Ishmael

Looks cool! Unfortunately I'm getting a "Runtime error: 5" response whenever I try to run the macro after changing the ID to my own nation's.

Sad to see. There are some really great people in VE. But they keep getting overshadowed by some not so great people. >_>

I feel like t$'s flag is too small on this treaty web - it looks like it's still the size it was during the era of Treasure Island.

Why are you stiffling development though? Genuinely curious.

Great update! Best one in a while!

There are currently excess funds in the global economy caused by an high levels of saving and low levels of investment. Factors which cause the high levels of saving include the aging population of the western world (people are saving for pension funds), very high levels of inequality (the wealthy save much more than the poor), and the growing savings of the Asian middle class. Factors which cause low levels of investment include the austerity policies of European governments (which are a result of the German demand for fiscal conservatism due to the lack of a fiscal union in the EU), low investment by many governments across the world due to high levels of sovereign debt, and the relatively low levels of investment required by new industries (tech industries do not require the same levels of start up investment as say, automobile industries). These factors, coupled with the effects of the excess cash pumped into the system by quantitative easing, have resulted a huge quantity of excess funds in the global economy and rock bottom interest rates. It is certainly a good time for governments to borrow. But when they are doing so, they must keep an eye on their current level of debt. US dollar's status as the global reserve currency has long allowed it to get away with excessive borrowing. However, debt has now reached massive and potentially unsustainable levels. Most notably, the USA has become dependent on borrowing to just meet its daily needs rather than to fund extra projects which might increase growth and make borrowing worthwhile in the long run. This is not a good sign. If the USA continues along the way it is currently going, eventually confidence in the dollar will be eroded and another currency will take its place as the global reserve currency. Should this happen, the USA would experience massive hyperinflation and would have to abandon the dollar in favor of a new currency. This event would also signal the end of the USA's global hegemoney.

Wow! How does one go about making comics like that?

I'm finding the opposite is the problem - opponents who have been reduced to nothing due to being attacked by multiple nations cannot be beiged by those nations because of the very extensive rebuild time they would receive. Since all attacks reduce resistance, they cannot even be attacked to stop them rebuilding their army. Under the old system, this was not a problem because only ground attacks led to beiging and so air attacks could be used to prevent opponents from rebuilding armies.

Admins should be impartial and if he was in one sphere or the other that might result in bias :/.

If you're having issues with load speed, you could try increasing the limit for food only. I imagine nobody is near 999,999 of any other resource.

It's a alt-right circle jerk and anybody who attempts to put forward a different view gets ranted at, so they mostly stay out of these convos.

Got to say I largely agree. I much prefer CGP's older videos. One thing to consider however, is that labour is sticky (unlike capital). You can't straightaway re-purpose somebody to a new highly skilled job if their old one was taken away. It takes years of training. So if technology starts advancing faster than humans can retrain themselves then we will see widespread unemployment. Another thing, if we do ever develop human level AI, pretty much all jobs for actual humans are gone for good because labour supply will trend towards infinity.

Bills are extracted before tax is applied. For example: Suppose a nation where Gross Income = 100 Bills = 30 Current alliance tax = 20% Currently their net income is: (100 - 30) * 0.80 = 56 If they were to join TI, their gross income would increase 34%. They then pay their bills. They are then taxed 20% on the remaining income: ((100 * 1.34) - 30) * 0.80 = 83.2 This means their net income would increase from 56 to 83.2. 83.2/56 = 1.4857 That's a 48.57% net income increase The numbers will be different for each nation depending on whether they are already being taxed by an alliance, whether their current alliance has any treasures, and their bills.

Thank you Alex! The timing was my main issue with this change and now it is solved.

We did suspect that the treasure mechanic would be changed - it was one of the first things mentioned when the idea of TI was proposed. I guess we thought it would happen sooner though, so we got a bit relaxed. Also, we did not think Sheepy would change the entire treasure system 3 days after respawn.

This is a complete change in game mechanics though, not a misunderstanding about existing game rules.

To bad the value of treasures has just dropped significantly.

Giving notice of this before the recent treasure respawn would have been nice. :|

Great job with this thread guys - keep up the good work! Onwards to page 30!

Nice! Good fight Valyria! Shout-out to my war partner Bradley Davies.

Interesting. Hadn't really heard of the "pivot area" theory of international relations before.

Looks like Boris is out after Grove suicided into his attempt at leadership. This will most likely cost Gove's political career, but he undoubtedly has plenty of assurances from Murdoch that he will be well taken care of as a reward his loyalty. Murdoch will have an even firmer hold on UK politics after, and be finally rid of that pesky EU who just would not listen to him.

I hate that Farage is calling it "independence day". Independence from what? the UK freely chose to join the EU and now they are freely choosing to leave it. They were never conquered by anybody. The EU is not some colonial overlord. It is just the people of Europe trying to put aside their differences, come together and form a common union. In a way it's insulting that so many British people think so little of the project.