| Maestro2000 (White Giant) | Monday, December 21, 2009 - 07:35 am 
I don't like the concept of mass stripping of a country.
This game is called "Simcountry"
What does stripping "sim" ulate? |
| Serpent (Little Upsilon) | Monday, December 21, 2009 - 07:58 am
Stripping is done in real life, is it not? People strip the resources out the earth. People strip animals from the planet. People strip the atmosphere of various gasses?
So yes, I'd say that stripping is real! |
| Scarlet (White Giant) | Monday, December 21, 2009 - 08:02 am
It's calling pillaging IRL. |
| Tranquility (Fearless Blue) | Monday, December 21, 2009 - 08:44 am
But how else will a poor empire with a young slave to raise make money with low education indexes?  |
| Dr.Anthrax (Little Upsilon) | Monday, December 21, 2009 - 09:17 am
I remember when c3's were loaded with 5T$..but that's when i started out,right with the transition from the old war engine to the new one so i didn't know how to take a c3. |
| CraftyCockney | Monday, December 21, 2009 - 07:38 pm
$wag is good. |
| Maestro2000 (White Giant) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 12:23 am
...but stripping in Simcountry is moving 20-50% of your countries population in a real short time.
We are not talking about stripping resources here
We are not talking about stripping animals here
We are not talking about stripping the atmosphere
We are talking about stripping a country of a huge chunk of it's people (people being traded as a commodity)Human traficing on a grand scale
Where is the "Sim" in that?
What really bugs me is the penalty the ceo company has to pay the strip country to move a corp out. The host country invites you in, takes more than half your profit. (Sometimes over 100% of your profit in a down commodity market) Then one day the country owner is bored and sells half it's people.
So you can't stay with only an 11% workforce. You have to move and pay a movement penalty. ($5 billion minimum) WHAT AN INSULT! |
| Petra Arkanian (Little Upsilon) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 01:00 am
You can always wait till the country gets de-registered and then move for free. |
| Maestro2000 (White Giant) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 01:16 am
Thats a great idea, move for free.
I have a company that went from a pre-strip valuation of $400 billion to $0.00 billion
My company going from $40 billion in cash to $1 billion in cash
...not to mention the debt that racks up.
Still want to wait for the free move? |
| Petra Arkanian (Little Upsilon) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 01:31 am
Yes, because I don't think it's that big of a deal.
You can have 750 corps in your CEO. Some die. Just replace them. And if your CEO isn't making enough money to cover the debt from the occasional closed corps, then you should probably work on your CEO - same for the moving penalty.
If you're upset about the moving penalty then that's fine, but don't attack stripping countries. It's a great way to make coins and profit off of inactives.
What does it simulate? Stripping countries is our version of annexing the Sudetenland, or invading Poland... or Manchuria if you prefer. It's not just adding a country, it's absorbing a country. |
| Serpent (Fearless Blue) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 03:45 am
That is also an important reason to be somewhat particular as to where you locate your c |
| Inanna (Golden Rainbow) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 04:08 am
See Maestro, if you lived on LU, i would allow you to move into my main country, and there would be no stripping. Come to LU |
| Plato (Little Upsilon) | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 04:47 pm
Unfortunately, Wendy, occasionally your countries get taken and the new owners are not as friendly as your are. ;^) |
| Scarlet (White Giant) | Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - 09:24 am
Consider this.
If you are stripping a country, then you are taking everything valuable that can be taken.
If people are treated as a valuable commodity, this is called slavery.
If you have slave countries, then slavery must exist in SC.
If slavery exists in SC, then it is entirely possible to pillage people as a valuable commodity.
So if you strip a slave country, it is entirely possible to take people as slaves. |
| CraftyCockney | Thursday, December 24, 2009 - 01:36 pm
/me removes 'slave' cylinder from his cars braking system...
"Aint no stopping me now, I'm on the move..."
'Slave' does not necessarily mean black person in chains.
Crafty |
| Serpent (White Giant) | Friday, December 25, 2009 - 06:36 am
If I was treated as a valuable commodity, I wouldn't mind being a slave. |
| Tranquility (Fearless Blue) | Friday, December 25, 2009 - 07:09 am
Slaves aren't treated as valuable commodities though. They are but aren't treated as such.
Not in SimCountry either, they get nuked >_< |
