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Politics : Sioux Nation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (64383)	4/16/2006 9:24:27 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361346

Small time ramification, bro. Try a best case scenario of 4 million barrels of oil a day coming off the market. Go from there. And don't forget to factor in their ability to close the Straits of Hormuz. Ouch.

To: SiouxPal who wrote (64383)	4/16/2006 9:43:50 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361346

We're at a point where if this was my video game, we reach a critical point that effects the rest of the game. Fortunately, I can save it at this point and always come back to a point a few turns before that decision. (Or even all the way back to the start in Nov, 2000, or 280BCE, and take advantage of everything I've learned B4)) So what happens? Everything is going along smoothly, and then everything falls apart. Treasury goes from + to -, a few countries without a lot of wealth attack me, and I can't break even fighting them, several cities start to revolt and my only recourse is to either cut their taxes or give them more games,both of which make me go broker, and then the senate kills off a few of my leaders and fines me 100K, in a game where $ is everything and,at best, I make 5 K/turn. OK, made a bad mistake back there, so try it again. Don't buy those war elephants. Now these guys have got to be able to game Iran the same way. Sheesh, they could hire game writers to put it all together for them. They can't put the world on save and try it a few times in real life.