Rnes5: To Trust a Thief. Board NES

Jason The King said:
I have sent PM to gruban. Will he answer?
He will, he's just not online 24 hours per day. Hold your horses, chariots, elephants and giant battle-trained war-hedgehogs. :king:
 
Fellow Allies!
(You know who you are ... even if I don't! :king: )

Our Minister of Finance has come to Us with some disturbing news - apparently Our People think that Our Free Trade policies have resulted in an unfair Balance Of Trade. For example, Germany can send $50 or more to Us, while We can only send $5 to Them. The trade unions here are complaining!

We were able to fend off the trade unions when the World War was hot, by our Generals explaining that Germany, Russia, France were only surviving the huge and well-financed British and Norwegian onslaught by reason of this African Trade, so the trade unions could just suck it up. :p

But now those Generals have been executed (see above a few posts), and the World War may not be a World War any more, if King Matty's suspicions are correct. Also, due to Our (deceased) Generals' incompetence, We desperately need money to rebuild our ground forces - We now have less armies facing the British than ... well ... Germany. Ahem. :eek:

So We are going to institute a Tax on Unfair Trade Balance: $1 on every $5 traded to Us in excess of what We can trade to that Trading Partner.

What does this mean?

Well, for Germany, for example, if They send $5 to Us, just as much as We can send to Them, there is no tax - they get $10 back.
If They send $10 to us, there is a $1 tax - $1 is taxed, $9 is traded, and They get $18 back. Still a very profitable trade for Them, of course.
If they send $50 to us, there is a $9 tax - $9 is taxed, $41 is traded, They get $82 back. :goodjob:

Makes sense? So the idea is that trade is still almost as profitable for our Allies, just that now We Africans get something back from this as well. And this gives our Allies some incentive to build up their provinces - every $1 they build up isn't just $1 for the Ally, but an extra $1 that they won't be taxed for Unfair Trade Balance. :king:

Oh, and of course We will be very willing to pay Trade Balance Tax if one of Our Trading Partners grows large enough to become a recipient of more of Our trade than They can send to Us. Fair is fair, after all.
 
Well, what can we say. You the boss right now, and we gonna have to comply. But it is a good waste of resources for us, as you only have a limited front with the enemy, while we are doing most of the fighting, and need as many resources as we can have.

It will probably end up costing the alliance more then what you are gaining.
 
I herby refuse to trade with Russia and Russia is now offering a ceasefire with the Scandinavians.
 
have no orders yet. been a while. time to start sending em.

first two people to send orders will get a ...... well, no there's not much i can give without making it like cheating, but still, send orders.
 
OK... Britain, you complained about my stealing your trade. That was a fact I had stated in the thread: I didn't know which way the diplomatic shakedown would end up, so I didn't send (m)any caravans, and I stole those I received. You had prior warning, and (almost) nobody answered my diplo.
Feel free to take 10 of my caravans in return, and let's go back to trading.


Norway
here.

To Russia: We refuse your ceasefire. We're kicking butt!

To France: If Britain refuses, we offer to trade with you.

To Africa: Nice idea you had there.
 
RoddyVR said:
have no orders yet. been a while. time to start sending em.

first two people to send orders will get a ...... well, no there's not much i can give without making it like cheating, but still, send orders.

Since this game involves money, you can fine people.

Announce two deadlines with each move, say 5 days and 10 days:
* Anyone whose orders don't come before the first deadline is fined 5% of their treasury per day after that
* Anyone whose orders don't come before the second deadline has you execute moves for them (and loses 25% of their treasury)

That said, I'm going to get my moves in right now! :king:
 
wow. that would be MEAN. though not a bad idea, i may just try it at some point.
has the added benefit that the general amount of cash in the game would go down, thereby making it easier to do updates (less units, lol)
 
Orders sent. (Hoping people but Russia are generally peaceful and amenable to trade, and not sending too many guards.)
 
have orders from:
africa
france
norway

need orders from all others.
i know you're all lazy bums, but you'll have to send orders some day anyway, so may as well do it today.
 
ok, i think i only need orders from Britain and Austria now.
so, matty and mjm, send your orders asap.
 
How does this NES survive? I just don't get how you keep it going, except for some sort of low-attention perseverance and the game being interesting.
 
roddy is a great mod, the best board game mod if you ask me. he stays consistent with his updates, as long as their are orders in, and he does everything on a system, nothing is decided by him.

anyways, you are not from the board game era ;). You dont understand how board games need less attention then story nes's from the players.

Jason
 
You dont understand how board games need less attention then story nes's from the players.
either you meant to say 'more' instead of less, or i am VERY glad that i am not playing in any of the current story games, the work load must be herendous.
 
well, for story nes's your orders need to be creative and very descriptive to get what you want. you are also expected to write stories and engage in diplomacy.

for board games, your orders are quite simple, involving straight-forward strategy. Diplomacy is as it is in story nes's, but you lack the expectancy of stories.

At least it seems to me that being in this NES is much less demanding then most (properly-ran) story nes's.

Jason
 
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