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I'm working on a new charter draft right now, but I need to know how often you guys would prefer we hold elections. Also, for your information, I'm basing the government structure of OCA on that of the Legion. It's looking pretty nice.

I see what you mean. I may work on sprucing up our charter draft today. I have a question for everyone, though. Would you prefer a more parliamentary system, with a prime minister, an internal affairs minister, a foreign affairs minister, and a defense minister (the names of the positions can change, I am just illustrating the basic structural concept), or would you prefer the war council/alliance council scenario Falchion proposed? It just seems the NPO system may be too robust for a small alliance like us.

I think the roll call thread is a good idea. It serves as an organized private directory of ONLY members of the alliance. It's easier than updating an enormous list every time someone joins.

Nice work, supremespleen. I'd recommend revamping the initial post in this thread. You can remove the roster (the Roll Call thread at headquarters and the OCR Member group list should take care of that) and provide a link to the official headquarters forum as well. We should also provide a link to the charter in the first post (which should get its own locked announcement thread in the Information Desk forum (its okay that it hasn't been finalized yet)). Potential members should still apply to join the alliance in this thread.

Well he is too low for me to directly attack. What I meant is I would send troops in the form of foreign aid to help Mi'kile defend himself.

Yes. That sounds appropriate. If he hasn't declared peace yet' date=' I'll send him a message of my own. EDIT:

Also see the discussion in this thread. Infrastructure is the only thing at this time that affects your population, so pump your funds into infrastructure!

I believe population depends entirely upon infrastructure. The more infrastructure you have, the more people your nation can accommodate. I'm not sure of the precise relationship, however.

I believe this is because the price of tech goes up with each integer increase in tech level. So if you have 7.5 tech and you buy 1 tech you will pay the 7-8 level price for all of it, which costs less, for example, than buying 0.5 tech at the 7-8 price and 0.5 tech again at the (higher) 8-9 price. So really, the most ideal (but not at all practical) situation would be to make one single investment in all the technology you ever plan to use because it would cost you exactly $10,000 times the number of levels you buy. Someone correct me if I am wrong. EDITed for .

You can buy in fractions, just like with infrastructure.

Technology affects three things: happiness, battle outcomes, and nation strength. If you have 0 tech then you lose 1 happiness, but you increasingly gain happiness for tech that is over 0.5. Battle outcomes are generated randomly, but are influenced by your technology. With a higher tech, you generally get more kills per unit military (infantry, tanks, and cruise missles). You also need 10 tech to get nuclear weapons. Technology has a large affect on the nation strength calculation. My advice is to buy some tech to get your nation out of the caves (and your literacy to something reasonable) if you don't have any yet. It may give you an edge in any battles you fight. It doesn't take much tech to satisfy a new nation, but having none is really detrimental all around.

Welcome new nations to the OverClocked Alliance! Here is the best place to learn more about the game workings. Who is currently drafting an alliance charter, and how is it coming along?

The offer uses the word "popular." I'm not sure what that means, but it's definitely worth a shot.

Or, if you're made of cash (which I'm certainly not), you can donate both now AND later (since you can do it monthly). Yeah they did, and now they're at peace again, if I understand correctly.

He really deserves it though; he's referred like 20 people to the game. How's that 'Great War' shaping up Falchion? The CN forums sure move fast. There's so much praise, condemnation, and accusation in any given thread I cannot make heads or tails of it.

Woah. Sorry for double posting, but does this offer mean that EACH link will get the nation $10,000, 10 miles etc. Because if so, I could over $50,000 within a week. Read the Link Offer Conditions. Also, you can't just start up a myspace or blog, it must already be well-established with regular traffic. Other than that, it's an excellent deal for new nations like us. I might go the donation route, however.

Soldiers cost money to maintain which will increase your bills, but if you don't have enough soldiers your people won't feel protected and their happiness will decrease which will decrease your income. Your "Private Nation Messages" will tell you if your military size is adequate for your nation's population. I wouldn't worry about building a huge army at the outset. Young nations seem to benefit the most from purchasing infrastructure to get a healthy economy going.

Some people in the forums suggest Sikhism.

Land is gained through natural growth and purchases made. And spoils of war. Ah, you are correct.

Land is gained through natural growth and purchases made.

This thread helps a lot with learning how the game works. Basically, each resource gives you certain bonuses. For example, your oil "lowers initial soldier cost -$3.00, increases population happiness +1, and increases solder count +4%," while your cattle "increases number of citizens +5% and lowers initial land cost -10%" (from this thread). When you trade with other people, you get the bonuses their resources carry. Also, if you collect certain combinations of resources from trade agreements, you get "bonus resources" (see this thread for more info about that).

I believe we do. Is there an actual interface in the game where we select the alliance? If so, I'll need to set that up. There are only like ten major alliances that are recognized in-game. The rest are unsanctioned and not officially part of the game. Perhaps we could explore the possibility of forming some sort of sub-alliance within IRON.

supremespleen has taken an informal leadership role as the creator of this thread, and I support him as Provisional Leader of the OverClocked Alliance. I would suggest that we concentrate on building our own nations up first and garnering some political clout before we dive into active recruitment. CyberNations is literally swarming with alliances, so I think our first priority should be to justify our own existence. Basically, a OCA should be for the mutual protection and advancement of OCR members first and foremost. I've taken a look at the charters for some of the major alliances, and I think I have a pretty good idea of what I'd like to see in ours, if/when it comes to that; however, I will give it some more thought as time permits.