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Where did you get that impression from?
I have been to Europe, China and S. America and I found that ppl there have an exaggerated conception of Israel as a large country with a strong economy and science. This is of course a generalization but at least that was the impression I got when talking to locals about Israel.

And more on topic, I agree that NIS is weak compared to dollar which makes dominions (and most other games) more expensive to Israelis.

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Hm, here in Hungary anti-semitism is very great sadly, probably my country is the most anti-semitic in whole Europe, and Im not kidding. This is well known, but also my personal experience is this...people are talking really bad things about jews, but I never heard that someone would mention that the people in Israel are living in tents and riding on camels.

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Where I come from, exchange rates are fixed at 15G per ruby or 10G per topaz.

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I apreciate these insights into the economy of Terra II. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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The local banks wouldn't happen to accept gold for the gems, would they? I've been running low on topaz, and it seems I can only find emeralds around here.

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That's sad to hear, I don't want to go so very much off topic but it is amazing to realize how much hate can ppl harbor to one another for prejudice, fear and the such, even "enlightened" nations are capable of such primordial hate.

That's the last I'll say on this, and I've only said that because I think it's important in the hopes that the mistakes of the past will never repeat.

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I probably live in one of the most ignorant countries as far as other nations (USA) and I dont remember hearing that either. I dont think most people associate Israel with the desert countries. And we dont think if it as a poor nation either. Sorry to hear about the game prices.

Now russia on the other hand..
I remember we got a years worth of great C programming done for our MUD game because we sent a guy in Russia one of our old 56k modems.

Re: Pelit-magazine
 

I believe that Israelis ride Merkavas and live in Cisjordania http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/eek.gif
Am I right ?

Re: Pelit-magazine
 

PDF, I'm sure everyone would appreciate it if you kept your political opinions to yourself, I really don't want to turn this thread into a flamewar.

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Ok, but I couldn't refrain from this one, after the camel/tent reference http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/redface.gif