Changelog

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10/01/2020 - Donation Limit Reset

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem 10 Credits for up to $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

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 buy Credits or start a 10 Credit per month subscription (comes with free VIP!)

Posted by Alex 10/01/2020 12:00 am      

09/28/2020 - A lot of updates!

Hi everyone,

I've got a lot of updates to share with you! I'll just get right to it:

  • The flag of Singapore was added to the default flags list (how did we overlook that one all this time?)
  • The Mass Infrastructure Purchase Tool (for VIPs) has been improved. Now, instead of forcing it to apply to all cities, you can select which cities you want to buy/sell infrastructure in en-masse.
  • A Mass Land Purchase Tool (for VIPs) was added! This works just like the Mass Infrastructure Purchase Tool. You can find links to both of these from your Cities page.
  • The links at the top of the Account page have been updated for better formatting.
  • Starting today, regular data dumps will be generated and available for download. These will be zipped .csv files with basic data on nations, alliances, trades, and wars. You can find the directory for those here: https://politicsandwar.com/data/ hopefully this will help eliminate the need for webscraping and API usage. These dumps will be generated at 11:55 PM each day (before server daychange) to avoid excess lag right at midnight. That means that changes that happen in the last 5 minutes of the day won't be reflected in these data dumps, but hopefully that will be trivial.
  • We have a new WYSIWYG text editor that's been implemented in various textareas throughout the game. We may have some bugs with this yet that we will still have to work out, but it is a significant improvement for formatting your text in-game. Old BBCodes should still work.
  • There is now a popup confirmation on the National Projects page when you are buying or selling National Projects. This should help eliminate the accidental buying / selling of projects on accidental and mistaken clicks.
  • We now have a “User Rating” popup that users should see approximately once every 30 days. This allows you to rate the game on a scale of 1-5 stars, as well as offer feedback on what you think would improve the game. This will help us measure progress on the game (e.g. are ratings increasing or decreasing over time?) as well as make it easier to get feedback from all players on things that could be improved.

Big update, I know! These are mostly Quality of Life changes to improve the overall game experience. If you have suggestions on things that could make the game better, please use the aforementioned User Rating feedback tool built into the game, or for larger suggestions and to discuss ideas with other players, you can use the forum here: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/forum/52-game-suggestions/

Posted by Alex 09/28/2020 05:59 pm      

09/02/2020 - Project Name Changes

This is just a notice that the City Planning and Advanced City Planning projects have been renamed to Urban Planning and Advanced Urban Planning respectively. This is purely a name change, and nothing else about the projects has changed.

Posted by Alex 09/02/2020 09:31 pm      

09/01/2020 - Donation Limit Reset

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem 10 Credits for up to $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

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 buy Credits or start a 10 Credit per month subscription (comes with free VIP!)

Posted by Alex 09/01/2020 12:00 am      

08/28/2020 - Discord Integration

We have released a Discord bridge integration onto the live server. In the lower right corner of your webpage, you will see a Discord icon overlay. Clicking this will popup a Discord window where you can read and chat with users in the official Politics & War Discord server.

This tool can be slow and is certainly not perfect, but we are hopeful it will encourage more players to participate in Discord. There is a high correlation between player retention and players who use Discord, and we are hoping that this will help increase our player retention rate.

For more information, here's a brief video of me talking through this change:

Posted by Alex 08/28/2020 09:45 pm