Meh I can just say that for my method of space exploration I am using mass drivers as per research and I already have particle weapons around as advanced as yours so...

As long as you informed sere I don't mind because I have no way of checking.

Australia offers to trade it's research on advanced autotargeting for particle weaponry, combining the two into an even more powerful weapon and allowing both nations to have it.

Sounds like a good deal.

Awesome. Australia begins development of a tank with two autotargeting particle turrets instead of a single explosive weapon turret. One of the turrets is a blaster, the other is a rifle.

 

Design and testing wont take long, since it's basically a modified version of a real life tank.

Switzerland and Abysinia form the Confederation of Joyous Nations. Shortened to the Confederation.

The Confederation, though interventionalist Abysinia, offers to help Australia develop its new tank.

Australia accepts the offer.

Scandinavia, or more accuratly SAAB, offers to help with the tank.

(You should accept, who'd know how to better make it RPG-proof than a RPG producer?)

I think particle weapons aren't worth it, so I won't be copying them. Meanwhile, research on the P-Jet converts into...tank research! (Mainly armoring for tanks, guns can't be improved too much).

 

Japan offers Brazil, Romania, and Germany the oppertunity to work on a powerful tank together, or rather several different kinds of tanks. Japan hopes that the investment will be around ten billion dollars a year for each nation, or five billion and some other contribution.

Okay, I wasn't really sure if you were saying that it was bad for me to do that or not. Well anyways, we should have a pow wow to make the atmosphere friendly again. Japan is bringing the marshmellows!

 

What is LHC?

LHC = Large Hadron Collider.

What is this 'compromise' thing you speak of?

 

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FYROM, Slovakia, Bosnia, Serbia, and Albania has joined the SR (nobody seems to care much about them but me, so I doubt it'll make that big of a hubbub; I've also been in talks with most of them for over 6 or 7 years).

 

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Flag of the SR:

Applause for Mather!

 

Best technology invented on Hegemony ever! :thumbsup:

Hey, that was not a fair depiction of Japan. :P

 

Anyways, the 1% of GDP makes perfect sense. It's smaller than the 4% used last game, to make it go slower. Health care and other stuff is covered by the rest of your budget, so if you wanted to create a national healthcare service, then you just raise taxes and you're done. It'll obviously have positives and negatives, but basically that's how it's done. The 1% is like random money which you can throw around at leisure.

 

Besides, apparantly that wall of mines is weaker than I thought, since it doesn't really seem to mean that you can't get invaded. Using your logic though, couldn't Germany/France just build even more tanks and stuff, and then we'd have too many tanks and billion soldier battles?

I won't pretend it has been helped by propaganda...

 

So my Military budget would be included in the rest of the GDP...so actually I can spend as much money as I like since its not included in the 1%....

 

Retech, of course I can get invaded. Large amounts of the invading troops will die, but, like you say, they can send more and more and more...There are realistic limits placed on how many people the minefield can actually kill before it is beaten. Like everything I did up until I lost the P-Jet it was calculated with Sere.

Well the army budget, I suppose there are realistic limits based on the size and economy of your nation, but there isn't really a set limit, at least not one that I've been informed of.

 

It seems to be ships and aircraft are included in the 1% though.

If we want to be more complicated, we should have people choose how all the tax money is spent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2007.png

That's the US's.

But I doubt everyone wants to keep track of all that.

And for Archi who doesn't have any money...?

Japan asks Franco-Germany again if it would like to work with it on a tank project. The buy in for it is either 10 billion per year, or 5 billion and some other perk.

Japan extends the tank project offer to Austro-Italy, SATO, and Spain.

 

Great deal here people. If enough people contribute, it'll be a 50 billion dollar tank project, so we'll end up with the bestest tanks around. :P

 

 

The buy-in is either 10 billion yearly, or 5 billion yearly and some other offering for the project.

Bah the German-Franco State will buy in.

Win! That means that the current yearly contribution is 30 billion, which I believe is the largest joint-project in the world at this moment? Not the biggest project though.

 

 

The First Japanese Fleet has been completed. It consists of ten supercarriers, fifty frigates, fifty destroyers, and assorted submarines. Work has begun on the Second Japanese Fleet.

 

The cost of the First Japanese Fleet was roughly 500 billion dollars, with 300 billion for the actual construction and 200 billion for research and development. The Second Japanese Fleet will cost roughly the same as the first, but all the fleets will be constantly updated with the new technologies received from the project.

 

^

 

Actually, I miscalculated. The work was supposed to have finished at the end of 2017.

Well, looks like Arch got annoyed so has decided to simply delete the posts and then keep doing the same thing regardless.

 

I'm going isolationist as well, just don't bugger up my stuff and I won't bugger up yours.

Where did the long quote walls go?

 

It must be hard to stay isolationist when you're smack dab in the middle of Europe. :P

It was more a 'Yeah, its a flame war...might as well draw a line and just stop taking a wider interest'

Switzerland releases Abysinia, continues on the preset plan, if anyone invades Switzerland then PM me, otherwise I don't care.

 

And Dusty, its not so much that I am annoyed, as the argument was circular and the game eats up too much of my time trying to justify why Z=Z or why Z doesn't equal Y...And I know if I leave it there it will bug me because I know I am right, you know you are right...