[Game Development Discussion: Perks]

Changes to like 7 year old mechanics is nice, looking forward to it

[War Rewrite, Test Server Tournament, and Loads of Other Changes! - June 2023 Update]

Eta on commodities?

[8th Arrghiversary!]

Where da raid auction?

 

[Planes or death]

Honestly I think there's better ways to approach this then taking a step back 33% plane nerf with gc, doesn't mean anything when you get blitzed just means if your not on fortress you've loss the fight and prepare to be held down and maybe lob some nukes

Some perk access which has been mentioned, or a defensive buff could work but both have their issues, be it balancing or encouraging people to let the fight come to them

 

I'm all in favor for going back to old dynamics, would make my strat of not having tanks even more op.

 

[{DoW} One Taste, And you'll know.]

In a Banking office located in the outskirts of Orlando, a phone rang. It was picked up and answered with a "Hello, this is Chris," followed by a curt "Understood," and ending with a sharp click.

Several more phones rang that day, all of them followed by an eerily similar process, a person answering the phone  followed by an unsatisfying click.

Within a day, several people stood inside a barracks which used to be the Stratosphere Marine Corps HQ. A bright yellow "Coming Soon" sign fluttered in the wind. Inside, Arcturus was picking at a dirty kitchen utensil while listening to the man who had called them all back. 

Dusty pointed down the street, where, in the distance, a Waffle House emblem was lit up. Waffle House was trying to make an attempt at a resurgence. They all knew, there was no need for an explanation. The barracks which had formerly been held by these attempters, had now been seized by the former Los Pollos Hermanos owners. It was a clear message.... They began working quickly, with Hemlock tossing out a dirty waffle iron, Tugger throwing out an obsolete griddle, and the two of them moving in the fryer.

Los Pollos Hermanos, Stratosphere Marine Corps Franchise, declares war on Waffle House.

One taste, and you'll know...

[Changing spy information to be public]

18 hours ago, Prefontaine said:

Simple question, should the number of spies a player has be viewable like other unit types? This used to be the case, but was changed to add increased secrecy to spies. Due to data collection and bots though, most of this information is accessible to those players with access to that data collection.  

Why not make everything private, add some mystery to blitzing? Kill military score and let everyone just hit blindly/ make it so Intel reveals troops. and get rid of chances on spy's.

 

Irl nations don't always boost units why should we

[[Test server] Let's just clarify...]

dnn

[Spy rebuild, function, and Satellite project changes.]

On 7/29/2022 at 6:03 AM, Prefontaine said:

The total cannot exceed your maximum number of spies. I'll add that tidbit to the OP. So if you have 10 active, and no spy projects you can only have 40 in reserve.

Edit;already answered I like the idea 

[The Grand Coalition (half game wide MDP)]

Mmm I was like shit now that's neat-tfed gov(could be down🥸)

 

 

[Mystery (Merge)]

It was a bittersweet moment. As 6 men sat around one of the yellow tables in Los Pollos Hermanos(Store #5235) behind them stood several others.

Leo looked at the surrounding crowd of familiar faces, so many who had been on this journey with him, Craft, Zych, Surprise, Papa *Redacted due to Politics* and so many more, some newer, and many more older. Tugger finally spoke his words crisp and to the point, "Well, there's far too many here for the vacuum cleaner exit", the crowd chuckled at his remark. Continuing he said "We have all had a very profitable time, even if brief. But our friends in the DEA are catching up and, it is no longer the time to be so bold with our strategies-", Arc-Black cut him off "Do you have a plan or will we be turning on each other" he took a quick glance at Dusty and Chris, both who would be quick to take advantage of any situation, even at the disadvantage of others. Tugger chuckled saying "Yes I have a plan my friend, I have never not. We shall be hiding, soon 10 Los Pollos Hermanos Trucks shall arrive, in which we shall split up, and cross the border into The Federation-" Pausing he took a breath "I am good friends with the king, and for a small fee we shall be taken care of like royalty, and we shall do what we do best." A few of the cooks chuckled to that with agreement. Finishing his long monologue tugger continued- "We will no longer be limited to just some of the South West, we shall be global. It was providence that brought us together, and providence that necessitates that we move on to bigger and better things." Perfectly timed to this the trucks begin to arrive, ODanny stood first, grabbing his 7 bags, others quickly following suit, all eager to make more.  

-Los Pollos Hermanos is merging into The Federation-

Los Pollos Hermanos;Tugger, Dusty, Chris, Pst-Leo, ODannyboy, Arcturus, Craft, Zych, Surprise, MARS, Killer, Declassified, Papa, Dmitri, 5267s, Jeager, Andru, Meow, Dansmixia, Hemlock, KingAri, Jdizzle, Ozy, Thunderlizard, TuTu

 

The Federation

Kosta, King

George the Destroyer, Prince

Khronox, Hand of the King & Lord of the Coin

Shohan, Lord Ambassador

Jack Poe, Lord Marshal

James Yap, Lord Steward

 

 

 

[[RoH] The First Taste is Free...]

Oooh round two let's gooooo wafflez

[Poll: Baseball Profits Hard Cap]

You forgot the no cap vote option

4 hours ago, Alex said:

I'm fine with that, though I don't know that a "math" captcha is secure enough.

I agree on this point; I was sympathetic to this argument in the past (it's a tool for losers to recoup) but I agree that with Rewarded Ads, you can still achieve this but without baseball. Plus, if you can find a way to effectively bot rewarded ads, the only person you're defrauding is the ad company, so it's a non-issue.

I don't play the game to watch ads...., I play it to watch meaningless pixels

[I Scraped Everyone's* Unit Kill Ratios And Here's What I Found (sponsored by DNN)]

13 hours ago, hidude45454 said:

*Everyone that's currently active or in an alliance, idgaf about the rest lmao!

Sponsored by DNN: https://discord.gg/MDYdBkzFh4

The full sheet, if anyone wants to check it out: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1n0w9tpZIKI_dAdSm2p6PHjDIEAQvxGkmjspNG_Ebs44/edit#gid=914942025

In a moment of boredom I scraped the soldiers/tanks/planes/ships kills/losses of everyone in the game and compiled a bunch of ratios and statistics for your enjoyment. The sheet is pretty self-explanatatory but I screenshotted all the stats anyways just to go into some analysis/explanation of what they mean.

Kill Loss Ratio Histograms:

Perhaps surprisingly, these histograms peak at about a 0.7-ish kill to loss ratio rather than at an exact 1:1 ratio. This suggests that there is a smaller group of better fighters in the game that can take advantage of a larger pool of worser fighters that skews the graphs. Note that the final peak in all graphs is from all the people who are in the range from the cutoff point to the maximum ratio in that unit (presumably mostly from the raiders in the C1-9 range).

Kill Loss Ratio Medians:

The overall median and tier-based medians more or less seems to confirm this. Theory: The median of tank, plane, and ship kill ratios increases the higher tiers we get because of 1) Generally more experienced members in higher ranges, and 2) More downdeclaring potential to kill more units.

Kill Loss Ratio Percentages:

How to read this graph: for ex. if you are a C15 with a 1.2 tank kill loss ratio, that is saying your ratio is better than about 70% of people in that range (not bad!)

Kills Per City Trends

I used the log of unit kills per city rather than the unit kills per city itself because without it the graphs looked super ugly, lmk if that wasn't the right approach. Here I was curious if lower city nations could pound for pound compete with higher city nations based on kills per city, and from looking at the highest points at each city count the answer appears to be yes, but on the overall higher city nations generally trend higher anyways, probably mostly because they have played the game longer and therefore had more time to kill units.

Best and Worst Ratios in Each Tier and Overall

Fairly self-explanatory, feel free to tag yourself or your friends who made these lists! 😉 For the overalls, I wanted it to actually look kinda like a legit list so I filtered it only to people with 5m+ soldier losses, or 100k+ tank losses, or 7k plane losses, or 1k+ ship losses (thanks to Ramona for the thresholds.)

Outliers

Some people might be wondering how tf some people's ratios are so high. As two examples, MIBHG Country (the first linked nation) has built less than 200k soldiers in 2500+ days, and Dusty (the second linked nation) has built literally zero tanks since rerolling (lmao). Obviously neither of these people are particularly good at fighting but have good ratios because of these choices regardless. This is the case with quite a few people, especially the lower you go with raiders and stuff who also primarily target lots of people who don't really know how to fight back. So, just a note that ratios don't mean everything (and I care about total unit kills anyways, but PnW already has a leaderboard for that 😉)

 

Note: I have no experience with statistics classes, so pls no kill if I did something wrong (but please point it out!) Feel free to suggest any additional fun data points to scrape and I will do my best to fill all interesting suggestions.

Not particularly good? that hurts me deep🥺, I like my tankless memes

 

[[RoH] 1 Star Yelp Review]

5 hours ago, Keji II said:

Btw this is the best lore to a RoH i ever since in my life, 10/10, their oranges are organic and so tasty

 

BUT

Am letting alex know that you have alt accounts, sorry, but i will not let an extra free my month of vip disappear from my hands

Good good, if Borg can't make a joke by golly we can't let citrus and his multis get away with it either

[[RoH] 1 Star Yelp Review]

Yo @CitrusKI don't think you've managed to destroy a single one of my tanks based off that ss

[Some pretty serious allegations regarding borg and his scripts]

1 minute ago, Murat said:

He deleted the messagesl ater. Borg wouldn't have done it if he was joking.

Dunno have you never made a joke and realized it may have been in poor taste, then deleted it. 

[(DoW)Los Pollos Hermanos now offering Lemon Pepper, Orange, and Sweet and Sour Chicken!]

21 minutes ago, J Kell said:

Here, hope this helps.

 

That will be added to the menu when we revise it, that looks like a quality dish.

[(DoW)Los Pollos Hermanos now offering Lemon Pepper, Orange, and Sweet and Sour Chicken!]

4 hours ago, Insert Name Here said:

Lmao the Fear and Ob vs Fark was an even numbered war (and we had already hit WTF), I guess we're just too good that they needed to bring in a bunch of nations more (not to mention we're also fighting UPN) to avoid getting trampled.

Good luck on your brave and beautiful war.

Ohh ye, very out numbered.... But you have citrus... We must attack citrus. There's very little things that get me up in the morning but citrus is one☺️

[(DoW)Los Pollos Hermanos now offering Lemon Pepper, Orange, and Sweet and Sour Chicken!]

Just now, Joe Schmo said:

lol idk what this is supposed to mean but gl hf

 To add context/a tldr, we are declaring war on Citrus and only Citrus😬☺️

[(DoW)Los Pollos Hermanos now offering Lemon Pepper, Orange, and Sweet and Sour Chicken!]

We here at Los Pollos Hermanos know a few things, chicken, that hitting citrus is hilarious, and of course that doing things the old way, the right way is best.

We believe in our hearts that @CitrusK does not have enough chicken in his life, and as such we shall do our duty to serve him his chicken with a extra little blue something on the side.

Sincerely,

Tugger, Chris, Leo, ODanny, Dusty

"One Taste, and you'll know"

 

[Blatant Slot Filling]

On 1/5/2022 at 11:01 AM, Alex said:

Sorry for the delayed response. Can you link to the specific war (or wars) you are reporting?

Also, a reminder, this is a no-discussion subforum.

Sorry for my delay as well

https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1168527
https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1168196
https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1168113
https://politicsandwar.com/nation/war/timeline/war=1168087

 

I just copied a hand full of the wars there are about 20-30+ wars that look like this

Also to add to it, less then two weeks later they have now begun to rejoin weebs

[2021 Alliance Award Nominations]

Alliance of the Year: Cata
Most Improved Alliance:
Best Rookie Alliance:Los Pollos Hermanos
Best Alliance for New Players:
Most Likely to Succeed in 2022:
Most Likely to be Rolled in 2022:
Most Honorable Alliance:
Most Immoral Alliance:
Best Fighting Alliance:
Worst Fighting Alliance:Rose
Best Alliance Growth: Empire of Romans
Best Foreign Affairs Team:
Best Foreign Affairs Move:
Worst Foreign Affairs Move:
Alliance with Best Propaganda:
Most Missed Alliance:
Best Alliance Flag (please link😞
Best Holiday Flag (please link):Los Pollos Hermanos Christmas

[2021 Player Award Nominations]

Player of the Year:
Most Influential Player:
Most Likely to Succeed in 2022:
Best Alliance Leader:Tugger
Worst Alliance Leader:
Best In-Character Poster:
Best Villain:
Nicest Player:
Most Controversial Player:
Most Missed Player:
Best Fighter:
Best Nation Page:

[Blatant Slot Filling]

1 hour ago, Anri said:

As you can clearly see the wars were fought out in the beginning resulting in roughly 500m damage dealt to each party. Idk what kind of slotfilling involves taking 500m in damage but I digress. We then reached a peace agreement in which we would be beiged out. The "randomly hitting people" is us raiding as we are no longer affiliated to Weebunism.

Cool, 500m damages is a drop, you reached a agreement of single ship beige that in the past has been considered to be slot filling, my group can't counter while you get single shipped beiged by an alliance you were formerly part of... That's slot filling. If it was still full force fighting it wouldn't be, but the fact that there's a agreement to do minimal damage and minimal unit kills rather then peacing out or allowing a natural end to the wars, from my perspective is slot filling, if mods disagree we will take our losses but we can't counter a major down Dec while y'all sit and get single shipped out by your former allliance

[Blatant Slot Filling]

7 hours ago, JadenStar10 said:

Lmao, this isn't slot filling.

 

It hits most parts of it, minimal damages to former members, no one can hit them.... Dunno how that's not, people have been handed strikes fo less., If there's other stuff going on that I don't know cool, but from the perspective that I can't counter while weebs single ship them, causing minimal damage, not fighting the wars, cases with less have been moderated. It's for sheepy to decide🤷