I meant Bakku in his record 165,251,573 NW (Round 10 - sandcastles in the sand #173). What did he play as?

what strat did he play?

On a side note, does switching government types reduce your military readiness to like 50%? Or maybe I missed some spy ops that were done against me and just didn't spend the turns to get back up.

It was more for testing purposes really, since I had already seen the weak damage of AB's and didn't have enough jets for BR's. Plus this late in the set neither are really going to matter if your done building and spending turns right?

So is the ramp up even implemented in Primary servers? If so.. How many attacks do you need to do in a 24 hour period to see it happen? Is it even possible? Here is 61 successful GS attacks in 24 hours with fewer than 550,000 troops at any given time as his defense. Maybe I am missing what the ramp up is supposed to look like?

With a population of ~150,000 it would take me ~150 GS (~3 days as a Tyranny) to kill off all his population at 1000 civs killed per GS, considering he doesn't log back in and get more population by spending turns for three days.

Realistically, his population was back at full ~150,000 civs after the ~14 hour break in my attacks (sleep/school), and he got most of it back just doing attacks and spy ops against me..

2012-11-01 22:04:47 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1015C 3512 F
2012-11-01 22:04:24 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1020C 3529 F
2012-11-01 22:04:22 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1024C 3543 F
2012-11-01 22:03:09 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1029C 3561 F
2012-11-01 22:03:00 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH
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2012-11-01 22:02:29 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1045C 3618 F
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2012-11-01 22:02:23 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1064C 3683 F
2012-11-01 22:02:21 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1070C 3704 F
2012-11-01 22:02:20 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1077C 3727 F
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2012-11-01 22:02:18 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1090C 3773 F
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2012-11-01 22:02:11 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1105C 3825 F
2012-11-01 22:01:21 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1113C 3853 F
2012-11-01 22:01:10 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1120C 3877 F
2012-11-01 22:01:01 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH
2012-11-01 22:00:49 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH
2012-11-01 08:02:02 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 863C 336 F
2012-11-01 07:38:37 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH
2012-11-01 07:38:32 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 1001C 390 F
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2012-10-31 22:44:10 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 761C 3362 F
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2012-10-31 22:42:25 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 740C 542 F
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2012-10-31 22:42:05 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 749C 549 F
2012-10-31 22:42:04 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 752C 552 F
2012-10-31 22:42:03 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 756C 554 F
2012-10-31 22:42:02 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 759C 557 F
2012-10-31 22:42:00 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 762C 559 F
2012-10-31 22:41:59 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 766C 562 F
2012-10-31 22:41:58 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 769C 564 F
2012-10-31 22:41:52 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 773C 567 F
2012-10-31 22:37:22 EM BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 20063MU
2012-10-31 22:36:36 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 775C 277 F
2012-10-31 22:35:03 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 777C 278 F
2012-10-31 22:34:57 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 778C 278 F
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2012-10-31 22:34:12 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH
2012-10-31 22:33:25 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 781C 279 F
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2012-10-31 22:25:23 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH
2012-10-31 22:25:08 GS BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) DH

Looks like there is a limit to the amount that can stack or be done per 24 hours? After curing the six poison from those spy ops last night, he did 2 more this morning (2 hours short of a 24 hour period), which didn't seem to affect my country at all. I gained population before and after curing the 2 poisons today just spending turns cashing.

Is there a benefit to doing this Bio-Terrorism op over and over? Does it kill more population or last longer if you do more of these ops in a row? I figured that once their food supply was poisoned, doing it again would be pointless, and only put yourself at risk of backfire?

26.3 mins ago
msg me if you are new in game (#151) attempted to perform bioterrorism on your country! You killed 11060 enemy spies.

26.3 mins ago
Enemy operatives poisoned our water supplies! Only our scientists can save us now!

26.3 mins ago
Enemy operatives poisoned our water supplies! Only our scientists can save us now!

26.3 mins ago
Enemy operatives poisoned our water supplies! Only our scientists can save us now!

26.3 mins ago
msg me if you are new in game (#151) attempted to perform bioterrorism on your country! You killed 11267 enemy spies.

26.3 mins ago
Enemy operatives poisoned our water supplies! Only our scientists can save us now!

26.3 mins ago
Enemy operatives poisoned our water supplies! Only our scientists can save us now!

26.3 mins ago
Enemy operatives poisoned our water supplies! Only our scientists can save us now!

Save up 16 bonus points and get it for freeeeee before you start warring!

Just to be clearer in my position on it, I think that (1) AB damage is too low for everyone in Primary, and (2) AB damage seems to favor smaller countries in doing lots more damage against larger countries.

http://www.eestats.com/primary/country/7

(1) This guy has been hitting me for days now with AB's (switched to GS today) and I feel no threat of being leveled. Admittedly the first AB's hurt, but mostly because it destroyed a crap load of my CS. I went from 100 BPT to 45 BPT after just the first day of AB's. But since then he has mostly just been an annoyance, if not slightly helpful at this point in putting me into DR so these late game grabs/retals don't do much.

Day 1: 25 successful AB's = 4602 Buildings destroyed.
Day 2: 17 successful AB's = 1928 Buildings destroyed.
Day 3: 15 successful AB's = 2662 Buildings destroyed.

Total: 57 successful AB's = 9192 Buildings destroyed.
Average Buildings destroyed per AB = ~161 buildings.

At my ~26,000 acres (My land before his first AB's), it would of taken him around ~161 successful AB's (322 turns @ 2 turns each, 6.7 days average) at that constant rate to turn me into a parking lot, assuming I didn't log in and rebuild them.


(2) The smaller country kicks the crap out of the bigger one in damage done from what I can tell.

At his 11,000 acres (His land before my AB), it would of taken me around ~458 successful AB's (916 turns @ 2 turns each, 19 days average) at a constant rate of 24 buildings destroyed per AB to turn him into a parking lot, assuming he didn't log in and rebuild them.

This doesn't take into account for any ramp up effects, because I am not really sure how it works, nor have I seen any increase in buildings destroyed with the more AB's he sends per 24 hours. Actually to the contrary, the more attacks he sent per 24 hours the fewer buildings he seemed to destroy each time.

I know this math is probably not really all that accurate to the real formula, but its the best data I got to go on at the moment. Both of the time frames it would take to level the other country seem a bit too long in my opinion, even if they don't rebuild.

#151 told me that he would like your missiles to hit him. =D

I'm just gonna post this here because as a new player, I may not get what the Admins are trying to do fully here, but this did not seem right to me..

The Info as you requested, if I missed something please let me know:

2012-10-27 19:26:04 AB BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 24B
2012-10-27 19:24:35 CM BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 384B 20121 C
2012-10-27 19:24:33 CM BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 400B 23128 C
2012-10-27 19:24:31 CM BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 416B 26583 C
2012-10-27 19:24:24 NM BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 554A
2012-10-27 19:24:22 NM BigStickPolicy (#7) msg me if you are new in game (#151) 583A
2012-10-27 14:48:07 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) DH
2012-10-27 14:47:32 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) DH
2012-10-27 14:47:30 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) DH
2012-10-27 14:47:29 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 154B
2012-10-27 14:47:28 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 157B
2012-10-27 14:47:27 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 159B
2012-10-27 14:47:26 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 161B
2012-10-27 14:47:23 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 163B
2012-10-27 14:46:05 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) DH
2012-10-27 14:46:04 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 169B
2012-10-27 14:46:03 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 172B
2012-10-27 14:46:02 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 176B
2012-10-27 14:46:01 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 180B
2012-10-27 14:45:56 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 183B
2012-10-27 14:44:42 CM msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 810B 32444 C
2012-10-27 14:44:31 EM msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 66021MU
2012-10-27 14:44:30 EM msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 66658MU
2012-10-27 14:44:25 EM msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 67301MU
2012-10-27 14:43:48 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) DH
2012-10-27 14:43:47 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 190B
2012-10-27 14:43:46 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 194B
2012-10-27 14:43:45 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 198B
2012-10-27 14:43:38 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 202B
2012-10-27 14:43:09 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) DH
2012-10-27 14:42:47 AB msg me if you are new in game (#151) BigStickPolicy (#7) 204B

msg me if you are new in game (#151) Info:
Government: Theocracy
Land = 11,659 Acres
Enterprise Zones = 0
Residences = 0
Industrial Complexes = 535
Military Bases = 0
Research Labs = 0
Farms = 10,985
Oil Rigs = 0
Construction Sites = 95
Unused Lands = 44
Networth = $5,661,432
Tanks = 468,223 (WHEN I HIT)
Tanks = ~1,708,223 (WHEN HE HIT ME*)

My Country - BigStickPolicy (#7) Info:
Government: Democracy
Land = 27,322
Enterprise Zones = 399
Residences = 389
Industrial Complexes = 644
Military Bases = 19,944
Research Labs = 2224
Farms = 25
Oil Rigs = 8
Construction Sites = 138
Unused Lands = 3551
Networth = $9,673,315
Tanks = 1,274,390 (WHEN I HIT HIM AFTER PURCHASING 1Mil MORE)
Tanks = ~1,103,753 (WHEN HE HIT ME**)

*I totaled up his tanks from my spy report plus the tanks he lost attacking me with his AB, any other activity I can't see.

**I totaled up my tanks at login plus the tanks lost from his AB attacks, but did not add anything lost from the EM strikes.

*** When he hit me I was fully built with over 22k MB's except for 40 acres that were fee bonus acres. Also, When I logged off I was at about 11.5mil networth, but had military on the market, so maybe about ~10.5mil when he hit me, I don't really know for sure. All buildings and networths above are after his hits.

As for special attacks, he hit me with 15 out of 21 AB's and 3 EM's and 1 CM (if those count). I hit him with 2 NM and 3 CM before sending my 1 AB, then trying 1 Bomb Buildings spy op, but I only got 9 buildings destroyed out of that..

Then I said to myself, "This is doing nowhere near the damage he is doing to me per hit." Its taking me 3 turns (Demo) attacking to do just over half a turn of damage to him just rebuilding. He is doing 3-4 turns of damage just rebuilding to me while spending 2 turns attacking. A country with ~42.67% of my land size and 58.53% of my networth is destroying ~6.42 times the buildings on his worst hits and ~8.5 times on his best hits..

EDIT:
That worked! I am only off by about $900 total now, but I will assume some rounding rounding errors are to blame. I forgot I had military on the market as well which doesn't show up in the adviser page, but it is still calculated into your costs per turn until sold.

Maybe I calculated it wrong, but I got different numbers trying to use that formula also..

Dont forget the lower tech prices too! :(

This is probably a dumb question, but I have never done a full MB build before. What does a reseller do with their turns? Other than use them to put stuff on the Public Market and build I guess, do they cash them or maybe explore?

All I know, is I have had way to many earthquakes this reset.. XD

Let me rephrase that question. At about what amount of turrets does it become more costly to land grab my 30k acres than what you would get on the returns.

Lets assume they are already roughly at 45k+ acres of land, and the returns are about 1000 acres (2000 Ghost Acres). Assuming no stock, so money/food/tech gained is not important.

Currently with my ~11mil turrets, when I get grabbed from these guys they lose around 1.1 million jets for the gains mentioned above.

I am curious to know how much do I have to make them lose in the attacks so that the smart ones at least maybe decide not to grab me based on a cost/benefit perspective.

And what amount of turrets should I have to keep that 30k land from being taken by the top 20 guys?

Could be useful to someone trying to figure out how well the luck bonus works based on how early their goods arrive on the market. There are not many things to screw up other than documenting the time the goods were sent and the time they arrived.

If what I was told is correct, someone who invests heavily into the luck bonus should often see their goods arrive earlier in that 2 hour window rather than later.

[quote poster=OneMansArmy; 20759; 383273][quote poster=OneMansArmy; 20759; 383271]

fluff, I forgot I need to keep my own at home as well!

Mine didn't work nearly as well..

Your agents destroyed 3279 of your enemy's jets! x(
Spied the military after to make sure it was at home too..

Was this number combined from all your attacks? lol
Spied his military right after to make sure it was at home.

Your agents destroyed 3279 of your enemy's jets! x(

Yeah, but now I have some raw numbers to put into perspective since I know my defense ally's relative military. =D

I was wondering how effective that spy op would be.
Thanks for the info! =D

I could be wrong, but I think that guy who just hit you KoHearts is part of the message me for help crew. He holds two alliances with the one I am launching missiles at.

And I apologize for my attack on you earlier in the set, go easy on me, I am fairly new around here! xD

#151 is Defense leaching off his two clan buddies while he piles up jets. While they leach off his research alliance when they are Indy and Farmer builds. He keeps just enough military so that his allies double his defensive strength.

So, it's cool if friends ally together and leach off each other, but they just cant do coordinated kill runs right?

As was told to me last reset, you probably shouldn't attack players who are able to retaliate. It sucks, but you have to keep track of everyone's networth who you have grabbed and stay well enough above them to not get a retal from them.

Depending on if I am having a good set, or if I am currently in a scuffle with someone, I may go out of my way to retal a country who grabbed me earlier if they cant stay out of my range. If you are not double my networth or more after grabbing me, expect a retal down the road sometime..

Message sent, he lost another chunk of land, units, and population. All 15 of my missiles hit their mark!

I am about to give one of those message me morons my own welcome to primary messages for retaling a retal. Fool grabs me when he is at 12mil and I am at 9mil, then lets himself sink down to 9 mil by selling off all his jets. I grab him back when I am at 12mil, he spends the whole wad to purchase jets again just to grab me back again.. I top off my SDI levels tonight and he gets to eats my missiles for the rest of the set.

Being fairly new to this I also looked around and couldn't find any battle calculators to my liking. So after much research on formulas I came up with my own that has worked pretty well for me so far. I think it is fairly accurate, however I welcome anyone with more knowledge to check out the calculations and let me know if I messed up somewhere. Also if you have any questions or comments you can PM them or reply here.

https://docs.google.com/...V5UUllQ09rTi0xME9aaUFLdnc

It is in a spreadsheet format and I uploaded it to Google Drive as a Public document, so it can be viewed, but not edited. You would need to download your own copy via the File > Download as menu and choose what file type you want to save it as to edit/use it.


PS: I have the Chance multiplier set at 110% in addition to sending 110% over defense. So I am probably sending 120% over defense just to be safe, in case I made a small calculation error somewhere. Also, there are five copies of the same battle calculator because you can send out five brigades and sometimes I like to plan them all out first.

PPS: The Destock calculator page was thrown together in the past few days from input I could find on here and on the wiki, its kind of a work in progress still, so I welcome help me there as well if you have suggestions or comments!

Yeah, my stocking as a techer pretty much didn't happen at this point, at all.. Everything I made went into military to protect the land I grabbed, which still wasn't enough to ward off some grabs from the top guys on me this set.

I am considering just going reseller if military prices improve just to practice the whole private market deal. I never really used the private market before except to sell stuff in an emergency cash situation or at the very start..

Someone else may have a better strategy, but if Player A was within my attacking range, I would fire Cruise Missiles first to both lower his military forces and readiness. Then hit him with a land grab (or multiple if your big enough). Followed up by the Chems and Nukes after your done grabbing. Reason for the Chems and Nukes last is so you don't damage the buildings/land before you make your grabs.

My take on it was you are both Burning (Destroying) and "In addition", Capturing (Stealing) your enemy's reserves. My guess is your spy's can burn a lot more than they can steal.

Wonder why that is in place.. Looking at the Wiki about resellers says it requires multiple logins per day and excellent market knowledge. But then you get penalized for being logged in by your private market not regenerating as fast.. Seems odd to me, but I have only been back to this game for a short while now.

According to the spy op Help text it does!

"Raid Oil Reserves - Oil is an essential commodity for any nation-state who wishes to engage in war. By burning small pockets of these reserves, you can slowly diminish an opponent's ability to conduct effective war campaigns. In addition, your operatives will capture a small portion of your enemy's reserves. "

Raid Food Stores, Bomb Banks, and Espionage also capture portions of their respective goods.

I don't think you currently can grab oil.. But that brings up the question.. Why not? If you can grab buildings, food, money, and technology, why would oil be the only thing shielded from land grabs?

How does the private restock work exactly? Does it go faster when your not logged into your country?

As my second full reset back (both techers) I can't say much other than it seems to be harder to stockpile money this time around even though I got roughly the same amount of land as last set after about 30 days.

Get him good! I wonder if we will see more warring than last set.

looks like he returned fire!

Way too many farmers, like 70% of my land grabs so far have been against farmers..

And this is why I try to attack countries only once per set.. You never know just how crazy the persons running the countries your attacking really are until its too late.

Soo what I am getting from this is.. You would rather be hit by a country who doesn't send his intentions not to attack again unless provoked.. You prefer getting hit and continuing to wonder if they will hit you again even if you let it go?

I have also been getting the GDI bonus so it is free, how does that rank up there?

Anyone know if the luck bonus affects this percentage?

Also, I usually use the in game search to make sure their net didn't change from the spy-op just before sending each attack.

More or less, you got it. As opposed to hitting multiple times because they were land fat, or farming for a few days because the returns were good. It is like a notice saying the single attack was a standard land grab (which is basically necessary to win this game), and not an attempt to start a war. However, if retaliation is done, may void the above statement about not getting hit again.

Sounds similar to what I send some of my targets after hitting them. Basically saying 1) I don't plan to hit you again if you let it go and 2) Good luck the rest of the round.