【PM】 Bumper update: rewards/strikes, jockson and NPF

Day 3,767, 07:06 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by 10 Downing Street

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A bit of a bumper update today, as a couple of things I've been working on have come to a head, so today's update is a bit of a bumper one. Before I go into all of that, I want to draw everyone's attention to the National Feed. There's regular updates about epic battles, potential medals and other stuff there most of the time: so I'd highly recommend you get in the habit of viewing it whenever you're around, not just once every now and then.

If you're worried about accidentally starting to like me, don't worry, it'll be our little secret. For those who are petrified of such a situation, then for epic battle notifications, you can Keep up to date with Epic battles here. Fighting in epic battles is hugely useful, because it offers you double Prestige points, and means that you'll gain the benefits from the weekly challenge pretty quick. There are regular epic battles in divisions 1 through 3 (we host some epic rounds with Croatia too) all over the world, but Serbia have been hosting some division 4 ones recently too.

To test the waters on people's interest in group hits and coordination last month, one of my various mass messages revolved around asking people for their daily login times, so I could split the UK into groups. I've finally got around to sorting this out, and we now have four group messages for people to take part in these strikes:

Morning (00:00-01:30 erep time) Lunch (05:00-06:00 erep time)
Evening (09:30-11:00 erep time) Last login (15:00-16:30 erep time)

We're going to be testing these over the next couple of days to see if this is something that is a better method instead of Discord, with strikes there fading off recently. I still maintain Discord is a much easier way for us to organize things, but I will be the first to test out alternative methods if they're going to result in things going better: thus, we'll try this out and see how it goes.

In line with this change, it made sense to look again at the Rewards that I originally announced during my previous term, and whilst I maintain that air damage and damage growth are things we should continue to prioritise and reward, ultimately, the strike attendance simply wasn't working. Thus, over the coming days we'll be trialling two other methods of incentivizing coordination.

First, I'll be offering a Q1 house per day, awarded to one member of each group message based on a lottery system.

Second, in place of the 'Strike attendance' reward offered to MUs, I'll be offering a weekly reward to the MU with the highest damage output in each division. To reflect our relative strengths and weaknesses across each division, I have set this reward to reflect the areas we need to grow:

- Division 4: Reward 10,000 GBP
- Division 3: Rewar😛 5,000 GBP
- Division 2: Reward 7,500 GBP
- Division 1: Reward 7,500 GBP

Outside of the military world, I'm happy to announce that I have successfully convinced Jack Jockson, the cereal monster himself, to return to the UK and take up position as Minister of Education. He'll be advising Woldy and myself on policies relating to new players, and will be inversely helping us to avoid cotdeaths that were commonplace in the past.

To celebrate this, this Friday (March 16th) will be our first New Player Friday, where I'll be rewarding new players who engage with the community. Concrete details of this will be announced on the day, but I encourage all new players to take part, earn yourself some useful currency, and use the opportunity to embed yourself in our community.

Finally, I'd like to once again ask for volunteers to help out in Government - the more people we have, the more we can do. The more we can do, the more will be done. The more will be done, the more you'll love me. The more you love me, the more everyone wins. So it is quite simple. Get involved.

Until next time,
~jamesw

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