The Almighty NationStates FAQ

[Hobbesistan]

*waves magic wand*

Poof! The Almighty FAQ has been reborn!

I included a top bar linking to other FAQs that get more specific in various topics that this FAQ may not cover in full detail.

The Almighty NationStates FAQ
This is a general FAQ about the mechanics of NationStates. It may not be as specific as you require for your needs. Please refer below for more specific area FAQ's/help threads.
One Stop Rules Shop | Regional Raiding/Defending Military Guide | Guide to the Security Council | General Assembly Q&A | GA Proposal Rules | Sports RP FAQ | Economics & Trade Help Desk | General Roleplay FAQ | Factbook & National Info Guide

Let me know if i missed anything big or broke any links.

[Kaboomlandia]

*waves magic wand*

Poof! The Almighty FAQ has been reborn!

I included a top bar linking to other FAQs that get more specific in various topics that this FAQ may not cover in full detail.

The Almighty NationStates FAQ
This is a general FAQ about the mechanics of NationStates. It may not be as specific as you require for your needs. Please refer below for more specific area FAQ's/help threads.
One Stop Rules Shop | Regional Raiding/Defending Military Guide | Guide to the Security Council | General Assembly Q&A | GA Proposal Rules | Sports RP FAQ | Economics & Trade Help Desk | General Roleplay FAQ | Factbook & National Info Guide

Let me know if i missed anything big or broke any links.

You missed the SC rules.

[Central Management Bureau]

How does one insert a image in a factbook entry?

[Leppikania]

How does one insert a image in a factbook entry?

Like this:

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[img][paste embed link here][/img]

[Setgavarius]

Is this safe for use as a recruitment telegram?
Here's a link to the screenshot I took of the telegram.

[Eluvatar]

Why wouldn't it be?

[Dos Linuos]

I just wanted to suggest another likely Census Record like Population and all. I don't know whether this is the right place to do that.
Census: Entropy, or Chaos
Increases with: Unexpected death rate, all the freedoms, primitiveness, freedom from taxation, crime rate, black market.
Decreases with: Taxation, scientific advancement, social conservationism, authoritarianism, education, law enforcement.

[Zacherie]

I appear to have been banned from the API for 4 million years.

Update:
"user-agent":"Alexandria Endorsement Tracker - Aurum Rider"
I was building an endorsement tracking tool, and one of my error checks seems to have broken.
Evidently, I should not err from building raiding tools. I've filed a GHR

Update 2:
The code in question

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for i in AWANations:
    print("Processing nation : " + i)
    print("Request made.")
    endorsements = WANations = requests.get(headers={"user-agent":"Alexandria Endorsement Tracker - Aurum Rider"}, url="http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/api.cgi?nation="+i+"&q=endorsements")
    endorsements = re.search("ENDORSEMENTS\>([\s\S]*)\<\/ENDORSEMENTS", WANations.text).groups()[0].split(",")
    for j in endorsements:
   AWANations[j]["Endorsing"].append(i)
   AWANations[i]["Endorsements"].append(j)
    print("-------------")
    time.sleep(1.5)


Edit:
Not banned anymore

[Stormopolis]

Is there a way for me to unsee a thread in the "view your posts" screen? I posted to the anime thread ironically ONCE and since I hate that crap, I don't want to keep seeing it.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Is there a way for me to unsee a thread in the "view your posts" screen? I posted to the anime thread ironically ONCE and since I hate that crap, I don't want to keep seeing it.

Konbanwa, Storm-chan~! If you use the NS++ extension, you can hide threads from the "view my posts" page, otherwise, you can wait for the thread to be locked or die off and fall lower on, and eventually off, the first page of that screen. Fortune smiles upon you, for that thread is at 455 pages and will be locked in a mere forty-five more! I mean, you could also try not posting "Ironically" in a thread just to annoy people, baka, or insult their interests again when you ask for help in technical, but that might be a little more complicated.

[Floor 448]

that thread is at 455 pages and will be locked in a mere five more!

You mean 45?

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

that thread is at 455 pages and will be locked in a mere five more!

You mean 45?

.... Yes, that's exactly what I said!!;)

[Hobbesistan]

20k views w00t!

[Plagentine]

So I've been trying to observe stamps in order to confirm a question of mine but it will probably be more useful for me to just ask here. If I made two separate telegrams directed at tag:new2000 for example, and I sent them so they basically run at the same time, how will that work. Will they be independent of each other and work with 100% speed throughout or does it work like the NS++ API where multiple campaigns share the workload?

EDIT: In case this changes anything in terms of background coding, the telegrams would of course be set as recruitment.

[Hostenia]

How the fuck do you put a color in a background tag?
It's been irritating me obviously.

[Kaboomlandia]

How the fuck do you put a color in a background tag?
It's been irritating me obviously.

hai

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[background=blue]hai[/background]

[Westoa-Vasaday]

Hi all, how do you make that button in the lower corner that says "Move <nation> to <region>"? I just started a region and i want to recruit, but it's driving me mad how i can't figure out how to do that.

[Phydios]

Hi all, how do you make that button in the lower corner that says "Move <nation> to <region>"? I just started a region and i want to recruit, but it's driving me mad how i can't figure out how to do that.

It will automatically be added if you mark your telegram as a recruitment telegram. It cannot be added manually.

[Bears Armed]

It will automatically be added if you mark your telegram as a recruitment telegram

... which the rules say you must do if you're trying to get nations to move...

[Phydios]

It will automatically be added if you mark your telegram as a recruitment telegram

... which the rules say you must do if you're trying to get nations to move...

Yes, that is correct. It is against site rules to to send recruitment telegrams without marking them as recruitment telegrams.

[Excidium Planetis]

Asked here because I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate:

Are the trophy images the original work of someone on NS?

If so, is it okay to use the trophy images in a monetized app?

[Almonaster Nuevo]

AFAIK you are not allowed to "monetize" NationStates at all.

[Excidium Planetis]

AFAIK you are not allowed to "monetize" NationStates at all.

But are the trophy images property of NationStates?

[Hobbesistan]

Asked here because I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate:

Are the trophy images the original work of someone on NS?

If so, is it okay to use the trophy images in a monetized app?

1) Yes. Max Barry made them AFAIK.

2) Not without his explicit permission.

[Excidium Planetis]

Asked here because I couldn't find anywhere more appropriate:

Are the trophy images the original work of someone on NS?

If so, is it okay to use the trophy images in a monetized app?

1) Yes. Max Barry made them AFAIK.

2) Not without his explicit permission.

Well then, I ask because while browsing through the Google Play Store, I stumbled across an app that had suspiciously familiar icons:
http://i.imgur.com/7QeZiZj.jpg
That's from the app Simcountry:
http://i.imgur.com/PRoEkTe.jpg
Which as you can see has in app purchases and is linked to a website.

I installed that frankly awful app just long enough to confirm the images are used in game. Not all the images match up to NS images, but as you can see, the icon labeled Corporations is an exact copy of the Sector: Manufacturing trophy, the one labeled Finance is the Average Income of the Rich trophy, the one at the bottom that looks like a truck is labeled Transportation but is an exact match for the Black Market trophy and the Population icon is the same as the NS Population trophy.

Coincidence? I think not.

(Although these icons are not significant to the money making part of the app, that is kinda cheap to steal someone else's icons, isn't?)