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  1. 3 hours ago, Prefontaine said:

    Treasure Lottery:

    • 50% of the Treasures in the game are marked as "Lottery Treasures".
    • A nation can buy a treasure lottery ticket with 1 credit.
      • A player may only have 5 lottery tickets at a given time.
      • Lottery Tickets roll over to the next cycle if not winners.
    • A player may only win 1 Treasure per cycle.
    • If there are more treasures than lottery ticket holds the treasure is dispersed at random to the whole game population.

     

    Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes

     

    Credits are what keep this game running. This is a method to increase credit usage without dramatically impacting the game as treasures are already random and measures are in place from rich alliances gaining too much from accumulating treasures.

    So we went from "Can we please have the ability to trade treasures without breaking Alex's new rule" to "Pls unnecessarily monetize more things"

    I'm somehow completely unsurprised.

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  2. 5 hours ago, Audon said:

    They're the ones that called themselves actual leftists. So clearly they are pushing a narrative that they are serious about their ideology and not joking online about it. Unless they feel like saying they're kidding right now.

    I wasn't talking about you.

     

    4 hours ago, legoboyvdlp said:

    Can't see that ending well tbh. 

    More power to them for having an open "Frick the Macros" RP going on, tbf. It's interesting, even if a bit suicidal in nature given the target they put on their backs.

  3. 1 minute ago, Cooper_ said:

    716152037_ScreenShot2021-06-15at10_18_19PM.thumb.png.2a34715768cbabcb0c4a117d5687eec8.pngNew tiering numbers for those who are curious.  

    I'm genuinely glad we won't have to deal with any bad faith arguments about upper tier consolidation anymore now since it's even more hotly contested.  

    Good luck with the treaties, folks.  Hopefully interesting politics ahead for all of our futures!  :)

    Alliances in each sphere, please?

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  4. 1 minute ago, zigbigadorlou said:

    The ink on our peace terms have not been dried, and already you consolidate quack and roasis. I guess you couldn't be trusted to grow internally? Bring it on. I for one welcome our new abbas overlords.

    Look at CoA's treaties again.

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  5. 13 minutes ago, zigbigadorlou said:

    What should those of us with day jobs do?

    I also don't think it should be doable even manually. That's the whole point of the "gather intelligence" button that people don't use anymore.

    You have e404, TKR, CoTL, and TO as allies. All of which I know for sure have spy tech.

    This may seem like a wild suggestion, but maybe communicate with them?

    15 minutes ago, zigbigadorlou said:

    Sheepy actually "fixed" the ability to figure it out by changing the predicted success rate from every 25% to >50% and <50%. This exploit has been around since the beginning of spies, and has been utilized since at least Knightfall, I believe. Afaik, sheepy's stance is that he doesn't want to completely get rid of the success rate metric, so it will probably never get fixed. 

    Ironically he just made more of an advantage for people with tech by doing this. Used to you could really easily train folks to manually find spy count. Now it's slightly more complex.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    That's great, but Hedge had no plans or confirmed plans to actually attack you. 

    Where as we have been planning to hit Rose for like a month now, we would have done it sooner but TKR got into a fight with Swamp, and HM got into a little tussle with those rascals in Delta.

    I didn't mention hedge in any of my arguments.

    Go lay down. It's past your bedtime.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Alexio15 said:

    It doesn’t indeed, nor does it change what we discussed last night. However the fact remains they did have one which is the argument I was making, even if it is one they did not use. 

    They had already decided to hit us if we decided to breath in anyones direction. A retroactive CB is not valid. 

    Which again, is why I actually respect them for not using it.

  8. 16 minutes ago, Alexio15 said:

    Indeed it was and that was their CB so Rose had one so we can drop that narrative now. 

    Hi Alexio! Just here to correct you! Hope this doesn't ruin our business plans.

     

    As much as I've been shitting on TKR-HM and their reasoning  behind this war, that's the one point they've had that was right.

     

    T$ had confirmation long before you "gave them a cb" that Rose was joining. That's why Partisan pulled the hail mary. We figured y'all were the only ones we could trust, and given your countless attempts to get t$ to broadside Rose, you may be into the idea. Obviously that didn't go as planned.

     

    Rose actually got some respect from me in regards to them not using your leak as their cb. They knew it'd be disingenuous and they'd rather be possibly in the wrong meta-wise than to try and spin some bs that we could shoot down immediately.

     

    Rose's cb was the secret treaties they had made. The validity of that as a cb is up in the air, but don't pretend that even Rose could set up a counter blitz that fast. Rose was ready. War rooms made. Sheets planned. Targets assigned. All before you gave them anything.

    They've got the self-respect and integrity not to spin this line - let them do their own FA, yeah?

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  9. Just now, Hodor said:

    SHHHHH!! Don't say his name or you'll scare him into VM!

    Once again I disagree. Mass recruiting alliances should have MUCH higher wars because of low tier raiding that they should be highly encouraging. Grumpy's wars are purely inter alliance wars which makes it even more impressive.

    The amount of players will inevitably take down the average wars. Hard to agree with that thought process. 

  10. 1 minute ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    By half of NPOLT you mean like maybe a month... out of 9 months.  After we wiped out you guys when you tried to focus fire on G/G and jumped in one alliance at a time.  NPO jumped in, had their shit together and kicked our asses pretty quick.  It really isn't hard to beat us, if it was we would never lose a war, but we have lost a bunch.  End of the day tho, its our job to make that win as painful and difficult as possible for our opponents.

    Game mechanics are such that we can only do so much as long as you are allowed to hit us without us being able to hit you, we will always be vulnerable, as will any whale alliance, its to our advantage to force you to build up to try to poke at us, vs us dropping a ton of NS to reach you, there is a point mechanically where we just cant do it.  I have sold down, decommed projects. dropped military all of it to try to keep hitting people, I can only go so low, I rejoice everytime I get nuked, because that means I can go lower. (keep working on it 6 dudes I'm fighting, I have only eaten 3 nukes so far, we can do better, I believe in you)

    That being said, I get that Hollywood is a threat to every bloc in this game, I am not going to tell you that we aren't the strongest military force in the game, we are. (by how much? you guys can keep arguing over that).   As a former member of Hedge and Ketogg before it, we now have the one thing we never had before, we have numbers.  We dont need to go out and try to find someone to help us fight because we never had numbers like we do now.

    I dont even blame the blocs jumping in and trying to dog pile us, I get it.  Granted logistically I think its silly for Oasis to hit us since they really aren't competing with us in terms of tiering.  They should be competing with other huge lower tier blocs of which they dominate, but that is up to their leadership and what they want to do.  My guess is because their leadership are generally on the whale side, they view us as a bigger threat to them than we really are.

    Side note, by half the npolt war, you must not mean your alliance that after we slapped down the first week, sat on the sidelines for months just hanging out doing nothing, or a bunch of other alliances like RnR that never engaged at all. (ask Dread how he is currently as big as he is)  Or the fact that you guys currently are not fighting at all, and get to sit back and grow and make bank in the trade market while the rest of the world blows each other up.

    Worth noting that I wasn't in t$ during NPOLT and I've done a lot of internal criticism on t$'s actions during it as well (frickin Hilmes). I won't defend Syndis actions during it as I wasn't part of the decision making process and disagree with a lot of the moves made during it.

     

    As for "We aren't hard to best because we've lost". No. Your allies did. Grumpy, as I've mentioned multiple times, usually comes out with a couple scratches. Your allies are the ones that decide whether you as a coalition lose. 

     

    I've also done my fair share of criticism on useless whales (Hi Alpha, Yarr, and RNR!). But even if they did things, your only real threat there is Wampus and with his level of activity and competence y'all will be fine, assuming he has the balls to enter in the first place. 

    8 minutes ago, Hodor said:

    I disagree. I have only been in Grumpy for 250 days. In that time I've added 4-5 cities because of no taxes, no interest loans, and a culture which values growth. Much of Grumpy came from somewhere else and they weren't all whales when they arrived. They've become big because it's one of the priorities of the AA and it's what draws certain individuals to it. Other AAs could imitate this and grow, it's just not their model. Nations aren't created as whales, they become whales because of choices and priorities.

    I'd also like to note that Grumpy fights quite a bit more than your average alliance as well. For instance, here is the to 10 alliances with their wars/member:

    1. Rose - 83 wars

    2. TKR - 148 wars

    3. t$ - 133 wars

    4. TI - 95 wars

    5. TFP - 59 wars

    6, Cam - 60 wars

    7. Grumpy - 210 wars

    8. Eclipse - 109 wars

    9. Guardian - 102 wars

    10. The Order - 74 wars

     

    I mean, that's pretty glaring, no?

     

    I mean, if you look back far enough you'll see I never held that against NPO. It truly was the only way to flip damages for them. It is a tool for those who can't manage to do what I've outline above though.

    Using aas that actively recruit and most of which (t$ excluded to an extend) have their small/new nations in their aas isn't really an accurate number to compare to an aa full of old players.

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  11. Just now, Hodor said:

    Nah, it's a fair point, but I don't think anyone's avoided it. What would you have us say to that? It's a function of the game that if you don't get hit as hard in a war, you recover faster and can grow more. I think we take issue with the idea that Grumpy somehow picks easy fights, dodges war, or altogether pixel hugs. The history just doesn't support that claim. There are numerous other upper tier alliances who have done all the above and even mass VM in the face of a fight. It's disingenuous to even think to compare us to them.

    I really want to know what you want us to say? We're not hiding anything, but I think people like to imagine our positions and then fight that straw man to death. You'll find us generally very forthcoming if you just ask straightforward questions.

    It's a function that completely tears apart your "lol just catch up??? Incompetent econ???" narrative.

     

    If (lets roughly estimate) 25% of the year for most aas is war, compared to roughly (generously) 10-15% for Grumpys whales.... how do you feasibly expect us to catch up? Not only do you have more revenue by means of cities, you're also interupted significantly less.

     

    The exponential cost slows you down a bit, but pretending it balances anything is below you and you're smarter than that claim.

     

    As for "always picks easy fights", you do. There isn't any difficult fight for you in orbis. Some will take a bit longer to win, but in current state Grumpy will always win. And you'll always grow exponential faster.

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  12. 10 minutes ago, Hodor said:

     

     

    Except you, SRD, TKR, etc are missing one very important point that you've avoided no matter how many times it's mentioned.. There has yet to be a war where GoB's upper tier (read:most of the aa) doesn't get to a point where they build out of range and grow while their allies fight. Exponential or not, that in itself makes it nearly impossible for folks to keep up as there's generally multiple wars a year that set back any alliance that could potentially rival you. For ~half of NPOLT y'all were growing and profiting while the rest of the game was struggling to survive. 

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  13. 3 minutes ago, Master said:

    am sorry didnt quite got you,

    you are refering to me being that high at 25cities sitting in your so called " safety net " right in npo's meatgrinder,

    or me "pretending that i enjoy fighting" coming out of the war with 32-33cities ?

    and make no mistake its not only me.

    I guess you guys where keeping an umbrella when it was raining whales to help you counter grumpy's dominance.

    Referring to you as an alliance, yes. Sorry your higher tiered aa members left you down there alone.

     

    4 minutes ago, Mayor said:

    After reading everything from Adam and Justin; I wonder if the Syndicate is salty enough that they will invade us as well to "help defend against upper tier consolidation". It really is pathetic that they pull out the "we have to fight against hegemony" "unfightable tier consolidation" "safety net" and the greatest one I have read so far "EMC reborn". So if we are EMC, who is NPO? Probably the massive blob of alliances doing exactly what NPO used to in mass consolidation and now.. also secret treaties. tS allied with NPO before so tbqh not too far off of them supporting Inquisitions successor Oasis.

     

    Things to think about.

    "I can't come up with an actual argument as to why we think its okay to unarguably own the whale tier so I will now refer to you as NPO and IQ."

     

    0/10 lazy argument

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  14. 1 minute ago, Master said:

    It all comes down to perspective my friend,

    people like you keep blaming others for their incompetence to field a strong high-tier to much grumpy's,

    while others ,walk the walk, get themselves there and join grumpy adding to the fact that you cant compete with us 

     

    Is it incompetence or is it a bunch of pseudo-pixelhuggers pretending they enjoy fighting while sitting in a safety net that even NPO in it's prime barely scratched?

     

    Things to think about.

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  15. 15 minutes ago, Bohemond Hauteville said:

    A play right out of NPO's books. Shouldn't be surprised I suppose, you were one of their allies in the war which almost killed the game.

    Being an aggressive actor with a tier consolidation thats unfightable and playing victim when it blows up in your face politically is also straight out of their handbook. Y'all have a secret bookclub?

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  16. 14 minutes ago, Sweeeeet Ronny D said:

    Its grumpy justin, please at least get the name of the alliance that has embarrassed yours the last few wars correct.

    Is this GoBs admission that even t$, the "closest" in tiering to GoB, still can't do anything against you? Thank you for supporting our statement SRD! Can't wait to see how you resolve it.

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  17. 42 minutes ago, Dr James Wilson said:

    Is this a serious question, though?   From the moment the last war ended hedge has done nothing but dump on us and call us the emerging hegemony meanwhile doing their best to horde the upper tier with grumpy guardian and oblivion, and to then have that sphere, which the rumors started reaching us not long after that, kicking Delta in the face was some sort of attempt to draw us into a fight

    Are you free tonight? Because damn that was hot

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  18. 2 hours ago, Xi Jinping said:

    Damn my mans can't even take a good luck without getting angry about something. Don't you have better things to be doing like pissing T$ off? 

    Old news. Haven't you heard Alexio and I are starting a business together?

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