Is there one for this round? Dict oiler or Fascist techer....something off the wall?

mono mb reseller

If you can't t10 with a Fascist/techer something's wrong. -v

The market wont work for 5+ MBRs even if theo. The market in express wont demand that much.

It would be fun perhaps if the rule was to finish the game with 10k MBs or more, so a techer to MBR challenge?

Ohh and while it has been pointed out that fascist techer is a pretty good strategy such a challenge would likely be able to create a good maket and perhaps a fascist nw record. As a 'challenge' though I have a hard time seeing how it would be challenging.

Someone posted a whole list of ideas a couple weeks ago... There were some interesting proposals.

I will see if I can find it and revive thread. I wouldn't mind joining a couple.

Originally posted by Player Z:
This one would be hard to enforce and interpret. Do you have to build up evenly after every grab? What if you don't have the cash? Is it ok to be imbalanced for a bit?

Let's do something more straightforward. Id suggest one of the following:
1). "Commie no indy" : you must stay commie all set, and can't build more than 10% indies. So you would run Farms and oil sales to buy military.
2). Tyr casher challenge
3). No tech challenge. All set, no tech allowed. (Hand cuffed)
4). "Bots are friends": No land grabs allowed against bots. (This will get you killed by Thursday)
5). "Drop it like its hot": At turn 900, you must drop half your land before playing any more turns.
6). "Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it" : 4000 acres max, all set. Ha ha Ha! Why bother?
7). "Tit for tat": You must perform a successful harmful attack against a human player before each land grab (against anyone) Oh lets just piss off our targets so they will come back and and turn country in to a parking lot for this rule..lol
8). "Mehul's revenge". No spies allowed. (This makes a easy target ! it contraindicate rule #10
9). "Size matters". Fattest country at endset wins.
10). "General Sherman reporting": tanks (and spies) are the only military allowed. No turrets ?
11). "DIY". No using the public market for anything.
12). "Battlebots". Last man standing, no going over 300 acres.

commie farmer would need 40+ bucks bushels to get anywhere and that's somewhat unlikely.

no tech = no grabbing since then gets techs or grabbing only players participating in challenge and both options suck.

4k acres won't get anywhere either.

no spies = grabbing blind.

fattest wins is easy.

tanks and spies only --> grabs human player and defender notices only tanks used ---> attacker gets gs'd or br'd.

diy = farmer only since casher buying 320+ bucks bushels is just dumb and indy would just suck.

Marsha Marsha Marsha...it supposed to be challenging, naturally it's gonna suck lol

Marsha don't understand that commie casher and farmer are almost legit strats... commie techer is guaranteed t5.

So the answer to my question I guess is, no. There is no challenge this round. As for the 2 I named off it was just strats i never tried. Wasn't necessarily a recommendation

I believe the consensus is to do them every other week, Riddler :-)

The purpose is to make us think outside of the box, right? So if for example we do fascist casher now it's no longer outside of the box since it is gonna be pretty similar to tyr casher.

Commie casher is just a slightly worse casher that you play almost exactly the same as a regular casher govt.

A perfect challenge leaves the player options to do whatever albeit with some kind of hard limitations.

"6). "Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it" : 4000 acres max, all set. Ha ha Ha! Why bother?" <-- something like this could be interesting as it would force some ingenuity, and it would also make sure that we dont f the market by adding more tech demand again.

Another would be either an all-out brawl or a tournament of 1-day randomized fights between us, highest live NW wins or something. <- Also out of the box thinking required, tests another skillset.

Or my idea from that thread with a scoring system based on hitting the bots.

100 acre max would be more challenging :-)

I think we should all just try for a top 10 and see how many can do it ;p

The answer to that, of course, is 10.

commie farmer wouldn't need mil tech or would sell bushels on priv.

A land limit challenge could be pretty fun. The best answer isn't obvious. Although, I would probably enjoy it more if cap was a bit higher.

Fine I pick this for you all :P
6). "Size doesn't matter, it's how you use it" : 4000 acres max, all set. Ha ha Ha! Why bother?

1000 acres

One thousand acres

1k just ends up being a demo resale challenge. Sounds miserable.

At 4 to 8k you can do interesting things. I'd be in for that kind of constraint.

No, 1k ends up being landkilled in less than 50 turns.

^this

challenge would be who dies last, last man/woman standing and no vacation mode allowed.

So in other words, you three don't want it challenging.... got it!

if you survive with 1k acres to end of set then consider yourself lucky.

three who?

SMH

Setting highlights is not a challenge. Either way I'd make it a 4k challenge or some number like that. too hard to get t10 with 1k acres and 4k is already a large enough landcuff(haha). 1k also leaves you with only one strategy while 4k might make it more interesting. :)

4kA challenge is interesting. I was always a fan of the 999A challenge myself.

the added benefit of 4k acre challenge is that it helps balance the tech market... 1k acre challenge might do that but only slightly

Ok...so...next week?

was just thinking a single tap challenge would be interesting....where you could only do single taps even on bots.

We should take that a step further and go no retal challenge. If someone has hit you, you cannot hit them back.

hrmmmm