[quote name='Baldr' date='12 June 2010 - 05:40 PM' timestamp='1276382423' post='2335462']
You need to join an alliance. If you don't, you have to either sit in peace mode forever (which essentially means you'll never do any significant growth) or, if you go to war mode, you'll be raided. Raids won't be fair fights - you'll get hit by 2 or 3 nations who are all bigger than you.
An alliance will help protect you. They will also help educate you, teaching you how to deal tech (small nations should normally sell tech, which is much more profitable than your daily tax income), what trade sets are good, and much more.
The game itself moves fairly slow, and if you aren't in an alliance, you miss a lot. In an alliance, you'll make friends, etc.
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That is not true, you don't need to depend on other nations at all.
