Uses for Meta, Account, and Bulletin?

[The Peoples Commonwealth of Unity]

Hey all, semi-new to ns. I've been wondering, what could I use Meta, Account, and the bulletin dispatches for? Could I maybe use Meta for how my government leans toward a certain issue? What do you use these dispatches for? Thanks for reading!

[Carolusborg]

While I cannot help you I'd suggest you ask in the technical forum. NationStates General is meant for non-NationStates discussion.

[The Peoples Commonwealth of Unity]

So how do I delete the topic?

[Carolusborg]

So how do I delete the topic?

Go to the moderation forum and ask for the thread to be moved or locked.

[The Peoples Commonwealth of Unity]

Fixed itt

[Enfaru]

This is surely a gameplay question...

Nevermind. There are descriptions available right here.

Factbooks are about your nation a bit like wikipedia. Bulletins are role-play basically, they're about how your government stands so, opinions rather than facts, check the categories for clarification. You can consider Bulletins to be present tense, things that are actually right now (or at the time of writing) true.

Accounts are definitely role-play but are usually stories that have happened in the past. So you might write a military account of onboard a ship which takes place either in the past or future. It differs from bulletins in that they are not typically what your people at large think or what your government thinks. So where as your news channel (bulletin) might report that Ships have been sighted moving to x your Account->Military would explore the relationships between characters on those ships and things that they encounter, which may or may not be public to the nation at large.

Finally there is Meta. Meta is a greek prefix meaning ''beyond'', we use it commonly to get beyond the fourth wall or describe things that would not be know the characters. I have no idea what the Gameplay category is for, but when it speaks about reference, I take it to mean things like why your factbook is arranged the way it is. What your characters are actually like rather than have you've suggested them to be. Meta->Reference can also be described for rules of how your nation should interact to remind you of their character and so on.

They are a little confusing and the descriptions really could be better but this is my understanding so far. (Yes I fully expect to be shot for putting dispatches in the wrong places).

[Jute]

This is surely a gameplay question...

Nevermind. There are descriptions available right here.

Factbooks are about your nation a bit like wikipedia. Bulletins are role-play basically, they're about how your government stands so, opinions rather than facts, check the categories for clarification. You can consider Bulletins to be present tense, things that are actually right now (or at the time of writing) true.

Accounts are definitely role-play but are usually stories that have happened in the past. So you might write a military account of onboard a ship which takes place either in the past or future. It differs from bulletins in that they are not typically what your people at large think or what your government thinks. So where as your news channel (bulletin) might report that Ships have been sighted moving to x your Account->Military would explore the relationships between characters on those ships and things that they encounter, which may or may not be public to the nation at large.

Finally there is Meta. Meta is a greek prefix meaning ''beyond'', we use it commonly to get beyond the fourth wall or describe things that would not be know the characters. I have no idea what the Gameplay category is for, but when it speaks about reference, I take it to mean things like why your factbook is arranged the way it is. What your characters are actually like rather than have you've suggested them to be. Meta->Reference can also be described for rules of how your nation should interact to remind you of their character and so on.

They are a little confusing and the descriptions really could be better but this is my understanding so far. (Yes I fully expect to be shot for putting dispatches in the wrong places).

Meta is more or less anything OOC, including things about yourself or the reasoning behind your choices and stuff in your nation.

[BPSR]

An account involves articles and stories about your nation's people and bulletins address any gameplay. For example you endorsed a nation or become a delegate.