[quote=@Cyclone]
<Snipped quote by Willy Vereb>

Covering half to three fourths of the world in NPC nations would put us in a worse position. NPCs in general are bad because they severely limit actual interaction between players and make the rate of posting sizzle out and dry up.
[/quote]Well, who said that?
You just need to make distinction between your mainland and colonies.
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Also even if half of the world would be in the hands of NPCs that doesn't matter because unless Voltus creates a major NPC these would be only tiny nations not worth much of our attention.
Seriously, we are nowhere at the level in the early 20th century where everyone mattered.
WW1 and WW2 were called World Wars yet technically it involved Europe the most.