-The minimum score requirement to form your own alliance has been increased from 300 to 1,000. This is to cut down on the number of failed new alliances, and encourage new players to join existing alliances to learn the ropes before trying to make it on their own.

-New City build timers have been eliminated for the first 10 cities (previously 5). This should enable faster new player growth.

-There was a bug in the alliance members API where there was a typo in the "missilepad" field. That has been fixed.

This is a preliminary notice, the game's servers are scheduled for maintenance upgrades in about a week. These are automatic, and I'm not sure how long they will take exactly, but the game is running on 4 servers and each is slated for a different time, so there will be different downtimes associated with this upgrade.

On May 10th, at 2AM server time, the game will go down for an uncertain amount of time as the database server gets upgraded.

On May 10th, at 4AM server time, the forums will go down for an uncertain amount of time as the forum server gets upgraded.

On May 10th, at 5AM server time, the game will go down again for an uncertain amount of time as the game's frontend server gets upgraded.

On May 10th, at 6AM server time, the test server will go down for an uncertain amount of time as the test server server gets upgraded.

That's all I know, my best guess is that the upgrades will be quick, maybe around 10 minutes of downtime, but it could be longer. Don't panic, and feel free to hang out in the Discord Server during the downtime.

It's May already! Donations have now been reset for the new month. You can redeem 10 Credits for up to $100,000,000 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 $10,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for 2,000 Steel/Aluminum/Gasoline/Munitions, 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, Custom Flags, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.

Here's a (dated) video about Donations as well:

It's April already! Donations have now been reset for the new month. Note that the in-game price has increased from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 each, meaning you can redeem 10 Credits for up to $100,000,000 directly in-game each month. You'll note that Credits have been selling for well over $10,000,000 on the market anyway, so this isn't a huge adjustment.

As a reminder about Donations, you can use up to 10 Credits per month on in-game bonuses like 1 Credit for $10,000,000 in-game money, 1 Credit for 2,000 Steel/Aluminum/Gasoline/Munitions, 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, Custom Flags, and Name Changes. If you have any questions about donations or credits, please jump on the Discord server and ask in #support.

Here's a (dated) video about Donations as well:

Good news everyone! I've been able to set up some web notifications for the site, so you can receive real-time alerts about things like new messages, new war declarations, trade offers, etc. in your browser if you enable them. You should be faced with a new popup asking you to allow (or disable) the notifications when you visit the site on Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The system is new and probably has bugs, also a lot of things have not been included in the push notifications yet, but I hope you'll all enjoy the new feature. I think it will be really great for promoting activity and helping people respond to things in-game quickly.