Sputnik

to be honest, I meant "what's the best set of 12 resources" rather than "the best set of two"

So I've been thinking about this for a while. I know there's a few "winning combos" that some people have deemed to be "the best", but I thought I'd put it to the test. There are 21 resources, and with 5 trade slots, you can have up to 12 of them. That means there are 293,930 unique combinations. I have created a tool that will generate all combinations and has the ability to determine all the attributes of each combination. The problem however, is how do you weight them? Obviously the perfect combination depends on your needs - some might be geared towards earnings, so might be geared towards infra building, land expansion or military prowess. I'm wondering if anyone has some thoughts about some of the most basic things - what's better, 1 unit of happiness, or a $1 increase in population income? or a population increase of 1%? Obviously these also depend on what your current population is in the first place, so there are a lot of variables. I need to figure out a way to reduce and/or isolate some of these variables. Of course, it's difficult without knowing the math used (aside from the NS formula of course). Anyway, wondering if any of you have any thoughts

Question about D - perhaps I'm just a noob here, but how come spying an unaligned nation is fine, but spying an allied one is not? that hardly seems fair... (not that it has to be, merely pointing it out)

well... this thread is less about the passing of an alliance, and more about the rebirth of an alliance...

Ah, someone with a little bit of history. I contend that VE was put in a tricky spot because certain high ranking nations hated us for... well, no good reason at all quite frankly, and wanted to destroy us simply to have us gone - and NOT because of anything we did specifically. I hope that this time around we aren't judged quite so harshly, and are given opportunity to prove ourselves