BlocGame Wiki

Welcome to the BlocGame Wiki

This is the official wiki for >BLOC - a multiplayer political simulation game on the web, also BLOC on mobile webapp and BLOC - Political Strategy Game on Android. BLOC is a Cold War simulator where you play your own third world country and its leader; although if you're here you probably know that! If you want to help most, edit information about gameplay which you know about, or the history of >BLOC and the recent wars!

In Realpolitik you can play one of the Cold War countries, a faction, or a corporation.

Are you confused by some of the language?: Vernacular.

Currently there are not many rules besides these:

• Articles that are not related to the gameplay and the metagame of bloc are not allowed.
• You are not allowed to change already functioning templates. 
• NSFW material is not allowed.

Right now there are no rules about how a page belonging to a certain category should look like nor do I think there will be any. Any content is good and every page can be edited to look good by other editors; it is after all the information about the game provided here that is the most important.

If you have any complaints about these rules or want to add something, or have a problem, please let me know--Andyrewwer (talk).

Use the navbar! Alysdexia (talk)

Media

• First Bloc forum on eRegime, archived for move to game site
• Something Awful influx
• Stopgap >BLOC on Reddit on 2013 May 9
• BLOC on Facebook on 2013 May 10
• Symthic forum
• Facepunch confrontation
• Kerbal Space Program forum
• PLATYPUS Platypus Bloc forum on InvisionFree
• Pastebin on Google
• Global Goon United Syndicated Alliance
• Paste2 on Google
• Bay 12 Games forum
• TaleWorlds forum
• 4chan /k/ and /pol/ and /mlp/ communities
• Dedicated >BLOC forum on first domain bloc.name under Hetzner Online AG in 2013 May until rogue admin hired porn and Nazi image spammers which terminated the domain in Oct; Jul 15 capture, Aug 10 capture, Oct 6 capture
• Official #bloc on Synirc (Something Awful, obsolete)
• Official #blocwiki on Synirc (Something Awful, obsolete)
• Logo of the browser game BLOC on Wikimedia Commons
• First BlocGame Wiki on mastplay.se in 2013 Jul; taken over by spambots; imported to next two wikis and shut down in 2014 Jan
• Company OPPRESSIVEGAMES on Twitter on 2013 Jul 17
• Commonwealth of Regions NationStates forum on ZetaBoards
• Fanmade >BLOC Steam group
• South African Protectorate forum
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead forum
• BLOC Exodus/Diaspora 1
  • A Declaration of Existence: Bloc Party_lost, Delete And Ban Everyone From >blocparty on Pixel Nations forum
  • BLOC PARTY on Pixel Nations Wiki
  • PIXELNATIONS GUIDE on Pastebin
  • BLOC PARTY Declaration of Existence on WarGames 2.0 forum
• Neglected News and Updates blog on WordPress on 2013 Nov 22
• Dedicated >BLOC forum on new domain blocgame.com in 2013 Dec (capture) for feedback; moderator goes rogue, board taken over by spambots by 2015 and deleted by the next month, restored on 2015 May 8; site infiltrated by password cracker in 2016, deleted on Sep 18
• Dedicated BlocGame Wiki in 2013 Dec; taken over by spambots
• atWar forum
• This BlocGame Wiki on Wikia in 2014 Jan; moved to Fandom in 2019
• BLOC Exodus/Diaspora 2
  • Fanmade >BLOC Diaspora Steam group on 2014 Jan 18
  • Bloc Party Declaration Of Existence, Where my >Bloc-ers at?, The Bloc Party: declaration of intent, SUPER DUPER SERIOUS : >BlocParty theological thread., The Bloc Party Official Thread[Let's not lock this one] on Politics & War forum
  • The BLOC Party on Politics & War Wiki
  • >BLOC forum on Worlds at War
    • Civilization 3 Mod (WIP)
    • Arrakian Historical Data-Archive (Release 1.0)
    • Cards Against Humanity: WaW/BLOC & >BLOC/WaW
  • Sons of Rumsod DoE, The Sons of Rumsod on Project Terra forum
• Early REALPOLITIKGAME on Reddit on 2014 Apr 19
• Innawds forum on CreateAForum
• Blockland forum
• Official #bloc on Rizon (4chan) on blocgame.com KiwiIRC, inexplicably unlinked in Sep (obsolete)
• Substitute >BLOC forum on Boards.net as of 2015
• Official #bloc on Rizon (4chan) on bloc.boards.net qwebirc
• /bloc/ on 8chan
• Official #blocgamechat on Rizon (4chan) on blocgame.com KiwiIRC, [1]_lost 2015 Jun 6 (mostly obsolete)
• The Non-Aligned Movement NAM Stronk! forum on ProBoards
• Sheeky Forums forum
• • >Bloc Party on The Fall forum
• Malaysia Military Power horde on Facebook
• Fanmade Bloc Discord on Discord on 2016 Jan 28
• Steel Brotherhood on Discord on 2016 Feb 22, Schutzstaffel on Mar 21 to May
• Interpol on Discord on 2016 Feb 29
• Armat-Corporation on Discord on 2016 Mar 16, Anti-Cuck-Chat on May 12, server name on Jul 5
• BLOC Jackassery'ing on Discord on 2016 Mar 16
• Fanmade >Bloc Public Chat on Discord on 2016 Apr 5
• UN-BLOC on Discord on 2016 May 31
• Socialist Arab Union on Discord on 2016 Jun 4, Global Socialist Union on Jul 20
• Official Oppressive-Games on Discord on 2016 Jun 6; owner who believed the spoofed admin communiques that he couldn't fix the game then deleted most of the channels, after which developer removed the in-game link and made his own server, below
• Ironmarch Chat on Discord in 2016 May 14
• Comintern on Discord on Jun 14
• #commchat on Discord on Jun 25
• LESCERT teamspeak on Discord on 2016 Jul 3, ECRT and Blood Oath in Jul
• Top Sekrit BLOC Think Tank Club on Discord on Jul 31
• D.A.D.D.Y. on Discord on Aug 24
• BLOC Exodus/Diaspora 3
  • Mock Bloc4 on Discord on Sep 16
  • Official mock >BLOC >BLOC4 forum
• Official Oppressive Games on Discord on Sep 19, inexplicably deleted in 2018? and recreated in 2018 Feb, then deleted
• Official chat of the UN, later the unofficial >Bloc community chat
• Official Oppressive Games Forums on company site oppressive.games on 2018 Jan 12, goes down every time the host switches servers and is often not restarted
• Official Oppressive Games #bloc on Discord on Jan 12

BLOC uptime, reported and inferred

• 2013 Mar–Apr 12: BLOC 0, pre-alpha on eRegime, a tacky free subletted [zathyus]InvisionFreeBoard server of the same era as GeoCities.
• 2013 Apr 12*–Apr 15: BLOC 1, alpha on bloc.name
• 2013 Apr 15*–May 1: BLOC 2, beta; Apr 22 capture
• 2013 May 1*–May 14: BLOC 3, "Cybernations with genocide", phishers' purge, "the best Dictator Simulator on the internet", nation search
• 2013 May 14–Jul 11, alliance profiles, tooltips and clean UI, tanks and weapons upgrade, custom flags and portraits for donors, diplomacy alignment, refactored events and growth cap
• 2013 Jul 12–Jul 17
• 2013 Jul 17–Oct 9: territory limits, Jul 23 capture; chemical weapons refactored; The goonpocalypse
• 2013 Nov 17–2014 Feb 19: blocgame.com; ~250,000 Heidilands overflow game processes: turns, registration, login, forum buffers crash
• 2014 Mar–Mar 15: intermittent access
• 2014 May 14–Sep 5: nondonator accounts deleted, raw materials, world map, manufactured goods replace black market weapons
• 2014 Sep 5**–Nov 13: BLOC 4, bots' and phishers' purge, building land use replaces territory GDP cap; domain lapses
• 2014 Nov 16–2015 Jan 22
• 2015 Jan 23**–May 9: BLOC 5, subregions; multis drive $250k goods to $1,100k and boost several players between Almost Modern and Advanced Equipment; custom profiles for everyone; multis and alliance officers deleted
• 2015 _lost May 9**–2016 Jan 29 _lost: BLOC 6, market not reset; _lost Ajax interface; community pages linked; _lost new server and loss of 1,190,000 communiques, _lost GDP floor, _lost uranium shelters end, _lost war protection after 3-day inactivity, _lost 7-day inactive mode, _lost manufactured goods loot; training cap; _lost unbuild; _lost food and population, FRONT linked and POST unlinked on footer, _lost market actions by 100 then 20, green and red market buttons, new POST linked; _lost oil production on dry; _lostlost spy roles; _lost literacy and healthcare, The Free Market, subregional discussion moved to regional discussion
• 2016 _lost Jan 29**–May 13: BLOC 7, beta ends, admin threatens $6/month on 2,000 players, _lost passes the buck to future players, retracts compulsory subscription for _lost premium custom profiles again, regional declaration now $25k and free market offer now $10k; cron crack April Memes overflow and underflow nation stats, news and forum crash
• 2016 May 13**–Sep 4: BLOC 8, _lost universities, community IRC switches to Discord chat, _lost healthcare to manpower, _lost growth to foreign investment, _lost private mines and wells, _lost no government relation points, _lost mobile-friendly header rework & user menu, _lost alliance bank and taxes, _lost alliance government and _lost alignment, _lost alliance initiatives, tax exploit, alliance declarations, _lost uranium mines, users climb
• 2016 Sep 6–Sep 18: Arvixe restores address, _lost warshielder ban; earlier or earlier-than April dictionary attack on admin account lets cracker edit own war supplies without logs or admin's suspicion, then cracker and accomplices delete their war's other side's nuclear reactor when the bomb didn't, and lastly they delete the server database and redirect the domain to their knockoff game: backup resources kept in Cache (phpMyAdmin security, How to secure phpMyAdmin)
• 2016 Sep 19*–2017 Jan 17: BLOC 9, most of BLOC 8 but allegedly backed up 4 times a day; first time in history the developer appoints another admin, Andyrewwer, and admin panel; regional markets; airforce cap of 20; Andyrewwer flakes & Lykos becomes admin; custom backgrounds for subscribers
• 2017 Jan 25–Feb 14
• 2017 Feb 14–Jun 10: oppressive.games
• 2017 Jun 10**–Nov 3: BLOC 10
• 2017 Nov 3*–2018 Jan 23: BLOC 11
• 2018 Jan 23**–Jun 29: BLOC 12, no [upper] GDP war limit for older players, "no" war number limit, puppets
• 2018 Jun 29**–Sep 19: BLOC 13, territory occupation
• 2018 Oct 17*–Dec 10: BLOC 14, rumsod appoints VicReyes admin to cheat
• 2018 Dec 18–Feb 5: VicReyes twinks and gets banned
• 2019 Feb 5**–May 20: BLOC 15, resources exploits patched, new image host
• 2019 May 20**–Sep 17: BLOC 16
• 2019 Sep 17*–2020 Jun 11: BLOC 17, oppressive.games/bloc2/ test server for new regions/war borders Oct 5, weapons factories, and 2016 Aug 22 FastBLOC features without migration, database corrupts
• 2020 Aug 9*–Oct 16: BLOC 18, bloc2 features, bumped identifiers; temporarily moves to oppressivegames.com
• 2020 Oct 16**–: BLOC 19

Realpolitik (BLOC The Real World)

• 2014 Apr–May: Realpolitik 0, pre-alpha work causes rumsod to forsake BLOC 3, whose server goes offline for three months; original setting 1950–1990 with 1 year/turn, clone of East vs. West, art of DEFCON × POST
• 2015 _lost Jun 10*–_lost Jun 11: BLOC THE REAL WORLD 1, name change, 99 nations; "never" comes after 11 months
• 2015 _lost Jun 11**–_lost Nov 12: BLOC TRW 2, _lost UN, _lost US Congress & SU Politburo, _lost factions; name unchange, 131 nations; _lost nation database corrupts, collapses and hits reddit; _lost Crime & Corruption, contraband, _lost corporations; _lost inactivity
• 2015 _lost Nov 12*–2016 _lost Jan 15: Rp 3, _lost no Iran and Ireland; corporate oil exploration deletes extant reserves and turns intentional; oil crisis drives oil and goods to several million, market manipulators swing raw materials between $0 and $1M, and some corporations are driven billions into debt by multiple taxation, one at one trillion debt, whereas a few closed buildings quickly and took advantage of the market; growth cap, growth reassigned to buildings, single privatization, exploration fixed, secure attribute registration
• 2016 Jan 15*–Jun 17: Rp 4, _lost Iran returns, insolvent corporations' production and tax _lost frozen, _lost upgrade nationalization, _lost interactive map
• 2016 _lost Jun 17*–Jul 1: Rp 5, security run
• 2016 Jul 1*–Sep 4: Rp 6, Libya, Egypt, Israel, Palestine only
• 2016 Sep 6–Sep 8
• 2016 Sep 8*–Sep 18: Rp 7, beta; 129 nations, Reactionary instead of Right Wing faction, Liberal faction, faction action page
• 2016 Nov ~20*–2017 Jun?: Rp 8, 128 nations
• 2019 Feb 10*–May 20: Rp 9, 77 nations, migration, navy blockades, taxes tied to wages, sector abandonment, sector splits, military aid, financial aid, new wiki, stock market
• 2019 May 20*–: Rp 10, puppets

FastBLOC

• 2016 Feb 3**–Feb 4: FastBLOC 1, 6-hour turn test server for donors and subscribers, no turns_lost
• 2016 Feb 4**–Aug 22: FB 2, housing, crime & corruption_lost, registration ends_lost
• 2016 Aug 22_lost–Sep 4: free 2-day registration, working population and jobs, player migration, unemployment, GDP per capita
• 2016 Sep 6–Sep 18
• 2016 Dec 15*–2017 Jan: FB 3, BLOC 9 code, 4-hour turns, free week registration, fighters and bombers
• 2017 Jan–Jun?: FB 4

Uptimes refer to the domain and front-end files but do not include databases such as registration or forum, processes such as cron, or applications such as chat. Fill in any gaps or missed resets.

*Nation reset

**Soft reset, nation identifiers intact (to preserve donator status?)