In the past few weeks, there have been several votes regarding some small parts of the map. After all votes have concluded, it is now time to present the results.

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Introduction 

The first part of the map changes was decided by the Administration through the outcome of the fourth session of the summit. Having the people’s suggestions and opinions in the session, the Administration is making some map adjustments that can be found in the next section. The second part of the map updates affects already existing map rules that were not discussed in this year’s summit. The Army Board voted on those after the Administration raised them, and you can find the results in the third section of this post.

The map changes go into effect on October 15. The map is currently locked anyways, up until October 16, 12 am EDT. Following the map unlock, the new rules will already be applied, and any invasions will be scheduled within the Army Judging Board, aside from the Club Penguin Armies server.

Summit-Based Changes

Economy related

• Balance Cap: 10,000 coins. This means that an army with a capital and 8 pieces of land would need 10 weeks to reach the cap.
• Removal of Intel and Storage items. This is done in order to simplify the economy system for the armies and make it more accessible. Following the removal of storage, armies will be able to store their items in the servers they wish to. Despite intel’s removal, the fog of war remains. Armies will not know where other armies have placed their items or what their wealth is. They will have to take a risk when they use a bomb in a “Battleship” style, as they may not hit an army’s item. Any unused Storage/Intel bought by armies will be refunded after this announcement.
• Upon occupying an army’s capital, the invader steals all of the defender’s balance (instead of 50% like it was), without the 5000 coins non-hostile transfer limitation.

Item Costs Changes

The prices of all items are adjusted to the following values:

• Ships
  1000 => 400
  Invade coastal land. One-time use. Limit (at a time): 5
• Planes
  2000 => 800
  Invade any land. One-time use. Limit (at a time): 5
• Bombs
  2000 => 600
  Disables units & income for 1 week. Limit (at a time): 3
• Nukes
  4000 => 1000
  Destroys units & Disables income for 4 weeks. Limit (at a time): 3

Reminder: Bombs and Nukes require a plane in order to be used. Additionally, the plane doesn’t get destroyed upon the use of a bomb/nuke. 

Because of the balance cap change, armies will be allowed to transfer their coins to armies that are on the map, or make purchases till October 15. If an army has more than 10,000 coins on October 15, the additional ones will be lost. Reminder: an army can receive up to 5000 coins within a calendar month via non-force treaties and agreements.

Army BOard Map CHanges

The 5 votes of the army board, along with the vote distribution, follow:

4.1 Minimum size required for battles
Before: Armies need to have a max of 5 (S/Ms) and 10 (Majors) only in room 1 for the battle to be valid.
Keep it as it is (1)
Max 5 in all rooms (2)
Max 2 in all rooms (0)
Max 5 (S/Ms) and Max 10 (Majors) in all rooms (0)
Max 5/10 for R1 and max 2 for R2 and R3 (5)

4.2 Allow regular invasions (not part of a war) to be 1v1, instead of allowing visitors and allies by default. Majors cannot do that to SMs.
Yes, I agree (7)
No, I disagree (1)

4.3 Regarding the rule ‘If armies fail to show up in 3 consecutive battles, it will constitute the forfeit of the war.’ (for map wars)
Keep it as it is (3)
Change from 3 to 7 consecutive battles (5)
Remove the rule (0)

4.4 Make all free-land invasions non-judged
Yes, I agree (8)
No, I disagree (0)

4.5 If vote 4 passes, how should the verification be made?
By a 10-minute video recorded by armies (1)
By submitting two pictures, one with the starting timestamp, and another with the ending timestamp (7)
By submitting a number of pictures of the invasion throughout all of its duration (0)

This means that, along with the economy updates, the above changes will also be applied on October 15. Freeland will only be announced on the Club Penguin Armies server and not on the Army Judging Board anymore. A special channel will be set up in the CPA Discord where armies can submit their invasion images with the timestamps. 

A mini map update was long needed, and hopefully the current changes will bring some map activity. The economy items will be more accessible to all the armies, and with the balance cap, armies cannot sit and collect coins indefinitely. Do you agree with these map changes? Would you choose something differently?

The Administration
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