Assuming everything else is equal,

Who gets more total land?
A Tyranny doing SS or PS
or A Dictatorship doing SS or PS?

tyr gets more land but dict gets more buildings.

THE MOST RECENT TWEAK TO GHOST ACRES THAT I COULD FIND EASILY WITH THE SEARCH FUNCTION WAS IN THIS THREAD:

http://forums.earthempires.com/...?threadid=23941&p=Aug 09, 15:20&z=2013-04-06-immediate-change-rolling-changes

IF THAT IS CORRECT - AND IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY - EVERY GOVT BUT DICT GETS AN EXTRA 43% WHEN THEY GRAB AS BUILDINGS CAPTURED.

DICT HAS A 30% EXTRA BONUS.. 43 x 1.3 = ~56%

TYRANNY GETS 20% EXTRA ON THE REGULAR GAINS. I ASSUME THAT THE GHOST ACRE GAINS ARE FIGURED AFTER THE 20% ATTACK GAIN (AND IT SORT OF LOOKS LIKE IT FROM WHAT I CAN SEE IN NEWS OF A COUPLE TYRANNIES)

SO, ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL...

TYRANNY GETS NORMAL LAND GAIN +20% +43%. 120 x 1.43 = 171.6%
DICT GETS 156%

LOOKS TO ME LIKE TYRANNY WINS THIS ONE BY A BIT, UNLESS I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING CORRECTLY.

AND BTW, GHOST ACRES SEEM TO SOMETIMES VARY WILDLY FOR REASONS I DON'T UNDERSTAND. ONE ATTACK IN PARTICULAR THAT I FOUND WHILE SIFTING THROUGH NEWS ON BOXCAR SHOWED AN ATTACK WHERE THE GHOST ACRES WERE 127% OF THE REGULAR GAINS (THAT WAS A DICT)

gas depend how built up country is and other factors.

Generally, does PS attacks get more land?

yes.

THE QUESTION THEN BECOMES, WHICH IS BETTER FOR THE GAME?

TYRANNY WHO GRABS MORE LAND?
OR
DICTATORS WHO GRABS MORE BUILDINGS?

JELLY

dict since after retal land you have gained come from ghost acres (assuming that you won't lose much more in retal than you grabbed).

Tyranny also has 1-turn attacks and no BPT deficit. So you can build faster and grab more often, as long as you can find enough targets to hit.

However, I find on solo servers that I often get too fat as a tyranny (indy or farmer), spend lots of turns building CSs, and get outnetted by Commies in the early game.

Theoretically a really fat tyranny farmer should own, but I'm yet to find the right balance between gaining land and gaining NW.