NationStates Issues **SPOILER ALERT**

[Glen-Rhodes]

For what it's worth, our issues were edited by Sirocco; we just did the hand-work.

Anyways, I believe that if I were to write up another issue and send it to Sirocco, he would edit it (or Kandarin or Responsible would), even if the game didn't say so.

[Pwnshop]

@@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost

As you very well know, a masked stranger with a pistol made an attempt on your life but moments ago while you were out on your lunch break. An emergency meeting has been called right here in the middle of the street after the would-be assassin disappeared over a nearby grassy knoll.
The Debate

1. "Oh dear! Oh dearie me, that was so rude!" coos your personal assistant, adjusting your tie. "You'll just have to prove to the citizens of @name@ that you are a good and benevolent leader, and don't deserve to be brutally shot in the head! The only way to keep you safe is to make the public like you! Do something nice for them! Might I suggest a nice tax cut?"


2. "What makes you think it's a member of the general public behind this?" asks your Head of Security,@randomname@. "It's more likely to be the work of some underground separatist group trying to remove you from power! We've let them have their protests and their rallies and their free speech, and now they've taken it to the next level! We should be cracking down on this insolence instead of rewarding it! Show the people what happens to those who dare to question your authority. You've got to remind them that you, Leader, are their Lord and Master!"


3. "Whoa there! Let's not be too hasty, bruv!" says law-abiding citizen, @randomname@, casually walking up to you and flinging an arm around your shoulder. "This sort of thing wouldn't be a problem at all if you just beefed up your personal security a bit. You could hire a few extra bodyguards and get yourself a shiny new armoured car! Nobody could touch you!"


4. "Hah! Like that will work!" snorts @randomname@, Minister of Waste Disposal and Sanitation. "They'll just come after the rest of us and destroy the government from the bottom up! No, we need to go even further - reinforce the Parliament! We'll turn @capital@ into an impenetrable fortress! Robot bodyguards, food tasters... no expense should be spared! We should all do our jobs through a complex network of computers so we never have to leave the safety of our offices again!"

[Todd McCloud]

For what it's worth, our issues were edited by Sirocco; we just did the hand-work.

Anyways, I believe that if I were to write up another issue and send it to Sirocco, he would edit it (or Kandarin or Responsible would), even if the game didn't say so.

I believe said issue editors have about 15 or so issues from me they can work on as well.

[Laloinia]

I just got the issue #80: Easter Egg: Aliens Wish Peace/Trade Agreement. YAY ME!

Aliens have landed in the fields of Laloinia and they wish to trade and have peace.

1. "Take us to your kneader!" says Noskcirederf ydnar, alien lawyer. "We have heard wonders of Laloinia's pizza and must have it. We are certain that a valuable trade route can be set up valuable trade route can be set up between our peoples. You could have our first born, for example." Your Secretary of Trade is shocked, "First Born?! That's slavery!" but quickly calms down upon discovery that their young are considered a great delicacy there. "You know, maybe we should open up trade with them?" down upon discovery that their young are considered a great delicacy there."You know, maybe we should open up trade with them?"

2. The Coalition of No ETs wants you to stay out of this. Buffy O'Bannon says "Them darn aliens thingies are going to take advantage of the situation an kill us all! You must ban all trade with them. If they want my cattle, it will be over my dead body!"

[Sirocco]

Congratulations! That one is exceptionally difficult to get.

[Scanorama]

Is Issue #196 #: 'Violent Violetists Protest Artists' an issue allow me to set a national religion?

This response seems to hint that way:

# "His Holiness, the Grand High Poobah of Violet, has the right idea, but the wrong religion," says Zeke Rifkin, the Prelate of Primary Public Relations for the fanatical organization Scanorama's Concerned Citizens for Our God. "This nation needs an official religion, and not support the Godless heathens who worship the idolotrous Violet. Appoint me as your spiritual adviser an I'll ensure that all people worship God in the correct way."

[Flibbleites]

Is Issue #196 #: 'Violent Violetists Protest Artists' an issue allow me to set a national religion?

This response seems to hint that way:

# "His Holiness, the Grand High Poobah of Violet, has the right idea, but the wrong religion," says Zeke Rifkin, the Prelate of Primary Public Relations for the fanatical organization Scanorama's Concerned Citizens for Our God. "This nation needs an official religion, and not support the Godless heathens who worship the idolotrous Violet. Appoint me as your spiritual adviser an I'll ensure that all people worship God in the correct way."

No, the national religion issue is #243.

[Ballotonia]

I just got the issue #80: Easter Egg: Aliens Wish Peace/Trade Agreement. YAY ME!

Aliens have landed in the fields of Laloinia and they wish to trade and have peace.

1. "Take us to your kneader!" says Noskcirederf ydnar, alien lawyer. "We have heard wonders of Laloinia's pizza and must have it. We are certain that a valuable trade route can be set up valuable trade route can be set up between our peoples. You could have our first born, for example." Your Secretary of Trade is shocked, "First Born?! That's slavery!" but quickly calms down upon discovery that their young are considered a great delicacy there. "You know, maybe we should open up trade with them?" down upon discovery that their young are considered a great delicacy there."You know, maybe we should open up trade with them?"

2. The Coalition of No ETs wants you to stay out of this. Buffy O'Bannon says "Them darn aliens thingies are going to take advantage of the situation an kill us all! You must ban all trade with them. If they want my cattle, it will be over my dead body!"

Thank you for quoting that! Only now do I realize the alien name is simply a @@RANDOMNAME@@ in reverse order. Duh! Tag added: @@RANDOMNAME_REVERSED@@

Ballotonia

[West-Flanders]

259. A Taste Of Revenge

The Issue

A spectacular but failed attempt on your life made national news today. Interrogation of captured suspects has pinned the blame on agents of the nation of Blackacre, with which @@NAME@@ has notoriously chilly relations. Your cabinet is divided as to how to respond.

The Debate

1. "Assassins, huh? Well, two can play at that game!" says Warren McCue, your chief military adviser. "An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth! An assassination for a... missed shot, I suppose. Never mind that, think of the possibilities! Not only can we strike back at the scumbags who sent this assassin after you, we can turn our attention to... 'manipulating' the positions of foreign leaders and political rivals that stand in the way of @@NAME@@'s glory." He then points two fingers at the wall and mouths 'bang bang' noises.


2. "Sending assassins to avenge you isn't enough!" argues hawkish talk-show host, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The fact that Blackacre is this bold means we haven’t made them fear us yet - and a nation that isn’t feared isn’t respected. We need to do the only thing we CAN do: bomb their cities! Raise a revolution! Salt their fields! It may cost money, but our nation’s honor is priceless."


3. "I can't believe what I'm hearing!" says the muffled voice of @@RANDOMNAME@@, an anti-violence protestor who was, until now, hiding in your air vents. "By building up our military-industrial complex, WE have become the aggressor. WE are giving nations like Blackacre good reasons to hate us! No wonder they tried to kill you - we aren't giving them enough breathing room. If we cut back our military a bit and sent them a fruit basket now and then these problems would never happen."


Issue by: The Commonwealth of South Von
Editor: Kandarin

Note: "Warren McCue" from the first option doesn't seem to be a random name

[Ballotonia]

Thanks!

Any idea where the name "Blackacre" is coming from?

Ballotonia

[West-Flanders]

Thanks!

Any idea where the name "Blackacre" is coming from?

Ballotonia

Wiki says this:
"Blackacre, Whiteacre, Greenacre, and variations are the placeholder names used for fictitious estates in land. The names are used by professors of law in common law jurisdictions, particularly in the area of real property, to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of land. "

[Ballotonia]

Thank you for that clarification, West!

Added:
#259: A Taste Of Revenge [South Von; ed:Kandarin]
#260: Taxpayers On Strike! [Makinsanity; ed:Kandarin]
#261: Plastic, Plastic Everywhere [Nation of Quebec; ed:Kandarin]


... and Kandarin is taking the lead in our new Issue Editor race! Tally so far:

Kandarin: 4
Responsible: 2
Glen-Rhodes: 1


Ballotonia: 0

[Todd McCloud]

Still haven't gotten to mine!

If they've been deleted, I'd be happy to repost them, along with a few others.

[Kandarin]

... and Kandarin is taking the lead in our new Issue Editor race! Tally so far:

Kandarin: 4
Responsible: 2
Glen-Rhodes: 1


Ballotonia: 0

I have it on good authority that the mysterious issues #250 and #252 are also Responsible's work, giving Responsible a tally of 4.

Still haven't gotten to mine!

If they've been deleted, I'd be happy to repost them, along with a few others.

It's more likely that they haven't been gotten to yet. There's a huge backlog of submitted issues that have to be gone through before proceeding to more recent stuff. The last time the process was explained on the forums (Sirocco, has this changed?) Senior Issue Editor Sirocco gets huge chronological bundles of submitted issues handed down from the admins and goes through those before proceeding to the next time period. We junior Issue Editors get sent smaller bundles of issues with good concepts and fix them up for insertion into the game. I don't see submission times, but we might still be in 2008 or early 2009. Having more people on the team has sped the process up, but it'll be a while before we deal with these things in anything approaching real time and there are people who have been waiting to have their submissions reviewed for a long time.

[West-Flanders]

259. A Taste Of Revenge
The Issue
A spectacular but failed attempt on your life made national news today. Interrogation of captured suspects has pinned the blame on agents of the nation of Blackacre, with which @@NAME@@ has notoriously chilly relations. Your cabinet is divided as to how to respond.

The Debate
1. "Assassins, huh? Well, two can play at that game!" says Warren McCue, your chief military adviser. "An eye for an eye! A tooth for a tooth! An assassination for a... missed shot, I suppose. Never mind that, think of the possibilities! Not only can we strike back at the scumbags who sent this assassin after you, we can turn our attention to... 'manipulating' the positions of foreign leaders and political rivals that stand in the way of @@NAME@@'s glory." He then points two fingers at the wall and mouths 'bang bang' noises.

<snip>

Issue by: The Commonwealth of South Von
Editor: Kandarin

Note: "Warren McCue" from the first option doesn't seem to be a random name

The origin of the name "Warren McCue":

I was told about a week ago that my main RP character for my nation, Warre, would be featured in an issue as an easter egg. Kandarin is the one that suggested they used the name, of my notoriously ruthless and warhawk High King, Warren McCue. Well, in a strange and amusing twist of fate (though not surprising) I got the issue he was featured in.
The Issue
Am I the only one who finds this happenstance extremely amusing, especially beyond the case of it being an easter egg?

[Warre]

Nope, it's not a random name, it's the name of the RP ruler of my nation. However, I was consulted 100% before it was added into the issue, so I don't have a problem with it, nor did I know there was anything wrong with it not being random.

[Ballotonia]

I have it on good authority that the mysterious issues #250 and #252 are also Responsible's work, giving Responsible a tally of 4.

If Responsible edited them in such a way that noone ever gets them, no points will be awarded for them in the race *I*'m tallying

Ballotonia

[Glen-Rhodes]

I had no clue there was a race!

Yeah... I've been busy with my school workload and college applications (and the occasional World Assembly project) for a while now. My load is decreasing (thank God), and I just finished my UMichigan application, so I'm getting ready to tackle my backlog of issues. Sirocco is a tough guy to please, though. :\

[States United as One]

You will get through it Glen, I've known you long enough to know that nothing gets in the way of your duty!

[New South Hell]

Great Balls Of Fire!

@@NAME@@ is abuzz with news of a huge meteorite - dubbed 'Big Max' by the media - which smashed into a large town on the outskirts of @@NAME@@ City yesterday, killing thousands and leaving behind nothing but a smouldering crater.

The Debate

1. "We can't let a little old boulder get the best of us!" bellows @@RANDOMNAME@@, a burly military official. "We have to fight back! Show 'em what we're made of! With a little funding, we could develop some terrific new weapons for the next bit of flying rock that dares to threaten us! Blow it to smithereens! If ever there was a time to prepare for space warfare, it is now!"


2. "That's all well and good," interjects Professor @@RANDOMNAME@@, leading scientist at the @@NAME@@ Meteorological Office. "Except that the chances of a fall of this magnitude occurring twice in the same area are miniscule at worst. I propose you direct your funding to the real issue here - rebuilding the homes and properties that have been lost, and tending to the injured and traumatised. As soon as we've removed what's left of Big Max for studying, you can make a start."


3. "Remove the greatest phenomenon @@NAME@@ has ever seen?!" cries @@RANDOMNAME@@, the famous museum tycoon. "Surely you can envisage the profit that could be had here? We should be opening the site for tourists! Think of the possibilities - guided tours, gift shops, theme parks! You don't want to build on top of all that potential, do you? Besides, the old residents are all dead now anyway! I'm sure this is what they would have wanted."


4. "All of these ideas are either costly, ridiculous or both!" snorts your Spiritual Advisor, leaning over your desk. "Your people are frightened and vulnerable right now. They don't want you to take action; they want you to tell them it'll all be okay. We could use this! Tell them Big Max was a warning from the Heavens! Strike the fear of the Mighty One into their hearts and they'll do whatever you tell them!"

Issue by: The Arrested Development of Unibot
Editor: Responsible

[Ballotonia]

Thank you!

One question though: Are you sure the issue says "@@NAME@@ City" instead of "@@CAPITAL@@" ? The latter would be more logical considering the issue number, but I can see your nation already has a capital name set. Perhaps you found it using a different nation, one which doesn't have a named capital?

Ballotonia

[New South Hell]

Thank you!

One question though: Are you sure the issue says "@@NAME@@ City" instead of "@@CAPITAL@@" ? The latter would be more logical considering the issue number, but I can see your nation already has a capital name set. Perhaps you found it using a different nation, one which doesn't have a named capital?

Ballotonia

No, I have no way to be sure. The nation which received it did indeed not have a capital yet.

[Ballotonia]

Ok, thanks for the clarification. In the list I'll be going with @@CAPITAL@@ then, for now.

Ballotonia

[Greenyville]

violent violetists issue

#1 sacrifice some tramps
#2 sacrifice a lot of people
#3 execute people who believe we should sacrifice people
#4 government funded reeducation program

.. i just want to say no. i dont want to kill all the violetists, i dont want to spend government money on "reeducating" them, i just want to say no, killing someone for religion is the same as killing someone not for religion

possible #5 - "x" said killing people is killing people bla bla????? es bueno?

[Unibot]

violent violetists issue

#1 sacrifice some tramps
#2 sacrifice a lot of people
#3 execute people who believe we should sacrifice people
#4 government funded reeducation program

.. i just want to say no. i dont want to kill all the violetists, i dont want to spend government money on "reeducating" them, i just want to say no, killing someone for religion is the same as killing someone not for religion

Dismiss the issue then.