Just once.... - Earth Empires Forum

Brink

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634

Jul 2nd 2011, 3:52:10

I want a set where I don't:

Run out of food
Buy food on the private when I think I am on the public market
Run out of food
drop land when I think I am destroying buildings
Run out of food
Buy 10,000,000 bushels when I tried to buy a million
Run out of food

And countless other little stupid mistakes each reset. I've been back for 4 resets, and run out of food 3 of them now.

caffeineaddict

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Jul 2nd 2011, 17:39:40

meh, I did recall a dumb sale (i think it was 1m+ troops at 13 instead of 130) once knowing that I would run out of money on the 3rd turn, not realising that I didn't have enough food for even 1 turn. I nearly cried when I realised what I'd done.

Brink

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Jul 2nd 2011, 18:45:06

Waited 18 hours to log in. I didn't know or didn't remember that you have to log in at least once to start the 18 hour bonus clock. So I waited around forever, and don't get 6 free turns.

I only play tourney. A couple of hours before the tourney round started, I went a head and collected my 8 bonus points so I could have a jump on the round. All 8 points were wiped out likely when the round started, but my clock to get more still hasn't expired.

Little dumb stuff like this.

At least I remembered to sell my troops this time.

londwell

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Jul 3rd 2011, 3:06:57

Brink - just don't run out of food as a TMBR after you have made your jump and are reselling lol

synoder

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Jul 3rd 2011, 14:36:15

the last 2 sets I forgot to log on to finish destocking on the last day. Both times I had about 2bil left in cash and a full pm :(

Tertius

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Jul 4th 2011, 8:17:30

I routinely forget to destock as well =(

Rob

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Jul 4th 2011, 8:26:11

Dont remind me. I just did it in Express and am very bitter about forgetting to finish up my stock

synoder

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Jul 4th 2011, 12:03:59

glad I am not the only one :)

Rob

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Jul 4th 2011, 17:04:30

Haha it happens. I overslept. The worst part is i woke up 7 mins after the set ended. Wouldnt have felt so bad if it was a couple of hours

rabidcom

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Jul 6th 2011, 0:17:03

What's the whole destocking thing about anyway?

Brink

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Jul 6th 2011, 4:11:46

Confused my build per turn and my available to build number. Ended up building half the buildings I could have for the turn when I could have explored a turn and done a full build.

On the very next turn, I tried to explore 2 turns. I didn't get any acres, couldn't understand. HIt the back button, wasn't thinking re-submitted the action. Yep, I cashed for 4 turns instead.

Sigh

AndrewMose

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Jul 6th 2011, 20:38:41

All of these are oh so familiar to me...now I just learned what purchasing bushels on the private market instead of selling them can do to a startup (hint...I can't think of a better way to destroy cash).

Tin Man

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Jul 9th 2011, 14:27:05

Brink - play FFA, you dont have to run a full set but it will help you weed out these small mistakes on a server I'm guessing you dont care about and also let you experiment with different startups/strategies

AndrewMose

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Jul 9th 2011, 18:06:38

when you run out of food, does it damage your max pci for the rest of the set, or just for the next few turns until your pci grows to meet max pci again

caffeineaddict

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Jul 10th 2011, 6:48:11

next few turns

PowerOfLight

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Jul 10th 2011, 19:16:14

Brink, you're getting older and may need glasses! q:Þ

To be truthful, I run out of food a lot myself. Occasionally low $s bite me on the ass too. At least once a week or so I lose like this.

Chadius

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Jul 10th 2011, 21:25:18

I have calculated having enough food for a batch, and then I forgot I had just got done building residences and buying res tech the day before. :(

LAF

Brink

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Jul 11th 2011, 10:34:22

Originally posted by Chadius:

I have calculated having enough food for a batch, and then I forgot I had just got done building residences and buying res tech the day before. :(

I just barely missed doing this exact thing. One single turn more and I would have run out of food. I should have been safe by 15 turns by my math.

Brink

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Jul 11th 2011, 17:05:58

PofL, I desperately need glasses!

Brink

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Jul 12th 2011, 11:22:11

I believe I made no errors today. It's almost surreal.

Chadius

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Jul 12th 2011, 12:21:19

I find that any mistakes, happen to me while playing express. Not used to the shear amount of turns. I guess.

LAF

Brink

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Jul 15th 2011, 14:37:19

I was sitting way too low gathering turns for a mass explore and got grabbed. The sad thing is I knew I was way to low, but did it anyway.

Brink

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Jul 16th 2011, 3:14:47

Yea!!!!

I bought turrets on the private market when I thought I was on the public. Turrets were running at $120 on public, I looked at the market, saw $203, it my mind it was $103, and I jumped on them.

I rock!

AndrewMose

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Jul 17th 2011, 23:31:45

Just ran out of food on express at 18M NW, could cost me 2nd place

caffeineaddict

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Jul 18th 2011, 14:22:51

Failed 2 PS against 2 countries that had a high proportion of defence as troops...

Used a spreadsheet to calculate how many jets to send.

The cell for troop numbers was formatted as text so troops weren't added into my calculation.

Fear my numerical abilities.

caffeineaddict

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Jul 22nd 2011, 10:01:26

done it again!

Brink

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Aug 31st 2011, 4:02:00

I forgot about my market orders, and just hours before the end of the reset I made some techer very happy.

crest23

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Aug 31st 2011, 4:52:56

One time I grabbed a farmer and was gradually destroying the farms while building labs by the time I was done, I found out I had destroyed all my construction sites in the last step.

Edited By: crest23 on Aug 31st 2011, 4:56:33
See Original Post

The Nigerian Nightmare.

crest23

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Aug 31st 2011, 4:55:30

One time I was convering from techer to casher and saved up turns so I could do as much in a day as possible. Used up my entire turns come to find out I was destroying and rebuilding labs ALL DAY!!!

The Nigerian Nightmare.

Brink

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Sep 10th 2011, 16:15:51

I can't believe I ran out of food again.

Someday I will just play farmer.

caffeineaddict

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Oct 5th 2011, 17:47:00

Built 150 military bases by mistake yesterday.

Rush rush rush and don't check what you're doing.

I think that will become my new motto. My boss would probably agree.

Brink

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Oct 8th 2011, 19:13:18

Off to a fantastic start, and tech is even reasonable. Not great, but reasonable.

And I just ran out of food, and yes, the make it even better, there is not one bushel on the market.

Time to build farms.