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Why are they in purple? What they did?

Since my acre/nw is currently in the low range compare to countries in my ranking range. Military increase my expense and i do think my military is consider high in my range. So adding addition militrary for the short term might be unnecessary.
But no matter how high your military in your ranking range you are, to someone much higher in rank you are still a good target due to your acre/nw been low (the 1st indicator you look when searching for target - fat land with low n/w).

New to the game. So do correct me if i am wrong .... Thank you!

Assuming you are a farmer. You need to spend your turns to produce bushels in order to have income.
So you spend your turns teching even tho you are not a techer? or you spend your turns on cashing?

What is a good way to increase N/W without gaining more land and military??

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What is the best ratio per acre of land to turret or tank for defense?

Example; 1000 arce of land : 100,000 turret for defense?

starting late might be a pain in the early stage but once u start growing, it might not be all that bad. Look at all other games, people do start late but they will be others who will start later than you. It will increase the playing field.
There can be rules that prevent bigger countries from attacking you. Example; no countries bigger than 2.5x or 3x are able to attack you.
As for you been killed, i guess there is nothing you can do. Its a game of been killed or get kills. Just make sure there are rules to prevent bigger countries from attacking way smaller countries.
Just maybe replace one of the current portal with a longer period portal. It wont create extra cost/burden on the owner/host. Maybe other than be prepare for a bigger hosting because of the increasing play field.

Why not setup a 1 year or no time limit playing period portal instead of all those 2 3 months ones.

Reason: 1 year/no time limit playing period portal can ensure everyone stay on to play for maybe at least a year instead of 2 3 months. And the 1 year portal will have more players playing it. Imagine all the players currently playing in all the different portal all joining the 1 year portal. That will be a massive field compare to the now size of each portal.
And i believe new players will be more interested in a year/no time limit portal instead of a 2/3 months portal. All your hard work and time spend gone within 2/3 months. New players will usually stop after that.

ooh ... Thank you

How to check if you are under protection? How long is the period for protection? 3 days?

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