Alastor

I'm quoting Keshav and being facetious about the ten years thing.

ODN didn't deserve to be left holding the bag for Pacifica's cheating and GOONS's doxxing. Congrats on peace ODN.

Stopping before driving the totality of Pacifica from the game? Sounds like something you'll look back on in ten years and regret. Oh wait, nevermind. No one will give a frick about video game decisions in ten years.

Not to continue "toxicity on both sides", but NPO never changed leadership once during their entire time in PnW. Roquentin was alpha and omega of the NPO foreign policy, the NPO grudges, and the NPO directive of isolation. He isolated communities, manipulated the information they had access to in order to foster grudges and hatred, and ultimately formed a suicide cult where they all deleted in a ragequit response to fair moderation. NPO as a whole had the same people in charge the entire time, never changing their minds on anything, allying vast swathes of the game and creating an unplayable political field. The warning signs were there, the people who decried NPO back then were told to give them another chance. Even after the "For Steve" BS war in CN, NPO were given chances. This wasn't a case of "be nicer to both sides" this was a clearcut case of an alliance that should've been rolled out of existence but the warning signs were ignored. edit: I'm hopeful for the future of PnW without the blight that NPO represented. Sorry to their members who were just following orders.

Given the utter excess of new player focused projects and updates, I would be interested in hearing from the community on what kind of end-game content (city 20+) stuff we could add? Things that come to mind just from "real world examples" where larger nations have access but smaller nations likely won't/don't. World Congress - Every nation city 20+ gains membership into a world Congress. Every month, on the first of the month, a vote comes up to provide an 3x multiplier to the income bonus for your team color. The reason we use a multiplier to the income bonus is so people don't all bandwagon onto a color every month like we saw with Treasure Island. At max, this would provide an extra 2.7m per day income. Security Council - Every nation city 20+ gets access to the security council. Similar to the World Congress, security Council members vote once a month to reduce military upkeep for a color bloc by 5%. Nations can only receive this bonus for 30 out of every 90 days (once every three months) to discourage color-hopping. Nuclear disarmament treaty - A national project requiring 25 cities. Nuclear weapons upkeep and production costs double (+100%), receive a 2% flat income bonus. Green New Deal - Project that requires 25 cities. Reduces pollution in all your cities by 100 points. Moon Base - Requires the Space Program and Moon Landing projects. Allows your country to establish a base on the moon to conduct science experiments and develop new technology. Airstrikes do 5% more infrastructure damage, Naval attacks have a greater chance to destroy an improvement, Ground Attacks steal 5% more loot, Defensive spy ops are 5% more successful. I would like to hear people's ideas and maybe brainstorm about the details before we make individual suggestion threads for all the good ideas.

I don't feel like you're addressing my questions, but I don't want to further derail your thread. This project is decent on its own merits.

Raiders, hear me out: This will make all the war dodging raid targets have more non-taxed loot.

Lower casualties and/or raise spy maximum limit. I like OP's idea too.

This is an essential update that needs to be added ASAP for military coordination purposes.

I think the complaint that Bjorn is attempting to articulate is that the people who have invested a lot of time into this game don't want to see catch-up mechanics that make it so "casual" players can catch up to them within a few months. If you're speedy and with cooperative alliance mates, you can hit city 30 within a year already. City 30 is basically the "end game" right now but we have a handful that have gone beyond that. The main playerbase is sitting between city 12-25. We're all rapidly approaching the "end game" where there's nothing for us except watching new players get more and more catch-up mechanics. Again, I'm not opposed to this particular project - but it brings up the repeat issue that the people who actually pour their time and effort into this game are being ignored and told "they have enough".

I think this will benefit older players and newer players so it's fine.

Looks fine on the surface but I have to ask when we'll stop adding catchup mechanics? I think the past year or two has shown that a coordinated effort by new players can already serve up a challenge to the existing community that has been playing for years. PnW's population needs new blood, I agree. We can do more to retain new people, yes. I don't think adding extra catch-up mechanics will further help this goal.

Anyone else think it’s ironic that the elite bankers are swaying legal decisions in PnW? this is a very accurate political sim.

what

and I'm just posting memes bruh. Congrats on the #1 spot

I cannot get this image to actually embed.

We've brought down the Guinea Pig menace from the #1 spot but at what cost? Selling ourselves out to Coca Cola? The shame. This is a public service announce sponsored by Michelle Obama: SODA IS UNHEALTHY AND HORRIBLE FOR YOU. WE NEED TO FIGHT OBESITY AT ITS ROOTS - THE DIET OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN!

As I mentioned to other former Pacificans I will mention to you: The Old Guard sold NPO out to their enemies in exchange for a "win". NPO is run by former vanguard who have raised an entirely new generation into something other than the lost civilization once known as Pacifica.

Please just give the "elite whale overlords 1%" thing a rest. It's been debunked so often and in so many ways, you're beating a dead horse and alienating Camelot in the process.

Not to be overtly rude but you've earned mine and the community's skepticism on pretty much any announcement / happening.

See linked image. I can't tell if this is duplicate notifications/bug-worthy or what

Paperless doesn't have to mean neutral or isolationist. You can have friends based on relationships. Those relationships can also dissolve once those friendships go their separate ways. That is, in fact, one of the key tenets of being paperless. You move on from relationships that aren't working, you aren't bound by a silly treaty ad eternum. Too many alliances these days pick a sphere and sign an alliance and forget about them until war rolls around. The little ones do it for protection, the big ones do it to have pawns in their chess match.

Jazz has a habit of lying for attention. This is just yet another fake announcement from goons.

I would urge the community to not remember BK as the combative forum presence of Leo/Mad Titan. Instead remember the glory days of Shifty's ministry of propaganda, photoshopped treaty signatures, Ayy Lmao, Ayyliens, the Obsidian Order, Curbstomping UPN/Rose/Acadia repeatedly even though they always "blitzed" first, Stratton Oakmont, Yosonet, the list could go on... BK has been around longer than most, it's sad to see the alliance officially disband. It was the first place I was a member of when I joined PnW and it was a great time while I was there. Special shout out to the greats who may or may not still be in the alliance as it breathes its last: @Curufinwe you were always genuinely intelligent and though our opinions have differed since you became Emperor/retired from Emp, I will always fondly remember you as one of the great Foreign Affairs minds in PnW. @LordStrum you were perhaps the most inactive Emperor I'd ever experienced under any alliance gov, but you had class and a sexy voice. BK flourished under your benign neglect, and was likely the last "Golden Age" before the descent began. @Yosodog You'll always be the true leader of BK to me. You were a great dude, fun to chat with, and you created some fantastic software for alliance organization. You brought BK from 2000's spreadsheets into 2020 workflow and you deserve all the love. @丂ħ̧i̧₣ɫ̵γ͘ ̶™ I had to copy/paste your forum name into a notepad and back to the forums to actually ping you and I hate you for that. You brought about some of the best and most iconic propaganda/photoshop works in all of PnW. @Psweet Stratton Oakmont and your internal BK bank was one of the first banks in PnW, you set the standard for how private banks should operate and ran it with expertise and professionalism. SO was instrumental in the early days of my nation in growing and flourishing while maintaining BK's MMR. @Tiber @Zoot @Taco and countless others who deserve special mention, you all rock but I'm running out of time to type. One last Ayy Lmao for the road.