Rules (Radioactive Tide II Map Game)

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 * 1) BE PLAUSIBLE! But remember, plausibility does not have to impede fun.
 * 2) One day in real life is one year in Radioactive Tide.
 * 3) Keep in mind the effects of conquest, realistically portray assimilation.
 * 4) Please make it painfully obvious what moves you are doing.
 * 5) You should do an action every year.
 * 6) If no actions for ten years (unless reason given, e.g. holiday) then the nation is open for takeover.
 * 7) If no actions for 30 years (no possible reason you could miss a month really but surprise me) then the nation becomes a grey nation.
 * 8) A new map is made every five years, and complaints can be made on the talk page!
 * 9) Each player should be specific about expansion or post maps onto the map makers talk page or the map game talk page.
 * 10) There will be various algorithms, and players will have to abide by them.
 * 11) Your economy will need to be tended to.
 * 12) Internal politics ARE important.
 * 13) Technology can be player developed or randomly re-discovered (done by mods), there will be a list of technology discovered and undiscovered.
 * 14) Kunarian will always reserves the right to annoyingly stop you from developing Nukes, Space Flight and Alien Space Batteries aka if he feels that you have not RPed it to the point were such technologies are likely to come about then he can stop you from developing them.
 * 15) Read the lore!
 * 16) This game will stop in year 715.

Starting a Nation
You may wish to start a nation. If so then it will start off small, 150px maximum and they have to all be touching in a central mass, they can also be smaller. You must also come up with an explanation of its appearance. Providing a map of the place you want would be good too.

You can also RP new nations starting too (within plausibility), around your lands or if you have the resources overseas, this will require your nation to help set them up of course. These nations could be used to resist your opponents or give you an ally.

Mods can also create neutral nations.

Remember this is to increase the development of the game and make it more interesting.

Turns
To work out how many turns you can have simply check your nation against this: It is best if you just play out your turn without worrying about what is going on behind the scenes, you'll actually get better results this way most likely.
 * Nation (standard for all) : 1 turn
 * Nation with high ratings (15 and above for all 4 stats) : +0.5 turn
 * Current World Military Superpower : +0.5 turn
 * Current World Trade Centre : +0.5 turn
 * Current World Influence Base : +0.5 turn
 * Current World Technological Developer : +0.5 turn

Military
Defined here are ways to spend turns that provide militaristic benefit to your nation.

Positive Actions Demobilise your nation, losing the temporary effects of Mobilisation. Give aid to another nation, boosting their military power by 1. Upgrade your nations military, adding 2 military power to your nations armed forces. Upgrade your nations military, adding 1 military power to your nations armed forces.
 * Demobilise : 0.5 turn
 * Give Military Aid : 0.5 turn
 * Large Military Upgrade : 1 turn
 * Small Military Upgrade : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions ''Kill an important military leader in another nation, causing them to lose 3 military power and should it be unsuccessful causes you to lose 2 political stability and to lose 1 infiltration against them. It costs you 1 point of infiltration level against them.'' ''Declare war on one nation. This acts as a Major Offensive. Each turn you are in a war you lose 1 political stability and 1 economic production.'' - This is an ongoing action until you arrange a peace treaty Mobilise your nation, losing 1 point of economic production each turn you are mobilised however you gain bonuses should you fight a war. - This is an ongoing action until you demobilise ''Major offensives and defensives are only directly relative to a war situation. However they take away 2 military power and gain you ground in the war.'' ''Minor offensives and defensives are only directly relative to a war situation. However they take away 1 military power and gain you ground in the war.''
 * Attempt Assassination : 1 turn
 * Declaration of War : 1 turn
 * Mobilisation : 0.5 turn
 * Major Military Action : 1 turn
 * Minor Military Action : 0.5 turn

Economy
Defined here are ways to spend turns that provide economic benefit to your nation.

Positive Actions Give aid to another nation, boosting their economic production by 1. ''Agree to a free trade agreement with another nation boosting both your economic productions by 2 temporarily. May not be present at the same time as a trade agreement and vice versa.'' - This is an ongoing action until the free trade agreement is broken ''Agree to a trade agreement with another nation boosting both your economic productions by 1 temporarily. May not be present at the same time as a free trade agreement and vice versa.'' - This is an ongoing action until the trade agreement is broken Stop embargoing a nation, ending the temporary effects for both of you. Stop undercutting a nation, ending the temporary effects for both of you. Upgrade your nations economy, adding 2 economic production to your nations production base. Upgrade your nations economy, adding 1 economic production to your nations production base.
 * Give Economic Aid : 0.5 turn
 * Free Trade Agreement : 1 turn
 * Trade Agreement : 0.5 turn
 * End Embargo : 1 turn
 * End Undercutting : 0.5 turn
 * Large Economic Upgrade : 1 turn
 * Small Economic Upgrade : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions ''Kill an important industry owner in another nation and clean out his back-up funds, causing them to lose 3 economic production should it be successful or should it be unsuccessful causes you to lose 2 political stability and to lose 1 infiltration against them. It costs you 1 point of infiltration level against them.'' ''Refuse to trade with another nation, causing them and you to break any agreements. This will cause them to lose 2 economic production temporarily and will lose you 2 economic production temporarily.'' - This is an ongoing action until you stop embargoing them ''Undercut your opponents supplies by buying them before they do or by other insidious methods. This will cause them to lose 1 economic production and will lose you 1 economic production.'' - This is an ongoing action until you stop undercutting them
 * Attempt Assassination : 1 turn
 * Embargo Nation : 1 turn
 * Undercut Nation : 0.5 turn

Politics
Defined here are ways to spend turns that provide political benefit to your nation.

Positive Actions ''Stop another nation from snooping around yours by killing one of their agents. This reduces their infiltration level on you by 1.'' Increase the political stability of your nation, adding 2 to your nations political stability. Increase the political stability of your nation, adding 1 to your nations political stability.
 * Counter Espionage : 0.5 turn
 * Large Stability Increase : 1 turn
 * Small Stability Increase : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions

''Kill an important figure in another nation, causing them to lose 3 political stability should it be successful or should it be unsuccessful causes you to lose 2 political stability and to lose 1 infiltration against them. It costs you 1 point of infiltration level against them.'' ''Start a Coup d'Etat in another nation, causing an elite to try to overthrow the current government. This requires them to have government stability at least 0 or below. It can cause them to either become your vassal if fully successful or enter civil war if semi successful. It costs you 4 points of your infiltration level against them.'' ''Start a revolution in another nation, causing the people to rise against their government. This requires them to have low government stability. It causes them to enter civil war if successful to begin with and costs you 2 points of your infiltration level against them.'' ''Send an agent to another nation to begin spying, social or sabotage missions. This adds 1 to your infiltration level against them.'' Start a propaganda campaign against another nation, reducing their political stability by 1.
 * Attempt Assassination : 1 turn
 * Attempt Coup d'Etat : 1 turn
 * Attempt Revolution : 1 turn
 * Infiltration : 0.5 turn
 * Propaganda : 0.5 turn

Technology
Defined here are ways to spend turns that provide technological benefit to your nation.

Positive Actions ''Make a technological advancement uplifting your nation. Should it be successful then it would add 1 research advancement to your nations scientific development and allow the technology to be discovered which will give you a ten turn boost of plus 1 per turn in one area of your stats depending on the discovery. Should it fail then it would have no effect. This costs 3 technological advancement.'' Increase your nations research, adding 2 research advancement to your nations scientific development. Increase your nations research, adding 1 research advancement to your nations scientific development.
 * Make Technological Discovery : 1 turn
 * Large Technological Investment : 1 turn
 * Small Technological Investment : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions ''Kill an important scientist and steal his research in another nation, causing them to lose 3 scientific advancement should it be successful or should it be unsuccessful causes you to lose 2 political stability and to lose 1 infiltration against them. It costs you 1 point of infiltration level against them.'' Use spies and hidden agents to sabotage experiments or deliberately mislead another nations research, causing them to lose 2 research advancement. Use spies and hidden agents to slow down another nations research, causing them to lose 1 research advancement.
 * Attempt Assassination : 1 turn
 * Sabotage Development : 1 turn
 * Disrupt Development : 0.5 turn

Colonisation
Whether its establishing a colony to build your empire or to spite a rival, colonisation will enter the game for you at some point whether its by or against you.

Establishing Colonies
Defined here are ways to spend turns that allow you to establish colonies.

Positive Actions

''Land Settlers in a foreign land and establish a colony for your nation. Starting colonies are 60 px in size. Requires that you have prepared a colonisation effort last turn.'' ''Ready a colonial expedition and plan where to send them. This costs 1 economic production.''
 * Establish Colony : 1 turn
 * Prepare Colonisation Effort : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions ''Colonise a land that another nation has already settled, reducing their political stability by 1. Starting colonies are 30 px in size. Requires that you have prepared a colonisation effort last turn and causes you to lose 1 military power.'' ''Use spies and hidden agents to cause another nations colony to join with you, should it be successful it would cause the colony to join your nation and for the nation to lose 1 political stability and 1 economic production, should it be unsuccessful it would cause you to lose 2 political stability. This costs 1 infiltration level and requires that the colony was created within the last 15 years.''
 * Aggressively Colonise : 1 turn
 * Overthrow Colonial Sovereignty : 1 turn

Expanding Colonies
Defined here are ways to spend turns that allow you to expand colonies.

Positive Actions

''Send a large amount of resources and soldiers allowing you to expand your colony. The colony selected is expanded at double the standard amount. This costs 1 economic production.'' ''Send a small amount of resources and soldiers allowing you to expand your colony. The colony selected is expanded by the standard amount.''
 * Send Large Expansion Support : 1 turn
 * Send Small Expansion Support : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions

''Expand a colony into another nation, stealing their land. The colony selected is expanded at half the standard amount. This costs 1 military power. requires that nation does not have a single high statistic.''
 * Expand Into Another Nation : 1 turn

Expanding Homeland
Defined here are ways to spend turns that allow you to expand your homeland.

Positive Actions ''Send a large amount of settlers to your borders allowing you to expand your homeland. This expansion must happen on your homelands borders and is double the standard amount of expansion. This costs 1 economic production.'' ''Send a small amount of settlers to your borders allowing you to expand your homeland. This expansion must happen on your homelands borders and is only the standard amount of expansion.''
 * Large Incorporation of Bordering Lands : 1 turn
 * Small Incorporation of Bordering Lands : 0.5 turn

Negative Actions ''Expand your homeland into tribes and un-advanced peoples, killing and enslaving as you go. This expansion must happen on your homelands borders and is double the standard amount of expansion. This costs 1 military power.''
 * Annex Bordering Lands : 1 turn

Expansion Rates
Defined here is the rate at which you can expand your colonies and do homeland expansion. Expansion rate is the amount of pixels you currently have divided by 250, with the minimum amount you can expand (so that we don't end up with 0.3 pixel expansions) being 10px or 500 km and the maximum expansion rate being 600px or 30000 km.

Examples:


 * 300 pixel nation - 300/250 = 1.2 therefore 10px (500 km) expansions (due to minimum rule) can be made


 * 2500 pixel nation - 2500/250=10 therefore 10px (500 km) expansions can be made


 * 6500 pixel nation - 6500/250=26 therefore 26px (1300 km) expansions can be made


 * 14000 pixel nation - 14000/250=56 therefore 56px (2800 km) expansion can be made


 * 150000 pixel nation - 150000/250 = 600 therefore 600px (30000 km) expansion can be made


 * 320000 pixel nation - 320000/250 = 1280 therefore 600px (30000 km) expansion (due to maximum rule) can be made

Influence
You may wish to establish a few Vassals to ensure your position in the world or maybe you want to unite all of your peoples great but divided nations, whatever influence you wish to exert you will find how to here.

Establishing Vassals
Defined here are ways to spend turns that allow you to establish vassals.

Positive Actions ''Send assistance to people who have not yet developed your level of technology or unity and assist them in creating a nation and then Vassalise them, the nation can be anything up to 150px large. This costs 1 point from all statistics.'' ''Negotiate with a nations government about it becoming subservient to your government, should it be sucessful then they would become a Vassal to your nation and you would gain 2 political stability. Should it fail you would lose 1 political stability. This costs 1 political stability.'' ''Release some land from your nation as a new separate Vassal. This costs 1 point from all statistics.''
 * Uplift Nation : 1 turn
 * Negotiate Subservience : 1 turn
 * Release Vassal : 1 turn

Negative Actions ''Force another nations government to become subservient to your government, should it be successful then they would become a Vassal to your nation and you would gain 1 political stability and 1 military power. Should it fail then you would lose 1 political stability and have a chance that they would declare war on you. this costs 2 political stability.''
 * Force Vassalisation : 1 turn

Technologies
When a nation discovers a technology it may exclusively use it for 10 years, after that it may spread around the world in a plausible manner from it's point of discovery, after 50 years all nations may use it even if it is slightly implausible that they would. A technology can be a theory or a more practical device that a nation can use to it's advantage in whatever it wishes, each technology when discovered will start out as a crude version of itself and will mature fully after 100 years to resemble it's modern counterpart, any that start off as experiments must take at least 10 years of experimentation before being used, any that start off as scavenged must take at least 25 years of scavenging before own versions can be made.

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 * KEEP IT PLAUSIBLE WITHIN THE UNIVERSE
 * Make sure you fit it in within the lore