Alan

We've been "chastised" by many alliances by countering spy-ops against us. The change is not in favor of our members but as a means to better relations with these top alliances.

TLDR; The Coven changes things for clarity and aims to better game relations. This post is only to act as a reference for future public interactions. Thank you to the leaders and alliance heads that have spoken to me over the past 2 weeks offering me their advice. The Coven has discussed your suggestions and we've decided to implement some as a means to help clarify, delegate and better support our allies. The purpose of this post is to be transparent about these changes and to act as a reference to avoid any miscommunications. Foreign Affairs 1.) The Coven will be conducting FA in embassies ONLY. This not only applies to standard treaty requests/issue with counters etc. but also applies to War Week discussions, Protectorate requests and Vassal Assistance (please see #3). Any discussions in DMs will NOT be seen as official FA business. Different alliances use and see DMs differently. As such a discussion with Alliance A using "foul language" could be seen as threatening or aggressive to Alliance B. By only having these discussions in a space with multiple insights we aim to avoid having these perceptions roll out of hand into an issue or FA debacle. 2.) The Coven's FA team has been split into a Macro and Micro FA team. The Macro FA team does not have a say in Micro Affair discussions and the Micro FA team does not have a say in Macro Affair discussions. Once again this is because different alliance require different approaches to foreign affairs. As such the more "temperamental" government won't cause any issues or scenes with top alliances. 3.) We'll be changing our Protectorate Program, "The Circle", to have protectorates and vassals. Protectorates are alliances that no longer need hands on oversight from The Coven and are free to manage relations with others and handle their own affairs. Vassals are alliances that either have fresh leaders or inadequate government and will have required oversight to better protect their membership. We're committing to this change as some of our former protectorates thought we were "overbearing" while others had little knowledge of our resources except for our countering ability. We hope this distinction will help future allies understand our involvement with them beforehand rather than an appearance of "overlord" later down the road. Military Affairs 1.) The Coven is removing it's policy of countering spy-operations that target to gather intelligence or assassinate spies. Spy operations that targets infra or military will still be seen as an attack on the member nation. If a nation is caught spy-wiping or gathering intelligence we hope that the host alliance take charge and punish the member. The hope is to move away from the idea of an overly aggressive alliance where we act as judge jury and executioner. 2.) The Coven will begin to accept requests from raiders to hit inactive applicants (1 month+ inactivity). If a raider hits an applicant without requesting first regardless of activity they are subject to being countered. The Aurora conflict started because Borealis members complained and spammed us for being countered after hitting an inactive applicant. We hope that the implementation of this new rule will avoid those issues with other alliances. For questions or more information please feel free to join our FA server and make a ticket. I apologize in advance to those coming here only to complain. o/ The Coven

YES!!! Finally someone that understands what good additions to the game are. My issue is you have a project that takes $3k worth of Item A and converts it into $5K worth of Item B. Let's fix that by adding what this game is desperately missing, a resource sink. Example: New Category - Government/Facilities All Buildings Require Power Library (3 Max) - Reduces Disease & Crime by 1% Upkeep 3 Lead/Day (for the pencils) 3 Oil/Day (For the night oil) Transfer Station (1 Max) - Keeps your City powered for 3 turns if you accidentally run out of fuel Upkeep - 4 Oil/Day / 4 Iron/Day (only during use) City Park (3 Max) - Each Park adds an additional 200 Land to each city. Upkeep - X Food/Day 5 Coal/Day 5 Bauxite/Day Senate (1 Max) - Reduces the cost of all Non Government/Facility Improvements by 25% Upkeep - 150 Food/Day 5 of each Resource/Day

TLDR for these projects: 1.) ITC wasn't good enough for the whales at 125% commerce. So suffer a 15% penalty on all those sweet farms you have to get an extra 9% commerce. 2.) We don't know how to add proper resource sinks so here's a project and a gold star for it. 3.) As long as you aren't a sheltered RP player please enjoy a free C30. 4.) Spend $400m so you get a slightly larger chance to get proof that Rose is stat-padding spy kills on you.

TL;DR - Welcome Cataclysm / Mayhem /Bourbon Street to "Witch Trials". After 99942 Apophis was called in to defend Aurora/Borealis, The Hive, Legion of Dawn, Convent of Atom & Company from they sheer overwhelming force of The Coven it was only a matter of time before even 99A was unable to keep the witches at bay. It seems that I have failed in keeping to my word as a leader and as a reporter in staying out and away from hegemonies. The Coven has turned into one so strong that now Cataclysm, Mayhem and Bourbon Street have come to defend 99A who have defended Aurora. While Cataclysm shows you 1 war, here are the wars from 99A on The Coven in support of Aurora: https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1661895 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1661898 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1662317 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1662428 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1662690 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1662472 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1663443 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1663974 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1663985 https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1664031 We see this issue as a problem with chaining, alliance communication and how strong the hegemony is of The Coven. Because of this The Coven initiates the following chain... Seeing how Aurora/Borealis has an ODP with 99942 Apophis... Seeing how 99942 Apophis has an ODP with Cataclysm... Seeing how Cataclysm has an ODoAP with Knights Templar... Seeing how Knights Templar has a MDoAP with Requiem... Seeing how Requiem has a ODP with House Stark... Seeing how House Stark has an MDoAP with The Fighting Pacifists... Seeing how The Fighting Pacifists have an MDP with The Coven... The Coven declares war on The Coven to protect it's totally legitimate linking allies. With the power of all these great alliances and The Coven we shall defeat The Coven!

TL;DW/R - The Coven declares war on Aurora/Borealis The Coven recognizes hostilities from all Midgard participants I tried. I opened up to gov of Aurora like Xi and Pepper to try and put grudges and issues behind us. Issues between Aurora and The Coven constantly arose, from issues between Western Republic and The Coven, to issues between Roman Empire and The Coven. Each time we did what we could in FA, we discussed things and tried to find amicable solutions. Only thing we found however was jokes. With the recent attacks of Borealis on members of The Coven from spy-ops to bad counters to daily raids of our members we couldn't allow alliances, no matter how big or small, to continue to treat us like a play thing. Upon trying, one final time to reach a proper and amicable solution, Borealis member decided to continue to send attacks, spy-ops and more on members of The Coven, including the creation of their own "Bully Alan" award. We're done. I'd say the adage of "Shame on me" applies here. However after the 7th "Fool me" it's no longer about what Aurora/Borealis does. It's a lack of action on our behalf. We acknowledge that this is a slaughter. We wish to see how long, however, these parties are willing to take it. We've taken abuse from them for months. Time to repay the favor.

Why not make the timer 0 for all cities? What's the point of having a timer at all? Why have it start at 15 instead of 20? 25? New players can buy credits for C10 and then have to actually learn how the game works. This doesn't add or change anything except making it easier for people to mass build during a war. My vote is "No".

Have an objective, (#3-7) that requires players to click on the P&W game rules tab. This will mandate that everyone see the rules page and will then make it their fault should they break game rules.

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=523848 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516533 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=518981 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=523848

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=531650 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=531531 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=531533 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=531536 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=531642 Nation E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=531650 Nation F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=531982 Nation G - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=532226 Nation H - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=532241 Nation I - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=532244

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=526685 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=524160 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=525431 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526681 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526683 Nation E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526685 Nation F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526687 Nation G - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526689 Nation H - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526691 Nation I - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526695 Nation J - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526696 Nation K - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=527097 Nation L - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=528380 Nation M - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=526692 Funds were transferred from "Hasibara Clan", an alliance that was building multi farms, to the main member from Arrgh and subsequently other multi banks after that (for over $550m). Each of these "pop-up alliances" are being self funded by the multi and then, once the alliances are founded immediately deleting their cities to become C2 raiders. Funds are then being sent to an unknown nation via alliance bank transfers. The farm since the 26th has made about $310m not including the $550m from Hashibara clan and others.

Simply didn't change his discord name. The entire alliance is multis.

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=379235 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=379235 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=379813 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=380453 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=381721 Nation E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=384185 Nation F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=519880

The Micro-Minute is very pleased with the drama and meme quality content from RIR. We wish that it only continues until Rome and Rome beat Rome and create a better Rome for Rome.

Sir, this man is 2 decades older than you.... I think he knows when he's off his meds.

I think Tiberius said it himself the best.... Though tbf @ToxicPepper I've been raiding his members too and we didn't get an RoH. So you guys are just better.

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=524422 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521056 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521137 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=524110 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=524137 Nation E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=524144 Nation F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=524422

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=497891 Could be a family. Just need it verified. Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=497891 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=508151 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=519988

Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516743 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=496212 Sweetheart trading and a final bank dump for the main account. (Probably couldn't trade it over.)

Too many sets I got lazy and didn't do pictures. Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=519734 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=519734 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=520412 Set B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=498491 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=498491 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=498795 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=499405 Set C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=521301 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=364446 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=428709 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521301 Set D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=521567 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=400730 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521567 Set E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=521651 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=111831 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521651

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=520462 Just a duplicated account. Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=519588 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=520462 Set B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=463959 Possible Multis/Possible Siblings or relatives Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=463959 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=503557

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=516956 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=399871 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516956 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=518935

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=523236 (This could be siblings/relatives). Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=417700 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=523236

Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=514902 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514902 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514953 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=515031 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=515124 Nation E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=515178 Nation F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516760 Nation G - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516974 Nation H - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=517219 Nation I - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521919 Set B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=514610 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514610 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=517626 Set C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=514577 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=421144 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514518 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514577 Nation D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514714 Nation E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=514956 Nation F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=515409 Nation G - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516593 Set D - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=415078 (This set may be unverified siblings/relatives) Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=415078 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=511484 Set E - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=495257 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=495257 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516055 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=516371 Set F - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=517281 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=517281 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=522650

Multi Set A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/unique/id=387953 Nation A - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=257798 Nation B - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=387953 Nation C - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=521962 Inappropriate Content - https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=523326