NationStates
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Re: NationStates
Do any of you know who The republic of ERRERQW are? They tried to join us, but as far as I can tell they were just created this afternoon, are pretty much a bog-standard starter nation and have a nonsensical name...
If I had to guess I'd say it was a dummy testing for invasion targets...
Hmph. Jut to be on the safe side, I'm changing the password to Joel's middle name. "Pete" might be too easy to guess.
If I had to guess I'd say it was a dummy testing for invasion targets...
Hmph. Jut to be on the safe side, I'm changing the password to Joel's middle name. "Pete" might be too easy to guess.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
Very clever question and password Buster well done. Although it may prove to be a little bit too tricky for some as it is only shown on a watch many years ago. Not even the wiki has it.
Sorry but I don't know The republic of ERRERQW.
Sorry but I don't know The republic of ERRERQW.
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Re: NationStates
Yeah, but the four of us can all see what the answer is. if all else fails a player can pm one of us on here.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
I certainly have done something wrong seeing as I have -2.879 Net Tourists per hour.
I have also accidentally banned cyclists from the roads. Woops
It says a lot when my economy is contributed largely by Door-to-door Insurance Sales.
Do they even do that anymore?
I have also accidentally banned cyclists from the roads. Woops
It says a lot when my economy is contributed largely by Door-to-door Insurance Sales.
Do they even do that anymore?
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Re: NationStates
Lucky...
I'm only at -1.6. How did you get it that low?
I'm only at -1.6. How did you get it that low?
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
I believe it has something to do with watching the entire population 24/7.
For some reason by decreasing cyclists on busy roads I have turned my deaths by accidents from nothing to 1.2%
I realy didn't expect to be asked my opinions on public nudity and Nazi Sympathizers in a casual game though. But it helps with the lols.
For some reason by decreasing cyclists on busy roads I have turned my deaths by accidents from nothing to 1.2%
I realy didn't expect to be asked my opinions on public nudity and Nazi Sympathizers in a casual game though. But it helps with the lols.
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Re: NationStates
yeah, i lost a good 25 points from political freedoms deciding to ban race politics due to those whackjobs. frustrating.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
Number9Dysonsphere wrote:I certainly have done something wrong seeing as I have -2.879 Net Tourists per hour.
Yeah, it certainly is a odd game, I have an industrial nation with high un-attractiveness and toxicity levels, yet I have a 3.08 on my tourism scale, what do they want to see in my nation!? Pollution can't be that great to look at, Hehe...Buster wrote:Lucky...
I'm only at -1.6. How did you get it that low?
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Re: NationStates
Yeah, it's certainly a very quirky game, and there's a lot of unintended side effects. Which is why I haven't answered an issue in... whenever they added the nation leader issue into the game. Once I had that, I've been trying to keep things more or less as I have them (which is where I want them).
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Re: NationStates
I love how nationstates has decreed me a corrupt dictator, control freak and a ruler with an iron fist yet I am the most pacifist in my region.
It makes you wonder when you read that your riot police force, brutaly dispersed a peaceful public knitting class for holding knitting needles and carrier pigeons are faster than your peoples internet speed.
Also I love the never ending puns:
It makes you wonder when you read that your riot police force, brutaly dispersed a peaceful public knitting class for holding knitting needles and carrier pigeons are faster than your peoples internet speed.
Also I love the never ending puns:
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Re: NationStates
it's not just the game doing things like that.
have you noticed how often these wind up arranged as if they're a conversation?
have you noticed how often these wind up arranged as if they're a conversation?
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Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
Heh, I wasn't the only one to notice that either... Though didn't you change your motto Buster?
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Re: NationStates
Oh, I suppose I should warn you, since you guys are new...
At the end of October, zombies invade everyone.
Be prepared~
At the end of October, zombies invade everyone.
Be prepared~
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Re: NationStates
Yeah, been reading and hearing about that... What exactly happens, like is it like an issue and it affects everything in the region, or something...CosmicCoyote wrote:Oh, I suppose I should warn you, since you guys are new...
At the end of October, zombies invade everyone.
Be prepared~
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Re: NationStates
I don't want to spoil it too much for ya, but yes, I'll say it starts out issue-based and then evolves out into a 'thing', for lack of better terminology.
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Re: NationStates
Oh gosh, that sounds fun, of course it overlaps with my trip back to Scotland. Will I need to immediately respond to things?
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Re: NationStates
It's a fairly short event, so... yeah. Other nations in the region can 'help', however.
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Re: NationStates
Is there any combination of our mottos that doesn't make sense?
"May we stay forever Fripped" ]["May we stay forever Fripped" ]["May we stay forever Fripped" ][
"Unless we can not"]["We must because we can" ]["Why?" ][
"Why?" ]["Unless we can not" ]["We must because we can" ][
"We must because we can" ]["Why?" ]["Unless we can not" ][
etc..
"May we stay forever Fripped" ]["May we stay forever Fripped" ]["May we stay forever Fripped" ][
"Unless we can not"]["We must because we can" ]["Why?" ][
"Why?" ]["Unless we can not" ]["We must because we can" ][
"We must because we can" ]["Why?" ]["Unless we can not" ][
etc..
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Re: NationStates
I think my interest has been peeked enough to investigate this. Hopefully this will give me something to do besides waiting for stuff to do.
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Re: NationStates
Hehe, DO IT! And be sure to join our little HP! Group over there too... Hehe...HoundInATree wrote:I think my interest has been peeked enough to investigate this. Hopefully this will give me something to do besides waiting for stuff to do.
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Re: NationStates
Oh wow, I missed the creation of NS HP group...
...May be a good time to return to the game, then, no?
...May be a good time to return to the game, then, no?
Yes, that is about the best thing to write that I could think of.
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Re: NationStates
Well I've made a nation. Just need to figure stuff out now.
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Re: NationStates
VEB152 wrote:Oh wow, I missed the creation of NS HP group...
...May be a good time to return to the game, then, no?
Perfect chance to just, Drop this here again... And good luck Hound, what's your nation's name?HoundInATree wrote:Well I've made a nation. Just need to figure stuff out now.
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Re: NationStates
It is...Civilization wrote:VEB152 wrote:Oh wow, I missed the creation of NS HP group...
...May be a good time to return to the game, then, no?Perfect chance to just, Drop this here again... And good luck Hound, what's your nation's name?HoundInATree wrote:Well I've made a nation. Just need to figure stuff out now.
The Free Land of
Great Forest Island
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Re: NationStates
And then I realized I can just make a puppet nation.
So I did!
The Federation of Unified Lycan Territories
That said, I'm having trouble getting into the region... is the PW not Zechariah? Is it not capitalized or ALL CAPS?
Nevermind, Civ got me in.
So I did!
The Federation of Unified Lycan Territories
That said, I'm having trouble getting into the region... is the PW not Zechariah? Is it not capitalized or ALL CAPS?
Nevermind, Civ got me in.
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Re: NationStates
GREAT SCOTT! My peoples cancer is on the rise dramatically! Before it was a tiny slice of my beautiful pie chart but now it has grown like a devastating parasite of 32%
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Re: NationStates
I know how you feel, Cancer has risen for me too so much that it has replaced both murder and heart disease.
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Re: NationStates
Yeah. I believe that it is tied in with an issue you will get on how to deal with that... Though it's the highest for me too, although, it makes more sense for me to have that problem...
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Re: NationStates
maybe it's not on the rise, maybe everything else is declining?IdleCurator wrote:GREAT SCOTT! My peoples cancer is on the rise dramatically! Before it was a tiny slice of my beautiful pie chart but now it has grown like a devastating parasite of 32%
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
So people are no longer dying...? :O
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Hlaoroo wrote:In Soviet Russia, TreeInAHound!
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Re: NationStates
or just less often.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
I've gone from having a baron wasteland to a tropical rainforest in less then 24 hours. Well at least that explains why people getting lost in the wilderness is suddenly on the death count. Also, cancer is gone and heart disease is back.
And now for the good news which makes sense; I no longer have white harts rooting through garbage, they're freely frolicking in the forests, where they should have been the entire time.
So although things are somewhat crazy in my nation, thinks are now getting corrected. Just don't annoy anyone because the population decided democratically to reinstate the death penalty, despite the fact the crime has unknown to them. Although this seems to be a running theme with the nation, they like believing in the exact opposite of what they do and blame (they like blaming things they don't believe in).
And now for the good news which makes sense; I no longer have white harts rooting through garbage, they're freely frolicking in the forests, where they should have been the entire time.
So although things are somewhat crazy in my nation, thinks are now getting corrected. Just don't annoy anyone because the population decided democratically to reinstate the death penalty, despite the fact the crime has unknown to them. Although this seems to be a running theme with the nation, they like believing in the exact opposite of what they do and blame (they like blaming things they don't believe in).
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Albert Grant, Sunset Plateau
Larkin Dewolfe, Chivalry Residences
Hlaoroo wrote:In Soviet Russia, TreeInAHound!
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Re: NationStates
i'm thinking of changing my animal from animatronic blue rabbit to evil posessed flower.
Most important thing I've learned from D&D?
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
No matter how tempting it may be, as a DM I can't both present a problem and solve it.
Every time a DMPC or NPC fixes something a payer couldn't i'm diminishing and undermining that player's contribution.
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Re: NationStates
Go for it. That made me chuckle just reading it.
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Larkin Dewolfe, Chivalry Residences
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Re: NationStates
Well, my people are anthropomorphic Ferrets, and yet the national animal is the ferret, which is the my nation's favorite meal... The worst cover up for cannibalism ever, hehe... No amount of Factbook writing can fix that mess up.
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Re: NationStates
NEWFOUND POWER! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-
*ahem*
Anyways, I feel like I should do something special with the new regional officer stuff, but I dunno what.
*ahem*
Anyways, I feel like I should do something special with the new regional officer stuff, but I dunno what.
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Re: NationStates
We need someone in a suit. That is all. Whatever this person does they must do it in a suit.
Pretty sure you get to choose the 'title' of the position so you could just use them for giggles.
Pretty sure you get to choose the 'title' of the position so you could just use them for giggles.
My tree now has a café in it. Yay?
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Re: NationStates
So ready for that role.HoundInATree wrote:We need someone in a suit. That is all. Whatever this person does they must do it in a suit.
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Re: NationStates
I agree, my nation the other day said that terrorists were wandering my streets whilst crime remaines unknown.HoundInATree wrote:The population decided democratically to reinstate the death penalty, despite the fact the crime has unknown to them. Although this seems to be a running theme with the nation, they like believing in the exact opposite of what they do and blame (they like blaming things they don't believe in).
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Re: NationStates
I mean it kinda makes sense.
If your population is unaware of crime then they're going to continue to not be aware of it
and having a death penatly might be your country's way of insuring that it stays that way.
If your population is unaware of crime then they're going to continue to not be aware of it
and having a death penatly might be your country's way of insuring that it stays that way.
Just an Arc