meta gaming pfff.

I always play casher, expect it :P

Pretty much what legion said, work the markets to keep value on the stock, but the early game I'd prefer the rep: the bonuses to explore and pci is pretty boss in the early game.

Once good tech levels are reached with a minimal stockpile to start working the market, then I'd switch, continue as demo and destock as demo, make profits late game clearing market.

That's how I would do it, mind you, I'm a pretty avg netgainer, I have no idea how well it would work, but in theory, it should be awesome.

I'd rather rep->cash switch to demo later.

japan... matrix...

I'm afraid to click that link. Will I have an epileptic fit?

cool :P

Denied.

You must play or at least stay around on the forums until you have time to play.

think i get it.

jawn == fluff in white people speak.

you see that fluff?
damn that fluff was good.
fluff this fluff.

Clearly you can't decide who pwns more with netgaining, so when are we all gonna see that awesome Laf v Evo war?

You can't leave...


We wont let you!

Pff, extortion sounds better.

Is this .. I don't even...

You mean be an ally and protect a weaker country in exchange for money? Like, extortion?

You should join La Cosa Nostra, you'd fit right in with that kind of mentality.

http://www.boxcarhosting.com/...start.php?clanID=LCNostra

"
Maybe I Wont Vacation: Du
NeuHessen: what?
Maybe I Wont Vacation: Du hast
NeuHessen: whatever
Maybe I Wont Vacation: Du hast mich
"

LOL

I'm cashing at $678 per acre atm and techs aren't maxed out.

<3 ASM

move ah, 1eh
mov dx, [msg]
int 21h

Isn't the whole point of OO to keep each object distinct and have each object maintain it's own data for greater reuseability?

The functions that manipulate the account data should be in the account class, not the banking system class. Otherwise, what ozzite said.

account
account->setdata()
system->account->setdata()

edit for ()'s, obviously even if it makes no sense gotta do what the assignment actually asks of you.

20mil+ is good.
25-30mil is exceptional.

At least, from what I've seen.

good read! keep it up, you have a new fan!

/like

The beauty of this game is in its simplicity.

tyrannies, dicts and fascists should ignore humanitarians ;P

Already done, so were good now.

Rockman: I wasn't thinking of it like that :P

Should post NSFW,

also, best war dec ever.

It always bothered me about stocking and farmers.

Cashers stock food, techers stock food, oilers stock food, etc.
Then farmers stock .. food?

If there was another stable commodity farmers could actually take advantage of those higher food prices without being a demo and the food market might actually be stabilized against the massive peaks.

Perhaps a floor price for oil on private, gives two options (or one) for most strats outside their own production commodity for stocking.

Don't take that crap from a suicider Monex, take that Mofo down!! Declare war, etc.

5332^(4726^(9402^(6681^8390)))

Isn't that itself a representation of a number?

That would be cool.

yes please.

Minor change for convenience.

Yes, republics are so underpowered. Please buff us. (lol).

This forum is dead..

I think i might be an alchoholic. im serious.

beer # 7

I made the thing say something funny lol.
bidden bodden bidden, bod bid bod bod bidden.
bidden bodden bidden, bod bid bod bod do!

Everybody wants to play Indy, hell I want to play indy. Why the hell not, you get to netgain AND spend the entire set in the top of the networth charts while pwning sheep and taking land.

I'd donate some money to help the game.. just saying.
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I think I've made this point before, but can't remember now. The game itself, no matter what game it is, will be played by the games mechanics and "abused" as much as possible for the benefit of the player; at the expense of other players for the pursuit of perfection, power and "winning".

It does not matter what type of game it is, how old it is or how well knit the community is. If something within the rules allows something to happen, and that something is beneficial to the participant (or extremely harmful to a competitor/enemy), it will happen.

The changes needed are those of game mechanics, this can be seen with attempts, such as the new GDI rules on express and now primary, to curtail practices that many consider harmful to the growth and stability of the game.

I'm about to start beer #3, so I'll stop typing now. (yes im a cheap ass drunk)

Needs more bus/res tech. Otherwise looks good.

POSTING FOR SHINEY THINGS!

I could have done much better. More defense at key points would have stopped more LG's than I took.

Also not blowing most of my stock a few days before destock time on about 6mil jets to make a pointless retal :P

Could use some help/ideas with destocking. No bushel stock at the moment, I've got orders up to get some, just enough to cash the next days turns.

I figure to keep cashing out until the very end, but with around 24 hours left in the set, buy out the private after running turns, sell bushel stocks and log back in again before it ends, cash turns/buyup.

Is that a decent plan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgiPU8jft4U

Ok, I watched it.

I will when the price drops down some more :)

I don't go to war over a single grab, unless it's the third/fourth or more grab i've taken in a single day because greedy people can't bother to check their targets news. And in that case, I want the *option to teach greedy people a lesson.

* which may or may not happen, depending on how well I can recover from the hits and the response of the greedy grabber to my threats.

It's not that I want to wreck people for a single landgrab. It's that I want the option to do so if I chose to.

Nice :)

I'm just starting to stock now.

I can't stand that GDI implementation. Specifically that free hit that you can't do jack about.

How about modifying it:

Only SS/PS, spy ops, unless war is declared on the GDI country.

Cannot declare war on a GDI country unless they've made a hostile move towards you in the last X hours. This one specifically to prevent the issue of an early landgrab leading to an end of set suicide, if you want to go at them, do it within a reasonable time frame.

War lasts until cancelled.

Late set suiciders? Simply don't attack them. Problem solved. Keep the normal GDI networth ranges or maybe even narrow them for normal attacks.

Sounds reasonable to me, what do you all think?

Switch government to a republic for a basic casher.

Build more construction sites, much more. Get your build per turn up to at least 50. Then work on building up enterprise/residence and getting some technology (bus/res) to go along with it.

"You have already voted today. Or someone has on your IP gateway"

top100arena site:
That one is a pain in the ass, it takes forever to load, sometimes doesn't, and now it likes to rob me of bonus points.

Shouldn't they tie into our EE accounts so that EE can decide on if we've voted or not? This third party deciding if we've done a vote is bogus.

Ideally, enough turrets that nobody can break you and take your land.

Of course, if you invest in tech and try to build a good country, you won't have enough resources to keep your defenses up to that level in the early-mid game.

Turrets are the best for pure defense, but because someone, somewhere will always have enough military (usually commies/techers) to hit you, then you need to ensure that they don't hit you too much.

Keep enough turrets to limit them to one or two hits at a time from readiness losses/ military being away on PS and enough tanks that it will take less than a day to be able to turn them into a parking lot from AB's if someone gets greedy and farms you.

Troops? You can probably live without them, useful for a casher to protect population or to destroy food stocks left in the country, but on the solo servers, killing a country is improbable.

As you get into the mid-late game however, prevention isn't the best course, if you plan on netgaining, you'll be trying to limit expenses while saving cash, keeping up adequate defense is fine, but going overboard to make yourself unbreakable is a little too much. Once you have enough cash on hand from stocking, you can always retaliate buy just buying enough jets to get your land back.

If in doubt, check the news in your game, mark off the numbers of people who are landgrabbing and spend a few turns spying on them and see what their militaries are at, so you can adjust accordingly.

You did make spies right? So many people in tourney have terrible spals...

edit: this is one of possibly many opinions, so don't take it as the absolute truth.