thomas20

You didn't get screwed. Does your nation make any less money (disregarding radiation)? Will your nation perform worse in a war now? Did this change only affect your nation or every nation? It seems those who lost the most NS from the change are complaining the least...

I believe the one zero addition at the end would have been sufficient but now that I have suggested three and even six, one just wouldn't cut it anymore.

<thomas20> lol this is hilarious about the NS change <thomas20> I am gonna go check the forums for all the &#33;@#&#036;%*ing <BobSanders> yea the whining is retarded <BobSanders> http://forums.cybernations.net/index.php?showtopic=6410 <BobSanders> 12 pages <thomas20> LOL <thomas20> thanks Wow I never thought I would see the day that tech, a basically useless element of the game (at the higher levels) would be lowered in how much it affects a completely arbitrary number in NS. I have made this suggestion several times (except even more severe, capping NS generating tech once it became useless) but never thought it would actually be implemented. This is a step in the right direction but the NS can still be tweaked even more to more accurately depict actual strength. It seems like those who are able to understand real strength and look at the big picture like this change and those who don't are in the "OMG MY NS WENT DOWN" crowd, which roughly translates into: "My little number that means very little, suddenly is slightly more meaningful and it reflects that I have wasted a lot of cash (and more importantly aid slots) on an almost useless element of the game to artificially boost my little meaningless number. While I could have used that cash to tangibly improve my nation I instead thought it would be a good idea to use it on something completely useless to move higher in rankings that were created by a completely arbitrary formula that had nothing to do with any actual in-game strength. Moreover I could have used those aid slots to further my allies. This is regrettable that I will no longer be rewarded (except not really) as much for buying useless things" Unfortunately the latter side is much larger than the former (and much louder) so maybe admin will heed the cries of the loud angry, unwashed masses and return it to the old NS formula. As a compromise I say we keep the formula as it is (maybe even make tech even less) and just add three zeroes to the end of everyone's NS. Those who understand whats going on will see the added zeroes as an appeasement to the "OMG NS DOWN" crowd, and the "OMG NS DOWN" crowd will see it as "OMG NS UP!!!!!!!" as their NS goes up (arbitrarily, but hey they dont care ) from 20k to 20 million. I would even be ok with six zeroes, but after that your just being ridiculous Sure we would have to go through a bunch of "10 million NS" threads the first day but it would help make more people happy.