Cyber Nations is a political simulator you play in your browser. You don’t play it alone but against and with thousands of people from all over the world. You control one nation and are completely responsible for making that nation a world power or not. That one nation is part of an entire international community of leaders that run their nations in a totally different way. Some are ‘hippies’ only helping their nations grow while others are ‘warmongers’ destroying everything and everyone that cross their path. It’s your own choice how you want to run your nation and achieve world domination.
The game has three main aspects: Economics, Military and Diplomatic. These three aspects and their interactions ensures Cyber Nations is always a challenge and fun.
Economy
The economy is the main source of growth. Tax income makes sure you can invest in intrastructure, technology, land, improvements, military or wonders. The tax income depends on the number of citizens and their daily income. By keeping your civilians happy they will work harder ensuring your tax income rises. Choosing the right government, religion, improvements and resources will make your civilians happy.
Trading is also an important aspect. Civilians of your nations work hard to produce two special resources. These resources can be traded with other nations. Each resource has their own advantages. Aluminum makes airplanes cheaper for instance. Specific combinations of resources result in a bonus like beer or fast food. The most important source of economic growth is infrastructure. Infrastructure increases your citizen count so you can collect more taxes.
Military
Might is right! This holds true in the world of Cyber Nations. War is the most interesting aspect in Cyber Nations. After you have built your nation you can properly invest in your military. This will start with a few soldiers but will end with soldiers, tanks, cruise missiles, planes, spies and even nuclear missiles. You can have them all at your disposal to run another nations into the ground and come out victorious.
To make it fair the war system is setup so you can’t fight a much stronger of weaker nation. However it is possible to attack someone with multiple nations. This is why many nations unite in an alliance. Up until now there have been four great wars already involving thousands of nations.
While if you want you can also spend a lot more time on it. Whatever suits you.
Just register and try it out :) Any questions I am on IRC and be more than happy to answer them (counts for everyone).
Those I lured into playing this absolutely love the game. So why not try it? You can fight wars for crossfire :p
I don't invite friends over for a 1m break :p
got irc and crossfire for that already :p
gn now, gotta catch my flight.
CN also has IRC chans for every alliance :p Lots to talk about!
Ah well, others will certainly give it a whirl.
Game is simple yet can be very complex. Minimum time required per day is 1 minute. You don't even have to be online every day.
Currently there are 30.000+ player registered. You interact with all of them so you can image how dynamic the game is.
At the posted forum (you first have to register and apply) there is a guide. Everything you need to know is in there. I've written a warguide a couple of monts ago. I'll write one again soon.
I've also thought of calling the alliance pink gorillas (in honour of TosspoT) and join the pink team :p
Ask questions on the mentioned forum, on irc or here and I'll be happy to help/assist!
At least, that's my experience.
I also told Darv (from Rtcw) about the game 4 months ago. He is still playing it as well.
There is a lot you can do in this game. Diplomacy, politics, economics etc. You can fight wars or choose not to. While the game is simple it's extremely dynamic and there will be some style of play you will like. It's setup really good.
The point is that it is not the same every days. There is a whole word behind Cybernations. There are more than 30.000 players and you interact with all of them. Some will try to fuck you over, some want to be friends with you, friends will backstab you, you have to protect friends etc. etc. That makes it exciting every day.
I don't know of other games. Just Nation States (which did get boring quickly) and this which I've been playing for a long time already.
why bother? :x atleast I enjoy loads of other stuff more than text games
99% of the time less is less
Did you tell John Carmack this before he started developing Quake Zero? :x
Somehow people have read it and no one bothered to register :o. Didn't expect that tbh! Thought this community loved free games :)
Only good text based game I can remember playing after 2000 was the hacker game I guess.
Um not sure about the names, but played two similar text based games where you control a planet, go to war, make alliances and played (think it was two, might have been version 1 and 2 of same) a game where you would build a city and maintain etc, not so big focus on war. Fun and addictive to some extent ("must check account everyday o_O"), but far from as fun and entertaining as other games.
Benefit of this game is that it is fun and doesn't cost much time. You can't compare it to ET for instance :p It's fun to do next to other things.
I would have liked to play games in mozilla
Crossfire will dominate.
21 now. Let's reach a 100 this week ok? :)
bt this nation text game seems ok :)
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