I'll sell the nukes, but where does that put me? Some of the same presidents complaining about me having nukes, have nuclear power themselves. So since I am a new player, I am not allowed that luxury. Do I have to become a board member in order to have them? These posts and rules are pretty good from the cheap seats with a lot of people and money. Just spock, are you aware you are the only in the top ten of helping people for disasters? I don't have a problem with the outcome, I just have a problem with people making uninformed decisions and then putting out posts about the travesty that it would be to give a new country money. NO ONE sent me site mail asking why, they just jumped to a conclusion since I have 5 nuclear missiles. For the record, this is how my first month and a half has gone for me. The first week was the meltdown with the cash market. It took support three days to get my population back. It went from 12 million people to 500,000 people. Every corp went into the negative and had to be bailed out. Next my neighbor had an earthquake that affected me, but it didn't take much to recover. Then I got hit by the major earthquake. I sold everything but the nukes and lost 5 trillion dollars. I don't know where I would be if I wasn't still getting cash bonuses. I would love to try and take over another country, but at this rate I may not get the chance. My defense is at a 20 and my offense is less than 2. I can understand that I would be a pretty big threat, but since EVERYONE else has the information hidden I really can not tell where I stand. My goals are not to take over other people , but to build a small empire using computer countries. (not much different than a lot of other people in this game) I was not asking for money because I was power hungry, just had some bad luck. When my gold coins are gone, my country will be available, and there will be as much money and people in the country so all you experienced players can come in and pillage it to make you countries even stronger. (And no one can deny that, that procedure is not happening)