[if you want to main point of this post skip to third paragraph]
I know most of you remember the progression of World-Of-War, and then Nation-wars. Another game that I have played for almost as long as this one would be Nukezone.nu, In 05 the game had nearly 60k players, and logged in users was caped at 1k, the game has been slowly decaying for years and now it on its last licks. Guffy the Admin has pretty much pulled a svenneman move and given up on the game. He just restarts it we continue to play.
I had the joy of leading ELE, Extinction Level Event, for many years with Verboden Rijk (Danny) we took over from Bled4dayz ( Vortex ) here who was a big mentor in both games way back when. Round 13ish we are now on round 58, ELE Retired its name last set and merged with a fellow clan and now are competing in the top ten.
Im sorry to give all that background. Today I came across a post from a moderator who found some logs he shared on the forums. The one attached is the games changes dating back to 2006. While the game runs different systematically there has been ton of changes and some ideas could pose beneficial to Nation Wars. I have yet had the opportunity to fully read through the whole document but i can remember many game changes and rest run on many options back in the day. I have attached the link to the manual so you can see how the game has been run, and the changes.
NZ community has been abandoned like a puppy dog and it will die out before Nation-Wars does, unless someone purchases it, which has been shot down multiple times by its owner, mainly due to the fact there is enough members buying prem accounts to keep it running. Once they stop paying he will most likely shut down before ever selling it.
Take a look or ignore all of this I just thought some may enjoy seeing the progression of another game like ours.
http://nzstats.info/manual-R48.htm
http://nzstats.info/NZChanges.txt