NationStates Jolt Archive

I am wondering aobut one thing...
Since there is a lot of ppls who have started a long time ago and have big nations, all mighty and powerful; is there a way for the new nations to beat the ones that are better..in nation growth or whatever.

No, it takes time to build up your nation.

As said, anyone new here cant expect to get up to January 2003 or before standard in a *snap* of the fingers.

I know that.
But How am I supposed to become better than someone who has like 10 mill population and I have 7mill when both are naitons will grow by a million every day. So s/he will always have more population that me.
Do you know what I mean?

Eventually, how you respond to certain issues will affect how much your population grows, so in time you may be able to overtake the other nation.

I know that.
But How am I supposed to become better than someone who has like 10 mill population and I have 7mill when both are naitons will grow by a million every day. So s/he will always have more population that me.
Do you know what I mean?
You can't. I don't think the issues would affect your population so much that you could overtake them within a year.

You will always be smaller than some people. Live with it.

I've overtaken some of my firends that are a few days older than me. In fact, I'm now about 7 or 8 million larger than his main nation. It has something to do with how you respond to the issues. If you want to be bigger than nations that are more than a few days older than you, forget it, the disparity is already too large. However, I have found that you can beat larger nations in wars. That merely depends on how good of an RPer you are.

What I meant was nations that are months ahead of you. If they aren't within 3 weeks of you, forget about it.

Actually, any nation can get on the #1 spot for the most liberal nations ranking. You just need to get an anarchy based on the initial questions.

okyeah just as a not i didn't mean within a year's time...but eventully. Oh and also how do wars work?

First, population growth is approximatley linear with a bit of randomness to it (you gain 5-8 million a day after your first couple weeks). Not at all related to issue answers. You might overtake someone a few days older then you, but other then that you probably won't get a higher population then older nations. Also, they can always make a comeback.

Second, war is entirely RP, ask about it on NS after reading the stickies to find out how. Not a tech issue.

Third, you can't "beat" anybody becuase there is no set way to "win" ... just have fun while you play ;)

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War is totally RP??? So who decides the outcome or the winner of the war..?