I have MTW V1.00 and I am downloading the patch now... thanks for the heads up about the patch. That could be an issue because the sea regions never light up for me.... and I had heard of people making 2 to 7k on one countries trade yet all I was using was very high taxes and it made it so I couldn't hardly upgrade much less win the game. Seeing all these other countries build up so huge I thought wow is the AI side that favored?... Thanks for the help and I will apply the patch and see if that helps and if I have any more questions I'll post. Thanks