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1 RFG would probably cave in the palace where it hit, but since he's in a nuclear bunker, it wouldn't really do much, especially since the energy would have mostly gone into the palace instead of the bunker. Bombardment with railguns doesn't work. All you'd be doing is hitting the same spots over and over. The point is for them to go straight. Not shoot in an arc, like artillery. If I'm controlling the government forces, here's what I do. I order my troops to scatter into the rural areas around the city, and take down as many troops as they can with ambushes, and other forms of Guerilla warfare. I only sent some of the most loyal 50,000 troops to do that, so none of them will desert. Other troops are fanning out to find and kill any special forces in the area. My engineers are working to get the tanks back running. Seeing as there's no such thing as a disabler, and tanks are just various parts, all we have to do is isolate how they were sabotaged, and get them running again. Bombers from our remaining air force bases are aiming for enemies unprotected by anti air. EDIT: Brazil update: Since we are putting an unprecedented amount of funds into this, research on Diamonds is going well.

How exactly do you "shell" something with a railgun... Maybe I should control the rebels, so it's a more interesting fight. They obviously won't have anything to do with Brazil, but it would make it so you guys don't unrealistically wreck them instantly.

Good job. we are seeing large amounts of the army deserting when attacked, This is a good sign that ,while he may be in control, few want want him as their ruler. Why did he win the election then?

The USA put a few hundred thousand people into vietnam. The biggest military in the world in real life is 9 millionish. Sending in 10 million to quell a rebellion that may or may not be happening is undeniably pointless. And it would probably put you deep into debt.

I doubt it. If we could figure out dark matter, or find a few large chunks of metal floating around the universe, it's possible.

That's what the batteries would be for. If that doesn't work out, I have a few other ideas, that would not let us travel as far, but would let us travel at fast speeds. Unless we build a spacecraft the size of a few Jupiter. But I don't see that happening.

That wouldn't work ross, because that would only get the energy the sun puts out externally. The vast majority of the energy is internal. I think. Because that's where the fusion reactions take place. Plus, I think building a dyson sphere would be more effective on another star. For example, Sirius. It puts out way more energy.

Ross, the best thing you could do is work on designing an ridiculously high capacity battery/power cell than the ones you have for your shards. Or several of them. Hell, as many as necessary within reason. In total, they should be able to 8*10^27 joules. 8 octillion joules, I think. (Roughly 1/100th of the energy produced by the sun in total each second.) That's roughly 8 trillion (or quadrillion, I forget) times as much as a single battery you have can hold, so this will take a very long time to research. If it's even possible. If it won't work, then I have a few other ideas. Again, that's pretty tough to make. So I don't know.

I'm working on a way to get enough energy in order to power the warp drive I linked to earlier. It'll be a while though. All my ships capable of doing so (I think 12 now) are going back and forth between our solar system and my research base with supplies constantly.

Should be, I guess. I forget when you ordered it, but it probably is. The defenses I have along my borders are bunkers, anti air, and in more important areas, laser anti artillery/rocket. Also, some roads have explosives on them that can be blown in order to make travel more difficult for enemy soldiers. I guess that's probably ok Dusty. So here's something we could research at haven. Deep mining. There are a ridiculous amount of materials in the mantle, if we could get to them. Not sure if this will work at all though. EDIT: I'm working on making carbon nanotubes easier to produce, since they were proven incredibly useful in the construction of our space elevator.

That graph is in gigatons. Aka, 1 billion tons. Whoops. The chart I looked at for production ( I just checked back at it) was made kinda crappily. They used dots instead of commas to break up the numbers (1.000 instead of 1,000) which made me misread the graph. Freaked me out for a second. I thought we might have went through a cement drought while I wasn't looking. It really didn't make sense to me that the world produced 1.2 billion tons of iron but only like 2 million tons of cement. Friggin wikipedia graphmakers. heh. I'll quickly do the math for a cement wall. 2,970,000,000 tons. For a price of 92 dollars ish per ton. So basically, 2.5-8 trillion for materials alone. I'm too lazy to do more.

That graph is in gigatons. Aka, 1 billion tons. Whoops. The chart I looked at for production ( I just checked back at it) was made kinda crappily. They used dots instead of commas to break up the numbers (1.000 instead of 1,000) which made me misread the graph.

Assuming you had anywhere near the right amount of materials. Plus a giant wall would murder trade. What I did was just provide good cover and concealment along the border, in the form of bunkers. With some AA turrets and the like. Here's an idea though for something. Deep mining. I don't know how it would work, but into the mantle, or whatever. Not sure if it's practically impossible, I assume it is, but you never know.

I actually forgot to include alaska's border in that calculation. The only reasonable material to use for a wall like that is iron. Here's my math. I might have messed up. I probably did. 3750 mile long wall. 20 deep*100 tall=2000 cubic feet per horizontal foot. Weight of iron per cubic foot: 450 lbs 2000*450= 900,000 pounds per horizontal foot. -> 450 tons per horizontal foot of wall. 3750 mile long wall. 3750*5280 feet=19800000 horizontal feet to cover 19800000*450=8910000000 tons needed 8.91 billion tons Total iron produced yearly: about 1.2 billion tons. Cost of iron: The most consistent price I found was 100$ per ton, ish . I might be wrong. But that's 8.9 trillion dollars for the raw iron alone. I haven't a clue about how much it costs to transport that much Iron, but since the biggest production of iron is in asia, europe, and australia, I think, I imagine it would cost alot. And again, I can't even guess at the costs to refine the ore, and then actually build the wall. So I guess I am disputing any super-walls. Dusty, the world only makes a few million tons of cement each year. In order to get enough rock for your wall, you would have to dig a tunnel slightly larger than your wall, through the entire earth. As in from one side to the other. That's how much material would be needed. EDIT: They built a few pyramids with millions of slaves. Not a wall 8500 miles long.

I just did the math. For a 100 foot high, 20 foot thick wall, it would cost 7.2 trillion for materials alone, and it would take about 10 years or more for all the materials to be mined, if all the materials mined on the entire planet were being sent to the wall. Then processing the materials, and transporting them would cost another 12 trillion, or more. The I can't even estimate the costs for actually building the wall itself. EDIT: Dusty's wall would be about 2.5 times longer. I don't remember how big he said it was going to be, but jesus christ.

Hm. I don't think you can trade other people's countries Doom. I gave half of Cameroon to Luxembourg, and the other half is mine. To Rocco: I will trade Nigeria for the Sri Lankan isles. Whoops, I forgot that you ended up with Cameroon. Ignore that post then, heh.

I suggest you research your country. Find out what resources it has, its population, and so on. Also, your gdp is about 10-15 times higher than what it is in real life, probably. To find out how much you can spend for research or military, take your gdp, Take 5% of that, and that's roughly it. And I'll trade cameroon for sri lanka and the islands. You can keep gabon. Would the populations be swapped, and we just pretend that you had cameroon all along?

10 tons would probably block out the sun for most of europe. RFG are only a few pounds practically, and can destroy huge areas of cities.

It would be a lot easier for game continuity that you didn't. There are some countries in Africa that are probably available. And they're alot better off in the game than in real life. Once dusty gets on that can be sorted out

Trol, how would you disperse likely trillions or more gallons of water traveling at speeds of 50-500 mph? Anything you could do would probably just create another natural disaster. I think we did have a natural disaster a while ago, in italy. I don't know.

Like he said, we'd know about a hurricane about 30 minutes in advance real life time, so yeah. If nothing else, the area where I usually would be getting hit by storms, the US's southern coast, and Mexico, don't really have much that can be damaged by hurricanes. Or earthquakes. That's an okay system, but I don't really think it's too necessary.

I'm pretty sure it was part of South Africa, it just wasn't transferred over when I got their land for some reason. EDIT: I don't think anyone will really want swaziland to start. It's tiny, and not so great. Only upside is their sweet name.

More than once for a few of those ;) I'm really enjoying the inside jokes on this thread :lol: Well, I've been at war against France, India, Holland, Spain, Portugal, the United States... Ehh, screw it. Let's just say that I was the largest empire at some point in time. I think I was, atleast until I had to give up Kenya and Somalia. If you include space on other planets, then it's probably a tie between me, Dusty, and Walka.

Rocco, I'd rather not, due to Tanzania's larger size and more natural resources. Stone, currently you have no military, other than police forces, but that can be built up again. Some cities probably still have some damage from a war that was maybe a decade ago. Space technology is like this so far. Me, Norway, Aether (Iran) and Europa(Germany) are the only ones who have made a lot of ships. The most advanced ships have been able to reach other star systems, where there are several colonies. Me and Germany are selling ships capable of quick interplanetary travel, and I am also selling ships capable of mining asteroids. You won't be able to afford them though, since you're new and your country's gdp isn't too high. War works in a few ways. Usually there's a war judge, who is a neutral country, not involved in the war.

Because several tons of solid iron crashing into the earth is not a good thing.