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Rob

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Nov 1st 2011, 6:07:03

I was the one that got hit. And it was 4k acres I lost - you gained closer to 9k with ghost acres. Lucky most of my bushels were on the market. If you waited a little longer, you would have hit me when I had closer to 7b on hand

oldman

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Nov 1st 2011, 10:56:54

lol @ trep. Do it a few more times =)

TNTroXxor

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Nov 1st 2011, 11:05:33

Originally posted by blid:

But at this point in the game there's very little point in retals except vindictiveness, unless you're going for a land record of course. It's the biggest land country I can see, by far, just scrolling back through past rounds.

EEstats is still down.. i cant search for the previous land record..

Originally posted by JJ23:

i havent been deleted since last set

TNTroXxor

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Nov 1st 2011, 11:08:07

Originally posted by Rob:

nah im not hunting stock and even with 7b on hand those $ i grabbed wont do me much good anyway. EEstats's down so i couldnt get a decent target and i remembered your country name where you took about 2 or 3 k off me and i didnt retal...

You should be on your way to 100m i think

Originally posted by JJ23:

i havent been deleted since last set

crest23

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Nov 1st 2011, 11:51:35

trep has lost close to 10 mill in NW doing that.

The Nigerian Nightmare.

TNTroXxor

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Nov 1st 2011, 14:45:50

Seriously ?

Originally posted by JJ23:

i havent been deleted since last set

Rob

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Nov 1st 2011, 17:17:52

TNT, I wont make 100m. I wont even break 90m. NWs seem really low this set. I thought a techer would have broken 130-150. Perhaps the high bushel prices during stocking worked massively against them

blid

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Nov 1st 2011, 17:19:25

Well, seems like Planetary was the only impressive techer, and he never got that fat

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

bakku

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Nov 1st 2011, 18:39:51

i'm sure trep has lost more than 10m nw bc of his carelessness. it'll be such a sad fail if he doesn't win

trep

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Nov 1st 2011, 20:22:29

carelessness = skill!

also looks like my predicted countries are correct (so far), just 162 is out of place =P

blid

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Nov 1st 2011, 23:50:42

Perils of not joining GDI

2011-11-01 23:36 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) PS Defended
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) NM 1,686A
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) NM 1,774A
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) NM 1,868A
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) NM 1,966A
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) NM 2,070A
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 29,459C/893B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 33,861C/930B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 38,920C/968B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 44,736C/1009B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 51,421C/1051B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 55,739C/1094B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) CM 55,697C/1140B
2011-11-01 23:35 Herpistan (#35) Asdl (#304) EM 515,773MU

(not a retal of any kind)

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

blid

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Nov 1st 2011, 23:52:58

omg

1 a tail to remember (#275) 59,390 $111,240,414 CG
2 Propylene Oxide (#162) 57,471 $110,018,787 RG

so close.. 7 mins left

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

trep

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Nov 2nd 2011, 0:00:44

lol grats oldman on the win. can't believe i messed that up so badly. got too greedy at the end batch too

oldman

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Nov 2nd 2011, 0:06:37

Lol thanks trep for running out of food :)

BobbyATA

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Nov 2nd 2011, 2:49:53

good set! I was planetary for those who don't know... I accidentally logged on 3 days ago, was just staying logged out for one big resale on last day. That really hurt, but seems like we all made mistakes (like usual). Nice win oldman, wtf tho trep:P

Rob

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Nov 2nd 2011, 2:52:17

Congrats oldman.
Someone spoilt my 88,888,888 NW finish.

blid

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Nov 2nd 2011, 2:56:19

You had an ally get attacked. We both allied Asdl.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

TNTroXxor

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Nov 2nd 2011, 3:11:49

ah so blid is #36

Grats all to the top 10s. Just weird seeing only 2 broke 100m with the tech prices..

Originally posted by JJ23:

i havent been deleted since last set

blid

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Nov 2nd 2011, 3:25:59

Nah not #36, several spots worse than him. This was my first primary round ever I think... back in the day I stuck to the Random server.

Tech and oil held back a lot of people I think

Edited By: blid on Nov 2nd 2011, 3:28:06
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Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

grimjoww

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Nov 2nd 2011, 5:59:42

Got 7th with a crappy set lol

Rob

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Nov 2nd 2011, 6:24:22

I think what held most people back more than anything were the bushel prices. Buying for 55-60 and selling for 38-40 can relly hurt. Buying for 55 becomes 58 with tax. Selling for 38 becomes 36.
You will only be getting 0.62 on you dollar.

It appears techers would have been better served just stocking tech and dumping it when bushel prices dropped down to the low 40s.

TNTroXxor

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Nov 2nd 2011, 12:41:36

Originally posted by Rob:

Thats Russian roulette with a machine gun. Its a make or break gamble that most player wouldnt try.. Its a 2 month long set and decision have to be made early in the set not to take advantage of the high tech price.

Originally posted by JJ23:

i havent been deleted since last set

AndrewMose

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Nov 2nd 2011, 14:04:28

The question I have is how is it that a big Fascist Farmer with maxed resource decay didn't win? I thought ASDL would have had more stock before he was attacked.

oldman

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Nov 2nd 2011, 14:21:59

How would max resource decay help to win? I didn't invest a single point in resource decay =)

As what Rob had mentioned, what hurt the techers this round was buying bushels at $60 and selling them at $40. I stopped grabbing approximately 2.5 weeks after some of the big stockpiling techers did. By that time, they probably had 300m bushels and I had none, but it helped that I was 20-25m nw ahead of the big stockpiling techers. It also helped me greatly that when I stopped grabbing, the stockpiling techers were dumping their bushels for $40-$42, which I prompty swept up. Of course, Trep did his part by running out of food =)

AndrewMose

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Nov 2nd 2011, 15:15:06

A farmer with max decay could sell bushels at $60 instead of stocking bushels. It is a risk to have all of your stock in money on hand, but the advantage is very large as there is no cost to stock and you can take full advantage of the bushel peak.

With that said it looks like jedioda played the top farmer, and he was a demo. So I may not have a good point.

BobbyATA

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Nov 2nd 2011, 15:41:06

Ya me trying to dump bushels early for 50+ (I was even hoping 55+) just blew up in my face oldman. It helped you get cheap bushels and win!

That said, people who say tehcers should have done something else just remember how small the game is right now. I was probably 10%+ of the tech being produced this set. Whatever I choose to do (stock tech, jump early, jump late, etc.) has such an effect on the market...

Not sure what I'm going this set but I"ll have a new name and it wont' be techer. Message me for D/intel allies=)

blid

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Nov 2nd 2011, 15:45:00

Originally posted by AndrewMose:

The question I have is how is it that a big Fascist Farmer with maxed resource decay didn't win? I thought ASDL would have had more stock before he was attacked.

Asdl wasn't that fat earlier in the round, though. He grew longer and stocked shorter.

Originally posted by Mr. Titanium:

Watch your mouth boy, I have never been accused of cheating on any server nor deleted before you just did right there.

herbs12

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Nov 2nd 2011, 19:47:11

I was asdl, I was more or less fooling around trying things out. I learned some valuable lessons playing in primary as a farmer. When I destocked I had 310m bushells at the end, then ran out of cash one turn, jumbed a day to early and wasted my time jumbing as a Theo. If I were to to that all over again I would had jumbed as a facist, and would have been around 75m. Not bad for im going to call this my First real primary set.

herbs12

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Nov 2nd 2011, 19:51:07

And I just learnt about eestats and grabbing through there compared to what I was doing before and that was ingame searches.

Serpentor

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Nov 2nd 2011, 21:21:05

yeah ingame search is no good. I did that for my first set or two before realizing there was an eestats. lol

The EEVIL Empire

jedioda

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Nov 2nd 2011, 21:43:01

tail to remember was trep !!! Afaik didn't play ?

jedioda

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Nov 2nd 2011, 21:49:34

... and I forgot to congrats oldman

Chewi

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Nov 2nd 2011, 21:53:42

First non commie win in a while, grats!

AndrewMose

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Nov 3rd 2011, 0:40:22

was Afaik not Monaco Lights? Sure played like Afaik normally does.

KoHeartsGPA

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Nov 3rd 2011, 2:00:18

Originally posted by crest23:

LOL @MARINABAY, he has less land now than he did 6 days ago.

He's from SemperFi on FFA server,ill be depositing 40-50 missiles in his 15k Acres in 10 days :D

Mess with me you better kill me, or I'll just take your pride & joy and jack it up
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Nov 3rd 2011, 2:03:54

Originally posted by blid:

I saw Herpistan on xpress scores couple hrs ago.....

afaik

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Nov 3rd 2011, 3:13:14

Yes mr Mose, that was my country. I had a terrible set..I didn't stock at all lol, just 2bn cash and jumped a little at the end. No time to play as I moved house 10000 miles mid set... That and all the top feeds :P

Damn unlucky trep, thought you had it sewn up! Good to see non commies up there too though, nice finish oldman, and bobby & rob both had a good set too.

TNTroXxor

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Nov 3rd 2011, 3:15:03

cross server !

Originally posted by JJ23:

i havent been deleted since last set

Tertius

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Nov 3rd 2011, 6:50:30

Why such lower scores than last set? Just because bakku and afaik were too busy (suiciding and RL)? If I had known I could've tried to compete =P

afaik

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Nov 3rd 2011, 11:49:15

Tech prices were loony high until much later than usual...so all non techers were late to stocking... There weren't more techers in the t10 because lots of them used the cash to buy mil and top feed/escape retals, rather than netting I reckon... That plus the food spike mentioned probably hurt them more than others like commies.

oldman

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Nov 3rd 2011, 12:37:10

yeah,tech prices were still at ~$2000 6+ weeks into the game.

What's the highest NW a non CI has ever finished in Primary? I hope I'm in the top3 =) That said, it's quite impossible to beat a well run CI with other strategies. I just got lucky.

AndrewMose

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Nov 3rd 2011, 13:17:49

You got more than lucky oldman. I was amazed at the pace of your growth. I spied you after a couple of weeks and expected to see that you cut short on CS's and tech...but you planned it perfectly.

Very well played, I couldn't keep up last set.

trep

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Nov 3rd 2011, 14:58:03

I think it was a combination of oil and tech prices. I think it was costing me over 100m to grab for like a whole week. On the other side of that, daily risks of topfeeds because the techers had a lot more cash required a lot more defenses than countries carried in previous sets too.

I was on track with bakku's country last set most of the time, but I had some more risky grabbing which resulted in getting missled quite heavily. Though this wouldn't have mattered as I would have messed up the finish regardless =P

Rob

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Nov 3rd 2011, 17:43:42

You ran your casher really well oldman. I thought I was keeping pace as we had the same amount of land till I stopped grabbing at 53k (which I reached first in fact after you failed one PS). My tech levels were high too in the high 170+% throughout and bpt at 100.

I didnt however know how to maximize on a demo casher. Perhaps you got the most out of being a republic.

Any thoughts on this? The gap between us ended up to be quite significant in the end.

Rockman

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Nov 4th 2011, 1:13:26

I was ahead of both of your cashers until Bushwood Country club decided to be a fluffing idiot and picked a fight with me.

I didn't double tap anyone, but somehow among the early frontrunners, the country playing the least risky grabbing style was the one who had his set ruined :(

P.S. Bushwood country club got totally owned. He's lucky humanitarians in primary are at 1/4th, otherwise I would have hit him even longer than I did.

trep

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Nov 4th 2011, 6:02:09

Mario Kart. Blue Shell.

oldman

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Nov 4th 2011, 9:39:52

Rob: you did get to 53k a few hrs before me, but I've been storing turns all the way. I probably had 80(70) on hand when I reached 53k as well. My tech were kept in the 170s as well through most of my grabbing phase, especially when I was over 40k acres. The extra turns I had accounted for $4b advantage over your demo. Also, I noticed you jumped a few days after me which meant that you missed out on the $115 jets/turrets. All these factors coupled with you being retaled towards the end most likely account for the difference in the end net worth. This is my take, not sure if you agree with it.

Rockman: which country did you run?

trep

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Nov 5th 2011, 2:19:57

@Rockman

Yea was kindda disappointed with the Bushwood situation as I had actually spied you to hit you before you messaged me and your country was pretty far ahead/well built at that time =P

Rockman

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Nov 5th 2011, 2:32:42

oldman - I was Social Ecology. I was a tech start dict casher, I was 5th in land, then Bushwood hit me, and I was still 5th in land after retalling him thanks to ghost acres. Then he RoRd me, and hit me again 24 hours after that. So my response was to AB/BR him for over a week straight.