pew pew

And congrats beerdrinker! awesome! I told you that you would get a really high finish. I am sorry that I put every bot into DR for you haha. :P

Fck goods sold last minute and I missed buying by 1 sec... might not have made a diff. :)

Still 53k acres, pretty sweet! :)

As usual I have to disagree with you.

There are like 15-25 players trying to get the highest NW they can every reset. Usually no one goes for land. I did this set, with a Democracy to prove how easy it is. And I succeeded. 55k acres before Latvia and 56k acres after him, still finnished on 53k which is land record with a sizeable margin. If I did it with any other govt I would be higher, and if I didn't overflow on turns this friday afternoon I would have been higher still. So land record is easy because no one tries.

FYI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU4pyiB-kq0

I am top-feeding the bots...

#howdoiplaythis

Ratski is the same guy who was there double-leaming nukevil 2-3 sets ago.

interesting.

Ipso facto had valid reasons to hit me. It was a reasonable move by him, I respect it.

I also respect your bomb airbases man. They are bloody epic! :P

yes but should I burn oil? You destroid my missile. I was gonna build up to chem rush you, rude!

You still havn't told me which ops are good. I am not a big war hero like you, just a treehugger from 1a with no tag. How am I supposed to know what to do in a situation like this?

Then why are they playing like that? :P

Kill all the casher bots... ought to lower the tech prices more than what you are suggesting! :)

There's also valid reasons for :P

I get this every now and then when I click on Scores. Not all that uncommon, several times a week. I don't know if it is limited to 1-2 servers or can happen anywhere.

"Look for targets!
We can use this page to find countries to attack. Doing successful standard strikes or planned strikes against other countries can increase our resources and land. These countries are relatively close to our country in networth so we should be cautious in selecting targets.
Scores & Ranks are updated every 5 minutes.
Players in Green are under protection or on vacation.
Players in Red have been destroyed.
Players in Purple have been deleted for rules violations.
Players in Yellow are your allies.
You are shown in Aqua.
Special Codes
M=Monarchy D=Democracy R=Republic H=Theocracy C=Communism I=Dictatorship T=Tyranny F=Fascism
G=GDI-Member

There aren't any players for this reset

Go Back to Main Page"

This is Tournament and when I clicked on Scores again it works just as intended. So a benign bug.

Ohh so I am coordinating with you now... Yes I admit it. ROFL

Actually I didn't think my interest in the server would last a week, and then I forgot GDI and figured my reset was over. I was playing on borrowed time.

Why would I play dict casher and even switch to dict at like 1.5k if I cared a lot?

So what you are saying is that after you both hit me you were coordinating who will fight me? Is that what I am hearing? That seems like an admission of guilt. Epic!

I am not gdi. I always planned to take you out if either of you hit me after that second hit of yours. You breaking gdi on Nissan can't save you. My plan was ready to be executed I just thought you would hit me yourself with those missiles that I mostly took out. It wouldn't have mattered either way.

You instigated and now you are mad even though you have been helped by serp this set and maaaany sets before.

So in your mind the fact that you hit Nissan and me both twice should save you from the retals of one of us? Nice logic.

I do see that Nissan shouldn't have hit you in the first place and it was far from my wish. I have no clue what a landgrab would solve though. And why should it save you? I can see very clearly that serp is not trying to netgain ever. So he wouldn't mind a few SS:s and a few BRs. So it would be silly of me to waste them on him. You are an entity and I will treat you as such.

Add to this the fact that if serp had stopped hitting me after his ROROR missile strike, your buildings suited me better. :)

Haha i have played 0 full resets in 1a in EE so don't tell me I'm used to it. I was better defended than anyone in the game when you hit me and when iron hit me the first time. You were really defenceless though and so were ironx, which is why I could ss him 7 times while being lower nw and still have way more turrets than jets.

Anyone can hit me all they want as long as their friends don't join in and as long as the purpose is not so obviously to help your invisible 1b tag and the players in it.

Try playing on your own and beat me. I have played this game for just over 2 months so it should be possible.

I had no idea who that was when he sent me intel. He just sent me an intel because I was dict and he figured I had good spal lol. I know who he is now but I didnt ask him to do anything. He has been doing nothing but topfeeding all reset and I doubt he wants to suicide anyone. But yeah I dont mind not being hit by him.

You both changed your behaviour to hit me at just about the same time. And you both ROR me, he hit you once just like the others. I can't condone or forbid him to do that as I litterally talked to him once. You guys send Serp after anyone that can beat you to first for the past half-dozen resets with very few exceptions. He never hit you once in those resets. If you suggest that my ally should break the pact and hit me I was actually afraid of just that for half the reset, because I had literally no idea who he was and I knew he was topfeeding all the time.

Try winning on your own for once, nobody. I am not suggesting you don't ally Serp but maybe try to win without him taking out your competition.

I have played litterally one full reset on primary on EE, are you telling me that I am 1/1 on getting teamed up on by you two as a coincidence? Neither of you hit anyone else in the top before completely changing your grabbing tactics to hit me, at just about the same time. Dont you think you could have been a little more covert?

I reported you both. If you assume that I would send my allies on you after doing that I cannot decribe how wrong you are in that assumption. Ofc there is way more at stake here than a bloody fcking landgrab can solve lol. I would have asked them to stay the fluff away if I knew them better, even though I hoped they would realize that on their own, instead they go ahead and taint my name. Yours is thrash though since many resets back.

I want to know your story on how you both came to the conclusion that grabbing me and RORing me was a good idea at pretty much the same time, after having been bottomfeeding all reset. I'm all ears.

Double post

This is like a game of chess and I am Kasparov, you are a toddler who can't reach over the table to see the board. :)

But yeah I am done with IronX and will focus on you now. Gonna be very exiting. Escpecially since I didn't even spy you all set. I'm pretty sure you are an indy since I captured ICs when I hit you. They are very nice indeed to get me some spies. Maybe you could help me with which ops are useful or should I just try one out?

Otherwise I'd have to learn on the job and I might make a mistake.

The collusion was already obvious to anyone who looked at the news. :)

The fact that you always hit players running for the top spots to let your SoF buddies win has been apparent to most as well. This bothers me far worse than that you did it to me once.

So then ironx attacked me knowing that you would take me out. Or ironx hit me to help you get my defences down? Or you took me out when ironx lost on the exchange?

Either way it is team play. You can only win with team play on a solo server though. :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Serp you know you could have gone for someone else than me and let IronX fight me alone... Instead you bomb my airbases 20 times right after I hit IronX. :)

You guys are shouting at the top of your lungs that you play as a team on a solo server. I am just glad that it is me you are hitting this reset and not someone else.

This set is turning out to be a lot more fun than I expected, haha! :)

PS, I can help you both with the math on them LGs since you seem to not understand breaks or returns, serp and ironx respectively! Then you dont need to be so mad that a guy retals you for more, haha!

Yes, people get away with far worse than what JJ23 did. The mods held people to a higher standard.

You can asterisk me all you want haha. It is a shame you can't read though.

Congrats everyone in the top 25, you all beat the crap out of me this set! :)

Extra congrats to Ebert, a real solid performance, wow!

Especially congrats to temple who really outdid himself and took steps to becomming a respected member of the express community! Nice going dude! Keep it up! :)

As for myself I had a bit of fun. Didn't pay to win but didn't play to fight either, ended up fighting. :P

This from the guy who gets very conveniently put in DR every other set and claims to have gotten a land record on a set he did that. Funny. That is a huge asterisk for you on my and many others score cards. :)

I did not say JJ23 is not a cheater as you must have read, what I said was that his form of cheating is far less cumbersome for the rest of the players than what others do. I also did not say it is acceptable, just that there are worse forms of unacceptable behaviour. Just like shoplifting and murder both are bad and unacceptable, but one is a far greater offence. Criminal is still criminal and cheater is still cheater.

If murderers run rampant when a shoplifer is publicly discraced and executed and I suggest that the penal code is flawed because of this, does it make me a shoplifter? This is what you suggest.
Maybe I would suggest we cut the arms and legs off the shoplifter and poke out an eye from the murderers instead of letting them walk. :)
Maybe too lenient on the shoplifter but I guess I am a live and let live kinda guy! :)

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My main motive for likeing express is the no alliances part lets induvidual skill dictate the outcome more so than anywhere else.

Please enlighten me on how I cheated in express.

My story is I grab bots and sell techs(or military cuz I won with C/I too). I did spend a lot of time doing that some of these past resets. What is your story on me?

My NW record is simply a tyr techer -> demo techer that was well played and a bit lucky perhaps on a reset in which the tech prices were historically high and the food prices never jumped. I have tried to beat it since then and not even come close on resets when my grabbing was better. I still have the top 3 NWs of all times and I know that bothers you a bit. Haha.

But you dont need to be bothered by it, we all know these NWs were not possible before the bots. So I am one of the best with the bots and have not tried without them. I would have still been one of the best for sure, but different game environment creates other winners sometimes.

It is interesting with the mixed standards... also reading up on JJ23 and the proof that was against him to delete him. His friend ran a techer whom JJ23 leeched from, that was all that was proven. I have no doubt in my mind that JJ23 was a cheater but since they had no proof that he ran "his friends" country this sets another standard for conduct that is not met today. I think this type of team play is far less damaging to the game than the ones who start wars with top players to pave way for their friends to win. This rarely happens on Express which is part of what makes it joyful, though on other servers it is rampant.

If it was wrongful you should explain why it was. Countries get reinstated sometimes.

turrets are a good landgrab deterrent until you can be broken. Downside is huge expenses.

I would say jets are a great LG deterrent against opponents with a brain. they are cheaper to maintain than turrets and have greater power. Not that it would have helped Jayr lol.

Så det är en TKS kille? Comeback dax? :P

Oden is TKS? Swedish name for Odin soo.... :)

Only way you can control the price in an oversupplied market is if you are both buying and selling.

Either way with food it is easy to understand that once anyone starts stocking the lower say 'stalker' puts his food the more of your food will sell. This is because stockers generally just spend all their leftover cash on food or food/oil. This means the demand for stocking is inversely proportional to the food price. With military units and tech it is not so simple, and of course there is other demand on the market for food than just for stocking.

But you must see that the market strives for an equilibrium price depending on supply and demand, right? If I delete my country and start a new one as a farmer I will affect the food price no matter what you other sellers do.

Also you are a demo. If you truly think these guys are undercutting, no one is in a better spot to take advantage of it than you. If you are wrong about the supply/demand situation it will screw you. So put your money where your mouth is. :P

Topfeeding has nothing to do with rank or NW. When scrubs hit top players it is called topfeeding.

I don't topfeed bots when I am lower NW than them, I grab them. Because I am better than the bots. If you grab the bots, however...

Hope this clarifies thing for you.

Why can´t you get t10 without getting up in the middle of the night? Ahh.. got it. You are really bad.

If you try you might get better. I encourage you to do this. I'll even help you if you want.

All these sets I have had the posting bonus come outside of the express sets... Gotta fix that so I don't have to try so hard. :)


Congrats Dogmilk on the great finish!

And Kingme ofc.

And all others in the top 16! Great job!

And beerdrinker on the war, I guess. :)

Make me!

That was you?

Clintonista depending on which aspect of my gameplay or game understanding is simple minded I might agree. If you think my gameplay is simpleminded you are simply wrong, you wouldn't know it but I am probably one of the most versatile players in the game. If you think I am simple minded in my aim then I totally agree with you and it does bother me somewhat, others maybe more. :P

My thoughts exactly. :)

You actually call it being creative to stock missiles and cash/food for 2/3 of a reset with the sole purpose of leveling as many buildings as possible for one person that never hit you? That IS the state of the game if you don't join GDI and you are deemed suicide-worthy. Or blowing the stock on jets to topfeed the one who is competing for the win if he is in GDI.

There is nothing creative about it moreover there is no skill involved in any of these actions. I won express with by far the largest margin ever a few resets back, and if Kingme had played 4 minutes a day with the intent to destroy my chances at winning, he would have been able to for sure. Even though I spent way more time and won by over $38m NW over second I would have had no chance whatsoever. Some have argued that this makes me a bad player, which is fluffing confusing at this point tbh.

It doesn't spoil the market, it spoils their income if they sell $20 too low. The jets at 120 are more likely to sell if the next batch that comes on is at 90 than if it is att 119.

What you are talking about is forming som kind of commie cartel that ultimatly ruins it for each of those commies since they would be stuck with insane expenses and their grabbing would suffer from their NWs. Go ahead. :P

The market will demand more military the cheaper it is though. If I hit a casher, farmer or techer I calculate what he can make and how many jets he can buy with that, and adjust my turrets accordingly. This is means the number of turrets I need to get is kinda inversely proportional to the market price for jets. That guy will most certainly have more turrets for me to break if he was buying at 90 than if he was buying at 150 as well. But I agree with what you say about the market buyout. But it could be just a matter of login hours matching. This is one problem the bots aimed to solve and they have done a faily good job at it as well even though they seem to fluff up the tech markets whereever more or less.

They still buy 10 times more tech than they produce, the bot collective that is. So that is an upward pressure, without them the tech prices would be lower. Same goes for food but the other way around. rainbow bots are self-sufficient and one farmer bot produce about 3 times more surplus bushels than one of each other bot(techer, indy, casher) consume.

They do affect every market, even though they might not drive it in FFA as they do in express and to a much smaller degree in alliance.

You mean on the supply side. I'm pretty sure bots create an upward pressure on tech and a downward one on food just like on all other servers they are in.

I encourage anyone who hasn't yet to create manually a country on the AI server and see for yourselves where the prices go if the market is 100% bots. Income techs hover between 6000-9999, other techs 500-600, military prices are at very close to private market selling prices and bushels are hard locked at $30.

The bot collective net buys massive amounts of techs while net selling food and military. I see nothing wrong with this in principle, but I do feel it could be balanced a bit without creating a clusterfluff.

Bots are controlling express market early and FFA all the time I guess.

Supply and demand, that is all there is to it. If the farmers or indies or techers you compete with to sell your goods/techs undercut too much, they lose and you win.

If I insist on selling bushels at $38 all though the stocking phase a smart Delphinus will welcome it, either buying it and reselling at $45 or get solace from the fact that the cashers and techers will be able to buy more food at $45 if they bought mine at $38 instead of $44 (if they are stocking they won't just buy a set amount of food).

Either way it is supply and demand that drives prices, and lower prices increase demand til we've reached an equilibrium.