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[Neyvn]

Started in Northam, and possibly the only person on australia

Joining here in Lismore. (Well trying to, didn't notice it there the first time, had to delete and register).. Might as well be close to home... ^_^ Not letting any arse come in and turn my town into a Mine or anything, unless that Arse is me...

[USEC_OFFICER]

Damn Bay12, pressuring me into joining random browser games (Kidding).

I've signed up as Manchester. I don't have time to play right now, but the important part is that I've joined, right?

[Neyvn]

So mission 6... Sawmill (3)... I have 5 Sawmills at level 3 not good enough!?!?!

[Taricus]

That's bugged, it's meant to be Sawmill 5.

[Neyvn]

That's bugged, it's meant to be Sawmill 5.

Gotcha... Thanks fellow Aussie

[Taricus]

No problem. Could use a lot more people down here though...

[RedKing]

Aw man, now I'm torn. I've actually got Hangzhou building up rather nicely and it's got a fantastic protected harbor that I planned on fortifying and putting heavy artillery and AA guns on the points. But I'd rather play with people who I can communicate with. Lemme check what GB has to offer....anybody taken Scapa Flow yet? Hmm...looks like the Orkneys are part of Halwick and there's jack-all there in terms of forest or mountains.

Allright, imma deregister and take Dundee. Good mix of resources and a chunk of coastline to build docks on.


BTW, WTF is going on with Norway? From the look of things, several provinces are independent countries now.

[ukulele]

Now im considering moving to England too, the question its should i? are we staying there?

[Android]

edit: snip, nevermind

[Paul]

I decided to swap to GB too.

Picked Whitehaven, but I'm gonna have a rough start due to whatever idiot played this province before.

They wasted all the country's resources (including every bit of the country's steel stocks) building a bunch of crap.

Disconnected railroad track in the mountains and city - 2000 steel, 12400 combined cement and lumber.
A bunch of coal and iron mines on the mountain tiles, which I removed to place cement wrks - another 500 or so steel and about 40k combined cement and lumber.
Three separate power plants, producing way more than required by the minimal buildings.

The real fun part? Only ONE lumber mill, level 2, and only ONE cement works, level 2, on a hill. How he even managed to get enough resources to pump into all the coal and iron mines (which were producing far more coal and iron that the SINGLE level 1 steel factory could possibly use) is beyond me.

Thankfully it gave me 10k of both lumber and cement to work with, I'm not sure if it was generated by those two buildings over an extended period or if the game just gave me mats to start off out of pity. I'm don't know if the 100 steel he left in the stocks is even going to be enough to build up a steel production once I have the cement/lumber built up though, my other province in China started with like 3k steel. I'll probably have to throw down a bunch of level 1 ones that don't use any steel just to slowly squeeze out enough steel to build the steel factories.

Debating if I should stick with this poor little province, or choose another one. Best I can really do is around 1k lumber/cement production to start off with these limited resources. I notice Great Britain still has too few players to be diplomatically active.

[Mipe]

Another game that needs babysitting? I'm outta here.

[Paul]

Turns out demolishing buildings actually gives a portion of the materials back. Smashing the railroads and mines and such gave me about 600 steel and a few thousand materials. Guess I'm not in as bad of a position as I thought. Not sure what the percentage is, seems like maybe 25% or so? Or might vary by building, the two railroad bits gave about 3000 total units of building material back.

[TheDecline]

Paul - Messaged you in game m8.

Any others thinking of joining the game then come try UK bay12 seems to be dominating these parts, so were all like minded and willing to work together.

[Neyvn]

Paul - Messaged you in game m8.

Any others thinking of joining the game then come try UK bay12 seems to be dominating these parts, so were all like minded and willing to work together.

Heh its the Bay12 Community, soon you'll all be stabbing eachothers backs for space or something... Its how we work, all want to be the boss...

[RedKing]

Just noticed that not all provinces are created equal. Charleston, SC (USA) is a huge province. Also, the terrain types are just flat silly. My home area of Raleigh, NC appears to be over 50% jungle and swamp.   


I'm also very bothered that a lot of crucial resources like steel, coal, and oil are in no way tied to the map or concentrated in certain locations. Remove the criticality of the Ploesti oilfields, or the Baku oilfields, and you totally change the strategies of WWII. The fact that the Japanese Home Islands were resource-poor was a driving factor behind the invasion of China, the invasion of the East Indies, and a large part of what eventually lost the war for them.

I'm still playing for now, but overall I stand by my earlier assessment: it's a generic browser strategy game with some WWII window dressing and auto-clan making.