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What's the similarity between Nokia's writing and your girlfriend? You desperately hope they have a period soon.

Smells like burritos in here.

Just a note, none of these are officially being considered by Alex or the dev team, these are all my personal ideas. National Institute of Technology Upon completing the National Institute of Technology, the nation will reap a variety of benefits over time thanks to technological advancements. These include: 1. 5% Increased Yields from Raw Resource Mining. The percent increase to raw yields will go up by 0.1% every 12 turns, eventually maxing out at 15% (meaning it will be 100 days after project completion until you can receive the full benefits.) 2. Buildings will generate up to 20% less pollution, starting at a 5% decrease and going up by 0.1% every 12 turns. 3. Nuclear Power Plants generate an extra 250 infra worth of power while consuming the same amount of resources. Wind power plants will power an extra 50 infra, and Coal/Oil plants will power an extra 100 infra. Cost: 60,000,000$, and 4000 steel and alum. Total cost is about 120m at current market prices, so not totally exorbitant for a mid sized nation such as myself. Revisions to Project System 1. Project timers reduced to 8 days from the current 10 (city timers remain the same). 2. One project slot per 4000 infra rather than the current 5000. 3. I think a slight decrease to project costs across the board would be beneficial given the increasing number of projects being constructed in nations.

*opens "Onward Together"* *closes "Onward Together"*

Hello to you too. I'm a friendly person, with a healthy relationship with my girlfriend, please stay away from my rear, and do not touch my cheeks. I do not consent to this.

The limit of 5 true roles in an AA works/worked fine for a smaller group, but as many modern alliances are reaching 100+ members, some fine-tuning ability would be appreciated for different roles. The heir position's warnings about being able to promote are much appreciated - but having some sort of in-between role for bank access but not leadership access would be most helpful. This, of course, would simply be a stopgap until we are able to further customize roles with toggles for bank gov, etc, but would solve a lot of the pain points in the interim! Current roles: Leader, Heir, Officer, Member, Applicant Proposed: Leader, Heir, (Bank Officer), Officer, Member, Applicant

Welp I'm a forner UPN member and for that I have a bit of a soft spot for it, but this does seem like a desperate attempt at not getting rolled for backing up the cheating scumbags of NPO till the very end when they tried to kill the game. Getting rolled isn't so bad, I was in the shit tier during that entire war while IQ used and then double crossed any alliance they could. Y'all should either have booted Under and distance yourselves before it was too late or simply support him till the end. I don't really wanna see you get rolled but tbh I feel a lot of bad blood here and I can't blame anyone for that in this case. Idk what went on in peace talks but that war and everything that it brought can make people want revenge. I myself have let it go but I most certainly understand why some might not feel that way.

All I'm reading are excuses. You disliked Under's actions but reelected the Prime Minister again who was responsible for making Under a representative of your alliance during peace talks. Your Prime Minister was inactive due to irl issues but he and you all failed to replace him with someone who was not inactive and could've kept Under in check if it actually was such a concern to you. You were aware of what Under did but couldn't be bothered to speak up against it because he was your "source of information" basically coming down to the fact, that you were all just too lazy to inform yourself about Orbis and PnW and other alliances. (On a side note: Considering how condemnable you found his actions, you still believed that he was a good source of information? It did not dawn on you that he was presenting you a heavily skewed version of things considering that you were aware of how he was behaving during peace talks?) Let's be real here. For the past few years you were always able to stick to your alliance with Acadia because at the end of the day you could always hide behind the power that were NPO and BK. Just like the leadership of Acadia and Polaris, this whole thing completely went to your head and you thought yourself in a most comfortable position where you were calling the shots. This then failed because your big protectors were all involved in an elaborate cheating scheme. So what follows is white peace and six months of peace during which you all went radio silent. After six months of said peace during which you had plenty of time to make amendments, you then drop the person you consistently rallied behind (a lack of speaking out or taking consequences does not exclude you from guilt) in an effort for a last minute publicity stunt. And then you try to "explain" it away in good old fashioned IQ style with nonsensical excuses like "Our PM was away for 14 months" and "We only just had an election for the first time in five years". Anything I forgot? Edit: Also the fact that matt let's you all now take the heat instead of speaking up himself here really says a lot about his leadership in all honesty.

Revision: separate project and city timers.

Genuinely annoyed to even have to waste space responding to this off-topic comment in this thread, but I take serious exception to one of the most disliked and toxic members of Orbis pointing fingers at anyone. In this case, you are pointing fingers at my trusted FA high gov and leader of one of our protectorates, Oceania. Just because Cooper and Citrus get off-topic from time to time doesn't make them toxic. They both are working to improve the game and have fun doing so, neither of which is something I would not confidently say about you. Unsolicited input alert! Maybe instead of talking about making changes, you should coordinate with your own gov and existing allies to take the actions you keep discussing. Everyone I've spoken to is unclear on your goals, positions, and actions. And don't think that the coincidental timing of this is unnoticed. The only place that UPN seems to want to communicate with anyone is in this thread, and in doing so demonstrates why @Malal had so much ungranted power - everyone else sat around and waited on him to act. Additionally, the silence from the "new" AA high gov is deafening. Trotting out an honestly innocent and inexperienced newly elected low gov member doesn't help change the narrative. We should be seeing and hearing from @Matt2004 and Noreen regularly, and the fact that your allies have no idea what is going on is only exacerbating the existing narrative. Newsflash, because it seems nobody from UPN knows what is going on: Acadia is all but gone now, and you waited way too long to start making changes.

Peace talks ended over six months ago. The war had been going on for eight months prior to that. During all this time, I'm pretty sure I never heard a peep from a single other soul in UPN besides ST6, who was also pretty scuzzy in talks. Where were you all then? Why is this an issue only now? If it was an issue before, why has it taken so long to be addressed? You seem to be under this belief that the issues the community has with under are solely under's problem - they're not, they're yours too. Under was acting as a representative of your alliance. There were so many things you all could have done to address all of these issues months ago and to start interacting with the rest of the community again and yet it's only been radio silence. I don't know what went down and your alliance's business is your own in the end but how this looks is you throwing under out because you're afraid you might get smacked at NAP's end because of him. My thoughts on under himself are irrelevant to my thoughts on your handling of this situation; he was your person for six years and I'm not going to sugarcoat how poorly this reflects on you for unceremoniously dumping such a long standing member. They are two separate "complaints", as you say. Under was not your leader. If there was a transparency issue, it's your leader you should be looking at. At the end of the day, that's who's responsible for the direction of your alliance and the dissemination of information. (And honestly, you can't pretend you didn't know - the peace talks were plastered all over these forums.) Good luck with your new direction and in forging a new path. You'll need it.

When I saw the flag I was hoping for a disbandment. Disappointed.

With the recent firestorm of beige under some form of control I'm shifting some focus towards content that was being discussed in the earlier part of this summer. Quality of Life Changes: Alliances have the ability to create up to 8 alliance positions, 5 more than the default 3. All alliance roles will come with a check list for which powers those positions have. Bank Access Changing Roles Ability to see spy counts Ability to see daily reset timers (time zones) Editing Tax Brackets Accept new members View member caches Notification when a war expires Alliance Trades offers also show in the global trades. These trades will show in a different color Alliance tax brackets can be changed in bulk (multiple members added at once) Alliance leaders (with appropriate access levels) can see the time zones for members. Ability to sort members/applicants by “Last online”. Move expired treaties to an “Archived” tab. Treaties can be extended rather than deleted and resent. Allow for alliances to issue embargoes for other alliances. The embargoes auto activate but give a notification to the member with the option to remove the embargo. Add a mass buy feature to Land, similar to Infra. Added Allow players to send direct trades of resource for resource New Domestic Policy: Rapid Expansion - 5% discount to land purchased - Added Additional Project Slots: At 50 wars won At 50 total won or lost, gain a project slot At 200 wars won At 200 wars total won or lost, gain a project slot At 100 wars total won and/or lost, gain a project slot. Raw Resource Project increase: Coal, Oil, Uranium, Bauxite, Iron, Lead production rates increased from .25 per turn to .30 per turn, giving a total increase of 3.0 per day to 3.6 per day. Production is increase by about 16.7% without factoring in the bonuses from multiple mines. Having max mines would net an additional 8.3% ish increase. New Project: Terra-forming Money: $3,000,000 Coal: 1,500 Lead: 1,500 Effect: Reduction in cost of purchasing land by 5% Note: Costs similar to CCE project New Project: Medical Breakthroughs Medical Research Center Money: $10,000,000 Food: 100,000 Effect: Hospitals disease reduction increased from 2.5% to 3.5% each. You can build an additional hospital in each city. Note: Costs similar to Recycling Initiative project. This project is more focused to tie into future changes. While it might not seem very relevant now it will have more importance in the future. New Project: Specialized Police Training National Policing Academy Money: $10,000,000 Food: 100,000 Effect: Police Stations crime reduction increased from 2.5% to 3.5% each. You can buy an additional police station in each city. Cost of each police station is increased from $750 to $1000. Note: Costs similar to Recycling Initiative project. This project is more focused to tie into future changes. While it might not seem very relevant now it will have more importance in the future. New Project: Advanced Engineering Center Requirements: Center for Civil Engineering, Terra-forming Money: $50,000,000 Gasoline: 10,000 Munitions: 10,000 Uranium: 1,000 Effect: Reduces Infra Costs and Land Costs by 5% All projects added. Spy Reserve System: Outlined in this thread: Currently on hold

Currently alot of the nations in the game are reaching a point where there’s not much more they can do with projects. As such I would like to suggest adding “super” projects to the game. These projects are very expensive projects costing in the billions. They are unique in that they provide two different bonuses. They provide a unique bonus to the nation that builds them and they also provide a small bonus to the alliance that the nation is apart of. As these projects are very expensive it would require a nation saving for a long time to build them or an alliance working together to get them built. Nations that build them would get both the alliance and host nation bonus applied to their nation. Additionally, the alliance effect would not stack if an alliance had multiple projects. They would be built and count as a project slots like any other project. Here are some examples I thought off. I am not specially suggesting these as I didn’t put much thought into the numbers, they are just examples of how this could work. Development Bank Cost 500 Mil 3 mil Food Host Nation Effect - 5 % new city Cost Alliance Effect Nations under 20 city's get - 7.5% new city cost International Space Station Cost 750 mil 100000 Aluminium 100000 Steel 50000 Uranium Host Nation Effect -5% Project Cost Alliance Effect -5% Project Cost Modern Stock Exchange Cost 1.5 billion 50000 Aluminum 50000 Steel Host Nation Effect +3% Commerce +3% Max Commerce Alliance Effect +2% Commerce +2% Max Commerce

every thing looks great in your suggestion But you forgot the new logo suggestion it should be in every suggestion

Girl, just because people don't call you toxic to your face (although they should) doesn't mean that they don't call you toxic. Maybe wake up to reality. It's also not necessary to speak to you to know that you're a toxic wasteland. What do I care about what you come forward with or help with. There are plenty of people who help with this game who are not liked by a large amount of players. Congrats on giving away gifts but if you think that you bought yourself likeability with that, then jeeeeeeeez. 😂 I know your history well enough. It's plastered all over the OWF and people have been talking about it plenty enough. It's a well-known fact that you're a train wreck. But I'm glad to have hit such a sore spot considering how absolutely mad you are right now. ❤️

Crucifixion you say? First you wish to touch my cheeks, now you want to nail me? My girlfriend will certainly be giving me an angry call tonight. Will you at least call me after it happens? We can go get supper? Also, if I get crucified, do I get a cool religion like that one guy?

Immortal? No. Undead? Yes.

Your leader has been inactive for 14 months? And you all re-elected him?

Hello, please help me out. In the rules it states "Vulgar language, mean comments, Nazism or Nazi related names and titles, Terrorist organizations related names and titles etc. are not allowed and will result in your nation receiving a strike." I was wondering if the title !@#$ is allowed to be used. It is often associated with Adolf Hitler but it's just the german title for leader. I'd appreciate an honest answer. Thanks in advance. Edit: Apparently it gets censored and is probably not allowed then.

This is already addressed in Pre's thread about upcoming changes.

We really need to get you a weekly radio show to settle or exacerbate these consistent conflicts

Happy Birthday.

If you look here, it'll show you how much food you use per day: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/revenue/. I'd say focus on building your military and, for improvements outside of that, focus on mining resources (pick one of your three - oil, uranium, iron) and selling those. For resource improvements, the more you have of one kind, the more you produce, so pick one and focus on that. For military, I'd mostly just focus on barracks until you've grown a bit more.

Hey @Sabb Alborz! Welcome to the game I wouldn't recommend building a farm because when you're just starting out, you don't have the infra/land you need to make it worthwhile. It'd be better for you to buy than grow your food. The approval ratings are affected by a number of things. I'd say the biggest reason most bigger nations are at zero is due to war. Approval ratings don't impact your nation though, so it's not too much a concern for them. As another recommendation, you should look at joining an alliance before your time on beige is up. Definitely take your time and find one that suits you while you're protected on your current color but they'll keep you safe from being raided and help you learn the game. Good luck!

Honestly, this. I mean in its past 3 wars, TKR eventually got rolled all three times. We're stronger because of it. Mostly everyone here has made mistakes, and–to some degree or another–mostly everyone has paid for them in some way. A large part of accepting responsibility for actions is also accepting the consequences. If you do get rolled and you bounce back even stronger, you'll earn respect and have new paths open up to your FA. And I'm unaware of anyone who would subject you to what we were subjected to last war. A few weeks and a decent bit of pixels destroyed. This is also why I think the original post rings so hollow. I understand that y'all claim the timing is simply unfortunate, but, given your history and position, y'all don't really deserve the benefit of the doubt. I'm not sure what you expected Orbis to think besides that this is a naked move to protect your hides, the SAME sort of behavior that got UPN in trouble in the first place. Pixel-hugging is antithetical to what I'd want to achieve if I were in your shoes. Now to be clear, this isn't an open endorsement to roll UPN, but I thought the context was important enough to add. The first steps towards taking responsibility are quitting with the pansy "shoulda-coulda-woulda" excuses, starting to acknowledge what you did wrong, and showing the rest of Orbis how you plan to fix it. You didn't accomplish any of that here. And maybe that gets you rolled, but you'll come out the other end with your community intact and a whole potential future to explore. I mean it wasn't that long ago that most of the world had issues with TKR and decided to hit us in KF. I like to think that we've learned a lot since, and I know we're in a much better spot from an FA perspective despite having made missteps. There are many other alliances that have similar stories. It is up to you guys to make it happen and turn over a new leaf. Until that point, you can damn expect that you'll be subjected to intense scrutiny. Fix it and be better. Maybe then we can talk. That's about the extent of the good faith I have to offer you guys. I was going to ignore this as I don't really care what you have to say about me. My reputation speaks for itself. I don't have the time of day to worry about someone getting salty about having his one-man AA denied protection. But insulting a leader of one of my protectorates goes too far. Having worked with him for months, I can say that all of us in TKR are proud to have Citrus and Oceania as a protectorate. He, along with the Oceania team, have done great work in a building a community, and that's everything I ask of them. I have no desire to get into the specifics of your troubled history or to see this exchange continued. Desist and bring your comments elsewhere. Say whatever you want about me, but don't f@#k around with my allies. I take that seriously, and I'm not as easygoing when it comes to protecting them.

I looked at 10+ nations over 6 months old and they all had the same issue. Though it looks like it is fixed now with what you did on the 15th so thanks.

Yep, it works fine now! Thanks Alex.

I did not see this before I read Benfro's post because I literally skip all posts written by you because it's you. While Ben has already said everything there is to say about the nonsensical claim that Cooper or Citrus are toxic - obviously total crap - I just want to add that it's peak irony of you to mock another alliance considering that you are still clinging to that dumpster fire that is The Coal Mines.

Seems like new gov announcement went wrong

Current map as of 8/16/2020 Version with no flags:

Evidently. Oktoberfest was 5 years ago.

Yeah, I gotta say I never really thought the day would come that I agreed with Kastor but this ^ x1000. I don't know what happened here, UPN, but I find it pretty unbelievable you just kick banned someone who has been with you for over six years and single-handedly makes up 100% of your voice and external identity. If that itself was the issue, you put him there, you enabled him to do what he did and allowed him to be that representative for your alliance so if there are any consequences from that, you should have suffered them together.

You supported him until the NAP ended and now you’re scared to get rolled. gtfo lmaoo Like how do you respect this alliance? At least stand by the member who’s helped build you since day freaking 1. Under, I’m not sure what’s going on, and I know that you are extremely toxic/terrible. But you didn’t deserve this from UPN. UPN should’ve burned with you. It’s like if Rose kicked Abbas or Kurdanak, I’d leave with them.

Customizing images is fun, but they're only visible on a nation's front page. Could we also show our custom images on internal pages? Ex:

Investor Contact: Theodosius Media Contact: Partisan $YNDICATE, INC., ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE AND APPOINTMENT OF COO NASSAU, Bahamas, 2020-07-25: $YNDICATE, INC., (NYSE:SCC) is providing an update to all shareholders and potential investors on the status of the Chief Operations Officer(COO) position. We have unfortunate news today on the departure of our COO, Leopold von Habsburg. Leopold has retained the position for the past 657 days and has provided an era of stability and ever-increasing margins leading to huge economic bonuses for our associates. Leopold through various strategic options and mandates had acquired a significant shareholder position within the company which he used to leverage his influence over many of $YNDICATE, INC., moves both diplomatic and economic. He has been involved in many of the highs and lows of our company’s economic viability. Most recently he used his clear and direct leadership along with the whole executive team to help topple an aggressive communist regime that was plaguing the world of Orbis. With peace and solidarity firmly entrenched within $YNDICATE, INC., Leopold has had time to reflect on his future within the company. This week $YNDICATE, INC., share price reached a 52 week high and Leopold von Habsburg has made the decision, with approval and recommendation from his economic advisors, to liquidate all his holdings within $yndicate INC., and invest the profits in various real estate holdings around Orbis. When asked for a quote on this huge development he responded with “I just wanted to live the simple life”. His first purchase was a scenic lake along with the corresponding mountain and land in a 100km radius which he dedicated to $YNDICATE, INC., and offers lucrative vacation packages for $yndicate associates. Leopold has provided a picture to be sent out as a memo to all $yndicate personnel which he denies is advertising. Photographer: VP of Operations, Lucas As a token of the board’s gratitude to Leopold von Habsburg, they have moved to make him an honourary board advisor despite holding no equity within $YNDICATE, INC.,. This move has received universal acclaim from all shareholders. The board has also elected Adam as the new Chief Operations Officer. Adam has been running $YNDICATE, INC., subsidiary ENTERPRI$E, Corp., (NYSE: ESC) and has introduced sweeping reforms that have reduced operation costs dramatically and lead to subsequent quarterly growth. The board is very optimistic on the future of $YNDICATE, INC., with Adam at its helm. Thank you everyone for your time. Leopold von Habsburg, former Chief Operations Officer About $YNDICATE, INC., $YNDICATE, Inc., based near Nassau, The Bahamas, is the world's leading gasoline, aluminum, steel and munitions distributor for a wide variety of peacekeeping and humanitarian activities. Wholly-owned $YNDICATE, Inc. subsidiary brands include the Elysium, which designs, markets and distributes tank and missile materials, and Black Knights, which continues to test the limits and boundaries with regards to media content. This sentence is here because la Revolución has finally triumphed. For more information about SYNDICATE, Inc., and its activities, contact Partisan, Chief Strategic Officer.

Welcome to the game! Please let me know what I can do to make the game more accessible for you. I'd like it to be as accessible for the visually impaired as possible, so if you run into any issues, please message me!

Hello everyone. My name is Jaidon, and I'm a visually impaired person. I've been playing this game since July of last year, but I only recently joined.= the comunity. I decided to come on the forums to make a few suggestions, and help out Namucara, which, I'm most likely spelling wrong, with some of the access issues. Fortunately, its for the most part, well ironed out, but there are still some stuff here and there. Eitherways, I look forwards to talking and meeting with you guys. Cheers.

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After 40 years 3 years, we have returned to the Promised Land ayy lmao

Did you know that Orbis is currently having a fammine? Each day hundreds of thousands of Guardianites and GOBites starve from hunger. Alpha and Spanish Armada have partnered to help these poor souls. We have banded together to help their citizens eat! Just one nuke can feed nearly 200,000 of these poor people. For a simple donation of 1.75 mil, you too can feed nearly a whole city! help these starving children eat. Donate today. Show them, someone does care. Someone does want them to eat and stay warm at night. Help them find comfort in the gentle green glow of their city at night. By this glow, these children can know you're out there, someone who cares.

I never asked for protection nor do I ever plan to from you I only ever asked Electric Space for protection furthermore TCM has always been more than a 1 man alliance And you as someone who has shitted on me since day 1 of meeting expect me to not call you out as being toxic as for Citrusk him and I have history and I've got every right to call him Toxic furthermore he selfs admits to being toxic You have no idea who I am and my poorly written forum posts aren't that bad I have won more than I loss at least or forced a white peace Anyways calling me a train wreck yet we have never met what so ever before you judge a lad go meet them TCM or Turnip or maybe Factory fresh i Voice Chat a lot and im more than glad to speak to new faces Another thing I dont get mad unless someone shits on my alliance or my allies however that is dependent on the topic and who is doing such

@Benfro @Mitsuru as 2 people ive never met nor spoken to i care not for what you have to say about me and as for Citrusk and Cooper they may be your friends however that means you should easily be aware of the public image they hold when 60% of the game thinks your toxic your probs toxic and most people dont call me toxic they call me idiotic or eccentric or shady not toxic furthermore i come forward with Bugs and actively work on investing in many player ran businesses as well as sponsor several multi alliance games and give away random gifts to the public if you dont know me please dont act like you do and my previous post mentioned Under and the Current UPN FA stating my knowledge of both just because it doesnt agree with your tastes doesnt change the fact its my take on the matter now mind not insulting me without even looking into my history cause i find your lack of understanding unbefitting of making claims about ppl you know nothing about

I've hunted many, many different kinds of animals from across the world. There is nothing quite like the feeling of taking down an elephant. You'd think a tiger or bear would be more exciting - nope. Something about watching such a large animal collapse... Of course it's important to not hunt too many. I try to only score 1-2 every few years.

Stupid on what grounds? Seems you can't actually elaborate on why the idea is stupid or "game-ruining," which means your opinion is nothing but hot air blowing into the wind. There are several people (who aren't new nations, mind you), that are interested in the idea, so it's not as obvious a write-off as you think, so come off your high horse, and have a discussion.

So instead of making points against their position, you try to invalidate their opinion merely because you don't like it. Provide constructive criticism or don't speak.

https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=197220 Nation Name: Covid 19 Leader Name: Kung Flu Another person with poor taste, like the one I reported a few months ago.