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This thread has been reposted many, many, many times and is a co-operative work of the NS Public at the aim of providing a index of technical assistance for users. We thank all of those who have given their time and effort in the past to keep this repository of knowledge updated.
- Qaaolchoura - (2003 - 2004) - Qaa's Thread
- Goobergunchia - (2004 - 2011) - Goober's Thread
- Mousebumples - (2011 - 2015) - Mouse's' Thread
- Hobbesistan - (2015 - 2020) - Hobbes' Thread (formerly this thread)
- Lord Dominator - (2020-present) - Dominator's Thread (this thread)
I will work to keep this updated with questions that are commonly posed in this forum. Of course, if you have additional information to add or a question to ask, please feel free to add a reply to this thread.
GAMEPLAY
- How do I increase my population?
- How do I declare war? How do I trade with other nations?
- How do I invade another region?
- My nations description is saying contradictory things!
- What language is this site coded in?
- I have two nations and whenever I am logged into one it logs me into the other.
- When do the updates run? What do they do? How long do they take to complete?
- Why can some nations have such a large flag?
- Why is the flag I uploaded auto-resizing to something smaller?
- How do I get a cool flag if I don’t have any graphic skill?
- My flag isn't updating after I upload a new one. / It says I have outstanding issues, but I've answered them. / Page X doesn’t look like it’s supposed to.
- Can we add national leader/capital/religion?
- Can we add a new customizable field of another sort then?
- Can Mods change my nation name?
- There's no active nation with the name [XYZ]. But the game won't let me create a new nation with that name. Why?
- How do I change my national pretitle?
- I’ve seen all sorts of acronyms around the World Assembly. What do they stand for?
- I know that I can have only one WA nation. How many non WA nations may I have?
- What's a Historical Resolution?
- What does being a Delegate do?
- I have the most endorsements in my region, so how come I am not the delegate?
- What if there are two WA nations with the same number of endorsements?
- I've got a new e-mail address. Will my WA status be affected if I put it in my settings page?
- Is WA status retained when my nation is resurrected?
- How long is the e-mail accepting me into the WA valid for?
- How do I create a poll for my post?
- What (and where) is the User Control Panel?
- How do I set my signature?
- How do I post pictures?
- Can I upload images to the forums?
- Free image hosting sites include:
- Hey I have a great Idea! Lets split International Incidents into past/present/future (and possibly fantasy) timelines subforums.
- I can't view images/signatures/avatars! How do I fix this?
- How do I post smilies?
- What software is used for the forums?
- How do I link a specific post?
- Why are some of my forum posts missing from the search results?
- Why do I keep getting the same issues?
- How many issues can I have per day?
- How can I change my position on an issue?
- What is a 'Issue Chain'?
- How do I submit a new issue?
- Can the mods delete my nation for me?
- Well, I’ll just break some rules then to get the mods to delete my account!
- How can I resurrect a nation?
- Is WA status retained when my nation is resurrected?
- How do I create a region?
- What does the regional administration page do?
- What happens if someone is kicked out of the Rejected Realms?
- What is a “Feeder” ?
- What are Warzones?
- What if there are two WA nations with the same number of endorsements?
- How can I become my region's founder?
- But my region doesn't have a founder/has a dead founder and we want to get it one.
- What formatting tags can we use in World Factbook Entries?
- What formatting tags can I use in Telegrams?
- How do I recruit for my region?
- What formatting tags can I use on my region’s Civil Headquarters?
- How is a region picked to be the featured region?
- What executive actions can Founders and Delegates do?
- What do Regional Officers do?
- What region should I move to?
- How do I code X, Y, Z?
- How do I change the size of my text on the forums?
- How do I code Proposal links for Telegrams?
- How do I code images on the forums?
- How do I code to align my text in a certain way?
- How do I code spoiler tags?
- How do I quote another person's post?
- How do I link directly to a specific post?
- How do I create a list?
- What trophies are there?
- What on EARTH is an Easter Egg?
- Can regions earn trophies?
- Are the trophies cumulative?
- Do I lose my trophy for writing a WA resolution if it gets repealed?
- I've written WA resolutions and/or submitted issues with one of my puppets. Can I move the trophies I've earned there to my main nation?
- I was listed as a co-author on a WA resolution. Can I get a trophy for that?
- What's a Historical Resolution?
- Can I put these trophies on my NS Wiki page?
- Can you add trophy for any nation who has ..... ?
- Who is [violet]?
- Where is the famous memberlist?
- Is the photo with the weird mask really a picture of SalusaSecondus?
- About the Players
- Player accessible pages that aren't on the main menu
- Information for script authors
- Purely of historical interest
- Unofficial semi-offsite pages of interest
Thanks to Sedgistan for his assistance in clarifying some of these answers.