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CX LaE

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Apr 5th 2020, 21:05:22

I think you've confused the meaning of 'yes' and 'no'.

Do I need to explain them to you?

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^Bingo

ALSO! - Now, all strats have to grab more for the same acreage x that they usually would gain. Since few players around here are morons and rainbow, you're restricted to grabbing your own strat for max gains, otherwise you have to grab extra times to make up the buildings are you no longer receiving.

It keeps targets chewed up longer and deeper, hence the encouragement NOT to slow-play.

C/Is get hit the worst because they would have to grab other indies; the bot indies are the highest def-to-NW ratio, so no, that's stupid. And other indies can easily retal if they aren't crap players, so that's a bad idea.

Techers are similar. They have to maximize acreage per grab but once you're through the early day or two, all techers are chewed up or too low land to be worthwhile and, again, grabbing a decent techer player is a stupid idea.

*shudder* Terrible changes.

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CX LaE

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Apr 5th 2020, 12:21:51

Ask anyone around, son. I'm not a suicider.

After the first few grabs, even a halfwit can tell something changed between October and now. I guess I found out what it was.

It's a dismal change. It basically disincentivizes slow-playing while encouraging early grabbing to boost your landbase ASAP. Everyone is chasing the same land all the time so everything is perma-chewed up - seemingly worse than before the changes, to my recollection.

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CX LaE

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Apr 5th 2020, 6:09:39

God that sucks.

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CX LaE

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Apr 5th 2020, 0:04:56

The changes blow.

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CX LaE

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Apr 5th 2020, 0:02:39

Kill him.

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CX LaE

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Apr 2nd 2020, 2:27:23

It is now! lol. How've you been, KoH?

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CX LaE

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Apr 2nd 2020, 2:10:10

Hammer -- Yeah I should be able to. Not travelling for Easter anymore, so... lol

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CX LaE

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Mar 30th 2020, 0:40:24

Yeah. There have been some big-ass CIs since I last played. My CI record country is now 4th on that list, lol.

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CX LaE

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Mar 29th 2020, 18:55:33

Not playing FFA, m0b. I think it was October the last time I ran a country on any server.

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CX LaE

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Mar 29th 2020, 18:15:40

Thanks, SF! You playing next round?

catbus -- I was hoping I could pass you before you noticed. ;)

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CX LaE

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Mar 29th 2020, 2:29:28

Jeez, Ugo. LOL!

Hammer -- Alright. Next round. : )~

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CX LaE

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Mar 29th 2020, 0:58:32

With all of this locking-down and quarantining for COVID, I am now working from home for a good chunk of the week.

Maybe I'll give next round a shot. It's been a while.

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Mar 7th 2020, 20:52:30

Hammer! Hey bud. How've you been?

I can't complain. :) Haven't played in months and don't really miss things. Just work, work, work.

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CX LaE

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Mar 1st 2020, 21:33:37

Holy farkballs. That's a sick indy! I guess my C/I NW record is toast. :)

No point in coming back to even try to beat that.

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CX LaE

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Nov 18th 2019, 0:34:30

No one hit 40m!? Damn. Should've played this round.

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CX LaE

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Nov 16th 2019, 3:07:16

Gettin' FAT!

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CX LaE

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Nov 4th 2019, 0:21:23

3rd. Pretty decent for a half-assed RC. Could have won had it not been for a late topfeed by #107. Hard to defend when someone literally goes 100% jets just to grab you for fun.

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CX LaE

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Nov 4th 2019, 0:01:58

The penis envy is real.

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CX LaE

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Nov 3rd 2019, 23:57:44

Sweet hit.

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CX LaE

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Nov 3rd 2019, 23:34:28

Not me. :D

.....but hopefully others will. :P

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CX LaE

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Nov 3rd 2019, 18:48:04

LMAO, awwwwww, no love lost I see.

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CX LaE

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Nov 3rd 2019, 18:38:45

I got topfed by #107. Literally went all jets just to hit me and was like "first time on the server. sorry."

Like, wtf.

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CX LaE

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Oct 29th 2019, 2:35:45

Originally posted by Kahuna:

#66attacked me without provacation it was either you or one of your buddies. Prove it, make your profile public for a bit.

I don't need "one of [my] buddies" to mess with you. It'd be a colossal waste of time.

But since, you want proof and I like to prove you the fool, go take a look. I'll leave it open until tomorrow sometime.

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Oct 29th 2019, 0:54:38

Originally posted by M59Gar:

New people will never have any clue how to net gain. The process is almost entirely opaque, and the only reason the current veterans know is that they were here for the game's evolution.

From an outsider's perspective, everyone sits at low networth then jumps 20-30 mil in the last hours of a set. They do this through actions that aren't visible. Thus, there is no possible way for new people to join this game. I know, because I'm a new/returning player, and this is the exact experience I've had. Now that I've made extensive threads requesting info and joined a clan to get advice (new people will not do either of these things 90% of the time), I see that this game's population can't grow because the barriers to entry are enormous.

this post brought to you by my need for bonus points.

Usually, if n00bs or anyone messages me for advice, or requests advice on the forums, I'll provide it.

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CX LaE

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Oct 29th 2019, 0:46:53

Originally posted by Kahuna:

also I think CX was #66 and he got fkn wrecked by a rainbow that I was experimenting with talking about he was out of town lying as lil bih)

I was #2 (In Diana Jones). I killed #56 after they doubletapped me.

You really have a hard-on for me, dontcha bud?

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Oct 28th 2019, 0:35:52

Hell of an indy there, Ponti. Well done. Almost the best NW indy ever in Express.

I didn't finish the round. Had to kill off a double-tapper and then was out of town all weekend.

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Oct 25th 2019, 11:58:33

Normally it's not THIS bad. There are some people out just SSing EVERYTHING this round.

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Oct 25th 2019, 2:58:44

I LG from 2kA onward w/ pretty much every strat in Express.

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CX LaE

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Oct 21st 2019, 22:45:21

Ah yes. ebert is a good resource for that.

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Oct 21st 2019, 20:59:15

nosluoc -- what strat do you usually run? Maybe I can provide pointers.

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Oct 21st 2019, 0:15:25

One of these days, lol. Prob not this next round. Will be out of town Sat/Sun.

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Oct 21st 2019, 0:02:52

Congrats, ebert! SuperFly with a great indy ... sfbob as well. Wish I could have been up there with you guys, but I'll take 19th after lighting up Kahuna all round.

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Oct 20th 2019, 19:49:31

Smart man.

Originally posted by Brigg:

I don't go past 100 turns until I get 16 Bonus Points for that Free GDI.

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CX LaE

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Oct 20th 2019, 0:50:16

Asking me to play w/o GDI is like me asking you to play w/ GDI, lol. I think playing w/o GDI is absolutely idiotic so why would I step down to your level? Although, I might if you can demonstrate to me that you can competently play a war-worthy country. That fluffty Tyr you're running this round can barely stay on its feet w/o me screwing w/ you.

Join GDI and outnet me. Dare ya.

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CX LaE

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Oct 19th 2019, 22:55:00

Rebuild that land first before you go seeing if others want a piece. ;)

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CX LaE

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Oct 19th 2019, 21:05:25

Case in point. Ya can't reason with stupid.

Originally posted by Kahuna:

CXLaE you're getting no where in this argument...you sucker punched me and then unloaded attacks on me blah blah blah...like a lil biatch(lol). Its a fkn game you win some, you lose some. Unlike AR who just showed up to lose and still thinks hes a big shot. Get your mediocre ass outta here.

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CX LaE

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Oct 19th 2019, 18:46:39

Kahuna -- I can respect people who choose not to use GDI because they dislike the mechanism. The mechanism, however, has always been a part of the game so its use is a strategy in itself. Those who use GDI do so to avoid random suiciders and special attacks, usually because they are trying to net. Grabbing a GDI country that appears to be netting is a risk. Maybe they retal, maybe they don't. RORing is the same thing. Maybe they retal or missile/AB/GS/kill you, maybe they choose to leave it alone.

Essentially, it's understanding the strategy of GDI and weighing the pros and cons of attacking a human country in GDI instead of saying nonsense like people hide behind GDI, etc.

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Oct 19th 2019, 2:52:14

Kahuna -- youve got the levelled country and I wasnt trying to kill you. I didnt have to. I levlled 80% of your country, killed 80% of its people, and it works bc you lack the tech base to sell and quickly rebuild. You also had no turns or cash on hand. Easy peasy.

AR -- Yeah, sometimes I agree w you on that. Lowest common denominator server.

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Oct 19th 2019, 1:14:29

KoH's right. Grabbing humans is a big risk.

And suckerpunching? Interesting. Playing the victim, I see, when you started this by grabbing me first. A risk, and I promised a retal. I delivered. You upped the risk by RORing.

You made your bed, bud. You should accept the consequences. You broke GDI. End of story.

At the end of the day, you started this and you're the parking lot.

You have a lot to learn before you can run your mouth, little Kahuna.

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Oct 19th 2019, 0:17:29

Size doesnt matter to me. You RORd. Interesting you didn't post the piddly size of your first grab on here. My legit retal was huge by comparison.

Maybe size does matter to you. You embarrassed? I would have been. Hell, if I ran a techer like you do, I wouldn't show my face around here.

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CX LaE

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Oct 18th 2019, 21:55:37

As much as it would be great to finish one of these damn sets without running into some tiny-penised, halfwit Trump-supporter who thinks they can run a decent country, it's fun when they do stupid stuff and I can hammer them for it.

Although, a 60m+ indy would be sweet, too.

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Oct 18th 2019, 21:40:17

If you're running a fluffty, tech-lean Tyr Techer w/ no Strat OR Weps OR Warfare, maybe you shouldn't ROR indies with 350 turns on hand.

I guess TANKZILLA didn't get that memo. Maybe he can't read.

Have fun with that parking lot, n00bski.

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CX LaE

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Oct 14th 2019, 2:00:30

Ya. 75.

Originally posted by trumpoz:

Originally posted by CX LaE:

Grats trumpoz.

For those interested, I was 31kA fully built w good tech levels by turn 1040.

That's insane CX. I was 19.5k at turn 940 and was happy.

What bpt - 80ish?

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Oct 14th 2019, 0:30:50

Grats trumpoz.

For those interested, I was 31kA fully built w good tech levels by turn 1040.

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Oct 14th 2019, 0:13:23

I finished 4th. Nine Thou. What tard was #101? Breaking GDI to topfeed me was stupid bc I still finished top 5 you jealous knob.

Shoulda been a 60m+ NW CI. Ran the numbers. Damn.

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CX LaE

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Oct 8th 2019, 0:18:42

Well done, all.

I just had fun putting up 374m NW w/ a 1-acre Demo.

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Oct 4th 2019, 2:37:31

Why is Indying not an option?

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Sep 30th 2019, 1:19:37

ebert -- Man, that arrangement was bad news all around. I knew I wasn't going to be able to play turns most of the weekend (was camping with the wife) but I was hoping to get out to a decent start .. and then you thought I was a bot and I had to try and kill you from my phone. Not the best set-up, lol.

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CX LaE

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Sep 30th 2019, 0:10:31

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Wooohooooo I finally finished 1st!

I’d like to thank CX for taking the time to impart his wisdom on me and I would also like thank Temple for not topfeeding me this set and for the good conversation throughout the set.

Lastly I’d like to thank the bots for providing me their valuable land and everyone else for not LGing me.

Ahhh, the Padawan has succeeded! Well done to my homie, SF, for the big indy finish!

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