The Trade page has received a makeover and some handy usability improvements; for example accepting trades now all happens without ever leaving the page.

Read the full announcement on the forums, here:

Sorry about flooding you with Changelog updates, just trying to keep everyone informed. For a full list of changes, and links to the Battle Simulator pages, please see the forum post, here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7098-6222015-war-formulas-overhaul/

This is a pretty significant change, and it's been in the works for a significant length of time. There are a few cosmetic changes here, and then some significant tweaks to the formulas in the war system. I've been working with a helpful group of testing nations to improve and perfect these formulas over the course of a few weeks, and I think we've arrived at a reasonable consensus. The types of changes to the formulas have to do with casualties, damage done, units killed in airstrikes, and money looted in ground battles. It should now be optimized at reasonable levels across the board, for all nation/army sizes.

* Nation and Alliance pages are now viewable without logging in. You can now show off your alliance or nation page (including your Factbook!) to friends and family without them having to login or create a nation

* I've added support for more characters in City names and Nation Factbooks. You can use your non english-alphabet latin characters now.

* I've added "GDP per Capita" to the regular nation page (it originally showed up only on Factbooks)

* You can now do espionage operations on anyone you're at war with, regardless of the spy range

* An Espionage option is now available in the dropdown box on your Wars page. Still doesn't cost MAPs, it's just there for your convenience

* The Spy Range has been expanded to a symmetrical amount, of -60%/+150% score. Any nation that can spy on you, you should be able to spy on them (exception being that you can spy on nations up to 10 ranks ahead of you, regardless of score, and that does not reciprocate down 10 ranks. That's the same as War Ranges)

* The RNG for infrastructure damage has been tightened significantly across the board. There should be much less variation in how much damage your attacks do now.

* Casualties have been lessened in many instances, especially when it comes to the damage that aircraft can do in airstrikes

You can now view nation pages, including Factbooks, without being logged in. Feel free to show off your Factbooks to friends and family, without ever making them register to play Politics & War! The same is true for alliance pages. Enjoy!

Read and reply to this update here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7090-6212015-nation-factbooks/

I've added Nation Factbooks! Factbooks are available to everyone that wants one. Just fill it up with information, and it'll get displayed on your factbook page.

You'll also noticed I cleaned up and reorganized some of the interaction buttons on nation pages. I've also added a button for Embargoes, to make everyone's lives a little easier, along with the button to see a nation's factbook.

Read the full announcement and reply to the forum post here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/6959-6112015-small-changes-improvements/

* Notifications will now appear on the Revenue page if you don't have enough raw resources to make manufactured ones. This will hopefully reduce the number of questions we get in the Tech Support forum saying, "Why aren't I making Steel?"

* I've updated the Wars page. Now, when someone offers you peace, you will see an option to "Accept Peace" instead of just "Offer Peace". The "Cancel Peace" option is now removed until you've offered peace as well.

* Approval Rating caps have been lifted on both ends. I've also added your raw point value to the nation page, next to your percentage (which can only fluctuate between 0-100).

* Approval Ratings have been added to the Leaderboards page. You can now see who has the highest and lowest Approval Ratings.

* Approval Ratings are officially a purely cosmetic update. They're for fun, and will have no bearing on anything in the game mechanics-wise.

* Approval Ratings can no longer be affected by embargoes. I've updated the wiki page to reflect that.

* On Military pages, you'll now see Resource costs calculated in with the monetary costs. Next time you buy tanks, aircrafts, etc. you can punch in the number that you want, and not only will it spit out how much moolah it's going to cost you, it'll also say how much steel/aluminum.

* I've added Scrollbars to the top of a few important pages. The City Manager, Revenue Log, and Nation/Alliance Bank pages now have a scrollbar on top and on bottom of the relevant scrollable elements. This should be a big convenience for everyone.