and here we go again...

oldman for some reason I thought you stopped playing?

He finished rank 4 last reset, what made you think he stopped playing?

I stopped playing 1a. Does that count?
I was away for the jan to mar primary set too.

same old sh it again..

That is what it was. The 1a thing.

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another farmer's set in the making lol.

I'll be working too much this set anyways, but looks like too many indies.

They'll have to convert to farmer.

Lol

Too few indies. I've been looking at 0 jets on the public market for 3 hours.

Shhhh! Serp is right too many indies!

Also #188 doesn't seem to like non GDI people.

It was followed by 2 hours with no Turrets, and now there's no jets on the market again!

2014-07-08 19:26:31 BR Empire of Brazil (#194) GERMANY (#58) 0B 68 C
2014-07-08 19:26:22 BR Empire of Brazil (#194) GERMANY (#58) 0B 69 C
2014-07-08 19:26:13 BR Empire of Brazil (#194) GERMANY (#58) 0B 71 C

Well this was before the World Cup semifinals, but it looks like Brazil really did not like Germany. 0 building damage!

There are currently 266 countries in the Primary server.

Another dying server

Holy fluff.

Look at the last several resets and last round REALLY had a dramatic dropoff.

Nov-Dec: 826 countries
Jan-Feb: 895 countries
March-April: 789 countries
May-June: 483 countries ?!?!?!

the military market is empty now...

Sorry, no time to make 300 countries this set :-(

Oh so you will buy my $180 jets... Nice!!!

$185 turrets... Sorry a little more expensive, but my upkeep costs are higher on the turrets. You understand right?

:-p

I got my jets for $106 20 mins ago =P

How does this May/June compare to last May/June?

year ago: 100m got t10 spot
today: 100m got you t5 spot

year ago: over 1000 countries
today: under 500 countries

year ago: top country had ~75k acres and bit under 141m nw
today: ~64500 acres and bit over 126m nw

2014: http://www.eestats.com/primary/oldranks/611
2013: http://www.eestats.com/primary/oldranks/455

Primary is boring for many players including me. Turns need to comes in faster (15-20 minutes/turn). 120/100 turns storage and I guarantee we'll get more players to join.

team players get turn every 15th min and can hold 166/120 turns in hand and currently there are 99 countries. totally different thing is that team-server is basically as fluffed up as it could be.

team is fluffed up ! :/

So what will happen to this round, now that suddenly everyone all quit this server at once?

not all, atm there's 289 countries.

maybe its the DR changes, lol.

It actually lines up perfectly with the annoying DR, but I wouldn't expect a normal player to pay much mind to that change

The world has had the warmest June since like 1880, I think people just logged off and went outside

warmest summer temp in here is from 2010 and this year half a june was cold (we got even snow) and other half was warm.

I like cats k

I work 70 hrs a week with no computer access, AND I got kids.... I still find a few mins to log in before bed to burn some turns. :-)

Oh... Goodnight!

And that's why Primary is cool!

teach your kids to play this game. :P

may i ask, what does DR refer to?

http://wiki.earthempires.com/index.php/DR

Comrade, that wiki page describes the general concept of DR but the technical aspects were changed several sets ago. Specifically the rate at which DR runs out, I still don't really understand it.

you aren't only one.

Usually its pretty close to what it used to be, just harder to get exact calcs if you need to.

Ah ok, thanks, didn't know about this.

Presumably then this can be mediated by increasing Military Strategy points in research?

Think of it this way. The less a guy has been hit in the last day or two, the better your returns will be. If he's been hit a lot, you will get less returns. Basically just check eestats for countries with 2 or less DR and your grabbing will be fine for the most part.

Basically, the land that you will get from grabbing a target is multiplied by a few things

A) How close you are to the target's NW. The farther away, the less land. Goes both ways, whether you are attacking larger or smaller. Maximum gains at 100%. Tip: It is not a good idea attacking countries of similar size, because they can retal you.

B) Multiplied by your Mililitary Strat tech %.

C) Multiplied by any bonuses you have from government (eg Tyranny)

D) Multiplied by a number, that is calculated by how many times a country has been hit in the last 72 hours. Every hit adds DR, every hit done by target removes DR, only certain types of hits count towards DR, and whether the attack succeeded or failed, DR added depends on how much time has elapsed for each attack, and every attack's DR decays with a variable halflife dependent on how much units was oversent in the attack. Half life is generally 18 hours multiplied by the oversent factor. Exact formula here: http://www.earthempires.com/...eturns-29694?t=1394780292 Once you calculated the DR, you can calculate the multiplier.

That's just calculating the attack's land gain, and nobody knows the formula for that. We only know the multipliers that affect it.

Ghost acres are then calculated based on the attack's land gain, and is further multiplied by

A) Ghost DR
B) Country-to-Country DR
C) Govt bonus
D) % of land that are built on the target's country
E) Ghost acres is capped by 1a per (your_land/20) units sent.

Your total land gained is then the attack's land + ghosts.

Ahhh, that makes much more sense now! Thanks Xinhuan and Serpentor

Can we get some bushels pls.

Did anyone else accidentally pay $120 for food, or am I the only idiot here?

I bought them tasty $37 bushels right before you did that then :P