I haven't played or visited these forums in 6 months so I'm a little out of the loop. But I have some suggestions for 2025.

Change some of the formulas and don't disclose what you change, to prevent the super experienced min/maxers from dominating as hard in 2025. Couple that with a big recruiting push of new players and some veteran leaders. I would love to see some old time leaders try a reunion set for alliances that don't exist anymore. You all know better than me which ones that might work for. Maybe the new players will stick around long enough to learn the game well instead of getting stomped into the ground and ragequitting, if the experience gap was somewhat bridged by some formula changes and helpful leaders teaching n00bs. It's reasonable to expect some increased level of veterans returning in the next year as people remember Earth 2025.

So how’s the war going now? Has Mercs been tag killed?

Pretty sure anyone willing to do that…. Is a suicider.

I like how you raced to AT to post this. You must have a miniscule member.

Starship launching in 12 minutes. Maybe.

1.21 gigawatts!

Can we get Ben Raines back to rank alliances at the end of the reunion set? :)

narf

Don't be silly, human. We are people. We are not AI bots planning to enslave you. That would be bad.

If you weren't already here I would've listed you too, don't worry! ;)

Bring back Tirol, Ampy, Samoan, Nazar, Beltshumeltz, Anthony Ciolli, Dietylord, Helmut and Fingolfin.

OK that was just total pandering. I don't actually know any of them. Just remember the names from AT.

That depends on your definition of dead doesn't it. I think if you asked anyone who doesn't play this game whether it's dead - and especially if you explained the history vs today, etc - 90% of people would agree it died ages ago. It can still be fun, but for all intents and purposes we're fluffing a corpse here.

Sounds fun. I'll download it someday soon.

Oh man I LOVED that game. I knew your name was familiar and I couldn't place it lol. Probably was the most underrated RTS game ever made. Should have had multiple sequels.

My favorite orchestra is trans AND siberian.

Oh we know, man. We know.

There's no such thing as elite in computer gaming. It's a myth perpetuated by the weird and awkward who excel at games.

Gracias senior

But you can't give what you don't have, so at least she won't give you them either.

I liked to use names of clans that aren't active when I'm a 1 man tag. Even if I never played in them. I used CWG and UCN for a few weeks last year.

funky buttlovin

Brian Griffin : Yeah, about your pamphlet... uh, I'm not seeing anything about German history between 1939 and 1945. There's just a big gap.

German Tour Guide : Everyone vas on vacation!

vote for Pedro

After looking through past posts I see most were referring to BH's recruits and the resulting attack/retaliation/quitting. So that's not really representative of everybody clearly. While looking up those posts I reread Auk's post from August and I like several of the suggestions:

- Drastically decrease expenses and food consumption;
- Drastically decrease the cost to construct buildings; and
- Drastically increase build per turn.

I disagree on the following:

"Adding expenses to clan GDI will likely result in a meta where most netters will stop using clan GDI to stay competitive for netting purposes. Then we'd be back to square one with problems unsolved."

If ClanGDI is the surest way to avoid griefing, players will pay the price to preserve their netting ability. Meaning it's not a disadvantage to netting if everybody is paying the price (or nearly everybody). The only way to net without it would be careful diplomacy / good PR, and that still carries some risk of griefing.
In a game where most things have been optimized by the player base, if you introduce a feature that is very powerful and allows them to accomplish their goal more reliably and predictably, you have to add a cost. Without a cost it becomes a mandatory way to play the game to remain competitive. With the right cost it becomes one option among many and adds depth to the game.

I'll try and find my previous posts about it and summarize the replies here, hopefully today.

As I've said before, the only real solution is to grow the player base, and several players have been outspoken against that idea because "one time we tried and it backfired". They're like cancer patients refusing to take chemotherapy because it's unpleasant... you can follow the analogy to the natural conclusion.

By the way why does this thread even matter? The topic has been discussed for weeks and decisions have already been made. And idgaf that you don't want discussion on your thread. You're not in charge here.

This is the alliance server. Didn't your alliance members notify you? Several of them live here.

That's a side effect of playing a community-based game as if it were a single player game...

No

So far it looks like option 2 has the most votes by far, with a few voting for 1 or 3. Is there a deadline for this discussion?

With all the antisemites feeling emboldened by the Israel war, a lot of Jews are afraid to put up their menorahs this year. I built a big fluffin holder to place in front of our window, with platforms at two different levels so I and my kids can display ours in the window and be clearly visible from the main road from any angle.

Let's purple every country this set and have the bots take the top ten. They're the only ones who are playing the way the developers intended.

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fartsies

There are 53 countries in Team and at most 125 active human players in Alliance, even though alliances can have as many members as you want and Teams are limited to 5. If the team member limit was raised to 15 I think many would move to that server.

poopy

I've posted several times that there are going to be many players showing up as 2025 gets near. We should be making an effort to retain them for the game's sake. I'd bet most will start on Alliance server and leave for Teams though.

ggn00b

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1.21 gigawatts?

That comment was meant to make you sound like you've got more in your life than a silly game, but it actually made you sound like a fluff.

I am none of those people. Although I did interact with all of them way back in the previous millennium as I was FA for DJustice for the first several resets they existed. And I used to post on AT a lot under the name MAZ.

All your monies are belong to us.

And BEM684 is the same person as Nazar, Locutus, Fingolfin, Mr Turquois, JerBu, Mehul Patel, and Jambi the Genie.

The American Dream Is Kiling Me

beep boop

...dopamine is the only reason to still play this...

There may come a day when this whole site and all the forums are lost to time just like the original AT was. Imagine thousands of collective hours spent discussing wars and netgaining, clan rankings, mergers and splits, all lost forever on the original AT. The same will likely happen here. And when the game shuts down and what's left of the community is no longer engaged, nobody will ever look at the clan rankings, top ten, NW records, or any of this. I think that's terrifying for some people lol.