Jangles
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It's been suggested by @Sir Scarfalot I believe and it's been brought up a few times before that to have an escrow where you cant collect a bounty until after the blockade is over, but once it is over you can collect. Seems like a simple solution to make a broken mechanic meaningful.
edit: I see Scarf has already responded
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Dont play baseball, because it's not worth the carpal tunnel, and surely nobody would create a simple script to click through 250 baseball games.
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Stopped reading past the first sentences. Resources arent random, amd if you want to be independent raid resources from other players. If they deserved it they wouldnt lose.
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Why is Blacklight pretending to be Blackbird
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3) I also think not all bounties should be anonymous but rather come with a fee if a nation wishes to make them anonymous.
E.g., 20 mil anonymous bounty costs 40 mil to place
In order to prevent players from totally fighting anonymous proxy wars with bounties. It's a revenge mechanic, or a mechanic for the untouchables. Not an alternative to fighting. If a nation wants to bypass the fees they can still privately contact a swashbuckling alliance and be dealing with those people directly with their name in the air. No true anonymity without a fee.
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a suggestion to make bounties more interesting
1) Have bounties collectable during a blockade. Money goes to escrow if the nation is under a blockade.
2) Add bounty stats
Bounties Collected: X
Money Collected From Bounties: X
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Changes to the bounty system have been suggested a dozen times. It's pretty worthless right now. Just beige someone and "oh look they happen to have a bounty."
I don't know why after all this time Alex hasnt fixed bounties not collecting during a blockade. That alone kinda prevents the system from working as intended.
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I did it now give me the 10 mil or I nuke for violating our bounty agreement
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16 hours ago, Rin said:
How does Best Fighter not actually have the ones with the best stats?
Best fighter includers players who may have lower cities, may have been tackled but did way more damage than they ought to have, milcom players who gave out good targets. If it was stats alone we already have auto awards for those players.
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Player of the Year: Dryad
Most Influential Player: Partisan
Most Likely to Succeed in 2021:
Best Alliance Leader: Valkorion Baratheon
Worst Alliance Leader:
Best Government Member (not a leader): Changeup
Best General Member: Abbas
Most Missed Player:Marzipan
Best IC Poster:
Poster You Most Love to Hate:
Best Villain: Isjaki
Largest E-Peen: DtC Justice
Best Fighter: Isjaki
Best Raider: Murtaza
Most Controversial Player:
Player You’re Pretty Sure will be Playing in 2050:
Player that is Worst at Responding to DMs:
Best Player Avatar:
Best Player Signature: Sketchy
Best Nation Theme: Roberts
Best Nation Page Design: Marzipan-
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If you don't like an alliance simply don't join their discord.
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On 12/11/2020 at 7:58 AM, Ketya said:
What would you say the purpose of baseball? I am not playing the game long enough to have the context.
It gives you a little extra a day like the activity bonus but with an hour of clicking.
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I don't mean to brag but I scored a B- on my IQ test and I think I'd make you smarter.
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As a separate post so people can downvote and upvote accordingly.
I was thinking it would be a resource that nations save up for major wars. As an outline, 75% of uranium used by reactors is converted to DU, and the amount of DU used will be 5% of munitions consumption.
so a nation with 20 cities would produce only 18 Du a day
Soldiers will take 0.00001 of DU for a ground attack and a small amount for defensive battles (I can't find the values in the wiki for defensive usage) for a very small 5% boost to tanks killed
Tanks will take 0.0005 of DU while also using a very small amount for defensive battles with a 10% boost to tanks killed
As DU is armor penetrating Air vs Air or Air vs Soldiers would not use it, but aircraft could use 0.0125 DU for a ground or naval bombing making it expensive while also give a large 25% boost to tanks bombed and a 10% boost to ships destroyed.
Ships would take less DU as a %: 0.10 DU for a 10% boost.
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As uranium gets used by your reactors a small amount then converts to depleted uranium, and you may choose to use it in an attack to give your units a small boost similar to how you can choose whether soldiers use ammo. I don't want to get into the particular balance in this post just whether you guys think it would be a good concept. The concept being to introduce a resource that would dwindle in supply during the early stages of a global war, creating a certain milestone. Having it be rare enough that not everybody can afford to always use it, and to fight without it wouldn't be a guaranteed loss. And to add an extra element to the current war system.
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Great suggestion, but 500 mil is too high.
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I like the idea, but I think looting all defensive battles would be heavily tilted in favor of raiders or guerilla nations as counters spend a lot of ammo to keep those nations zeroed and blockaded, while raiding or launching missiles require very few resources. Being able to recover a portion of ammo after each defensive battle would make an already difficult task for counters, starving ammo, more difficult, and it would enable self-reliance without requiring a nation to be actively doing anything. I'd prefer that losses be recovered at the end of a war, or instead of limiting it to defensive battles it could be immense triumphs that return a small amount of ammo, steel, and aluminum so then you have to actually work for it.
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I dont think it matters whether an alliance dedicated to raiding are the "justified" side in this conflict. Real question is what did you guys expect to happen when you declared multiple unprovoked wars against an alliance whose members are always slot filled anyways and whose cities are already built for war. You're gonna wear me down from 400 infra and make me waste 2 of my 5 war slots on attrition?
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On 6/4/2020 at 4:55 AM, James XVI said:
How did the United States gain it's independence again?
By rallying the local governments of America to revolt against a tyrannical superpower that sought to reclassify colonists as non-Englishmen while in the meantime denouncing the aimless violence of mob-rule.
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https://politicsandwar.com/nation/id=44927
Good Hope is an alternatively financed international non-profit marine conservation organization that engages in direct action campaigns to protect the oceans of Orbis
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Swastikas were stylized in different ways. The Nazi one is something you'll see often on ancient artifacts and was also used by the 45th Infantry Division. If you're actually interested in an explanation of why swastikas are all over the place and why they died so quick in the west... and because I have nothing else to do... Short version is that as the western world began learning about the comparative method in linguistics they were able to link together and trace back the origins of all Indo-European languages such as Spanish, French, German, Hindi, Farsi, and English to a common proto language.
This started snowballing into scientific racism and every nation began making claims that they were the homeland of the Proto-Indo-European people who spoke this language. I wont get into Germany's claim to stardom too much but Germany was the home of the Corded Ware Culture thousands of years ago, and German intellectuals of course believed the Corded Ware people to be these mystifying Proto-Indo-Europeans or "Aryans". Recent findings show that the German homeland hypothesis is almost certainly not true.
The swastika comes into play as it was so common in almost every Indo-European religion: carved into stones, important religious sites, and displayed on ancient artifacts. It was the symbol of Zeus, Thor, Indra, Taranis, and Jupiter; a symbol of good weather, good fortune, good crops, power, peace, and lightning. The "comparative method" was half-haphazardly applied to the swastika, in much the same way it was applied to "Aryan", and the dissemination of the swastika across so many Indo-European cultures lead the racist academics of the time to assert that the swastika must have been an original symbol of the Proto-Indo-Europeans. An ancient symbol of a master race. Of course, the Nazis jumped on board.
After WW2 and the Holocaust any mention of PIE would result in an academic 's findings being ignored, entertaining the possibility of an ancient European invasion of India lost you any credibility, and good luck paying for a study like that... After all, what are you trying to prove? There must be an ulterior motive. Pop-culture gorged themselves on crazy theories of a totally equal and feminist neolithic European society where warfare was a rare exception to a utopian norm. That ancient people were less violent than they are today. PIE was taken out of school curriculum. Linguists and archaeologists were forced to change words and obfuscate their findings as much as possible to make it more palatable towards a demographic always ready to label them racist. In one broad swoop anything and everything associated with the Proto-Indo-Europeans became taboo in academia and pop-culture including the swastika. The swastika is symbolic of this historical whitewashing and anti-intellectualism. It's an attempt to try and shoe horn massive historical stigma into one symbol never minding the billions of people still worshiping religions that value the symbol or the historical value it may have to us. Anyways anybody who seriously entertains the idea of outright banning the swastika is guilty of anti-intellectualism and bigotry against billions of people. I don't support banning the hammer and sickle but I know that there's a giant hypocrisy here in what symbols are chosen to be suppressed. -
3 hours ago, Bird Shorten said:
The original poster is literally describing a Nazi flag, the swastika is being used in a Nazi context. The use of the white disc and red background with the swastika is in no way, shape, or form being used for non-Nazi purposes. There is literally no reason to be debating whether or not the swastika should be ok to use in P&W as it's explicitly prohibited in this context. All of the people here arguing to normalize the swastika seem to be either unable to read the context, or seem to possess some suspect ulterior motives.
like bruhIt was settled in like the first 2 posts that Nazi flags are against the rules. And the discussion continued to the title of the thread "are swastikas banned" which nobody should think so. Yeah totally ulterior motives burhh. Religious freedom. Let the people worship their wheat god.
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On 9/22/2020 at 7:54 PM, AwesomeNova said:
Zephyr, I think you are missing something important here: context. No symbol exists in a vacuum, especially the swastika. If someone creates a nation with a southeast Asian, Buddhist theme, including the swastika as a religious symbol is fine. It’s not being used as a hate symbol. However, if the symbol is there with no context or is paired with Nazi imagery, then it’s safe to say that it’s used as a hate symbol and must be taken down.
If you haven’t noticed, Politics and War is made by and American, played by people in the West. In the West, the swastika is used as a symbol of hate and Nazism, so if a Norwegian paints it on the side of their car, they’re not doing it because they’re pagan. They’re doing it because they’re a Nazi and want to show their affiliation. The swastika has been so tainted by Nazi appropriation of it that it’s unusable as a religious symbol.
I know the more positive meaning of it, but please look at how the symbol is being used. A Buddhist themed nation can use it. Everyone else can’t.
Old post I know, but if I see a nation with Reich or Volk in its name paired with armanen runes or a swastika with a red and black flag he's obviously a Nazi. But if I see a swastika stylized like this
and maybe his nation name is "Illyria" I'm going to assume he's into classical antiquity and is basing his nation theme on the ancient Balkans. And honestly I think that would be a pretty cool nation theme. The stylization and the context matters a lot.
There is no real incentive for war
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Just make it so alliances who hide and move resources from getting looted get permanently banned. And all of the resources that both alliances hold are totally deleted.
That seems fair to me. And I'm sure that would probably create an incentive for war. Granted it is a solution for an exploit that most pixel huggers probably do not see as a exploit.