remember the days where one bad hit could start a real war...

the days when you listened to the leaders every single word in hopes of winning the upcoming war

the secrecy of building for the FS, hoping to not be discovered and become the target of the FS...


just some thoughts, have a great set all.

That type of gameplay is still possible; however, it would require people to not conform to arbitrary limitations and pacting every alliance.

The lack of player versus player interaction is a complete turn-off on the alliance server, which is why I don’t play it anymore.

I agree 100%. Now everything has to be an arranged war. Total BS in my book. Bring back the days of yore.

Remember when there were more than 3 clans with more than 10 members? Remember when 1/3 of the players weren't suiciders? Right now we have two options for a "surprise buttseks" war - Laf vs Sof and Mercs OR Sof and Mercs vs Laf. There are 121 players tagged, you might as well sit around wishing for a return of the horse and buggy. Sometimes I wonder if Pang is doing us a favor or torturing us for amusement by keeping this thing going.

probably both

Joke's on us, arch!

He is a grumpy older man, but he is not wrong!

Adding bots to the game made it easy to net, but also removed any requirement to talk to anyone else. Carry that forward a few years, and there is literally nothing to get into fights about, no "You double tapped me, time for payback" type of view.

Listen here whippersnapper . . .

Get off my lawn???

+10

It has become a lazy game for netters. Far from the original intent as played even from the Earth 2025 days.
Bots should be in Primary and Alliance should be a place for said alliances to show which is best.

It can still be that way, even with bots. Like-minded people need to group up and play the way they want. Sadly most people lack the mental fortitude to realize that and act.

Too many get butt hurt and leave the game with non friendly wars. Also im not fighting all set every set anymore i got better stuff to do.

Also req how did your non friendly wars work out for you anyways. I don't really see the bomb anymore, maybe you guys got a little tired being grinded into dust set after set.

That's an oversimplification.

I'm glad you're busy, though. Get your beach house done?

I remember when literacy used to be a part of this game, but apparently being able to read is optional now.

There 120 humans left on the server. ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY. If Sof and Mercs decide they are warring netters every set, then 2/3 of the server will be at war every set. We've already seen what endless server wars do to numbers, I'm not sure what you guys are going on about.



This isn't Earth2025, it never was and it never will be. Its an online social club for a handful of Gen-X trolls that have an extra 5 minutes to fluff around during the day. If I started having to camp IRC ready to wall for hours each day I'd roll up the tent and leave just like 99,880 other players did.

That's not entirely true, though. Historically LaF, for example, grows after and sometimes during a war set.

Just because you have an opinion doesn't make it accurate.

Fixed that for you.

You know as well as I do that if netters start getting blind sided set after set that we'd shed numbers faster than Derrick could type up a quick 1,000 word post.

Besides, the notion that you could save up for a blind-side FS with this few clans and players is laughable. "Oh look, Sof hasn't grabbed any bots for 50+ hours, I wonder why?"

I am afraid that that strategy will not work Req. I have tried this in the past. Back in the day self farming was the issue (or inner clan land trading), and the results would eventually work out to no need to grab other clans. NBK (FFA), was always against that, and had an active policy to ban self farming, and would only ally with other clans that did the same. No matter what you do, people will go for the easy button. Right now due to the structure of the game not changing, this is an anti new player game. New players will take half a year to get the knowledge and capabilities to fight the experienced folk, and since everything is stagnant (no changes to any mechanics), strategies and builds that worked 5 years ago, work well today. No need to improvise, or test, or figure something out, as new players would.

Most modern games get around the above issue, by drastically changing things ever season, so much so that skilled players have to spend time working on strategies to see what would be best with the new rules. Some examples that might apply in this situation could be as follows
-Double land from landgrabs on other players
-tanks offensive ability doubled
-Income generating tech (indu, agri, res, bus) operates at 50% capability
-Luck bonus has a 10x multiplier
-GS (in addition to) BR only hits turrets
-Explore values are tripled
-Empty land generates 6x as much food

Just a few things that would change most builds and leave the vets scrambling and give the new players somewhat of a chance. Just change 2-3 things per set, enough so our normal things dont work (let us know what is changed), and I think this will really help with retaining new players, in addition to making this fun for our current player base.

The game is in a sad state.

I try to spice things up in express server which has 20 people and 80 bots.

I hit / farm 5 players and the other 14 cry because SuperFly is a POS asshole that is ruining the fun and hard work of those 19 people that can only farm bots becuase they can’t handle to compete or fight another human

Honestly you gotta thank the almighty netters for the games inevitable death.

As a mercs member I get to stock and prepare for a 5-7 day war against the same two tags which we alternate against and you get to talk to a few players and you fight a small quick fight while the other players do the same fluff every set. Farm bots, stock food, drop land, jerk off to the top and the same 4 players congratulate themselves for beating / losing to the other 3 by a few hundred K NW

We are still around. Real life takes precedence over this mobile clicker game unfortunately. Please go take a bath. Chevs says he can smell you in canada.

from, it's from Canada :-)

only 3 and a half years left til 2025 then this game can officially pull the plug and everyone still around wins a sticker

The end is near for sure, I foresee a large free for all war the final round.

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I wonder why mehul named the game Earth2025. I wonder if he got it from a book or a movie or some word of mouth fairytale. Did he ever tell anybody what inspired the name?

The lore is that society has collapsed from a major event (apocalypse of some kind) and we rule a small patch of land and a few survivors and try to compete with other similar territories in developing your country better and faster than them(in order, I guess, to survive and thrive). This apocalyptic event supposedly occurred before 2025 which probably seemed like a long enough time away for such a future to seem plausible then.

I don't know if it was ever mentioned what the apocalyptic event was, it could be a pandemic, a meteor strike, a nuclear war or other war with weapons of mass destruction, or a supervolcano or societal collapse.

Could be the USA adopted a radical train of thought and the whole world crumbled

Yeah, I see that happening now.

Maybe if we all email the Constitution to each other the Government will read it!!

They'll spin that too, Biden is president, everything is honky dory, gas is $5 per gallon in Cali and nobody is complaining.

I could never live in Cali man.... ugghh... waaayyyy too many left wing socialist nuts... I got gas here today for $2.62 a gallon..

Me either, I do come down here every week though.

what part of Cali??

Yes, because the 28th amendment clearly states "gas prices shall be neigh more than than a quarter of a dozen dollars"!

I'm in LA now



That has nothing to do with the hypocrisy being in full display, when gas hit $4 while Trump was in office everyone and their grandmothers started blaming Trump, now that it's $5 nobody complains, hypocrisy in full display.

Either way its the world market price of oil that dictates most of the changes in the oil price. Only states like Venezuela, Iran and a few other states of similar success level has used gas subsidies to buy their peoples loyalties(or at least acceptance).

Moot point, I'm pointing out the hypocrisy.

There is no doubt that the US is facing the worst inflation we've seen in a generation. I have several large projects on hold because material prices are so high that they cannot be done on budgets they were easily under just a year ago. I loathed Trump and I always will, but washington's notion of just printing money and giving it away to buy votes is going just as predicted by de Tocqueville 180 years ago.

Agreed, and I guarantee there's another shut down coming and more money will be printed, the government is out of control and there's nothing we can do about it, this notion of "get vaccinated to protect everyone" is driving this runaway train, the media has convinced the masses that the vaccine is the solution when in reality it is nothing more than a glorified flu shot, now we have all these sheeple believing a lie and spreading the virus at a faster rate.


The vaccine doesn't kill the virus.
The vaccine doesn't prevent spread.

You can and will catch the virus and unknowingly spread it faster by not continuing to social distance, sanitize, and wear a mask, the government/media brainwashed you into thinking you're protecting yourself and others, you've been lied to!

I dont even know what this was supposed to mean, that is not the purpose of the vaccine.
Regrettably the efficacy is only in the region of ~75-95% efficacy(compared to seasonal flu shots which usually vary between 30-60% efficacy) which means some people who get vaccinated will still contract the virus and spread it. On the best vaccines that will happen with 1/20th to 1/10th the probability as for an unvaccinated.
Is your beef with the vaccine that they dont have 100% efficacy?

Either way I dont see how you can deny the effect of mass vaccinations with this result. Yes you got 30% unvaccinated, and yes you got some spread within the vaccinated population, and that means the virus will not be eradicated. It will instead keep circulating at a much slower pace, containable with less measures than we have used before, which is awesome. We all want open schools, full stadiums, full restaurants and open nightclubs as well as fewer places that require or recommend masks. This is happening right now because the vaccinations have been so effective. :)
But you want to keep us wearing masks and avoid meeting people for another 2 years? 5 years? 10 years? Remember a lot of those restrictions are severely problematic for vast sectors of the economy, leading to unemployment, small business bankrupcies, public debt which will have to be payed back through taxes in comming years etc.

Wow dude, what is your problem? My beef is with the misinformation being spread, hence why the spike in cases, people think that the vaccine is all that we need to kill the virus, I'm basing all my fluff on my day to day observations in the 3 states i travel to most, they're already starting to shut fluff down and telling people to social distance and wear masks again because they realized opening up and pretending COVID-19 is in the past was a mistake, stop trying to read between the lines and read what's actually being said, bro.

Wear a mask when there's lots of people around you, sanitize, social distance, it's not that hard, we've been doing it for over a year, businesses don't need to shut down if they follow simple steps, we were doing good, even the health experts were saying it, then politics happened and we're in the fluff again!

Pro Tip: If you wear a face mask your coworkers can't smell the alcohol on your breath.

RD would be an improvement

Pro Tip:

He is a Russian troll farmer. Just ignore him; what he says doesn’t matter.

I love ya bro, but you're an idiot on this. Vaccinated people aren't dying or even needing to be hospitalized. Don't listen to me, don't listen to Tucker Carlson, or Fauchi, or anybody on TV - just ask YOUR doctor if he/she is vaccinated and thinks you should be. Maybe hearing it from a real human with a real medical degree will convince you.

The politicization of vaccines is probably the most embarrassing thing this country has done in my lifetime (and I was alive for the end of the Vietnam war). If everybody believed like you do, we'd still have polio and smallpox. Surely you are smarter than Jenny McCarthy KoH, go get your fluffing shot.

hmmm.....you sure?

Tell that to the nurses working at hospitals, I have 3 family members that are nurses and you're incorrect in so many ways, quit watching CNN, it's not all honky dory, bro.

I don't watch any conservatives nor liberal networks or personalities, my findings are based purely on fluff I see and been seeing, one of my friend's father just passed away weeks ago from COVID-19, he was vaccinated, I don't know where you get your news but I'd stop and start looking elsewhere if I was you, oh and by the way, I was exposed 3 times last year and didn't get sick not tested positive, quit drinking the vaccine kool aid, it's not for everyone.