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02/02/2023 - Phishing, Two Factor Authentication, and the Academy Awards

Hey there everyone! 

Over the past few days the game has had a number of confirmed phishing attempts. Please be watchful of what you click, these attempts are typically perpetrated using false links that look similar to Politics & War links. Please also be sure that any time you are inputting your login details you are using the official app or the https://politicsandwar.com/login/.

As a general reminder as well, please be sure to use use different passwords for all of your accounts online. That way if you are logging into some other site (e.g. an alliance forum, a bank, or some other game related website) where they may be able to see what your password is, they cannot use that to gain access to your in-game account or a personal account such as your bank. Also, game staff and moderators will never ask for your password. We don't know what your password for the game is, can't check, and would never need to know what it is for any reason.

 

Two Factor Authentication

In other news, in light of these phishing incidents, we have decided to deploy two factor authentication to the main server early instead of waiting for the larger upcoming update. You can set up two factor authentication at the link below (we strongly recommend doing so!):
https://politicsandwar.com/account/#2fa 
 

Academy Awards

On a lighter note, voting for the Politics & War Academy Awards is finally here! Check out the various categories below and cast your ballot. Voting closes Friday, February 3 at 11:59 PM UTC (tomorrow just before day change)

Winners will be announced at the awards show in the Politics & War Discord server on Sunday, February 5 at 1:30 AM UTC (1.5 hours after day change tomorrow). Be sure to show up and cheer for the winners! The relevant Discord event can be found here (which will also conveniently show the event in your local time):
https://discord.gg/Pjg998tc?event=1069877723700412527

Player Awards
https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/34185-2022-academy-awards-final-voting-player-category/
Community Awards
https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/34186-2022-academy-awards-final-voting-community-category/
Alliance Awards
https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/34184-2022-academy-awards-final-voting-alliance-category/

 

Have a great day everyone! :)

Posted by Village 02/02/2023 03:46 pm      

02/01/2023 - Donation Limit Reset

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 20 Credits for at least $400,000,000 directly in-game each month.

As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 20 Credits per month on in-game bonuses like 1 Credit for $20,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for a set amount of Resources, 1 Credit for 100 Infrastructure, 3 Credits to reset your New City timer, and 1 Credit to reset your National Project timer. You can spend an unlimited number of Credits per month on cosmetic bonuses, like VIP, Player Ads, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.

Click here to redeem Credits for $20,000,000 each

Click here to redeem Credits for 5,000 of any resource

Click here to redeem Credits for 100 Infrastructure each

Click here to redeem Credits for VIP status

Click here to redeem Credits for a Player Advertisement

Click here to redeem Credits for a Leader or Nation Name Change

Click here to redeem Credits to change your nation location

Click here to redeem Credits to reset your new City timer

Click here to redeem Credits to change your new National Project timer

Click here to buy Credits or start a 20 Credit per month subscription (comes with free VIP and an extra $10m!)

Posted by Alex 02/01/2023 12:00 am      

01/25/2023 - Now Available in (Almost) All Languages

Hello everyone!

This has been on my to-do list for a long time. I'm happy to announce that Politics and War is now offered in (almost) all languages. I didn't have each page translated (we don't have the budget for that, and it would be really hard to maintain as the game gets updated) but we are using Google's neural translation network, which is supposed to be nearly as good as a human translator. Per the service, "For example statistical translation quality for Spanish to English ranked at 6 out of 10, with 10 being a perfect translation. Human translators generally rank at 8.5 and new neural machine translations hit 8.3."

Of course, it's not going to be perfect - but the goal is to make the game more accessible to more players around the world.

If you have a language set in your browser that is not English, the game will give you a popup to ask you if you want to change languages. Otherwise, if you want to change languages there is an option in the page footer. For app users, you can go to the Account page and you will find new options for selecting a language there.

Not everything will be translated; for example all user entered content should remain untranslated (e.g. nation names, leader names, alliance names, in-game messages, nation and alliance descriptions, etc.)

I expect there will be some issues and some debugging necessary; if you run into any issues please report them on the forum in the Tech Support section or open a ticket in our Discord server in the #support channel.

Posted by Alex 01/25/2023 11:35 pm      

01/01/2023 - Donation Limit Reset

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 20 Credits for at least $400,000,000 directly in-game each month.

As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 20 Credits per month on in-game bonuses like 1 Credit for $20,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for a set amount of Resources, 1 Credit for 100 Infrastructure, 3 Credits to reset your New City timer, and 1 Credit to reset your National Project timer. You can spend an unlimited number of Credits per month on cosmetic bonuses, like VIP, Player Ads, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.

Click here to redeem Credits for $20,000,000 each

Click here to redeem Credits for 5,000 of any resource

Click here to redeem Credits for 100 Infrastructure each

Click here to redeem Credits for VIP status

Click here to redeem Credits for a Player Advertisement

Click here to redeem Credits for a Leader or Nation Name Change

Click here to redeem Credits to change your nation location

Click here to redeem Credits to reset your new City timer

Click here to redeem Credits to change your new National Project timer

Click here to buy Credits or start a 20 Credit per month subscription (comes with free VIP and an extra $10m!)

Posted by Alex 01/01/2023 12:00 am      

12/30/2022 - Resource Production Center Update

The Resource Production Center National Project (a project designed for new players to generate additional raw resources) will now stop functioning in a nation after 5 days of inactivity. It will reactivate automatically once the player logs back in; the project is not destroyed.

The reason we are implementing this change is that since this project has been added, the amount of raw resources in the game has increased considerably. This change will reduce the production of raw resources so as not to flood the market, and shouldn't really impact any active players.

Posted by Alex 12/30/2022 05:59 pm