I have two puppets, a WA delegate which is also my capital city which is also a slightly eccentric Grand Duchy, and a bumblingly incompetent and corrupt semi-autonomous aboriginal confederation. I'm not entirely sure how you could even sustain having more then, say, 5 puppets. If you can I think yo...
At one time, I had between 300-400 puppets. I'm down to about 150 now. This was for a purpose that's already been expressed on this thread: research into how NationStates turns issue choices into government stats. For certain kinds of people, this really is fun. It harms no one. I don't use my puppe...
Take care, Uni. Bring even half of the commitment and drive to RL that you brought here, and the world will sit up and take notice. :) Best of luck! What he said. Uni, you will be remembered a long time, within NationStates and without. I truly appreciate all the friendship and good will you've sho...
The game server seems to be having a huge amount of trouble for the last hour, constantly resetting connections and/or taking forever to respond to simple game requests (login, getting the issues list, etc.) Also, XML requests are frequently giving back a "maintenance downtime or capacityproble...
Today's lowest ranking nation, the least politically free, Mattaj, rates 11 on the Diebold Election Inking Scale. The second lowest nation rates 0. This certainly looks like an error of some kind.
Relatedly, I would love to be able to add some script examples to our API doc -- e.g. some basic Perl, Python, and PHP to show scripting newbies how to get started. Any script authors willing to provide this? I'll volunteer to do some Python - though it may take awhile for me to get the free time.
FYI, I run a script to answer the new issues after each update for all my nations Ballotonia This is relevant to my interests. Mmmmm. I do this too, though my scripts are not as powerful as I understand Ballotonia's to be. But there is a difference, which is that I am making a version of my script ...
I am guessing that the N's are in order by their appearance in the Analysis tab This is incorrect, and any new World Census scales won't change the IDs of existing ones. You can see which census IDs match which scales by browsing a random nation ( like so ) and looking at the URL. In this example, ...
I'm not aware of new issues being forced through in any way. Also, I've checked each nation that people said had this bug - and the records indicate you've only been getting 1 issue per update. Rank and Vile specifically - you're saying that the two you currently have (#175 and #280) are the two yo...
I thought I should report this, even though I'm not entirely sure it's a real problem. Three times in the last two weeks, a nation of mine has gotten an extra issue on an update. Twice, I got an extra issue for the nation Revolving Door . The first time, I shrugged it off, thinking I'd forgotten to ...
Now let's talk about Daily XML Dumps. I've done some profiling, and these are a large part of why our daily updates are taking so long to complete. Now we have API shards, I'm wondering how far we can strip back the Dumps. Could regular users of these Daily Dumps please let me know which data they ...
New! Data from nation "Analysis" pages is now available from the API. See the documentation for examples. You can get any nation's score on any of the scales by using the shard "censusscore-N", where N is the numeric ID of the census. Also added a few world shards, like "ce...
If you are willing to decide in advance for a nation how you will answer each issue, I have released some software that will help. Basically, it answers your issues for one or more of your nations, based on some files which tell it how. This certainly could be used to keep a nation on a consistent r...
Besides, I've yet to see anybody explain to me how you can't already determine influence levels through the World Census rankings. How is one measurement more valuable than the other when they both measure the same exact thing ? The rankings are artificially continuous. The actual numbers aren't. Y...
Sometime recently, the format of the Century (Wide RMB) theme RMB changed for the worse. I observed it about 10 Eastern time, but it may be that a browser restart, which I did then, picked up a change that had been made earlier. I'm running Firefox 7.0.1 on Windows 7, but I observed the new format w...
Thank you for the wcensus shard. In the interests of getting rid of a few more html calls, I'd also like to ask for an API to return the following info for the world: The name of the current ranking, and the number of nations that were ranked by it (that is, how many there are in the list, not inclu...
The sentence would be fine. It can be a very complicated sentence, so I understand the difficulty. (So complicated I think a verb or two sometimes gets lost when a "small group of individuals" is involved.)
Thanks for all this (and for all the bits yet to come)!
Makes me happy. :clap: As soon as this is official, I'll be changing my code to ask for just what I want. A few quick comments. It appears in general the &q token is the same as the XML entity name. But, by experiment, &q=deaths doesn't work, you have to use &q=death. And I couldn't find...
The "has an Embassy with" relation is not symmetric. As of this morning's dump (and game reality too), The Black Hawks has an embassy with United Defenders League (no The), but United Defenders League has no embassies with anyone. This assymetry (in general, not this specific one) causes c...
One other thing that my daily scripts do for which there is (as far as I know) no existing API is to check the daily World ranking for each of my nations. The script which does this is uninterested in any other data about the nations. I request an API for the purpose of determining the World ranking...
It can be a very complicated sentence, so I understand the difficulty. (So complicated I think a verb or two sometimes gets lost when a "small group of individuals" is involved.)