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Nicely done Ryu. The 5 bil food I wasnt able to put on the market gave me a nice networth bump too. Then there was West who sent me 100 bil worth of resources. There was also Choose a race (#13) (still don't know who that is) whom I sacked for 500mil per hit. I must have sacked away at least 50 bil over the last 2 weeks.

The hit limit definitely helped the leader players in the last 2 weeks. With scraping land impossible, you can just sit back and spend loyalty. Hopefully 36 balances things out more.

I'm not really a big fan of the kills. It seems you need 2 - 3 warlords to do a kill. 2 - 3 warlords teaming up already have a huge advantage in this fairly passive netting game. Killing someone's hard work helps them even more.

It was a fun set and honestly it could have gone anyone's way. Things started of with a good lock from Ryu. I tried to break it on 2 occasions but failed, making me spend all my loyalty and cash twice. I think it was West who eventually broke the lock. This rivalry would keep all of them (Ryu, Jester, West and ?) busy for the remainder of the set, making it tough for them to generate decent cash or networth.

With all that free land it was time for the leaders to start making loyalty. I was definitely behind on Windy and Ubilis at that point and didn't think I would catch up with the 21 hit limit. I did caught up though playing very aggressive (hence most offenses). Daily runs to scrape whoever had most land at that point, making loyalty with all remaining turns. It seems everybody sticked to 550 turn runs and nobody but me got any decent land to make loyalty on.

Spying around a lot I kind of knew where I was at. I think Ubilis could have passed me in the last week. It seems he burned some turns at times and started looting too late. He had enough loyalty to pass me but Wolf converts loyalty too slow to cath up. Windy was ahead of me too but I had the luck to hold on to 40k land a few times making a ton of loyalty.

Isn't it just an angry charizard? (Don't google that)

Thanks! Fast service.

The amount of offensive actions remaining seems to be influenced by the hits someone took in a negative way. I used all my credits at one point and didn't attack for 24 hours. My assumption is I should have a full batch of attack credits again then. Still, I was only able to do 4 attacks. I did get hit plenty of times and my Warlord's Hut even said "MINUS 7 offensive actions remaining" at one point.

The only thing that should be remembered of this set is that this experiment (kills enabled and limited attacks) highly favors the leader strategy, mildly favors farmers and most importantly makes solo indy obsolete.

It was a fun round trying to exploit the current market to the maximum. Always a pleasure to work with Ryu. A very reliable partner with a great understanding of the game. It all looked quiet and peaceful until that attempt to kill him but we already built up our markets by then. Not much that could have been done after that point. Unfortunately we didn't really think the buy out through so we missed out on several 100 million networth.
I'm curious to see what the new guys got planned for next set. They seem eager and motivated to stick around for a while.

Buying out someone's market is a viable option. Ryu and I did it very successfully a while back. It takes a lot of preparation making the cash though and it is very high risk when doing it against people that log in every few hours. If you get caught, you end up with not much.

It is a good thing people are finally clanning up and coordinating. It is the first time that's happening since I started playing here a few years ago. Bringing back kills would unbalance the current game's state in favor of the solo leader strategies. That got kind of boring, to be honest.

Just sit back, hold your jaw and enjoy the show for now.

Thanks, Ryu. Buying out max in all 4 lines instead of selling out max to mercs was a costly >200bil misclick in the middle of the round. I had 300bil at that moment and dropped below 100bil. Felt like the win was definitely gone. I was hoping to recover 50bil but I actually recovered 80bil because of increased selling prices when I had all those camps.

By the way, how is the winning lottery ticket picked? I had at least 6 or 7 lotto wins. It feels like it gets picked only out of the tickets that were bought, however there are days where there is no winner.

It was less than 75 bil. More like 50 bil. Besides, I never asked for it. I asked why you onlined me for no particular reason and you sent me all that cash for no reason. I signed up 2  weeks into the set just to fool around and all of a sudden you aided me. Is that good play on my part or bad play on your part?

An easy win since it was me versus the aussie boys. Maybe I should start challenging entire clans.

Firstly, I find the 3 month sets way too long. People give up if they get a beating halfway in the set. Eventhough there's often still time enough to catch up. Basicly most people lose motivation and interest when they see someone doing well. 1 month sets might keep people motivated longer. I've played two sets here now and midset I often find myself demotivated because it's another month.

Secondly, I find the game too landfat. Check last few sets. Numbers are insane. People won't sign  up halfway in the set when there's already 200k land in the game of if they see someone with 1 bil networth.