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eManny

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Sep 26th 2013, 21:35:53

Thanks guys.

And just to verify, bonuses are multiplicative? e.g.
100,000*1.25*1.30*1.09 (let's say that 9% is defensive bonus)

eManny

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Sep 26th 2013, 3:07:26

Edit

Ok one more question. When are the gov't bonuses and weapon tech bonuses calculated?

For example, player A has 2 def. allies (B and C)
Player A has 130% weapon tech and is a dictator.

Player A has 100,000 defense points (not accounting weapon & gov't bonuses)
Player B has 200,000 defense points
Player C has 80,000 defense points

What is Player A's total defense points? is it...
1. (100,000 + 200,000/4 + 80,000/4)*1.30*1.25 or
2. (100,000*1.40*1.25) + 200,000/4 + 80,000/4 or
3. something else?

Thanks in advance!

Edited By: eManny on Sep 26th 2013, 3:07:41
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eManny

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Sep 21st 2013, 14:21:20

The food spike could be all those tech start cashers that wanted to batch explore like 100 freakin turns. And of course to do that you must not run out of food, lol.

Could be other things like farmers converting to indy too.

Not sure...

Also Qazulight, I think most people have under 750k turrets around the 1.5-2.5M NW range, because well, to do 5 PS's a day requires 1M + jets...

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Sep 20th 2013, 21:08:50

Hmm has top-feeding already begun? I see some pretty big LGs 1K +

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Sep 18th 2013, 22:50:55

I officially feel like a turd.

But thanks! :)

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Sep 18th 2013, 21:48:53

For two days in a row I'm getting a display issue with the second from the top bonus. The site won't display any text for me to type, nor is the box visible.

Anyone else getting this?

eManny

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Sep 18th 2013, 21:47:38

weeeee

eManny

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Sep 18th 2013, 2:33:28

Thanks

eManny

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Sep 18th 2013, 2:05:03

Ok, I got one more question:

Let's say that I am attacking a country that has a total of 100,000 'defense points' (e.g. counting everything, troops, tanks, turrets, tech, allies, govt bonus etc...)

How many 'offense points' do I need to be successful in a landgrab? 100,001? 10% more? how much?

Thanks in advance

eManny

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Sep 14th 2013, 18:20:46

How can a single person have the market power to buyout oil/food/jets/turrets to full?

At least tech prices are low-ish (compared to last set at least?)

Jeez I can't even play my freakin turns hahaha =[

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Sep 14th 2013, 16:46:11

The Public market is totally sold out.
Come on commies, stop slackin' and sell some goods :)

eManny

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Sep 13th 2013, 2:20:24

yeehaw

eManny

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Sep 6th 2013, 23:20:11

+4 Roar

eManny

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Sep 4th 2013, 15:23:15

Looking for one D ally and one Intel ally also!

PM me, will have a good set I can feel it ;)

eManny

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Sep 3rd 2013, 0:45:14

And I got maybe 300K tech stolen. But I spared the guy who stole from me because he stopped after I mailed him =)))

Coulda lobbed 10 missles at him hehe =)

eManny

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Sep 3rd 2013, 0:44:17

Yeah blid, I did not accept your intel invite because I had no spies.

I didn't play in 10 years I had no idea what I was doing until the end.

eManny

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Sep 3rd 2013, 0:40:09

I was indeed Baluba

Rofl, I'm gonna have to see if I will play next round or not, now that I know what I'm doing I no longer have excuses :(

Cheers

eManny

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Sep 1st 2013, 20:00:31

Ill finish with 75M NW
Not bad for screwing up at every step, and my first reset in 10 years ;)

What's 75M going to land me? Is that top 25?

eManny

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Aug 24th 2013, 15:42:08

Can we get a chart on this?

e.g. % of opponent's NW vs. expected land gain?

Or am I asking for too much?

eManny

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Aug 21st 2013, 23:28:21

DERP DERP

eManny

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Aug 20th 2013, 21:24:41

hmm yeah, I was expecting it to stay at like $60 until a week from the end. But people are responding to the price drop and even the farmers are selling @ $40-$45

Won't make prices go up unless people are going to stock food.

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Aug 20th 2013, 21:06:57

I'm having the world's flufftiest stock.
I'm so far out of loop it's funny. Bought food for $65 now it's trending @ $45.

Teeeeeeeeeeeerible.
Next set I'm going to git PHAT and blow my shiet on the PM.

Strategies changed in the last 10 years rofl :))

eManny

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Aug 17th 2013, 22:51:37

I read what I just wrote and it's a bit confusing.
I am pro-GDI for the most part, but I believe it can be tweaked a bit to be even better.

For most of the guys here that regularly finish top, you must also understand that without the 'newbies' this game will just die out. After all, having 30 players in 1A will hardly be interesting.

So there needs to be something done to address the GDI-related issues through the eyes of those that sit near the bottom as well.

P.S I'm nor bottom nor at the top if I recall my success in most of my attempts 10 or so years ago in e2025 lol.

eManny

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Aug 17th 2013, 22:34:07

On one side, it is frustrating to get grabbed by 20 different players once, and not do anything about it. It is also easy to go down that road once you make the 'news' front page, everyone joins in like sharks, and you lose too much land.

On the other hand, you can grab a country once for 200A then have someone hit you with 10 missiles and 20 ABs because they were having a bad day "next guy that hits me will get it".

So GDI was likely invented to discourage multiple grabs on a country from the same attacker. Although it begs the question, why doesn't GDI (as was previously suggested) allow 1 special attack to be made (excluding missiles) against a landgrabber?
This way, an attacker has to at least match the tanks and troops of the person they want to grab.

I hope I make sense.

eManny

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Aug 17th 2013, 20:07:12

Who is playing # 179?

eManny

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Aug 17th 2013, 17:20:42

Filled :)

Thanks.

eManny

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Aug 16th 2013, 20:21:52

close to 15M turrets

please pm me or send me country # if you're interested.
must have at least 10 mil or close please ;)

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Aug 15th 2013, 23:16:13

KAKA

eManny

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Aug 9th 2013, 0:00:42

Just to add:

If these changes result in more people playing indy, it will no longer favour them.

My comment is really about what changes will do to what strategy people will opt to play next round :)

eManny

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Aug 8th 2013, 23:59:27

Will these changes benefit Indies significantly?

Considering that more jets will be wasted I reckon that's going to have an upward pressure on jet prices. Even if indies build more jets to compensate for higher losses, they will still have to keep on their turret count to not get grabbed/retald too easily.

Just a thought, what do you guys think these changes will do to the composition of farmer/indy/casher/oiler/techer in Primary?

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Aug 7th 2013, 16:05:12

And another question. Is this the point in round where people jump in NW to start feeding on the top 50? Or are they jumping to defend against possible topfeeds/retals?

Ive noticed some players jumped 7M in 2 days

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Aug 7th 2013, 16:00:16

Does the private market refresh based on turns given or turns spent?

eManny

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Aug 7th 2013, 1:02:56

Will there be enough units on market for a jump? Doesn't seem like the game is as big as it used to be (Primary used to have 5K + when 'mehul' was running things).

There are currently no jets on market for example.

So how does this work?

eManny

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Aug 7th 2013, 0:23:00

Alright, so some of these questions are probably pretty easy, but I will ask anyways...

1. Does a spy operation (to check for # of units) count as an attack? e.g. if I do a spy op then a PS can the guy start nuking me?

2. Whats a good SPAL ? (for a casher let's say)

3. Do people spy op before PSing or do they go in according to news/nw/land/gut feel (this might sound stupid, but I went blindfold this set and I got 90% + success rate)

Thanks in advance, probably more to follow :D

eManny

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Aug 7th 2013, 0:06:47

I hope I get grabbed again this set @ 6K Acres for 300A so that I can retal 1 month later for 4K + :)

Makes no sense to me but if the top dogs go by it, "OK" :)

I will even post the # of turrets I have :P

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Aug 7th 2013, 0:02:08

When abouts to bushels crash? 2 days before the set, or 1 week before?

Trying to figure out a stockpile strategy, which likely will fail ;) haha

eManny

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Aug 6th 2013, 23:50:38

are the prices going to stay at $98/jet? that seems ridiculously low...

And bushels will drop or what?

Silly questions probably but I haven't played in like 10 years lol ;))

eManny

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Aug 6th 2013, 20:32:35

When do prices for goods skyrocket typically? 1 week before end of set?

eManny

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Aug 4th 2013, 19:18:14

What is FS?

Anyways, by not having a retal window benefits lower-end players. I am not sure why you would want to be part of that group.

Top players do not, and should not wait to retal when it benefits them "way more", because that will exponentially piss off their target more. It will end up in both players getting their set ruined.

If I get grabbed for 1K acres, then wait until my target has 50,000 Acres to retal, and get 6K, that's not called a retal anymore...

If you think that's OK... that's fine. But I suspect 99% of the time it wont be seen as a retal anymore...

eManny

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Aug 4th 2013, 17:35:23

72hours makes more sense to me than doing a retal on an attack that happened one month ago.

It is too easy to do a successful retal in an 'unlimited' window.
It is not about 'enforcing' a specific window, but it's about realizing what would piss someone off and what wouldn't.

If people know they topfed, they know a retal is coming.
On the other hand, if you grab a guy with 2M NW and one month from then he happens to grab you, that is just not going to be let go of.

So it's not about 'enforcement' it's about not pissing eachother off.

my 2cents anyways :)

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Aug 4th 2013, 0:40:18

if you have units on the market (not yet sold), do you pay upkeep costs for them?

eManny

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Aug 3rd 2013, 20:27:19

when do cashiers/indies start the stockpile and stop the attacking phase? I figured some should have already done so, but judging by the land amounts required to win the game, it will be another week before ppl stop attacking...

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Aug 3rd 2013, 20:13:18

I am a returning old-school player as well.
Started off thinking I will just do an all-x strat but realized that doesn't work anymore.

I'm kinda skinny but cash decently :)

What does topfeeding mean anyway? Above you in NW or something like top 25?

I remember grabbing some guy in top 50 last week, I logged on everyday scared lol >.>

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Jul 29th 2013, 23:03:17

yeehaw

eManny

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Jul 22nd 2013, 14:03:55

WORD

eManny

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Jul 18th 2013, 17:41:42

Yes, of course.

The optimal decision around BPT varies quite a bit, such as when you get grabbed, or whatever. Sometimes it's better to rebuild the CS you've lost to get the BPT where it used to be, sometimes not.

Some people go over their optimal BPT because they have no other way of spending turns (e.g. Do I cash? or build a CS?)

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Jul 18th 2013, 15:54:14

Hi,

Here is how I calculated my goal BPT based on my final Land goal:
(I don't claim correctness nor innovation, however this might give a rough idea for those who care ;))

Let X1 = # of CS built
Let X2 = # of turns spent building

Total turns spent (TS) = X1 + X2

TS = #CS + (Land Goal / (CS/4 + 5))
The idea is to minimize the amount of turns spent building on your land goal. The assumption is that you will build most of ur CSs early on (and most people do!)

I dont know how popular 100CS build on first 100 turns is, but believe it or not, at some point people did that ;)

So taking the derivative and setting it equal to 0, you will minimize the amounts of turns spent building on your land goal.

In the end, you get:

# of CS you need to build equals:
2*sqrt(Land Goal) - 20

Example:
If you want to end up with 20,000 acres, you need to build:
2*sqrt(20000) - 20 = ~ 260 CS or roughly 70BPT