If you don't play for three or four days without a heads up your not doing anyone any good except costing them resources. Plus, I would have liked to keep this guy as an ally (he's a good player) but I don't know if he's coming back, decided if he's not gonna play the set, or whats up.

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This is a very interesting set. Cashers LOVING life.

Exactly and while I agree with Xin on some points, it's that exact feel of being able to throw it away after a week that makes it appealing for teaching purposes. I was able to sharpen up all my skills while primary was going on for my first set back in over a decade. I think it helped me a lot on relearning some of what I should be doing. Analyzing targets ect. I would hate to be a noob on a 60 days server knowing that all your going to be doing is getting pounded for 60 days. That's not a lot of fun and not a good way to learn how to run a real country.

I think for learning purposes and the limited number of days it requires you can really get a feel for game mechanics in general with express.

Honestly, express is the best way to learn. You can practice lots of things, make lots of mistakes without committing 60 days to running a country that might not turn out well. Plus the fast pace in express gives you a really good sense of how to allocate turns, especially on your start up IMHO.

I would always get taken out moving up on solo servers. A group of guys would just mark you for no reason and then GS you into the dirt.

All he had to do was GS with all those stored up?

Get on the ball. I need jets. I just dropped the price on tech for you guys. Let's cycle this money.

PS. THANK YOU!

I don't know, they are really like two different animals. In alliance you have to know what your doing and know how that fits into what the alliance is doing, at least in solo you can focus on improving your singular game instead of getting dictated to or having to fluff your guild because your trying to learn.

Didn't you used to be able to spit on big guys if you were little and not in GDI?

You are more than welcome to whisper for me any time for any help that your looking for.

Or stop selling indust at 3k. Seriously, make them pay more.

I bought a ton of jets today!

Big batch inbound 4.1 hours. BUY BUY BUY. Daddy needs to outrun a retal!

More goodies in 4.1 hours. Get some more you commies. I need nom nom jets.

46 minutes for that cheap indust better have your finger on the trigger.

Nice cheaper indust incoming, buy it all.

Just depends on what strat you are running. Being fat and using your turns is far superior to being fat and not getting to burn any turns while your bloated. Jets are a really good deterrent early I find (as a tyranny) while I think republics and demos probably all X early so are gonna be turret heavy until they get to the point where they must attack to grow.

I've found primary to be a very interesting animal. So much can happen, some times you have to have uber patience and only play enough turns to keep from wasting them while you wait for the right time to ladder climb. At least when your playing a strat that charges from the bottom up. The key is efficiency per turn I feel. If I feel I'm thin, I only attack/build to redi, save the turns, attack again build to redi, save the turns, attack again. Then I go through my normal turn usage. At that point I'm significantly bigger getting a much better payout for my turns. I also help my charge from the pack by really committing to hitting my ideal bpt early. While other people play CS catchup later, your already saving turns from building at 70 instead of 35 (or whatever). I'm sure Commie would have to run it different but the other strats all benefit from this kind of early efficiency in terms of capitulating you to the top instead of hard charging early.

That's kind of what happened. I purposely joined to not net and was trying to sharpen my teeth a little bit learning the etiquette and what not. I mean its totally not their fault my country sucked, I just wasn't flexible enough in what I was committed to doing to adapt. Had I had more familiarity with alliance I probably could have converted. In hindsight, I could have just switched to demo techer, taken the hit, and then proceeded from their. Unfortunately, I put myself in a position that required me to attack to gain land and without us going actively to war it left me with no viable targets to net around. Furthermore, based on what I read land trading was kind of frowned upon so I was stuck. I'll probably give it another crack next set. I learned a lot through the first two weeks of play.

I'm telling ya, demo cashers got it made.

I found this out firsthand with my experiment at the start of this set on this server. I needed much more communication and coaching than I thought and really didn't have what I needed to be doing explained very well after only having ever played primary. With learning the ropes and changing what we were doing 3 different times, I was totally thrown off on how to recover when I had committed myself to what I thought would be a viable strat. At that point, I realized I was only going to get the Tag I was in, in trouble, so I decided to cut ties for this round. It wasn't a matter of me getting owned per se, rather having a terrible setup of a country that I was assuredly not going to enjoy or be any help with throughout the set.

Good thing I loaded up on that cheap oil this morning. I was waiting for some shenanigans. This set is screaming casher right now.

Terrific techers already selling at 3k. WTG. *facepalm* This certainly might be the set I convert.

PS Nov 9, 08:28 Cry Freedom (#117) Sudnar (#25) 243 A
First blood?

It's easy to point out the real Bibi based on the little information I have.

I guess it was implied since that's all I know how to play.

I didn't think it was too bad for my first full set back. I should have teched longer and gained land more aggressively at the start. Oh and GDI, must remember to get into GDI.

Need two more full-term techers.

PS. I only know how to tech.

Looking allies for next set. Defense/Tech/Intel Plan on teching.

If he wanted to matter he would have hit someone that was going to finish higher than me, but whatever. At least give me some logic.

Aye, and if you would have hit me it would have been understandable, but this guy....... LOLz.

Would you save that for mid-set when GDI expenses actually start getting up there so that you could use those spare turns early for growth? (Techer)

I thought the same thing. He can't even troll right.
Yeah, I didn't know how it important it had become after over a decade. I won't make that mistake twice. It's the reason I was sitting on a ton of SDI. You would have thought he might have gone after someone that double tapped him, but no, he's got to hit someone else.

*If* It happens to be someone from alliance that thinks that I somehow wronged them, well this isn't alliance, and going cross court isn't cool. Plus I lost way more than than I gained in those exchanges so....

Anyways lesson being, GDI from now on. The key question is, is the GDI reduced cost worth the expenditure of bonus points.

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Didn't do anything to this clown all game. This is why people left this game. Guess I should have joined GDI. I bet this guy doesn't even down content in SWTOR either. Still stuck on NiM Draxus I'll bet. LOLS.

I've been playing express pretty much every week since I've been back. Taking this week of though. It is definitely a pace that better suits me.

Could have cared less about the retals. Cared more about the strings. I kept hitting you guys even though I knew I was gonna lose land. I like hitting people. That is what is fun for me. I had a list of 30 potential people to hit and I could only hit two every 3 days. SNOOOOOOZE.

Clearly, didn't have that kind of patience. Being from primary we come out the gates swinging. XD

And by swinging I mean calculatedly landgrabbing fatzos.

Thought I'd give it a shot. Clearly this place moves at its own speed, much to slow for me. Dedicated retalers, 6-days before I can landgrab a dedicated retaler who retaled for someone else, everyone on the DNH list. For being the primary war server, there are a crapton of rules. Seriously, I got to wait 3 days to take a hit, then I can't hit the hitter for 3 days. (That's 10% of total gametime in days) So your telling me I should All-X on the primary war server. Doesn't make sense to me. More power to you all if your flavor. Clearly it was not mine.

Everyone good luck on this round. Catch you all in express and primary.

Free land 87.

Too many rules. Too much pattycake. Will be self-terminating in 72 hours. I'm going back to primary where the game still makes sense.

Went to make my rounds at work checking stuff and forgot to finish my destock. Crap I would have top 10ed as a farmer this set. I think I have this farming deal figured out.

So I've got the start down its after that 2nd batch explore that I start getting wrecked. I think I should go tech start then into farming. I'm good at teching, I think I can make that transition if I set up properly. Maybe I'm going about gaining land as a farmer in express all wrong as well. Maybe I shouldn't even both with batch exploring and just slow roll it.