Okay...
Nations who lost a bunch of troops (Russia, China and Japan) did do so because when I implemented the income formula from Fry it put you all waaaay in the red. Like, China and Russia had over -1000 income. Now, I could correct that by simply jacking up their base incomes a ton, but I felt it would be a poor fix because then nations like Russia and China would have humongous base incomes compared to nations like the UK or France; meaning all Russia and China would have to do is disband, say, half their armies, and they would be sitting on humongous piles of cash overnight.
Maybe that is okay? If so, I can make it so. It is up to you all.
The income numbers before were not based on anything more than "Ehhh... that looks right." So there was no correlation between why the UK had 15 industry and 500 income and Prussia had 17 industry and 250 income. Now, using Frymonmon's income formula, it is all standardized across the board.
Again, I'm happy to make more changes. I just felt the best way to go about it would be to lower troop numbers (ie. costs) to provide everyone a positive balance as then you can invest, build up your income, and build more troops.
Maybe my base numbers are wrong, but Fry said he wouldn't be able to provide his numbers to me until at least Monday.
Also, I made changes now as opposed to later, because I know you all have planned some stuff out, but at least nothing has technically happened yet. I though it would be less painful.