Chief Wiggum

Greetings, A recent suggestion from @Thalmor reminded me of an idea I had in the past about a Directory of all the P&W Alliance Affairs Announcements. Its purpose would be to make it much easier for the community to search for specific announcements or announcements of specific type. What I had in mind was identifying all the kinds of FA announcements (treaty [and kind of treaty], DoW, Peace/Surrender, April Fools' Day announcement, etc.) and having a list of all announcements shortable by category and date, with a small description, starting from the genesis of Orbis. So, the format would be like: Date / Title / Type / (Short Description) / Tags I would like to open a discussion about this feature and get as many ideas as possible. There are two main issues to discuss: what categories and tags we could have: Categories would be the "types" of announcements (DoW, treaty, etc.) while the tags could be e.g. the names of the alliances related to the announcement, etc. way of implementation: Should the implimentation be automated or manual? Should it be a simple link to a google sheet, a website implementation or just a list to be updated on a forum thread, etc. ?

(sorry for hijacking the original suggestion, but I think that a directory could resolve part of the problem) What I had in mind was identifying all the kinds of FA announcements (treaty [and kind of treaty], DoW, Peace/Surrender, April Fools' Day, etc.) and having a list of all announcements shortable by category and date, with a small description, starting from the genesis of Orbis. I am not sure yet whether it will be just a link to a google sheet, a website implementation or just a list to be updated on a forum thread... and whether the implimentation will be automated or manual. But I think it will be a quite useful tool. Edit: Thinking about it, since we would have some kind of categorization, we could add some tags like "global", "regular", "micro", etc. Edit 2: I guess I will just make a seperate thread with this suggestion, open to discussion.

If the community decides that a change should happen and Alex approves it, the mods' wants come second. I will refrain from more comments to let the discussion flow freely.

About that, I was considering creating an FA announcements directory at the top of the Alliance Affairs for easier searching: title and short description. What do you think about it? Oh, don't take us wrong! We weren't shotting down any ideas, just offering our opinion. I wouldn't say it is up to us to make such a change.

No. The amount of (beige) nation loot you get depends only on the type of war you have declared and the war policy of the two nations at war. Depending on these factors, the winner gets a standard percentage of the cash/resources of the nation that lost (with $100k cash being protected). The amount of alliance/bank loot you get depends on the relative score of the nation beiged with the total score of its alliance, as well as a random factor.

I can already see us all becoming Rose officers!

That's what I was told... ... but I am trusting you all, so I unlocked the thread, since there were quite a few members that wanted to continue the original discussion. In case you see new actions of flaming/derailing, etc. please let us know by reporting the corresponding posts or messaging me.

Personally, I do not see "micros" as a problem, as long as the rules are followed. And, if you really want them to improve, you have to give them the means to integrate into the community. A "micro" post may give the chance to a new promising alliance to find a new protector/mentor that was going through the forum posts. Besides, being less "professional" is not a crime. If you think that a thread is spam or inappropriate or too generic (like a post saying "Hello guys! I am looking for friends") you can always report it and the moderator team will handle it.

Hello SRD, thanks for your suggestion. Just to make sure we are all in the same page, naval attacks DO destroy improvements (unlike airstrikes) and actually have a higher probability of destroying an improvement than ground attacks. Three questions I have are: Why do you think this change is a good suggestion? Why shouldn't the same apply to ground then? What's so special about ships? Wouldn't that make missiles and nukes more useless? Missiles are the only unit that can target improvements instead of destroying random buildings

Forum rule number I_don't_really_remember: (avoid) Topic Hijacking: Derailing a thread, or inducing topics that are not related to the original subject. I think that the thread is getting out of its original topic. No one is to be blamed, but please respect the intentions of the topic creator, especially in this case where a lot of work is needed to keep track of stats. Focus on the war stats and comments on them and the performance of alliances. CBs and politics/dynamics can be discussed elsewhere. This is certainly not a warning or demand. Just a kind request. Besides...

Upgrading potato servers sounds quite exciting!

That's stange... Working on that. Edit: I closed and reopened my eyes and everything seems fine now... Probably...

Greetings Bandon. Welcome to the not so famous P&W forums!