The most challenging thing about EE is that you have to play like every single week or people think that you've gone inactive.

Another year has passed. Still I will not let this thread die....

It may be a year since the last post, but it is still relevant...

We're just honoring Jimmy Carter. It's just like the Camp David Accords. We see two sides at war with each other that have horrible records of human rights abuses by their militaries against their own people. So, we do the only sensible thing and we promise military aid to both sides in return for peace.

Yay for Jimmy Carter! Happy birthday! You're going straight to hell (to quote Lin-Manuel Miranda)!

I guess it's a couple of days too early for happy halloween ... so happy birthday, Turkey!

How do we set this up so that Azz Kikr gets notifications? Maybe I should start manually sending him a message every time I post here...

Congratulations Enshula!

So why do you think the fact that you weren't the only person that disliked me on FFA was at all relevant to whether or not it was lame to suicide on me? Do you not realize that this game cultivates the dishonorable and dishonest, i.e. people like you? The fact that you weren't alone in disliking me doesn't mean that I deserved to be suicided on.

And speaking of which, do you think that Syko was the only person that finds you annoying? If it turns out that there's more people than just him that find you annoying and would want to suicide on your country, does that make it not lame what he did?

Earth Empires - a bastion of honorable play and honorable politics ... according to Mr Ford

If half the server hates you on FFA, it's a good thing. If everyone likes you, it means you fit in with the dishonest dishonorable crowd on that server. You definitely fit in there. I didn't. I was competent, honest, and honorable. Those qualities make people on FFA hate you.

The qualities that have been cultivated in Earth 2025 and Earth Empires are not qualities to be proud of. Even though we're growing older, there's still a huge portion that uses this game as an outlet for their childishness. You should be ashamed that you fit in so well here with the other adults that act like little kids in this game.

You know how in preschool, one kid spends a lot of time building a nice tower of blocks, and then a bully comes around and knocks it down out of jealousy? That's exactly the type of player that dominates the Earth Empires social structure. Don't be proud that you're one of them.

We were going to break the multi-country tag ANW record by about 90 million, so of course the server was pissed off at us. In our first set we were going to show how much the entire server sucked at netting. Being good is enough to make people hate you.

And killing someone's countries after they started jumping merely because they were much better than everyone else is really really lame. We said we were much better than everyone else, and we proved it. And then we kicked CC's butts the next set, and we would have declared war on IMP that set as well, but our FDP Focus betrayed us. We were much better than everyone else, and that made everyone else angry.

And you decided to be a lame suicider about it.

Which makes it really ironic that you're complaining about Syko's behavior. I think his behavior was lame. But at least I have a moral high ground to make that claim. You do not have the moral high ground to make this claim. You can't claim "oh its so lame to suicide on someone just because they talk a lot of smack", and pretend like you're not guilty of doing that exact same thing yourself.

If you want to call him out for his immaturity, at least be honest enough to admit that you're just as lame.

You ended with about 40% of his networth. Tech isn't worth squat with no defense. He had an economy, and you were dumb enough to pick a fight with someone that could retal you.

Even if you have the military power to grab someone, you should avoid hitting them if they have the economy to retal you. Especially if you're going to hit them more than one time during the weekend.

Simple rule: don't hit people that can retal you. Don't claim "oh, but their defense was so low." If they were able to retal you, then your defense was too low to be grabbing them.

You're the one whose defense was way too weak.

You mean I'm not supposed to do bioterrorism on the bot countries? But it's so much fun giving viruses to bots!

http://www.eestats.com/express/oldcountry/233/98

There's an example of how to grow with only single taps. Even before bots came out, double tapping was not necessary.

So Mr. Ford, is suiciding on someone because they're arrogant on the message boards a lame move?

What happened to you this set was lame, but don't forget, you did the same type of thing for almost the same type of reason to me on FFA.

So I agree with you that it was stupid and immature what he did. But for you to be calling it that is ironic given your history.

Quite close. He was going to finish around rank 15, so I didn't knock him out of the top 10. But I did take out 40 million troops during the last minute of the set without getting caught on any of my spy ops. And since tons of countries have their networths change in the last 5 minutes of the set, you can't really narrow it down that way either.

I knew that they'd have to abuse their mod powers to expose me, but I did it expecting exactly that because I'd seen that type of behavior from them. Everyone would know that it was LaF that did it, but the only way to prove it was to out themselves as abusing their mod powers. And they took the bait.


The rule change that I call the "Rockman rule" is the change they made to humanitarians during the last day of the set, where the humanitarian range tightens up as the end of the set approaches. It was in direct response to my actions using spy ops to take out 20 million networth in the last minute without being caught.

Rockman doesn't even have a 200mil networth finish on Alliance, and the closest he's come was with an explorer techer.

So yeah, leave me out of this.

But I did expose EVO cheating, and got the rules of the game changed in response to my actions that exposed their cheating. So it all depends on what your goal is. If your goal is netting, I'm not even in the top 100 players of all time. But if your goal is finding creative ways to do fun things, then I am one of the best. But I don't think that "best" is the appropriate word for that. If you want to give me the title of most creative, I'll accept that. But the title of "best" belongs with at least 100 other people (conservative estimate) before it goes to me.

Cable - you're one of the most clueless people I've seen on these boards, and that's a pretty impressive feat.

This is an alliance server, not primary. Netting is a team effort here. If an alliance chooses to boost one country rather than going for alliance wide goals, that's their right. There is nothing shameful about what is being done here.

What about the camp in LaF that thinks that the entire alliance is full of people with bloated egos, and that's the characteristic that makes LaF what it is? And yes, I'm one of those people with bloated egos. And its why I fit in so well in LaF.

I figured as much. You had to know that path would be bust.

It's too bad Xinhuan isn't here to give you advice, he'd probably be my pick for the best player of all time.

I think you're the best ever at messing up the destock on a great country. We'll see what happens this set, and if you yet again find a way to not get as much networth as you should be able to get.

There are about 8 or 10 states in the USA where your vote for president matters if its for the Democrat or Republican. In those states, the race between the two is close enough that as a group, the on the fence voters will determine which person that states' electoral votes go to.

In the other 40-42 states, it doesn't really make a difference if the Democrat wins 58-40 or 57-40, or if the Republican wins 62-35 or 61-35. In most states, it's already known where their electoral college votes are going.

In all 50 states it does make a difference if you vote for a Green Party, Libertarian Party, or Constitution Party candidate. For those candidates it does make a difference if they get 1% or 2% in the election nationally.

Your goods for sale:
6,350,113 Bushels on sale for $414 each (Until -9 seconds from now)



They were supposed to have returned to my country already. It says they will be back in negative nine seconds.

Instead of goods automatically staying on the market for 48 hours, let the person choose when selling the goods how long they will stay on the market. You could put another column on the sales menu next to the selling price to let the person enter the hours on the market for each type of item.

This would greatly benefit the TMBR strategy which is hurt quite badly if its goods get stuck on the market. It also lets people naturally control when their stockpile will return to their country. You can already do both these things, but it costs 3 turns, and it recalls all of your goods, not just the ones that you want to recall.

The game mechanics have always been FUBAR. Untaggeds aren't doing a war. They're griefing. They're taking advantage of messed up game mechanics that allow a player to wreck a month of two of another player's hard work without provocation, and with the other player to be unable to defend themself against a dedicated griefer.

If we scrapped the humanitarians rule and the 99 turns protection rule and let people landkill countries within minutes of being created, would you defend it as being "just part of a war game"? Humanitarians and 99 turns of protection are some basic rules against griefing. But there's still a HUGE capability for griefing in this extremely flawed game. There's a difference between a legit war and griefing.

The suiciders are not suiciding because they've been farmed as untaggeds. And we all know this. They're suiciding because of political jealousies about the way one alliance treats other alliances (or just because one alliance does better than other alliances). And they're too cowardly to settle it through alliance to alliance conflict. But it's never about the way untaggeds are treated. It's always about the alliance politics.

George Woodfluff

Not just a cool name, but an awesome writer, too.

Or even if it hasn't been six months, it's still a good time to bring it to the top.

The best way to deal with forum trolls is to put them on ignore so that their posts no longer appear. Please give us this ability.

I've actually only had Ninkasi out in Oregon, but my mother's family was from Oregon. She was born in Corvallis, and my grandfather owned a house in Yachats when I was a kid, and later on owned a house in Seal Rock (about 10 miles south of the Rogue Brewery in Newport). So I've gone out to Oregon a bunch of times for vacation. And I've had both the regular Oatis and the Vanilla Oatis.

I've had Rogue's oatmeal stout and hazelnut brown ale, and both were good, but not good enough to make my favorites. Rogue's oatmeal stout was one of the darker, more charred oatmeal stouts that I've had. But that's not really a quality I am looking for in a stout (although it doesn't turn me off the way a dark fruit type flavored stout will, such as the Allagash Black or Buffalo Bill's Blueberry Oatmeal Stout). I prefer the vanilla or coffee flavors in stouts, and I especially like milk stouts. I also like the smoothness or creaminess of an oatmeal stout, and the Rogue Oatmeal Stout didn't really stick out in that way. I actually like the Deschutes Black Butte Porter and Deschutes Obsidian Stout more than the Rogue offerings.

I also don't like the higher ABV beers as much, which is why I prefer the Founders Porter to the Founders Breakfast Stout. Although the Keegan Ales Joe Mama's Stout and Flying Dog Cujo Stout are both pretty high ABV, and they both made my favorites list.

I tend to drink Stouts about 80-90% of the time, and most of the rest of the time it's a White Ale, except for autumn, when I will drink the Oktoberfest beers. I always get a sixpack of the Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest and a six pack of one other Oktoberfest, and see if any can match up with the original. The Great Lakes Oktoberfest is the only one that's done it so far. The Sam Adams and the Paulaner both came up short (I've only done this tradition for three years). On rare occasions I'll get a Dunkel or Schwarzbier, but never a doppelbock or brown ale.

So yeah, I'm definitely a beer snob.

Because the "cool kids" drink crappy beer because it reminds them of the glory years of their life - high school - where they were the coolest kid around and they drank crappy beer. The uncool kids don't have the same fond memories attached to crappy beer, so they actually drink for taste, rather than drinking as an escape to remind them of high school.

Best example: Al Bundy

Some of my favorites:

Dominion Oak Stout
Flying Dog Kujo Coffee Stout
Left Hand Milk Stout
Duck Rabbit Milk Stout
DuClaw Sweet Baby Jesus (Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter)
Founders Porter
Keegan Ales Joe Mama's Milk Stout
Ninkasi Vanilla Oatmeal Stout

Hoegaarden White Ale
Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

Please do not join LaF. We have too many idiots in training already.

If you're mature and know what the fluff you're doing, then yes, you could join LaF. But if you're immature or have played this game for a while and still haven't figured it out, then please don't join LaF. If you're newer to the game and have a good attitude and you're willing to learn, that'd be great. We need more people like you. But if you've got an attitude and you're not willing to learn, even though you don't know what the fluff you're doing, then please wait your turn. We've got a bunch of people like you already, and we don't need more.

We've got a reputation for being selfish assholes, and rightly so. We've also got a reputation for being the most knowledgeable and the best at the game, and rightly so. We need to fix the first thing, and despite our knowledge, we still haven't figured out how to do that in the 15+ years that it has been a problem. Unfortunately, time has driven away most of the more selfless honorable people, and the game has skewed itself more towards the selfish and dishonorable players.

If we want the game to survive, we need the gaming community to become more selfless and honorable. LaF has its hands full with doing their part towards achieving this goal, so please find another alliance to fix your problems.

I still hold the record for most buildings on Express with a 42k acre fully built country. A couple of countries have had more land, but they weren't anywhere near fully built because of the wars they got into (wars which put them in DR and helped them keep their land). The most impressive thing about my land was that I got it without hitting any country more than once for the entire weekend.

I am not here.

Even if it has been 6 months, it still deserves to go back to the top.

On alliance servers when a country is tagged at the time that it is killed, the player's restart should automatically be placed into that tag.

Life is good.

Congrats on the house.

Hi PG!

Happy socialism day!

I am wearing anarchist black today in mourning of all the Christians that are taking today to celebrate the birth of their false god.

Can someone remind me how you put a person on your ignore list? I know you used to be able to do that, and Heston just earned himself a spot on mine if I can figure out how to do that again.

Those are also bad incidents from our history which I'm very much aware of. Just because I didn't post about those doesn't mean that I didn't know about them. A common theme among Americans is how little we know about history of events outside of the USA. I'm guessing that many more people knew of the Waco incident or the OKC bombing than knew about the election fraud in Colombia in 1970.

I guess you're like those idiots who complain about "why didn't this time a black person murdered a white person and got 50 years in jail get as much media publicity as the time a white person killed a black person and didn't get charged". If I'm going to point out people's ignorance of history, it makes more sense to post about a major event that few people know about than to post about a major event that most people know about.

Also two horrible events in our history that we need to learn from. Our ignorance of history has doomed us to being ignorant of the evil that we support.

He's from Argentina, not Colombia. I'm not a supporter of M-19, or the Polo Democrativo. I'm a supporter of Partido Verde. Despite their failure to tackle transportation problems, I think they're the best option in Colombia. Primarily because they're the ones that would change the culture of Colombia. Polo Democrativo would not change the culture of violence of Colombia. If anything, I would be wearing an Antanas Mockus shirt, not a Che shirt. Antanas Mockus is a pretty awesome dude.

Today is the 45th anniversary of the Colombian electoral fraud of 1970 where the National Front installed a right wing former ambassador to the USA as president despite the electoral victory by left winger Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. This massive injustice started the M-19 movement. One of the many examples in South American history of what the term "democracy" actually means. It means that the people vote, but all that matters is who the US decides should be president.

"Market idiots" are those who try to sell a good that has more supply than demand, and they price it too high, and then they blame other people producing the same good who sold at a price closer to the equilibrium price for being the reason that their own goods didn't sell at a price far above the equilibrium price.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...honesavanh_n_5943098.html

All this talk of shooting toddlers in the face reminded me of the incident last fall where the police threw a flashbang into a baby's playpen while he was sleeping, causing some pretty nasty facial injuries.

The guy the police were looking for wasn't even in the house at the time.

Yet thanks to the nutcases in the USA, no one faces any charges over this crime. Because throwing a flashbang into a toddler's playpen while he is sleeping is something that people like Mr Ford will say is justified.

It's called the Rockman rule. Evo got caught cheating, so they changed the rules in honor of the one who provoked them to break the rules.

wrong

for all-explore techer, you want to go Republic during the explore phase, and then switch to democracy only once you reach about 12k acres, which should take about 12 days

It's 2015 and this thread will not die.