Why Investing in Food Production Sucks:

https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/33857-investing-in-land-is-overrated-an-essay/

The Financial Limit of City Building:

https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/33873-growing-past-city-20-is-only-a-military-investment-an-essay/ 

Don't mind my in-game location, I'm simply extracting the natural resources of a British colony (again).

Alliance history:

I created my nation and proceeded to not log back in for 200 days. Then, I raided for a bit without being part of any alliance for a good month. 

I ended up giving up and applied to Space Invaders the day it was formed. After going into vacation mode for 2 weeks without notifying Sri, Sri didn't even accept me.

Given this, I joined TKR 4 days before the beginning of Guns and Roses. In Guns and Roses I did pretty well with 825.53 million net damage at city 9 (top #1 in the city 1-12 tier), but most importantly, I learnt how to more or less properly raid.

After I realised how much money one could make raiding, I joined back Space Invaders the day Guns and Roses ended because I knew they had a bot that would show me the best raiding targets. I ended up staying in Space Invaders for a long while, became head of IA and met quite a few great people like Canyon, Not sad and Whispo. 

Then, I went inactive for 100 days. When I came back I !@#$ around for a couple of weeks following the news of the implosion of Space Invaders. I believe I joined Apophis. When Canyon came back from inactivity, we tried to form an alliance by merging with the Fear, but all went downhill when Kim, then head of FA, couped Canyon.

After that, I joined Sri in his newly formed alliance the minute it was created to become head of Econ.

I then realised that Sri's alliance wasn't going to go anywhere, so after having a chat with Panky we decided to create our own alliance for Spanish speakers. After just 2 weeks we realised that there weren't that many Spanish speakers (lol).

Consequently, I joined FSO to help Wreckpro fight Camelot in the Castle Camelot war. I went inactive in the middle of the war for personal reasons, giving all my savings to FSO in exchange for my less-than-timely departure.

I came back from inactivity and provided some major milcom help in Serene Repubblica Fiorentina during the Bifrost Blitz. The alliance had a phenomenal war performance in the Midgard side of the war. I also  a vhadery good individual performance with the top 11 in net damage at city 20.

At the end of the war and with the new merger between SRF and Wei, I became in charge of Serene Dojo.

I'm top 100 wars won and very close to top 100 wars lost