This is ridiculous. Everytime I post food someone posts it for 3 bucks lower. I haven't been able to even try to get out of the blocks.

Worst set of my life. This has been a dumpster fire.

Dear Diary,

I think I have overestimated my patience lol.

I'm a gambler and I'm patient.

Or buy up what you want to sell so that only yours is available..... at a premium. >:)

No more foods until I get some cheap tech.

East coast. It's almost always around 10 to 11am when the site slowdown occurs.

That's because your not teching AG. Give me ag tech and teh richez, unlock u will.

The quick use of turns makes it very tough. Based on my first set experience as a farm it seems that it takes them a while to get the ball rolling. Like those first 400 turns or so I'm like where's my cash, I'm phat, my butt is big, and I just kept getting popped. I was struggle to have enough defense. Furthermore, lacking enough cash due to keeping up defenses and trying to gain land in the start makes it much tougher to allocate money for tech. We are in the last 30 something hours and I'm not even close to my tech goal yet. I'm testing it out here to gauge its use in primary since I've only ever teched in primary and thought next time I'd try something new (I probably won't). I like grabbing and farmers seem to be able to afford to grab much later into the set on primary than a techer would and that idea appeals to me.

Incoming. I had to setup some stuff today techwise. I got a miniload inbound. Will have way more tomorrow if your patient. XD

Your welcome... MuHAHHAHAAHAHA.

If you know a retal is coming can't you just prepare for it?

So your saying this was a bad set to try to learn how to be a farmer. FML

Also, thank you all for your comments. When I used to play Earth 2025, I only ever ran Tyranny Techer. So all this help has been greatly appreciated.

For something that's so fast paced it muchs it pretty darn tough to shore up defenses. As a techer there is more flexibility to wait and research say weapons tech to stout your defense instead of buying straight up turret protection. I think my start was very very poor. I think I need to build maybe 1.5k to 2k industrials before I branch down the farming route so that I'm banging out protection as I batch explore to go into farming mode.

Lol, we'll I totally fd up this set. Funny I figured casher out no problem and I've always been able to tech but diz farming business is hard.

#banned

Tech your little hearts out so I can nom nom Ag tech so you can nom nom food.

-Nom

I was left exposed several times waiting on sales on the public market. Heck I had bushels sit at best price for 4 hours last night. I got popped 3 times.

I think that was part of the problem.

I've stopped there for now. I figured 12k acreage with some earthquakes thrown in. Maybe that's going to be a little to low this set since its been extended. I know what to do when I get bigger and have income but this start sucked and its where I'll need to improve. Will probably run this back next express as well. I'm finally at the point where I'm getting enough bushels to buy the milt and stuff I need. A casher was pretty much a techer in regard to having to actively burn turns earning your income. As a farmer there are just times where I'm like what the heck am I supposed to do.

I have 57 bpt.

I wasn't 100% sure and I was like fluff what if I sent it to the wrong dude and was locked into no tech gain for 72 hours.

Not sure if its just me or not but sometimes there will be 15 or 20 minutes where the site just wont load or loads very slow.

Should I have slow explore/built that acreage?

Clearly my start sucked. I figured out casher well enough but I just don't have a handle on this farming deal. I guess I should not have batch explored so heavily but I just assumed that that's what you were supposed to do. I'm having a hard time grasping the intended purpose of my turns since I'm not teching and not attacking. Once I'm fully built then what?

Country number.

Filled

Apparently it did. 3 attacks dang it.

Do these explores make my butt look big.

But that will make me fat. I hate playing fat.

I probably should have gone with a tech start since all I know how to do is tech.

I have all these extra turns what do I do. I guess I cash?

Those ideas are solid. I just think in express turn count isn't nearly as important as primary. Maybe use decay early for greatest long term effect then food booms later.

I had a similar situation happen to me yesterday.

Resource decay with my bonuses?

I've decided to go demo farmer for express instead. I think I'd like tyranny farming more in primary. I've never been a farmer before so nows a good time to test it. :)

Dear Diary,

The more things change, the more they say the same. That is what I love about this game. Simple landgrabs turn to blood baths. Good times.

Primary/Express
I thought it would be a nice change of pace. I raid alot so I' cool with teamwork.
I'm flexible. Proficient with tyr techer.
East coast.

I'm interested in playing a more group based style of Earth. In my history with the game, I've never played in a group based server so I'm not exactly sure how it would play out for myself or the group I would join.

He is true. Cheating did/does make this game smaller; however, its on the admins to monitor the activity and make the call. That's something that has always been an issue with earth 2025. I was always a decent enough player but I was always systematically targeted by what I believed to be multi-country players who would run dedicated GSers to clear out their competition or people that had grabbed them (their main country). Especially hard as a tyranny because people get butt hurt when you grab them. That's our big bonus we have to use it. It was/is never anything personal. Unfortunately, some people must "win" at any cost and break the rules. Others are just not good players and whine that there are so many "cheaters". To me its probably not as big an issue these days and probably falls somewhere in between. You also have to think do these guys make money monitoring this game? Probably not. Therefore cheaters and still going to be around. I'm not claiming someone cheated but if they did they have nothing to feel proud of imho. I'm proud of my finishes because I earned them.

Truth.

Being a techer is fun. You are right about the money though, some days your stuck. You have to be willing to only play your your attack (and spy)for the day and save your turns over the course of 3 or 4 days to catch back up. I've had to do that at least 4 times now.

PS please don't sell your tech for too cheap! I may have to "consolidate" the sector and do a corporate merger (probably not but it was fun to say). XD

Dear Diary,

I wasted my PS for the day. Some guy ABd a guy I was setting up to PS like 2 minutes before I launched my attack. I launched my attack and oh so few acres with an unfortunate amount of jets lost per acre return. Ain't that a fluffing waste. Apologies to whomever I hit, clearly your having a worse day than me.

-SkyKing

Oil prices are making it hard. As a tyranny I'd prefer to find smaller targets and SS them for land but based on the landscape price of oil is ridiculous to do anything but maximize those drops with PS.

This is more along the lines of what I was trying to figure out.