news and scores arnt updating as well

i think what happened with the market is it stopped updating at the same time and is now empty because over 72 hours has passed

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you know you can just ignore it if you want?

the only downside is someone may come check up on you, and if your not doing anything wrong, which basically means being at home they wont even care

south australia has no or very little covid right now, and for the whole pandemic actually, this is going to effect close contacts of maybe a few people a day

plus perhaps anyone allowed to do stay at home quarantine after re entering the state, actually i think it might apply only to those who choose to do their quarantine at home rather than in a hotel

chinas probably the best example of lockdowns working

maybe new zealand next best

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i think a boxcar admin if you dont have another admin in your site

galleri is a boxcar admin i think

if you dont have a master password someone else can do it for you

most if not all of the common colds are 4 main coronaviruses which maybe used to be a lot worse hundreds of years ago, i dont think they will become much more dangerous but its possible

but with flu they tend to pick the 4 most likely strains to vaccinate against each year as it mutates quickly and its actually quite dangerous its just were complacent against the risk, though the recent awareness has raised vaccination rates so we might become aware of how bad it really is, but i dont think it will actually be a lot worse than it was

flu has interesting effects on excess morbidity though, with less people dying of that making it harder to identify how many people died of covid

there is fluff ups all around on this

reps started it
dems ended it
2 pres each, roughly similar time in office

thats sky news, they are a small viewership cable tv channel owned by murdoch and got banned from youtube for covid disinformation that has a much greater reach online with like-minded foreigners, its hardly a mainstream australian view

although the majority of australian news is a murdoch/nine duopoly sky is by far the most radical part of the murdoch empire

a lot of people are talking about it becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated

but that relies on a lot of things

like immune response still working quickly enough once antibodies drop, which is what its supposed to do

no killer variants mutating, which is harder the more infections there are

age limits getting low enough on vaccines that you dont have a lot of kids getting badly ill or dying

then you still run into the triage problem on the remaining population, people are beginning to talk about not treating or putting at the end of the queue people who could have got vaccinated but refuse, along the same lines you could get refused for heart surgery if you dont quit smoking

as long as just general resourcing problems, do you want the ICU full of COVID patients when you get in a car accident?

and there's the broader questions about how many booster shots do the countries with high availability deserve compared to the people in countries that havnt had much availability at all

off topic? isnt this literally trumps withdrawal plan just delayed about 3 months

the great deal trump negotiated with the guy he asked pakistan to release from jail

on this issue they have hardly done anything different so how is calling them peas in a pod bad?

i like the kurdistan analogy better than the iraq one though

because it would make first strikes even more overpowered if you could stockpile more bonus points

if theres a way to prevent spending too many points on turns i cant see a problem with stockpiling the other options though

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the bonus turns are the biggest thing

also id pay just to skip captchas because it always seems to take me 10 tries before it lets me in

possibly due to blocking google cookies or scripts or something it treats me as more risky

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tag up in your own tag youll probably be fine, people have made t10 solo tagged recently without being grabbed

or if you dont want to do that i doubt HERO uses a website or anything, they had one player recently get killed for stuff though i expect the 2 rest are probably going to keep to themselves

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best never to let it expire then

could maybe do with a *warning 72 hours left of premium* or something

You are a premium user until Oct 10, 2021 15:24pm (0.3 years from now)

also the way it displays in years is weird, i think it switches from days to years at 30 days left maybe

https://www.beercartel.com.au/...man-yells-at-cloud-neipa/

max public sale price is a factor of private sell price

check your private prices on those countries

its bad when all the talk here is off topic though

when its just the odd thread its probably better to leave things but not when it gets spammy

as to the spal should be based on target not yourself, yes that does make a lot of sense

and there is some of that in the success formula already with total spies, perhaps the total spies bit should apply to damage as well as success, but the way total spies is handled in these changes is good too

i like the proposed level CD is set at because it feels nice at 1:1 spy:troop for max damage, its going to be easy for people to understand you need as many spies as they have troops if you want to do max damage, if not you still do damage just in proportion which will force a large investment rather than a small sacrifice

particularly late set last 2 week wars the cost of dropping land in terms of stockpile to future production was very low when you throw in everything else like boosting spal and tech and in particular for techers that wouldnt be using the labs very much anyway

but where the change might be a little more complicated is early set wars where spals havnt buit up and blindside wars, but it sounds like you can still drop land for enough spal for basic spy ops which is still the most important spy op, and no change to demoralise either which is still way more effective than CD, and with proposed 2 day dnh drop period that aleviates some of this, mainly just the ability to store 160 turns but still a big difference

for oop wars its not a huge issue either as if you spend all your turns each day doing offensive spy ops and special attacks you will fall behin in growth, as well as the reduced min pop losses it just leaves early land kills which have been happening lately as the big overpowered option

a bit later than that probably wont be much CDing but that will be more because people will have jets for grabbing and probably do br kills, and initial gs kills would be on the targets with tiny troops you wont need to cd anyway



if its too low change it after but CD needs a massive nerf right now not just a small one, and with a change like this its going to be a bit harder to see the results of a small change than with a simple 4% becomes 3% change

i like them

i can see a lore argument that you need lots of jets to bomb lots of airbases, rather than the spies planting bombs but this is a game not a simulation

warchat maths isnt a big issue

for it to matter you need to be having people always doing max damage, so having half the opponents troops doing ops and reporting just success amounts

i guess if someone wrote a bot where you just say !cdsuccess 10 then its a bit quicker, or if you pre assume how many successes and tell people do them no matter what until that many are done so the break will be this amount then yeah

that also leads to the option of doing a faster safe kill without CD which isnt bad, or just doing cd earlier which can provide warning

mil for killing, oil for destocking, mil tech for food price can be big gambles when you try to do them in large volumes quickly

but its also relevant when just running turns if you want to buy tech while playing rather than try for an SO at the end

im not sure we should have perfect info, but maybe some info would be good

was still discussing the idea of changing from 3 to 1 SO for each category

the reason to do it though would be to avoid some possible shenanigans

sorry it was pretty poorly written

bomb buildings im not sure on in war

but 100 spal for max effectiveness against a same size target sounds nice and simple

200 spal if your half their size, 50 if double and so on

one of the current weird things about bomb airbase is you cant do it when your jets are ps'd so thats probably good from that perspective, but bad that countries can completely skip jets

sr change i dont care about

i think the biggest amount of spies ive gotten for a war was 30m, maybe 20m i forget, but 30 is probably around the upper bounds of whats practical currently, with these changes it could incentivise going higher

cd being by far the most important of these ops that caps you around 1.2m troops per op

which previously would require you having 15m troops opping a 30m troop target, and would still require a 30m troop target

getting 30m spies is way harder and more costly than 15m troops, so id say this will be a very big nerf to CD meta, and make it much more of a commitment to do significant damage rather than just something you can choose to do at any time

you can still go higher spies to do more damage but the cost now will be extreme, particularly for some strats over others

'hey guys we need to kill that big guy who wants to drop land and CD him'

i think this is a really interesting option over just the standard idea which is nerf cd from 4% to 3% and see how it goes

as to keeping a minimum of troops im not sure how important that is because most countries need troops anyway, could go with current or a reduced amount and see what happens

that might make more sense for bomb airbase and jets since skipping jets entirely is part of what leads to CD meta

if expenses were changed id even consider raising spy base expenses to both make it a real choice and reduce the benefit of pure small spy countries compared to aa large balanced country to be a good solution

the 3 orders at the same price is sort of the opposite problem your probably looking at solving

which is more a market where you cant buy decent quantities rather than one where you cant sell decent quantities, both are exacerbated by having a very small number of buyers and sellers in a commodity especially when you add in time crunch

thats usually someone whos either playing multiple times a day to frontload income or keep costs/nw down for CI

im not sure how youll handle other SO's from a country for example if i set a huge food order at 34 or less now they almost certainly would never get filled but maybe i could use it to hid a large food order at 35 as just being small instead

then theres demo resellers just trying to buy something cheap across 17 categories not caring which one they buy

and of course when your selling why not set multiple small SO's and refresh them so people think they might need to buy your stuff or miss out, and sellers dont undercut by as much, so if you want to take that away its fine, and

one problem with this change is in some servers it feels impossible to get your tech levels up, and if you set high orders you dont get more tech you just raise the price

thats more a problem if your very big compared to the market, so 400k in alliance or 16 huge non techers in ffa, even if you run a lot of techers yourself there it doesnt really solve the issue though

if we go down this path should there be something similar for buyers too?


one option id look at is letting people place orders that sellers can sell into directly but delays when the income is received from them, so you dont just get the cash instantly but either standard market time or related to standard market time, perhaps half or double depending on what you want to achieve

the problem with trying to do something like that is to do with turns being used to sell, but perhaps it would be worth even allowing it for free in turns cost to see what happens, or making it use turns the first time but providing a grace period after where it doesnt use turns?

48 hour lead time would work well as a starting gun for consensual wars

and be interesting in multi party non consensual wars

since say MD and UCN could declare drop pact with Rock but not their ally Elites at the same time, but elites wouldnt be able to hit back until they notice and drop pact in return, even 1 hour would be quite impactful in a late set missile FS

d) A one-sided DNH can be cancelled at any time without a delay.

so how does the one sided DNH work?

does it stop mifluffs? stopping tag members from making the hit or require an additional confirmation?

confirmation wouldnt stop suicides from your tag which you can be responsible for paying reps, but complete block complicates retaliating any hits coming the other way

low impact but low downside too

yeah dont try to compete with the indy bots because they produce everything but players pretty much only buy jets

it doesnt matter too much for a grabbing indy since you want to be using a lot of jets yourself too and selling a third is fine

it does kill ttr though

oh i didnt notice it was solo server changes only

thats on the building change as well so still need up to about 30k offstrat for full benefit on alliance

some good changes and bugfixes here

the grabbing change being the biggest one

i think i was in favour of reducing the required building amount from needing 1k for 43 to just 430 for 43 so by 57% then seeing how it went, but this has a lot of benefits too

making the solo servers be able to be on the same ruleset

tech leech nerf i guess is good, i did like the strategy of it though, but even in alliance with only slots for 50 leechers i checked a couple of sets and there was still open slots until the bots started sending their own pacts

however dying to landkill last set it was more of a pain playing without tech leeches on the restart, and it will make techer bots better compared to player countries if they get 30% more tech than this set

im not sure if theres enough information when you make a new account that you need to message a forum moderator to get permission to post on the forums, which is super clunky

maybe its just to start threads not post in threads i forget

in the choosing a game section perhaps some emphasis on express for learning in a 'make mistaakes and learn from them quickly' sense

but the changes you plan for tournament do make that a good new player environment

also i never realised you get to choose a country title, and dont see the option to change that somewhere else:

Commander
President
Prime Minister

maybe an option to choose that as well as an option to have it change based on your government dynamically

clicking on the blog post when not logged in i get this, which isnt a good sign, and then nothing actually loads

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the forum post selection, first one links to the same error, but not the actual post, and second one the link has disappeared, so obviously you want something else there instead

maybe a link to profiles on the front page, perhaps a link to the new ui, and buttons to switch back and forwards, as well as mobile and desktop

on the forums?

i thought all modern browsers blocked popups by default even if you didnt run ad blockers

most of the time i got to look at it its because i want to know how much sold at what price and its a bit tricky to use for that

but ingame and eestats dont have that info at all, so unless you want to trawl the news feed its the only way

yeah the ffa changes to grabbing are probably the biggest server specific thing left that isnt always known

it will always give better results than expected though so i guess worst case is people send more jets than needed on grabs, or explore a bit long

i saw a lot of restarts and thought bombs doing the self delete thing again

then noticed they are all tagging mercs

also are you finally going to open your profile?

how would a critic of yours describe your efforts to create/maintain an environment where griefing is fun/effective if they knew all of those efforts?