bart416

Planet Nuke

lifelesspeople.com is fairly good. Good uptime, a lot of features and has survived for ages (it's 7 or 8 years old).

To mod good software you don't even need kits or overly complex SDK's with hundred of pages of documentation like some other things.

Themes aren't what I'm interested in. I like modifying the actual board itself instead of using pre written mods. And the only thing worse to mod than SMF is phpBB3

Those force a certain coding style (often a coding style with abusive amounts of objects if you ask me). And I hate that...

SMF isn't all that great I think...I'd rather write my own forum software than use SMF these days. SMF is hard to merge into other things.

In fact I wrote a mod for that for an older version but it doesn't work with the current versions. I'll see if I can rewrite it if I find time for it.

MyBB tries to immitate the vBulletin feeling a bit, it's not bad but the community isn't as big so you're more on your own I guess. But a good place to try out forum software is here: http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Slapped something together quickly, here you go: http://xbox360.com.ru/cndrama/

Actually I have those balanced out and I got hurt pretty badly.

The bigger nations have the effects partially compensated by their massive amount of wonders. It are the mid range nations that got hurt...

You could just a logarithmic increase of tax collection if you want to limit growth...

I've made several threads in the past with new ideas; but each time the guys that are for this idea come in and say it's bad cause it adds too much changes. But they do not mind ruining the game for half the members.

You potentially ruined the game for new comers with this update. You slowed down nation growth for everybody, not only the top nations. This will only make the gap between young and old nations bigger. Another side bonus is that it makes the Manhattan Project useless (how would a smaller nation now pay the nuke bills with the reduced income?). To give you an example; I have no clue how I will ever be able to get to 6000 infrastructure now. Unless if I use the money I saved up (but that will only last for a short time) I guess somebody will have to proof how this messes the game up for everybody. Why not add new things instead of messing with the old things if I may ask? CN has a lot of potential if you would extend the war system. Maybe add a bit more tactics. And what about some real economics instead of trying to mess with nation growth like this. The only reason I intend to stay now is to get the chance to nuke (DAC)Syzygy somewhere in the next 10 years (as it will probably take me that long to get in his range with your new awesome changes).

Tech raiding is still worth it. Nation Strength really means nothing, tech does influence battles though.

Keep in mind if you blow up a computer you also destroy its hard drive. If you destroy a research facility you're going to lose quite some research & development.

I think it's a good thing, now the guys like FAN can't hide anymore behind a ZI shield.

Yes, now the alliances inflated by high tech levles got thrown of the ladder. Also DaNCeT, you don't see me complaining I lost 8K nation strength, and I went up in the ranking. Also, everybody dropped in nation strength, also tech being the only way to improve nation strength is a joke. Infrastructure and Land are big factors. Additionally this will partially prevent tech raiding from going on. Tech still has its value in wars. Also importing infrastructure, I mean seriously. You're going to cut a road in several pieces in your own country and send it to another one to be reassembled there. Nice thinking >_>