Hi everyone!
I am excited to announce some pretty significant updates being pushed live here. First and foremost, 4 new national projects that have been in the works for a couple of months now have been QA tested are being pushed live. Here's what they are and what they do:
- Arable Land Agency
- This project makes it easier and more cost effective to acquire new habitable land, reducing the cost of purchasing new land in all cities by 5%.
- This project costs $3,000,000 and 1,500 Coal and 1,500 Lead.
- Advanced Engineering Corps
- This project develops new technologies that make building new infrastructure and acquiring new land cheaper. This project reduces the cost of new land and infrastructure by 5%. Advanced Engineering Corps requires the Center for Civil Engineering and Arable Land Agency national projects to be built.
- This project costs $50,000,000 and 10,000 Gasoline, 10,000 Munitions, and 1,000 Uranium.
- Clinical Research Center
- This project is a dedicated effort to combating infectious diseases in your nation, increasing the disease reduction rate from Hospitals by 1% from 2.5% to 3.5% each. This project also allows you to build an additional Hospital in each city.
- This project costs $10,000,000 and 100,000 Food.
- Specialized Police Training Program
- This project increases the quality and effectiveness of your city police forces. This project increases the crime reduction rate from Police Stations by 1% from 2.5% to 3.5% each. This project also allows you to build an additional Police Station in each city.
- This project costs $10,000,000 and 100,000 Food.
Also, in case you missed it, we added a new Domestic Policy called Rapid Expansion that gives you an additional 5% discount to land purchases. Note that these domestic policies and projects all stack when it comes to reducing infrastructure and land costs, so you can get up to 15% off of each if you have the relevant domestic policy and projects built.
On a more minor note, we have also changed how VIPs can upload custom city images. You can now upload directly to the game instead of needing to host it offsite and paste in the URL. This will help alleviate some of the issues we've been having (mainly from users using imgur.com and the images then not displaying correctly.)
We have also added a setting to adjust the font size displayed when you use the game. You can set this per device, and there's a video tutorial explaining this here: https://youtu.be/5eF4pVMJHME
We have added the ability for everyone (not just VIPs) to upload and name a custom currency for their nation. We have a video tutorial on that here: https://youtu.be/fmkj6bD7EDk
You can now publicly commend or denounce other players' nations in-game. This doesn't do anything but send them a notification and make a record in the activity log, but all commendments and denouncements are tabulated on your nation page. 6 new achievements were added related to this new feature as well. Note that to prevent spamming it, we have put a 10 minute restriction on commendments/denouncements for any particular nation (you can't spam someone by commending/denouncing repeatedly.)
Let me know what you think about the changes! We have lots more in the works. If you would like to contribute to the development and marketing of Politics and War, please consider making a donation (purchasing Credits.) You can do a lot with Credits, from getting an extra $200,000,000 for your nation each month to putting up fun player advertisements in the game. You can Donate and see everything you can do with Credits on the Donate page here: https://politicsandwar.com/donate/
