Originally
posted by
Devestation:
It's true that most members don't have too many jets- the grabbing lists encourage low defense countries (I was running with zero defense until just a week or two ago).
The grabbing lists do not encourage low defense countries. The cost of replacing military losses for countries with moderate defense are dwarfed by the costs of building the land and purchasing techs for that land.
If you have to do a 2.5m jet PS, then you use 100k barrels of oil, and lose 200k jets. This will cost about $30m for the jets, and about $20m for the oil.
If you grab someone who is NOT the same strategy as you, and you're at 40k acres and you take 4k acres and 2k buildings, then you have to spend $48.6m to tear down the 2k buildings and $729m to build up the 6k acres. If your net gain in land was 2k acres, and you have 20 points per acre of technology, then you'll spend about $120m on techs for those 2k acres you gained.
If you're going to complain about spending $50m on jets and oil, when you're spending about $900m on buildings and tech for that land, then you clearly don't understand what you're doing.
But I know PDM doesn't do any math, and doesn't run countries with good economies, so given your incompetence, its reasonable that you would assume that low defense is needed. But you should be aware that your incompetence has led you to an incorrect assumption.