that is all

expound g=)

GDI sucks because the last six hours, no one can make any land grabs, but the Bots keep on growing in NW ???

You still can't beat the bots Ratski???

You shouldn't still be grabbing at that point. Get your grabbing done by Saturday night, store your turns, log in the last hour, cash your 300+ turns on food/cash spend all at once on military and you will beat the bots.

GDI protects against last second suiciders and topfeeders that don't know they should be stockpiling. IF you must, drop GDI at the beginning, and you can still hit the bots that are not GDI.

it does

but tis the season to be jolly

Ho ho ho ho!

I haven't played express for 3 weeks, my Pc died! It's fixed now. But I am losing interest in express, when I can't even stay in the top 25, with 26000 acres. And not hitting any live players. And cashing @ 3 million a turn. (Thanks A-Rod for the advise)

If you can't stay in the top 25 with 26K acres... it isn't the game,,,

You can top 10 with 12k acres Ratski, but YOU refuse to absorb advice, 3m per turn on 26k..... you're definitely malfunctioning...this is a YOU problem.

Dude just do a tech start and explore to 10k acres and then tech all of your turns from turn 1,000-2,000

There is no easier way to make top ten and unless you refuse to build all land and insists on building other building types then that is the reason you keep failing.

People have told you how to fix your country but for whatever reason you refuse to try their advice. At this point why not at least try it one time? What do you have to lose?

Here is a step by step walk
Through on now to start your techer.


1. 100cs
2. ~1000 farms(or a total of 1000 farms/ICs) and 60 more CS, while taking care to allow pop to catch up with your acres by building CS
3.explore and build labs until you are 1900 acres anf fully built
4. batch explore 60 turns(it will cut you off after about 35-45 turns depending on govt)
5. build up your empty acres with Labs
6. destroy your farms/indies and replace them with labs



After that just keep exploring and building labs/teching if you need some $$$ and expand to 10,000 acres and then STOP growing.



From this point just tech all of your turns for the rest of the game.

I did this a few sets ago and this was my results


3 Lord of Chaos (#7) 10,762 $49,060,629

Also sell your tech at 3,000-4,000 don’t sell it any cheaper until the market crash at the end of tbthe game game.


If you tech 600+ turns on 100 percent all labs then buy military at the end of the game at the bare minimum you should have 20 mil NW

He's not gonna do that 🙇

I have run cashiers, with no farms, no labs, no rigs, only 1000 indys all the rest business and Residents, and I bought every thing oil and bushels, military, the tricky part is to never run out of Food and Cash, the shortage hurts big time. You guys said focus the build, I did, as a cashier I bought my tech as well. I sold nothing as a cashier. I looked for the best prices on military products.

If you hit 26k acres and then started to cash all of your turns to stockpile it’s not possible to not make top ten.


I went back and looked and @ 29k acres with low tech (165 bus and res) I was making around 15 million per turn.

So even with low tech if I started stockpiling at that average at turn 1400 that would be 150 million every 10 turns. That’s 1.5 billion every hundred turns so
9 billion $$$ over your stockpile phase. That alone should be enough for over 30 million networth.


So if you are at 26k acres, all casher buildings. Bus/res tech @ 165 percent and cashing turns by turn 1400 then where is your money going? What are you spending it all on?

Ok so I went back to look and I see your problem, you aren’t stockpiling, at all.


First off I looked at this country, which is a rainbow and not what the other players have told you.


https://www.earthempires.com/express/672/ranks/3



https://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/3563/3

I checked your grab history here and can also tell you did not stockpile, you kept expanding and grabbing and growing until the very end. (The stockpile is the part where you jump NW, I cannot describe how stupid is is to not stockpile & it jump)




So not only is the first country I’ve looked at a rainbow and not what you just said, but you also did not stockpile. So this alone destroyed your set, if you had stockpiled despite having build this totally idiotic rainbow you probally would have still made top ten.

So I looked at another recent country. And again the country was a rainbow and you kept grabbing and never stockpiled.

https://www.earthempires.com/express/673/ranks/4


https://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/3580/4


Your best bet if you want to make top ten is to use the techer walk through I posted above. And STOCKPILE. You aren’t stockpiling so it’s no wonder you finish so awful. Stockpile means QUIT GROWING and stockpile cash to make a big networth jump ag the end of game. You shouldn’t be growing after turn 1200.


Your techer rainbow probally could have made top ten but again, you never stockpiled so that ruined your finish.

When one doesn't want to learn, one won't ever learn, knowledge doesn't come from being ignorant.

Yeah, thats why for simplicity's sake i just said do all your grabbing by saturday night, log in the last hour of the game and cash all your turns THEN spend them. I should have added buy all your tech saturday night too. don't bother with orders or anything like that until you've got this part down. Once you see how simple stocking goes, you can start looking at your turns and picking a cutoff for growth. Honestly though, anybody that wants to play casually or learn here should be playing Fac farmer. You can keep everything in the green, easier to stock bushels than eat corruption.

It's not that bad.