same here

Problem with farmer is you want to be fat. When you fat, rainbows get jealous and do dumbass things.

In fact, thats not even a problem with farmer. Thats just "the problem"... dumbass rainbows that can't think past the next turn.

Like playing chess against a bot with no lookahead. You'll always win, but it gets old real quick.

LCN was 11th again. reprazent.

Lol. Why would SoF subject themselves to another beating, can't imagine morale particularly high after last set's performance.

You wouldn't stand even a remote chance against a war prepped LaF.

...did you think the little demo casher would be a pushover? I love the part when you hit me 4x me and tried to make out my missiles were unreasonable.

Calling in #20 was such weaksauce, looks like he gonna be homeless too now :)

Don't worry you only have to survive 3 more weeks of this

Five dollar patron status!

great work!

Incredible scenes!

gg

DETAH!

HELLO!

3 x Bonus turns :D... and my scientists heard my pleas!

https://www.ikea.com/...shelf-white-art-90282180/

got a stack of these around the house. what they can support depends on what you fixe them to the wall with, and what the wall is made from. we have red brick walls (typical in UK). Fixed with e.g 6 x no6 3-4" screws they will happily support e.g full bottles or books along their full length.

Beware the shorter versions are fixed differently (read craply!).

Likelihood of New Development: 4.xxx% Per Turn

Wish my scientists would throw me a fricken' bone here...

Will he log on in time or not.... :D

CONFIRMED.

Keep up the good work btw :)

confirmed

I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids! 3rd not bad in the circumstances :)

I agree. Yet I have still found myself purple in the past, having not (afaict) broken rules.

Not being killed is also part of the game. I don't like that doing a KR on someone that double tapped me might get me deleted just because someone else attacked them as well.

Like I said though, you have a tough job, this is not a criticism of you guys.

Whoever you double tap

think he still has the bone for me. I waited and sure enough, his spies came sniffing around.

As a demo techer last set I was ill equipped for war. Not so this set :) poor lad.

Dunno where you got the info, but well done :)

Trash as I may be, I recognise a "villain" is a powerful element in any RPG - everyone had their reasons, and that was mine. I think in that regard we did ok, certainly generated a bit of excitement in this thread! At the very least, I hope it was a slightly more sophisticated effort than bayfluff most recent attempt. Karma done me good there eh :) possibly denied me the win, c'est la vie! Well done bayrock, really though you should have had me struggling for t10.

Loads of Easter Eggs still to find though for anyone that likes that kind of thing. For everyone else, move on nothing more to see here.

Amongst all the BS I posted on this thread one thing is true. I'm actually just a pansy netgainer at heart. The funny thing is I had ~40 sets in LCN and never made a t10 lol.

Special thanks to MONSTERS for giving me a chance to get back on the bike. Great guys.

With Love

Rainbow Kiss (*giggles*)

Seems to me the natural conclusion to that is that idiots keep grabbing people like me, people like me keep killing, eventually i'ts the people like me that get gone and the idiot grabber sticks around to drive out the next player that just wants to net.

I know your job is hard, i'm not trying to make it harder. I'd rather kill and risk it looking like collusion then let some all jet n00b screw someone else's reset as well as mine.

Having said that i'm sure you can probably figure out whether there was conllusion with the info you have available, and I assume that me not being deleted says more about he situation than my rambling on here :)

The real winner of the reset was bayrock who single handefly managed to keep all of monsters on less than 100k acres. Remarkable achievement.

Great job!

Yeah I dunno what 107’s beef was, dude wasted his missiles.

#87 had a very legitimate reason to kill him, and was annoyed he had to come back for a second run

#87 doesn't give a damn what anyone else was doing, and in fact had not even checked the news

#87 was also annoyed at how his scientists kept producing goddamned nuclear missiles :)

For me killing people for multi taps is de rigueur. The GDI mechanic combined with the number of turns on hand makes it a pretty standard response.

I've been deleted before for killing players because someone else has hit them, and that's a risk I'm quite happy to take because at the point where you are killing someone you have already sacrificed the reset, so being deleted is of no concern.

So during the normal course of play, a well run country will by around turn 800-1000 (sooner the better) stop growing and start stockpiling (indy excepted - thats a whole different ball game!).

so for the rest of the round they will run turns and there production will be such that they end up with too much cash on hand to run turns (> $2bn and you start losing money to corruption). In order to get around this you will want to convert that excess cash to goods that you can then store on market (sell it at a high price that is unlikely to sell) - typically this would be bushels. Similarly for a farmer, you would want to be storing the majority of bushels, as they too suffer from decay if they are left "on-hand". These bushels are know as your stockpile (or just stock).

At the end of the round (or whenever you decide you need to jump) you would liquidate these either by selling on public or private depending on what you feel will get you best results, the immediacy with which you need the funds, the risk you are prepared to take with pricing etc

When everything comes together you can end with well over 100m bushels to liquidate giving you several billion in cash that you need to spend. You spend this on military, and your NW jumps.

The reason you don't put (all) your revenue into military as you go along, is because military upkeep costs (aka expenses) begin to compromise your profitability.

This assumes that you are running a specialist strat and not a rainbow. Rainbows don't really work very well, and I doubt have any need to think about jumping as they live a fleeting hand to mouth style existence.

Essentially you want to maximise your $/NW ratio and there are a number of factors that play into that.

For example, if you are a Theo with a nice cheap private market you will want to try and spend all of your stockpile there, you need to figure out regeneration rate and how for out you should start buying it out. In doing this you are taking on additional military expense in the closing stages, so you want to look at how much that hurts revenue. In express the numbers generally work such that its better to jump wholly off your private as a Theo and take the hit on expenses. If you are lower acreage, then your private might not regenerate fast enough and you might have to seek some support from the public.

If your private is not so hot, then you need to be looking at whats going on in the public and remember its really thin, so take your chances soon.

If your revenue per turn is low (e.g a lower land techer) then it might be better jumping early and not running turns in order to be able to unload all your stock on your private.

Mostly trying to a do a full oil destock isn't going to pay dividends, as the oil market tends not to be big enough to support it.

Lots of variables, you kind of have to play it by ear.

On express your only real option is turns or free GDI. Math says GDI is slightly better than extra revenue from turns if you get big enough, but there might be some reason why getting that extra turn *right now* is worth more.

That rainbow is really working out for ya.

I've been purpled several times in express for collusion - slightly different rules. On each occasion I have appealed because I have not colluded. Sometimes I have been restored, sometimes I've had to accept it - I can see why it looks like collusion in news, and its the mods decision. They cannot be seen to (and do not, in my experience) play favourites.

Childish tantrums on AT is definitely not going to win anyone over :) it might give us a good chuckle though whilst we wait for the wars to play out, and get back to a fully competitive netting reset.

It's a game, you should play to have fun. If you nee to run multis, you are doing it oh so wrong.

I think the question was more - "Why choose to do it that way?" it doesn't really add to security, just causes frustration when you are logged on your phone and move in and out of wifi.

True dat.

when your abs of steel get you baleeted heheh :)

oh my that looks painful

I'm the same person I was last reset. Yet somehow I'm different.

To add to that I think the defining factor will be how well LaF utilise SoL (or perhaps how SoL contribute).

Having warred with LaF last set, can't see how they don't dominate. They run tight chats and even though I don't like war as a rule, I quite enjoyed warring with them. Not quite ready to give up tree hugging yet though ;)

sucks when a side has a bunch of players online and a bunch of turns, its gonna happen quick.

at least these days you can get an SMS - and if you lucky you get to wall, I don't remember such a luxury back in the day, and killing was just as quick as I recall, at least not orders of magnitude slower.

warbots (might) make kills more efficient in terms of break, but I don't think they are the root cause of the particular problem you are outlining

1A has players with at least a cursory understanding of the game - enough get out of "the minors" so to speak :)

Happy may 23rd!

When I was a kid we watched shows, and they did whatever they wanted and we just thought it was great.

The biggest problem today - entitlement.

"WAAAH I want the show to do this or that"

Shut the fluff up and write your own show.

/rant

cash start - keep pop grow at max whilst building mostly Ent and CS, all spare cash in tech. when pop growth slows bring your res up until they are 50/50

farm start - some farms, some CS, some more farms, some more CS

just make it up as you go along :D

disclaimer: never won a server ever ;)

oh they were all fine grabbing me, just weren't so happy with the retals...

On the one hand, I feel like you are vet. Full on ABs for 1 grab suggests it.

OTOH I feel you are a n00b because you are now GSing me just like Xeron00bia.

So which is it? Has thou lost an eighth?

The whole reset.

Still not dead.

Absolute. Clowns. (Without Guns).

I think the main mistake happened 14 years ago when Mummy-Rock let Pappy-Rock get to 4th base

haha what a dufus

GS'd me

I thought this was bad:

2019-05-13 17:24:17 SS MrTryme (#42) Take the red pill (#31) 46A (54A)

but you win hands down.

Thats a special kind of idiot right there.

I'm a demo techer.

I still fancy my chances give his most recent op.

my turn for xeron00bia attention, thought I'd start afresh in game B.

ill advised grab from him, inevitable retal, even more inevitable RoR from the xen00b.

inexplicably bad!