Wasn't that the new rule, bots would be color-coded? Or something else?

Nope, you and Kahuna must find me this set or both of you will forever be n00bs with manb00bs!

We haven't made that change yet. Not quite sure when it will happen. A few players have their own methods of determining the NPC countries. Perhaps some of them are willing to share in this thread.

I mean.... I literally pointed to Kahuna in my direction last set and somehow he thought you was me and proceeded to send you a colorful message thus earning him a purple coat 🤷

Some players are better at it than others.

I agree, Kahuna sux 😝


Ya no eres el Kahuna chingón, vato!!!!



/me runs

i mean if u want to make it fair and more inclusive for everyone to play on this server then it is better to just find a way to indicate for all human players to know who are the bots.

If I share how I find the bots, people will use it to hide better. The only real solution is to mark them.

The simplest ways that just about everyone who has played a while knows about:

Bots generally have
-names that start with capital letters and for the most part every word in the name starts with capital letters
-often fantasy/animal/nature- parts in their names. You will get the themes once you look through last couple sets bot names.

Spy op
-almost always 65 bpt unless early or after they have been hit to less.
-0 turns.
-Five distinct strategies: Casher, Farmer, Techer, Indy with a very high degree of specialization(no other buildings except CS for 65 bpt and 50-150 ICs for the non-indy ones) and rainbow (mostly labs but with some farms, ICs, ent, res but no MBs).

Shut up Gerd!!!

You need to go to https://www.eestats.com/express

Then when you click on an individual country you can look at the country's history and see when it first played turns, and if it changed governments right away at turn #1 when the game first started that is a good indicator that it is a bot

Look at this country for example - https://www.eestats.com/express/country/61

Click on history, and you will see that it changed to Republic right away at 4717 networth

2021-04-07 00:06:01 Bloody Kala Silvergrim $4,717 100 acres R

Typically human players don't necessarily play right away, and in most cases they don't change their gov until they are done their start up

Cheers,

Shut up Hess!!!!!

Funny .... Very few people play with the fascist government ...LOL

It's probably because oiler doesn't work well on Express and people usually don't pick farmer due to the short set and low food prices.

commie ftw

Yes lets all play commie this set!

I am already a commie. Bots buy all the $180 turrets. Last set the only turrets that I did not sell were priced at $195

It depends on the point in the reset, but at high enough prices the NPC countries will buy private market troops instead of public market turrets. It's an improvement over the previous behavior which favored PM turrets much more highly.

Forget I asked, I was just trying to make it easier for everyone, especially for new players who don’t know what’s going on.

Thanks for all the tips guys, really helps.

It'll be easier starting next round! https://www.earthempires.com/...xpress-50005?t=1618119064

Awesome! Thanks, I am sure the new guys will appreciate this.