We can't be friends with both America and china because of Taiwan. Right now we're with America, the entire intelligence service is wrapped up together with five eyes and military cooperation through NATO.
Cosying up to China means giving all that up, so what's the point?
The other option is to not expect to see people who live a plane flight away every year.
You marry people based on how ugly they are and the size of their dowry. That's solid the guild gameplay
Not claiming it's true because I literally heard of this five minutes ago, but go fill your boots. The source is his sister.
It's sad the closest recent other entry is like CK3 a totally different genre really
I miss the patrician series
Even if you you don't want to plough 1000 hours into it I still think you'd get a lot of enjoyment out of exploring the game for a normal 20 hours or so, it'd definitely hold attention longer than that even for the most impatient player. It just has so much character and pull to move up the tech tree and make cool layouts.
Did you try it this time last year?
When everyone migrated there were a lot of "helpful" newbies enforcing rules that simply don't exist. There are too many people like that still but not so many you can't mute them all.
The enforcement isn't great in London either honestly
You don't need to quit, cutting down is fine. Even just trying a replacement (bean chilli instead of beef) one time is great too. If you like it you can replace more often, if not try something else.
It's already banned in London, but it would be great if the other cities joined in and made it more widely unacceptable
And even if he didn't want the fight, a ceasefire now would destroy his coalition, being down the government , remove him from power, and probably end up with him personally in prison from the outstanding corruption allegations
Google does put pressure on delivery though, it sends notifications like oh you haven't posted today, that's not good and might mean you show up lower on searches.
I don't think it's enough myself but they are extremely controlling and I can see someone could want to argue it out.