City names can now be up to 50 characters long.

You can now destroy your cities. I've been getting many requests to have cities deleted, so I have implemented it directly into the game. If you sell a city to 0.01 infrastructure, a button will appear that will allow you to destroy it.

Donations have now been reset for the new month! You can now redeem 10 Credits for up to $150,000,000 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 $15,000,000 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.

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Politics & War Quarterly Report
March 24, 2020

Hello,

My apologies for not writing this sooner. My intention was to do quarterly reports every quarter (3 months), but due to the fiasco with NPO, GOONS, etc. in the beginning of February when this report was due I just didn't have time to put it together. Since then, I wasn't sure if I would do one this quarter or just wait until the next, but enough people have asked that I thought I would throw one together.

We didn't get everything done in the last quarter that I hoped, which was in large part due to the significant amount of moderation needed last quarter. Things have really settled down in the last month or so, and I've been able to spend a lot more time doing development work instead of moderation, which is nice.

That said, let's review all of the things that did get done between the last quarterly report (Nov 1, 2019) and now:

• Three new national projects were added:
  • Space Program
  • Spy Satellite
  • Moon Landing
• Alliance bank funds are automatically disbursed to the last nation in an alliance upon disbandment
• A note is added to a nation's activity log when they changed continents
• Alliances automatically promote a new leader if there is none
• An improved mobile navigation bar was added (UI improvement)
• New wars UI refactored for mobile
• @ss23 made some upgrades to the servers running the game to improve performance
• Increased captcha restriction security to discourage/prevent the use of bots and scripts
• Military costs were increased some
• Nations being moved to Gray for inactivity was reduced from 14 days to 5 days to discourage tax farming
• Every nation was given +1 national project slot regardless of infrastructure level
• We implemented restrictions on sending messages to discourage/prevent abuse
• Timezone Adjustment Settings were implemented
• Added a trade confirmation popup when posting new trade offers
• Improved the average trade price calculation
• Changed message sorting to bring unread messages to the top of the Inbox
• Added “Number of Cities†to filter criteria on the nation search page
• Added “Number of Cities†to the sort criteria on the nation search page
• Added “Cities†as a column displayed on the nation search page
• Removed “Continent†as a column displayed on the nation search page
• Added a “Vacation Mode for X days†indicator on the nation search page in the “Date Created†column for applicable nations
• Added acceptance date for Trades in Status column if the trade has been accepted
• Fixed a bug with how trades were being displayed on the “My Trade Offers†page and nation “Trade Activity†display page
• When clicking the “Create Offer†button on a trade page, if you have selected a resource the new offer will default to that resource
• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Inbox page
• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Trade page
• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Nation Search page
• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Alliance Search page
• Fixed a bug on the Conflicts page
• Improved nation search functionality with an "Advanced Search" dropdown optional menu
• Updated the Game Rules to prohibit
  • Flashing imagery that could be annoying or cause seizures
  • Excessively long images / text that can disrupt the normal flow of a nation or alliance page
  • Plain text messages with the attempt to deceive other players, i.e. writing "This nation is in Vacation Mode for X turns" in your nation description
• Added a popup asking for consent to use cookies when using the site
• Added homepage leaderboard display for nations with the most national projects and for most cities
• Refactored some internal code to make future game improvements easier / better

A couple of things I'm currently working on that will be released soon:

• Improved city user interface, in particular for mobile users
• A new v2.0.0 API endpoint for nation bank records (currently on test server, see #api in the Discord Server for details)

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You can see, we've got a lot done! A lot of which has been completed recently. I'm finally working full-time hours on P&W, and I've been able to get a lot of things done.

Now, what's next? I've got a lot planned, and the following list is an overview, not a comprehensive or exclusive list of things to come. Note, this may not all be completed by the next quarterly report on May 1, 2020.

• Refactor Tutorial system to improve new player retention
• Complete v2.0.0 of the API
• Complete bug testing of the Test Server to ensure we can upgrade live server software versions
• Add a custom currency option for VIP members
• Add a "copy result text" button to battle and espionage results pages for convenience
• Refactor "Gather Intel" espionage operations
• Refactor espionage spy odds shown
• When a nation deletes during a war, they are automatically looted / treasures transferred to opponents prioritized by resistance remaining
• Add a confirmation popup when destroying national projects
• Add a "Delete City" button that shows up when your city has 0.01 Infrastructure remaining
• Collect and report significantly improved war statistics and make available through API
• Add an option for your Discord username on your nation page
• Add a dropdown nation continent selection for accessibility during nation creation
• Work on improved P&W marketing campaigns to get more new players

On the last item, I am certainly not a digital marketing expert, so I am wondering if there is anyone who works in marketing that would be interested in helping design ad images, copy, or even short videos that I can use to promote Politics & War. If you have experience and are interested in helping out, please contact me on Discord (Alex_PW#4970)

That's it for now, folks. I hope you're as excited as me about the future of P&W and all of the improvements yet to come! If you have a suggestion that isn't included on this list, please post it here: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/forum/52-game-suggestions/

I may not respond to each and every suggestion personally, but I do periodically review and adopt suggestions posted there.

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In other news, if you're interested in free Credits, we are doing a giveaway on March 31 of 5 Credits to 3 random winners. For more information, please see:

We are the company behind @politicsandwar_ and we are giving away 15 Credits in the game! To enter the random giveaway, follow this account and like and retweet this! We’ll randomly choose 3 winners for 5 Credits each on March 31.

— Yellowstone Digital Media (@BillingsWebDev) March 19, 2020

I've updated the Game Rules to include specific rules prohibiting the following:

- Flashing imagery that could be annoying or cause seizures for epileptic users

- Excessively long images / text that can disrupt the normal flow of a nation or alliance page

- Plain text messages with the attempt to deceive other players, i.e. writing "This nation is in Vacation Mode for X turns" in your nation description

You can read the full updated Game Rules here: https://politicsandwar.com/rules/

A number of quality of life updates and bug fixes were just released:

• Changing message sorting to bring unread messages to the top of your inbox after favorited messages

• Fixed bug that was causing the Read/Unread message icons to display incorrectly

• Added “Number of Cities†to filter criteria on the nation search page

• Added “Number of Cities†to the sort criteria on the nation search page

• Added “Cities†as a column displayed on the nation search page

• Removed “Continent†as a column displayed on the nation search page

• Removed “Show Vacation Mode Nations†as a toggleable filter on the nation search page. Not displaying nations in Vacation Mode by default was confusing for some players.

• Added a “Vacation Mode for X days†indicator on the nation search page in the “Date Created†column for applicable nations

• Added acceptance date for Trades in Status column if the trade has been accepted

• Fixed a bug with how trades were being displayed on the “My Trade Offers†page and nation “Trade Activity†display page

• When clicking the “Create Offer†button on a trade page, if you have selected a resource the new offer will default to that resource

• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Inbox page

• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Trade page

• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Nation Search page

• Added “Previous Page†and “Next Page†buttons to the bottom of the Alliance Search page

• Fixed a bug on the Conflicts page