Now, Cyber Nations is a completely different story... it's like Nation States 2 but free and, I guess, with less options. It has the following features:
- war can be waged with other nations (only if that respective nation is not a "peaceful" nation and only if it has more than 1 soldiers); NS doesn't do this.
- you can even use nuclear weapons.
- you can buy land and infrastructure (which increases the population); in NS your population grows systematically which each passing day.
- you actually have some direct control over the tax rate; NS does this through issues, so it's a lot more innacurate.
- takes into account the happiness of your citizens (happier citizens make more money for your nation); NS doesn't do this.
- you can see and directly control your own "Nation Strength" value; NS rates your Civil Rights, Political Freedom, and Economic Strength seperately and through issues, which means that, again, you have a very weak control over those 3 values.
Now, the only advantages that NS has over CN are:
- NS is around 6 years old with thousands of users playing, while CN was made at the beginning of January 2006 and it only has around 250 nations.
- NS has those issues which are very narrow minded (imo) and which eventually repeat themselves.
- NS has a more detailed description of how your nation was affected by your issues but these numbers could loosely be controlled by the user and most of the issues were... just bad... random, extremist, sometimes hard to understand.
- NS had a small flag for each nation, CN doesn't.
- and finally, in NS you could "move in" to a region that allowed either nations that focus on peace, prosperity, and diversity, or others that focus on military, or others that focus on research etc. The regions had many features and it was a very cool idea... imo, it was the only reason why you would play NS, but you don't need NS to join a debate on politics.
Oooh, I can make a poll!..... meh, why not. Note: this topic is meant to be on any nation simulation game.
Edit: Just in case some of you are wondering: Nation States 2 was supposed to come out at the end of the year 2004...
... and it's settled that it will cost something like 5-10 dollars per month and you will be able to get a free trial.Meh, this isn't a nation simulator but it has to do with politics so why not: Senate Seeker
What if it was my nation's fault? 