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Its just totally ridiculous....English is one of the most developed languages, yet we have a whole lot less letters....We have 4 times as many words as the French(and seemingly 4 times less letters :rolleyes: ) Go figure that!

Icownage.... the fn key usually only affects the F1-F12 buttons, and my screenshot button...for some reason <_<

Switzerland starts holding English re-education classes, but computer gamer's requests. President Cabigas OKs this.

I think so, a German keyboard has a lot of extra keys.

So how do you do it? I don't have a two funny dot button. "u; ?

#u ]u =u U Nope, that didn't work...

Something like that....I was thinking in more of a check and balance vein as in me and Sere can disagree over how the UK would run something, how do we resolve it? Who has more influence?

Cos learning how to type foreign letters, for no real reason, doesn't matter to me...

:thumbsup: Seriously though....The EU is not uber major.

Yay!

Hehe, group moderation...In two hours the EU is getting disbanded because of people's lack of interest(Yeah I am shooting myself in the foot by reminding people but bigger issue at stake) It makes more sense to let players have equal influence over the NPC countries if we are doing group moderation...just dividing the world up into zones where one country has unchallanged supremacy is like saying 'Hey, how would you like to annex Asia?' :thumbsup: Specifically 'Malaysia sells Fresh Water to Singapore...therefore Singapore invades Malaysia and Indonesia helps, for some reason, and then they both join Japan as protectorates because they were a little bit silly, ah well, I will protect them' [/retech]

=P Sere I was trying to give you a chance to play moderator so you felt confident enough to stop people acting like idiots. Anyway, your proposed system is dangerous and I disagree.

Well then I disagree. I wasn't allowed to control any aspect, even an informal agreement, so no one should be allowed to. I am gonna be a (person) and just bring back the Concert of Europe everytime someone tries to control another country...because its exactly the same concept, just on a larger scale.

Hmmm... Well its an extention of the 5 day annex rule...so if I wanted to stop someone annexing somewhere I could spend money and stop them...rather than going 'You can't do that!!' Its fairly simple, to be honest. You spend money to buy control of another nation, but gaining that control also takes time...so its not like you can just buy 20 allies and then use them all to invade somewhere. It is supposed to be a check and balance though....But there needs to be a way to get around the balance otherwise the game could just sit there for weeks...

I guess the UK would be fairly screwed if it wanted to restore the British Empire and me and Grim went 'Actually, that doesn't fit with our plans right now'...Which is why I suggested the influence system, so if Sere(you) wanted to make the UK restore the British Empire then the USA would spend money and time 'influencing' the UK and would then gain a share of the control(Say 3% per day, which is why I said spreadsheets) if me and/or Grim wanted to stop you then we would have to spend money and time countering your influence(ie gaining the same amount as you, so you could never gain more than 50%) I think America has a lot of influence over the UK right now, which is why I suggested you, but if not then....

Sere...You have partial control which means people like Retech will want 'partial control' and bam, annex-fest. (Its not about you) Unless you are playing moderator, when then screws the gameplay since the USA is a massive country controlled by someone who is also the moderator...Can't really attack in case suddenly all the NPCs around me invade(unlikely, I wouldn't attack and you probably wouldn't screw the game, but there is still the fear factor) Its not 'Brazil' its Doom... Doom as in the player, who Canada joining(in whatever form) the USA, is going to be most effected....people who have a vested interest in the situation.

Hehe The 'I couldn't be bothered' party Anyway, No. Sere you can't control a whole contient as well as an even larger pile of gold and agriculture and all that Jazz... I think, if we are going to control NPCs that me, you and Grim need to have equal control over the UK and you and Doom need equal control over Canada. New Zealand should have power split between Rocco, Retech and Ross....Countries should be split up to depend on people who have vested interests...and by spending money and time on gaining influence you can 'Grow' your influence so that you can dominate them in time....Just a thought. Might get complicated but really we just need a spreadsheet with some columns.... It just keeps the game from turning into an annex fest.

Dusty what are your avalible funds? Budget, Research Budget? I mean my research into Particle Accelerators is not a massive amount of money, its probably the turnover a large company...maybe two or three million a year, most of which comes back to me anyway...

Well it can only really go one way or the other at this point....The game is too convoluted.

Yeah...We should wait until Friday to make the final decision on blowing the universe up...or just having Dusty go around owning everyone.

The universe blows up. :thumbsup:

Please people... :thumbdown:

We are...its called arguing. :thumbsup: But yeah, the game will just get boring if we can't gratitously grab countries...occationally. =P But I would like to point out that most of us just want to build strong enough countries to not get invaded....I am not, but I have always been a 'stand on his own two feet' kinda guy.

Rocco I seriously doubt Pakistan and India could make up their differences....Britian partitioned the country for a reason. :rolleyes:

I am not gonna make a fuss about it, as long as you have taken 5 days.