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You have proved yourself honorable during war, and generous during peace. On behalf of DAWN, thank you IAA.

[quote name='AlmightyGrub' date='07 April 2010 - 09:05 PM' timestamp='1270688724' post='2252421'] Ultimately I started a global conflict..whoops. Like it hasn't been done before and like it wont happen again. [/quote] You deserve some kind of badge for that. Right or wrong, good or bad, it's not everyone who can make that claim and back it up.

[quote name='Corbetto' date='01 April 2010 - 04:02 PM' timestamp='1270152144' post='2244234'] [*]Fireguy911, err FireGuy90210, err FireGuy8675309, ahh, you know who I mean. [/quote] Tommy Tutone is a fireman in Beverly Hills?

[quote name='Sir Paul' date='13 February 2010 - 09:56 PM' timestamp='1266116163' post='2180117'] Not exactly... [b]IF[/b] ODN became involved, [b]THEN[/b] GOONS would attack you. Sort of like the Karma war where you planned out who was going to attack which alliance when they became involved. [/quote] That's the best summation I've seen. I do have to say that we really thought we were going to be attacked anyway.

Good sir, would you please tell me what exactly you have against poach? And why are you grouping poach in with ghosts and rogues? Sincerely, Government of Poachland

I can't speak for DAWN (just like Puppet Master can't speak for anyone but Puppet Master), but I wish good luck to everyone. I wasn't too big of a fan of OUT. It was a grand idea that it seemed relatively few were interested in. Even then, it had such great potential that it is sad to see it have to go. I can only hope that someone with initiative and infinite patience can make another attempt at a unity treaty, whether color based or not.

Where is Templar's hyperkill smilie when you need it?

Actually, we are currently operating as a direct democracy. The 'Triumver's' are just those the rest of us decided would sign the documents until we're ready to shift our government structure.

As long as you make sure and post about it here. As to the small movement of the hotspot, I was disappointed. I wanted to try out my updated idea for finding it, but I don't think it'll be accurate much higher than 95%, so there's no point in trying.

New month means new hotspot. It looks like the hotspot moved, but not very much, so I won't be moving anything. Here's what I have: 97% -68.18, 76.49 98% -73.60, 69.17

It does change population, but I would ask that at your next earliest opportunity to buy a little bit of land. That does not directly affect the environment number on your nation screen (the way I said it earlier wasn't quite correct), but it changes the population density, changing the citizen count.

That's only true if you don't have enough land (as the population density starts affecting environment)

In the very beginning, in a very few cases, it can be better to have a lower tax rate. After the very beginning, you get more by just leaving your tax rate maxed. If you look at the wiki, next to the government names are stars. Those tell you if the government has a positive or negative affect on the environment.

I spend about 90 seconds a day on the actual game. Much more time is spent on forums, but usually you can decide how little or how much time you want to spend with that aspect.. During war time, I'll sometimes spend as much as 3 minutes on the game. NearX gave the general answer on war. Usually, war isn't profitable for a nation, and war usually occurs due to politics. There are raiders out there, the kind that do it for fun, and the kind that think they'll profit (until they raid the wrong person and get a beat down). If you like the war aspect, tournament edition will probably be more fun for you.

Just a quick not on why graphing in this manner is acceptably accurate: 1 radian = arc length / radius To convert that to degrees, 1 rad = 180 / Pi Latitude is the angle from a point on the earths surface to the equatorial plane as measured from the center of the Earth (sphere) Longitude is the angle east or west of the reference meridian. This means that as long as you are graphing the angle, and not the distance, the plot is accurate. Of more interest to me is the error in calculating distance. I compared all three of the great circle equation, haversin equation, and vincenty's formula and had differences between the 3 of less than 1km (yes, I was using metric since it's generally easier to do math with). I had trouble getting open office / excel to sufficiently iterate vincenty's so I'm not sure if I have good numbers for that (and I'm not about to go through it 100+ times by hand). The moon is much more spherical than the Earth is (0.00125 vs. 0.0033528) so the great circle equation should be sufficiently accurate here anyway.