but their country was still tagged. The clan page should now show the correct information.

Alpha servers (premium access only) have a magic market functionality to allow purchasing and selling of goods. It is now possible to purchase bonus points, spies, land, and missiles on the magic market. This should make certain types of testing easier to do.

How do you feel about this adjustment to harmful spy op returns? https://www.earthempires.com/...rimary-52625?t=1713899072

The mechanic I'm considering is a full set country-to-country and spy op specific DR that reduces returns. So you could steal tech from the same country but as you do it more and more you'd get less gains. The goal is to still allow for quick types of retaliation or to allow for countries with lots of spies to steal a little bit from a lot of countries, but to prevent situations where a small country continually targets a large country with harmful spy ops. The new DR would apply to these ops:

Cause Dissensions
Bomb Airbases
Espionage
Bomb Buildings
Sabotage Intelligence
Bomb Banks
Raid Food Stores
Raid Oil Reserves

And not apply to these ops:

Stir Rebellions
Demoralize
Sabotage Missiles
BioTerrorism

That's helpful to know. I'm looking to add stealing tech back as a beneficial op that isn't blocked by GDI. It was a long time ago, but based on what people said the main issue was that a small country could target a large country for many days during the round and the larger country couldn't stop the tech stealing?

Can you explain why the bigger countries can't get enough SDI and tanks in order to grab the same target more than once? That was always the intended calculation for doing more than one grab. You can of course do it, but you need to accept some risk which you can offset by having a well-rounded defense. Spy ops are of course very difficult to defend against which is part of the reason for the 72 hour time limit.

It's a really bad new player experience to not even be able to spy op countries that have attacked you. If we want to keep Primary as a server without any NPC countries then it's more important to consider the experience of the new players and weaker countries.

If someone breaks the rules on discord then you should message a discord moderator if you feel so inclined. It sounds like the messages were already deleted? I understand that you didn't appreciate what was said to you, but how is spreading it around helping? If it was a horribly offensive thing in your eyes then the best thing to do is not to repeat it any further. In any case, I think that you've made your displeasure well known at this point. When a message is deleted then that should generally be the end of it. Otherwise players will bicker endlessly about personal issues.

Suppose that country A landgrabs country B and jumps in NW. Country B attempts to fight back but receives the "Your generals will not attack such a large opponent!" message. I understand that everything is mathematically fair but this mechanic has been a source of frustration for some players.

Thoughts on removing this restriction if there are recent attacks or failed harmful spy ops between the countries? In other words, country B can always attack or spy op country A if country A did at least one attack or one failed harmful spy op against country B in the previous 72 hours.

Just asking.

Yes, please make a post on B&S.

Should mod deleted posts remove bonus points from players? Vote in this thread!

Leave it to TAN to say something so horribly uncivil in the thread about civility =(

I did delete and edit a few posts already, but yes, I agree that we've been historically too lax on this.

Alliance Talk is for discussing the game. There is no legitimate purpose in bringing another player's personal information, family, race, religion, or other characteristics into any discussion. Criticizing an alliance or country is perfectly fine and expected. For example, it is permissible to say that an alliance isn't good at warring or netting, that they pact in a cowardly way, or any other type of game-related criticism. But you should avoid personal insults against other players.

Thank you for your cooperation.

This is roughly fourth on my list and would probably be included as part of change set 25 but I can't give any specific dates.

This will be fixed in a few days by updating the GDI help text.