- the cheap tanks on the market. Please stop enabling my addiction. They are like cookies or underaged prostitutes - I know I shouldn't, but I just cannot help myself.

Remove the cap altogether but let earthquakes eat a lot of cash and turn corruption rates into a higher log progressive tax rate. That way, we would have to figure out the best balance of cash/food stock and timing. Those that solve it first - win.

nice

This surely spells the beginning of the rise of the Rainbow!

305.2 hours and counting . . . you need to kiss your ISP and your electric company. I can't keep the lights happily blinking around here for a day, much less 2 weeks.

(I prolly jinxed you!)

Yeah, that was a face-palm moment for me when I saw it in the news. Its fun trying to get MKR off of everybodies fluff list, a new adventure everyday. Kids.

- so tempted to trash SOF - meh, the mob of unruly children has done it well enough for themselves for years

I am sure that if they decide to do it, it would be implemented with some thought, i.e. only allowing 25% of your bushels on the market at a time or slowing the private market recharge so that destocking is a longer process.

The point is, set after set the formulas are the same and most of the artistry has been removed from netgaining. Thats why I would like to see the production formulas randomized a bit so that nobody knew exactly what they were dealing with until a few days into the set.

Dave could become the 'external market force' on the economy, randomly moving the benefits around from set to set. I bet a +/- 10% randomizing factor would not even be that hard to write into the game.

I only recently came back after almost a year off - where did MD go? I was ready to jump in and say that MD was as old as SOL, then I realized they were not here anymore.

/me thinks perhaps danzig needs to up his medication a bit - and quit posting on the forums while you are driving.

I sent you a PM servant, I am not in the FA dept, but I am in here a lot and I can get you a contact in the ICN Site if you afraid of Kuari (which is understandable, she bites too hard).

Except for that little in game tantrum you threw when I pwned your ass . . .

;p

I agree with what eric said that devaluing farmers would tend to bias against war tags.

Also, as it stands, the inefficiency inherent in destocking penalizes cashers. With the ability to hoard cash cashing would become a much more efficient netting strat. Sure, hoarding cash is risky, but a casher that slips through the cracks with his hoard intact is likely to be a jauggernaut.

The devaluing of food would also drive many farmers into teching (especially among war tags) which would lower tech prices and remove the other major check/ballance against cashers - the need to buy twice as much tech as farmers.

Right now, earth is a bushel based economy, deregulating cash will likely change that. On the upside, there is no reason not to play around with it for a set and see what happens. Who knows what could happen, all that cash may drive mil prices up and suddenly the commie-indy is a viable strat again. Go for it I say.

Forgotten, you are the biggest idiot in here, and you cannot do math either.

Did anybody see the top-feed of the year?

I think the 2B bug should be randomly altered each set.

;p

Actually though, I have said for years that the food-cash-indy-tech-oil production formulas should be tweaked (just a few percent) each set to help spread the wealth a bit. The best netters would still usually end up on top, but robotically following the herd would not guarantee a top 50 finish anymore.

ah, Dukey - dammit you broke the seal

2.0 days without a post on the Team forum

ohh, can I say it too?

BC is down

On-ramps are for getting onto the interstate, people go fast on the interstate, you should probably look for a merging opportunity while still on the ramp, you should try to approximate interstate speed while traversing the ramp, on-ramps are NOT for abruptly stopping and trying to figure all of this out.

All of the right of way rules are clearly laid out in your drivers handbook: follow them, they are there for a reason. Please do not yield the right of way to be nice to somebody, even (especially) if that somebody is me. The rest of us are not mind readers and your kindness is as likely to get me killed as it is to save me 10 seconds.

If you can read the fine print on my license plate and you are not an astronaut or super hero - you will be getting a healthy dose of my brake lights VERY soon.

Those things on the side of your car, right in front of the windows, those are called mirrors. Use them, they are 10 trillion times more useful then the thing hanging from your windsheild that is pretending to be a mirror.

If it is too big for you to successfully park within the confines of a regular parking space on the VERY FIRST attempt, sell it and buy something you can park.

If you pass me 18 times on a 50 mile stretch of road, please understand that its not ME that is speeding up, answering the phone and slowing down, then speeding up, then slowing down, then spe- oh you get the fluffing point. Most new cars have cruise control, I use mine - learn to use yours or at glance at your speedometer occasionally.

rofl at 'experienced players'

what other kind are there anymore?

i am not even sure Dibs even plays anymore

as for forgotten - his signature says it all, he spends all day tying to put the crayons back in their respective boxes and then he comes on here and trashes people to make himself feel better.

phew, I suspected, opened in a different tab, heard it, killed it - barely escaped with my life

when did pedobear get webbed feet?

this is the thread that never ends,
it just goes on and on and ooooooooon!

- and he is gone again -

/me waves bye to Pala

you know you wanna . . .

be a bad influence, succumb to peer pressure, be the 'Mod gone wild'

MKR officially introduces the 72 day retal window. Please have your FA notify us of the country number of all players that have hit us within the last 2 sets so we can schedule a retal at our convenience. Advance notification of planned strat switched, destocking schedules, or baych explores would also be appreciated. Thanks you for your support.

i thought i was yer biznitch

must not sleep clowns will eat me . . .
must not sleep clowns will eat me . . .
must not sleep clowns will eat me . . .

rofl at Dave,

THAT was funny,

thanks.

There are a lot more then 2 gay women golfers . . .

fail

ebay FTW!

I am beginning to think that Forgotten has a 'random stupid comment' generator.

Its a sad day when a troll makes Dibs look good.

ICN has way more chicks then the LaF snake pit. We have a pretty good mix of war and netting. Not too many hardcore netters for you to get lost among - but enough to give you some in house competition and some attention from leadership.

If not ICN, then LCN is a pretty stable house with good people.

I refuse dignify this thread just to artificially inflate my post count.

Doh, dammit.

holy schizzle, I think that 'Arcadia #481' might have been me. Pre-tag random server FTW!

I might be wrong, but Arcadia was one of the country names I used a lot, and I remember the proto-alliance movement.

Nice find.

nobody really had a lot to gain by killing off the prez of Poland. A guy flying a POS plane in crappy weather into an airport he had never flown into at night; a bunch of trees that probably should have been trimmed but nobody ever got around to it; I can only imagine that the Russian version of a navigational beacon system is comprised of . . .

tragic, but not terribly shocking

As far as we are concerned MKR and MKR2 are seperate entities sharing boxcar resources. However, we do consider one-another to be similar to what used to be an FDP. So, in a time of war, or to deal with agregeous suiciding, we reserve the right to call in allies for aid. Obviously we reserve the right to police or be policed for by any ally upon request and public notification.

To date that has not been required and we do not anticipate that it would, but we reserve the right to kill off h4's suiciding affiliates as a unit if needed.

For ordinary retals, it will never be considered again.

CROSS RETALING IS GONE.

I don't think the team server is ruined, it is just a pretty limited scope application. '5' implies friends - but not too many friends. Right now it is too easy to ruin a tags set on the team server with a pretty minimal effort.

I don't want to see 1A come back, once RD left all the land went with them - during the last few sets, 1A was getting pretty scrawny. If anything, I think they should consider scaling the game back to 2-3 servers. The extra servers = extra confusion and not much increase in user base.

sounds like an in-game I recieved after I did a retal and caught 6 ROR in return. Classy.

Dude, they had no intention of letting any of the former coalition tags get strong enough to be a risk to them this set. as long as we are fighting off the OTRag, teamAB, unleashed, and others all set - they can net in peace.

Hit me up on ICQ if you get a chance, or shoot me a pm in boxcar.

pffft we have WAY better fonts then they do . . .

This place needs more dead zombies.

and boobies, a lot more boobies.



. . . actually some chicks WOULD be kinda nice, earth has always been a sausage factory - but this has gotten worse then a chess club. We are spreading galleri p-r-e-t-t-y thin here . . .

It was a good one though, I remember waaaay back when I started playing. I was at Marshall U and played in the COS computer lab with about 10-15 other MU players. We all played primary and got into a war with a bunch of guys from Virginia Tech. We all had 'herd' or 'hokie' or some derivation in our country names because there were no tags. We did not know how to kill (not sure you even could in 97), we all ran rainbows, and it was the most fun I ever had playing this game.

Even today, I think kids would jump that fluff in a heartbeat.

Remember, farmville and mafia wars have no graphics either. We are not competing against HALO here, all we really need to do is get the product in front of enough eyes. My concern is that the game may be too complex for casual users.

never mind, its been handled.

We need to have a chat

Archaic
202694139
or PM in here.

Forgotten, that goes both ways.

The consequences of our bad foreign policy was that we got obliterated last set and lost half our members. We did not bring it across the set, you did. This is the second time Pangea has referenced the 'war plans this set',
so our defeat last set and captitulation this set was not sufficient to avert the war? So be it.

The patronizing pointing out of a typo was a nice touch.

Niether of the 2 MKR tags (MKR and MKR2) will be cross retalling this set. Period, you won - we lost, we are not going to cross retal. Clear enough for you?

We do, however, reserve the right to call in allies (including but not limited to the other MKR tags) to kill suiciders.

Attacks/Retals are as follows:
1/1
2/3
3/5
4/farm
5+/farm or kill

ROR will be 2/1, second ROR will be farm-kill

So, the question is, are we going to honor the retal polices of tags that don't bother to post them? As that seems to be the standard we are being held to, I am assuming that is the new server policy - correct?

There was no 24 hour news cycle in the 70-80s. CNN et. al has changed everything about how foreign policy is done.

he should start autographing their heinys with a sharpy when he is done.

'Natalie, thinks for hole in one'
Tiger #477

He could start gunning for Wilts record.

Its a hell of a lot better game then Mafia Wars. I think there will be a LOT of nostalgic gen-x'ers like myself that will remember what it is and come back for a peek.

I wish Pan could figure out a way to get the rights to the name 'Earth 2025' in the marketing plan. At one time or another there have probably been several hundred thousand people who have played the game. This thing COULD have a lot of inertia if the chips fell right.