I don't use apple or windows calculator.

Google is a good one, because you can edit the formula and double check if you entered a number wrong. It's the same thing with using a spreadsheet. It honestly takes longer to load Open Office or Excel (and you need to have the file too) than to type the formula. It doesn't have any chance of a mistake any more or less than entering numbers in a spreadsheet.

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I have 99.27% attack success. The fails are almost always because I sent a SS instead of a PS, or the target came online at the same time I hit.

It's a bit random. There seems to be a random factor to it, giving a range of 3-5% losses, on top of the modifiers such as the attacker's strategy tech(?), defender's medical tech, and the NW ratio between the 2 countries, and the 2 countries weapons tech.

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Most of my fails is that I forget an input: (govt bonus, weapon bonus, my own wep tech, etc...)

I rush through it a lot, sometimes you see me grab countries seconds apart, lol :)

bonus

Beware Gingers will steal your soul

My attack success is ranked #9 and it's 98.29% which I doubt is a real statistical departure from anyone rated higher. Was 65/66 last set (one guy jumped when I attacked), and was 69/69 the set before that, etc etc, I had 4 fails in my first set that probably drag me down.

Does this mean you're attacking blind?

I have the file on Google Drive and while I was in Nigeria last week used Google Sheets in lieu of Excel. Didn`t have my dual screen though :( Having to tab between screens was a drag.

On an iPhone I screenshot my ops so I don't forget the bonus%, or ally country #'s, and just swap back and forth to my calculator. It's easy enough to just plug the #'s into a calculator instead of a spreadsheet. Even if I do have a comp available I use my phone now. I'm just used to it.

Blid: No, it's not what I was saying.

Let's say that you spy on some guy and both D allies are outside 1/4 range.
You can't spy them, so I have to guess what their turret equivalent count is, and I use a conservative estimate of 0.7 T/ NW, unless logic indicates otherwise... (Such as them performing topfeeds or whatever...)

Ah, it's for that, then. I thought you were saying you did it to begin with on the actual target itself. Yeah, it's not bad to make conservative estimates on d-allies because it's divided by 4 anyway. I like when I have saved ops to help me with that. I save every op and wish I could just set them to save by default instead of having to click the save disk by every country.

SECONDED!

That's true.

Sometimes though if the D sucks and he's got a 100SPAL I just double him up and PS away.
I mean, the difference between like 1.3M and 1.5M isn't worth the headache.

It's a judgement call...

EDIT: The rule of 0.7T/NW only applies to non-repubs and also those who don't have a 0 SPAL. From the data that I've collected high spal reduces the T / NW below 0.7T/NW 99% of the time. I hope it makes sense... can't always put it in words lol.

Speaking of calculations...I just calculated my hours of work this week, and it seems I've worked 85 hours in one week...well actually in 6 days, as Wednesday I got a day off and slept all day. Lol

My paycheck is going to have a lot of OT on it. lmao!!!

BTW, go Seahawks!!! What an annihilation.

This set totally sucks to be a farmer. I've been waiting for he price of bushels to go to a reasonable level for a month now :(

The wait's always a month, isn't it? Then techers start stocking and cashers start rising and food prices hopefully go up.

In that case, every set must suck to be a farmer :(

Nah cuz then prices can go quite high.

In about 1 hour would be good.

Note: the first $39 bushels appeared at 20:21:29. Now they are at $45 and going up :)

Good! I'm fkn dying here lol

ppl gona start stocking , so naturally bushels are gonna go up.

i use excel to do my attacks.. unless i am on the road.. i use my phone.. which most of the time makes me DH.. @#$%

blid : 98%++ hit breaks/success ? WTF..

That's good news!

Well, at least for me and the farmers. :)

Man seems like every 9k guy I fix to grab has like 600k spies and I lose 100k spies trying to spy on them a few times.

yeah i loose loads of turns on ops too..

what would be a good ratio to keep indy for non indy strat?

10%

Blid: exactly.

Im pumping spies out of over 3k fukn idies and I still have a fluff SPAL.
No wonder people are MTing every freakin target with low SPAL....

What I hate is all the good CIs just go straight to the top. The rest of the commies are rainbows or farmers or oilers. I try to find a CI to hit to get some indies and they have messed up countries.

There are lots of very sad farms around :(

Hey Getafix, how much have you been selling your food? Especially yesterday,.

Crest, It's really not so bad to build your own if you've got the economy.

For me it's defenetly not a monetary issue, I could run 5k indies but that wouldn't change the fact that half the countries in the 3M-5M range have a 60SPAL. It's also impossible to maintain that kind of SPAL when spying on 3-4 people a day + allies... So the natural convergence point is between 15 - 25 SPAL depending on luck even with 10% indies.

What's also interesting to me is that their ridiculous SPAL is preventing them from running a successful country. You cant prosper if you are losing -$1M/turn on 8k acres with barely any tech at all... And they keep generating more and more spies because they don't grab/spy/etc...

=[[

None. But I have a lot of turns saved up. I am an ever hopeful farmer

I've even seen a couple indy techers. Makes me scratch my head

Commies have a tech effectiveness bonus, lots of new people think that makes them the best gov type for teching

[12:36:14] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:31 -- Bushels -- $40 -- 7,800,000 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 0 Bushels
[12:36:16] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:33 -- Bushels -- $42 -- 6,628,323 -- Asking: $36 -- Trend: UP (was $40)
[12:36:18] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:35 -- Bushels -- $42 -- 5,527,756 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 1,100,567 Bushels
[12:36:19] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:35 -- Bushels -- $42 -- 1,100,567 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 0 Bushels
[12:36:21] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:39 -- Bushels -- $45 -- 2,782,897 -- Asking: $36 -- Trend: UP (was $42)
[12:36:26] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:42 -- Bushels -- $45 -- 1,429,432 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 1,353,465 Bushels
[12:36:27] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:42 -- Bushels -- $45 -- 1,353,465 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 0 Bushels
[12:36:28] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:44 -- Bushels -- $49 -- 1,000,000 -- Asking: $36 -- Trend: UP (was $45)
[12:36:29] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:46 -- Bushels -- $49 -- 1,000,000 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 0 Bushels
[12:36:32] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:49 -- Bushels -- $50 -- 20,499,999 -- Asking: $36 -- Trend: UP (was $49)
[12:36:33] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:50 -- Bushels -- $50 -- 10,000,000 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 10,499,999 Bushels
[12:36:34] <Market> Feb/05/2014 04:36:50 -- Bushels -- $50 -- 530,573 -- SO: No -- Remaining: 9,969,426 Bushels


Someone is too rich!! pushing those bushels prices up like this.. $1.28b

10% is only good enough for the first 3-4 weeks of the set, after that you'll need at least 12-14%, sadly. Losing spies in a downward spiral. The more spies you lose, the worse your SPAL becomes, the worse your SPAL becomes, the more ops you fail, the more spies you lose.

Looks like a big techer started stockin'

Big techer, say 30k acres. Techs 54 turns and sells it all. That's 10,100 * 54 = 545k, * $1800 = $981m. So he could make $1.28b in almost just one day. Of course the amount that can be sold depends on how much the country had already.

However, it would be quite foolish to buy any $50 food. Just leave an SO out and keep picking up cheap stuff...

Its organic food mate. Plus fresh lobster, coffee, chocolate.. and soon there will be caviar and vodka. Don't be so cheap, you guys are rich!

I had to buy some 50 food. I'm pretty limited in my times to log in. Can't wait for an SO.

getafix runnin a farmer ehh hehe

I was talking about whoever did a food buyout, and apparently included 35m $50 bushels in the buyout. If I read that market paste out correctly.

That's just dumb to stock at 50 and not use SOs.....Im not huge and I make 500 million per 12 hour rotation so 1 billion isnt hard to believe daily.

Demo farmer attempting to bring up food prices on his own?

EFF ME! I entered an SO for $123 jets.. but I clicked bushels...

I got lucky and bought @ $ 41

LATC: On the bright side, food prices aren't $122 :p

Are you dumb? He would have bought all the food for <123 until he ran out of cash...

eManny's post makes perfect sense...

You should see my spy news, and my spal isn't all that tough either.

I've got a 30 spal and fail lots. So over 30 would be best...lol

30 was sufficient in previous sets. Seems every few sets you gotta go higher and higher. I won't push much higher than 30 though. I need to spend those turns anyways, and I'd rather not have to produce more spies to get a few more 5 acre explore turns.

I wonder if they tweaked the spy coding, cuz ya it seems like its harder to break now for some reason, I don't even have much spy tech, 105% and spal of about 25 maybe less.

It's weird, some days I get through on the first attempt for 30+ spal guys, other days I can't break a guy w/ 10 spal for a few turns.