Hi. I'm a brand new player. As you can see if you look, I just joined earlier today.
I won't pretend I have figured much of this out, but I was able on my own to at least experiment around, buy myself some infrastructure, pay my bills, get taxes and a few other basic things.
What I can't figure out is how my own personal nation itself makes money, and how to make more of it.
Yes, I have 25 messages in my Inbox promising me money, tech, and various trades and things but I play Warcraft and I don't want to just be one of those guys who joins a guild so he can grab hand-me-downs and elite gear and stuff from more seasoned players, or in this case older nation. I don't want to just be some leech.
If that means it takes me a few extra days to get going, that's okay. What I want to know is how to best optimize my own particular country so that it goes on the road to becoming another Switzerland or Cayman Islands.
In my opinion, everyone playing a game like this should have a goal, such as to be the strongest nation, the one with the most trades, the one in the biggest military alliance, and so forth. I've decided that my goal is to be a financial powerhouse, and that means not just relying on other nations, but on generating bucks internally.
-- Roland