Pride of Nations: Online

Pride of Nations: Online
Pride of Nations: Online
Developer(s)	ACBIC Games
Publisher(s)	ACBIC
Series	Pride of Nations
Engine	Discord API
Platform(s)	Windows, Browsers
Release	16 September 2021
Genre(s)	Text-Based RTS
Mode(s)	Online Multiplayer

Pride of Nations: Online (internally known as Pride of Nations X or PONX) is an Elarian-created RTS online service or game hosted by Charles I. The service began on 16 September 2021. It's usage of the discord client can make the claim of calling it a game debatable, however players are allowed to make their own country, claim territories and wage war on others. They can also set up national organizations with verification from game moderators. This is a successor game to Pride of Nations (2020).

Gameplay

It is mainly text based, with players able to claim new territories every 5 minutes,^[1] start wars, start rebellions, and more. They earn power for activity and at random. Power has also previously been gifted to players for becoming content creators and errors made. However, power is consumed during wars, with players determining who is in power in one country or territory by who has more troops there. This is mainly based on assumption with power and pre-existing secured lands.

Eras

Name of Era	Time Period Representation
Bronze Age	B.C.
Civil Era	1600s-1800s
Atomic Era	1940s-1950s
Classic Age	1960s-1990s
Modern Age	The Present, namely 2010s-2020s
Futuristic Era	The Future, possibly 3000s

The Map

The game features a map which is updated in real time based on game moderators verification, claims, and more. They change very often, with more changes being based on how much activity has occurred.

Timeline

Timeline of Pride of Nations Online
Time	Nation Foundings	Prominent Nations	Notable Events
B.C.	Americana, Arsenia, British Empire	Americana	First Three Nations
110	Testoralfia	Americana, British Empire	Expansions
140	None	Arsenia	Arsenia expands, Tensions rise
200	None	Americana, Arsenia	Americana attempts to liberate the Arabian Peninsula, War Begins
250	Arsenia Colonia	Arsenia Colonial, Arsenia	Nations expand, War is active.
300	Gwi Empire	None	Gwi Empire is founded.
330	None	Gwi Empire	Gwi Empire expands, Middle East in War
400	None	Arsenia, Gwi Empire	Arsenia expands, Gwi Empire takes most of Asia, Africa in War
450	None	Arsenia, Gwi Empire	Most nations are now in war, South America in War
500	None	Arsenia	War grows to most of the entire Earth.
570	None	Gwi Empire	Gwi Empire takes South America.
650	None	Arsenia	Arsenia takes most of Africa.
700	None	Arsenia	Arsenia begins to be losing security over it's African nations.
730	None	Gwi Empire	Gwi Empire begins to take Arsenia's African nations.
780	None	Arsenia, Gwi Empire	Gwi Empire runs Arsenia out from Africa to South America
800	None	Gwi Empire	Gwi Empire begins to liberate the African nations and removes ability to move troops through continents.
900	American Republic	American Republic	American Republic begins to remove Arsenia from the continent.
1000	None	Gwi Empire	Gwi Empire liberates all of South America, Asia, most of Europe. War is over.

Reception

Pride of Nations Online has received amazing reception, with youtuber "Gwi" becoming the first official "Content Creator" and has given the game critical acclaim. There have also been such as statements like "Pride of Nations Online is legitimately the best discord server that has attempted anything like this and it is doing great at it."