well, the buy and strip strat has been around a long time, although thier is s difference here
in general, a country only sells based on the stripping value. not what kind of investment goes into it. if you take a C3, add pop, weapons, ammo, generic assets. take care in the type of corps you build. create garrisons, and upgrade them... then you sell the country, you wont really get a fraction of its worth. you'll get less than the stripping value. and john henry isn't the only culprit.
the difference with john henry, is that it was/is his main strat in sc. i mean, many players buy and strip countries. with john henry, is seemed to be his main thing. but the bad part, is he'd not only brag about the money he made. but would have, at best, no respect for the builder of the country. and would brag about burning other players countries to the ground...
which is also his mistake, in all this. he might or migh
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David Walker (Little Upsilon)
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Let's keep the boycotts coming, we haven't even reached level 1 yet.
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Crafty (Little Upsilon)
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Its akin to melting down nicely crafted jewelry for the price of the base gold.
I dont know many use that strat orbiter. Stripping inactive countries I'm for because it keeps assets amongst the players. Its totally different to wreck a nice county (like Ironhorse was) just to gain a few hundred GC. Why not run it? I'm sure it would have made that $$$ in a short period.
Has anyone ever seen a successful boycott? I've known Wendy get lots of them and it has never effected her much.
I would add that all my countries except my mains and 3 on LU were previous player countries. DarkeKatts, BCs, Gandolfs, Lagunas, Wilds, Just Spocks. And there isnt a bad one among them.
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Orbiter (Little Upsilon)
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your preaching to the choir, crafty
you'd think that after all the care and effort to create something such as a heavy war slave... it'd sell based on what a player could do with it, rather than what a player could strip out of it. but my experience in selling countries... i never get the value out of them, that i put into them. and over the years, every one i've seen talk about buying countries... wont buy a high priced country to use. i mean their are rare occasions.
and as i'm thinking about it. its been a while, so i may not remember correctly. but i don't think you can boycott a new player, or rather a new account. i've never been boycotted, and usually take steps to protect myself from it. but as far as i can gather. a boycott against such a large country should be devastating.