your numbers are correct... remember that pop, cash and food also have NW

he took out a good and innocent player before it for no reason whatsoever, and it looks like he had help doing it.

WTF dude?

You just have to get the turn. not consume it.

Also works differently if you are logged in versus if you are not.

As dittie says the bots with govts that have no BPT modifiers are landing around 240 cs. Theos are 166 I think and dicts are like 350 or something.. whatever is 65 bpt.

The names have several tells one of which marshal mentioned. they have like mixed and matched guild names, fantasy names, colors, materials, looks and locations in a handful of different types of combinators.

Here are some bot names from last express reset:
Percy Blackraven
Remote Rhinestone
Linyah Mujardin
Sienna Quality Storm
Lahorn above the Ghosts
Sangre Jack Redblade
Rebels out of Ijin

BUT be careful, there are players who try to impersonate bots so that you will break GDI on them and they can suicide you.
Last I saw this was 3 sets ago in express:
Lucille Brawl

A spy op migth tell but also experience will help you separate these ones 95-99% of the time. Thankfully they are not that common.

^^I agree something like this would be good.

Awesome Prime!

Well... Some castles made of sand are worth destroying I guess. :P

You guys are mostly within range so I don't see the problem. He just did a zerker move on you guys. He is doing what is best in life, crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him and hears the lamentations of their women...

But if GDI has MD beat...

The same name as one of those two theo rainbow players that usually haunt express is in alliance right now. I am assuming it is the same person.

Interesting to know which alliances have cheaters in them. I guess that does not mean they cheat in alliance though. Even so it is not surprising to me that in general the players who cheat are really bad players and that they are in really bad alliances.

This is why I think that public guides would be helpful to the game, because I belive that a player who sees improvement in his own game play and has success without cheating is less likely to cheat or play to destroy sand castles.

Yes and it would be nice to know who it is as well so they/he can be publicly hanged.

Here is a guy, lpardess, who is minding his own business netting every reset and mostly hitting bots (except when he hits me that little bugger, because that fluff happens too, sadly :( ), and one/two cheaters come and just ruin him for nothing.

I have been asking this too...

Super John power drop!!!!!!! :)

But yeah as far as I have been told he quit a couple years before I came back.

Yes Marshal, BattleKJ was known as just King John or KJ before.

Hah, bots were just turned on again! :)

yes I agree... either run them or don't. When they fail unexpectedly and players assume they will be on it messes up the game dynamic too much. This express set will be defined by the bot meltdown and anyone who didn't play delayed will be rewarded handsomely. If the bots are off a couple more days it will screw alliance up because the equilibrium is now gone.

You know... if the ones running the show are under the impression that the bots are still on at this point there is no way to know. First step in solving a problem is realizing it exists. That is why I made this thread and send the info to all mods and admins I could find lol...

Sure... but maybe there are no changes to test.

Either way the bots are down on 3 servers and I just want everyone to know it and not deny it so that the ones who can do something about it are informed speedily.

I have checked FFA now as well, the bots are down there too. Looking at the market volumes. You can realize this very quickly. I assume it happened at the same time for each game.

I don't know if it has anything to do with it but the AI server is also empty. Usually there are 15-70 bots there. I guess that is only because no need for testing?

Ok, now I've spot checked every bot on express and none of them played on the 19th. The last one, I think, played on 22:02 yesterday according to eestats.

I do not feel the need to check all the 70 bots in alliance I have not checked so far. But they are not taking turns either and I can see it by either spot-checking or by looking at the market.

I only checked ~45 bots on alliance and they are offline since around 22-23 yesterday.

I didn't spot check any of the express bots but they are really tiny this set and if would hazard a guess it was around 22-23 yesterday the last played there too.

FYI...

Talk to your local mod about it.

I think that when they do it it is brave and fun, and when things get done to them it is unfair and cowardly.

We got the 1st spot last set and if it was not for Elders cheapshot we'd have ANW as well. So we won.

This set you are already making excuses and saying it is boring. So what you are saying is that the only fight you like is if the enemy is not prepped and are not fighting back? What a war team, you must be so proud.

Ok first don't listen to anything drkpinc says about anything related to science. It will make you dumber. :)

mrford basically explained it so anyone can understand.

Another way to say it is that there is more mass close to transfer the heat to.

So you think it is boring? Then mission accomplished.

Ohh, so what you are saying is that you are helping the untaggeds by farming them?

I love it how it is cowardly to wage war against a war team but not cowardly to kill a netter in a netting team over a 2:2 retal. So only fair to fight you when you instigate and when we are not war ready.

Tell me all these rules plz. I don't seem to know any of them.

So water is a special case because it has a very high specific heat capacity Cp[J/(Kelvin*kg)] and also quite high heat transfer coefficient h[W/(K*m^2]

When you talk about gases transporting heat less effectively that is very much dependent on pressure. At 200 atm, air will transfer heat probably 150 times better than at 1 atm.

When heat is transported in liquids and gases it is transported not only by conduction but also by convection and, depending on the temperature also by heat radiation. Heat radiation is usually not all that important at human body temperatures. It starts comming into play at around 330-500 Kelvin depending on the system. Ofc in space there is almost only radiative heat transfer.

In fact if a body is to be cooled down to hypothermia in air or water I would say it is 90% convection that matters.
Even convection can be split into two different kinds; Natural and forced convection. Natural convection around a body is the flow of fluid created by the temperature gradients that the body creates. Forced convection is stuff like wind, currents, waves and if the body is transported through the fluid. In theory you could have a system without forced convection, just as a closed unventilated room or a bathtub, but as soon as the body moves it will be forced convection to a degree.

So why does the density matter? Well because the heat transported by convection is a function of, among other things, the thermal inertia of the fluid that comes in contact with the body. Thermal inertia is density times heat capacity. While heat capacity is usually within an order of magnitude the density is about 3 orders higher in water than 1 atm air (1000 times).

Other things matter such as heat transfer coefficient and viscosity are also very different in gases versus liquids, but they also vary significantly between liquids.

Conscience?

<Gargler> !8ball Are MD too scared to fight SoL, Evo, Dorsai?
<Overlord> Gargler: It is certain.

I didn't know this... Honestly thought MD were brave and not afraid of a challenge. How naive I was.

Not my country, not my war. I owe nothing to you, don't pretend I do, LOL.

They dont want SoL to burn, they want SoL to win ANW.

Actually never rage quit... I quit because of my RL situation didn't allow me to play. Studying and partying you know. That was the rage back then, pun intended.

I enjoy this from morwens post;
"Wars are mostly won by activity, not so much by strategy. Is that a good thing for the game? I doubt it. "

I feel exactly the same way about EE. In netting, strategy trumps activity 99 times out of 100. Game knowledge, market knowledge and pure calculations to make your strategy.

I war there are great tactics at play for sure, but strategically it is usually 95% GS and playing a limited amount of strategies with a limited number of govts.

Syko how come you care so much without actually doing anything? You do know that everyone you are pissed off at are feeding off of your rage right?

Winning speaks volumes. But your words are the words of a quitter.

You honestly think SoFElder or LaF warred this set to avoid you?

or you just blowing smoke?

I will add another quote that seems fitting as an answer to you:

"At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Are you the the theo rainbows?

Spare us the BS plz. You are consistently grabbing and warring the same countries with both 20 and 8. It practically screams of coordination/multi and especially as the builds are both equally crappy.

Fail player, fail build, fail grabbing and fail to abide by the rules.

We were talking about you in irc today about how bad you are at this game and a veteran player uttered:
"i feel like ratski should get a free pass to cheat"

Now I don't feel that way but it would make the odds more even and I bet that is what you are going for. My advice to you is that you learn the game instead.

Frybert I guess? Well you didn't wall so now you ded.

You made some landgrabs this set... that is it. Was it productive for you? The theo rainbow multie regulars and plenty of turns overflowing had already ruined my reset. It took nothing out of my reset or anyone elses.

No, it drops sooner.

If any changes they could rotate. But I think this time serves most people. Americans can end up jumping late afternoon or evening and Europeans have to stay up late on a Sunday. If you make it better for Asians you will screw it for either Europeans or Americans. Right now the time is perfect for Americans which afaik make up the majority of the players in this game.

They might not need to... if no one farms them they will get quite big :)

Maybe actually fighting them all and not allying up with one of them?

Gratz Getafix!

lpardess never catches a break does he? :/

Yes, it was well fought for the majority of the war. Great stonewalling by several SoFElder countries.

I dont even think it is the PS record... Since NW was so poorly matched. You can make a bigger grab on someone at 25k acres actually.

You are just pissed that I took your so called "record" on first attempt, clint, and with a demo nontheless. :P

No matter which market, with or without bots, this always comes up. People belive that sellers alone can set the market price and nothing else matters. Guess what? Demand declines when prices increase. In EE as in real life.

Another silly post. Supply and demand has nothing to do with it? If you all sell higher less tech will sell, causing someone to fail a sale. You are much better off with every techer undercutting you if you know the market better than them.

Does it matter? He/They was/were deleted for coordination what twice? Thrice? I bet that is difficult to achieve even if you try.

nubster why spy? This one was clearly not a bot based on the name. :)

Rofl gotta love that SS after the missiles and ABs. Very effective warfare; his set is over, lol!

Well some people belive it is. I have no idea how it got to that point, before my hiatus it was whoever had destroyed the other alliances ability to damage them won, which basically meant total NW was the measure.

SoFElders are still concentrating on medium sized originals so it is far from over. When they kill 242 it is over for them. :)

Your list of originals is incomplete with 43 on SoFElders and 256 on LaF, I think?