Birdeye

Since Fark became part of the Cyberverse in many different forms, on many different platforms, we've had to deal with bullies of all kinds. You had the kind that took your lunch money. You had the kind that would give you wedgie on the playground in front of that girl you had a crush on. You had the kind that was always bragging about how tough they are. And you have the kind that would try to get under your skin by trying to pick on your friends too. Then we arrived on Orbis and were faced almost immediately with a bully that pretty much fits all of these. Fark hates bullies. Fark hates braggarts, And Fark really hates when people get picked on by a bully trying to 'win' a zero sum game. More importantly than hating bullies, Fark always tries to do it's friends right. So in an effort to do our friends right, Fark declares war on Mensa HQ Signed for Fark, rollo- Head of FA Birdeye - Head of War Phaik - Head of IA

Given that a good game design feature is to give players an interesting choice, why don't we just make the choice of whether to move or not more interesting? Namely, how about, for every 30 days your alliance is on a color, you get a 1% color bonus, capped at 5%, and affected by the 0.5% penalty per alliance (ie, instead of using a min of 0%, and then applying the up to 5%, apply the up to 5% first, and then make it a min of 0.) (All those counters should start at 0, and not reward/penalize alliances for did or didn't move recently.) That way, an alliance has to choose whether jumping to another color is worth the cost of giving up whatever bonus they've built up. Right now, the decision is mostly a no brainer, for alliances that are not thematically tied to their color. You benefit by moving, so you move. Not very interesting. With a change like this, some alliances will likely decide to be flighty and to follow treasures around (especially if they land on an alliance heavy color, and then the treasures move away the next month). Others will choose to stick with their bonus for sticking to their color. Much less clear which strategy is necessarily the best, which makes the choice more interesting than always following the treasures.

How about something a little simpler, with less of a change to existing gameplay? 1. Each nation can set their own update (military repurchase time). This must be a "turn" time - ie, you only have 12 options to choose from. 12am, 2am, 4am, etc 2. This time is visible on the nation page, so that opponents can see it. This preserves the gameplay element of being able to prepare for a double purchase from your enemy. 3. You may change your update time at any time, but you must wait a full 24 hours, plus until whenever your new update time is, before you can purchase any more troops. This avoids people gaming the system by changing the update time to a time earlier than their current time, and getting multiple double purchases in any 24 hours time period. Ideally, people will only change this time in peacetime. (Other wait periods may make more sense, to further discourage swapping this time around during war a lot. 48 hours, perhaps?) Advantages: 1. Each nation can set an update time that is most convenient for them, removing the artificial advantage provided to those whose schedules allow them to be available at the game update time. (This is also provided by the OP's proposal.) 2. Minimizes the changes to game mechanics. The double update strategy still remains, giving defenders at least a shot of using it to break siege. 3. Since all opponents can see the update time, it does not much affect the viewpoint from an aggressor - although it does require them to pay attention to every nation they are fighting. This increases the burden of successfully waging war as an aggressor, which is fine by me, since they are already at a huge advantage.

A member of my alliance is having issues, below is the full content of his request, as posted on our alliance forums. Yesterday morning I could log into the forums. Last night, I couldn't. It keeps telling me my username or password is wrong, so I reset my password. I got the email and tried to use the temporary password supplied. I still can't get in. I've tried from my phone as well as my computer. Can someone please post this to the Tech Support Forum on my behalf? My account name is Phaik. Thanks.

Nation Name: Birdtopia Nation Link: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=20076 I just want the notification to go away, more than the trivial (at this point) 50k.

I have the same problem. I tried on mostly current versions of both Chrome and Firefox.