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Yo, don’t really know why i am writing this. It is late and i am feeling emotional. Some of you know me, most of you don’t. Lemme tell you a bit about myself. I’m Stress, i’m Atlas Tech’s director of safety, quickly rose to high gov despite only playing since march. And let me tell you, playing this game was not a mistake. I’ve made friends that will last a long time and met… interesting fellows. I was rereading old forum posts lately and this showed me something. Back in the day, orbis was thriving. Y’all absolutely vibed. Vobe? Past tense of vibe should be vobe. Anyway, I hope especially you longtime players recognize that this game has a lot to offer and i look forward to my future in this game. Even with its flaws, I have noticed pnw is a microcosm of the real world. We got war and pestilence, and feuds crossing nations, but we also got diplomacy and jokes, and a community. These are just my ramblings. Why am i writing this. Anyway, thank you for inviting me into this game and i look forward to changing the word with y’all, even if it is a simulation. In simulations there are grains of truth.

This was made in good fun. Hope you all enjoy

A couple of suggestions related to alliance taxes: Show default taxes on the join screen so new players understand the tax rate (for possible security reasons alternative is a notification explaining their new tax rate when accepted) Since new players will be made aware of default taxes when joining, remove the 2 day seniority requirement for taxes to begin Give a notification when your tax bracket has been changed Currently this appears in the alliance activity but could be quickly hidden from a member and switched back before they notice, allowing abuse. End color based tax Exemptions, Replace with activity based tax exemptions Greys dont pay taxes because grey is the inactive color, Bieges were made exempt later due to abuse by alliances taxing biege inactives and moving them back and forth to applicant. Obviously the reason for tax exemptions is inactivity, so instead of doing it in this roundabout way, make greys and bieges still pay taxes if they are active, and make tax exemption based on last login instead (however long it takes to turn grey now for example) Separate Taxes for RSS Two options on how to implement: Money/Raw resource/MFG/Uranium/food Or a bracket for each individual resource to make things easier for alliances that dont want these separate and/or have many bracket if the other resource tax rates are left blank it defaults to the raw resource rate, only the money and resource rate have to be filled when making/changing brackets

I'm glad you'll still be around on Discord and stuff. And your nation will still be there if you want her. You've always been an active part of alliances you were in and you're fun to hang around with so I hope that continues even though you don't have an active nation. Until next time. *Hugs*.

I wonder which guy in Camelot's EA department thought this one was worth? 😆

So let's get this straight. Camelot, the rank 7 alliance in Orbis, decided it wanted to attack the entire upper tier of The Lost Empire, the rank 21 alliance in Orbis, for the sake of a treasure from what I have heard? Camelot, the alliance that is known for its excellent decisions, and its superb leadership, has decided to use its 109 members, to attack an alliance with 52 members, for the sake of a treasure that will despawn in what, a month and a half? Camelot, whose colour bloc is Maroon, and gives them $33,994 per turn, and $407,928 per day, wants to go to war over a treasure that will, if I am not mistaken in my math, give them a bonus of 2% in revenue per day? If they get all three, that'll be a whole 3.46% bonus revenue Now I'll admit ladies and gentlemen, I am by no means an expert at maths, but something about this feels like it's not very friendly towards ROI. What do I know though, Camelot has always been known for its great decision making, like when it was a very vocal supporter of IQ, and then tried to switch sides after the war and act like the victim. Camelot has ALWAYS been known for its good decision making, like when it decided uninvited to join Guns and Roses and Duck Hunt for the sake of.... what was the reasoning again Gorge? Preserving the balance of the game? I'm sure it was some great reason and it was worth the 84 billion damage you took in Guns and Roses and 37 billion you took in Duck Hunt. After all, Camelot has ALWAYS been known for its great decisions, like when it funneled massive amounts of cash into both Arthur and Gorge's nations, to build them up. Just taking a quick look at the CTOwned war page, it already seems clear that Arthur, Epi, and Gorge have once AGAIN proved their brilliance, as they've already taken 1.6 billion damage in this war. I'm sure this is going to be over VERY quickly, lads, and this will absolutely end in you making more money off of the 2% to 3% from the treasures than you spent on this war. I once again bow to the brilliance of the leadership of Camelot, you all are truly a shining beacon of excellence in this game.

okay so it wouldn't go away I clicked the unbold button like 15 times and nothing

They're out of luck, George used the rest of rebuild on Moon Landing

Quality of Life Changes: Alliances will gain the ability to embargo other alliances Individual nations will be able to delete the embargo if they so choose Uniformed resource order listing Better notification system Bloc Option for treaty web between alliances. Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes

New Project: Government Oversight Agency Improves Domestic Policy Effect by 50% (5% -> 7.5%) (1% -> 1.5% for open markets) Cost: $20,000,000 Food: 200,000 Aluminum: 10,000 Resource Production Center Every turn the nation gets 1 raw resource for each raw resource they can mine (except food) for each city they have up to 5 cities. (60 resources times 3 resource types is a 180 resources total per day) Cost: $500,000 Food: 1,000 Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes Second project is the tutorial project.

Tutorial Changes: Removing buying a farm, adding buying food from the market. New players gain resources for completing tutorials as well. Project Building with new player focused project (Resource Production Center). Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes New nations should be purchasing food instead of building farms, these changes address that and will also provide instruction on purchasing a new project that is focused on providing new players resources.

"As the peasants of Camelot rode into the calm waves hunting for a treasure, they believed that they would ride unopposed into the oceans. Unfortunately for them, they had just gone into the Ocean Masters zone of control. The water started to rise around them, creating a wall crashing inwards on them. With the savage oceans rocking the boat, many members of the scavenger party fell out and into the deep blue ocean. As the leader of the party, Epimethius, was scrambling to hold onto the boat, he screamed "Move! An asteroid!". It was headed straight for them. Crashing into the ocean, it caused devastating losses to Camelot's forces. There were no survivors." TLDR: The Lost Empire and 99942 Apophis recognize hostilities with Camelot, after their treasure raid, self-declared "pre-counters", threats of nuclear holocaust and countering of counters. P.S. We know you expected us to bow down to you, but the ocean does not bend. Enjoy the rebuild, assuming Gorge hasn't spent it all on cities ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

When a player opens the Join menu on an alliance, there should be an info box editable by the alliance, where requirements for application or other information they need applicants to know, like to apply on discord, can be posted (or as an alternative, a DM sent to their inbox when they click join, or both) Many new players click to apply to alliances that require them to apply on discord, this requirement is usually in the alliance description but there is no guarantees they read the whole description, especially newer players just trying to find a place to accept them and start playing. I feel like many larger alliances typically ignore applicants that don't follow their requirement to apply on discord or applicants that don't meet other requirements like city count, and this leads to new players quitting. With an infobox/message this may alleviate some of this and help players understand why they aren't being accepted, as well give alliances a place to give requirements and some general info that applicants need to know.

First things first, old content still coming: Thread can be found here Trading Treasures - Currently being worked on. New Project: Research and Development - Should be out in July Gains a net +1 project slots Missiles/Nukes/Defensive Projects rework Nukes kill more improvements An additional Missiles can be purchased and kills additional improvement Dome reduces improvement killed and lowers block rate from 50 -> 30 VDS increased from 20 -> 25 block rate and reduces improvements killed Spies have a chance to kill 2 missiles instead of 1 in a sabotage. Bombardment Naval Attack Allows for killing more improvements Quality of Life Changes Alliances can only have 1 treaty between them Additional Alliance permissions/ranks - Being worked on currently Alliance Trade offers are visible on the main trade screen in different colors Nation search option: Discord Handle Email accounts coming out of Vacation Mode in 48 Hours. Option to hide trade offers of embargoed nations/alliances New Content: Military Combat changes: Ships kill 15% more ships in naval combat When performing bombing runs damage dealt to defending planes reduced by 15% These are only for bombing runs, not dogfights. Dogfight damage remains the same. Spy System Changes: Reserve/Active Duty system Only Active Duty spies may defend spy attacks and perform spy attacks. All new spies purchased default to Reserve Status, not active. Spies in Reserve Status cannot be killed. A player may not move spies from Active Duty to Reserve Status. Spies in Reserve Status cost 50% less upkeep. Tutorial Changes: Removing buying a farm, adding buying food from the market. New players gain resources for completing tutorials as well. Project Building with new player focused project (Resource Production Center). New Project: Government Oversight Agency Improves Domestic Policy Effect by 50% (5% -> 7.5%) (1% -> 1.5% for open markets) Cost: $20,000,000 Food: 200,000 Aluminum: 10,000 Resource Production Center Every turn the nation gets 1 raw resource for each raw resource they can mine (except food) for each city they have up to 5 cities. (60 resources times 3 resource types is a 180 resources total per day) Cost: $500,000 Food: 1,000 Treasure Lottery: 50% of the Treasures in the game are marked as "Lottery Treasures". A nation can buy a treasure lottery ticket with 1 credit. A player may only have 5 lottery tickets at a given time. Lottery Tickets roll over to the next cycle if not winners. A player may only win 1 Treasure per cycle. If there are more treasures than lottery ticket holds the treasure is dispersed at random to the whole game population. Quality of Life Changes: Alliances will gain the ability to embargo other alliances Individual nations will be able to delete the embargo if they so choose Uniformed resource order listing Better notification system Bloc Option for treaty web between alliances. We're going to utilize a new feedback method. Often if there's one or two changes someone strongly dislikes they downvote the whole OP which can taint popular sections and unpopular sections of changes. I'm going to make several posts AFTER the original post which each bolded section. Please upvote and downvote on any section you like and dislike. Posts of input are also welcome. New content is not set in stone. Suggest changes in this thread.

if NPO comes back we all roll them k?

Pavitistvo Kozatskiya | Павитиство Козацкия Pavitelstvo Kazakiya | Павителство Казакия 哥萨克政府 - 哥薩克政府 | Gesake Zhengfu Pamahalaan ng Bansang Kosakya | Government of Cossackia National Affairs Briefing Note: Before you assume that this will all be about the Gacha Community (as it is part of our law), read the entire briefing. Do also note that the events are only semi-fictional and semi-custom. For the monarch names, I have no intent to break your Lese-Majeste laws. And all the events are more based on real-life politics than Orbis. Also names of some people is completely fictional, to expose an individual is not intentional and will not be intended. Enjoy. June 30 is the affair of Gacha-related affairs. Hear me out. We realized while we were gone, the Gacha puppet states (namely the Gacha SSR, the Gacha People's Republic, and the Dominion of Gachaland) decided to do some Yugoslavia-style unification. The idea was proposed from the Dominion of Gachaland, and was accepted by a majority. So today, the Gacha People's Federative Republic is now declared and the Gacha Provisional Government is established. We have learned so much from kamexri's video this morning, we realized that the Gacha Community can't be saved. So instead, we decided to reform the Gacha Community in Cossackia. If we can reform the Gacha Community here in this country, then we won't be cringe. And as of July 11, we are also becoming rich by $250M, and basically our economy is doing well. No starvations means no rebellions. About food, we are sending students to Singapore to learn how to produce artificial meat and to Israel to learn how to make artificial milk. We watched too much videos from Animals Australia, so we are forced to rethink our meat and dairy supplies. We are now making laws to: abolish animal abuse, which means: no more mulesing for sheep no more tail removal for sheep and pigs no more shredding for chicks no more beak removal for chickens no more horn removal for cows no 'balls' removal for pigs no teeth "trimming" for pigs give animals democracy, meaning: that they can vote either to: be slaughtered be spared etc. (such as more space, more food, yard time) the results are the majority gets what they want the minority can abstain the voting stations are feeds and a sign the majority of animals that go there means the decision is accepted Cossackia still conducts airlifts in Naypyidaw, even though Myanmar democracy is old news. Cossackia will also send support to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan to defend from the Chinese invasion that is yet to come. That's all.

this explains how I feel every time you talk bad about me

0/10 post, not enough salt

Bai Bai, Good Luck

Glad to see you guys sticking up for yourselves, good luck and happy hunting.

Don't think anyone really knows where the borders are exactly, good question. Hopefully someone with knowledge answers lol.

Cheers for a fun show!

GLHF I know I will

Props to you guys for clapping back at Camelot doing the same old shady stuff they always do. Best of luck!

I have already explained the issue with nerfing "bombing runs" in another thread and that criticism remains the same. I'm also curious where this feedback has come from because I've legitimately not heard such complaints before, in fact, I have heard the opposite that bombing units is detrimental until you have a clear plane advantage. This only makes that worse. I like the idea, I agree with others however, that there needs to be a cap (maybe 80%) on the max spies before you get locked out of reserving any more spies. This is to prevent the spy war from becoming a guaranteed flip flop of who controls it, because under this system (in its current form) the losing side will simply rebuild, coordinate reactivation at the same DC, and spy wipe the other side, taking control until the enemy rebuilds their own reserve spies and repeats the process over again. This would effectively take the skill out of winning the spy war, instead making it into a constant tug of war which would make war less fun, in a [war] system that is already unattractive. This first project (because of its cost) is targeted towards whales and I really don't think that's what the game needs right now. The mid and low tier need more projects (and more project slots) so this project should have its price lowered or be scrapped altogether. Before the "specialization" argument peeks through the door, this project is a simple discount, it does not help specialize in anything so it should definitely be more accessible to all. I fully agree with Ramona on the second project, see their post if you haven't. Awful. This kind of change really just benefits the mass-member, veteran alliances because half of everyone else's treasures are going to be stripped away from them and fought over by the titans because they can afford to pump credits into their dedicated and large member base that a lot of the smaller alliances don't have, all the while they now have an even less chance of getting their own treasures because these "lottery" treasures were pulled from their own pool. Further, why do we need more ways to spend credits exactly? It seems to me that people buy enough as is, until recently credit prices were hardly pushing above 1m their actual value because the supply was so large. Instead of trying to put already-established mechanics behind a paywall, Alex and his team should be creating new (cosmetic) things to spend them on because this is unnecessary, and an unwelcome money grab. Just no.

Camelot: "We've changed since we were in IQ! Please forgive us, Orbis!" Also Camelot: This. Give 'em hell.

Figured out what, TLE would just sit and let their high tiers die because they are an incompetent tax farm? Guess what, that is not TLE but Camelot. How much do you have to suck to have negative 1B net after only 2 days of war? Tbh, Anti-Cam coalition would make more money by just looting your members than you might have got from that treasure XD. A very good move for an alliance with top notch FAs, hope there is even more to come!

Jesus Christ camelot, just disband already. It is difficult, amusing but difficult to watch you bumble along from war to war under preforming and being a total disaster.

Camelot becomes the first alliance to be dropped by Fark and TCW for "not matching up to the standards and competence" they expect of their allies.

Hey good on yall, when we hit for the treasure we figured you would not do anything, im actually glad you did. Hope ya'll have some fun and im sure our members will aswell

Shows back bone. Well done. Just why bold on the announcement

I do not agree with this system, it is quite simply, a trap for new players. New players will be lured into this idea of getting a "treasure" because they're so mysterious and full of wonder, however the newer player would almost certainly be better off redeeming their credits for cash, selling the on the market, or a multitude of other things that would allow them to more quickly build their nation, as opposed to a ticket, that maybe someday will possibly pay out. You say that there are also measures in place to prevent rich alliances from accumulating too many treasures, however I feel that this system favors larger, more established alliances even more than the current system. Established alliances are more likely to see large collections of dedicated members, and large collections of dedicated members are more likely to be willing to spend cash than an upstart alliance with brand new members. This system would mean that larger, more established alliances could in theory "pay to win" a treasure, literally by virtue of having more members in terms of numbers, as well as generally more devoted members. You could say that is already the case under the current system, however under the current system, it is only the number of members of an alliance that matters, not the monetary contributions to the game of that alliance, in terms of their ability to grab a treasure. It is likely that this system would lead to more treasure, in more established alliances, and I'm not a fan of buffing established alliances in this way.

Military Combat changes: Ships kill 15% more ships in naval combat When performing bombing runs damage dealt to defending planes reduced by 15% These are only for bombing runs, not dogfights. Dogfight damage remains the same. Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes Feedback has been ships don't kill other ships enough and bombing runs kill too many defending planes in addition to the other units/infra they kill. These tweaks are meant to address those issues.

It's clear to me that NPO plans to make a come back and these guys are testing the waters on how Orbis will react.

There have been several mechanics to encourage and increase new player "catching up". There's also a fine line between incentivizing new players and disenfranchising senior players. At this time I don't see a purpose to removing the time requirement from cities up to city 15. However, I wouldn't be opposed to a middle ground of city timers becoming 5 days from cities 11-15.

The IMF would basically act as the in-game equivalent of a loaning and banking institution. The maximum amount that you can take out would be capped at 15m * number of cities (say) and the game would automatically deduct 0.1% of your outstanding debt as interest every turn. You can withdraw money from (or pay off loans) in your nation's IMF any time, regardless of blockade. While the IMF won't replace in-game banks (due to it's high interest rate), I feel, having a mechanic to draw emergency cash can add an interesting dynamic to gameplay. Project costs: $50m, 500k food Curious to hear what do you guys think about this.

Treasure Lottery: 50% of the Treasures in the game are marked as "Lottery Treasures". A nation can buy a treasure lottery ticket with 1 credit. A player may only have 5 lottery tickets at a given time. Lottery Tickets roll over to the next cycle if not winners. A player may only win 1 Treasure per cycle. If there are more treasures than lottery ticket holds the treasure is dispersed at random to the whole game population. Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes Credits are what keep this game running. This is a method to increase credit usage without dramatically impacting the game as treasures are already random and measures are in place from rich alliances gaining too much from accumulating treasures.

Spy System Changes: Reserve/Active Duty system Only Active Duty spies may defend spy attacks and perform spy attacks. All new spies purchased default to Reserve Status, not active. Spies in Reserve Status cannot be killed. A player may not move spies from Active Duty to Reserve Status. Spies in Reserve Status cost 50% less upkeep. Please upvote or downvote if you like/dislike these changes This will allow for nations who have had all their spies killed rebuild those spies without getting them zeroed out again every couple days. While they're rebuilding the nation's spies provide no offensive/defense capabilities unless they move them active.

Yanno, I'm not pointing fingers or anything, that'd be all rude and whatnot y'know but. I'm just saying, this is something NPO hiding as a micro(s) would say and want us to believe. I'm just saying. Little sus.

Actually, I wasn't trolling at all, I said that in full sincerity. 😕 Nor am I ex-IQ from that era, I was an ally, but not full IQ(just look at my Nation page).