I played before and finally decided to make 5 countries to shake off some dust. A buddy of mine is going to play with me and was curious which site we might be interested in using to get back started.

if it's just the 2 of you, use eestats or earthgraphs

ghq = CRAP

Do small tags get farmed badly like on the 1-country servers?

no, but they can be killed if they look like potential suiciders or if imp feels like it.

just keep defense and post your tag on here and i'm sure most established tags will let you be.

if you plan on netting you can use FAILcar, of you want to war GHQ is the way to go. the wartools pwn FAILcar.

try to get a few LDP's with some of the mid-size to small clans. Also, maybe a few NAP with the bigger clans. And be sure to have a couple retalers able to protect your land.
Most of the established clans respect a clan that can retal a LG. JUST DON'T GET fluffY.....lol
def pacts don't mean you won't be lg'd....lol

If you want up to date market prices it boxcar FTW

i dont exactly know the facts behind your argument, but having used both extensively GHQ is miles ahead of boxcar for FFA. ESPECIALLY when it comes to war tools. and as far as market prices, with the removal of the 12/18 hour bonus, the best up to date market prices can be found rather easily in game.... as for market history eestats is far better than boxcar.

so i guess if you want a site that is mediocre at everything, instead of good at specifics, then failcar is your site.

I agree with your statement about the war tools that actually work (most don't). With the exception of doing a country search. I typed in the #, saw what I needed to see, then clicked on the tag to see other countries in the tag. There were many still listed that were dead and had been dead for 2 weeks. :P However, when it comes to FFA market, boxcar has a direct feed.

probably just going to use messengers to organize unless we get another guy or two. hopefully we wont need a retal board so soon

Blame the scores feed for messing up ghq. Scores feed resets something every so often, so if not checked manually by ghq admin, the scores wont update. ghq admin has informed ee admins, but nothing has been done about it.

Also, if you like something slow as balls, and a horrid website design/forum design... use boxfart.

i guess li didn't like gamerstown either.