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    Cyber Nations: Google Maps based Browser Game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    All right gang. I'm nearing the 1000 citizen mark(I'm at 800). For those of you that haven't played around fully yet, getting 1000 citizens allows you to purchase a permanent improvement structure that can never be taken away. All of the improvements are expensive.

    The advice scattered around seems to suggest that saving up for the Harbor is the first thing every new nation should attempt. The Harbor provides a modest income boost, but its big draw is an extra trade resource slot. I assume I should gun for this next? It costs a whopping 120K. Ouch. Some of those other improvments look mighty juicy. :D

    What are the rest of you thinking?

    I'd say that if there's any other improvements that are significantly less expensive but give a large income boost then you might want to go for the first to help pay for the harbor. Of course, it all has to do with which has a higher payout, especially since you can't get another new improvement until 2000 citizens and the fact that you're saving for another improvement will cause your population to stagnate... So yeah, go for the harbor, but don't save up all your money at once - set some aside for infrastructure and whatnot.

    Cyber Nations: Google Maps based Browser Game

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    I'm not at war, but I have less than 100 citizens and bills are taking away half of my monies every day. It's kinda scary. I'm increasing my infrastructure, but it seems like that's pretty much all I can do at this point (I've got about 1.7).

    That's probably 'cause you spent all your starting funds on land, eh?

    Also, you really need to start trading. I've been around for about the same length of time of you and I already have 111 nation strength while you only have 8, and I'm not even two miles wider than you are. All I've done differently is trade and focus on infrastructure.

    It's a good idea to thoroughly read into the game mechanics if you want to be as efficient as possible (which has apparently helped me a ton).

    I haven't gotten that $10,000 gift from IRON yet either, but I expect I'll get it within the week. I'm already making nearly $5k per tax collection anyway.

    Cyber Nations: Google Maps based Browser Game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Whoa, this thread grew since I last came in. I guess that means people are getting as absorbed in it as I an, eh?

    Edit: Also, of interesting note is that when I went to select a location for my country, I put it in what I thought was the Faroe Islands but turned out to be the Shetland Islands. I feel like a moron. :)

    Edit 2:

    Lets go make Myspace accounts.

    Seriously.

    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.

    Define "regular traffic" - If I have, say, an LJ with 15 or so mutual friends, would that qualify or would I have to start a thread in General about it?

    Cyber Nations: Google Maps based Browser Game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'm in the Panama canal, I have pigs and wine.

    Edit: I'm Simulated Nation.

    I'm in desperate need of money though, land's expensive down there (and I wasted $400 of my $500 on it).

    I mean, jesus, $400 for a square mile? I'm not made of drugs!

    ...

    Or am I...?

    Don't worry, you'll get more money at 1AM tonight.

    Also, once you do get money, spend it on infrastructure. It's best to have a 2:1 infrastructure:land ratio. Also, don't bother buying land unless there's more than 70 citizens per square mile.

    Cyber Nations: Google Maps based Browser Game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    By the way, I'm non-affiliated right now because I want to build up my strength without any scrutiny on me (it also helps that there's only 3 other nations on Iceland at the moment).

    I think I'm going to get in touch with some of my neighboring countries and try and starta little informal Icelandic alliance, since we're a rather weak bunch.

    Well, location doesn't really matter in the game except that your map shows you everyone in your "rank" who's within 500 miles of you. That number will certainly fluctuate as you get more powerful and you realize that there's been then uber-powerful dude right next to you the whole time. :)

    So I"m guessing tha alliances are not really part of your national profile, just an extra thing one does outside the game?

    Essentially, yes - Unless you're a member of one of the top alliances, in which case the alliance gets a stats page if you go to View My Nation > Ranking (top right corner).

    Edit:

    By the way, the best way to manage taxes seems to be to try all the rates between 19% and 28% until you find the most profitable rate since it works on a curve with more than one maximum.

    Don't bother, use this instead. http://robocracy.net/taxtest/

    That doesn't work correctly for me though (and yes I punched in the right info). It says the best tax rate for me is 16% ($9.06) when it's really 23% (~$10). There's some "hidden" factors apparently, perhaps including resources. I'd suggest doing it manually.

    Cyber Nations: Google Maps based Browser Game

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I happened to get an invitation to IRON just as I was signing up in their thread. w00t, and I've only been on for a few hours.

    Most alliances like to troll for newbies so they can boast about their amount of members. I personally don't like it. The NPO might do it to, but I wouldn't know because I had to go to them to sign up a few months back.

    Yeah, they offered me $10,000 and I'm skeptical as to whether they'll actually live up to that, particularly since it'd be so expensive to recruit new members. There's also at least two dozen nations out of 265 who don't look like they received such a huge sum also.

    But eh, I guess you can't control the ethics of individual members.

    OCR01441 - Final Fantasy X "White Skies (Club Mix)"

    in ReMix Reviews & Comments

    Posted

    Wow, this is the closest anyone has ever gotten to "professional" trance on this site. I'm having a party next month that will have entail 10 hours' worth of trance over 100 trackse (that's just how it worked out when I decided how many hours I could fit on one CD, and I was off by 20MB), so I may need to bend the "rules" by about 8 minutes since there's no way I'm passing up something as good as this. :)

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