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Aug 23rd 2010, 3:21:12

Originally posted by Corfu:

LOL @ Slagpit.

I still think making land a marketable commodity (i.e. you can sell it on the public market - just like in real life!) would bring much vitality back in the game (although it would change the way the game is played, no doubt!)

I like it.

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Aug 23rd 2010, 3:12:32

got hit by the same two ... and a message from one claiming to be a random missler and from the second (his ally) claiming to be the wrong number on a kingme hit.

While I was in the top five, its interesting since I've got no stockpile, and am no threat to finish in the top twenty.

Would be interested in knowing which country is his...

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Aug 22nd 2010, 18:12:01

Originally posted by Grimm:

Originally posted by Rufus:

However your second part of the idea has merit. Ok, country country retals but nuke retals are also acceptable. How's that?

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

the purpose of retals is to deter grabs on your tag, not to create land.

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Aug 22nd 2010, 17:42:06

Originally posted by Popcom:

well if you are against swearing and turn it off, then you are a retard and your opinion REALLY doesn't count lol

or a troll ...

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Aug 22nd 2010, 17:41:10

We retal buildings:buildings, not land:land.

If you grab one of our members running a techer, we will retal until we get every single lab back.

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Aug 22nd 2010, 15:41:55

popcom: only when you've got the mother fluffing swear filter turned on ... fluffer

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Aug 22nd 2010, 15:25:38

back in the day in-game coordination between allies was always allowed. But I've been away for 7 years, so I'm not sure what the rules are these days.

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Aug 22nd 2010, 15:03:25

when I was a mod, the policy would've been to delete the posts, but I haven't been a mod in a long time.

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Aug 22nd 2010, 1:28:07

just to hypothetical stats of one of this game's many governments. Move along, nothing to see here...

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Aug 21st 2010, 22:57:50

set up a few hundred or so server run bot countries. Have these countries run missile boat explore strats, but give a random factor for a large number of them suiciding on any one who over grabs them. Say a single tap has a 1/5 chance of a single missile response, and say a 1/100 chance of multiple missile strikes, and 1/1000 of several of these countries attacking, and 1/10000 chance of a kill run.

Double taps double the risk of response, triple taps square it, quadruple taps cube it, etc.

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Aug 21st 2010, 17:42:10

enshula: does that include the cost of replacing military units?

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Aug 20th 2010, 22:36:00

I take more land from you with a single grab than you can get from me in one retal.

It's basically sour grapes that the land trade wasn't equal.

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Aug 20th 2010, 20:48:18

HAN was a shadow of its former self in FoG.

Fog grew out of the wreckage of RoCK and its allies.

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Aug 20th 2010, 18:19:56

Originally posted by Ruthie:

You know what assuming does, dont you ?

ruthie, never said that I was making the assumption...

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Aug 20th 2010, 16:23:18

I see no problem with this.

When you add in military and building losses, you're not gaining a whole heck of a lot.

Mr. Lime: Fair or not, with RD, the assumption will always be that the same person is running both land trading countries.

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Aug 19th 2010, 2:03:33

y'all look a little upTITANS

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Aug 15th 2010, 22:55:36

alliances not that much bigger than Elysium have successfully fought LaF in the past.

A group led by a guy named maggots comes to mind.

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Aug 14th 2010, 1:56:51

if anything, there don't seem to be enough indies or resellers right now in express. Too many cashers, not enough Theos.

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Aug 13th 2010, 22:46:21

farming sucks in express.

cashing is the way to go, and don't worry about growing food, with all those cheap bushels on the market : )

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Aug 13th 2010, 18:08:54

The thing that seperates this game from a lot of others is the combination of politics, human interaction, and the market economy.

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Aug 13th 2010, 17:50:37

I used rocketmail when I first started playing. Long gone.

Don't remember a hotmail restriction.

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Aug 13th 2010, 13:29:12

I'd be willing to FA food for leeching tech : )

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Aug 13th 2010, 13:21:45

it's not just about the time to build up the offense to make the retal. It's also about timing the hit to avoid DR and do the most damage possible to the offending party. Retaliation isn't a deterrent unless you make it hurt.

As far as threats go, any time you change a standard and attempt to enforce something more stringent, there will be blow back. Especially in an environment where several alliances would rather fight than netgain. The only question is, will the alliance(s) you engage have the firepower to hurt you.

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Aug 13th 2010, 4:17:21

never heard of these "old alliances" except for forest, but I remember them being a spam clan.

--edit need to do a better job of reading - apologies to cartoon.

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Aug 13th 2010, 4:13:46

if enough people grab them they won't be able to retal. But I'm not gonna be one of them

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Aug 13th 2010, 4:12:39

Originally posted by Pang:

not me... I don't even try at the game anymore

I run spy countries and kill team countries to help keep the other laffers safe :p

countries plural? ; p

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Aug 13th 2010, 4:10:49

agri tech I has it

Edited By: ponderer on Aug 14th 2010, 17:18:04
See Original Post

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Aug 11th 2010, 16:00:45

and sell some turrets while you at it. to me. for cheap.

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Aug 11th 2010, 15:13:06

Nasjym : it had nothing to do with that. pretty much every alliance that was strong enough to enforce a landgrab policy had access to a news database long before 72 hours became the standard.

72 hours also gives time for a target to come out of DR for even retals.

In my opinion, the retal window is 48 hours after the guy who got hit logged in and saw it. Of course, I'm just a foot soldier, and have no role in setting policy : )

Edited By: ponderer on Aug 11th 2010, 15:17:51
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Aug 11th 2010, 15:10:25

48 hours is superior if you're a land grabbing alliance. 72 hours is superior if you're getting grabbed. If you have the might to set policies to your advantage, and to enforce them, then you set it to what benefits you the most.

Only downside of aggressive landgrab and retal policies: they tend to start wars. I don't say that as a representative of my alliance, or as a threat, just as an observation.

Edited By: ponderer on Aug 11th 2010, 15:20:00
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Aug 10th 2010, 0:50:58

Earth Watcher, long time no see! When can I expect a top ten list?

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Aug 9th 2010, 18:23:49

Confirmed. Sort of. Maybe. Maybe not.

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Aug 8th 2010, 22:52:28

a true conservative believes that the government has no business telling people who can and cannot get married. If the government recognizes any marriage, then it should recognize all marriages.

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Aug 8th 2010, 22:05:55

the laws state exactly that. And in the eyes of the state government a "civil union" is equal to a "marriage". But that doesn't stop non-state governmental entities, or for that matter entities outside of my state from not following that law. In practice the civil union ends up being seperate but equal in the same sense that the segregated schools were separate but equal.

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Aug 8th 2010, 21:44:01

Originally posted by Abbadon:

So why is it that gays want so badly to identify themselves with those roles? I mean really; is acceptance not allowing others to do their own thing and you doing your own thing? Why is it such a big deal for gays to force themselves into the married realm. Go to a justice of the peace, sign a civil union agreement, put on wedding rings, no one will ask why, and just do your own thing. Don't force your ideas under the same umbrella as mine. I won't try and force gays to be straight. I won't paint stripes on a horse and make you call it a zebra. Don't be a gay couple and try to make me call you a "wife and wife" or "man and man", it is different and that is fine. Don't try to make me accept it as normal when it is outside of the norm. No malice, but if you have gay pride be proud of doing your own thing and leave others to do their own thing.

I live in a civil union state. My mother in law and step mother in law have a civil union. And yet in many hospitals one would be barred from visiting the other because the hospital does not consider a civil union mate as "family"

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Aug 8th 2010, 21:38:21

plenty on facebook that is far more graphic sexually then what is posted on these forums. How many people on farmville line their avatars up behind sheep? This forum was very vanilla when I was a moderator, and appears to have continued in that vein.

As far as parents are concerned, they should be supervising their kids on the internet. If you let the internet raise your children, then they will find sexually graphic content. And if your belief structure is that your gay children should be forced to live a heterosexual life and be miserable, the internet has plenty to dissuade them of that.

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Aug 8th 2010, 21:31:04

A-Roid, not A-Fraud. Get it straight.

but still, it wasn't banned by baseball when he was caught doing it (and atleast 15%) of the league was caught at the same time. Heck everyone probably takes HGH.

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Aug 7th 2010, 20:05:16

deerhunter, #?

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Aug 6th 2010, 16:28:53

Originally posted by Ivan:

Actually in the last couple of years MD and SoF were closer and kept warring together while Omega pacted out time after time again

but join the traitors!

fluffFF!

weeeeeeeeee

wow, someone's bitter...

what happened, helmet made you touch his ... helmet?

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Aug 6th 2010, 15:13:44

Originally posted by de1i:

RD isn't the one who declared war over the 1:kill policy its people like yourself that did. I'm pretty sure RD wouldn't shed too many tears if you guys gave up on your crusade.

Then the game wouldn't be fun for them. If they were left alone, ala TGA in the old days, the game would get boring in a hurry. But then again, if one provocation doesn't work, I'm sure another will. And failing that, there are always the bots.

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Aug 6th 2010, 13:56:31

I'm proof that anyone can clear $75 mil networth ... But I've never been in LaF. They rejected my application.

Join Omega! We're not elitist basterds! And we can teach netgaining too!

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Aug 5th 2010, 8:57:22

Omega still has a MUD : )
If you don't mind me asking, who were you 10 years ago?

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Aug 5th 2010, 1:27:39

Hi guys.

Rage are giving it a go on our own this set.

All pacts will be signed through me and me only=)
If anyone wants a pact, hit me up on AIM: otrapartian

FA contact is me, another emergency contact will be posted once the set starts.

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Aug 4th 2010, 19:22:08

Originally posted by TheORKINMan:

Everyone was doing it while running around pointing fingers at others for doing it and using the excuse within their inner circle that everyone else is doing it so we have to do it to in order to compete.

Asside from my first week playing earth in 1998 (and those two countries had zero interaction), I never ran more than 1 country, never logged into anyone else's country, and nobody else logged into my country. And anyone I caught in an alliance I was involved in got the boot. Not everyone did it, just the (for lack of better term), the wankers who felt the need to justify the cheating to themselves.

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Aug 4th 2010, 16:00:24

Originally posted by rpottage:

Originally posted by ponderer:

what's this "NG" thing? No comprendo

Netgain

what's that? I mean if earn more than I spend it's a "net gain," but what does that have to do with this war game?

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