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It's not really an opinion thing! GDI or not If someone grabs me, and they have (collusion or no) been GS'd into heavy DR. I have no comeback.

It happened to me on primary this set too. I don't know what the answer is, but to deny its an issue seems disingenuous.

yeah looked like he'd run enough turns that DR's should have worn off. Apparently not.

I dunno who is dumber #15, or me for retalling #28 :/

2019-03-28 00:02:57 PS One does not simply (#38) All Them Witches (#28) 122A (127A)
2019-03-27 09:59:39 PS All Them Witches (#28) One does not simply (#38) 282A (537A)

Wall

Just short. Rough ride this one not even t10!

well i'm about done. been a real fluff of a reset for all-x rep casher!

Guy is terrible... he's just been GSing a bot. I have bunch of missiles I was gonna send over but I think they would be wasted!

man you jinxed it!

2019-03-24 19:08:34 PS Vince McMahon (#12) Generic County Name (#44) DH
(forgot I was rep)

haha got the matching bus sale too

1.4 mins ago
You purchased 131,308 Business at $1999 for $278,233,774 via standing order.
52,773 Business remain in your order.

It's not all bad...

0.5 mins ago
You sold 96,497 Residential for $352,669,516.
No more Residential remain for sale.

0.5 mins ago
You sold 42,762 Business for $156,283,137.
No more Business remain for sale.

0.8 mins ago
You purchased 131,282 Residential at $1999 for $278,178,681 via standing order.
68,718 Residential remain in your order.

3.6 mins ago
You sold 49,362 Business for $180,404,289.
42,762 Business remain for sale.

Yeah every time I play techer the market goes to fluff!

ugh, hate failing retals. failed one in tourney this round. bad enough on its own, but then the fluffy messages came. *le sigh*

incidentally I've managed to pick the worst strat on both express (rep casher) and tourney (theo techer) lol, not having much luck. techer on primary is looking a bit dicey too!

At least i'm leading the t10 on missiles fired in 1a with my tyr techer. heheh.

and terrible as ever

2019-03-24 10:06:11 PS Vince McMahon (#12) BaDonkaDonks (#94) 1185A (1521A)
2019-03-24 00:03:55 SS BaDonkaDonks (#94) Vince McMahon (#12) 745A (1060A)

*retal accumulation intensifies*

does each successive idiot that grabs think that because you didn't retal the others that they will somehow be safe?

those are dicey odds :)

Sunday gonna be hell to pay :D

the script is on GitHub

oh would you look at that....

2019-03-21 23:23:15 SS Xi Chink Pig (#44) Vince McMahon (#12) 105A (181A)
2019-03-21 23:23:12 SS Xi Chink Pig (#44) Vince McMahon (#12) 119A (211A)
2019-03-21 18:35:21 SS why am i paid less than women (#21) Vince McMahon (#12) 110A (209A)
2019-03-21 18:35:21 SS why am i paid less than women (#21) Vince McMahon (#12) 116A (217A)

Nah, I was killed one time by him for double tap I think. I never had beef with him. We chatted. Long time ago now :)

funny just at the end of last resets abortive attempt at demo techer I concluded that I'd be better off doing all-x rep casher. So this really seems like the ideal opportunity to be lazy :D

Thanks for explaining :D yes it is a shame that we can't have some fun with it but I understand your reasoning.

Pity we can't submit a PR on GitHub for stuff like this as I reckon it would be an easy fix for an outsider such as me to do :/

Why is the function there?

Was this an "abuse" of the function?

What constitutes "abusing it"?

Look Gal. I get you need to take out the trash at times, but honestly, just explain to me for a second why the fluff there is even a "new handle" function.

It's blatantly obvious that it is me, because its not big secret that I play countries with a wrestler name. I'm not trying to do anything insidious here i'm simply role playing.

Remember:

M: Massive
M: Multiplayer
O: Online
R: Role
P: Playing
G: Game

Its not that I care that you banned a some handle, because that horse already bolted. The set is over, why would I even need it anymore?

I am curious about the futility of banning handles that are basically "1 reset use". Check it out I got loads of em 'all named after the (wrestler) country I played. I know you can see this being a mod and all. What exactly is the problem here?

The GDI mechanic inevitably demands it :)

I wonder if a better mechanic might be that 0 attacks breaks your GDI.

Getting double tapped, I think, means you probably didn't have enough defense - thats kinda on you at least partially.

The biggest issue I feel, is the mediocre players that don't realise that just because they *can* break you, it isn't smart play to do so. In fact they know that being crap as they are and skinny, they are more likely to come out ahead. There is no deterrant to this behaviour and in fact GDI works in their favour more than anyone's.

Take that away and now you have proper accountability. Any attack on a human, invites their retribution however they see fit. That feels more than fair to me.

Under the current system the people who are troll-grabbing get to grab you one time, you can only retal once because you don't want to break GDI, then they get to RoR. So they are getting two fat grabs on you before you can effectively retaliate (because grabbing a skinny country, is *not* effective retaliation).

It should be no surprise that in a game where the mechanics are set up to favour troll-like behaviour, the game becomes full of trolls.

/2 cents.

Bots have very specific names, and the source code that generates the names is up on GitHub https://github.com/...r/NameGenerator.class.php

After several resets of checking by hand, you start to see the names and in most cases can spot a bot name on sight.

Confounding factors are:
1. Humans that purposefully create a bot name to generate crazy prizes end of reset.
- screw those guys.
2. The inability of human players to fully comprehend the nature of randomness.
- yes its possible for RNGesus to pick the same name twice out of a list of 100 and call a country RedbeardRedbeard.

The morale of the story is, do whatever the F you wanna do. Don't expect it to always end well :)

gfhgfhf

As one of the players that hit back, I can categorically state I did not co-ordinate anything with anyone. I spied him, he was low on civs, low on turrets. BR was the natural response, given that he was already in massive DR so I couldn't get any land back.

Surely you are not suggesting that once a player has been hit by someone, nobody else can hit them?

They did, and yet I'm sure that they will be back again with the same brand of mediocrity next reset.

Sorry I wan't clear - Wim Hof was the perpetrator, I'm Adjustment Bureau. Quint tapped by a player that had already been wrecked. Absolutely no reason other than just wrecking someone else.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against that style of play, but if you are going to do it at least make it good. They were mediocre grabs, from a mediocre country on another mediocre country. So weak.

I can't even remember the last time I actually got to finish a reset. Wim Hof this time around. I was doing techer so wasn't even even that fat!

*sni gg ers* (stupid fluff filter)

gfjgs

Who what where? We need answers goddamnit!

You can't run a decent non GDI country. As soon as you look in good shape a missile will randomly suicide you. 100% gauranteed, every time I forget GDI it happens.

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Dear earth lords, if there is not a thing I pray for more it is this.

Just forgot it again. Suicided by day 2. Literally for no reason other than not having GDI.

what makes it excruciatingly annoying is that once you have attacked, you cannot even delete and start again.

It is basically - if you forget, your reset is over. It is not even a choice at this point its compulsory, ergo if it is compulsory why not start with it on by default? Make it opt out.

O earth lords. Hear our prayer.

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Is it as simple as leave the 50% capture rate but nerf the 50% attack strength? *shrugs*

At the moment the bonus in express gets you your GDI then is pretty useless.

Tourney bonus is juiced nicely - presumably because its a shorter game (ie over the course of set you get less bonuses). The same logic applied to express should give you much more bang for your buck.

You get ~40 points over a 5 day game vs 120 points in a tourney game, and twice that again in alliance... (ignoring forum). Even if you look at points/turn express is almost the same as tourney.

I think the bonus is a great mechanic, I think it adds a nice dynamic. It just doesn't feel very useful on express right now :(

I think you could probably go as high as 3x what you get in tourney without it breaking the game too much. Love me those late set booms on a fat stocking country :D

Aye, when they get chance to finish, they finish well. Im 2nd rate at best, but then I always was ;) Probably does me no favours that I am trivially identifiable reset after reset heheh

Perhaps it's time for a change. See if I can actually net in peace as an unknown...

Nobody can finish consistently. Too many "variables" :)

All it takes is one RoR, and your finish is most certainly compromised, b/c you are obliged to spend 100s of turns educating the transgressor.

This

Haha, good ol' food chain ;)

same idiots grabbing for crap acreage, getting retalled for 3x, every reset...

I swear the bot AI is smarter.

cashing at turn 392 is probably doing it wrong ;)

Buying any serious volume of tech early on I feel like you average more like $3k. Which makes the tech start attractive (you are instead selling for 3k plus to buy back later!), but those turns you spend teching and converting, you could be growing as TC. I'm always wasting turns at beginning, because hey what's a turn here or there, not considering each one is worth like $15m later!!!

Tech start with about 25-30k land goal is definitely 30-40m
Cash start can do more, but your land goal is much higher which is a liability in the current climate!

Really though I think the specific Strat you play (as long is it is sound) has less bearing on your finish, then the conditions you encounter along the way.

On the contrary, I quite like the dedication in this thread!

"I didn't grab no shoes or nothin'"

when you are logged on the rate at which it grows diminishes as the amount of units available increases.

complicated business private market mechanics. There is a tendency towards a max amount, but growth is based on when you logged out so it can over/undershoot.

I've run some math on this, and my conclusion was that there was no acreage where a tech start for casher, beat just building ent/res and buying.

Despite the theory, I decided to go ahead and try it, various combinations of between 70-90BPT and 2k-4k labs.

Those labs hurt your straight up casher prospects a fair bit, so you really want to make it worthwhile, over teching to sell stuff whilst price is high buy back later once price drops. e.g a 3.5k Techer does aorund 1150 TPT. 300-500 turns teching, flip half of that for 50% gains (sell bus rus >3k buy back <2k). Gets you a good chunk of bus/res/weapons/milstrat/military.

BY now you are about 850 turns in (350 build, 500 teching) you are ~4k acres and you have around 150k of each tech, its a great platform to explode grabbing fri night you can pump to 10k (not too fat to attract the idiots). Sat you can easily hit 25k. From there its just luck with not being grabbed, and keeping your techs juiced.

Problem I continually run into is clowns that topfeed you (no amount of turrets is enough, believe me). Everyone knows (or should) by know that it isn't worth it - so the only possible reason to do it is to screw over someone who is doing better than you. Which is weak sauce.

IT ends up a liability, and is why you see so many late burners. Minimises the risk of being hit by rainbow idiots, most have them have already played their hand and been raped, flattened or deleted by the last day.

Now that's all for casher. Doing the start as mon would require a few more turns (no benefit is commie). Switch govt when you tear down labs, build indies grab like a madman.... could very well work.

CI is becoming very popular though in express. As is Techer. Both as a response to top feeding imho. The former because it can grow so quickly later, the latter because you can do more with less land.

/2cents