Round 598 (05/12/2021) Talk - Earth Empires Forum

galleri

Game Moderator
Primary, Express, Tourney, & FFA
14,440

May 10th 2021, 20:00:29

Here you go KoH :P
You all start your chat here for round 598

Edited By: Slagpit on May 10th 2021, 20:39:19
See Original Post

<cloud-rasp> It’s real bad
<cloud-rasp> DDOSing my DESTOCK

Kahuna: Ya you just wrote the fkn equation, not helping me at all. Lol n I hated algebra.

"I'll code it in php & you can code review it."

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 10th 2021, 20:39:46

Reminder: the initial country for each player will receive 180 bonus turns at the start of the round. This increases the base number of turns in a round from 1805 to 1985. Players who create their initial country more than 36 hours after the round has begun may lose out on turns.

Plan accordingly and good luck!

BaDonkaDonks

Member
496

May 10th 2021, 21:23:44

Awesome, any chance we can make the round finish a few hours later... Really hard here in Australia where the round always finishes at 10am on a Monday morning...

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 10th 2021, 23:40:50

Which part is the problem? The day of the week or the time? 10:00 AM doesn't sound that bad considering if I move it back then it'll be the middle of the night for some of the European folks.

cordycsw

Member
421

May 11th 2021, 3:12:32

no matter how u change the timing it will affect some guy or another lol

like for me in singapore, the round ends at 8am monday morning which is like going to work timing.

so i just wake up slightly earlier and destock, missing out maybe 1hr or so.

Rob

Member
1105

May 11th 2021, 3:19:33

Originally posted by BaDonkaDonks:

Awesome, any chance we can make the round finish a few hours later... Really hard here in Australia where the round always finishes at 10am on a Monday morning...

Its 8am here in Malaysia - try that instead :)

Penguinbeng

Member
166

May 11th 2021, 3:48:26

Originally posted by Rob:

Originally posted by BaDonkaDonks:

Awesome, any chance we can make the round finish a few hours later... Really hard here in Australia where the round always finishes at 10am on a Monday morning...

Its 8am here in Malaysia - try that instead :)

wait, rob you're malaysian?

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 4:03:14

We are the UN!

Mess with me you better kill me, or I'll just take your pride & joy and jack it up
(•_•)

https://youtu.be/...pxFw4?si=mCDXT3t1vmFgn0qn

-=TSO~DKnights~ICD~XI~LaF~SKA=-

S.F. Giants 2010, 2012, 2014 World Series Champions, fluff YEAH!

NitelL

Member
711

May 11th 2021, 4:08:40

I'm Singaporean (but living in the US now). Outside of Rob, I see at least 1 other Malaysian in Express (just from country names) so it's pretty interesting how many of us there are. Haha Are either of you from the region?

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 4:11:17

When I came back about 10 years ago there was a ton of Malaysians here!

Penguinbeng

Member
166

May 11th 2021, 4:11:19

Originally posted by NitelL:

oh wow that's cool, I'm Malaysian but I lived in Des Moines, Iowa for 10 years. Which part of the US?

NitelL

Member
711

May 11th 2021, 4:19:17

New York for me!

Oh yea, when I was first playing a long long time ago (late 90s early 2000s) I rem SEEING a ton of people playing it in Singapore. Haha I'd see it on computers everywhere (Earth and Utopia)!

KoH are you also malaysian then?

Penguinbeng

Member
166

May 11th 2021, 4:30:00

Originally posted by NitelL:

KoH is eastern European daddy trash lol

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 4:32:52

Originally posted by Penguinbeng:

Originally posted by NitelL:

KoH is eastern European daddy trash lol

LOL fluff no! I'm from Messi land, Argentina :-)

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 4:40:05

I would love to go visit Kuala Lumpur one day, it is my favorite city name in the world, I have no clue what it means but it is got a beautiful ring to it, smooth to the ears, and I never looked it up in fear that the meaning of it might ruin my mental portrait of it :P

Penguinbeng

Member
166

May 11th 2021, 4:45:45

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

Lmao I guess I won't ruin it for you then

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 5:06:57

You best better not!

Rob

Member
1105

May 11th 2021, 5:16:52

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

Haha, yeah then we shall leave it as a mystery. Or maybe i'll name it as my next Express country

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 5:24:27

I like a good unresolved mystery :-)

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 11th 2021, 5:26:07

Just to ask: who would prefer for the game to start and end 24 hours earlier? So it would end Saturday night for Americans and Sunday morning for the Asian folks.

s

Member
427

May 11th 2021, 13:15:48

Originally posted by Slagpit:

Just to ask: who would prefer for the game to start and end 24 hours earlier? So it would end Saturday night for Americans and Sunday morning for the Asian folks.

cordycsw

Member
421

May 11th 2021, 13:16:41

Originally posted by Slagpit:

Just to ask: who would prefer for the game to start and end 24 hours earlier? So it would end Saturday night for Americans and Sunday morning for the Asian folks.

yeah that would be nice. starting on tuesday vs wednesday is almost the same. both are weekdays.

ending on sunday morning for us in asia would be easier than monday rush hour traffic/work

NitelL

Member
711

May 11th 2021, 15:43:07

Just realized cordycsw is Singaporean as well!

I could be the weird one and say go another day earlier and run with Mon - Fri US (Sat Morning Asia). lol

HEMPMAN1

Member
882

May 11th 2021, 16:27:48

^ Yes.. Mon-Fri USA..

KoHeartsGPA

Member

EE Patron
30,458

May 11th 2021, 16:30:15

I'm having hard time playing weekend so those changes would benefit me as well 🙂

HEMPMAN1

Member
882

May 11th 2021, 17:58:18

absolutely.. i rarely finish the round as i dont play on weekends usually..

Ratski

Member
1162

May 11th 2021, 19:06:48

Wow world wide game for sure.

Gerdler

Forum Moderator
5144

May 11th 2021, 20:04:29

24 hours earlier might be slightly worse for me but not enough to matter. 2am sunday is better than 2am monday which is what it is at now. BUT it will mean that less of the set is played on the weekend which is usually when I have time to EE consistently and in a fashion that I dont just have to speed play.

NitelL

Member
711

May 11th 2021, 22:23:24

What's everyone gonna run?

Rob

Member
1105

May 12th 2021, 3:15:45

Originally posted by NitelL:

What's everyone gonna run?

Demo techer here.
May not be able to play much this weekend so i need a strat that doesnt have to play much before then.

Rob

Member
1105

May 12th 2021, 3:18:19

Originally posted by Slagpit:

Just to ask: who would prefer for the game to start and end 24 hours earlier? So it would end Saturday night for Americans and Sunday morning for the Asian folks.

I dont want to be up early on a Sunday morning to have to play :)

So i prefer the current schedule. Waking up early on Monday is a lot better as its a workday anyway.

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 12th 2021, 3:28:37

The techer bots are in a state of rebellion. They didn't sell tech early.

cordycsw

Member
421

May 12th 2021, 3:47:24

Originally posted by NitelL:

Just realized cordycsw is Singaporean as well!

I could be the weird one and say go another day earlier and run with Mon - Fri US (Sat Morning Asia). lol

yeah hi there. found this game again last year when sgp was under lockdown for covid19 lol. the last time i played was like 20 years ago hahahaha

NitelL

Member
711

May 12th 2021, 13:24:48

Originally posted by cordycsw:

yeah hi there. found this game again last year when sgp was under lockdown for covid19 lol. the last time i played was like 20 years ago hahahaha

Was a similar situation, I rejoined Q3 last year!

cordycsw

Member
421

May 12th 2021, 14:54:58

hi anyone want to ally up?

Kingme

Member
2061

May 12th 2021, 15:00:09

Good to see a lot of names from the past still here. I just signed up for a set... this should be interesting(ly bad).

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 12th 2021, 15:24:45

Welcome back!

Kahuna

Member
1312

May 12th 2021, 15:50:52

...I suck at life soo much I have to envy Kahuna.
(Except slag)

BaDonkaDonks

Member
496

May 13th 2021, 6:34:39

There you go, for us APACers, having it finish 2-4 hours later would help! Monday finish is fine.

BaDonkaDonks

Member
496

May 13th 2021, 6:37:06

But a day earlier start would be ok my be too, even if you start on a monday to keep my weekend free !

cordycsw

Member
421

May 13th 2021, 13:19:45

can we get some oil on the market? lol

cheap oil pls

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 13th 2021, 13:57:49

Originally posted by cordycsw:

can we get some oil on the market? lol

cheap oil pls

$250 oil currently.

Primeval

Game Moderator
Mod Boss
3178

May 13th 2021, 21:43:45

Originally posted by Gerdler:

BUT it will mean that less of the set is played on the weekend which is usually when I have time to EE consistently and in a fashion that I dont just have to speed play.

I don't recall offhand but I feel like this is probably the reason the round falls this way currently. For Americans and Canadians, I think its a pretty ideal end time (Sunday evening around 7pm/8pm Eastern)... with some exceptions I'm sure.

Molotov

Member

EE Patron
403

May 13th 2021, 22:16:09

I had a crazy idea that players could be allowed to toggle their round by up to 12 hours, so that different countries would run out of turns at different times. It would be weird but it did make me go hmm.

cordycsw

Member
421

May 14th 2021, 6:41:05

is it normal that the public market is emptied out so many times in this reset?

i only started playing express last reset with all the new changes.

has it got to do with the changes made to this server?

galleri

Game Moderator
Primary, Express, Tourney, & FFA
14,440

May 14th 2021, 11:28:54

Originally posted by Kingme:

Good to see a lot of names from the past still here. I just signed up for a set... this should be interesting(ly bad).

Welcome back!

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 14th 2021, 13:20:14

Originally posted by cordycsw:

Can you be more specific? Which goods are emptying out and about when did it happen?

Bug

Member

EE Patron
1540

May 14th 2021, 14:11:18

I wonder how this will format: A list of the last 24hrs of Express, based on number of times the market was updated to have no goods on for each type at 15 second intervals:

TypeID Count
Troops 52
Jets 109
Turrets 97
Tanks 35
Food 402
Oil 68
Mil Tech 46
Med Tech 31
Bus Tech 165
Res Tech 163
Agri Tech 66
War Tech 32
MilS Tech 38
Wea Tech 43
Indy Tech 55
Spy Tech 28
SDI Tech 33

Slagpit

Administrator
Game Development
5351

May 14th 2021, 14:38:24

Thanks. So the worst was food at 7% of the time and the second worst was bus tech at 3% of the time.

The reasons are complicated. Demand can be very spiky on Express because people can play up to 360 turns at once. Right now tech is too cheap so I'm not surprised that it keeps getting bought out.

It's a problem that I'm working on. I know that it's not fun to try to play turns only to find no food on the public market.

NitelL

Member
711

May 14th 2021, 15:48:44

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

I've noticed at least 2 Kuala Lumpurs this set in Express (I've already reached out to both of you). Bangggg...