It's that time again! A new month means that everyone's nation bonus donation caps are reset. You can once again purchase and redeem credits for that sweet, sweet cash.

Rates have remained the same; each credit redeemed is worth $1,000,000. You can redeem up to 6 credits. Alternatively, you can buy credits and sell them on the market, but for each credit you sell it counts against your 6 credit cap. You can buy as many credits as you'd like, and you can spend as many as you'd like on cosmetic things like a VIP Subscription, Flags, Name/Location Changes, and Advertisements.

Thanks for playing Politics & War! We're one month away from our 1 year anniversary! Let's keep things going!

Read the full, detailed forum post about this change, here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7191-6302015-player-advertisements/

Player Advertisements have been added. When you're logged in, you have a 20% chance of seeing one that is randomly chosen. Players can include an image, links, bold, italicized, and underlined text in their advertisements. See the forum post for more details on the specifics.

You can create an ad on the Donate page. An ad costs 1 credit, and runs for up to 84 turns (7 days). Ads can be managed and extended on the Account page.

The Trade page has received a makeover and some handy usability improvements; for example accepting trades now all happens without ever leaving the page.

Read the full announcement on the forums, here:

Sorry about flooding you with Changelog updates, just trying to keep everyone informed. For a full list of changes, and links to the Battle Simulator pages, please see the forum post, here: http://politicsandwar.com/forums/index.php?/topic/7098-6222015-war-formulas-overhaul/

This is a pretty significant change, and it's been in the works for a significant length of time. There are a few cosmetic changes here, and then some significant tweaks to the formulas in the war system. I've been working with a helpful group of testing nations to improve and perfect these formulas over the course of a few weeks, and I think we've arrived at a reasonable consensus. The types of changes to the formulas have to do with casualties, damage done, units killed in airstrikes, and money looted in ground battles. It should now be optimized at reasonable levels across the board, for all nation/army sizes.

* Nation and Alliance pages are now viewable without logging in. You can now show off your alliance or nation page (including your Factbook!) to friends and family without them having to login or create a nation

* I've added support for more characters in City names and Nation Factbooks. You can use your non english-alphabet latin characters now.

* I've added "GDP per Capita" to the regular nation page (it originally showed up only on Factbooks)

* You can now do espionage operations on anyone you're at war with, regardless of the spy range

* An Espionage option is now available in the dropdown box on your Wars page. Still doesn't cost MAPs, it's just there for your convenience

* The Spy Range has been expanded to a symmetrical amount, of -60%/+150% score. Any nation that can spy on you, you should be able to spy on them (exception being that you can spy on nations up to 10 ranks ahead of you, regardless of score, and that does not reciprocate down 10 ranks. That's the same as War Ranges)

* The RNG for infrastructure damage has been tightened significantly across the board. There should be much less variation in how much damage your attacks do now.

* Casualties have been lessened in many instances, especially when it comes to the damage that aircraft can do in airstrikes

You can now view nation pages, including Factbooks, without being logged in. Feel free to show off your Factbooks to friends and family, without ever making them register to play Politics & War! The same is true for alliance pages. Enjoy!