I added a better explanation message -- thanks!

This should be fixed now.

Yep, I'll give it some more info -- but it is just a "hey, thanks for the last 10 years!" thing + you get a badge to show how awesome you are. And Patron forum access :)

The reason that it's on the same message is because it impacts the range and really narrows it down. It's not a complete "no attacks" thing, but I forked the message and added a new message for this.

Thanks for the bug report, hope the new message helps!

Yep, it's something in the pipe :)

Yea, I've been a little busy buying and selling a house while the world fell apart, and now dealing with the fallout from transitioning to working from home.

It's on my to do list when RL stuff doesn't get in the way. I set up the appropriate Amazon services to do the actual emails at least!

I think Declare War and GDI costs will show up under there, but I'd have to check the code to be sute.

Re: the other bug spyop bug using the attacker's info instead of the defender's -> I probably screwed something up at some point with that :D

Discord's API is limited to 120 events per 60 seconds, or about 2 per second.

During attacks, newsbots will far exceed this volume.

The way to get around this is to put the messages going to the channel into a queue and send the request to Discord every 0.5s if the queue has > 0 messages.

I haven't had time to add that logic into either a game-related bot or the IRC <-> Discord bot that we're using.
If someone else codes it into the IRC <-> Discord bot I'll see about setting it up, though!

There's still the obvious downside of potentially not having hits make it to the channel for 0.5s, which might upset some people who want their information to be instant (like IRC is).

Fixed the messaging now -- thanks to those who messaged me about this!

I turned them back on last night

it happens so infrequently that it's hopefully not a big problem :)

in the back of my mind as a to-do when i find a few minutes :)

I took a look and it needs a little refactor to add those missing items, not just adding it to a simple list

ya, would be neat -- probably not a huge priority at the moment, though!

the turns catchall is nice and simple :)

Everything will get Changeset #19 when the rounds start. Alliance, Team and Express were just changed over now that their rounds have ended.

Primary and Tourney will change over when their respective rounds end.

ya, that's a good idea

yikes for almost getting scammed -- glad it was *almost*!

That's a good idea. I added that now -- ops will default to Spy now.

Hi!

For the start of the next round of each server (and for the current FFA round), the following changes will be applied:

- Building returns from all SPECIAL attacks (BR + AB) are based on 10% of attacker's total built acres, not 10% of each  specific building. This should mean that any country that has built the majority of its land will get regular returns for buildings.
- Restart bonus is re-enabled with the following changes:
  - Number of defends before dying no longer has any impact on the restart aid calculation
  - All restarts will receive 25% of their original country's resources at the time of death as the base calculation for resources to restore on the restart, rather than up to 95%
  - All restart will receive 50% of their original country's resources on the market at the time of death, rather than up to 95%
  - Turns, bonus points, etc will be counted the same way as before
- When looking up a restart country in-game through the country search, the original country # will be available on the search results page

We'll look at updating more stuff around the restart bonus and perhaps allowing countries to send a higher % of goods to restart countries via foreign aid. But for now, look for these new changes to take effect in the new rounds!

Thanks to everyone for their feedback on our changes from Changeset 18!

Cheers,

Everything works just like I posted above. No server-specific one-offs

I've had to spend more time on non-EE things than i expected, so I am going to go with the following for the upcoming rounds:

- Building returns from all SPECIAL attacks (BR + AB) are based on 10% of attacker's total built acres, not 10% of each  specific building. This should mean that any country that has built the majority of its land will get regular returns for buildings.
- Restart bonus is re-enabled with the following changes:
  - Number of defends before dying no longer has any impact on the restart aid calculation
  - All restarts will receive 25% of their original country's resources at the time of death as the base calculation for resources to restore on the restart, rather than up to 95%
  - All restart will receive 50% of their original country's resources on the market at the time of death, rather than up to 95%
  - Turns, bonus points, etc will be counted the same way as before
- When looking up a restart country in-game through the country search, the original country # will be available on the search results page

We'll see if we need to adjust the % for restart aid depending on how these changes end up working.

Got busy with work/personal stuff, will put this in hopefully tonight or maybe tomorrow and deploy it to servers already in progress!

The perpetual grudge wars and blindsides were what drove away many players too. It was not sustainable. :-(

But I'm hopeful we're going to be building a new foundation that we can grow the player base. Getting Jab and Bug involvrd is a good start

Apparently I deleted it but I don't remember doing that. I do remember reading a thread from you on my phone so either I fat fingered it or, more likely, my kid grabbed my phone and deleted it. There's no confirmation on deletes :D

Either way I restored it!

10% of attacker's built acres, not defenders. Does that change your comment? :D

I'm not sure i'll have time to add it, but I was also thinking about adding a mechanic to GDI that reduces the amount of food, tech and cash captured substantially if the defender is in GDI.

I don't know if I'll have time to code it tonight, though.

Thanks for all the feedback!!

I've done a little work getting ready for these changes and am putting the following suff out for more discussion as this is what I have coded:

- Building returns from all attacks are based on 10% of attacker's total built acres, not 10% of each  specific building. This should mean that any country that has built the majority of its land will get regular returns for buildings.
- Restart bonus is re-enabled with the following changes:
  - Number of defends before dying no longer has any impact on the restart aid calculation
  - All restarts will receive 25% of their original country's resources at the time of death as the base calculation for resources to restore on the restart, rather than up to 95%
  - All restart will receive 50% of their original country's resources on the market at the time of death, rather than up to 95%
  - Turns, bonus points, etc will be counted the same way as before
- When looking up a restart country in-game through the country search, the original country # will be available on the search results page
- Still weighing how to handle the increased aid % for restarts

Anyway, let me know your thoughts!

If people are more keen to get full turns + stored turned over a restart bonus that's easy enough to code in.

I've gotten a lot of mixed feedback on the restart bonus from ppl fighting this round. Folks here seem to want it off for the most part, but other folks who have messaged me privately want it restored as-is.

I like allowing other clan members to help their restarts get back into the fight quickly by providing a higher % of FA so if that alone feels like a good change I'll look at doing that!

Nerfing the walling aspects of the restart bonus -- right now, you got more back the more you walled

Hi!

I'm trying to figure out the changes I'll put in for the next rounds of Alliance and FFA (Feb 9 and 6, respectively).

Not sure what I can get in in time, but I'm going to try and hammer out the following:
- Update building returns cap for attacks to be based on % of total built land, not % of type (for all attack types)
- Re-enable restart bonus but curb how much you get back + nerf benefits of walling (making it more of a mechanic that helps you if you get killed while unavailable). TBD on this.
- Update foreign aid so that countries can send up to 20% of their goods to countries that are restarts (still 10% to non-restarts).


Let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Pang

Lol, I'm getting new folks ramped up to work on them like Jab and Bug to start :-p

Do you not remember when I was super active from 2009-2012ish when I was in school? So much got done on EE and boxcar! I miss having that much time :-)

That I don't have that much time anymore to work on them :(

I changed this to a range -- High, Moderate and Low so it's more obfuscated.

Ya I'm thinking strongly about restoring the restart bonus for next round but making the restart's former country visible on the country info page

:-)

Ya, the alpha servers were never meant to be public. Someone with access distributed a direct link and apparently no one hooked up the auth properly for it so it was effectively public.

Now it's a premium feature :-)

Interesting, I'll take a look tonight.

Hi!

I updated the Announcements and B&S threads, but also wanted to post here to note that I've added a new feature to the spyop page.

When you choose a spyop and a country that is within range to spy, you will receive a fuzzy success estimation within a 5% range.

This estimate includes spy DR in the calculation.

Hope you all like it!

-pang

Hi!

I updated the Announcements and B&S threads, but also wanted to post here to note that I've added a new feature to the spyop page.

When you choose a spyop and a country that is within range to spy, you will receive a fuzzy success estimation within a 5% range.

This estimate includes spy DR in the calculation.

Hope you all like it!

-pang

Something new for premium:

To help with this, I added a premium feature that will tell you the likelihood of an op succeeding on a target on.

It provides a 5% range for likelihood of success with a little bit of extra fuzziness mixed in because spyops are sort of magical.

Hope that helps!

I haven't looked at the code for a long time, but basically the way it works is that each spyop is treated individually.

I don't know how we'd do e-transfers off the top of my head, but FYI the credit card processing is done by Shopify, not by EE. We don't see any of the credit card info.

https://www.earthempires.com/...cement-48330?t=1579367648

I'm curious, what parts are you finding jam packed? Just trying to understand the problem :)

1) I don't care if ppl want to trash the premium -- I didn't ban 87Fresh but I also didn't see the post under discussion

2) Patron is the "thanks for running the game!" status/donation, effectively. Premium is the quality of life benefits, as Gerdler said

3) Alpha servers were effectively public because of a hole in the auth logic. They were never meant to be public, that's why they weren't in the list. I was unaware of this until a couple of months ago (I always had access :D) and added them as a Premium benefit as I had always planned to.

4) I'm happy to make a new server for Patron/Premium members if there is a good use case for it. As others have said, it would be really small and I worry the market wouldn't function properly unless we cleaned up the bot code first.

5) Hopefully we'll be able to start putting out a lot of good stuff with more developers + increased activity spurred on by the Patron/Premium work. If folks don't see it as a good value proposition that's totally fine. I also don't want anyone to feel like they need to pay for something they can't afford either!

Changing the dynamics of how bonus points are accrued is enough to make you want to quit?

I was thinking about this and wondered about doing a check on country create that goes:

if (premium && last_bonus < 22hrs){
  give_bonus();
}

You get them automatically during the first hit you make on the game server -- so just wait until the round starts then login :)

there's another thread on it right below this one lol