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Cathankins

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Mar 7th 2026, 10:49:07

If you sell your bushels and then convert you lose a lot of the $$$ from the government change. So the idea is to stash the bushels on the market, change the gov to monarchy and then sell the bushels on private market.

The reason being is once you switch from monarchy to the next government, you don’t suffer the government change losses while using a monarchy. So you can hold cash and do the switch to Theo without losing that hard earned cash. Good luck bud

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Mar 5th 2026, 13:27:26

The basic idea is to run all of your turns at the last moment and then flip to a monarchy and sell the bushels and then flip to a Theo and use the theocracy private market prices to jump. Most of those theos are either farmers or techers that jump at the last moment. Cashers will hold as much cash and food as possible to keep expenses down.

Just hit 40k acres and max tech by turn 1400 or so and start cashing from there. That’s likely what you are observing happen. Theo cashers are common on express. Reps too.

Techer needs to stock earlier. You run a high bpt (100 if I recall). Try running a lower CS count and stocking earlier. That slow start slows you down on express imo. You will grow a lot faster earlier on with the extra turns you will have. This allows you to capitalize on the early high tech prices.

Easier to resell that way too.

Edited By: Cathankins on Mar 5th 2026, 13:30:58
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Feb 22nd 2026, 11:26:13

Ohio's Wildest Bounty Hunters

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lvPa7MTSk

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Feb 22nd 2026, 11:20:10

Welcome back josey glad (we got us the josey wales!) glad you didn’t run you off. I watched that Clint Eastwood stuff you recommended recently, great scene when Josie rescued that girl at the bar with the crazy mean mountain men or cowboys. Good stuff those old westerns. Unforgiven was also very cool, I watched it after seeing josey Wales was so cool. Thanks for the info.

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Feb 12th 2026, 11:39:15

Did you see the new tommy G episodes he did in Ohio Doug? You may be interested. He went to Cleveland and 1 month ago he did an episode on “ohios wildest bounty hunters”. You may find those interesting or your buddies may. He gets some interesting insight into areas you really can’t see into otherwise from the outside perspective.

He’s a YouTuber who does interviews if you haven’t seen him. Pretty good channel.

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Feb 11th 2026, 16:15:24

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Originally posted by Cathankins:

Does this count as a missed set for SF? The country was named that after all. I’m thinking the argument could be made that bablo broke your playing streak with that quit and red country.

what you mean bro, i am here

I R WoG SuperFly (#20)
(Democracy)
Rank: 4
Networth: 12,559,982
Land: 20179
Successful Attack Percentage: 100%
Successful Defense Percentage: 0%

my streak was broken last year when i was sanctioned and i sat out cuz there is no point in playing when you cant land grab for tasty acres

I suspect that’s the fake SF. No one can say for sure. Let’s see how this plays out before we rush to conclusions.

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Feb 11th 2026, 16:13:25

Originally posted by Doug:

Originally posted by EmpyreanMKR:

I wonder if I could understand what the "artist" is saying if he took all the cotton out his mouth.
So a bunch of 5 year olds a running around screaming 6-7 like a bunch of idiots, basically because a mumble rapper with no talent said it. Cool. Love that crap. C-RAP. Crap Rap. CRAP. I like it.

I forget Doug is only 12 years old sometimes.

Cath, thanks for the enlightenment.

17 cmon… it’s called #trending on tik tok/instagram. empy lol just like doechii’s #anxiety blew up and 7000 other songs that don’t make sense but they turn it into entire colleges doing it TO HAVE FUN. You all weren’t born at 40 and remember dumb crap we did as teens. Empy lost your charm and somehow cath got it? Things HAVE changed here lol

Was just having some fun, but I guess that’s that’s not acceptable either now. Returns back to my regularly scheduled quiet.

They had the cwalk and the Harlem shake as a thing 20 years ago instead of 67

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Feb 11th 2026, 16:07:10

Originally posted by EmpyreanMKR:

Doubtful, the street lingo is intentionally used and changed often to throw off the snooping boomers ;-)

I think he’s from “zombie land” where they are having some major issues with addiction. I would assume that is also part of it. If I remember correctly his music may hint at that a lot. If you showed up there talking to people in your dialect I would expect a bunch of weird street people to pat you down and ask who you work for.

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Feb 11th 2026, 11:49:06

I read a Wikipedia article on the streets. Very informative. I feel like I am an OG now.

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Feb 10th 2026, 23:49:45

Here’s the song that made it popular just in case you are interested.

Skrilla - Doot Doot (6 7) (Official Music Video)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XnygT6ANLzQ

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Feb 10th 2026, 23:46:03

Originally posted by Doug:

6/7 lol

(Boomers won’t get that reference)

The Deadly Gang War Behind the 6-7 Meme

https://youtube.com/watch?v=OAgtXhEXvx0

Originally posted by EmpyreanMKR:

I dont think anyone should get that reference. It doesn't mean anything.

It’s a gang hood in Philly, 67th street. The rapper skrilla made a song called 67 and now all of the suburbs teachers are yelling it not knowing what it means because the zoomers and gen A all bump drill music.

67 In Class Room #shorts #fypシ #tiktok #67 #school

https://youtube.com/shorts/P5ewEjIcDYw

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Feb 10th 2026, 20:26:00

Does this count as a missed set for SF? The country was named that after all. I’m thinking the argument could be made that bablo broke your playing streak with that quit and red country.

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Feb 10th 2026, 20:20:39

Originally posted by Ektar:

Originally posted by BaDonkaDonks:

Everyone's tough until they get punched in the face.

I know a ton of people that aren’t tough, nor claim to be. Without being “punched in the face”. Literally or figuratively which is what I assume you’re referencing here. Are you also one of these people you claim to be tough until you get punched in the face?

Very few men are on my level, Ernie shavers may be half as tough as I am. I never boxed because I was afraid my strength was so unparalleled that it may seriously injure the other boxers and wouldn’t be a fair competition. I likely would have been the heavyweight champion 80-0 prior to retirement. Floyd and Jones Jr almost rose to my level of fighter IQ.

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Feb 6th 2026, 12:31:19

Lol @ “daves knott here man”

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Jan 31st 2026, 12:56:49

There’s some fireworks this set.

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Jan 12th 2026, 20:14:01

Impressive win

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Jan 12th 2026, 20:12:45

Let’s go Brandon!

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Jan 2nd 2026, 18:19:44

Originally posted by Dallas:

One I've never seen till today, read it on ring.. Have a safe holiday!

Dear neighbors,
I don’t mean to be a Grinch, however....to those of you who are placing Christmas lights/decorations in your yards, would you please avoid anything that has Red or Blue flashing lights together!! Every time I come around the corner, I think it's the police and I have a panic attack. I have to brake hard, toss my beer out the window, fasten my seat belt, throw my phone on the floor, turn my radio down, and push the gun under the seat. All while trying to drive. It's just too much drama, even for Christmas. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

You have to wear a Santa outfit and drink eggnog if you want to be inconspicuous. If all else fails blame it on the reindeer.

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Dec 23rd 2025, 12:22:59

Who are you vic? Is that you and rocket in a war? Looks like there’s a few wars going.

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Dec 15th 2025, 20:42:11

Cool evil war machine in the building. I ran a country on express or somewhere in honor of your old commies recently. Those were fun to watch.

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Dec 9th 2025, 15:47:48

Wow a rare jeffro post! Cool

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Dec 8th 2025, 16:05:48

Oooh nice one

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Nov 30th 2025, 17:08:37

I agree Sap, on the flip side I really like the longer servers too. They have their aspects that are great too. I like that the mods have tinkered with the evolution of the game and have different servers with various experiences for the player. I have noticed the longer sets seem to attract players more serious about the game and less trolls. I enjoy that aspect. Trolls don’t seem to want to dedicate months to building monsters capable of even trolling the monsters. It may even take years to develop those type of skills. Far behind what trolls will dedicate of their time.

Express on the other hand, you log in for 30 seconds 3 times that week and you can totally ruin the game for any netter in the game simply going all X. That’s the biggest downside along with the high DR on the quick servers.

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Nov 28th 2025, 20:57:21

Superfly has amassed over 16.5 MILLION acres on the express server in all! Even ratski would have a top ten country in size, he may find that interesting to know.

These are the players with the most land ever on the express server to put this into perspective.

Rank Name Score
1 SuperFly 16,501,495
2 BaDonkaDonks 10,823,500
3 Yodal33t 10,444,293
4 NitelL 10,024,283
5 Ratski 7,313,061
6 commander1972 6,959,684
7 outlaw 6,188,921
8 MADMARK 6,089,033
9 mac23 5,993,452

Cathankins

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Nov 28th 2025, 20:51:58

That actually sounds completely awesome too though. Number one rank would be the most dedicated player. Imagine how big superflies country would be as many sets on express as he’s played. Man it would be cool to see a country that took a decade to build. Superfly with max war techs and a monster like that sounds like quite a problem!

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Nov 28th 2025, 18:31:11

Also I’m going to throw this out there just because it’s a crazy idea and I’m curious what you guys think.

What if there was an eternal server that never ends? Infinite turns? What would happen?

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Nov 28th 2025, 18:27:12

I’d like to understand the bot hate more because I see it a lot. Is this aspect something that could be changed and fixed?

As long as you still compete with other players and attack other players I just view them as irrelevant minus being able to grab them. What exactly is it the bots take away from the game?

Maybe there’s a middle ground everyone would enjoy.

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Nov 26th 2025, 3:46:06

Ok yea I thought that was right but couldn’t remember for sure. Those were the best servers i remember liking them too. Some of the big servers were intimidating and that’s where I started playing if I remember correctly.

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Nov 26th 2025, 3:42:40

Superfly that’s a good point that is the biggest downside to the bots. If you could solve that by doubling up the amount of bots to account for the number of players and turns and solve that issue by bringing the bots to 0 or 1-2 DR, that would be awesome. The big grabs are the best most fun part of the game so optimizing that will make it the most fun experience possible from a players perspective.

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Nov 25th 2025, 19:43:50

Originally posted by Bablo:

Originally posted by neversilence:

even when I think of advertisements. My guess is it would actually cost a fair amount to even have a chance, at bringing in (and keeping) 1k + players.

maybe if advertisers were charged more we could pay people to play....🤑

I think the mods have the right idea with implementing the bot countries. If co-op had real player interactions and was a single server it could be the most popular form of the game imo. Express is the best server experience imo outside of the turn rate seemingly leading to more guys engaging in bad sportsmanship. Being able to stock 600 turns causes way to many trolls and suiciders who spend 15 minutes building a country to destroy one a netter spent a week building.

Primary slower turn rate seems way more suited for the bot servers. The only thing I don’t like about bots is when they are in high DR. Other than that I think the mods did a great job building express to what it is now and it’s a lot of fun. Wears you out though with the super intense turn rate. I like that too though. Very intense game.

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Nov 25th 2025, 19:31:29

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

Ya, Express is great, and yes the game was a different beast with 1000s of players.

When I first started my favorite were the "random games" that would have like 80-120 players each.

Was that in the tournament server? I remember those games too but it was so long ago I can’t remember if there was a random server and a tournament server.

I remember we had alliance and tournament and primary but wasn’t there one or two more? Man that was a long time ago.

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Nov 24th 2025, 14:36:18

Originally posted by Cerberus:

Eclectic mix there Cathankins. I kept waiting for the Bad Omens clip to start screaming, but they didn't. I liked it The bluegrass sound of Red Rocking Chair was cool, lady had a hell of a voice.

Thank you, there is a great amount of artists out right now and lately the last few years. A three headed hound from hell would enjoy that genre wouldn’t he? ;-)

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Nov 23rd 2025, 20:20:58

Here’s the thread, it may jog your memory and be a fun trip down memory lane worth a read. I was looking at old man’s profile and his old amazing finishes and I saw those posts. Thought it was funny because they were talking about you and you had just recently started playing again here on express.

https://www.earthempires.com/...cember-2012-talk-21480/10

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Nov 23rd 2025, 0:37:04

Well here’s a funny post from a decade ago that may add context to this thread:

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“ The 2 types of ppl my history here proves I could care less about are;

1. Cheats like viva, jj23, and Seth. You can go look up the threads I have on them since you are into that.
2. Suiciders, whether they be total noobs like Cerberus or good players like you or bobby. A suicider bing someone that intentionally damages their country just to screw someone else.”

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Nov 22nd 2025, 0:35:34

Originally posted by neversilence:

I wish I had a time machine. Because man! playing this game with 1000's of players was some crazy good times.

The game is crazy fun when it’s big and full of countries. I actually like express and don’t mind the bots. The rat pack is annoying but overall I think it’s fun.

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Nov 21st 2025, 21:58:26

Have bots ever been attempted in a primary setting with the slow turn rate? Is it feasible to have +1,000 country sets again without changing the gameplay?

Some of the countries from 2013 were close to 90,000 acres. Those were crazy.

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Nov 21st 2025, 17:00:23

LILY MAY LEDFORD Red Rocking Chair

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_cHcDL0ze4s

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Nov 21st 2025, 16:58:07

Lil Durk - Die Slow feat. 21 Savage (Official Audio)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5dVTGWbsvyY

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Nov 21st 2025, 16:51:24

BAD OMENS - Specter (Official Music Video)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=EUe9UhcUtEI

BAD OMENS - Like A Villain (Official Music Video)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aibxit_PpAg

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Nov 21st 2025, 16:45:44

I Prevail - Bow Down (Official Music Video)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=n2EjeMx4bSg

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Nov 21st 2025, 16:44:10

IMMINENCE - Temptation (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0LeILiafiA

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Nov 18th 2025, 1:22:36

60 mil nice! Lawrence also with a very strong finish.

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Nov 18th 2025, 1:20:03

I’m not even playing rat. So much for your crazy crockpot conspiracy theory about me having anything to do with that. Meds now!

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Nov 17th 2025, 19:00:26

You could very easily dial in your end game SF and have a big finish. I noticed that when you had a great set with that democracy farmer in primary.

Next time you are sitting up in the top ten like that make your priority maximizing your tech levels. If you can get them maxed BEFORE stock time then you can cash out and get a big finish. You are pretty much there at that level with your big farmers over there.

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Nov 17th 2025, 18:31:35

Yea 38,000 acres that’s a very solid rep casher you built. If you can do it once you can do it again though. This type of behavior really just postpones the inevitable in that regard.

I don’t even know ratski. That dudes a weirdo. He’s mad he can’t make top ten so instead he suicides people who can. He literally told me that’s what he’s upset about.

If he didn’t waste his turns doing stupid stuff like spy ops he probably would make a top ten finish.

I offered to help him and he gave me his word he would follow instructions verbatim and I gave him my word that I could indeed guide him to a top ten if he would stop suiciding people.

Long story short I kept my word and ratski broke his and didn’t do that. He has no reason to hate me. He just acts very dishonorable and doesn’t like that I talked about the behavior I witnessed.

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Nov 17th 2025, 18:21:47

Originally posted by VicRattlehead:

Originally posted by Cathankins:

I wonder what name “alternate universe” went as in his alternate universe.

Update: This person has claimed country #64 on the EE Discord

Real shocker