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War, politics, entertainment and opinion from across CivMC. en-gb https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/benelux/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/benelux/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 War Ending weeks of tension over a farm, the nation of Benelux on Thursday formally entered the war against Chiraq, releasing a declaration that officials described as “measured,” “serious” and “roughly the length of a short novel.” https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/nara/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/nara/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 War Military analysts still working out what balling involves. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/warzone/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/warzone/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Travel “Bring a picnic, and an obsidian umbrella,” advises one tour guide. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/bothwin/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/bothwin/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 War Fighters on both sides of the war between Chiraq and the Dawn Guard Pact told reporters this week that they were confident of victory, prompting mathematicians across the server to confirm that, statistically, at least one of them is wrong. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/correspondent/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/correspondent/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 National In what editors are calling “a learning experience,” The Nipplerockian’s war correspondent returned from the front this week after spending an entire day embedded with what he believed to be the coalition, but which was in fact Chiraq. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-playtime/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-playtime/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Opinion People keep asking whether the war has changed how much I play. I want to be very clear: it has not. My playtime is exactly where it has always been. What has changed is everything around it. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-wheat/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-wheat/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Opinion Much has been said in recent weeks about me, the wheat farm at the centre of the dispute between Benelux and Chiraq. Statements have been released. Group chats have been formed. Snitches have been placed around me in obsidian. And yet nobody, not once, has asked the wheat. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/offramp/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/offramp/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 War In an open letter published this week under the title “Rome fell in a Day, what are you still fighting for?”, Chiraq’s self-styled Oracle invited every nation fighting against it to take what the letter called an “off-ramp”: declare neutrality, close their borders to coalition staging and go home. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/estalia/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/estalia/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 World “We want nothing to do with anyone,” says the statement, in eleven languages. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/civtcg/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/civtcg/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Entertainment Collectors across CivMC were left scrambling this week after the entire first print run of the Gantoe card from CivTCG, the server’s long-running trading card game, exploded inside a shop chest in Altepetl. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-pinata/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-pinata/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Opinion For three years now I have walked into every fight on this server wearing full Protection IV, and for three years I have handed that armour to whoever happened to be standing nearest. I am not complaining. Somebody has to keep the economy moving. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/augusta/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/augusta/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Local Citing a need for “a genuinely fresh start,” the decade-old city-state of Mount Augusta announced Monday that it would move once more, after residents reported that the new city, much like the old one, still contained them. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/olympics/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/olympics/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Entertainment Planning for the next CivMC Olympic Games stalled again this week, as organisers failed for the third straight meeting to agree on whether pearling should be included as an official event. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/elysian/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/elysian/ Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Politics Officials from every member state of the Elysian Pact met Sunday for an emergency summit that sources described as “tense but intimate,” given that every member state is Volterra. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/devoted/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/devoted/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Entertainment Reviews are in for Devoted Forever, the new server in the Devoted franchise that launched on 24 October, and critics are united in describing it as both devoted and, so far, forever. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/impfed/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/impfed/ Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Politics Voters across the Imperial Federation went to the polls this week in the nation’s regular 40-day election, choosing from a ballot that this cycle included the chancellor, several senators and, for the first time, which of the Federation’s states would be allowed to secede next. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-snitch/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/op-snitch/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Opinion I have been sitting under the same floor in the same city for fourteen months. I do not sleep. I do not blink. I log everything. And I am writing today because I think it is time someone said it: you people need help. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/zorweth/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/zorweth/ Sat, 24 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Science Settlers on Zorweth, the hostile alien shard released in June, filed their monthly report Friday, noting that oxygen supplies remained critically low but that the size of their land claim had not been affected at all. https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/monument/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/monument/ Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Business Responding to questions about where investor funds are physically kept, the Pavia-based Monument Group on Thursday reassured shareholders that their money was “in a chest,” “somewhere very safe,” and “probably reinforced.” https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/mapart/ https://www.thenipplerockian.com/articles/mapart/ Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Entertainment A Pavian mapart artist said this week that he was “devastated and also confused” after discovering that CivMC’s mapart copy protection, introduced in the Transport Update, now prevents him from making copies of his own paintings.