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Greetings citizens of the eNetherlands,

due to the growing concerns of the public, we release the following press release to hopefully answer some of your questions.



What is currently going with all our battles, and why is there such a mess in them?

As you may know, we have faced Airstrike by Slovenia, which, together with other actions, led to removal of Asteria forces from UK. That led to our end of TW with UK/Bulgaria. At this moment, an airstrike from South Korea is queued on us for day or two already.



When and where will South Korea attack?

South Korean AS was first queued on region of London. That region was RW'd by UK, so it queued to Upper Egypt. In order to not mess with our recent ly acquired TWs there, we devised a plan to remove the AS from the queue by temporarily switching regions in Egypt. Once we let go of Upper Egypt, the AS will be randomly queued by the game again. We are trying our best to arrange things in a way, that the AS is not started during night, when we have disadvantage - however since it is all automated now, we need to wait for eRep algoritms to pick up the region it wants to attack. And if that region is currently involved in a battle, that attack naturally goes into queue there, waiting for the previous battle to end.

(great mechanic, isn't it - Montenegro recently managed to delay one Airstrike by like 5 days using this method... we do not aim for making longer record though, do not worry)!

TL,DR: We plan for attack to be started either today or tomorrow during the day, depending on when and where the AS will be queued from Egypt.



Orders are not delivered on time/orders are confusing/We do not know, what to do

In order to achieve the thing I described above, we indeed need to do a lot of changes in our battles these days, together in coordination with our numerous allies and TW partners. It is not easy to coordinate amongst several different groups and not mess things up. However we do our best in that regard, and so do our alies, who are helpful in this endeavor, even though it makes burden for them as well. Every single new piece of information we have about our battles is immediately shared in "Fighters Chat NL" PM by whomever has managed to learn that information first, so I recommend to always check messages there. We also have a regularly updated article, more on that below. We cannot really use the national feed properly, due to limitations of the characters there (the situation is too complex to be described in few words).

Also, please keep in mind that we are not here 24/7 (atleast not me, I have heard our MoD hasn't properly slept in days). And even though we do our best to post orders in advance (like we did, e.g., yesterday, describing events in Egypt in the next 36 hours), we cannot, for example, link to battles, that do not exist yet, and will be started, when we are offline.

If you have any doubts or uncertainties where to fight, please always ask in Fighters Chat NL (or on Telegram, if you are there) and we will answer as soon as possible.



Articles with battle orders are stupid and not updated properly - I miss the old times, when we had shout with flags telling us, what battles to lose and win

A shout with flags and general orders indeed works well enough, when we need to do the exact same thing every single day (Win against Egypt, Lose against MKD, that sort of thing). However as noted, in past few days, we are changing our priorities in battles fast, and such a shout would become obsolete very quickly (not mentioning the fact that due to character limitations, it would not be able to include all information in it visibly). The battle orders article is updated as often as possible, using the egov site - both me, MoD and main DAF Commander (+ few other people) claimed to have access to make edits there, so they have been instructed to use it for orders. The main advantage of the article is the fact that it automatically updates each time someone changes the egov information, it is graphically more pleasant, it doesn't get lost easily like shouts tend to do, and it allows us to link to 5 battles directly (you just open the article, look at the battles, click on the picture, and you are immediately on the battlefield).

Overall it is a good method to be used for emergency times, when we need to link to specific battles, and not general ones. Once the situation stabilizes, and we return to old routine, a feed shout with flags will be sufficient again.



Post info about RWs

MoD is instructed to do that, since the usual suspect Weekstrom now does not have time to do it. Due to national feed being constantly updated with automated and other messages though, sometimes the information can get lost there, so if you are unsure, we always recommend to check the last Polish battle (where the RW info can also be found), or ask directly on the feed, or in Fighters PM.



Free the Southern Netherlands (or any other region), it has suffered enough

Due to the current style of the game, it is advantageous for all countries to have as many TWs as possible, including having TWs in their cores. Due to the fact how our regions are structured, 2 Dutch regions (Eastern NL, and one other) will always be under some sort of "occupation", if we will have TW in our cores. I understand for some of you it might be a bummer, and you need to move from time to time to access battles easily - but that goes for most of us, and it is a necessary sacrifice all nations do, in order for TWs to make them stronger (imagine poor Latvians in Zemgale, which we have been holding for several months now. Or imagine the mess of Balkans). Besides, SNL is our border with UK, and due to the events in UK, that border needs to be very well protected now. So please try to look upon it not from RL or nationalist perspective, but from in-game perspective (which is the one that matters here).



You have promised to release article on communes and war update - where is it?

It will be done, when the situation with South Korea is solved. As for law reforms and other changes I promised, those have been suspended for this month due to war efforts, as well as RL events, which I am sure you are all aware of by now. For now, we are focusing on stabilizing our war situation and making some programs for DAF members. We also need to look on restructuring some of our older TWs, so... there is sadly a lot of unplanned work to be done, and my personal goals will have to be moved aside for that.



Housing program is bad, why don't you change it?

The housing program has been changed in the past, so we can more reflect the spirit of the program to have people use their housing on weekly basis. Before, we had people, who took their monthly subsidy, and then proceeded to only use one house per month. And when they have been penalized for it, they started to complain, which caused only problems in the long run. The current system is good for the government, as it is extremely easy to maintain (everything you fill in the form is loaded automatically, and government just needs to send the money). However I am not blind to the growing concerns of the public, and I am willing to think upon changes (inspired by recent comments) and implement them for testing, once we have time to do so, so you can go back to claiming reward by only making a simple comment. It will make the program worse to manage again, but if there is a way demanded, we should try our best to take it.

HOWEVER! Please keep in mind that other restrictions (like certain level of activity needed to be done) will not be removed. Just like you need to make XXX kills to get reward from Flying Dutchman, you will need to display certain amount of activity to be eligible for house as well. We are not that rich to give people money for free, we expect them to do something in return.