<t> Well I guess I stuck my neck out a little bit and deserved to take some flak. Thanks guys for your replies and advice. It's a relief to see that the game can be played well without resorting to the uber-micromanagement I have gotten into. Pilot training was the most difficult concept to grasp ...

<t> EDIT: I changed the headline, because the original ("Pilot training kills the game") was a little over aggressive and not really called for. The annoyed comments below were written in response to the original headline. The rest of this post is unchanged.<br/>
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<t> This is extremely interesting! But how do you mean money is not affected by waste? I have a tax income of about 1500, 770 of which is lost to waste. Or do you mean money earned through trade is not affected by waste? Well, I guess I'll just try it out. <br/>
Thanks all for supplying these ...

<t> Finland was christianized by Sweden in the 1200's and had been a part of Sweden ever since. Virtually all towns in Finland were founded by swedish kings, the finns had representation in the swedish parliament from the 1500's and the second university in Sweden was founded in Abo (Turkku) in 1640 ...

...and then along comes a neverending flood of ever-to-be-damned cossacks, who proceed to liberate these 100K russian prisoners... in central France... man, do I hate cossacks...

<t> Maybe the problem isn't waste itself, but the lack of documentation in the manual about waste. I can accept if half my economy is lost to waste, if only I'm told what will cause waste and what can (or can't) be done about it. As it is now, I have no idea whether waste is calculated simply as a ...