[Orbis, let's have a chat.]

Agreed, well said.

[Let's Dance]

o/ To our friends at Durmstrang. It was awesome getting to know you and working with you for this short period of time. Best wishes! You will never be forgotten!

[A light in the Void]

19 minutes ago, Insert Name Here said:

Where do I fill out the application form to steal Pantheon's bank? Apparently it's what all the cool kids are doing these days.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuaGf304Tp1uU39LOjYYfIstuuD1ClCTPe992jn1a6Xr5RTA/viewform?usp=sf_link

[Rose Treaty Annoucement]

It's been a few months now and I am really enjoying the dynamics and challenges being the leader of Rose has brought. After settling in, we've decided to make a slight turn on our FA journey. Rose values all of our treaties, and our allies play a role in shaping the future of our alliances. At this moment, Rose has decide to focus in on our current allies, and seek to take new risks and meddle in uncharted territory.

Part of this process is evaluating our old ties and making sure we can both be beneficial to each other. Today, Rose will be cutting ties with Nuke Bloc, by ending our ties with the World Task Force. It's been an honor to fight and work alongside them during my time as leader, and there is so much history in our relationship. The original treaty was signed in 2015, long before many of our members (including myself) were even a part of the picture.

With our 72-hour notice provided on Sunday, the treaty has been cancelled at the time of posting. We wish them the best of luck going forward.

 

Signed for Rose,

Sovereign, Dynamic

Regent, J.A. Goldington

Vizer of State, Mhearl

Vizer of State, Ameyuri

 

tl;dr - Rose cancels our treaty with World Task Force, effectively ending a long relationship between Rose and NB.

[Continuing death of democracy]

38 minutes ago, Thalmor said:

Rose and I think UPN has democratic elements too. Cornerstone did as well, but they disbanded a few months ago.

To OP: Alliances in this game that have lots of democracy tends to be trash. Even the most successful 'democratic' alliances in this game tend to be garbage compared to other alliances. Alliances have to be fairly authoritarian to get shit done (unless they're smaller and more 'elite', like TEst or tC).

Yep, Rose has some slight democratic elements. We hold elections for the leader every 6 months, and they are limited to 2 terms. The leader can do pretty much whatever, except change the election procedure. The leader picks the cabinet and sets the direction of policy.

This model works and you'll find it in a few other alliances, but voting on every policy or trying to build a consensus on everything will just waste time. Never hurts to ask your members for input, though!

[Pantheon is back in the game :D]

1 minute ago, Kastor said:

No one can read your logs, mate.

[Orbis World Security Advisory System (And other news)]

Neat, I like it! Good luck with this!

[Breaking News from the Shifty News Network]

$34 billion gone...

 

Time to declare martial law

[By The Way...]

The end of the war marks the beginning of a new era for Rose. A new government will set a new purpose for years to come. As we close the chapter of the Shogunates, we begin the steps to announce the Politeias of Rose. We are taking the steps necessary to define a new mission and build the future generation of Rose. We thank our Shoguns for raising us to the heights we have achieved today.

 

A New Identity

While the Imperial Japan theme served us well, we need something fresh. We are adopting a new theme based off of the ancient empires of Rome and Carthage. The names of our government positions are changing, and we have some new graphics on our alliance page.

A flag is an image of pride and history. It represents our alliance and our values. We have decided to opt for a new flag that represents our new theme. We will also be ditching our war and peace variants for a single, unifying flag:

https://i.imgur.com/Pt8GgzX.jpg

Special thanks to @Trent for working with us on this one. Props to him for the new graphics as well.

 

A New Charter

(yes, we really finished it this time)

We’ve gone back to our roots, and have laid out the workings of our alliance in a new charter. I invite you all to take a look here:

https://gdoc.pub/doc/e/2PACX-1vRPbaxfhFLJTj-6c-C1Rm8vFVuf-BzblX7-CIlFLAGezdzaKLLodNuErZ3Sj-pbQLdqfoldxJONwbdf

 

New Titles, New Beginning

The first in command is now the called Sovereign. Our second in command is now called the Regent, whose main purpose is to advise and assist the Sovereign. The high government ministers are now called Ephors, and low government is called Vizers. The Imperial Guard has been replaced with the Council of Demos, which shall serve as an informal advisory council.

 

As of today, here is our government lineup:

Leadership

Sovereign: Dynamic

Regent: J.A. Goldington

 

High Government

Ephor of State: J.A. Goldington

Ephor of Defense: Bopolo

Ephor of Interior: Tifa Lockhart

Ephor of Commerce: Mayor

 

I would like to express my gratitude to DtC Justice. He did an amazing job as Head of Milcom. I will miss his outgoing personality and the attention to detail he put into his work in high government. The Spymaster will be missed! However, he plans to stick around Rose to advise and tell his story!

I would like to thank Abbas for his service to Rose through these past few years. He had a great run and will be dearly missed. Abbas will be hitting vacation mode within the next few days. I personally wish him the best in his future endeavors. In the meantime, all foreign affairs requests should be directed to @Gold or @Mhearl.

 

Here’s to the Future!

 

Dynamic

[A CB explained, also flag, a very nice flag]

Dynamism is the only way

[A WiFi DoW]

3 minutes ago, Redarmy said:

I'll just wait for Comcast to throttle your WiFi. 

Where's Ajit when you need him....?

[Something Dynamic™]

Something Dynamic™

For far too long, this world has been ruled by tyrannical fanatics and greedy merchants. There is no place for a free man, such as myself, Dynamic. We must do everything possible to ensure the same dream of reaching the promise world is possible for all of us. Today, Rose is taking the steps necessary to ensure our world will never be compromised, and that success is achievable for all, no matter one's nation size or background.

 

War is a last resort, but it is the only way to ensure the dream of prosperity and domination is possible for all.

 

Rose declares war on Acadia and Cornerstone.

 

Signed,

1st - Dynamic

2nd - J.A. Goldington

 

Head of FA - SamohT

Head of War - DtC Justice

Head of IA - Tifa Lockhart

Head of Econ - Mayor

[Announcing Project Prometheus: a Saner API]

Sounds like a neat project! When I have to work with more detailed APIs I typically end up using PHP and making a POST request to login and then I use a CookieJar to hold onto my session data. Then I can just get about any page that I need. It's not the most efficient or the easiest thing to do since you have to parse the HTML yourself, but good luck and let me know if you need any help.

This would help us a lot if we could just make simple JSON calls through sheets script.

[A Wild Hippo Appears]

o/

[A Dynamic™ Rose Announcement]

So excited to be leading the next generation of Rose! Here's to the future!

[Management Lists Broken]

Hello,

The management lists have a bunch of empty entries that I presume are from deleted nations. While this is purely cosmetic, it would be nice to hide the broken entries as they do take up some space. Here is a photo:

Also, it would be cool to add remove buttons next to invitations so we didn't have to manually copy and paste names. The management list is located here: https://politicsandwar.com/alliance/manage/id=ALLIANCEID

Thanks in advance!

[API Suggestions Mega-Thread]

My request is very simple and particular that would be of help to a current spreadsheet project I'm working on.

Would it be possible to include the "offensivewars" and "defensivewars" indexes that are current found in the nation (singular) api and add it to the nations (plural) api? In other words can you add these keys from the nation api to the nation list api? Thanks.

[Redarmy's Campaign Wins the Rose Elections]

Can't wait to work with everyone this go around. Redarmy will lead us to number 1!

[Rose Elections and Foreign Affairs Update]

Didn't you kick Dynamic?

 

Yes I was kicked.

[Rose Elections and Foreign Affairs Update]

Can't wait to get started!