• We've released a big improvement to creating new trade offers. You can now press a button "Show Current Top Offers" which will pull the lowest 5 sell offers and highest 5 buy offers for the resource you have selected. This way, if you want to undercut price effectively you won't need to jump between pages. By pulling 5 trades, you'll also be able to recognize if the current cheapest offer is way, way, below everything else as well (same for buy offers.)
• Fixed a bug with the Average Trade Price displaying incorrectly
• Improved the "Change Leader/Nation Name" UI. You can now change both your leader and nation name at the same time (instead of one or the other) and it will check in real time to see if the name that you want is available.
• You can now search nations by Nation ID. You can enter in a nation ID and it will search for a strict match along with all other criteria, and you can also select to search specifically by Nation ID.

This is for users of the App Store app for Politics and War on iOS.

In App Purchases on the iOS App

When we updated the app to version 1.0.1 there was a bug that caused in-app purchases to not get processed automatically. While we were able to fix this bug and we have pushed version 1.0.2 to the App Store, there are still some purchases coming in that do not appear to have been handled correctly.

For privacy reasons, Apple doesn't give us a list of all the transactions, unfortunately. So if you made an in-app purchase for Credits and did not receive them, please send me (Alex) a message in the game, or you can reach me via email at [email protected]. Please include a copy of your Apple receipt when you do so.

I am so sorry for the inconvenience here and we will do whatever we need to to make it right.

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Facebook Login on the iOS App

On a related note, Apple now requires that we include “Sign in with Apple” in our app if we offer any 3rd party login service (i.e. Facebook login.) So while we work on implementing Sign in with Apple, we unfortunately have had to remove the Facebook register/login from the App Store app. You can still login to your account via your email address (which will be the same as your Facebook email.) If you are not sure what this email is, you can visit https://politicsandwar.com in your mobile browser where you will still be able to login with Facebook. On the Account page, you will be able to see the email address associated with your account. You can also change the email address tied to your Politics & War account there if you wish. If you do not know or can't remember your password, you can use the Forgot Password feature to reset it via your email address.

If you have any trouble with any of this, please feel free to reach out to me through in-game messages, email, or Discord. Thank you, and again sorry for the inconvenience.

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem up to 10 Credits for at least $200,000,000 directly in-game each month.

As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 10 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, and 4 Credits to reset your City/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

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Hi everyone,

A few updates to publish here:

• If you haven't seen it yet, our App Store app is live: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/politics-and-war/id1552461332
• Made some improvements to the Create Trade Offer page, click here to see video
• The City Template Export page has been updated to make it compatible with the App versions of the game. This may break any existing API applications. To resolve that issue, I have duplicated the old version of the page which is now available in the following URL format: https://politicsandwar.com/api/city_export.php?city_id={cityid}
  I noted this in an HTML comment on the city export page as well.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug causing emails to not display properly for some users using Windows 10 Mail or Outlook
• Fixed a bug with baseball away games not being tracked properly when you lose
• A new field called "vm_turns" which is the number of turns of Vacation Mode remaining has been added to the Nations .csv daily export

Our new Google Play Store app is available now: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.game.politicsandwar

It's a bit of an improvement over the old one. While it's still mainly just a mobile version of the web game packaged into an app, it does not contain some native functionality including push notifications and in-app purchases. For anyone who doesn't want to or can't use PayPal, this is a good alternative. Prices are a little bit different in the apps, this is due to the fact that the Google Play Store takes a 30% cut of all transactions (the App Store takes 15%) whereas PayPal only takes a 2.9% cut. Ceteris paribus, I'd prefer all donations came in through PayPal for that reason, but I want to make it as accessible as possible for everyone.

At this time, while we have the setup for push notifications, I haven't actually finished building them out in-game, so you shouldn't expect to get any yet (but soon!)

Our app for iOS / App Store is currently under review, but we are hoping that will be ready within 48 hours.

At this point, I ask that you bear with me on the apps - there will likely be some bugs that need to be worked out once we have more players using them and more feedback coming in. The apps are probably never going to work as well as the web version of the game, mainly because I am much better at web development than app development, but they are better than nothing. And they may also prove to be a good source of new players for the game, as there are lots of people that find apps through the app stores that may not have otherwise started playing Politics and War.

I am really excited about this, and I hope you are too, and I also hope you will bear with me and be patient with any issues. Thanks everyone!