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 What is Cybernations? Cyber Nations is a free-to-play browser based geo-political simulator launched in 2006 that allows you to create a country and 'govern' it as you deem fit. You can interact with other players in very simple, awkwardly designed interfaces to trade or even to engage in war. There is a robust, player driven political metagame that fuels the various global conflicts between alliances of nations and blocs of alliances. In recent months the creator and administrator of Cyber Nations has ended his years long neglect of the game he made and as a result the game has seen a plethora of long overdue additions and changes that make it easier to play and less of a time sink for those of us who have stuck it out since the beginning. So if you have previously played Cyber Nations and quit because of certain features, or lack thereof, chances are that problem has been corrected in some way and I'd suggest you give this game another go. The value you get out of it is largely dependent on what you want to do and how you choose to spend your time playing it. Whether you choose to pursue the political aspect of this game or simply to loot and pillage the countries of other players to kill time, the results are up to you. The goon alliance in Cyber Nations is very accommodating to various play styles, so if you're looking for a way to kill 15 minutes a day while at work or whether you really enjoy playing political spreadsheet simulators we will make this game tolerable for you. Our economic programs will ensure all new goon players will have a significant leg up over other players while guaranteeing you a steady income and expansion. Our short and simple academy will help you understand the finer points of spreadsheet simulating so that you may efficiently steal the resources of that pubbie jerk that had the nerve to ask you to trade with him.  Well okay, I guess I'll play. What do I do? Use one of these referral links below and follow the simple instructions: Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz HajjPodge methos Boywunda Ajaxify USMC503 Niko Registering and creating your nation is very easy. If you can't figure it out then ask in the thread. For those of you smart people who can, remember these things when signing up:
 this guy would later orchestrate a plot to infiltrate goons and destroy us from the inside and I bet you know how that turned out I am now the supreme warlord HeinousButtCrimes of Otaku Prime. What next? Congratulations! The next thing you need to do is apply to GOONS ingame and on our forums at www.cngoons.com in order to enter into our brief training seminar and receive free money. All that's required is a link to your Something Awful forum account and the ability to fill out a short form with information we need. Once you're masked as a trainee you will be directed to the Goon Camp, and your descent into the rabbit hole will begin.   *PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR UMAR IBN ABD AL-AZIZ FOR BLACK TEAM SENATE ONCE YOUR NATION IS 15 DAYS OLD* For the returning bittervets: what has changed since, say 2007? While most of the game remains largely the same, there have been changes and additions made that make this game infinitely easier to play as I mentioned earlier. For everybody's sake I will go ahead and list the major ones I can think of off the top of my head and provide a brief explanation for each:
 All Growed Up Now! I hope you found this OP useful in determining whether or not you want to play this game, and that it helped you get involved easier if you have. Veteran players of this game will be around in this thread to answer any questions you have and to provide help should you need it. While this game can seem overwhelming at first, I assure you that it is in fact very simple and easy to play. I will be keeping this thread updated and will gladly answer any questions you may have. In addition to applying for membership on our forums, please take the time to stop by our IRC channel on irc.synirc.net in the channel #cybergoons. Do not hesitate to ask for financial help! We have been growing into a fairly top-heavy alliance of larger nations over the last two years so there is no shortage of aid to be given to the newbies that ask for it.  Thread wouldn't be complete without a mention to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n01jXJ_VRxo Dionysus eats dog food to re-join GOONS, winds up quitting Cybernations in shame afterwards anyway Baron of Bad News fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jul 27, 2014 |
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Jun 12, 2014 02:25
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Jun 12, 2014 02:27
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I have had the pleasure of overseeing this Goonsquad for many years now. While the game has undoubtedly changed, we still making a large impact, and getting much entertainment from the denizens of the world. There is still a lot of fun to be had, for the very, very low cost of zero dollars and up to 10 minutes a month. Join up now! Stand up and be counted!
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Jun 12, 2014 02:33
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 Be the bully! Join now! 
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Jun 12, 2014 04:15
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I've played this game for far longer than I'd ever like to admit and now we need all goons to join and do what we do best and destroy this game and make pubbies cry. And ripe for tears this game is. We get all kinds of people getting mad at us and flipping out in the most hilarious fashion possible. Also: if you suck at video games, this is the perfect game to play because everyone sucks. Literally.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:36
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How the gently caress is this game still alive Is RUKUNU still here or did he finally delete from inactivity Seriously why the gently caress are you all still playing this
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Jun 12, 2014 05:39
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Control Volume posted:How the gently caress is this game still alive A grown rear end man ate dog food. The mercy board continues to pay dividends.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:40
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Sardonik posted:Dude. otoh it was a goon and therefore a cautionary tale against playing this game Also unless you turned the entire forum into literally hitler then you have nothing on certain other games
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Jun 12, 2014 05:44
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Control Volume posted:otoh it was a goon and therefore a cautionary tale against playing this game Also yeah RUKUNU did eventually deleted via inactivity.
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Jun 12, 2014 05:54
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Control Volume posted:otoh it was a goon and therefore a cautionary tale against playing this game Nah he was a pubbie that we let in I think. But some other idiot pubbie ate cat food with out us asking to because he is probably disabled. Regardless this game is still a gold mine if tears since the only people left are the ones who really really care. Join now, harvest tears.
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Jun 12, 2014 06:23
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My tear bottle is still plentiful, join now and become swole and successful like me!
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Jun 12, 2014 07:44
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Errant Gin Monks posted:Nah he was a pubbie that we let in I think. But some other idiot pubbie ate cat food with out us asking to because he is probably disabled. Nah Dio is a real goon. This guy in fact: http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&username=Dionysus
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Jun 12, 2014 10:12
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Anything to avoid working at work, I guess. Edit: Applications and stuff lodged. Mode 7 fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jun 12, 2014 |
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Jun 12, 2014 14:17
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This game is simple and the more Goons that join us, the more we can piss people off. By simple, I mean this: Peace Time If not collection day
Pay Bills Log out
Pay bills Change some stuff to maximize collections such as
Threat Level Defcon level Sell some improvements Buy some improvements Sell some military Change stuff back
Buy some improvements Buy some military There are other activities you may do during war time, like attach nations twice a day and re-by military for the ones you lost during attacks. The are other activities you may do when growing and buying infrastructure, such as having the correct government and improvements to minimize costs, but we have guides for that. And there's foreign aid. Smaller nations need money to purchase various things to grow, like improvements and infrastructure. To get this money, GOONS has a program that has larger nations send the smaller nations money. Then the smaller nations uses a portion of that money to buy Technology. Being a small nation technology doesn't matter yet, so they send larger nations Technology in return for the money they received. This process is repeated every 10 days. It's not overly complicated to run your nation. The true fun lies in the community and what we do to make others cry about how we're ruining their nation. Boywunda fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Jun 13, 2014 |
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Jun 12, 2014 16:09
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Hey, you forgot about updating your foreign aid there, Boywunda.  Foreign aid is the literal life blood of the alliance. Other alliances make you beg and beg and go without until someone decides to throw a pittance of money at you for your hard bought tech. Not goons. We've got a very robust program which we use to automagically assign people with tech trading partners, which eliminates the current most annoying peacetime activity in the game. Other than that, CN is incredibly chill. Log in, pay bills, shoot the poo poo in IRC or on the forum, log out. During wartime, shoot number mans with your number mans and watch sperglords cry when those numbers go down. A literal 2-10 minutes a day of effort can pay some of the best returns on tears.
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Jun 12, 2014 23:24
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Yes. New goons come sell me tech. My tech level is high enough I could obliterate a new nations nation strength all the way to zero even after months of building. If only I could attack them  I miss raiding, but you guys can do it!!!!P.S. Raiding is attacking new, lovely nations and making them cry because you are wrecking their poo poo and there ain't poo poo they can do about it.
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Jun 13, 2014 09:36
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neogeo0823 posted:Hey, you forgot about updating your foreign aid there, Boywunda. Yes, Foreign aid is a major aspect, that I neglected to mention. Tech raiding is also something I neglected to mention. Essentially, I just wanted to highlight what a typical day looks like. I've edited my post to include aid.
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Jun 13, 2014 16:24
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Come join us so you can talk about how stupid everyone is for playing this game while playing this game.
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Jun 13, 2014 16:49
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I'm free of this game. FREE.
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Jun 13, 2014 19:54
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Dilber posted:I'm free of this game. FREE.
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Jun 13, 2014 19:57
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Sardonik posted:You will never be free, it will haunt you, always. Pretty much this. You can never forget you were once an important person in cybernations .
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Jun 13, 2014 21:53
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I played a few years ago, last thing I did before I quit was single handedly wipe out the top 3 of the facepunch group and was forced to pay reparations (which I never did), thinkin' I may come back and play.
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Jun 13, 2014 22:42
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Dilber posted:I'm free of this game. FREE. Join GOONS.
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Jun 13, 2014 22:49
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So I got fired from being FA :x THANKS COMRADEMILTON. if you're even a goon.
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Jun 15, 2014 07:02
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What is the current number of active players?
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Jun 15, 2014 23:59
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USMC503 posted:THANKS COMRADEMILTON. i live to serve. 
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Jun 17, 2014 21:31
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JamezBfod posted:What is the current number of active players? I'm kind of surprised this is still going, but I guess there's probably a good deal of overlap between people who have stuck it out this long and people who are willing to spend cash on their nations. God knows how much money the admin has made off of a decade of lovely coding and sperg-enabling.
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Jun 17, 2014 23:30
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as to how many active users, i've recently heard an estimate of about 10,000.
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Jun 18, 2014 00:56
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JamezBfod posted:What is the current number of active players? Caveat: unlike the good old days when men were men, berzerkers were useful, and goons were low-NS scrubs, admin no longer deletes nations for inactivity. And no one (to my knowledge) has figured out yet if that number 10,071 now counts the number of extant nations or the number of active ones or only the ones who've subscribed to the CN facebook page or whatever. So its either about 10,000 or less than that (or more than that?).
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Jun 18, 2014 03:13
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One of the few things I remember from this game was how it's global radiation level needed to be capped before the world was turned into a permanent neon sign post in space. Is it still capped or has it somehow managed to go down?
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Jun 18, 2014 03:31
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Oh god you guys still play CyberNations? There's still people that play CyberNations? Can I get a tl;dr of the last 3 years?
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Jun 18, 2014 19:21
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KingShibby posted:Oh god you guys still play CyberNations? There's still people that play CyberNations? How tl;dr are we talking here? Some wars were fought, most, if not all of them won on our side. I wasn't really paying attention. The game had a few neat features added to it, like being able to change your resources, an xp system, some new improvements and wonders. Some guy ate dog food for us for some reason, which was funny. We made good strides toward automating our nation evaluation and tech pairing abilities. You don't have to sign into roll calls anymore, and as long as you're not an inactive gently caress, you get paired with goons who are similarly not inactive fucks so you can easily trade tech for money. So tl;dr of the tl;dr: poo poo got smoother, stuff happened, pubbies still produce tears, come chill with us.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:40
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So literally nothing has changed. I've come and gone since the days of The Initiative. Wars and alliances come-and-go in cycles, drama and lulz never change. I have about 10-15min a day free, so why not. Someone approve my application tia
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Jun 18, 2014 19:45
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I played this right when it launched and managed to score Most Oppressive on that weekly high score list. That's my story, thanks for reading.
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Jun 18, 2014 19:49
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Who of the old AAs still exist in this game? NPO, NpO, GATO, LUE, Legion, TPA, ODN, GPA, obviously GOONS, a dozen others I'm forgetting? It's been one heck of a long time. I remember the Unjust War being the last thing I saw, I think?
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Jun 19, 2014 23:37
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Been a long time since I've played this, I'm fairly broke already. Should I just always keep building (apart from tech early on) regardless? Good fun reading the CN wiki - a lot of the wars seem to just end with mass account deletions out of rage.
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Jun 19, 2014 23:43
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PTizzle posted:Been a long time since I've played this, I'm fairly broke already. Should I just always keep building (apart from tech early on) regardless? We have a program set up to maximize growth between the three different stages of life in this game. You start out as a chubby little goon kid. As a chub, your goal is to raid similarly small nations for their tech, buy your own tech, and sell said tech to our larger nations. Once you've accumulated enough money, you can transition into the training phase for being a larger nation. As a trans nation, you'll be tasked with raiding medium weight nations to gain tech and money until you're big enough to pupate into a Homegroan goon. Once you're that size, you'll be the heavy hitter in the alliance, tasked with dogpiling bigger nations and knocking them down into the waiting jaws of the smaller ranks, as well as buying up all the tech you can get your grubby paws on so that you can be even more powerful. There is one tier beyond that, but it's pretty small and thus unnamed. We don't tend to fight in that tier, and the only advantages are being able to buy a few specific wonders and having enough improvement slots available to buy all of those.
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Jun 20, 2014 01:04
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The Shortest Path posted:Who of the old AAs still exist in this game? NPO, NpO, GATO, See above for the eliminated factions. PTizzle posted:Been a long time since I've played this, I'm fairly broke already. Should I just always keep building (apart from tech early on) regardless? It get's worse. We dug out a goldmine twice.
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Jun 20, 2014 06:57
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You fuckers are still around?
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JT Jag posted:You fuckers are still around? Yep, though I may be banned soon! So there's that.
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