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Sir Balin

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Mar 24th 2026, 13:47:33

You're welcome to join Paradigm.

Sir Balin

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Mar 22nd 2026, 22:45:27

If I had to guess, probably 69,420,666 or so.

Sir Balin

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Mar 21st 2026, 13:45:38

🔥

Sir Balin

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Mar 18th 2026, 10:04:24

Congrats Theo!

Sir Balin

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Mar 14th 2026, 12:48:12

Congrats to all. Very solid Top 3.

Yes, I reported the message where SuperFly used sexually harassing language to describe farming me after he RoR'd me.

The basis for reporting that message was the game rule: "* Players cannot create countries with offensive country names or send ingame messages with offensive content."

Sir Balin

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Mar 1st 2026, 17:43:03

Based my "war build" comment on the composition of your restart that suicided us. I did not see your op before you got killed the first time.

We're two sets out and already with the revisionist history, though... too soon. SOL/Mercs hit PDM (and the rest of the server), so we fought back and won. PDM had nothing to do with M4D hitting you this set. You got butthurt and suicided on PDM to make some point that no one else can interpret. We had no beef until you created it. Now you're dead again.

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Mar 1st 2026, 13:49:48

SuperFly logic: M4D hit my "netting" (war build) country, it's based on old grudges, it's evil to blindside netters, therefore I suicided on... PDM?... therefore, everyone should be mad at M4D.

Sir Balin

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Feb 28th 2026, 18:17:34

Typical impotent misdirected rage.

Sir Balin

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Jan 25th 2026, 22:36:37

RIGGED

Sir Balin

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Jan 25th 2026, 17:40:18

Game on! My country number is #67.

Sir Balin

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Jan 25th 2026, 13:04:28

Gentlemen, history has taught us that FAing Paladin would inevitably lead to him incurring repeated cash and food shortages, and he'd likely mistype my country number and suicide a bot.

Sir Balin

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Jan 24th 2026, 19:41:51

SuperFly, it is my destiny to win the round. You can find purpose in electing to be my landfarm. It is a noble (some say divine) calling. If you'd like to apply, please send me a DM.

Sir Balin

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Jan 13th 2026, 18:02:06

You can have defense pacts with bots. I wouldn't call it leeching, since they'll likely get hit way more than you!

Sir Balin

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Jan 13th 2026, 13:52:11

The bots send me defense and trade pacts at the beginning of every round.

Sir Balin

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Jan 12th 2026, 0:15:04

Congrats to both of you... impressive finishes.

Sir Balin

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Jan 9th 2026, 15:29:27

Thanks, Doug.

Congrats to Omega for dominating the round.

Sir Balin

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Dec 23rd 2025, 14:03:21

Lots of action!

Sir Balin

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Dec 15th 2025, 20:26:25

I have observed that this logic does not work well early in the round (when bots of various strategies have few built acres relative to their total land). For example on Coop: a 5539-acre Fasc Farmer with 2437 farms, 191 ICs, 240 CS, and 2671 unbuilt.

I also observed some late-game bots with unbuilt acres getting classified as rainbow. For example on Alliance: a 15092-acre CI bot today with 7456 IC, 240 CS, 7396 unbuilt.

Does it make sense to weight unbuilt acres a little differently in the classification logic?

Sir Balin

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Dec 2nd 2025, 11:13:58

Why don't Military Bases increase population by providing affordable housing for military families?

Sir Balin

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Nov 28th 2025, 18:17:11

42, obviously

Sir Balin

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Nov 25th 2025, 13:35:20

My father-in-law has advanced Parkinsons and, as he's declined, his political takes have gotten more and more unhinged. Each Thanksgiving over the past 5-6 years has become an exercise primarily in not taking his bait.

Sir Balin

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Nov 15th 2025, 15:39:44

My back hurts.

Sir Balin

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Nov 6th 2025, 12:03:58

Originally posted by SuperFly:

Going forward probably PDM will win everything especially now that I am tagging up with them and leading them to the golden age of supreme victory

Wait, are you Doug?

Sir Balin

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Nov 5th 2025, 20:55:55

I like playing this browser game.

Sir Balin

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Oct 15th 2025, 17:01:43

"From the Scores page to AT / Alliance server will be free"

Sir Balin

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Oct 13th 2025, 14:38:01

Originally posted by Suicidal:

Dear Sir Butthurt,

Being tag killed comes with the game. Most clans have experienced the same over the past few decades.
In regards to "Sui does harmful ops on Paradigm's top country", that was only part of the plan to return a "Netting" server back into a "War" server.
I had no idea that SOL was trying for top NW and Darkmere hit my Dict with a mallet for stirring up war.
From the original Earth 2025, to the current EE in the year 2025, someone had to bring back a server war.

I would like to thank all the butthurt players who helped me in Making Earth Great Again.

P.S. If players want to net, with no defence or spies, go play on the COOP server. To play on the Alliance server might require players to cover their backside soze thay don't get butthurt.

To all, thanks for playing. Peace be with you.

Oh wow, now I feel like an idiot. I had no idea that breaking a pact by doing undetected harmful ops was part of your master plan to get SOL tag killed!

Although your claim that you didn't actually know that your entire clan was so committed to getting top NW that they threatened every other clan on the server goes a long way to explain SOL's middling performance last set.

This post is dedicated to Cathankins.

Sir Balin

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Oct 11th 2025, 12:00:20

For posterity:

Typical round, server is netting
SOL is also "netting"
SOL asks rest of server to please let them win the round
Paradigm tries to explain concept of public market to SOL
Weezy threatens to kill pacted Paradigm countries who are selling tech on public market
Sui does harmful ops on Paradigm's top country
Taz does harmful ops on SOL's top country
SOL kills Taz
Mercs peels a few 100 million NW off Paradigm's top country
Paradigm peels a few 100 million NW off SOL's top country
SOL manages to lose TNW despite 7 country advantage
New round
SOL/Mercs FS
SOL/Mercs tag killed

Sir Balin

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Oct 10th 2025, 11:26:19

You had a few players with great walling. We surely would have lost without Empy/Leto running chats. No one else knew what they were doing lol.

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Oct 8th 2025, 21:42:11

This was fun. The day SOL FSed, there was no real coordination between any of the other tags, no shared comms, no war plan. Our collective war prep was lazy at best. But getting all these old treehuggers into the same chat united under a common cause was great fun and made me nostalgic for Earth of yesteryear. I still can’t believe all the old names who came out of the woodwork to take a shot at SOL and that other clan.

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Sep 30th 2025, 21:01:36

I tip my hat, sir. Hope you get a good night's rest.

Sir Balin

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Sep 30th 2025, 15:54:52

Long live SuperFly

Sir Balin

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Sep 27th 2025, 16:01:35

I believe you’ve been killed twice this round with no walling, no?

Sir Balin

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Sep 15th 2025, 16:56:44

@Vic I sent you a message on Discord. I'm teching as well, looking for allies.

Sir Balin

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Sep 12th 2025, 11:24:57

Oh snap, got me there!

Sir Balin

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Sep 11th 2025, 21:34:39

TBF i haven't warred since 2013, so I appreciated this post

Sir Balin

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Sep 9th 2025, 20:25:43

I attack other players with vibes on coop.

Sir Balin

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Aug 31st 2025, 13:07:43

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 52,534 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 52,691 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 52,849 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 53,009 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 53,167 points of technology!

Aug 18, 11:02
Suicidal (#107): Spies infiltrated your research labs and stole 53,328 points of technology!

Sir Balin

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Aug 25th 2025, 17:26:51

Who says the game is in decline??

This kind of content has been the uninterrupted essence of AT since the time of Mehul wishing us a Swirvey day. I am worried about bans insofar as they diminish the sacred institution of the forum. For what is an Internet forum without the noble art of the straw-man argument, the timeless tradition of the ad hominem attack, or the proud legacy of insulting flair with only the faintest relevance to gameplay?

These are not bugs. They are features. They are our heritage.

Sir Balin

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Aug 21st 2025, 16:45:09

Originally posted by Hessman123:

So I think I'll just see myself out the door

I appreciate you hanging on until I could get that fat retal off. Godspeed!

Sir Balin

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Jul 31st 2025, 16:04:25

TBH it was my fault. I was not familiar with the rules. I read the server details and obviously understood there are no clans, but I did not read the forums post that has additional game rules. I appreciate that the mods gave me a second chance. When I was reinstated, I tried reporting SuperFly's message but no dice. :D

Sir Balin

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Jul 31st 2025, 10:08:11

In Alliance, I had a small amount of building cost reduction bonus. It was not removed after activating inf bpt or after using the inf bpt to play a turn.

Edited By: Slagpit on Jul 31st 2025, 15:13:21
See Original Post

Sir Balin

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Jul 30th 2025, 23:58:34

Originally posted by Cathankins:

Who is playing game D? He sure kicked the hornets nest.

This was my second round playing Tourney, and first in Game A. I saw Superfly griefing in the news feed and sent him an ingame message. He responded with 9x grabs and 4x missiles because he objected to me referring to his griefing of other players as "griefing". My first grab of the set was a NW match on BiBiGoN, and we had a pleasant 1:1 exchange of ghost acres (congrats on the win). My second grab was on Hessman, who responded with 2 PS and 20 missiles, launching a war of attrition. Superfly messaged me asking me who I thought he should hit next, then reported me when I suggested Hessman. All in all, I enjoyed my time at the apex of this legendary server. I even finished top 10!

Sir Balin

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Jul 29th 2025, 13:36:45

*the feet

Sir Balin

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Jul 18th 2025, 18:55:11

What's the intent for GDI costs on this server?

- https://earthempires.com/tourney/manage/gdi: "On this server, GDI protection is free and required."

- Permanent bonus available: "Free, Permanent GDI"

- Alliance/GDI costs for my country: $$$$

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Jun 24th 2025, 19:54:20

Sir Balin

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Jun 9th 2025, 13:06:52

- Players could "invest" in the market as a for-profit entity, e.g., a stock price could start low at the beginning of a set and gradually increase, the market could pay a pro rata dividend every X days to shareholders based on the player's holdings as a % of the total and the aggregate amount of commissions generated by the market.

- This could also be applied to each type of goods (e.g., Spy Tech might have a much lower market cap than Bushels), and/or the market-as-a-whole dividend could pay out based on different goods at different times of the set (e.g., it pays out based on commissions for bushels the first week, oil the second week, etc.)

- Perhaps in some servers (e.g., coop), a certain type of tech could lower a player's market commissions

I haven't thought too deeply about the second-order effects of these suggestions.

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Jun 6th 2025, 18:41:58

The homepage is up, but the site is still broken: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in /var/www/boxcar/public/login.php on line 48

Sir Balin

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Jun 4th 2025, 15:05:07

Originally posted by KoHeartsGPA:

How about second place?

Unknowable.