History VideoGame / CyberNations

* KickTheDog: Pacifica had a habit of enforcing Perma-ZI on those who had 'offended' its leadership. The postwar terms dictated by said leadership after a GW were also known to be on a Versailles-level of draconic humiliation. The pillaging of the TrueNeutral GPA, depending on who you talk to, was either this, a MoralEventHorizon, or an [[AcceptableTargets acceptable target getting what was long coming to them]].

** The [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya SOS Brigade]], to the point that its leader is called the Brigade Chief and Ultra Director.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: One of the ODN's major members lightheartedly [[CloudCuckoolander roleplays as a penguin.]]
** The alliance New Polar Order uses penguins among its many other polar themes, going so far as to name a branch of its military the "Penguin Battalion".
** The now-defunct National Alliance of Arctic Countries had a major Penguin theme.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Though most partisans would view their less eloquent opponents as such, there are some examples which are recognized even by their own allies, such as ShinRa.

* TheGreatPoliticsMessup: Not literally, but the explosion of factions and old alliances after the fall of Pacifica makes for a drastically different political and ideological landscape.

* ForumPeckingOrder: On both alliance and world levels. One theme for an alliance involved invoking names of the admin staff as religious figures. Alliances will try to make these match their theme if possible.

** BiggerBad: For a long while The Initiative, an alliance of some of the largest and most powerful alliances including the New Polar Order, was this. The power bloc was so powerful that it would ''demolish'' anything in its path and intimidated nearly every other group in the game into submission. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether The group began to crack]] after the [[WorldWarWhatever Second Great War]] with the departure of the Viridian Entente and CIS. They eventually collapsed but not before leaving a permanent mark in VideoGame/CyberNations history.

[[http://www.cybernations.net/default.asp CyberNations]] [[note]][[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with cybering.]][[/note]] is a browser-based nation simulation game. [[Website/NationStates Sounds familiar, right?]] Well, it's very different and [[SeriousBusiness more challenging]] than Website/NationStates: instead of selecting options from daily-generated issues, the player is forced to actually manage their nation, including bills, infrastructure, tax collection and rates, declaring war, etc. It borrows some traits from [=NationStates=], like alliances[[note]](groups of players inhabiting and developing a common area, like [=NationStates=]' regions)[[/note]] and events[[note]](national issues whose solutions will effect the country, like [=NationStates=]' issues)[[/note]]. There are also [[FantasticRacism colors for nations]], in which same-colored nations can trade with each other with an added benefit, unlike different-colored-nation trading.

VideoGame/CyberNations was created on Jan. 6, 2006 by Kevin Marks. Initially, it only had two alliances, but players from [=NationStates=] discovered the game, and the number of players boomed.

Unlike the roleplaying style of [=NationStates=], events in the VideoGame/CyberNations world are more real and SeriousBusiness. Nations can declare war on each other for actual reasons, trade technology for money if they both agree on it, and more. And with alliances, this can get even more wide-scale and complicated: Alliances can have treaties with each other, help each other, declare collective war on each other, and more. Wars can involve several alliances, and sometimes, it can even involve almost [[WorldWarIII every alliance in the game]], occasionally accompanied by [[NukeEm nukes]], raising radiation that can [[NiceJobBreakingItHero affect everyone in the game.]]

So as you see, VideoGame/CyberNations is serious business. It can potentially burn ''way'' more hours of your time than [=NationStates=], though.

See also: VideoGame/PoliticsAndWar, a SpiritualSuccessor that has a bit more in-depth gameplay than this game

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!Tropes in VideoGame/CyberNations:

* YouHaveFailedMe / YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pacifica had a habit of violently destroying and/or humiliating alliances that once served its interests. The Unjust War appears to have been at least partly a mass example of this.

[[http://www.cybernations.net/default.asp CyberNations]] [[note]][[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with cybering.]][[/note]] is a browser-based nation simulation game. [[Website/NationStates Sounds familiar, right?]] Well, it's very different and [[SeriousBusiness more challenging]] than Website/NationStates: instead of selecting options from daily-generated issues, the player is forced to actually manage their nation, including bills, infrastructure, tax collection and rates, declaring war, etc. It borrows some traits from [=NationStates=], like alliances[[note]](groups of players inhabiting and developing a common area, like [=NationStates=]' regions)[[/note]] and events[[note]](national issues whose solutions will effect the country, like [=NationStates=]' issues)[[/note]]. There are also [[FantasticRacism colors for nations]], in which same-colored nations can trade with each other with an added benefit, unlike different-colored-nation trading.

** TheKingdom: For all the things Pacifica and it's adherents did, it united CN, and treated it's soldier nations fairly well.

Tropes in VideoGame/CyberNations:

[[http://www.cybernations.net/default.asp CyberNations]] [[note]][[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with cybering.]][[/note]] is a browser-based nation simulation game. [[VideoGame/NationStates Sounds familiar, right?]] Well, it's very different and [[SeriousBusiness more challenging]] than NationStates: instead of selecting options from daily-generated issues, the player is forced to actually manage their nation, including bills, infrastructure, tax collection and rates, declaring war, etc. It borrows some traits from NationStates, like alliances[[note]](groups of players inhabiting and developing a common area, like NationStates' regions)[[/note]] and events[[note]](national issues whose solutions will effect the country, like NationStates' issues)[[/note]]. There are also [[FantasticRacism colors for nations]], in which same-colored nations can trade with each other with an added benefit, unlike different-colored-nation trading.

VideoGame/CyberNations was created on Jan. 6, 2006 by Kevin Marks. Initially, it only had two alliances, but players from NationStates discovered the game, and the number of players boomed.

Unlike the roleplaying style of NationStates, events in the VideoGame/CyberNations world are more real and SeriousBusiness. Nations can declare war on each other for actual reasons, trade technology for money if they both agree on it, and more. And with alliances, this can get even more wide-scale and complicated: Alliances can have treaties with each other, help each other, declare collective war on each other, and more. Wars can involve several alliances, and sometimes, it can even involve almost [[WorldWarIII every alliance in the game]], occasionally accompanied by [[NukeEm nukes]], raising radiation that can [[NiceJobBreakingItHero affect everyone in the game.]]

So as you see, VideoGame/CyberNations is serious business. It can potentially burn ''way'' more hours of your time than NationStates, though.

* CrossOver: A number of CN alliances emigrated from NationStates. There's also the alliance based on major Internet communities (Website/SomethingAwful -> GOONS, [[Website/GameFAQs LUE]] and [=LUElinks=] -> [=LUEnited=] Nations, and Website/{{Fark}}, to name a few examples).

* CrossOver: A number of CN alliances emigrated from NationStates. There's also the alliance based on major Internet communities (Website/SomethingAwful -> GOONS, [[GameFAQs LUE]] and [=LUElinks=] -> [=LUEnited=] Nations, and Website/{{Fark}}, to name a few examples).

* ShoutOut: Several alliances are based off of varying fandoms, like the New [[Franchise/StarWars Sith]] Order, [[GameFAQs LUE]], etc.

* CrossOver: A number of CN alliances emigrated from NationStates. There's also the alliance based on major Internet communities (Website/SomethingAwful -> GOONS, [[GameFAQs LUE]] and [=LUElinks=] -> [=LUEnited=] Nations, and {{Fark}}, to name a few examples).

[[http://www.cybernations.net/default.asp CyberNations]] [[note]][[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with cybering.]][[/note]] is a browser-based nation simulation game. [[NationStates Sounds familiar]], right? Well, it's very different and [[SeriousBusiness more challenging]] than NationStates: instead of selecting options from daily-generated issues, the player is forced to actually manage their nation, including bills, infrastructure, tax collection and rates, declaring war, etc. It borrows some traits from NationStates, like alliances[[note]](groups of players inhabiting and developing a common area, like NationStates' regions)[[/note]] and events[[note]](national issues whose solutions will effect the country, like NationStates' issues)[[/note]]. There are also [[FantasticRacism colors for nations]], in which same-colored nations can trade with each other with an added benefit, unlike different-colored-nation trading.

Unlike the roleplaying style of NationStates, events in the VideoGame/CyberNations world are more real and SeriousBusiness. Nations can declare war on each other for actual reasons, trade technology for money if they both agree on it, and more. And with alliances, this can get even more wide-scale and complicated: Alliances can have treaties with each other, help each other, declare collective war on each other, and more. Wars can involve several alliances, and sometimes, it can even involve almost [[WorldWarIII every alliance in the game]], occasionally accompanied by [[NukeEm nukes]], raising radiation that can [[NiceJobBreakingItHero affect everyone in the game]].

* ArmyOfTheAges: A lesser example then most cases, but since tanks and aircraft are inexplicably modeled after real-world equipment, it's possible for scenarios like M1 Abrams being supported by [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII P51 Mustangs]] against a defending column of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI Renault FTs]]. [[RockBeatsLaser And losing]]. Many nations ignore this detail and attempt to use tank designs of their own, though these range from comparable to contemporary designs to [[WalkingTank mechs]] with [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]].

** There's also the option to purchase battleships for your navy. There's almost no incentive to use them over modern cruisers once they become available, and they have a higher upkeep cost then the latter, [[RuleOfCool but they're battleships]].
* BiggerIsBetter: The justification used on why the Tupolev Tu-160 is superior to the B-2 Spirit, as well as why the M1 Abrams is further up the tech-line then the Challenger II, despite the fact that the Challenger II came out over a decade later. Averted with battleships, which are somewhat inferior then cruisers in the direct combat role. Both are weaker then the destroyer, though "destroyer" in this context could mean a stealth vessel that is of comparable size to the other two and decked with missiles, like the Zumwalt-class.
* BoringButPractical: The "stagger" tactic, in which multiple nations declare war on a nation at a delay of between 1-7 days (7 days being the length a single war lasts) per nation. Since a nation cannot retreat into Peace Mode if it is at war, a stagger can keep a nation continuously under attack, unable to recover by itself if the damage is bad enough.
** Cruise missiles are dirt cheap, always hit, pose no threat to your own resources, and have approximately zero strategy involved in their use. They don't do as much damage as other attack types, but any player not firing off as many as possible while at war is either broke or stupid.

** Case in point: GOD: Global Order of Darkness. Yeah.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: [[NukeEm Nukes]] and cruise missiles tend to be spammed during a war.
* MedalOfDishonor: The National War Memorial is only available to nations that have lost 50,000 soldiers in war. At least it's one of the cheaper wonders to build.

* WeHaveReserves: One popular strategy for larger alliances, especially in times where conflict is inevitable, is to sign a large number of mutual defense treaties with smaller alliances, for the sole purpose of using these alliances as meatshields in the upcoming war.

** Also a favoured war tactic: have as many people as you can attack and take advantage of 'update'--you're allowed a certain number of attacks per calendar day (reckoned as US Central time). So, if you attack at 23:50, and then again at 0:05, when your enemy's likely asleep..
*** Karma was pretty well balanced for a VideoGame/CyberNations war. Most are way worse.

** BiggerBad: For a long while The Initiative, an alliance of some of the largest and most powerful alliances including the New Polar Order, was this. The power bloc was so powerful that it would ''demolish'' anything in its path and intimidated nearly every other group in the game into submission. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether The group began to crack]] after the Second Great War with the departure of the Viridian Entente and CIS. They eventually collapsed but not before leaving a permanent mark in VideoGame/CyberNations history.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The game's history is littered with alliances who exemplify this trope. You could probably make a drinking game out of how many times the New Pacific Order invokes it and fails spectacularly.

* ChurchMilitant: Kind-of example with the CCC, a Christian based alliance, who will often speak their piece at the beginning of a major war with a prayer, or some other neutral comment. Exception: Karma War. Apparently, even the CCC had Pacifica as a BerserkButton at that time.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: What both Pacifica era NPO and the Orange Defense Network have been accused of(usually by each other).
** A fairly young alliance, The New Sith Order, encourages this as their form of government change. The Grand Global Alliance, an older one, just has this as their de facto way of changing administration. [[ButtMonkey Not that it does them any good...]]
** More recently, the New Polar Order has been accused of such after being caught between two sides in a war they started, and fighting for them both. That war's name? BiPolar.

* CurbstompBattle: Happened one way or another in ALL the Great Wars, the Karma War finally turning things around so that the New Pacific Order and it's allies were almost knocked out of Sanctioned Status.
* DisproportionateRetribution: NPO was rather infamous for wiping out alliances for even the smallest of slights against them.
* TheDragon: The New Polar Order -originally established of old Pacifica members - to the New Pacific Order. [[HeelFaceTurn Changed considerably after the Moldavi Rebellion]].

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: One of the ODN's major members lightheartedly roleplays as a penguin.

** Played straight after the New Pacific Order's defeat in the Karma War, when in another HeelFaceTurn, the New Polar Order once again found itself (near) universally disliked. Hint: BiPolar War

* ArmyOfTheAges: A lesser example then most cases, but since tanks and aircraft are inexplicably modeled after real-world equipment, it's possible for scenarios like M1 Abrams being supported by [[WorldWarII P51 Mustangs]] against a defending column of [[WorldWarI Renault FTs]]. [[RockBeatsLaser And losing]]. Many nations ignore this detail and attempt to use tank designs of their own, though these range from comparable to contemporary designs to [[WalkingTank mechs]] with [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]].

* PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower: Most wars will end with the losers completely devastated, either through military or through ridiculously high reparations for the war.

* CrossOver: A number of CN alliances emigrated from NationStates. There's also the alliance based on major Internet communities (SomethingAwful -> GOONS, [[GameFAQs LUE]] and [=LUElinks=] -> [=LUEnited=] Nations, and {{Fark}}, to name a few examples).

** Goon Order of Oppression Negligence and Sadism ([[SomethingAwful GOONS]])

* CardCarryingVillain: Members of alliances in whatever group is strongest have a tendency to slip into this. More specific examples would be Pacificans making jokes about [[BlackComedy eating babies]] and [[SomethingAwful GOONS']] obsession with "pubbie tears."

* YanksWithTanks: The whole of FAN's ideology appears to be based on this. That fact that many of its members are avid gun owners in real life probably helps.

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The New Pacific Order is blatantly this despite the denials of its leaders. It's a alliance most remembered for frequently implementing the game's version of genocide. And its forums are patrolled by SecretPolice who use open threats and attacks upon people they suspect as spies or traitors. This was Lampshaded by the NPO itself when it began cosplaying as the [[StarWars Galactic Empire]] during its last war with GATO.

* ShoutOut: Several alliances are based off of varying fandoms, like the New [[StarWars Sith]] Order, [[GameFAQs LUE]], etc.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ivan Moldavi and Electron Sponge. Founders of TheEmpire and one being the current leader of the [[StarWars New Sith Order]]. For a couple of guys who caused one alliance that ruled over a game for ''years'', you'd hardly find someone in chats or on the boards who don't respect or admire them.

* InternetCounterattack: Many new members don't know about this, but there was once a time when [[ImageBoards /b/]] had an outpost on CN, known by the same name. Said outpost eventually decided to go out in an illegal blaze of glory by wrecking the site.

* ArmyOfTheAges: A lesser example then most cases, but since tanks and aircraft are inexplicably modeled after real-world equipment, it's possible for scenarios like M1 Abrams being supported by [[WorldWarII P51 Mustangs]] against a defending column of [[WorldWarI Renault FTs]]. [[RockBeatsLaser And losing]]. Many nations ignore this detail and pretend to use tank designs of their own, though sometimes these tanks themselves are less than par for the 21rst century.

* BiggerIsBetter: The justification used on why the Tupolev Tu-160 is superior to the B-2 Spirit, as well as why the M1 Abrams is further up the tech-line then the Challenger II, despite the fact that the Challenger II came out over a decade later. Averted with battleships, which are somewhat inferior then cruisers in the direct combat role. Both are weaker then the destroyer, though "destroyer" in this context could mean a stealth vessel that is of comparable size to the other two and decked with missiles, like the Zumwalt-class class.

** And the most popular name of the fictional world? [[TitanAE Planet Bob.]]
** The [[{{Mario}} Mushroom Kingdom.]]

CyberNations was created on Jan. 6, 2006 by Kevin Marks. Initially, it only had two alliances, but players from NationStates discovered the game, and the number of players boomed.

Unlike the roleplaying style of NationStates, events in the CyberNations world are more real and SeriousBusiness. Nations can declare war on each other for actual reasons, trade technology for money if they both agree on it, and more. And with alliances, this can get even more wide-scale and complicated: Alliances can have treaties with each other, help each other, declare collective war on each other, and more. Wars can involve several alliances, and sometimes, it can even involve almost [[WorldWarIII every alliance in the game]], occasionally accompanied by [[NukeEm nukes]], raising radiation that can [[NiceJobBreakingItHero affect everyone in the game]].

So as you see, {{Cybernations}} is serious business. It can potentially burn ''way'' more hours of your time than NationStates, though.

Tropes in CyberNations:

*** Karma was pretty well balanced for a CyberNations war. Most are way worse.

** BiggerBad: For a long while The Initiative, an alliance of some of the largest and most powerful alliances including the New Polar Order, was this. The power bloc was so powerful that it would ''demolish'' anything in its path and intimidated nearly every other group in the game into submission. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether The group began to crack]] after the Second Great War with the departure of the Viridian Entente and CIS. They eventually collapsed but not before leaving a permanent mark in CyberNations history.