Alastor

ahhh ok now it all makes sense. You're the alliance harboring him. No further questions.

Nothing happens if you don't make it happen.

the phrase "virtue signaling" has got to be one of the dumbest new ways that people have come up with to try and shut down discussions regarding ethical action. It's okay to discuss and openly proclaim what you believe is right and wrong. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The only people who want to discourage a discussion on ethics are the people violating those same ethical principles.

Sorry, the cheaters have exploited to such an extent that they are in top 0.01% range and only other pixel-hugging whales can hit them (read: they won't.)

Because we all know, proven through history, that staying quiet and never speaking out will accomplish all your goals. Thank you for this pledge to silence the plebians, working class, do-gooders, awareness-raisers, and generally good people. How dare someone try to speak out against toxic community practices like city deletion or outright cheating? Castille is rolling France next MP session.

Anything works tbh. I'd say Elijah is as alienated as he can get though.

Thanks for your troll. I'm sure it will continue to build upon your beautiful public image.

reporting a bug is one thing, being caught and refusing to give up the other parties involved and somehow still getting immunity is another.

Technically correct but hopefully you'll pledge against it. I'm all about being useful Your pledge has been noted!

Players of Orbis, With this recent update of a total lack of anyone being held responsible for their actions, I find it necessary to make this post. Make your pledge here to stop slot filling, money purchases, keno scams, baseball botting, trade/war botting, resource spawning, manwah trading, dungeons full of chinese children creating nations for you, and any other form or fashion of bending/breaking rules that may fall within a "technicality" but are unethical exploitations of the game.

Hey congrats on one year! Carthago delecta Est!

PnW is a great game that I’ve spent countless hours grinding, raiding, farming, politiking, and most importantly forming a core group of friends that has transcended this game. jk. Alex please don’t nerf raiding.

because the last war was just yet another example in a long string of wars that the mechanics are fundamentally flawed. It just happens to be the most recent and probably best example. There will be no update or mechanical change that can change wartime morale. You either care about your pixels or you don't, a healthy interest in a game that you play isn't a bad thing. We saw NPO+company repeatedly over the years reach a damage "threshold" that they didn't care if they kept 'losing'. Conversely last war they won but weren't satisfied with their threshold of winning so they sat on everyone instead. A toxic group like that could potentially rise again and abuse the mechanics, again. There's probably bad gov people out there right now discussing how NPO's attrition strategy was "cruel but effective." Changing the score formula to only hurt raiders won't help that. Changing rebuy rates to help the entire game as a whole will help that. You guys need to climb out of the echo chamber and do some of your own math sometimes. Lowering casualties and raising rebuy rates gives war a tactical meaning to it other than a quick blitz-and-sit for 5 days. There's more to this game than your once a year wars where it's only about the spreadsheet damage stats, the quicker you grasp this the quicker PnW will stop seeing 2/3rds attrition rate from global wars.

itt: the losers from the previous expressing how they don't want it be easier to fight back in a losing war, after being sat on for the better part of an irl year. But yes, we don't know "what the frick" we're talking about. Instead of a positive update for the whole game, Alex is now uploading a full nerf to raiding again onto the test server.

Could we get a numeric value for what "nerfing planes against tanks" means please?

Getting players from Swamp who barely understand the log in mechanics, let alone the war mechanics, to come brigade the vote doesn't mean the update isn't warranted. When the "majority" don't even go to war except once per five years, I don't think they should get a vote.

Two or three coordinated attackers can typically zero out an opponents planes in a blitz. So no, I don't see wars being a back and forth from this update. It will just help close the gap between skill/knowledge/effort and timing.

You do realize that more cities *should* give you an advantage in a war... right? Downdeclaring isn't some inherently game-breaking thing, and a score boost to cities would restrict down-declaring moreso than it already is. A faster rebuy is good for everyone because it helps nations get back in the game quicker.

I'm sorry, didn't we just have a year-long global war where your side won because the "whales" couldn't beat out the zerg-swarm of Roqbots with 18-20 cities? Where the whole game who wasn't on your side joined together and still got held down because of the broken war mechanics... Your premise is, sorry to be rude, stupid. I don't appreciate you trying to further worsen the game by attempting to block the first genuinely good update in two years. I hope Alex can see the results of the poll and finally recognize it's time for change to come to Orbis that benefits all nations, not just updates that nerf raiders or buff sub-10 city "players" in GPWC.

... who asked for this change? edit: no thanks to 1/4th.

It shouldn't be as powerful as attacking aircraft with aircraft imo. Just something that can help edge out planes. For example - two nations at war. One has the advantage in the air, the other on the ground. If the Air-advantaged nation isn't paying attention you can double-buy planes and do four ground attacks and suddenly you've evened the playing field.

100k per city seems relatively fair. It'll help the lower tiers more which is fine.

I honestly never thought I'd see the day when the war system would begin to be balanced. I love it Alex.

Great idea. Yes, this^ Soldiers are an effective meta for raiding but to be fair to the game, I don't think they should counter planes.

Honestly all of your advice is just to mitigate the risk of investment in shady banks with little or no transparency. Just don't invest in people you don't trust, you don't need to avoid banks.