#1 Ranking

[DillonBlake]

Could someone explain to me why someone does not go immortal when they reach #1 ranking. They've obviously maxed out all their warehouses and facilities so they're just sitting around keeping their bread maxed out. Is it some ego trip to keep the other players from moving up in ranking or is there some other reason?

[Pontius Pilatus]

Maybe being no 1 has addictive qualities?

Who knows?

Maybe suicide does not appeal to everybody here playing the game?

LOL!

Just face it, if anybody gets to that top position, why throw it away immediately?

I am with you, but I can understand the other position.

Cheers!

[thechris]

humm. i see both points.

maybe they just enjoy playing? maybe when you get in the top 10 there should be production reduction?

or maybe, a timer that after a certain amount reduces production. so you have a grace period of being #1

[DillonBlake]

I can see enjoying a #1 position for a few days; but after that it's just a matter of being on an ego trip. It's not as if you are actually "playing" the game since you aren't building or trading or buying anything. You are just sitting there. TM needs to put in a feature that automatically forces immortality at a lower rankining after - say a week at the most at #1. Come on, Terrah, tell us all why you are just sitting there?

[Pontius Pilatus]

Whoohoo, so this is all about Terrah?

As it happened today someone else also high in rank was complaining about Terrah too and even tried to hire me to rob the monuments. Alas Terrah is not in my vicinity, so I declined the contract.
I think the problem will be soon resolved.:D

[DillonBlake]

Yeah, that would serve him/her right. Rob the monuments and let them drop to about 100 in the rankings so it will take them weeks to get back into the top 10.

[Pontius Pilatus]

Terrah is inactive three days and no soldiers defending.:cool:

[DillonBlake]

Terrah is not anywhere near me or I'd be tempted to go for one of his monuments - if I didn't already have two of my own. :p For future reference is there any way of abandoning a monument?

[Tinkerbell]

peepee ~ Pontius Pilatus ~ Nesubit in Sabah ~ just uncapped abana in 13S

abana - The Original in Sabah ~ who turned around & took Terrah's monument in 69N

Team griefing again & of the #1 ranked peaceful player.

Again CBC website in action

EDIT: DillonBlake is CBC too!

http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/vbulletin/member.php?u=109

http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/member.php?u=278

Shame shame shame

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Pontius Pilatus]

What's up St Inkerbell?

Do you have anything usefull to tell?

Cheers my best friend on the Nile!

[Pontius Pilatus]

Terrah is not anywhere near me or I'd be tempted to go for one of his monuments - if I didn't already have two of my own. :p For future reference is there any way of abandoning a monument?

I found a way to remedy the problem, it's taken care of.

Cheers!

[DillonBlake]

Now I just hope that everyone reads this thread and gets a clue as to how the game is supposed to be played among the courteous. Apparently Tinkerbell feels that he's above such nonsense. :( Such a pity - but, then, I've heard that he's been known to attack players, himself. That's a good reason not to trade with him - even under his aliases. I would think that he should maintain the "shame, shame, shame" for himself.:mad:

[abana]

I am receiving thank you scrolls. Seems that there are many that are tired of not being able to advance.

Don't you remember that the PVP was supposed to be a "King of the Hill"? That is why I named the monument "The Hill". I am not Queen of the hill yet, but I am Queen of that hill...

DB, don't you know that anything Tinkerbelle does is right? While anything anyone else does(especially if they are in any way affiliated with CBC) is wrong?

[Tinkerbell]

cockroaches

[Pontius Pilatus]

Now I just hope that everyone reads this thread and gets a clue as to how the game is supposed to be played among the courteous. Apparently Tinkerbell feels that he's above such nonsense. :( Such a pity - but, then, I've heard that he's been known to attack players, himself. That's a good reason not to trade with him - even under his aliases. I would think that he should maintain the "shame, shame, shame" for himself.:mad:

Yeah he leaches on monuments from inactive or on vacation players. He is parasitic in that respect.
We have a novel solution to that:
Whenever he does it, we publish his crime on the nomewall where he does it. Messages on nomewalls never go away.
His reputation is deteriorating every time he does it.LOL

Cheers!

[DillonBlake]

I see that he's now resorted to childish name calling. It must be a challenge living in a world where one is right and everyone else is wrong. I almost feel sorry for him - almost. :rolleyes:

[Cazy]

Hi DillonBlake :),

It's obvious TM didn't fix the end game (staying forever doing nothing still being an option) and some people don't respect other's play and do stay forever doing nothing. I wish you good luck hunting that No1 spot and a happy rebirth :D.

On the other hand, it's interesting to see a player drop 130+ places just for losing a monument (full of resources, no doubt). It shows someone (re)starting the game now has to play a looong time to hit Top 100.

[DillonBlake]

Actually, Terrah only dropped 15 places in the ratings so he should be able to get back into the top 10 as the rest of the higher rankings go immortal like they should. Sinepamun is next and will, hopefully, go immortal as soon as he logs on again - hopefully today. :D

[Tinkerbell]

OK, let's review, shall we?

peepee wanted a full monument, but was not man enough to do it himself, so CBC made up this bogus case of peaceful player Terrah being #1 rank too long (which he/she was not).

abana gave peepee one of her full monuments (cheating as usual) so abana could chicken grief one of her own nomies (Terrah) in 69N only 27 minutes away.

peepee gets a full monument for free.

Cheating the CBC way.

Does JuliaSet approve of this, CBC moderator abana? She must, cuz why else would she have someone of such low character as a moderator?

[DillonBlake]

Sigh, still trying to defend your losing position, eh, Tinkerbell. I think that most of the players are tired of you by now. Your "review" is so skewed with inaccuracies, hearsay, and your own opinions that no one will believe it, anyway. I'm sorry that we've all called you on your poor gaming etiquette and that upsets you. Too bad.

[abana]

The way that I see it is that Tink is probably the best advertisement for CBC that exists. For anyone who doesn't have it this is the link http://www.citybuildingcontests.net/

Just for the record, CBC was not the first forum that I was involved with. Sierra was. But at that time, I didn't utilize it fully. I am also a member of HeavenGames, and a founding member(and moderator) of The Mod Squad.

[Tinkerbell]

A trip down memory lane

I got hit by Avaia then Celer a few hours later, when I had retaken the monument plot.

Avaia brought in 350 troops while I was sleeping, got the days production, trashed the long saved for first level monument, trashed my quarries back to level one again.

Then came Celer who arrived with 200 or so units.

What infuriates me is not the attacking but being defeseless. I was abused by my ex and this "rings all of my bells." I would not mind making an army, but feeding it if you are not in the top five, is rather prohibitive. There is NO way I could feed 350 troops and the labor left at the site over night. We feed them day and night. The raiders only feed them for a short time. Why can't we have a cheaper use of bread for monument soldiers and labor? I would not mind the expense of making a stack to sit and guard my site. It would be nice if the defense bonus was higher as well.

The warning email comes a half hour late!!!!!! So complaining about others getting warnings is not an issue. I only found out about an attacker because I was actually IN the game early in the morning before going out to radiation treatment.

Reed we are sitting ducks to be abused. It is NOT fun to struggle to build and then end up with a completely trashed venture, a waste of nearly a week of careful building. We spend time on making our monuments. The losses are incredibly high for those who prefer a less stressful game.

As far as team playing, well, I have made my own team as usual, cause the folks from my site are like me, they are likely to trade with someone new and near. I am not near enough nor are there enough of them... they stayed and died on Sabah, and in Sabah were about 200 nomes from me.

This game is about making new friends. It is what keeps me online, its not a huge deal about the game, but its very special for me to make new pals. We have this "puzzle" together to keep up and maybe find a small way to be more efficient than others. I keep track of my rank cause it indicates that I'm managing to keep up with good players.

Reed, please reduce the damage these raiders do, or give us the tools to be able to defend ourselves. I have been raided several times.. each monument has been raided several times. It takes me a good ten days to recover from the hit since I'm not in the Pharaoh catagory. Serial killers, working in conjunction with each other are not possible to counter, as you have the game set up. The Pharaoh folks are more than likely to have enough production to be able to afford a stiff defense.

All I know is that the raiders are going to have a lot of limestone and are probably selling it in their cities. If they had few buyers, it would not be as productive for them. I choose to buy from those who do not raid.

Twice in one day was more than enough. Are they leapfrogging and helping each other?

Damn, abana, JuliaSet just called you a serial killer & accused you of spousal abuse!

abana's profile

Pharaoh The Original (Rank: 23) (High: 16) (Age: 73 years)
Birthdate: September 19th 2009
Laborers: 5821
Donations to the Gods: 99015
Market Sales: 11195
Market Purchases: 3218
Battles (Offense): 31
Battles (Defense): 15
Soldiers Defeated: 6350
Soldiers Captured: 144
Monuments Captured: 10
Cities and Monuments
Tracy's City (39S) (L22) Rich's City (23N) (L22) John's City (13S) (L22) Bartville (69N) (L22) Another One (L5) The Hill (L5)

All that cheating & griefing & your rank still falls?

Here's a hint, Nile amateur, for you & peepee. Multiple account cheating & griefing is not the way to the top ranks.

Yeah, that would serve him/her right. Rob the monuments and let them drop to about 100 in the rankings so it will take them weeks to get back into the top 10.

As for you, skippy. You actually believed a full monument was worth 100 rank points? Really? LOL

[Pontius Pilatus]

Hya Tinky,

Big words, but where is your rank then at the moment?
I think your rank is pathetic at the moment, so what are you on about?
Even on your own scale you are a big loser.

Rank is for vegetables, don't turn into one or you can't move ever again.LOL

Cheers buddy, you are my fav enemy!

[Mr Ears]

I wonder if Tink will be able to stay in the Top 100 for very long... I thought it's time again to challenge his defense. In about two days there will be a nice gathering of my people around one of his monuments :D

The interesting part is, what will Tink's people do? Will we see them running again??

:D

[Pontius Pilatus]

Oh goody, goody.
Welcome back Mr Ears, don't spare the rod on him.

He has been naughty again and needs some discipline.


http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc163/tigresstena/myphotos/spanking.jpg

[abana]

I propose an alliance. This alliance will assure that anyone who gains the #1 position goes immortal withing 2 ranking periods of gaining that spot. If you try to hold onto that spot longer, expect to loose a monument.

Of course, if you have other goals that you haven't met, I would be willing to hold off on taking your monument until you have met them. Just let us know.

[Mr Ears]

Oh goody, goody.
Welcome back Mr Ears, don't spare the rod on him.

He has been naughty again and needs some discipline.


http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc163/tigresstena/myphotos/spanking.jpg

It's been the first time I logged on since a month and I didn't waste any time, I got straight to business :D

Yes indeed, Tink needs to be spanked again ;)

[Mr Ears]

LOL

Tink has a new defense strategy!!!

He's reporting everyone to TM who dares to "visit" him at one of his monuments

LOLOLOL

[Pontius Pilatus]

What great news, whose ass did I kick?
Never knew I was playing for rank.

Will anybody of you enlighten me on this?


Cheers!

[Mr Ears]

He's scared that you leave him behind in rank soon, so he tried to make me attack you!

LOL

And of course he's still particularly scared of abana, who always is three steps ahead of him, despite all his efforts he puts into playing and understanding the game. So he also tried to talk me into attacking her!

If you ask me: The key is that Tink is just not clever enough to play the game. He developed an inferiority complex towards abana and Pontius (and particularly toward the ever unreachable JuliaSet and her CBC army) due to his lack of cleverness I'm afraid. Also he never even got close to Amun Nefer's art of defeating him ingame and in the forums. And so on and so forth. Apart from cowardly hiring other players to attack his enemies he never had any answers.

==> And trying to talk me into assaulting my long time allies, mates and cooperatives.... Now that is not what I would call clever, ist it??? LOL

[Pontius Pilatus]

He's scared that you leave him behind in rank soon, so he tried to make me attack you!


==> And trying to talk me into assaulting my long time allies, mates and cooperatives.... Now that is not what I would call clever, ist it??? LOL

What do you know?

He started way earlier ( 4 gameyears) than I in Sabah and he bought a lot of scarabs to kickstart early on his empire of 4 cities, now at 4 score L22 and two monuments L5. He only just made the top 100 and has difficulty keeping himself there.

I on the other hand had to wait for scarabs from quests after the initial 10 free ones. I have none left at the moment and my maximum upgrade, if none from quests arrive soon, will be three cities at L22, L18, L18. I took two monuments from other players(you know who you are!), because I cannot build them myself, so at L4. I am at rank 125 now and still climbing a dozen points every gameyear.
Yes, he as obsessive with rank sofar, rightfully must be worried about my progress.LOL

In short his gameplay sucks like a newborn poobaby.:D

[DillonBlake]

:(I see that this thread hasn't seemed to sink in to some people. Even after the "disciplining" of Terrah, now RSCamaleon seems to think that it's a good idea to sit at #1 for days without going immortal. Or maybe he just never reads the forums.

I don't know how often the ranking procedure is done; but a week at #1 is plenty long to stroke any normal player's ego - the exception, of course, being Tinkerbell who think's he's God's gift to the game.

Perhaps RSCamaleon might be encouraged to show a bit of game courtesy if eveyone who reads this thread sent him a scroll suggesting such and encouraged all their allies to do the same.

[abana]

The ranks are updated every 12 hours. For Sabah, it is at 7:30 am and pm, but it might take time for the listings to reflect the changes.

Have no fear, I have a plan in the works to dethrone him, it may take awhile to come to fruition...but it will.

[Mr Ears]

This shouldn't be a problem. When I'm finished with Tink, I can take his monuments and he will lose his pole position.

[Pontius Pilatus]

Most of the hangers on in the top 20 are 120+ years old.
I think they are not playing for the no1 position. They just happen to be full of stuff and get there automatically. Whenever they have better things to do they slip quietly to 15 or 20 or so just until they reemerge and play a day or two and ofcourse rise again. I doubt they care at all what we do or say about it. Their kind of fun with the game is somewhat different, but they are in their right.

[DillonBlake]

P.P. - While you might be correct, I'm willing to give those ranked #2 through #25 or so the benefit of the doubt. They may be hanging around just long enough to hit #1; then they'll go immortal right away. It's the ones that hang around at #1 that have a serious problem with game courtesy. Remove that log jam and, hopefully, the others will speed through #1 quite rapidly allowing everyone else to move up.

[Pontius Pilatus]

Hmm, let me take this character Terrah as an example. Obviously it was impossible to slip down over time because he did not defend the monument. He was full and stayed full. You cannot beat full with your full if he has rank over you.
Now after our attacks Terrah is defending his monuments with a huge army. That is good. If inactive for a few days the army eats up his bread and he will slip down again.
Ergo to give some hope the nr 1 will not stay up indefinite we must take out any monument of a nr 1 without monument defense. They are the ones that are the worst blockers.
In my next life I will see to it those blockers are demonumented.:eek:

[Mr Ears]

[censored] spearmen [censored] archers [censored] charioteers vs Bad Billy III (162N)! (arriving in 6h 11m)

:D

[Pontius Pilatus]

Whoo, the spanking is on now. Billy you are bad, so don't complain, you had it coming.:D

Good job Mr Ears.

Did you follow our other story about takin out Nr1 monuments?

I will go immortal soon and will return as Nr 1 monument sweeper, so the 1 spot will be open for all.

[abana]

I will be helping to make sure that you get cities in the appropriate spots.

[Pontius Pilatus]

You will go immortal too, ain't you?

Let's go and form a team devoted to that service to the community!

We will clean up that mess!

Cheers!

[abana]

I like the idea of that team.

[Pontius Pilatus]

You invent a name for this holy alliance then?

Cheers!

[abana]

How about "The Sweepers"?

[Mr Ears]

Whoo, the spanking is on now. Billy you are bad, so don't complain, you had it coming.:D

Good job Mr Ears.

Did you follow our other story about takin out Nr1 monuments?

I will go immortal soon and will return as Nr 1 monument sweeper, so the 1 spot will be open for all.

And I can act as your cooperative in this.

By the way, meanwhile Tink's combat button must be flashing like a christmas tree... :D

[Mr Ears]

+++ the news bulletin +++ fifteen minutes before estimated impact: tink's property has emptied +++ seen it all before

[Mr Ears]

#1: Mission accomplished!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AxBvyEAebkY/SjgY_3AvAYI/AAAAAAAAAFY/VN4uH7vScLU/s320/salute.jpg

[Pontius Pilatus]

He did as expected and took mine immediately after you took his.
Now I can devote myself to the "Sweeping Squad".:D

[Mr Ears]

I think that was a coward's act! I didn't expect him to do this. But why didn't you secure your monument against this risk?

[Pontius Pilatus]

Well I have to sleep, this is not a dayjob for me, you guys are in a different timezone.
If he can muster 500 soldiers to beat my 200 he can do that with any number, so no point in putting in 1000 or 2000 just to make him attack me a few hours later.
No worry, he freed me up, now I can work on the 1 rankers. Or maybe I am secretly waiting for him to go asleep.:cool:

Cheers!!

Edit: He attacked both my monuments and had a total of 1200 soldiers on the move, even if I had been awake I would not have stood any chance with my reserves.
Interesting he can play it with that kind of logic, not the usual moron and coward. I still have hopes for the poor bugger.;)

[Pontius Pilatus]

You made it! Hurray!:)

[Mr Ears]

Tink/Bad Bi(u)lly III???

Please don't tell me it's true that you report every new registered player to TM now just because you sense an illegal multiple uncapping griefing account (is that what you call it?? LOL) behind it?

I have heard of some complaints from new players in the last couple of days that they have been reported and they don't know for what reason.

I wonder if you could share with the class what stupidities you are on now. The class is eager to hear an explanation!

[Mr Ears]

@Pontius/Nesubit: I have heard rumors that you've suffered a terrible rank loss after Tink attacked you. Tell me the whole truth, how much bread was really in there?? And please don't tell me you are still keeping 1M bread in your other monument in 13S now??
See, if, by leveling Tink's monument, I got him in a position where he could steal an incredible amount of bread and other riches, that was not what I intended by my military operation!

@abana/the original: Why did you drop from #15 to #30 overnight? What have you done?

[Pontius Pilatus]

Well Mr Ears, at the moment you took Tink's monument I had the full amount of bread everywhere. I make a million of bread in one week if I need to.
So the moment of your action was unfortunate, but I could have saved the bread only if I had a definite target to reclaim within 12 hours and I did not have that option.
Besides you never told me the exact moment of impact on Tinky's or maybe I would have gambled the bread away to keep it inbetween cities and monument, but that requires a player that has free time a plenty to keep that juggling going. I do not have that luxury of free time so my bread was doomed from the start.

Never mind, as long as Tink sits under my nose he will have serious sleepdeprivation because he fears I will take it back any day now, so now he is the one being hard at work keeping that bread out of the monuments, out of my reach.:D

So in a way I have the last laugh.:p


Edit: Tink defends the monument under my nose with just 40 skinny soldiers. That is very sly. The impression is there is not much to get, but he is defending just the monumentbonus.
Now he will keep that up, but I will look at his rank and if he goes up it will mean the monument holds stuffs, time for a raid on him then. Haha, he will not sleep again, ever!

[Pontius Pilatus]

From today I will monitor the top 5 in Sabah. Anyone in there with a high lifespan(120+)combined with no monument defense is liable to attacks on monuments by me. They clog the route to rank 1.
The sweepers will try to keep longlifers out of #1 rank, so others can go immortal with that rank.
I think it is a service to many frustrated players who want that shining big monument, but are always blocked by the old folks.
I am not alone, an alliance of almost a dozen is forming.

Cheers!

[abana]

Just to confirm, I am also in that alliance, I have sent scrolls to many of the top ranked players.

[Keith]

Perhaps they should allow rank sharing in the game. That way more than one person could be #1 at the same time and it would make for faster rank advancement in the game.

[Mr Ears]

Perhaps they should allow rank sharing in the game. That way more than one person could be #1 at the same time and it would make for faster rank advancement in the game.

If everybody is ranked #1, nobody feels like the #1.

Perhaps they should allow you to fight your way up. Assault and loot cities, burn down your competitor's palaces, take as many monuments as you can handle. Only being able to have 2 monuments is a joke!
And perhaps even dueling places, where you can have a one on one with your competitors, carry out gunfights or even a fistfight.

[Pontius Pilatus]

[9:43 am] You sent 0 http://sabah.playnileonline.com/images/icon_spearmen.png 0 http://sabah.playnileonline.com/images/icon_archers.png and 500 http://sabah.playnileonline.com/images/icon_charioteers.png off to combat! The mission will take 69h 06m to complete.

Capture Monument!
sinepamun currently occupies this monument plot! Defeat the defending army to take it from them.

If you are victorious, you will take over the plot! Doing so will boost your prestige and improve the morale of your army. You will also receive spoils of war, which includes any remaining enemy troops, limestone and bread.

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http://sabah.playnileonline.com/images/icon_archers.png

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Enemy: Approximately 0 soldiers
Time to complete mission: 69h 06m

[abana]

Mr. Ears, the way I envisioned the military working(before it was implemented), was vastly different. I had thought that I might send you a challenge, you would have some time to respond, eventually you and I would meet on the battlefield, and that part of the game would happen in real time, we would be maneuvering our troops, changing formations, and directing our battles.

I have received responses to many of my scrolls, please be assured, I don't intend to deny top ranked positions to anyone, but to clear those positions for anyone to be able to use.

Everyone wants to leave with a big tomb. As PP has pointed out, the problem is with players who stay in those top positions, and don't take advantage of it. Many are not signing in for days, but because they don't defend their monuments, the bread amount(and therefore their rank) stays stable.

[Tinkerbell]

Some real solutions

Easy solution to stop multi-account griefing (http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25999)

SUG: Auto Kill Players at Age 50 (http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25437)

...ask for 50 & might at least get 80...lol...

Also, if an account has never bought scarabs, meaning there is no Nile Online Supporter on Profile, then that account is removed from the ranking system. If you are not willing to pay for the game & help row the Nile boat, then your account is meaningless in rank.

If you later buy scarabs & become a Nile Supporter, your account is put back into the ranking system.

Any account inactive or vacation is also removed from the ranking system, reinstated if they become active again. However, even this should have a limit of say 3 months, then deletion even if inactive immunity is purchased.

It would really help Sabah if the broken weekly server sweeps would be fixed.

[Pontius Pilatus]

Ok, let us forget the old stuff. You are willing to think with us to make the problem at hand manageable. We are now just improvising with monument taking, but that is not a very agreeable way to solve things. Maybe you can give us fresh input to reach a better solution?

I am so glad you take this problem serious, help us out!

Cheers!

Edit on edit: I see you are rowing that boat again, last time I put it to you: buying scarabs is cheating, I am better than you, just because I never bought one of them.

[Tinkerbell]

Uh, peepee, there is no skill involved with being pushed by illegal multiple accounts. :rolleyes: This is the gifting problem, especially with old accounts.

How do you clowns live with yourselves?

[Mr Ears]

Some real solutions

Easy solution to stop multi-account griefing (http://www.tiltedmill.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25999)

LOL!!

Also, if an account has never bought scarabs, meaning there is no Nile Online Supporter on Profile, then that account is removed from the ranking system. If you are not willing to pay for the game & help row the Nile boat, then your account is meaningless in rank.

I WAS helping the boat row, I used to be a supporter, so was Pontius, abana and also JuliaSet!

The question has to be, what would I be paying for? I did the right thing paying once, when I discovered the game and had a blast.

But since then: Did the game designers develope the game so that experienced players still have a blast playing it?

The answer is no. This game remained in that state and can be considered as underdeveloped today. Still no sinks, still no hurdles, still no PVP, very boring for experienced players.

There is no reason to pay for a game that is not maintained anymore, that got abandoned by its designers, that no effort is put in anymore.

And what makes it worse, if you pay for it, Tink, is that you signal the wrong message to the game designers. By paying you signal that you're happy with the state of the game, happy that there's no developement anymore and so on.

And on the other hand, you complain about the lack of developement. Isn't that schizoid??

LOL

[Mr Ears]

By the way, abana, due to Tink I'm gonna take your monuments soon, so you're supposed to be at risk ;)

Tink has a wild imagination, hasn't he? LOL!!

[Tinkerbell]

Upgrade the W14, Ears. Having 27K redlined bronze in a bronze city makes you look like an idiot.

:D

[Mr Ears]

LOL Tink, what do I need more warehouse space for?? :cool:

You probably can imagine how much bronze I have in my other cities, and besides, have a look on the market! ;)

Anyway, how sweet you worry about my material management. I can't help but being delighted...

:D

P.S: Gee, Tink always cracks me up :D Always so observant......................................... .......

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LOL!!!

[Keith]

Not everyone wants to fight, so that's not a good option either. You may not feel like #1 if there are others, but it might make a lot more people feel better rather than complaining about not being able to advance in rank because someone is hogging the #1 spot.

[Keith]

Huh? I didn't say I thought someone should hog #1. I said that it would be better to have more people sharing #1 than one player holding on to #1.

Having a moderator remove you wouldn't be right either. You don't want someone arbitrarilly saying that your time is up. Besides that's not what a moderator of a game is for. And, TM online has no such moderator in the first place. TM staffers only drop in in the event of some technical problem.

Better to have an automatic "go immortal" feature in the game that activates shortly after you hit #1. You get a short time to enjoy it and then you automatically go immortal.

[abana]

Better to have an automatic "go immortal" feature in the game that activates shortly after you hit #1. You get a short time to enjoy it and then you automatically go immortal.

I think that this is a great idea!

[abana]

And that is just what we are doing.

[Keith]

The only thing they'd have to do with the automatic go immortal feature is to be sure that the account is tagged within the game so that he can't deliverately lose his rank and then regain it. That would keep two or more partners from swapping in an out of #1 on pupose to avoid going immortal.

So, if you hit #1 your account receives a tag on the server so the program knows to retire this account and make him go immortal regardless of what rank he is after that event.

[Pontius Pilatus]

Uh, peepee, there is no skill involved with being pushed by illegal multiple accounts. :rolleyes: This is the gifting problem, especially with old accounts.

How do you clowns live with yourselves?

I do not buy scarabs, but I do accept gifts and give them myself. Maybe my talent in getting lavish gifts has something to do with me playing the game better than you. Maybe I am more social and do things that make people giving to me readily, as they are not giving to you, maybe they think you are anti-social. Well that was just putting it mildly, I think you are anti-social scum. You are a parasite and a megalomaniac egotistical scumbag.

Now please remove yourself from this thread!

Cheers!

[thechris]

LOL at the like, 6 posts on topic, and everyone ignoring what i said, then when keith says it everyone likes it.:eek:
(go look at the first page :P)

edit: sorry, my original idea wasnt as thought out as much as i thought, but similar.

[Mr Ears]

LOL at the like, 6 posts on topic, and everyone ignoring what i said, then when keith says it everyone likes it.:eek:
(go look at the first page :P)

Who are you?

[Tinkerbell]

Chris is my WingMan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8rZWw9HE7o)

:D

[Q-Man]

Quick break from the playground chatter to get back on topic --

If they ever start another server fresh, then they would need a check that the player meets the criteria to go immortal (has the goods and palace level) but that won't be a problem for the current servers. That would only be an issue for a start up world. I would say do it weekly though instead of daily. Not so hard to get to the big pyramid if they would start pushing them out once a week. (If you look at the "age" of the current top leaders you can see that if this had been in place from the start it would have made it plenty easy for those that want to go out at #1 to get there).

[Tinkerbell]

Q-Man - In case you haven't read this entire thread, many of the players have a lot of years racked up only because one or two players have sat at #1 for way too long.

Nonsense.

The age of players is now high cuz high rank now requires almost perfect cities & many only play casually, finding themselves at a high rank they never thought they would be at.

It is mature-serveritis.

Most players do not care about being rank #1, rather they only want a big tomb at rank 10 & poof they are gone.

It is the desperate chase for #1 period that causes the old age.

You like to talk about egos. Insisting on Number 1 rank is the ego trip. Your ego. Like the game OWES you a #1 rank.

Nile doesn't have very many players period. And you are already crying.

LOL

You expect to change human nature. That cracks me up.

I would like the programing/policing to get rid of the cheating, cuz with a game that has more holes than swiss cheese, top ten rank is unfortunately not worth a bucket of warm spit.

The top rank problem in Theoris was caused by vacation cheating & pushing. It is a bug. It was solved by griefing cheating with illegal multiple accounts & more pushing cheating.

I have yet to see a post from a top ten immortal besides myself who wants cheating removed from the game.

Not one!

Question

What kind of contests does CBC do mostly?

Yep speed contests.

Hence my Kill em at age 50. That would put a bit of challenge back into the game & get rid of old players. The Number One Ranker would be at most 50 years old. No time to gift & no time to cap out at all. Constant massive turnover in the top 100. How high can you get in 50 years?

Casual players would get to start over & have fun returned to their game. The Old Game is not very fun & quite booring. That is why I don't play it.

Players do not return cuz their first time took too long. New Players would see the possibility of a chance at high rank this lifetime.

Almost every return player tells me that Baby Empires rock & that they should have gone immortal & restarted a loong time ago. My suggestion forces them to!

[Mr Ears]

Hmm, what I really wonder about is why abana has never recovered from the loss of her monument a few weeks ago, when she was ranked #16. She initially dropped to #30, and stays there although she is holding two L5 monuments again.
But analyzing abana's profile, one also has to underline that she is probably the first player ever who owns the complete item collection. And this is something that even Tink admitted that cannot be cheated.
SO the kudos go to abana!! :)

[Pontius Pilatus]

So not all stuffs are maxed out anymore.
Don't you worry, she is one of the sweepers now, she doesn't need rank.;)
I don't need rank.:cool:


Cheers!

[Mr Ears]

The really interesting question is now: How long will Tink be able to keep his two L5 monuments? :eek: :p

:D

His 81N monument is not safe, that's sure. And hell, his 13S monument ain't safe either, right next door to your and abana's palaces as it is :D

[Pontius Pilatus]

I am still on attack course against sinepamun, just in case Lamont is not immortalizing in time.
Could be I switch my forces against Tink soon, I will think about it. The uncappers are ready for it.
Tomorrow I will make decisions about that, heck there are to many targets and I have only one free hand to strike. Choices, choices....;)

[Q-Man]

Dillon, if you had read my post you would understand that within two weeks a two player deadlock over #1 spot would have been cleared. I and many others just wanted the big pyramid so checked out at top ten status (done it a couple of times), but even those who feel they have to have that #1 slot would be covered by culling the #1 person once a week.

I suspect monument attacking was the originally intended means of fighting over top ranking - but with the two monument cap, and the maxed out levels it takes to get there, this can be almost impossible. That's why I suggested in another thread to allow attacking anyone in the top ten even if you have two monuments. You couldn't capture the monument, but it could become a bandit plot and you could have captured goods auto-sent to your cap. This would allow folks to knock others off their perch or at least force high rankers to actively defend monuments. Either result makes it easier to break in long enough to go immortal. I prefer that over euthanizing them, and should be tried first. If that didn't do the trick, I still feel euthanizing weekly would be fast enough to fix the current stagnation problem - even for those who feel the need to leave at #1 and no lower rank.

[Tinkerbell]

There is no roadblock at the top. Theoris just finally caught up with where Sabah has been for almost a year now.

There are players who even passed momo when he still had two full monuments & 22K guards at each monument.

Again, it is not caused by players hogging the top spots, it is just how it is now. Get used to it.

I'm not defending hoggers, by the way.

[abana]

Again, it is not caused by players hogging the top spots, it is just how it is now. Get used to it.

I'm not defending hoggers, by the way.

How can you not defend the hoggers, if they aren't hogging?

[Q-Man]

I agree Dillon that without code changes, all the near top rank players can do is align themselves with newer (1 monument) players and help fund their efforts to grab a top ranker's monument at the moment they are ready to break through so they can go immortal.

Players who think the game should be played like golf, won't like the team - "ganging up" - or the funding - "gifting" - aspects. Those who see it more like playing football will be quite content. My guess is the devs designed the game to be played like football, but I think the earliest adopters came from Children of the Nile which is a single player game, and plays more like golf. I remember the howls when "dastardly" people made a habit of attacking other people's monuments. A lot of folks tried to start boycotting the "raiders" as it was seen as unsportsman like. That kind of thing just didn't happen in COTN - and they expected a COTN on line experience where "fair trades" ang the market sales were the only interaction. But I think this is a different game which the devs expected to be played more like football than golf. After all, why else include a PvP element?

[Tinkerbell]

I Ilke the football analogy, Q-Man, but let's get real how they do it.

The team is losing badly, so they get a fan from the stands to run out onto the field & trip a player. Then the fan runs off the field never to be heard from again.

These fans are the temp uncapping accounts.

[Pontius Pilatus]

I Ilke the football analogy, Q-Man, but let's get real how they do it.

The team is losing badly, so they get a fan from the stands to run out onto the field & trip a player. Then the fan runs off the field never to be heard from again.

These fans are the temp uncapping accounts.

That is funny!
I have been uncapping players, but I don't feel like being a fan running off and not being heard of again.
Now hear me!
I have been uncapped, the uncapper being you, now be a good temp and disappear into oblivion.

Silly boy!:p

[Tinkerbell]

Let's review this thread, shall we?

This CBC DillonBlake clown starts a crying thread in the sabah forum section, then mentions Terrah the #1 sabah ranker who wasn't #1 for very long.

Later in the thread, we find out that this thread was actually about HIM in Theoris.

Who jumps into the thread? The Three Stooges of Sabah ~ peepee, Mr Ears & abana. Conspiracy? You betcha. They are now "The Sweepers" LOL !!!

and lookie here

a "look am MEEEEE I'm #1" post about him going immortal in theoris

and the catch phrase?

"please don't attack me"

If this was all about clearing top slots for #1 rankers, why was it necessary to take momo's 2nd monument? That is pure EVIL.

momo wasn't even the #1 ranker with two monuments at the time.

Remember folks, this thread was about Terrah in Sabah in the Sabah forum section. momo is on the theoris server.

Of course, The Dillion clown keeps posting about other's egos

LOL

Current theoris #1 ranker is Pharaoh Pharaoh Jeff32 (Rank: 2) (High: 2) (Age: 76 years)

KhanXIV (Dillon) 114 years on the Hall. 114? No skill at all.

And he talks about MY rank. That really cracks me up! The oldest I have ever been is 62.

When Nile was young, the CBC clowns cried that top rankers were being attacked at all. Now they are crying that the top ranks are not being attacked enough. Of course, but don't attack a CBCer. :rolleyes:

Now where was I in this thread? Oh yeah, Kill em at Age 50. I want this for one competitive server. For the other, you can live as long as you would like!

[Mr Ears]

Actually I care about what he has to say. Indeed, many things he says about crying on the one hand and pointing at others on the other he's right!

But that doesn't save him from being swept by the glorious sweepers, since he has accumulated an incredible number of offences on his record!

:D

Plus, he can't compete with abana. abana has always defeated him in rank. Sabah I, Theoris I, Sabah II, Theoris II, Sabah III, abana has always been the better player!

[Tinkerbell]

Plus, he can't compete with abana. abana has always defeated him in rank. Sabah I, Theoris I, Sabah II, Theoris II, Sabah III, abana has always been the better player!

OK, Ears, I give you credit for this post.

LOL !!!

:D

[Mr Ears]

OK, Tink, but here's the next charge: How the heck do you know he's a CBC board member and call him that?? Evidence??
Or is it again your famous "I'm Tinkerbell I don't need evidence" attitude?

So your record of charges and convictions has been added one more.
But anyway it's like your record is an ocean, one more is just another drop dripping into it...

:D

LOLOLOL!!!

I just realized that you lost your monument to Pontius!!

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5500/3harsmallau9.jpg

[abana]

DillonBlake is a long-time, respected member of CBC(he is on the member's list). What Tinkerbelle is avoiding, though is that he(Mark Duffy) was recently banned from CBC.

[Q-Man]

I used to feel that sitting at the top with hordes of goods was unsportsmanlike as well - but like many, I was really just frustrated by the boring grind. It is a competitive game however, and there are hard limits on how much you can store and upgrade (though we don't know if there is a cap on how many quest items count towards rank). Outside of quest items it means that eventually everyone is going to be very close to the same rank score because everything is maxed out. So you can get there, and the only edge they might have is in quest items accumulated over time.

But if you find an up and comer with only one monument...... you should be able to make a deal. Especially if they fail to guard their monuments adequately. Loss of the monument and all the bread, limestone and bricks will definitely knock them down. This is the part of the game that doesn't happen enough and why it becomes such a grind at the end.

If I start again, I think I will be a raider, knocking off the top rankers poorly defended monuments and transfering out the goodies. I may never need to build a second brickyard! Even baking bread may not be necessary!:D Hopefully the enraged high rankers will retake their monument for prides sake so I can then rinse and repeat with another lazy high ranker. ;)

[Tinkerbell]

DillonBlake is a long-time, respected member of CBC(he is on the member's list).

LOL !!!

What Tinkerbelle is avoiding, though is that he(Mark Duffy) was recently banned from CBC.

What abana is missing from the story is that I am not a member of the tiny dead CBC street gang. When I told them to remove me from their membership & delete the few posts I had made there, cuz I refuse to be associated with a gang of liars who refuse to allow truth on their forums; they banned me. LOL

[Tinkerbell]

You really do have an ego problem, don't you, Duffy? Could you possibly get back to the topic of the thread - or are you going to continue to lash out childishly at anyone who has a different point of view from you? The moderators at CBC (of which I am not one) apparently grew tired of your unsportsmanlike contact there as well.

Yes, we all know that you will respond to this in your usual manner so think hard and come up with something clever with lots of LOLs.

Uh, skippy, abana is the one who went off topic. I'm responding.

You are very rude, abrasive & insulting. No wonder you have no friends. You CBC clowns sure do like to dish it out, but cry like babies when you get it back.

[thechris]

well, ACTUALLY, like, all of you are off topic.

and, its just lame going off topic then saying someone else is off topic. and wouldn't saying some is off topic make you off topic? which makes you all Hippocrates.

ONTOPIC: i stick with my original suggestion, that they should have huge penalizes or something, just not something physically forcing them to stop playing.

[Herodotus]

... which makes you all Hippocrates...


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Hippocrates_rubens.jpg


Hippocrates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates)


Sorry Chris, no offence meant ;)
And it's off topic :eek:

[Pontius Pilatus]

well, ACTUALLY, like, all of you are off topic.

and, its just lame going off topic then saying someone else is off topic. and wouldn't saying some is off topic make you off topic? which makes you all Hippocrates.

ONTOPIC: i stick with my original suggestion, that they should have huge penalizes or something, just not something physically forcing them to stop playing.

This is not the suggestionboard. So if you mention what should be heavyly penalized you can only mean players are to penalize the top rankers who refuse to go immortal.

Good, that is what the sweepers will do, so your wish is granted.

Cheers!

[thechris]

Good, that is what the sweepers will do, so your wish is granted.


cant argue with that....
another thing, people can go for other things instead of #1 rank, i mean really, it would of helped so much if you attacked me once in a while. considering i was offering goods to take my momuments

[Tinkerbell]

For those following along at home, the threadmaker CBC clown DillionBlake has deleted several posts from the later parts of this thread.

Typical CBC dishonesty. :rolleyes:

[thechris]

haha watch as someone posts screenshots of the deleted posts...

someone should make a thread with alternative challenges instead of just being number 1

[Pontius Pilatus]

How about that?

Cheers!:cool:

[Mr Ears]

Go for it, Pontius! I will supply you with the material as far as I can. My war mats for instance are known as the finest in town, so you can get some pretty good stuff in my house :D

By the way, I think we all have to reconsider the standing of the CBC community in Nile Online. Since it's their official policy to sweep top rankers away and fight their way up in ranks (in which they have my full support), CBC can no longer be considered a peaceful community, I think.

I hope JuliaSet has authorized this change of policy, because if not, and she checks back one day, she probably will be more than furious; she might be outraged!

[abana]

CBC isn't doing this, just some members of CBC(and there are members of the sweepers who aren't members of CBC). Tink is the only one who thinks that because some members feel one way, that it is policy. Just because you agree with someone on one thing, doesn't mean that you agree on all, for instance, I agree with him on some politics. That doesn't mean that I agree on everything.:eek:

[Mr Ears]

Ok I see. I thought that it was official CBC olicy now, but I'm glad I was wrong. CBC stays a peaceful community. :)

Now there's only one thing left I was wondering about all the time - Did JuliaSet authorize that Tink was "dismissed" recently?

[Pontius Pilatus]

Go for it, Pontius! I will supply you with the material as far as I can. My war mats for instance are known as the finest in town, so you can get some pretty good stuff in my house :D

By the way, I think we all have to reconsider the standing of the CBC community in Nile Online. Since it's their official policy to sweep top rankers away and fight their way up in ranks (in which they have my full support), CBC can no longer be considered a peaceful community, I think.

I hope JuliaSet has authorized this change of policy, because if not, and she checks back one day, she probably will be more than furious; she might be outraged!


Let's put something straight here:

The idea that the CBC forum or members there of have anything to do with current involvement of NO members in a secret group dedicated to sweeping the clogged chimney to immortality is only the figment of Tinkerbell's imagination.
I am officially a CBC member, but notoriously absent there, think I posted there once or twice and never joined a competition.
My other concern is you make it like JuliaSet has anything to do or say about this. As far as I know CBC is not some sort of religious community with an allmighty guruleader that calls all the shots and gives consent to all member's actions. Maybe Tink sees it that way, but don't go along with that, it is his way of thinking. He is a conspiranoiac!

Cheers!

[tomnobles]

Man, this sure is a long thread. Does it have a point?

[Pontius Pilatus]

The OP had trouble getting to #1 because some old ones always blocked his way. He had everything full and wanted out, but was thwarted by old folks that kept drifting in top 10 and never went immortal.
Now we are with a solution(sweeping their monuments), and that's what the rest of the thread is about(save some intruders that like to disturb the talk with their own agenda).
Yeah, you are right, the thread is fullfilled and will peter out now.:o

[thechris]

now only if you could walk away and give your monument away. would add a whole new aspect to the game.
and help get rid of those top 10....

[abana]

the chris, I fail to see how it would add a new aspect nor that it would affest the ranking

[thechris]

raiding, a thing you guys like to do, i would love for it to be a bigger part of the game (to the people against it, you don't NEED a monument)

increasing the value of raw war mat, making a bread sink because high rankers want a monument for rank,(bread to feed troops) and adding more action to the game.

its a win-win situation

[Keith]

I currently have no troops at all. I've been playing since March 2009 without them and have no monuments. However, at some point in the not too distant future I may go militaristic and set my armies upon my nome neighbors that have monuments but have never donated to the gods.

I've gotten tired of carrying their freeloading butts by means of my temple donations over the past year. I've got one nome where only two others and myself have donated while the rest ride on our coat tails. I am the top donator in 3 of the 4 nomes I have cities in and I'm the 3rd highest donator in the 4th.

Be forewarned....my wrath shall be legend.32562

[Pontius Pilatus]

What a great idea. Whenever sweeping the #1 rankers is slow, we can do another of the "good" works.
I am so pious, I want to give the gods their due all the time. I always strive to be top donor in every nome and I'm close again this time around. By the time I go immortal I hope to be top donor in most of my nomes.

Hah, the wrath of the gods, I like it!:D

[Fashah]

I would like to thank everyone for making this happen...I have been sitting in the 20's for a very long time and wondering what I had to do to get to the number 1 spot....I just want to go immortal so I can get the big pyramid and go be with the gods, I am 145 years old and getting tired of the grind. :)

[Tinkerbell]

I would like to thank everyone for making this happen...I have been sitting in the 20's for a very long time and wondering what I had to do to get to the number 1 spot....I just want to go immortal so I can get the big pyramid and go be with the gods, I am 145 years old and getting tired of the grind. :)

Well, there are two sides to that coin.

All the players who insist on reaching #1 prevent the majority of us who only want a top 10 big pyramid. It can take 20 years to go from #10 big tomb to #1 big tomb of the very same size.

[Fashah]

How many times have you been in the number one spot tink? While I may not be a power player like some of you I have been here since 2008 and really would like to leave the game with a #1 tomb. I have the time....so not worried about that.

[abana]

Tink is saying that #10 gets the same size tomb as #1

[Tinkerbell]

How many times have you been in the number one spot tink?

I have three big tombs sitting on Nile nome maps

Sabah

5S & 12N

Theoris

112S

My other tomb from Theoris I is only a rank 19.

I have no interest in being #1. It takes waaay too long. I absolutely hate the booring endgame. I get my big tomb & kill myself immediately & restart. The oldest I have ever been is 62 years & even that is too long.

Baby Empries & Baby Cities is how the Nile rocks! The Start Game! Players who play too long on one account totally forgot how fun the game used to be when they were young.

[Fashah]

Yeah, I totally forgot about that...the original aim was just to get into the top ten....think I will stick to that.

[Q-Man]

Yeah, I've always bailed as soon as I hit top 10 - mainly so my immortal tomb is less likely to be taken over by another immortal nome-mate as happened to a friend who cut out earlier. #1 is just a grind - heck, top ten was a grind although figuring out how to get there was a bit of a challenge. The fun is in the beginning and middle game. Once you have four high cities (L15+?) it becomes less fun and more grind.

[Fashah]

Yeah I am trying to figure out how to get there right now....everything is full...lots of military....doing ****tons of quests (but for some reason can't find armour for the life of me) am at the top of the donations to my gods in each nome.....arggghhh....

[Q-Man]

If donations have an impact - it is very very small. I think armor was the next to last quest item I got last time as well.

Overstock your warehouses with lux goods and raws as well as constantly upgrading plots until they are all maxed (I think two of my cities were topped out and the other two not far away when I checked out the last time).

Holy Pilgrimages may be best for finding armor, and they give the build time bonus.

[Fashah]

Yeah all my city plots have been maxed out for a while now, all goods are maxed out as well...not all overstocked though...working on that. I have 200-400 military at each city but none at my pyramids, I sent a bunch to each a while back as an experiment and it didn't seem to make a difference to my ranking....does anyone know for sure if it does?

Yeah the armor is killing me....I have 21 flowers and 17 linen....and everything else has a bunch as well...but no armor...lol.

[Q-Man]

Military has never really helped me from what I could tell, but overstocked lux goods is a big deal. -- and max bread helps too (good reason to send those soldiers off after some bandits - gain goods and stop using bread).

[Tinkerbell]

Temple donations do not cout in rank. Neither do soldiers nor battle/market stats on profile. Market storage also does not count.

Rank = building upgrades, bread & goods, quest profile items. That's it

Good Luck everyone! :)

[Fashah]

Thanks Tink, yeah I am maxed on bread as well...looks like I will get rid of some military and start buying/making goods....and keep on searching for that damn armour....haha.

Oh....I just looked, I had 300-500 of each type of military at each city...so 900-1500 just sitting there eating bread, but still maxed out in bread. :)

[DillonBlake]

Fashah - As was stated earlier in this string - and I'm not going to get into any heated discussion over it - you will reach a point wherein the only way that you'll increase in rank is for those ahead of you to go immortal and there are some that simply refuse to for whatever their reasons. The bottom line is that if you reach a point where you cease to improve your ranking even after all your cities are maxed out in all features you may have to just be satisfied with that ranking and go immortal at that time.

[Fashah]

FML...lol...I got into the top 10 was about to go immortal and then for some reason I went to buy some goods off of the market...and THEN in a fit of buying a bunch of stuff...I clicked one extra time and hit enter...and THEN noticed that I just bought 30k of the item at 30bread each....NOOOooooOOOooooOOoooo.....not only could I not afford to go immortal any more...I went from #9 to #16....it's just bread and is easy to get back but just when I thought was done a stupid mistake gets me back...haha...to Goddess Mystique...you now have a TON of bread thanks to my mistake...you are welcome.

[abana]

I'm so sorry to hear that, I would have frantically looked for a buy order that I could fill.

[Q-Man]

LOL Best part is, the seller was probably "storing" the goods on the market at a ridiculously high price as they continue to produce so they can then remove the sale later and overstock the item to get a rank boost. May not have even had room for all that bread and ended up losing most of the sale proceeds on their end. :eek: If you find your ships floundering on mud flats its because they cut a deal with Hapi to get their revenge on you. ;)

[Tinkerbell]

Yikes! So sorry to hear this, Fashah! :eek:

Yep, Q-Man, best guess is that all the bread went into the Nile unless the seller caught it in time to start the Nile juggling. :(

[abana]

But would Hapi cut that deal? You fed Hapi. Big time! And the seller couldn't juggle that fast, you get the bread immediately.

[Tinkerbell]

Whoops! That's right, abana. Bread transfer is immediate.

[Mr Ears]

Good morning, Tink! :D

Question, Tink: Who are you and where are you in Sabah?

[Fashah]

Hah, yeah Hapi took 100 of my ships on the same day while shipping bread back to my main city...lol....good times. I didn't even think that she may be storing it there....if so...damn sorry, now I feel extra bad.

But I never thought of that tactic...I like it I may do that too.

[Cazy]

This technique comes at a price though. The 10% market fee. That's why I prefer to have extra bread rather than extra goods. The bread can be stored in the market in the form of buy orders and that costs nothing.

[abana]

Unless someone fills it, and you have no room in your warehouse, sometimes you can catch that, and shift things around, though.

[Q-Man]

That and storing bread in the market is of limited use. Just a place to stick bread you have no use for. Goods on the market are different. I stash 60k jewelry on the market from my jewelry producing city after I have filled up my non - producing cities to the 9s. This way I can continue to produce and trade jewelry to get stuff I need. Once I am ready to push myself into the top 10 and go immortal, I haul all that stuff back off the market to max out everything. Usually good for several ranks and that last push into the land of the immortals. :)

[Fashah]

And...I'm out...oldest...Pharaoh...eva...

:)

[Fashah]

So...I wen't immortal yesterday...how long does it take to show up in the Hall of Immortality?

[Q-Man]

The longer you played, the longer they wait to post it. :D

Just kidding. Mine have gone up after the next ranking update if I recall properly.

[Tinkerbell]

So...I wen't immortal yesterday...how long does it take to show up in the Hall of Immortality?

You went on the Hall immediately after you pushed the immortal button. The Hall has Theoris at the top, so you have to scroll way down to see the Sabah section.

[Fashah]

Being so old, I am also graced with senility...lol...thanks for the heads up Tink....

[Sayamistar]

Count me in... Count me in...:D

[lynnk]

Temple donations do not cout in rank. Neither do soldiers nor battle/market stats on profile. Market storage also does not count.

Rank = building upgrades, bread & goods, quest profile items. That's it

Good Luck everyone! :)

Hi Tink - hope you are very well :)

Anyway - sorry to disagree with you but I have all buildings upgraded to level 22 + all quest items + maxxed out on luxes and bread - max labourers at both monuments [even though they cannot fit into the quarries] - but still people [without all quest items] are pushing me down in rank.... the difference seems to be that I have played as 'peacefully' as I could and only captured two monuments that I have held - the people overtaking me/pushing me down all seem to have captured at least three monuments - so to me it seems that the number of captured monuments seem to count for the most in ranking [not a trading game after all then:(:(:(]

[Mr Ears]

Hi Tink - hope you are very well :)

Anyway - sorry to disagree with you but I have all buildings upgraded to level 22 + all quest items + maxxed out on luxes and bread - max labourers at both monuments [even though they cannot fit into the quarries] - but still people [without all quest items] are pushing me down in rank.... the difference seems to be that I have played as 'peacefully' as I could and only captured two monuments that I have held - the people overtaking me/pushing me down all seem to have captured at least three monuments - so to me it seems that the number of captured monuments seem to count for the most in ranking [not a trading game after all then:(:(:(]

Would you like to be uncapped?

I think I can do that.

[Debbie216]

Temple donations do not cout in rank. Neither do soldiers nor battle/market stats on profile. Market storage also does not count.

Rank = building upgrades, bread & goods, quest profile items. That's it

Good Luck everyone! :)

Rank: building upgrades, bread and goods only, with a little monument mix in there, but I do not believe that quest profile items have anything to do with rank

[Debbie216]

so, I went one more round of rankings and I stayed 4th. I do not think rank has anything to do with the quest profile items since I think I only had one or two. I went for more but rarely got any so I quit trying.

My rank really started to climb at the end as I filled my monuments with bread. Bricks and limes were already maxed out there.

All my cities and monuments were maxed out at 999999 with full upgrades. It was pretty cool to see, but kinda anti-climatic.

Its been fun. Debhotep is done :)

[Q-Man]

yup - if ya want rank, you need to overstock - even raw lux, BBP, and I did common raws as well. The more the merrier. If the warehouse ain't orange, you ain't trying.