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Mar 8th 2025, 3:23:54

Galleri is an Express moderator.

It's current name should lead you to the most logical conclusion

Edited By: Primeval on Mar 8th 2025, 3:26:33

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Mar 8th 2025, 3:09:36

I've read as much mod bashing/false statements as I'm willing to tolerate. I will also not engage in a debate or argument over a deletion almost 6 months ago.

Continued rhetoric regarding game moderators or staff will result in loss of privilege to use this forum.

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Mar 2nd 2025, 17:12:41

The rules are clear.

Originally posted by Slagpit:
Players must follow all of the standard game rules while playing on the Primary server. This includes, but is not limited to:

* This server does not have clans. Playing in order to benefit another player is not allowed. Working with another player to disadvantage another player is not allowed.


If a player has been deleted in the past for coordination, you were found to have violated this rule and/or admitted of doing so. If a player hasn't been deleted this round for coordination, they were either found to not have been in violation or violation could not be proven/determined to be likely. Moderators do not delete on minor speculation.

I'd suggest if players are going to have a specific forum posting, ingame messaging, or playing habit/personality that many other players might find offensive, annoying, or off-putting, that they consider not identifying their ingane country.

Edited By: Primeval on Mar 2nd 2025, 17:15:12

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Feb 27th 2025, 6:06:12

Originally posted by TAN:

Is there any way to make the user experience when navigating the site less painful when it comes to ads?


Yes.

https://earthempires.com/...ment-48330?t=1579367648#q

https://earthempires.com/portal/premium



Premium
Being an Earth Empires Premium member will give all of your countries several bonuses. To start with, we’ll be launching with the following items:
- Ad-free game and forum experience
- Automatically receive 9 bonus points daily just for logging in (replaces daily voting bonuses AND 1 extra bonus point)
- Provides estimated chance for spyop success
- Change country names while in protection
- No more captchas
- Access to Alpha servers (test servers)

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Feb 19th 2025, 15:46:55

Originally posted by cordycsw:
damn thats awesome. so dont need to build anymore random buildings haha


But now you get to destroy them if you capture buildings you aren't using.

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Jan 27th 2025, 0:54:17

Medical tech does not impact losses for an attacking country.
Exception: Co-op server.

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Dec 6th 2024, 16:58:32

Guys, perhaps consider there are other underlying things going on that you haven't seen or can't see that are contributing to the current response.

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Nov 5th 2024, 2:04:31

This discussion doesn't matter since nobody is going to undo the ban except a game admin, therefore the ongoing thread was pointless. These things are not up for popular vote. Also, restarting closed threads is super annoying. Let it go.

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Oct 15th 2024, 17:01:52

Originally posted by Cathankins:
I agree to stop if you can get SF to quit taunting others. I think every human should have a right to defend themselves from attacks. If that’s not ok then attacking others shouldn’t be either and it should be curbed at the source. I have nothing left to say at this point.


My comment was aimed at everyone reading and posting on the thread. I only ended up deleting one post and it wasn't one of yours. Also, you agreeing to the request is not a requisite.

Originally posted by SuperFly:
I only taunt people when they come after me for no reason and make themselves a consistent pain in my side.

For example NiN is only after me cuz of my country names not because I have personally wronged him….

If you are going to come and hamper my game play experience; do not be mad if I make public observations or guesses on the type of person you are. Cuz when you obsess over someone you will never meet in your life I will say that you issues and I will
Clown you.

Don’t want me to clown on you? Don’t come for my game play experience…


Keep it at least somewhat game related and away from personal lives.

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Oct 15th 2024, 2:44:41

Let's curb the personal attacks a bit, please.

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Oct 13th 2024, 13:03:08

Hurricane Helene screwed up my access to the game for a week so llaar was gifted that number 2 spot :-). Next time...

Originally posted by Kill4Free:
...Pretty much all the normal strats are messed up with the new changes so we are all figuring the new normal!


This ^

Edited By: Primeval on Oct 13th 2024, 13:05:55

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Oct 10th 2024, 2:22:33

Originally posted by Kingme:
Originally posted by VicRattlehead:
One of them reached out to me, and I believe that person to be clean. Still is weird that they got the numbers like that and everything.


They must be REALLY lucky.


Premium players can change their country name before leaving protection

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Sep 25th 2024, 4:03:23

Originally posted by Drow:
Okay.
Can we have a clear definition of what counts as "attacking the integrity of game staff"?

If that's not the case, then clear and concise guidelines about what counts and what doesn't count are vital,


It's not uncommon when something similar to that is attempted, some people attempt to press the envelope to see how far they can push things without going too far just to he a pest.

otherwise it's opening the door to "whatever I personally think" is the rule for any given mod.

Consistency is key.


A tiny part of that is true. There are both rules and guidelines that moderators are expected to follow and a general set of do's, don'ts, FYIs, how-tos, etc to help along the way. Those things will often not be shared outside of the team. Moderators are individual people and will all have certain nuances and tendencies to some degree. General consistency is a goal but will still be subject to slight variation.

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Sep 11th 2024, 20:34:41

I feel like there are a few threads about this here already over the years. I'm pretty sure developers have sad no a few times.

Originally posted by slip:
That was a thing? I remember the tech eating one (EMD) in the early 2000s. I have no recollection of a bio missile.


Never in EE. It was very early in Earth:2025 and only briefly.

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Aug 28th 2024, 1:19:40

(sweep sweep)

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Aug 23rd 2024, 15:21:46

Originally posted by allbymyself87:
There are 153 human players in the server.

Unfortunately, at least 50 of them or 33% of them have stopped playing.

Would be great if the mods can approach these players through pm and get feedback from them to find out why they stopped playing.


Some kind mod with additional free time would need to volunteer. We have this ability but remember we are volunteers and not actual game staff. Our role is focused on rule/gameplay enforcement. This would be more appropriate for an outreach volunteer or one of the game admins/devs. Personally, I do not have the "bandwidth" to do it.

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Jul 21st 2024, 2:33:22

Originally posted by SuperFly:
So where does that leave #5 who came to the aid of #16? A guy who I BR’ed cuz he went and bought more tanks then me and failed a bunch of ops on me?


He's going to stop or be returned to the Land of Barney

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Jul 20th 2024, 1:02:03

Originally posted by Requiem:


I think the point was to require more turns being spent to obtain various information about a country.


^ This


Originally posted by MrTan1:
... One could do a 1k troop GS to verify the forces are at home or not. ...


That would require a turn as well. More if you're not tyranny

Edited By: Primeval on Jul 20th 2024, 1:06:23

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Jul 15th 2024, 5:56:40

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Jul 5th 2024, 6:40:48

Originally posted by Slagpit:
Is it different? My understanding is that the old bot code had 20% farmers just like the current code.


Yes. Food market is inflated. Around $15-$20 higher.

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Jul 1st 2024, 3:21:59

Update: Dark Demon will be moderating the Express game server in addition to the current assigned moderators

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Jul 1st 2024, 3:19:50

Dark Demon has been added to the Express server moderator team

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Jun 30th 2024, 5:26:25

Have you tried not being an offensive pest?

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Jun 22nd 2024, 23:45:47

Originally posted by allbymyself87:


By the way, am curious, whenever an ingame msg is reported, does the mods check on the msg history (including deleted msg) from both parties before taking actions OR mods will take action based on the content of a single reported ingame msg?


Game moderators can see all messages from both sides and yes, I do review the exchange when I'm the one reviewing.

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Jun 21st 2024, 0:10:13

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Originally posted by Primeval:
Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Originally posted by Primeval:
Had it been two players that the moderator did not recognize, there could have been a deletion and we would be discussing this through the appeal process.


Galleri don't gaslight.


Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Mods should not delete first then investigate later. They should investigate first then delete if they have a confirmed rules violation.



Since that is what happened here, I assumed you were commenting in support rather than objecting to something. Perhaps she thought your comment was phrased as if it was a complaint.


The comment is (rather clearly) pointed to the fact that the mod process as you described it allows deletion first, investigation later. This is improper and should not happen.


Correct on the latter and I agree. The former is not an accurate interpretation of what I meant. My apologies for the confusion.


The only scenario where a country should ever be undeleted is if the deletion was an error. If a) a mod made a mistake in reading the data or b) the mod incorrectly applied policy and acted improperly.

There should not be any case where additional information would merit an undelete because the already existing information was already sufficient and reliable and only an internal review is necessary to overturn that.


There are different scenarios where a moderator may restore a country. One of the most important being that a player may be found to have broken a rule but during the appeal, and possibly through direct messaging and assurance the issue wont happen in the future, the moderator may decide to deescalate to warning only and restore the country.

...don't go the other way to delete people first and ask questions later, as has been the visible practice recently.


If it has, I've overlooked the recent trend.



It sounds like we mostly agree here on policy. And given the fact that usual practice was applied here in this case, which did not result in a deletion, the expanded discussion on what-ifs is a bit odd. My apologies for any recent negative experiences you may have had. As always, PM me here or through discord if I need to take a look at something in the future.

Edited By: Primeval on Jun 21st 2024, 0:14:24

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Jun 20th 2024, 21:02:49

Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Originally posted by Primeval:
Had it been two players that the moderator did not recognize, there could have been a deletion and we would be discussing this through the appeal process.


Galleri don't gaslight.


Originally posted by Turtle Crawler:
Mods should not delete first then investigate later. They should investigate first then delete if they have a confirmed rules violation.



Since that is what happened here, I assumed you were commenting in support rather than objecting to something. Perhaps she thought your comment was phrased as if it was a complaint.

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Jun 20th 2024, 2:41:58

Someone is clearing/reordering all standing orders so theirs is next in line so they can pick up the $26 chunk being transferred

Edited By: Primeval on Jun 20th 2024, 2:44:04

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Jun 17th 2024, 17:55:24

The issue was an ingame report because the player thought there could be coordination since he had done no actions against #6 and received harmful ops and ABs during times where he was exchanging hits with another country. Had the two players being reported been unknown to a moderator doing the review, at face value it would look like possible coordination. Given it seems unlikely to anyone that reads the boards that Cath and BH were coordinating together, a further look showed that #6 was doing this to other players. Had it been two players that the moderator did not recognize, there could have been a deletion and we would be discussing this through the appeal process. Hitting players with harmful ops and ABs for generally no reason kind-of makes you a fluff, but its not against the rules. The point is joining in on another player's hostilities against a country that has no interaction with you previously places you on shaky ground if a player submits a report thinking there could be coordination.

Personally, I fully support a player attacking another just over general beef. Using harmful ops and ABs against an unknown player for no reason with seemingly no tactical advantage being gained, especially on a game server that tends to attract new players over the others is pretty uncool.

Edited By: Primeval on Jun 17th 2024, 18:00:27

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Jun 12th 2024, 20:58:59

I'm very disappointed I didn't cross 4b NW. I messed up a few things in the last couple weeks

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Jun 10th 2024, 15:56:14

Guys, there's a really good chance that JW and Cath are just continuously trolling you. I personally don't think that they are so oblivious to game culture that they are honestly defending their recent decisions. They are either posting a narrative that suits them in an attempt to re-write actual facts or they are just 100% messing with you. But it seems unlikely to me that they are somehow confused or feel truly victimized for how things have gone down on this game server.

Clarification on some comments above: new accounts are still being created and we are seeing growth of countries in some game servers. I don't often see that new players are being picked on, at least not moreso than they have been in prior years of existence. Typically new players join because they know someone already playing and join up in clan-based servers. Given that neither of you are new (nor is Gerdler, who was randomly mentioned in an earlier comment), I don't understand the comparison. That said, new players generally don't join and declare forever suiciding war on established alliances and veteran players.

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Jun 8th 2024, 0:14:25

Multi-ing is bad mmkay

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Jun 4th 2024, 20:59:44

Originally posted by g0nz0:


Forum moderators delete or edit posts that contains in-game stats.
An earlier post was removed for violation.
Removing the details and only listing names seems to have passed the mod standards.
If the information was fabrication there would be no deletion.


Forum mods are not game mods

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May 18th 2024, 22:41:37

Defense in turrets sort is the only one that stands out to me. While still not having the exact break, it's still information that somewhat circumvents a spy-op.

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May 11th 2024, 16:15:34

I answered this via PM just now

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May 11th 2024, 16:07:28

Originally posted by allbymyself87:
Primeval, can pm me info for deletion of Faithful Sinner (#11)?


This country was restored last night. PM me if you need further details

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May 10th 2024, 20:21:27

Originally posted by allbymyself87:
When players get purpled in the game, they always face the same issue:

1) No clues which rules they have broken or violated.
2) No clues who should they contact to reinstate their country.
3) Sometimes it takes forever to appeal as not all game mods are around 24/7. So, might end up losing quite some valuable time/turns while waiting for mods to check/reply/reinstate.

Suggestions:

1) Can we enforce for game mod who handles on the country deletion to at least send a private message to the player to inform/explain which rules he has violated and results in deletion?? It's better than let the player himself to have a wild guess on his own?

2) Add an "Appeal" button or link for player to click and fill up proof or reasons to speed up the entire reinstate progress? Better than having to let players to find game mods on their own and sometimes they might find the wrong mod for the server which end up have to look again for the correct mod for the server. And sometimes all the mods not responding, that's the most frustrating part. =/


1a) I agree with the issue but we are challenged by the method of communication.

1b) Not all players have their game profiles linked to their forum handle and the linked accounts are not displayed in a way to make it easy for moderators to easily make a connection for direct contact. Further, not everyone has information in their game account that might identify who they are. Some players do not use their known game/forum handle in their username, email, country name, etc.

I have previously requested that the general reason for the deletion be available for the moderator to select to be viewed by the player and I still think that is a good change for the admins to make. Something general for a moderator to select and be displayed for the player like coordination on solo non-clan game server, multiple accounts, game bug abuse, etc. The current system gives a player that feels they were incorrectly deleted to submit an appeal but often the appeal notes are simply them asking why they were deleted. There is no way for a moderator to reply to their appeal other than approve/deny and players often do not give contact details for correspondence. Even if we were to use the email listed on the account, players rarely check this in my experience (assuming the email is still even in use). A reason given upon deletion would eliminate the extra step and give the player the opportunity to respond to that reason initially. Admins could even force the appeal to include a preferred method of contact.

2a) There is a link to appeal when there is any deletion and a section for the player to provide feedback. The appeal will be viewed the next time a moderator is available. Contacting them outside of this method is not necessary for the appeal to be processed and reviewed.

2b)The person they could contact is typically not just 1 person, but there isn't anyone that a player "should" contact directly. A player can contact any person listed as a moderator for that game server if they choose but immediate reply is not guaranteed or expected from the moderator team. Game mods have access to different areas and I believe these are listed on each forum section. Players can also escalate things to me or Martian as needed if they aren't happy with an appeal decision - Martian and I have access to all game servers as Mod Boss. Admins should generally not be contacted for these matters and will usually defer to the moderator team (should you be lucky enough to get a timely reply from an admin.)

3a) This is relative and the definition can vary from person to person. A moderator replying to an appeal in 8-12 hours might seem to take "forever" to some players, but I might say that is a reasonable amount of time for a reply in most cases. However, this has more impact on game servers like Express so the expectation would likely change. On the flip side, the consequence of the some lost turns in non-Express game servers is not as critical for me personally since players, contrary to claims, are often not deleted for absolutely no reason. An appeal may determine that a deletion should be overturned in some circumstances, but generally something was done by the player to put themselves at risk.

Edited By: Primeval on May 10th 2024, 20:36:26