Panging Private Ryan

Pang is literally a bowl of chocolate pudding. Am I using that right?

No need to rub salt in the wound, Karnage.

It seems to me the easiest way to accomplish this is to increase the rate at which readiness goes down. Make it go down much faster, but also make it go up much faster for each turn spent.

With that being said, please just leave it the fluff alone. I don't understand all the changes. It's pretty clear to me that each time some core game component is changed, people leave over it. I have considered it. Why not polish up the in game messaging system and/or forums, or something else like that which needs fixing? That's a win/win for everybody. Nobody will be pissed off, and everybody will be happy about it.

Constantly changing game mechanics is some serious weaksauce.

Right now I see troops above 130, jets above 180, turrets above 160, and tanks above 550. I've been seeing these numbers and higher all set. I myself have bought them up to these prices to make breaks, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

You sure *you're* on the right server, MO? ;)

TAN, I'm having a hard time with your 'avoiding a bar fight' argument.

Bare fists are legally defined as deadly weapons for a reason. It's not at all a stretch of the imagination to think that someone could kill you without anything but their hands.

If you're in a bar, this person is likely a stranger and so you have very little ability to know what they're thinking. The only thing you know about this person is that they're probably drunk. Therefore you can't know whether this person wants to kill you or merely wants to have a friendly scuffle like you seem to be implying.

lol

I am in favor of this.

You can use irc.evolution2025.com as an alternate server.

lol nice one viceroy

There's less than 100 people netting as of right now. Good round to get the top spot :P

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The problem with Japan is that it's full of Japanese people.

Now I've made 4 nukes in 458 turns on alliance. No warfare tech whatsoever.

I ran 2850 turns and I produced no missiles whatsoever all set. I'm #26, so you can see I didn't send any out. A teammate also had 2k+ turns spent without producing a single missile, though he got one late.

Has this happened to anybody else recently?

Hey Vic! This is Eddie from NA a few years ago, we played in NE for a few sets on team. We still have a forum on boxcar lol. Me, braden, cyref, and slaats are in weedylar, I think you're welcome to join us as long as you're looking to net and won't do crazy fluff :)

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See ya round CMO.

Welcome to our CoC k.

Yeah, I always think of that song when i see his name.

Holy fluffing fluff is that a big commie. I'm interested to see where they finish.

This is completely ridiculous, but the dude making the call certainly could have made the call shorter if he wanted to.

Personally, I've never had anything but positive experiences with Comcast. 50Mbit/s 24/7 with bursts to 100Mbit/s is hard to beat. My traffic has never been throttled, and even when they had the 250GB "limit" for a while, I was regularly breaking that by a bit and never heard from them. Now there's no limit on it, and I regularly hit 400-500GB/month.

It does really bother me though that if I have no other real options other than Comcast in the area. There are other providers, but they charge around the same price for 1/5th the speeds.

Google indeed does not have any idea what the fluff "extra door" could refer to.

Maybe I shouldn't be complaining, but I thought this was worth reporting.

I just logged in after slightly less than 12 hours, took a retal, and logged out. 20 minutes later, I got my 8 daily bonus points after not getting them for the last 48 hours or so. The home page said I'd been logged out for .3 hours. Once I logged back in, I got 3 bonus turns.

4.5 mins ago
You have been granted 3 bonus turns!

4.5 mins ago
Thank you for voting for Earth Empires on BBOGD. You have been granted 2 bonus points!

4.7 mins ago
Thank you for voting for Earth Empires on Top 100 Arena. You have been granted 2 bonus points!

4.9 mins ago
Thank you for voting for Earth Empires on Browser Game List. You have been granted 4 bonus points!

29.7 mins ago
You were given a daily bonus of 20 extra acres.

^^^ Definitely. It's excellent unless I have to pay for it.

As long as we're changing things to suit our desires, let's also change the name of "Troops" to "Vaginal Horde" and "Tanks" to "Chubby Chasers." "Jets" can be "Penile Penetrators" and "Turrets" can be "Anal Defense."

AS WELL AS THIS!

I would much rather have sex with 100 fluffs who have been checked for STDs and quality controlled for vaginal diameter. But that's just me.

Also, EE is pretty dead. At this point, the body is cold and is in full rigor. Making changes every set to every facet of the game is probably not helping, despite the intentions.

Seems pretty clearly like LaF isn't happy with someone.

no

The whole idea of bots is to simulate players. One the main goals is that some of them would suicide a certain percentage of the time.

I think the tipping model is an effective way for your workers get a dollar amount closer to what they deserve to get according to how well they do their primary job, serving the customer and giving them a good experience so they'll want to come back. In this sense, it can also serve to drive out those who aren't any good in the profession, sort of a self-firing mechanism if you will.

I almost always tip around 20-25% but I'll go higher if I feel like the service was excellent, 33-40%

On the other end of that, I'm not afraid to leave the coins in my pocket or a dollar to let them know I was dissatisfied with their service. That very rarely happens though.

But then they might esplode you D:

I'd say only 10-20% of players do it right now, but you understand correctly.

If you joined RAGE to net, I think you're doing it wrong. Their fluffing name is RAGE!

I mean, seriously?

just in case

Really? You think land trading is too easy, requiring no skills.

Then you turn around and say what we really need is bots to provide you with free land. How could this possibly require more skill than land trading? Land trading at least requires quite a bit of knowledge. Most land traders aren't even fully aware of all the variables going into exchanges.

But I mean... seriously? Bots for free land? REALLY???

Hell, I would pay good money to make the bonus every 20 or even 22 hours instead of 24.

Motherfluffing bonus drift is the most annoying part of this game. I just want a chance to get one per day, rather than have the time drift later and later until I find myself staying up until 4am just to get the damn bonus, when I have to be at work at 9am.

Might as well throw my hat into the ring; 15.5k farmer; Zorp etc (#31)

Fire at will (as long as I'm not in the middle of a trade).

Wait, bonuses you don't use turn into turns automatically? Really? Because I am very in favor of this functionality.

They even ruled that if you grow your own crop, on your own land, for your own consumption, that is interstate commerce. Even if you sell literally none of it.

If this is what the text was supposed to mean, they would have just given the government the power to regulate everything. Instead, they provided limits which have since been quashed.

Nobody even comes close to Domino's cost per unit deliciousness.

My junior and senior year of high school (6 and 5 years ago respectively), I carried the same 3" blade clipped on my belt every single day. I also carried weed and a pipe in my jacket pocket a lot of the time when it was cold.

I don't think anybody ever really noticed. I didn't even know I could have gotten in trouble for the knife until after I left.

blid, it's pretty clear from both SAM and I's examples that we are talking about an increase from around $8-$10/hr to $15. However, just for fun, let's take tips into account. Straight from bls.gov:



So the math would be virtually identical.

You guys keep asserting this, but this is generally only true for huge businesses. Small businesses, which make up a majority of the workforce, tend to run with much higher labor costs, particularly the ones with more employees earning at or close to the minimum wage. These are also the businesses running on the smallest margins. Do you see how this is a terrible combination, and would have immediate and seriously negative effects on these businesses?

I've done and posted the math several times, as has SAM_DANGER, and we have both been ignored so I will not spout the numbers out again where they won't be read and/or responded to. Suffice it to say that we independently came up with very similar numbers for difference businesses, and the results would be catastrophic for small businesses in the most literal sense of the term.

I hesitate to bring up Ronald Reagan not only because he's a polarizing figure, but also because I myself have serious problems with a lot of the policies he enacted. However, there is a quote from him which is so truly apt to describe what I believe is going on in this thread:

“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”

You guys say that the free market guys in this thread are the ones bringing up talking points, when your own statistics have so clearly been spoon-fed to you from sources with an agenda. The numbers I cited earlier in the thread were straight from state.gov.

You refer to 'right-leaning folks,' which would presumably include me. You simply call us clueless, but provide no substantive arguments in favor of your own except to dismiss them out of hand without an actual counterargument. You have pulled off an amazing appeal to authority by calling yourself '[a person] like me who understands the socio-economic issue behind wages,' and subsequently defining axioms which you suppose can't be argued.

I am truly disappointed Pang, you're smarter than that. You too, qzjul, for just agreeing with him outright. The fallacious arguments here are simply stunning.



Perhaps you meant to say fluid instead of viscous? I would agree here. People are fired and hired every all the time, [i]especially[/i] in these low-income jobs to which we are referring! Have you never worked at this tier of employment?

I have not supposed that every worker/employer relationship involves mutual growth at all. However, they must teach you some transferable skills for you to be worth paying at all.

I will also note that none of what I posted earlier has been refuted. Selectively choosing the weakest arguments really doesn't make it seem like you actually want serious debate.

PM'd.

Those numbers are all relative. For instance, Arkansas has a minimum wage of only $6.15, but it also has a much lower cost of living, in the top 3 as per my Google-fu. In fact, looking at some of these numbers I probably would have been better off starting at $6.15/hr there, than I was at $8.15/hr where I lived at the time.

Yes.