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 What is Politics & War? Politics & War is a free to play browser based political simulator in the same vein as CyberNations. Launched in 2014 it allows you to create a country and govern it as you see fit. You can interact with other players in very simple, awkwardly designed interfaces to trade or even to engage in war. There is a robust, player driven political metagame that fuels the various global conflicts between alliances of nations and blocs of alliances. The creator & admin of the game actively adds new projects, rewards, and other interfaces to the game to avoid the hilariously slow decline that CyberNations had (has?). There's even an app so you can check your spreadsheet nation on the go: Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.httpspoliticsandwar.politicsandwar&hl=en_US iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/politics-war/id1247351838 Okay, so why should I play, and what does GOONS offer me? What can you do in this game?
Alright, I'll play, now what? Use one of the referral links below: https://politicsandwar.com/register/ref=Comrade+Marx https://politicsandwar.com/register/ref=Sardonic https://politicsandwar.com/register/ref=ComradeMilton https://politicsandwar.com/register/ref=JT+Jag Registering and creating your nation is very easy. If you can't figure it out then ask in the thread. For those of you smart people who can, remember these things when signing up:
I am now the God Emperor Hosef Byden of the Communist States of America. What next? Well you join GOONS, of course! You need to apply ingame here: https://politicsandwar.com//alliance/id=5968 and join our discord here: https://discord.gg/tDaeUqz All that's required is a link to your Something Awful forum account and the ability to fill out a short form with information we need. I hope you found this OP useful in determining whether or not you want to play this game, and that it helped you get involved easier if you have. Veteran players of this game will be around in this thread to answer any questions you have and to provide help should you need it. While this game can seem overwhelming at first, I assure you that it is in fact very simple and easy to play. I will be keeping this thread updated and will gladly answer any questions you may have. The next post will be about setting up your nation so that you can  Almost Instantly! begin spreading grief to the masses while obliterating pixels.Link Compendium: DISCORD JOIN THE DISCORD! It has links to everything you need. Participating in the Discord at least semi-regularly is MANDATORY! WIKI All the beginners' guides are here to help you get started easily.   Astryl fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Seriously. This takes so little effort and the pubbies can be so hilarious. I can't believe I was able to live before Politics and War.
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If you ever played CyberNations and never got to nuke Sardonic, this may be your last chance! (hint: his nation link is in the OP if you want to nuke him) So to make this as easy as possible, we’ve made a step by step guide on how to make your last pixel nation. Register for the game following one of the links in the OP Join the discord  https://discord.gg/u9m8aDGOnce you’ve registered, God Emperor, you’ll need to go through a few prompts, deciding on things like policy issues, national flag, motto, & map location:  Once this is done, and you’ve applied to GOONS ingame, we’ll get you masked on discord and funded up instantly so that you can begin raiding and pirating your way down the coast of Mt. Dickburn right now. Astryl fucked around with this message at 02:56 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Sep 1, 2019 21:42
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OP is burying the lede a bit, PnW is considerably better than CN in the following ways: -A war system that is significantly better than Cybernations' objectively terrible system -NO TECH DEALING OR CONCEPT OF TECH AT ALL -Better raiding, and the ability to raid 5 nations at once -No arbitrary limits on foreign aid -Significantly more nation customization -'Interesting' policy options: -No stupid event choices -Make your nation's borders a wang -Mobile App on Android and iOS -A useful API Also don't nuke Sardonic, thanks.
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Sep 2, 2019 16:12
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Ready to get my rear end kicked by sim baseball.
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Sep 4, 2019 01:10
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Mescalero has risen from its ashes. Thanks for the email ping Sard and Dnfj for the write up.
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Sep 4, 2019 02:47
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I'm not sure if Nation simulators are my thing.
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Sep 4, 2019 03:09
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Do Not Fear Jazz posted:Currency should be bus tokens or dongs, I shouldn’t have to explain this joke anymore. gently caress this game
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Sep 4, 2019 03:43
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Dilber posted:I'm not sure if Nation simulators are my thing. I don't think you would be good at them anyways.
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Sep 4, 2019 04:02
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Apparently you can get embargoed if your baseball team is terrible:
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Sep 4, 2019 22:46
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Have you made anyone eat dog food yet?
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Sep 5, 2019 04:26
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getting in on this
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Sep 5, 2019 13:48
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Gonna try this out
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Sep 5, 2019 16:43
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A buttehouse revival.
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Sep 5, 2019 19:17
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 Just two weeks in, I'm almost in the top 25% of nations.  It is insanely profitable to raid in the beginning.
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Sep 5, 2019 22:26
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This game is actually a communist paradise, make your utopia today and help fund the Greater GOONland Co-Prosperity Sphere. Hajj Podge posted:Have you made anyone eat dog food yet? I have reserved this honor specifically for Methrage.
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Sep 5, 2019 22:54
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Is this the reason I got an email asking if I was interested in returning for CNGoons stuff? I gather this game's got the same "15 minutes a day" kinda thing going on as CN did, so that might get me back into this kinda stuff, at least for a bit. What's a typical day in the game gonna look like for a newbie that recently signed up?
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Sep 5, 2019 23:39
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neogeo0823 posted:Is this the reason I got an email asking if I was interested in returning for CNGoons stuff? I gather this game's got the same "15 minutes a day" kinda thing going on as CN did, so that might get me back into this kinda stuff, at least for a bit. What's a typical day in the game gonna look like for a newbie that recently signed up? Yes. You login, look at your revenue screen to make sure everything is running well, if you are raiding you check your wars, log out. Hanging out in discord with former cngoons is the majority of the game.
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Sep 5, 2019 23:47
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Looking forward to nuking people in raids at some point soon.
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Sep 6, 2019 01:32
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DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME
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Sep 6, 2019 10:22
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Aesculus posted:If you want to have fun and continue having fun in this game never build above 10 cities/1k NS. Only developed alliances live there and they don't even PM you saying that it's WORLD WAR THREE because you raided them. Yeah I'm funding most goons up to around 8 cities 1k so they can raid aggressively. Come play aes, or at least hang out on discord with us. Unfortunately not.
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Sep 6, 2019 15:57
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We're already loving with the market prices of resources and making pubbies mad about it. 
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Sep 7, 2019 16:03
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This isn't a game so much as hanging about in discord annoying pubs. The game is more of an after-thought, though alot better than CN.
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Sep 8, 2019 00:40
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 In two days I've looted $10m from idiot pubbies and spent half of it on a pointless baseball team.
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Sep 8, 2019 09:53
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We're currently using the API (totally legally) to introduce price fixing for resources.
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Sep 8, 2019 15:41
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Hajj Podge posted:
Baseball is not pointless! It is to see who I will declare war on when I get big enough because they didn't want to play baseball with me.
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Sep 8, 2019 17:22
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I gambled away my earnings from beating up 30+ city nations and won 50 million, then spent it all on my baseball team which I am now spamming games on to avoid bill lock while blockaded by said 30 city nations. This game has a lot of dumb and almost pointless gimmicks for being basically another CN clone.
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Aesculus posted:I gambled away my earnings from beating up 30+ city nations and won 50 million, then spent it all on my baseball team which I am now spamming games on to avoid bill lock while blockaded by said 30 city nations. This game has a lot of dumb and almost pointless gimmicks for being basically another CN clone. Ah yes, the 'Tropico' school of nation management.
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Sep 9, 2019 15:34
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A good baseball team is the very definition of a nation state.
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Sep 9, 2019 16:04
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Got our raid bot up and running that helps us weed out broke pubbies. Saves us from wasting time beating up on deadbeats.
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Sep 10, 2019 10:57
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Is it safe to attack aargh members? Or should we only attack members of non protected alliances below a certain size?
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Sep 10, 2019 11:58
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I wouldn't recommend hitting arrghfhgfghfd members yet just go after non protected alliances.
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Sep 10, 2019 14:16
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someone linked a really juicy (inactive, high level) target in the raid bot channel. Is it actually more profitable to raid inactives than pubbies who will try to fight back? 
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Sep 10, 2019 20:48
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Do you have some quality pubbie tears to showcase?
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Sep 10, 2019 20:55
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Does this require sledding like CN did?
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Sep 10, 2019 21:10
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:Does this require sledding like CN did?
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Creed Reunion Tour posted:Do you have some quality pubbie tears to showcase? Not just yet, I expect we'll be getting a significant haul when we officially post our declaration of existence.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:Does this require sledding like CN did? Thankfully no, and it's much much easier to build up quickly because there aren't ridiculous caps on aid and there's a proper alliance banking system etc
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The best part of this game is that fact that pubbies will come into our discord, proceed to get angry about the word "goons" then DM you to tell you about yourself. There is also a nazi weeb alliance full of literally poo poo head nazis that post asinine hitler memes & will one day be ripe for destruction. E: We also have a raid bot in the discord so that you can use the games API to pull stats about possible raid targets and only pick the juiciest available nations. Basically this is easy mode CN. Astryl fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Sep 11, 2019 |
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Do Not Fear Jazz posted:E: We also have a raid bot in the discord so that you can use the games API to pull stats about possible raid targets and only pick the juiciest available nations. this is actually super important because attacking the wrong nation will literally earn you 0 loot no matter how thoroughly you beat them.
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