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Intro When it comes to Politics and War, the height of the game is during global wars when alliances/spheres fight each other. However during peace, the game is essentially dead outside of logging in once a day. Why is it like that? Well it comes down to the lack of content to encourage players to keep playing, a lack of a centralized community outside of player ran servers, and potentially pay to win content as well. Lack of Content Outside of trading or wasting your money on keno, there isn't really anything you can do. This is not good for player retention because the further you go down the game, the less content there is for you to enjoy. Remember being a new player and raiding inactive nations for a ton of money? I bet it was a lot of fun (until you realize that it was also shit). But now that you're city 30, there probably isn't much for you to do outside the community/discord side of the game which I will get into later. But I would argue that the lack of content hurts the retention rate of the player base and makes it contingent on the community or their alliance. What Alex needs to do is add more content that gives players a reason to be more active in the game and reward them for it. Perhaps even content focused around alliance members working together. The Community Let's be real here. Outside of player ran discords, there isn't really a centralized community outside the quarterly events the game hosts on the official server. The forums used to be the main stage of the general community. But ever since discord became main stream, The forums have become a rotten corpse outside of Alliance Affairs and the occasional shit post. And while people are still trying to revive the forums (Ahem Roberts), the biggest change with the forums being dead outside of discussion is the decentralization of Politics and War's community. The PNW discord has the potential to be the main hub of all that goes on in PNW, but a lack of management and no real drive to make it good is the reason why it's a mummified corpse with only new players active on it. This is how servers like DNN, RON, OCN, and other player ran servers have become so popular as of the past few years. And while player ran servers can be a good thing for the community, there's always will be bias and different atmospheres that not everyone will enjoy. So if the forums is doomed to die, then at least try to fix the official PNW server. Fix the moderation. Give players a reason to be active in the server by either hosting game nights and other events or running news segments. Then bring in prominent players or alliances to make it active again. Keep Credits Out While Alex may be inspired by my post to add more content for the game, so that players have something to do during peace time. It needs to be brought up that any future content should not have credits or any IRL financial involvement at all. While I understand Alex needs to pay the bills and be able to afford his daily Ramen, making any content P2W will ruin the whole reason for why the content is added. It should be activity and/or skilled based so that players actually earn what they worked for instead of getting it via their wallets. In Conclusion The game isn't as fun as it seems on paper. And new content to keep the players active in the game have been long overdue. There also needs to be a centralized community in the game and the PNW server is the perfect place for it. I'm making this post in hopes that Alex, Game Staff, and the player base make the push needed to make the game fun during peace.

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So it's not called Wei to Bone? The disappointment is immeasurable.

I come back from inactivity and find people have stolen my name? You’ll be hearing from my lawyers.