Alex

It would be neat to have the scores recorded and plotted in some sort of timelapse graph video thing, I don't know what I'm imagining exactly but I bet it's cool.

Underlordgc is correct, we do have this option. We charge money for it because it's not necessary, and it's what pays for the servers to run.

You must have three posts before you can get the bonus. Updated.

You don't have to assume every nation can produce anything, they can manufacture any resource. Import the raw materials (iron, coal, bauxite, oil, lead) from smaller nations because those resources are cheap. Refine them into whatever manufactured resource you need (aluminum, steel, munitions, gasoline). You can do this on any continent.

The other issue with adding more resources is where are we going to display them? There's nowhere near enough room for 3 new resources (4 if you keep a food total) on the resource bar at the top of the page.

Why would each resource be on three continents except for wheat? And why would Europe only have one food option?

Glad to hear it! Bring more new players over

The 1% bonus you get from being a Democracy isn't a commerce bonus, it's a bonus to your gross revenue. It applies the same way the color stock bonus does, not to your cities, but you'll see an increased amount when you're a Democracy on your revenue page vs. when you're not a Democracy (an increased gross revenue, being a stratocracy would reduce bills etc. that might give you an overall higher net revenue, but the Democracy 1% gross income bonus does work).

Interesting, I had heard Google was going to buy them as well. I guess we'll see what happens with it.

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This is correct. When we went from the speed round to live, I didn't reset the average prices, but I removed the market restrictions so you can price things however you like. It is tracked by completed transactions, though, and has nothing to do with what's on the market currently.

You're free to have that mindset, but remember even if everyone in the game was on South America because it's "the best", the resources you produce there would be worthless, and you wouldn't be able to get steel or uranium, which are vital to gameplay. The free market will fix itself, because if everyone is on South America, then it's not the "best" anymore.

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I missed your question about the continents. 1) The continents aren't getting "re-balanced", they've been tested as is for quite some time and we haven't had an issue. Trading is a must, and you're entitled to think that Africa and Asia suck, but in my opinion any continent is fair game, what one is optimal is all dependent on market conditions. 2) Hypothetically if something were to change like this, yes I would give everyone a free nation location change.

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I apparently should not try to stream online multiplayer games Anything else seems to stream fine, though

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It's a consequence of not having your funds/resources taken away immediately when you make an offer (why the game was that way to begin with). The simple answer is just don't overdo it, if you make an offer to buy oil from someone else don't go and spend all your money, otherwise they're not going to be able to get money from you that you don't have, you know?

Website is looking good!

No, it was good of you because there was a bug in the code that I managed to fix! Please make a report if you see something awry like you did on the City Manager page again.

In your particular instance the player might have had $X on hand when he sent you an offer to buy some of your resources, and then spent some of that money so he did not have enough to fulfill your offer. When you tried to execute the trade, the game recognized he didn't have the funds and so triggered an error and removed the offer so that wouldn't happen again.

This is a fair assessment.

Welcome! I hope that you're enjoying Politics & War. Have you tried getting more players from NationStates to come try out P&W? You get a $100,000 and 20 gasoline, munitions, steel and aluminum bonus for each player you successfully bring to the game!

You need to have 3 posts to get the bonus.

Instead of doing automated agreements (which put a big load on the server) you could instead find the nation you want to import oil regularly from, have him send you a big personal offer (like 500 oil at X price) and then just accept the offer in little chunks as you need it.