Brother Kane

If you have all this going for you why are you arguing about changes to an online game? Unless you're talking your nation leader and being IC to the extreme, in which case: awesome!

Global radiation wasn't meant to be a happy-go-lucky update, its added for realism. World nukes itself, it generally doesn't turn out well even for the secluded island in the pacific somewhere who had nothing to do with anything.

Donation deals have always been pricy, now people are just going mad. Oh well, guess that 200 infra will have to wait

They technically have a better advantage (or less disadvantage) now due to the fact that nations with high infrastructure are now out of range of them. If a tech heavy nation and an infra heavy nation go at it, (depending on the range between the two infrastructures) the tech heavy one could be screwed over. If one person has 3000 infrastructure more than another, but the tech heavy guy has equal or greater nation strength then the war wouldn't go so well for the tech guy. Now that this update has occured the tech guy is far under range of the infrastructure guy, thus his wars become easier.

How does your rank change your nation? If you dropped from nuclear to non-nuclear, that can be a minor inconvenience, but has your nation itself changed?

I think this actually may be a good thing for my nation. I was considering doing more tech deals so I could get the final 0.2% to get nukes, but now that I'm down to 6.2% I may sell off my excess technology for a high price (to friends of mine who will buy it high) and spend the extra cash on infrastructure. Y'know, get like another thousand or so. For all you chumps complaining that you're not nuclear anymore: sell your technology and buy infrastructure. Sure, your strength will drop a few thousand, but the infrastructure will raise that a bit and your income will increase. Infra = 3 Tech = 5 If I sell 50 tech for 3 million (connections are good) and buy 70 infrastructure with it I have a net loss of 40 NS, but my income goes up. Its worth it to me.

After reading a bunch of comments I like this one most. During a war I attacked a nation similar in NS to me but I had over a thousand more infrastructure and mopped the floor with the guy. I think if infrastructure were equal to technology in terms of strength then the number given for NS will be more accurate if you're comparing yourself to another nation by strength.

I thought it was a little messed up at first because it shows people with like 600 seniority who have been in the alliance for like a month, so it seemed to match up to their nation age. Then other people say its way off from their nation age, so I'm just assuming that since it happened while the people were wearing that AA it just takes their nation age.

Depending on what kind of ruler you are it can vary. Some people use aid slots like theres no tomorrow and Disaster Relief can be your best friend. Others like to stock up on infrastructure so they go for Interstate System, then there's Social Security which is also the shiz. It all depends on what your thing is.