But even so, at 5 days per turn, it could be a month before anything interesting happens. I guess we'll just have to see how it works out.

Is there a way to end a war without someone a country falling? Do we get to name our countries or are they just named after us?

In the mean time I suggest that the next person to join places themselves somewhere near Turkey or Greece, otherwise Darvince is going to gain a lot of land with ease while everyone else scrambles to get theirs. He's the only one with nobody nearby. It's also just the most open area right now

Well, if everyone finish their turns before the five days are up, the game will continue.

EDIT: Forgot a sea circle, use this map.

Can you add any province you like in a turn, or do they have to be touching your country or something? I am also curious about naming like Quirvy.

They have to be touching your country, and you can name your nations but it wouldn't be "official" really.

My nation is now named Kazykhbeckistanada

My nation is now named Narnia.

Mine is known as the french empire

Okay, this game will start on July 1, 00:00, Interguild time.

Behold the great Empire of Lutfiskia!

I will name mine the Democratic Republic of Gregoria, or just Gregoria for short.

Northeastern Microzenith, all up in this European Theatre.

Can you make some sort of player-color key in the header for reference?

He story begins. Take your turn before 2013, July 6, 00:00 Interguild time. If everyone finishes their turns before then, the
game will advance.

atomic7732, Darvince, jebby, jellsprout, Jorster, mudkipz, Quirvy, rocket guy, soccerboy, Teo, and Yaya you may take your turns.
You have 6 (5 production+1 resource) resources to spend.

Are you to imply that nobody else can join from now on? From what you said about rebelling, I was under the impression people could join at any time?

Quirvy: People can still join, but it is no longer the "sign-up" round and they will be at a severe disadvantage.

Jellsprout: Reykjavik is a capital, it costs 25 resources instead of 5.

Uhmmm... Can I still join? I'm the brownish smudge somewhere in the right. Can I still play this round? My country is the Sand Chrysanthemum or Santhemum. My program was Photoscape since our Paint is lost.

Here is a paint program.

http://getpaint.net/ Also, post the picture to http://min.us/ instead of facebook, facebook resizes everything and everyone else can see it.

So far every map update in this round has been bad.

Jorster, your map didn't include Jellsprout's nation.
Jellsprout, you tried to gain a capital when you didn't have enough resources to (I think perhaps Darvince should have marked the capitals with some special color or something on the main map so people wouldn't make this mistake)
And buboy's is resized, jpeged, and he improperly filled out his territory (perhaps because he didn't have an appropriate program?)

Fixed map: (I also changed my shade of purple a little bit)


I still haven't decided what my next move will be. I'm kind of waiting for Yaya to make his move since we're close neighbors, but I feel like his move actually won't affect where I go anyways. Buboy choosing that location makes both of our situations interesting. I thought Yaya was going to claim a lot of land easy as the game progressed, but now with Buboy there he can't claim nearly as much territory.

Oh, now that I have a bit of time, can I still join?

Also, is Sicily ok?

Yes, you can join anywhere that isn't filledinred on the capitals map.

Yeah, Buboy really went and screwed things up for me and somewhat for you, Quirvy. I'm not sure if he picked that spot intentionally to complicate things or it was just dumb luck, but there'll be a good chance of him bordering one of us by the next turn. If I were him, I would've gone for the Sweden or Greece area.

I don't think buboy really screwed me over here simply because he screwed you over which makes my situation look better. Before you had all of that land up north and could immediately make a move to try and box me out from as much of that as possible. Now you have to compete with him for that land while I do whatever I do. I don't anticipate I'll gain anymore land because of buboy's move, but it still hinders you which is good for me since I might have been your only neighbor.

Anyways, you went exactly where I thought you'd go, and I'm going where I wanted to go from the start of this round.

NOTE: As I said in previous post, I felt like perhaps the capitals should have been marked on the playing map, so I decided to gray them in that way we don't have people accidentally trying to purchase capitals. If Darvince doesn't like it he can change the map back, but I thought it should be done since it isn't always entirely obvious what is a capital and what isn't (see: Denmark's capital, Tiny territories in the bottom-left corner of the map)





Speaking of which, how much does it cost to take another player's capital?