carmen510
Deity
When the hell did I ask you that?
In LuckNES, when Prussia and Russia were still at war and France was considering to go on one side or something of that sort. I'm too lazy to actually check the thread.

When the hell did I ask you that?
How do they use those Predator doodads armed with Hellfires, again?Time to first international news photo spread of a child mistakenly shot by such a set up...20 maybe 30 minutes?
It'll be a lot more than 10 years before you can have a robot doing policework...
Thing is, colonies are relatively hard to get by, and pretty difficult to assume control over, usually. Which is why not all that many colony sales occurred in OTL - well, that and the fear of giving the other side a potential strategic advantage. Both Louisiana and Alaska were sold because they were judged untenable; note that the prices were always very low, the Russians even managing to lose money on their sale of Alaska between their diplomat's travel expenses and the bribes to the senators.
I have to see what my other allies say about bringing you into the North American Research Fund.qoou said:Too much education does, especially when a certain person that I quoted is online but not saying anything about my PM.
I have to see what my other allies say about bringing you into the North American Research Fund.
Colonies are massively over valued in NESes anyway, even the colony-tastic british empire was only just equal to the GDP of the metropol and provided less than 15% of the pure cash revenue (the access to resources and markets had many positive effects, but not on a year by year balance sheet). The highest colonial income was probably the Dutch East indies, which only provided 30% of the national revenue at its absolute height (and that was with some pretty severe oppression and profit guaging).
Do you have some sources for the GDP figures? It would be useful in devising rulesets and setting up NESes...
Well, those figures do have British India as half of the Empire's GDP (at least in the 1800s), which would make it a valuable colony, no?![]()