Hey all, just a quick update. New player advertisements will now track how many times they've been clicked. You can use this feature to see how well your ad is doing and how many people are engaging with it!

On an unrelated note, I just want to say that we've had some success with the Subscription donation feature. After this month, I will be upping the price of a 10-Credit subscription to the same price as 10 Credits costs. The subscription still comes with free VIP, and a $1,000,000 cash bonus for your nation.

While the price will be increasing, anyone who has subscribed at the current price (or does so before the price increases) will be permanently locked in at the lower price. As a thank you to everyone that has already subscribed, your prices will never go up, and as an incentive to anyone interested in subscribing to do so, you can get a $5 discount by creating your subscription before the month ends.

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Hey all! A quick note that it's now October and donation limits have been reset. You can once again redeem 10 Credits for your nation on various bonuses, like money, infrastructure, resources, and resetting your build city or national project timers.

The next order of business is that I am introducing a new thing called Account Verification. Verification will allow players who are playing on the same network (at school, home, or work) to be manually verified as separate players to lift restrictions on gameplay between the accounts.

Verified accounts will be unrestricted when trading with each other, and will be designated with a checkmark on their nation pages. This will allow others to see them as authentic accounts as well.

Preventing cheating is still a top priority, however, I am hoping to make the game more accessible for friends, classmates, and family who want to have fun and work together. The verification process will require sending in a photo of yourself holding up a handwritten statement. It will also require regular renewals to prove ownership of the account.

Verification is not necessary, and only applicable for those players who play with others on the same network connection. You can learn more about Verification and the process here: Click Me! There is also a link on the Account page.

Just a quick update, new members to alliances will not contribute any taxes unless they have an alliance seniority of 2 days or higher. This is to combat abuse of the mechanic by frequently swapping applicants to members and back again to prevent alliance bank looting.

For the rest of the month, for each Player Advertisement purchased, I will throw in two free ads. They can be the same ad repeated, or three separate ads. To take advantage of this deal, just submit an ad like normal on the Donate page and I will send you a message about the 2 free ads.

Just a quick couple of notes on the subject of baseball and player ads:

The length of time between captchas has been reduced to 10 minutes. Both of the previous lengths of time, 60 minutes and 30 minutes, resulted in large exploitation of the baseball mechanic by running scripts to generate free money. Hopefully 10 minute intervals between captchas will be frequent enough to discourage such behavior while still allowing baseball to be a fun pastime for active players.

Player Advertisement requirements have changed slightly. They will now be shown automatically to mobile users, and their recommended size has changed from 1000 x 100 pixels to 800 x 100 pixels. The Player Advertisement page also received a slight makeover as well.

In the near future, we're looking at some updates for Spies, and other general game improvements. Thanks for playing Politics & War!