[Official MA DoW]

And yes, I do realize this is a bit pathetic coming from a nation in peace mode

Actually, it is.

All I need to know is that in a week or two I will be small enough to declare war on you. I don't need any other motivation. And yes, I do hate that I was ordered into peace mode. But last I checked MA only had one nation capable of declaring on me anyway, so I'm not missing out on too much .

I would have appreciated to have some fight, also. But last time I checked Echelon (like, 5 minutes ago), every nation within my NS range was either in peace mode or already in Anarchy. So, vacation time for me, I guess.

In order to be small enough to DoW Kait, you'll have to get out of peace mode before. Please send me a PM when such event occurs, I'd be glad to help you drop your NS low enough to DoW her.

[How do land locked nations have navies]

Switzerland wins the America's Cup in real life and people still find unrealistic that land-locked nations have navies?

[Navy (don't be a dork and flame)]

The key to making blockades work is not to make them so powerful. Make blockades an active-on-going effect, sort of like troops deployment. Allow a nation to expend his air (and navy of course) attacks for the war he is in against a country on the blockading navy instead of against the enemy nation. Then you have two choices for blockade effects: 1) As long as a blockade is in effect, a nation can not receive foreign aid. 2) Depending on the strength of the blockade, the blockaded nation does not receive the benefit of X number of traded resources (which are determined randomly) when he collects taxes. Trades are still in effect, but when the taxes are collected things are recalculated on the fly with the blockade taken into effect. This does mean you will not know exactly how much you will collect if you are blockaded.

Well, this would work then as one of the alternatives I wrote. So instead of deleting the trades (having to rebuild them later = boring) they just reduce/nullify the traded resources effect (depending on things like number of ships blockading vs nation size, blockading nation tech vs blockaded nation tech, and maybe even blockading nation spies vs blockaded nation spies).

Same could work for Foreign Aid. The idea to neglect deploying troops capability to the blocked nation I think is good also.

Finally, maybe blockades would be automatically lifted once the blockaded nation falls into anarchy (just like you can't land-attack a nation that has fallen into anarchy)

[Navy (don't be a dork and flame)]

Someone has pointed out that the Navy should not be a "direct attack" class, but a "support" class.

I agree. And, to my opinion, the Navy would serve one main purpose: Blockade the enemy nation.

Could work as follows:

If the enemy Navy is liquidated, you can Deploy your navy to blockade the enemy nation. Deployed ships can't be used on defense and her maintenance costs are increased.

A blockaded nation loses all his trade agreements (or has their effects nullified or reduced for the duration of the blockade - the higher the blockading navy, the higher the effect) and is unable to receive Foreign Aid (or has a random percentage of it lost to the blockading ships - the higher the blockading navy, the higher the effect).

Basically would work like a Team Sanction.

An aditional efect could be that the blockaded nation can't attack enemy nations with soldiers and tanks (can't deploy military, and all deployed military is lost) for the duration of the blockade (it can still attack with cruise missiles, aircraft and nukes)

Those effects would add a whole new dimension on warfare. Having your trade disrupted would have dire effects to your war effort, and even more if you are blocked from your banking nations!

[Best wonder order?]

1- Social Security System (you can't miss the pleasure of raising even further the tax burden over your subjects)

2- Interstate System (you need good roads to allow your troops to rapidily move through the country to repress disenters)

3- Stock Market (so you can get rich by speculating with Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice)

4- Great Monument (at this level you have won yourself your right to have one. Welcome perpetual monarchy)

5- Grean Temple (wave goodbye to that pesky thing about changing religion and substitute it with a proper Cult to Your Personality)

6- Internet (remember to ban WoW or your citizens will stop going to work)

etc...

[Announcement from Ordo Arcana]

Long Life to Ordo Arcana!