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I don't know. I just think the rule is stupid, because half the world would be gone from people who've quit if we followed that rule.

What do you mean? Which rule?

Would everyone agree to changing the rule about when the owner of a country quits that it disappears? That's just stupid. I think that it should just return to the way it was in real life. Rebuilding similar to Ross's part of the US has begun. People from our more crowded areas are being offered land there, and many are accepting.

Who knows how far people can go with eventual technology that could enhance the body's strength and durability without having awful side effects. But as for natural-non enhanced humans, I think with proper genes, people could go a bit faster, but we're near the peak. Still [bleep]ing ridiculous how fast he is.

Yea, I think there was some weird loophole in the assault weapon ban in the states that allowed you own an automatic rifle as long as you had purchased it before the ban. There's also a handful of miniguns that get passed from collector to collector in the states as well, and they're legal since they were owned before some point in time. Not really a loophole, but just designed to make sure the companies didn't go out of business. A pre-ban m16 costs like a few grand. A semi-auto AK isn't banned though. A full auto ak-47 made before the ban is legal, if you have the right license which costs a few hundred bucks and a background check. They're crazy expensive though compared to other guns. You could buy a barret 82a1 sniper for the price of some pre ban guns. The most recent assault rifle ban which is now expired is just stupid. It bans things that really don't matter. Like a shotgun with a telescoping or folding stock. Oh noes, folding stocks. Ok sorry about discussing laws, but whatever. My friend's uncle has a pre-ban ak-47. I haven't shot it, but it's pretty cool.

@russia. When luxembourg was fighting throughout Europe, they recovered a mostly intact exosuit from a fallen russian (or german with russian suit), and they gave it to me for research. If I were to try to reverse engineer it or whatever, you've done something that would make that impossible right? Just asking so I don't go against something you've done.

Adrenal's quote on india:

I think it was left with a cleaning up india program, and that was 25 years ago in game time, so india should be a good amount better off than it is in real life. A good amount less filth, and poverty.

Maybe you could post a plan on what you'd do with india, or something like that.

If this is true, would I be taking Scotland away from anyone? Because I'm not interested in that and would just take a completely open country instead. Well Scotland is occupied by someone, but they started in Ireland so technically any new person could take it (as with all secondary+countries). But with some open space left (including some interesting countries to use) I would suggest choosing a different one. You can also add Norway (me) and Finland (hedgehog1) to the list of capital countries that cannot be taken. Wow, I can't believe I didn't think of you guys. I probably should get some sleep.

South africa posts every couple of days, so I think he's still in. Japan hasn't posted on tif at all in a while, so they might have gone on vacation. India has pretty much said they lost interest, and I pmed them earlier so we'll hear from them soon probably, about whether or not they want to stay or don't car.

I think so. So if you'd rather not do that, there are still a lot of open countries. India would be a good option, as would taiwan. Maybe vietnam. I guess since you no longer have luxembourg, that wouldn't be your capital country, so you could pick one of the countries you have to be your temporary capital, I think. I'm just making stuff up here, as the rules aren't that specific.

This is on topic, it's discussion of other people's choices. Without discussion no thread would have any purpose. Doomsavenger, I now pronounce you Queen of Nitpicking. Yor are so damn good at making people look like an idiot. Especialy me =D> Aww now I feel bad.

This is on topic, it's discussion of other people's choices. Without discussion no thread would have any purpose.

Actually, Sere, he can take any non-capital country, so scotland is open. He could take china if he wanted, for example. Any country that's not: Egypt, Israel, Brazil, Venezuela, Germany, Luxembourg, Russia, Iran, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Bulgaria, or the Netherlands is open.

I make more than the former EU, which UK was the biggest contributor to, which you don't have. You have a couple countries other than that, but they don't make that big of a difference. I may be wrong though, feel free to do the math for your countries. EDIT: Norway and I have received our first transmission from our colony, 11 years after we sent the ship.

Mine is the richest :D :

The hawk? Of course it does. Well, that's the research that is being worked on in Haven. Up to you whether or not you want to send your scientists there to speed along the research. Breakthroughs made on Haven won't be available to nations that didn't commit anything to their research, though. This is news to me. We had agreed when he decided to quit that it would remain as it was in real life, otherwise all countries would go into a recession. Update on population. With the inclusion of new territory, the Brazilian Empire's population is 607,800,000. I also averaged together the predicted future growth rate of all my countries with a ratio based on their size, so I can use that equation to find my population at any year from now, unless something happens that makes it go up or down. We are also putting out an invite to all former SAR countries to join the B.E., and we're sending more diplomats to all those countries.

Okay, so the Eastern one is mine, right? I knew that there were some small islands North of the UK mainland that belonged to it, so I was confused when suddenly both of the ones that were shaded my colour when I took command of the United Kingdom turned into Iran's colour. Here's correct version, with the KOJ's flag [hide=][/hide]

I accidentally colored all three of the pixels on the eastern-er island iran colored, but the western one belongs to Iran, and originally belonged to denmark.

Wait did somebody just take the Faroe Islands? Or is this a different base? Doesn't Norway have control of the Faroe Isles? Denmark owns them in real life, and someone who owned Denmark at some point gave them to iran in the game. Or something like that.

Here's a map with some corrections, and a bit of an update. Me and Iran both wanted to claim the American Wasteland, so we decided to split it. This also fixes some errors. [hide=][/hide]

Or you know, you could have people trained in the use of it that actually know how to make split second tactical decisions, and considering they're controlling multi-billion dollar stuff, they'll probably explode from the pressure, and they'd actually be killing people. Great way to raise children.

Pale Golden Yellow please. All right. Ross, is it OK if I just label the country on the map as "Aether" and just put "Kingdom of Aether" on the map key? You can change your country name at any time by the way. It isn't much editing. And I'm pretty safe saying that the Brazilian Empire gets Quebec, T4R gets the arctic isles, the Russian Empire gets Alaska, and the Britannian Empire gets Canada? I don't really get why the t4r get's the arctic islands. Quebec doesn't want to be part of canada anyway, so that makes sense. T4r's logic behind why he has a claim to them is because he has greenland. That's like saying I have a claim to my neighbours hous because i live next to them. I think either brittania gets all of british canada, or t4r does, not split it. And alaska either is destroyed or joins with whoever has cananda.

1 or 2 years ago I sold him one.