An Issue with Death

by **No Options** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:50 pm

How many different ways to die are there in NationStates?

So far, I have seen:

What else is there? How do you get rid of certain kinds of death (like sunburn)? And when did they add "involuntary euthanasia"?

by **Frattastan II** » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:09 pm

Sunburn should be caused by lax nudity laws.

by **New Ryafell** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 7:20 pm

id like to know how to get rid of "Acts of God"

by **Bears Armed** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:05 am

Frattastan II wrote:Sunburn should be caused by lax nudity laws.

Not by "lax" nudity laws, it's only compulsory nudity that causes it...

by **The Greater Dutch Republic** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:07 am

Bears Armed wrote:
Frattastan II wrote:Sunburn should be caused by lax nudity laws.

Not by "lax" nudity laws, it's only compulsory nudity that causes it...

Shit, I made nudity compulsory. I'm gonna go check my deaths pie chart.

by **Montecroce** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 10:27 am

New Ryafell wrote:id like to know how to get rid of "Acts of God"

This. The better my environment gets, the more it goes up, it seems. But I want a great environment

by **The Cobalt Sky** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 10:32 am

Not sure if this is the place to ask, but how do you get "War" as a way of death?

by **The Agnostic Collective** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 11:42 am

I imagine cutting down on religion will help get rid of "Acts of God" as deaths by such means are probably "Accidental Deaths" interpretted by the religious citizenry as "Acts of God"

On the matter of deaths atributed to war, options that result in attacking Bigtopia, Lilliputia, Black Acre and such will result in deaths from war.

by **The Church of Satan** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:06 pm

Yeah. Highly militant nations will have "War" as a cause of death.

by **King Nephmir II** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:01 pm

"Acts of God" is used to describe deaths that do not fall into another category, and seem to be random and unexplainable, or fall outside of human control. As NS is a pretty godless game in more ways than one, I'd imagine that you have to be technologically advanced to get rid of it- or simply have the other causes of death large enough to make the Acts of God small enough in comparison to disappear from your chart.

by **The Agnostic Collective** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 4:04 pm

Perhaps having a highly intelligent population will lower deaths from "Acts of God"

by **The Cobalt Sky** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:51 pm

The Church of Satan wrote:Yeah. Highly militant nations will have "War" as a cause of death.

The Agnostic Collective wrote:I imagine cutting down on religion will help get rid of "Acts of God" as deaths by such means are probably "Accidental Deaths" interpretted by the religious citizenry as "Acts of God"

On the matter of deaths atributed to war, options that result in attacking Bigtopia, Lilliputia, Black Acre and such will result in deaths from war.

Thank you!

by **Bears Armed** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:16 am

King Nephmir II wrote:"Acts of God" is used to describe deaths that do not fall into another category, and seem to be random and unexplainable, or fall outside of human control. As NS is a pretty godless game in more ways than one, I'd imagine that you have to be technologically advanced to get rid of it- or simply have the other causes of death large enough to make the Acts of God small enough in comparison to disappear from your chart.

In RL it's also an Insurance Industry term, so maybe keeping your nation's Insurance Industry as small as possible helps?

by **New Ryafell** » Wed Aug 26, 2015 6:33 pm

King Nephmir II wrote:"Acts of God" is used to describe deaths that do not fall into another category, and seem to be random and unexplainable, or fall outside of human control. As NS is a pretty godless game in more ways than one, I'd imagine that you have to be technologically advanced to get rid of it- or simply have the other causes of death large enough to make the Acts of God small enough in comparison to disappear from your chart.

i have a 12 on the stupidity test with high scientific advancement of 85 and i have checked theirs very low traits of unexpected deaths (-23)

by **Democratic Republic of Kaliria** » Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:57 pm

We execute people here all the time, why do we not have any deaths by capital punishment?

by **New Ryafell** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:20 pm

Bump for Acts of God

by **The Agnostic Collective** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 10:57 am

King Nephmir II wrote:"Acts of God" is used to describe deaths that do not fall into another category, and seem to be random and unexplainable, or fall outside of human control. As NS is a pretty godless game in more ways than one, I'd imagine that you have to be technologically advanced to get rid of it- or simply have the other causes of death large enough to make the Acts of God small enough in comparison to disappear from your chart.

This nation, which has a Scientific Advancement rating of 472 (top 1% worldwide) has no deaths by "Acts of God" whereas my religious nation Il Veltro has a primitiveness rating of 258 (top 1% worldwide) has 6.3% of deaths attributed to "Acts of God" which use to be around 30%, but deaths by Disappearance has grown substantially which has reduced the other deaths in it.

If someone else could confirm similar statistics, that would probably confirm Neph's theory.

by **Icamera** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:41 am

"Acts of God" could be a reference to natural disasters, whose frequency/severity might be reduced by more environmentally friendly and pro-science policies. I can't do it right now, but someone else should check for a correlation between eco-friendliness and "Acts of God" deaths.

by **The Agnostic Collective** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:58 pm

Icamera wrote:"Acts of God" could be a reference to natural disasters, whose frequency/severity might be reduced by more environmentally friendly and pro-science policies. I can't do it right now, but someone else should check for a correlation between eco-friendliness and "Acts of God" deaths.

That also applies to my previous post. This nation has an eco-friendliness rating of -171, while my other nation Il Veltro has an eco-friendliness rating of 522.

Weather ratings:

This nation -752.
Il Veltro 464

by **The Church of Satan** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:30 pm

I would think increasing the Safety stat of your nation, through social policies and possibly by having a strong military budget might help. I know War is a separate statistic, but in contractual law, war is classified as an act of god because the possibility of preventing it is impractical. Perhaps the 2 stats are linked in this way?

by **New Ryafell** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:34 pm

it seems primitiveness has some connection to acts of God but i have -87

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