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Rainbow

2013-04-08T12:18:11Z

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== Definition ==
A rainbow is a common term used to describe a build strategy, or lack there of. Specialization is the optimal way to build a country in [[Earth Empires]] and Rainbow is used to describe the opposite. Having a little of everything is refered to as running a "Rainbow". For help with specialization, see the [[Strategy]] page.

If your country looks like this stop and ask for help from more advanced players.

:[[Enterprise Zones]] 315
:[[Residences]] 200
:[[Industrial Complexes]] 236
:[[Military Bases]] 512
:[[Research Labs]] 212
:[[Farms]] 600
:[[Oil Rigs]] 201
:[[Construction Sites]] 60

Unused Lands 16''

== Consequences ==
This is what you'll get (in building order):

1 & 2 ) Maybe enough cash to use some turns.

3) Not enough military to defend any attacks.

4) Slightly lower military prices on the [[private market]], but not low enough to be cheaper than the [[public market]].

5) 50 tech points per turn, which will prevent you from ever getting the technology a good country needs.

6) Enough food to use some turns, and maybe sell for a relatively small amount of money.

7) Enough oil to make a few attacks a day.

8) A [[BPT]] which is far from optimal.

[[Category:Strategies]]

Qzjul

2013-03-01T18:10:43Z

Dalek:

[[Category:Evolution Members]]
[[Category:Real Estate Developers Members]]
[[Category:TehClub Members]]
[[Category:Monks Members]]
[[Category:Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category:Game & Forum Developers]]

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[[qzjul]], or qz, is one of the [[:Category:Developer | developers]] & Administrators of [[Earth Empires]], and the Vice President (appointed) of [[Evolution]] on the [[Alliance Server|Alliance]] server. He also founded [[Evolution2025]] along with [[NukEvil]] Has also gone by Storm RED in the past.

==Earth History==

===RED History===

qzjul joined [[Earth 2025]] on April 4th, 2001 in the [[Real Estate Developers]], recruited by Lordrealm, who is now known as [[The Little One]]; at the time [[Shinigami]] was president of RED, very shortly getting into war with [[Clowns with Guns]]. His first country number was #13007, a country number he never surpassed, though hopefully one day that will change. By the end of this set he had been made an "Assistant [[Division Leader]]" (ADL) after spamming the RED forums, and starting the tradition of [[Number Threads]] in RED.

During his third [[set]] he achieved rank 25 in 1A, during RED's [[ANW crown]]; this turned him truly into a [[netter]]. By the time of this third set, he had become an [[FA]] in RED. During the next set when RED warred [[Ragnarok]] and [[ICN]], he was used as an excuse to be FS'd by [[PDM]], having been in their IRC chat some weeks earlier suspecting they were going to [[FS]] RED; it turned out they FS'd [[TIE]], but they ended up being convinced to give up that war, and were looking for another target. As damage control, [[Shinigami]] "booted" [[qzjul]], having him rejoin as [[JJXV]], and being made an [[AIA]]; by the end of the month he switched his title to [[Storm]], having used the country name [[RED STORM]] repeatedly, and had been given the position of [[IA]]. During this month, January - February 2002, the Edmonton Public School Board had a month-long strike, and so he spent excessive amounts of time fixing up the IA structure within RED, setting up some structures that would be used for years by both RED and subsequently [[Evolution]].

After internal difficulties in RED and several presidential changes, a presidential election was called in July 2002, with qzjul, still going by Storm, facing off primarily against [[Secret Squirrel]]; with a narrow win, qzjul became President, and Secret Squirrel was made Vice President. During this reset, Secret Squirrel founded [[Slappaho]], a spam tag in 1A, which gained some hundreds or perhaps over one thousand members, and SS recruited from it directly, causing RED to balloon over 130 members.

In September, 2002, qzjul started university, and apparently so did almost every other head in RED, and activity fell to an all-time low. During this period, [[SOL]] had been topfeeding RED heavily, so after negotiations broke down, qzjul told RED members simply to enforce L:L on SOL, as their sets were not going to turn out well anyway. SOL FS'd after about a week, and several heads, including qzjul, did not find out about the FS for more than 48 hours, having been away doing school work; he subsequently stepped down from the presidency into an advisory role, which he maintained as either Head IA or Advisor or Vice President from then until present, with a brief hiatus in another alliance.

Other than numerous Top 100 finishes, many placing in the Top 25 and a few in the Top 15, but seemingly never in the T10, most of qzjul's activities in RED were uneventful. He followed RED to [[LCN]] for a war against [[LaF]] when RED's internal structure dissolved, and briefly outposted in [[LaF]] when RED went there due to more internal issues. At some point he began a formula sheet which became RED/Evo's primary formula sheet, and began verifying and refining formulae, first with [[Revalat0r]] of RED, and later during the Evo years, with [[Slagpit]] of [[IX]], who eventually joined [[Evolution]].

===Early Evolution History===

One day when chatting on {{w|ICQ}} with FA's over pacting, qzjul jokingly suggested to [[Foobooy]], president of [[un4given]], that RED and un4given should merge; after discussing it for some time, it was decided that this idea should be pitched to the leaders, notably [[Liono]], president of RED at the time. After some deliberation, and warnings by such people that mergers never work, RED and un4given announced they would be merging, and tagged as red4givn for the next set; qz became one of 8 members of a "Council" with 4 heads from each former alliance. A vote was called for deciding a name, and qzjul campaigned hard for the name [[Short Fuse]] to be picked, his former division; when a run-off between [[Evolution]], another RED division name, and something else was called, qzjul campaigned hard for [[Evolution]], which eventually won.

The first year of [[Evolution]] had some amounts of tension between the two sides, the "RED" side and the "un4" side; the RED side was committed to netting and winning Average Networth, while the un4given side was more committed to having fun while playing, without necessarily focusing on improving. This finally came to a head when qz insisted to Foobooy that people who refused to follow strat advice and couldn't finish above some minimum networth should be booted; as this was primarily about 5 or 6 members from un4given, Foobooy refused, and a minor coup ensued, at the conclusion of which qzjul resigned and left Evolution for [[Raheel]]'s new alliance [[tehClub]].

=== tehClub and Monks ===

Having joined tehClub, and being extremely familiar with [[Gamerstown]], qzjul helped set up a large majority of the new alliances GT site, however being somewhat disappointed with the turn of events of no longer being in RED/Evolution was somewhat less than active. tehClub eventually became [[Monks]] which again needed a new GT site, which qz helped set up once again. He started playing more seriously, but was shortly botted and [[AB]]'d several resets in a row, causing his activity to fall off again, almost leaving the game; it was later revealed that it was in fact an Evolution player that had been botting Monks, though that was not known at the time.

===Later Evolution History===

In October, 2006, qzjul received an email from Foobooy announcing a reunion set of [[Evolution]]; [[Yank]] was president of Evolution by this point, with [[TMAS]] as a Vice President; qz rejoined Evolution, and rapidly became [[Vice President]] of Evo, a position which he currently maintains. TMAS was revealed to be the botter by intensive IA work by [[Kingme]]? and was booted from Evolution. During the year qz had been away, Evolution had warred almost every reset; Yank and qzjul decided that Evo needed to re-focus on [[Netgaining]], and set about trying to [[pact-out]] as much as possible, and recruited netters and ex-REDers heavily; most of the un-committed members had been worn down by Evo's many wars, so a solid dedicated core was what was left, a good foundation to start a better future. Evolution slowly climbed the ANW ranks, eventually beginning strings of ANW crowns, which they continued into [[Earth Empires]].

== Formula Reverse-Engineering ==

Wanting to build an accurate Earth Simulator in C to brute-force casher-startups, qzjul began working on various formulae, trying to improve them. His biggest individual contribution to the Earth Formulae was to determine the exact rounding and some fixes for the population growth formula, in order to simulate population gains and losses exactly. He also did this with the PCI formula, though there was the occasional turn every 10 turns where it would be off by $0.01 PCI, which would then be fixed the next turn. These formulae were incorporated into Earth Empires.

Working with [[Revelat0r]], and later [[Slagpit]], a number of refinements were made to various formula; with [[Slagpit]] many other rounding details were elucidated, and the tech formula were refined - although the forms were known, they were highly erroneous, especially [[Military Technology|military tech]] and [[Medical Technology|medical tech]]. A scheme, using status-tidy data, was derived to determine the tech formula exactly by using [[agricultural tech]], because farms, land, technology and food production were all available on the status, so could be found exactly. This scheme required finding the exact rounding for the [[food production]] formula, but was only partially successful due to the number of terms involved, and so the tech formula remained an estimate, albeit a fairly good estimate.

When [[Earth Empires]] was developed, [[Slagpit]] and [[martian]] primarily did what reverse engineering of formulae were left, although qzjul participated in many such trials, including [[Slagpit]]'s efforts to determine exactly how allies contributed in [[Earth 2025]] attacking with [[SS]] and [[PS]] attacks.

== Development ==

One of the things qzjul did for [[Evolution]]'s netgaining program was to build an advanced [[status-tidy]], with many things that had not been pioneered by other status-tidies at the time, such as networth breakdowns and estimates of the numbers and types of allies, and other economic information; plus with further formula refinement, as mentioned above, many things were more accurately defined, such as the [[tech]] percentages.

Having some experience with LAMP (Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP) from this status-tidy adventure, another opportunity for development arose: [[Gamerstown]] announced it was closing, and [[NukEvil]] and qzjul decided that [[EarthStats]] was not where they wanted [[Evolution]] to be hosted, so they began developing a new site, [[Evolution2025]], which was nicknamed EvoGT and qzGT. Evolution is still hosted on this site, which taught both qzjul and NukEvil much about PHP and optimizing PHP and mysql queries. [[Slagpit]] later joined in the development of Evolution2025, especially its war tools.

While Earth 2025 slowly dwindled under the [[Jolt/OMAC]] administration, [[Pangaea]] of [[LaF]] and developer of [[Boxcar]], a site which had been developed for the same reason as Evolution2025 for LaF, but which had diversified to host multiple alliances, talked occasionally about perhaps developing a successor to Earth 2025, as the maintenance was becoming very bad, and causing more people to leave the game than were already leaving for other reasons. When OMAC announced Earth Empires was closing in one month, in mid November 2009, [[Pangaea]] quickly contacted qzjul about picking up the idea of building a successor; within a few hours of that conversation, a database was built, and permissions were assigned for Pangaea, and the basics for a website were set up. Over the next month the rest of the [[Earth Empires]] game were set up and built, qzjul focusing mainly on the database, routing, server setup/portal and back-end for the game, while Panagea focused on the game engine, display pages, and the game's look; [[Turtle Crawler]]'s forums, hosted on Boxcar's servers, were initially used. [[Slagpit]] and later [[NukEvil]] from Evolution also joined in the EE development, NukEvil later focusing on forums, after [[Dark Morbid]] created some initial forums, and Slagpit being instrumental in coding the attacking and spying, reverse engineering the last required formulae for attacking in the month that [[Earth 2025]] had left to run. [[iTavi]] of [[Imaginary Numbers]] did all the images for the game.

Hanlong

2013-02-25T20:46:33Z

Dalek:

[[Category: Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category: LaF Members]]

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Hanlong was a long time member and Don (President) of [[La Famiglia]]. He is also known as hlw.

==Earth History==
Hanlong first played [[Earth 2025]] in 1997. Originally playing only the tournament server, he eventually finished rank 3 in the August 1999 reset when he quit from the tournament server for good.

===Earth: 2025 Era LaF History===
Neal, a friend from Hanlong's high school, was a LaF member and recruited Hanlong to the alliance server to play in LaF in late 1998. Hanlong finished in the t50 the first reset he played in alliance. After recruiting a sizable group of members from his high school into LaF, he was promoted to DL in 1999 to lead this group of RL friends. He rose to Head IA in late 2000 and served that position until 2002.

Hanlong took a short break from the game and came back at the end of 2002 and became the Head FR of LaF. He became the Don of LaF for the first time in 2003 and served until 2004 when he stepped down and served as an advisor role and played on and off until 2007 before retiring.

===Earth Empires Era LaF History===

Hanlong came back in the end of 2010 to serve as an advisor, but quickly taking over Head FR the next reset and became Don again, a position he held until May 2, 2012.

===Achievements===

A strong netgainer, Hanlong has placed t100 and t10 multiple resets throughout all eras and won alliance a total of 5 times during the October 2003, March 2006, January 2007, August 2011, and most recently the April 2012 reset*.

===Cheating/Hacking Scandal===

On May 2, 2012, the game administrators [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=17254 announced]{{linkrot|2013|02|23}} on [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?forumid=6 Alliance Talk] that Hanlong, with assistance from former game administrator [[Turtle Crawler]], had gained access to the game's database, allowing the two to view all countries without requiring the turns needed for [[spy operations]], change anything in any of the countries, and view private messages sent via the Earth forums as well as those sent in the game itself.

Upon the posting of the administrators' announcement, Hanlong's Don access to LaF was immediately revoked, and his country was deleted. *Also, his top-ranked country from the reset before was deleted, as there was a possibility that it had benefited from Hanlong's ill-gotten database access. Hanlong soon stopped posting on public boards under his name, and was never heard from again.

Hanlong

2013-02-25T20:44:57Z

Dalek:

[[Category: Current & Former Alliance Presidents]]
[[Category: LaF Members]]

{{infobox contact
| alliance = [[LaFamiglia]]
| alliance_pos = Don
| icq = 36923162
| forum_pm = [http://forums.earthempires.com/Messages.php?sid=723 message]
}}

Hanlong was a long time member and Don (President) of [[La Famiglia]]. He is also known as hlw.

==Earth History==
Hanlong first played [[Earth 2025]] in 1997. Originally playing only the tournament server, he eventually finished rank 3 in the August 1999 reset when he quit from the tournament server for good.

===Earth: 2025 Era LaF History===
Neal, a friend from Hanlong's high school, was a LaF member and recruited Hanlong to the alliance server to play in LaF in late 1998. Hanlong finished in the t50 the first reset he played in alliance. After recruiting a sizable group of members from his high school into LaF, he was promoted to DL in 1999 to lead this group of RL friends. He rose to Head IA in late 2000 and served that position until 2002.

Hanlong took a short break from the game and came back at the end of 2002 and became the Head FR of LaF. He became the Don of LaF for the first time in 2003 and served until 2004 when he stepped down and served as an advisor role and played on and off until 2007 before retiring.

===Earth Empires Era LaF History===

Hanlong came back in the end of 2010 to serve as an advisor, but quickly taking over Head FR the next reset and became Don again, a position he held until May 2, 2012.

===Achievements===

A strong netgainer, Hanlong has placed t100 and t10 multiple resets throughout all eras and won alliance a total of 5 times during the October 2003, March 2006, January 2007, August 2011, and most recently the April 2012 reset*.

===Cheating/Hacking Scandal===

On May 2, 2012, the game administrators [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?threadid=17254 announced]{{linkrot|2013|02|23}} on [http://forums.earthempires.com/Forum.php?forumid=6 Alliance Talk] that Hanlong, with assistance from former game administrator [[Turtle Crawler]], had gained access to the game's database, allowing the two to view all countries without requiring the turns needed for [[spy operations]], change anything in any of the countries, and view private messages sent via the Earth forums as well as those sent in the game itself.

The implications of such knowledge over most of the alliances were serious, as it potentially meant that LaF had recently obtained its top spot in the Alliance server with the help of information obtained with this access. In the 3 resets leading up to the scandal, LaF had embarked on a series of wars designed to put LaF in the top spot of the Alliance server and keep it there. Countries ran by Hanlong and Turtle Crawler were allegedly modified by the two, giving one country an extra 10 million troops. However, since the tracking logs were on a rotating basis, it would be nearly impossible to determine if any other countries had directly benefited or were otherwise changed by Hanlong's and Turtle Crawler's access.

Upon the posting of the administrators' announcement, Hanlong's Don access to LaF was immediately revoked, and his country was deleted. *Also, his top-ranked country from the reset before was deleted, as it was possible that it benefited from Hanlong's ill-gotten database access. Turtle Crawler was then permanently banned from the game; Hanlong soon stopped posting on public boards under his name, and was never heard from again.