Torleif

I think you can probably survive alone if you are armed to the teeth, i.e. defcon 1, 5 guerilla camps, full complement of soldiers and tanks and the best airforce you can afford. Also helps to have nukes. Basically, raiders want easy targets. Very few of them are masochists who are looking to get beat up. The trouble with this strategy is that it is so costly you will make very little money and very little progress. Even then you may still get attacked occasionally. I did once while unaligned but it was the raider who lost most of his tech!

Thanks, Captain. That makes sense.

[quote name='Lurunin' timestamp='1311171285' post='2759796'] each nuke reduces your environment a bit which affects happiness, which lowers income [/quote] Hmm. That still doesn´t explain so dramatic a fall. I noticed virtually no change in income untill I reached ten nukes. Is there a jump at ten?

[quote name='Emphix' timestamp='1310386686' post='2754358'] I used to know someone that was vehemently anti labor camps [/quote] Hey, I've never had labor camps, and I'm not doing too badly. You can still make enough to buy a wonder every month.

I noticed this today. My daily tax take has fallen from $124 to $121 per person since yesterday, and I can't see why - no change in technology level or trades. I've got Great Temple and Great Monument, so people are happy with their government and religion. I don't have a moon base, but am buying nuclear weapons. What is going on?

Bump. Anyone interested will need a harbour to participate in the circle, and we will give you aid to build one if you don't have one.

Hi everyone, two members of my trade circle have gone inactive and are going to delete in a few days. I'm looking for two people, one with pigs and water, the other with marble and iron. Trade circle is 4BR plus uranium - beer, fast food, construction and steel. If interested, please pm in game: http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=422224

Hi everyone, One of the members of my trade circle is about the be deleted through inactivity (Svenborgia) so we need a replacement asap. The trade circle is 4BR plus uranium - beer, fast food, construction and steel. If you have pigs and water and are interested, please send a pm in-game. Pleae also indicate if you are willing to change to maroon. http://www.cybernations.net/nation_drill_display.asp?Nation_ID=422224

Good advice, thaone, which I shall follow in due course. The Cyberverse is an odd sort of place. Not like the real world of state societites, with UN and international law, at all. More like a pre-state world of warring tribes. The closest real world equivalent to the Cyberverse is probably the highlands of New Guinea.

If you want sellers, may I suggest increasing the price to $3m/50 tech, and doing 2x2 deals? I'm selling tech $3m/50, and all my slots are full. I wouldn't even consider a $3m/100 deal.

[quote name='Baldr' timestamp='1285164515' post='2460929'] I'm not sure you can use "They tech raid" as a very good sign of how big of a war monger they are. [/quote] Yes, I guess you can be aggressive without being a tech raider. I noticed the defence pact between GOONS and Viridian Entente, which seems odd given the reference on cyber-wiki I saw to "the ongoing dispute" between VE and GOONS, unless the refernce is outdated. One of the reasons I find it hard to choose an alliance is I don't really know, at the end of the day, what most of them stand for - though in some cases, eg GOONS, Nordreich, Poison Clan, it's pretty clear. Also fairly clear with those that have "Conservative" or "Socialist" in their names. Some are clearly collections of cyber riff-raff - eg those that accept anyone regardless of history. But the rest?

Some alliances seem to positively encourage tech raiding, and enjoy destroying unaligned nations. That seems pretty warlike to me. Others, eg Viridian Entente, discourage it. Seems to me that alliances that don't allow their members to tech raid are the most peaceful. What a newbie like me really needs is a "Good Alliance Guide." I've heard of Karma and Hegemony, apparently two big treaty blocs, but I'm darned if I know who is in which bloc, or what each stands for or what their differences are.

That's useful to know. Thank you, Captain.

A very belated thank you for that answer, Captain. Here's another question in case anyone looks by: What is the maximum number of aeroplanes you can send on an air assault? Is it the maximum you can have? Also, can you do air assaults and send cruise missiles if anarchied?

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