Yearly Academy Awards

The awards for 2024 have been distributed. If you missed the results you can find them in this google doc. If your interested in the break down and vote counts you can find them in this handy spreadsheet. And you can submit feedback about the awards here.

 

March 2025 Test Tournament Results

I am now also able to announce the results from the latest tournament over on the P&W test server. Unfortunately, during standard review of the results it was determined that several players gained a competitive advantage through unfair trading practices and they have been disqualified. The results published below are from the remaining nations. The staff team has taken note of this incident and will be taking additional measures in future tournaments to preserve their competitive integrity.

The rewards for general participation should be distributed in the next day or so. Leaderboard prizes may take a couple days longer.

Top Alliance by Score and Treasures

Both alliance categories were won by the Test Server Alliance and you can watch out for their two flags coming soon to the default flag selection.

Top Players by Score

Top Players by Wars Won

Easter Event Reminder

The Easter Egg hunt will end on April 27 at 23:59 server time, please be sure to collect all your eggs before then. If your having issues finding them you can can consider consulting the community made cheat sheet on reddit.

Easter Eggs Return!

I am a vessel without lock, lid, or hinge, yet within my walls golden treasure is hid.

The Politics and War Easter egg hunt returns this year with 6 new golden eggs to find! Each of the new eggs are worth $800,000 and there is an achievement for finding all 6 of them worth $15,000,000.

Additionally for those that didn't complete it last year the original dozen have returned as well for $400,000 each and an achievement for $10,000,000. However if you already completed it last year you will not be able to collect them again.

Be quick though because the eggs will all disappear at the end of April 27th.

Happy Hunting!

P.S. If you plan on sharing egg locations in public please ensure use of spoiler tags.
P.S.S. One of the original white eggs did move from last year's location.

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 20 Credits for at least $1,000,000,000 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 $50,000,000 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 $50,000,000 each

Click here to redeem Credits for 7,500 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!)

Annual Awards Voting

The annual tradition has now reached the public voting phase!. For those that don't know every year the community hosts an academy awards style event where the best (and worst) players, alliances, and events that shaped the previous year are celebrated! The event has already passed through the nominations and shortlisting process and is now ready for the input of you the players now the for the first time without leaving the game at all. Simply click the banner link below to get started on making your voice heard. Also a special bonus everyone who votes on every award option will receive a special award and $10,000,000 game cash (Please allow up to a week after the voting ends for this to process.) Please note you can not change your votes once placed and there is a minimum requirement of 5 cites to to participate.

 

Rewards Show

There will be a special awards radio show on Saturday, March 29, 2025 21:00 EST to formally announce the winners. This show will be hosted by Lysander, Morf, and Ashwin. The show will occur on the official Discord server. You can click here to RSVP and also join the server.

I'd also like to thank the Awards Committee, Adrienne, Indger, Velyni Vas, Lysander, and Ronjoy for the all the work they've put into organizing this event for this year. And also extend that appreciation to Putmir and Limi on our dev team who make stuff like this possible. If you'd like to reach out to the Committee with any inquires or even a simple thank you you can do so at the P&W Academy Awards Discord

City Formula

TL;DR The cost of cities is now more expensive for the largest nations and cheaper for the smallest.

The game is now using a new formula to calculate the cost of cities. This new formula considers the average number of cities per nation in the top 20% of the game. Using this average the formula will dynamically make cities for those significantly ahead of the curve more expensive, and conversely the costs for new players significantly cheaper. You can check the current cost for you in the City Cost Calculator. The goal of this change is to condense the majority of the player base into a tighter range then currently and allow newer players to enter economic and military relevance in a reasonable period of time.

Additionally as part of this change the 3 projects that reduced city costs have been removed. Those who already owned these projects were refunded their purchase cost as a discount on future cities until the cost is recouped. This discount is spent first when buying cities and will rollover to further cities until expended. (There are other sources, mostly events, that also give these discounts and they are additive.)

Project Values

The refund value of the effected projects are listed below.

UP = $173,118,000
AUP = $346,236,000
MP = $519,354,000

These stack together so if you had all three you'll have received just over 1 billion in refunds. Plus any other discounts you might have already had.

Technical

The rest of this will be the technical details, Most people wont need to understand this.
The new city cost will be calculated by the polynomial.

   $new_city_money_cost = max(

       (100000 * (($cityToBuy - ($top20Average / 4)) ** 3))

+ (150000 * ($cityToBuy - ($top20Average / 4))) 

+ 75000,

       ($cityToBuy ** 2) * 100000

   );

The bottom max clause will almost never be used, it's more of an insurance policy for massive outliers.
The $top20Average will be calculated on the first of every month and is calculated as the mean average top 20% of all nations in alliances and also not in VM.
The value will be available in the API and is currently ???

Test Server Tournament

TL;DR Test tournament is happening now, testing military changes.

We are running a test server tournament to test out some proposed changes to the military system and a new UI layout. The test server is a completely separate game server, you are allowed to have nations on both the main server and test server. On the test server the game runs at 2x speed, you start with 5 cities and significantly increased resources. There are prizes for participating in the test server round.  You can review the changes in the Proposal thread on the forum by the Design Team. Or provide commentary in the feedback thread. Please report any bugs by opening a ticket on the official Discord. (Bug reporters may qualify for Bug Bounties on the main server.) Please remember that during tournaments, the game rules are fully enforced and violations will result in disqualification and banning from this round and all future tournaments.

End Date: The tournament will run until the standard DC of March 22nd.

Prizes

1. #1 alliance by score will be allowed to permanently add a flag of their choice to the default flag dropdown on the live server (provided the flag does not violate the game rules).

2. The alliance with the most treasures will be allowed to permanently add a flag of their choice to the default flag dropdown on the live server (provided the flag does not violate the game rules).

3. The top 10 players by score will receive an achievement and cash award in the live server.

4. The top 10 players with the most wars won will receive an achievement and cash award on the live server.

5. Any player that declares a war on the test server will receive an achievement on the live server for doing so (to earn this, you must use the same email for your test server account that you did for your main server account). 

Test Server Link