[4th edition Pumpkin Decoration Contest]

This is the cutoff to make it for voting. Continued submissions for the participation prize are allowed through the 31st.

[voting test]

[4th edition Pumpkin Decoration Contest]

On 10/2/2023 at 5:22 PM, Billy Bob Bilgus III said:

its trump, so that is related to the POLITICS part of politics and war. I call it the Trumpkin

 

On 10/2/2023 at 5:24 PM, GigaAlphaSigmaChad said:

Here is mine The Obama One its related because obama was the president

These are not something you made and therefore not valid submissions. Nor are they related to the game.

[4th edition Pumpkin Decoration Contest]

8 hours ago, Jiliboco said:

Can two people do one together?

Sure but unless you both post it and specify what your contributions were only gonna give one of the any prize money and if you win you'll split it.

8 hours ago, JamezGamez said:

My image is bigger than the limit, how does one make a link to an image on my pc?

Photobucket or down scale the image.

1 hour ago, LachlanPnW said:

Just so everyone knows, you're meant to be submitting pumpkins that you've carved with a knife IRL. (if you want to win)

While those do tend to do better minecraft submissions tend to do okay too, really more effort is better though. If there are enough submissions there might be a staff favorites prize set as well.

[4th edition Pumpkin Decoration Contest]

3 hours ago, Dogeisagod said:

Could you draw a pumkin. Would that count?

yes

[4th edition Pumpkin Decoration Contest]

We are hosting our 4th ever Pumpkin Decoration Contest, starting today!

Edit: The period to be entered in the voting section for the grand prize has ended. However you can still submit through the end of the 31st to receive the participation prizes and a chance at the Staff Selection award.

Here are the rules:

To enter, you need to come up with some Politics & War related concept (game related, alliance related, nation related, player related, etc.) and carve it into a pumpkin. Or paint it on a pumpkin. Or paint it on a watermelon. Or build it in Minecraft. Or 3D print it. You have a broad creative license.

Then, take a picture of your "pumpkin" and submit it here as a reply in this thread to enter the competition. You will have approximately 18 days to create and submit your entry. This thread will lock on October 24, and then we will have a period of voting from October 25 - October 30 where everyone will be able to vote on their favorite pumpkins.

The winners will then be announced October 31. Prizes may take up to a week to distribute.

*We know some players, depending on their geographic locations IRL may not have access to pumpkins. For this reason, we are okay with submissions that are carvings into other fruits / vegetables (e.g. a watermelon, a turnip, whatever you might have access to.) Or you can make a digital pumpkin. The world is your oyster!

Here are the prizes:

Everyone who participates will be guaranteed a special Halloween 2023 achievement for their nation related to this event and $10,000,000

The top 3 winners will receive a special nation award along with, $300m for first, $200m for second, $100m for third.

Additional prizes may be added depending on event participation!

Other Notes:

We reserve the right to reject submissions not related to Politics and War.

You can submit multiple photos in the thread, but you need to identify one primary photo that we will use for voting.

We would also like to feature your creations on social media on our Politics and War accounts! If you do not want us to share your photo in this way, please just make a note of that when you post your submission.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here in this thread so that everyone can see the questions and answers.

 

That's it! I hope you'll enjoy this fun little festive contest and giveaway. We are excited to see what you all can come up with!

[Anniversary Radio Show Topics]

Hi everyone, I'm working with @Lysander to put together a special radio show next weekend to celebrate the game's 9th anniversary. The main theme is Orbis' history and we are collecting ideas for topics. If you have any interesting ideas or burning questions on this theme please comment below.

Also we are looking for people who could sit for interviews on past events. Especially gov of major alliances pre 2018. If you are interested in being on the show please contact @Lysander.

The tentative date/time for the show is Saturday, August 5, 2023 8:00 PM EST

[Game Development Discussion: Beige Feedback]

1 hour ago, Village said:

Sorry I don't have a more detailed post right now or specific replies for things, we're still going over feedback and sorting out stuff for a bunch of the things. I do want to clarify one thing though. The beige baiting idea is NOT set in stone, I know I didn't convey that well and I'm sorry about that. The fact that moderation is seeing an uptick in exploity cases and wants something to address beige baiting/slot filling in the expoity manner is non-negotiable, but the exact implementation of that is something that we have complete control over. I'm personally not the biggest fan of the current system either, but out of the options we had come up with it was the one we decided to go with. If you guys have better options we're all ears and I've got no issue making another post addressing that stuff in particular and possibly moving forward with a completely new idea or using this one with tweaks or conditions.

Okay some further clarification. While there has been a a surge of cases recently, this has been a problem with biege for a very long time now and has always trended upwards. It has over the last two years reached the point of essentially being meta for the losing side in a global to suicide into people hoping for biege. Because it was happening so much moderation caved a bit with the 'do damage ruling.' A continuation of the years long battle between the actual intent of the rules and the mechanical contradictions of the war system. Frankly speaking this has been a long time coming and now while the war system is already being decheesed is good a time to deal with it. 

Ultimately mechanics are king and no amount of Deus Admin will offset literal invulnerability as a mechanic. 

[Seriously fix the community discord]

A certain irony, your evidence is some new player trying to engage with the community about his new rp article. Someone raised a question about the name of one his ship classes and he responded with a wiki article about it being a real place. If one checks further all of his ship classes are named for islands in the region he is RPing. Now I do understand the concern with the name, but at least on cursory inspection this appears to be good faith rp so its been passed to the game mods to check further.

As for the slowmode, We've had rate limiting even before slowmode existed, but it was done by a bot and wasn't obvious. When it was implemented it was 100% required and honestly a noticeable improvement in the quality of the conversations that happened. I'm not entirely opposed to removing slowmode and I certainly wish Discord offered some lighter options. But I would want to hear more convincing arguments against a barrier to spewing unfiltered gibberish into the server than offered here. Also I'll note I'm working on regaining our verified status and one of the things discord looks at is how closely we follow their 'recommendations' and they really heavily imply they want 10 second slow mode in larger servers.

[Unable to create new trade offers]

On 5/31/2023 at 2:44 PM, Mehdi said:

Hi, after being inactive for a very long time I decided to return to the game. However, there is one problem that prevents me from playing : I am unable to create new trade offers. I've tried numerous times but I still get the same message error as you can see in the file attached.

I have enough ressources, I select the right parameters each time, so I really don't know where the problem is. 

Any help will be very much appreciated.

Thank you, 

Do you have the same issue on a different browser or device?

[MAP Bug]

That war is already closed so I can't do anything about it. For the future if you open a ticket on discord it will usually get a faster response for stuff like this.

[Ban Appeal]

Appeal Denied

[UnBan Appeal]

Okay lets start with your nation link or id so I can look up your account.

[Ban Appeal- Discord]

I am willing to grant your appeal here as long as you understand that you need to respect others time and space. If you understand you need to provide me your discord guid.

[Ban Appeal- Discord]

So why try and blank your previous appeal thread?

[Ban Appeal DC - Been more than 2 years]

On 4/25/2023 at 7:15 AM, Dark Emperor said:

what you want me to do lol, its been 2 years like what really you want me to do how can i prove you i have changed like i understand the rules but after some period, it expires like even in prison there is a time period. 2 years is more than 700 days so how longer you want me to wait or is it a permanent thing and if it is you are telling me a game is more serious than irl crimes thats kinda crazy 

Yes as it stands your ban is permeant and you still haven't given a reason for me to change that. In fact you are making it quite clear you do not understand the gravity of your past actions.

Appeal Denied

[Ban Appeal DC - Been more than 2 years]

On 4/4/2023 at 4:06 AM, Dark Emperor said:

well, i can promise to follow rules and i wont do anything against the rules now and 2 years is a long period so yeah i have changed.

i am still banned on discord server tho 

You like everyone else agreed to follow the rules when you first joined the server. You then agreed to them again when you evaded your first ban. Those warning points on your nation do not expire for a reason, that warning is a very serious thing. There is a base level of trust given everyone when they join a community, you however have already broken that trust. As it is I can not trust you to follow the rules or show even basic respect to others. I have no path for you to rebuild that trust, so unless you can produce something beyond promises to rebuild it yourself we are done here.

[Ban Appeal DC - Been more than 2 years]

Honestly if you were still banned just for your original conduct I'd give you a chance to prove two years has made a difference. But this isn't your first appeal, its your third. Your second appeal was denied for your other conduct which you can find in your nation warnings. I and the rest of staff considered your remaining banned on discord part of your punishment for that other incident. That is a much harder case for you to make, I'm gonna let you make it, but i'm fairly sure of the results.

[Ban Appeal DC - Been more than 2 years]

I need your discord guid to look your history up.

Directions on how to get that here:
https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/discord-id?op=1

[City Cool-down Timer Change]

Okay so peek into the backrooms here. This came up because some IA peeps think it'll help stream line a conversion point from tiny raider to functional nation if the limit is at c11 instead of c10. Me and a couple other people expressed that if we are going to fiddle with it should be moved to C15 to be aligned with the other new player stuff which is also at c15. I'm not a fan of dropping it entirely though. While in practice money is the normal limiter, the cooldown does prevent some cheesy stunt like down declaring and buying multiple cities. (This actually is still possible below C10 and happens a fair bit where someone will down sell to hit targets then rebuild cities for basically free with project benefits, needs fixed separately tbh.) Also for bank thefts it both prevents a trapped offshore dumping its money into cities and also allows the robbed some time to try to recover things.

[[BLOC] The Brady Bunch]

6 hours ago, Sketchy said:

*snip*

You know whats not optional? Upvoting this post. 10/10 Would shop for options again.

[[DOE] Betrayal to Graveyard!]

Wait so you accusing people of rigging elections and betraying democracy with no provided evidence; While also declaring democracy bad and declaring yourself the lord sovereign of what you claim is the same aa? In, checks notes, a great act of restoration to the alliance. 

[Appeal]

So I do see where the disconnect here is. What is meant by short phrases is stuff like 'Sí señor' or other similar snippets. Longer snippets with translations are permitted sparingly and only to the extent they are required to the conversation. And you were over the permitted thresholds of both parts in the latter case. I am going to reduce your mute to time served, but the warning does stand.

[Discord Ban Appeal]

Appeal granted. I would ask that if you going to comment like that you be more thoughtful in your criticism, but the bot skipped the part where it is supposed to warn you by double counting the same post for some reason.

[GW25 War Naming Nominations]

The Big $pread