The pumpkin carving contest winners are in! Check them out here: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/24203-10312018-happy-halloween-pumpkin-carving-contest-results-are-in/

Hey all, the submissions are in for the Halloween Pumpkin Carving contest! Please take a look at the cool creations some of our players made, and vote for your favorites! The top 3 winners are going to get some cool prizes.

https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/24177-10272018-vote-politics-and-war-pumpkin-carving-contest/

We're hosting a pumpkin carving contest! You have ~1 week to carve a P&W related pumpkin and submit a photo to enter the contest. There are prizes for the winners:

-First Place: 30 Credits for your nation (~$121 USD value.)

-Second Place: 10 Credits for your nation (~$43 USD value.)

-Third Place: 1 year VIP Subscription for your nation (~$27 USD value.)

Get all the details and submit your pumpkin carving here: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/24121-10202018-politics-and-war-pumpkin-carving-contest/

Just a quick update to everyone: the site was just offline for ~20 minutes while we pushed a server upgrade through to the front end as well as the database. Ideally, this will result in improved performance. As many of you have noticed, things have been a little slow the past few days, likely as a result of increased activity on the site. I have been working with the other admins to see what we can do to increase performance, and we are still working to improve things.

I don't anticipate any more server upgrades in the immediate future, but I would recommend that you use Discord, Facebook, and/or Twitter to check-in if you can't access the site. Presuming it's planned downtime, we will post a heads up in those locations to keep you informed while the site itself is down.

On a last note, there's only about 20 hours remaining to join the test server tournament before registration closes. The link to the test server is here: http://test.politicsandwar.com/ and if you have questions about the test server or the tournament, please hop on Discord and ask.

This is a significant announcement, and I would highly encourage you to read the full details in the forum announcement, here: https://forum.politicsandwar.com/index.php?/topic/24087-10152018-map-update-halloween-tournament/

Here are the highlights of the announcement. Note, that these features are still pending testing, and have not been implemented into (this) live server yet.

-Instead of picking a point on the map, you will get to draw a shape (polygon)

-Antarctica will be a new continent option

-When the update goes live, everyone will get 2 free additional location changes. New nations will start with 3

-New cities will start with 250 sq. miles of land (instead of 20)

Here is a short demo video of the new features:

On a separate note, details for a new test server tournament have been announced. Those are located in the above forum post as well.