.:The BIG Collaborative List of Suggested NS Improvements:.

[Unibot]

The BIG Collaborative List of Suggested NS Improvements

Organized by Unibot

The BIG Ideamonger Announcement Board
Keeping Ideamonger's like myself up to date with the most interesting threads for Ideamongering

Check out the debate on Potential Legislation for the WASC > viewtopic.php?f=24&t=3947&start=0

And Sirocco's Issue Contest is kicking off as well! > viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2451

If you wanted to see the drama of NS improvements unfold for itself, I'd suggest taking a look at the ol' NS World Improvements thread which sparked a NS-wide flurry of creativity and loveable innovation.

Legend has it that a well caffeinated young cap by the name of Unibot once postponed breakfast, lunch and dinner to read through all of the posts on that legendary thread.

However for those that opt not to read through dozens of muddled comments and ideas, here's a neat collection of them...



Users in Red are Moderators
Users in Purple are Admins

Regional Influence

• Get rid of Regional Influence + Founders
• Get rid of Founders
• Make Regional Influence Optional
• Get rid of just Regional Influence
• Changing the mechanics of Influence (Seniority VS. Endorsement)
• Evil Wolf's Post on the subject
• • Snefaldia's post on the subject
• A Visualization of Regional Influence (like a health bar) for Regional Controls
• My shameless plug for decaying passwords whilst on the subject!
• Weighted Endorsements (Which Consider Pop/Residency)
• Political Sanctions (Negative Endorsements)

NationStates Customization

• Regional Categories
• Take my fun Regional Category NationStates-esque Quiz!
• Regional Issues
• Bicameral System, with Regional Delegates and WA delegates (no founders)
• Ketchupland's post that inspired the Bicameral system
• Regions can decide between different types of voting structure
• Extended BBcode and allowed length in Factbooks and Telegrams (The Admins went further and blessed our RMB's as well!)
• [Violet]'s Inspiring Post on the Subject
••Max's REALLY inspiring Post on the Subject!
• Different regional types (unicameral, founders, bicameral, and anarchies)
• National Factbook Entry (NFE)
• •[Violet]'s post on the Subject
• Including links to helpful tutorials and other links of interest in the first standard game telegram
• Always allow WA Delegates to edit the WFE, regardless of settings by Founder
• Disallow Founder to edit WFE
• NS Cartography Game Feature
• New Ratings for Government Stability & Military Strength
• Dossier Settings- To set current relations with neighbors. (totally cosmetic from my understanding)
• In-Game Calculation of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
• Allow Punctuation in Nation’s Names
• Charlotte Ryberg's Post on the Subject
• New Pre-500 million titles for Nations
• Regional Emblems
•[Violet]'s Post on the Subject
• Graphs that display World Census Rankings over time for Nations
• New 'Nation Adjectives' (like Custom Religions and Capitals)
•[Violet]'s Post on the Subject

Security

• Safezones for people who just want to play "politician".
• A Whitelist
• Regional Moderator • [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
•• A thread on the Subject (which was the death knell to the Idea)
• Passwords which drain influence (Decaying Passwords)
• Frisbeeteria's post on the subject
••Kandarin's Post on the Subject
• Limiting Delegates powers to WFE
• The Sedge's Post on the Subject
• Founder can assign property rights, upon CTE'd
• Passwords can only be instituted by Founders - Not Delegates
• Limiting Delegates Abilities for the first 24 hours or so
•• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
••• Naivetry's Post on the subject
• Listing of WA Endorsements in a Region
•• My Post on the Subject (Endorsement Caps)
• A Feature to Opt out of Invasions/Defending
• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
• Getting rid of Invisible Passwords (Large, Interesting Thread on the Subject)
• Griefing Investigation Committee
•• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
••• Naivetry's Post on the subject
•••• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject (Update)

Regional Advertisement and Community Growth

• Regional Endorsements
• A TG-All in region function for Delegate/Founder
• Todd McCloud's thread on the subject
•• [Violet]'s post on ze subject
• A feeder license for powerful user created regions
• Naivetry's post on the subject
• An Adzone concept (with either a telegram ad, or an adspot)
• Organization of the Regions by Regional Power
• Broadcast Zones
• Kandarin's FAQ on Broadcast Zones
• Displaying World Rank along side Regional Rank in the Regional Census Report
• [nation] and [region] tags ] (originally meant for forums)
• Today's Featured Nations/Delegates
• My Post on the Subject, and a 'Regional Happiness Index'
• Removing Founders at a certain regional population cut-off

World Assembly

• "Burn" function for Proposals.
• Proposal Raiders
• An "effect" line for a proposal, to be written by the proposer or someone else.
• Making Quorum harder to get.
• An automatic delegacy function for regions with only one WA member.
• Kandarin's post on Quorum Inflation
• Discussing the proposal list in the delegate's standard congratulations telegram.
• Advertising the proposal list better than a small measly link on the WA page.
• (You can tell how I feel about this one. )
• Adding a 'mild' strength to the Environment Category.
• Deleting some of the unproductive or under used Proposal Categories.
• [proposal] links tags for proposal telegrams
• A "Defy" option for Resolution Voting
• Ardchoille's Post on the Subject (Anti-Defy Argument)
•• Starblaydia's Post on the Subject (Pro-Defy Argument}
••• Puchi's Post on the Subject (Anti-Defy Argument - and a wise one at that )
• Multiple Proposals on the WA Voting Floor
• A Indicator of a new At-Vote Proposal on a WA Nation's page
• My Post on the Subject

Forums BETA

• Extra Fonts
• Extra BB codes
• Alternative Forum Skins
• Glen Rhodes' Post on the Subject (Greasemonkey Scripts!)
• Recent Post Titles
• Bolshikstan's post on the Subject
• Quick Reply Box
• Bolshikstan's post on the Subject
• Avatar Banners for Groups
• Quote Pyramids
• Hovering Thread Preview
• Glen Rhodes' Post on the Subject
• Quick Reply Box
• New Smilies
• The Smilie Improvement Project
• Invisibility to Forum Lurkers
• Seperate Forum for Nation Factbooks
• More Indents!
• Bolshikstan's Post on the Subject
• Create a New Tab or Window for Links
•[Violet]'s perfectly sound explanation as to why this probably won't be implemented
• Creating a New Subforum for Embassy Exchanges and Consulate Exchanges.
• Reploid Productions' Post on the Subject
• Renaming "NationStates" subforum to "Diplomacy"
• A New Roleplay Subforum for the WA
• Allowing tags like Bold and Color in between [Code] tags
• Getting rid of the ugly Sidebar on the [Code] box
• A 'NSG Avatar' feature
• Review Setting made Optional in UCP
• Removing Flag from displaying in Posts
• "Threads started by this Poster" Search Feature
• Bringing back the cute arrow from Jolt, which was a link to quotes' positions

Other Game Mechanics

• Changing the time of update
• Evil Wolf's Post on the Subject
•• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
••• Naivetry's
•••• An important thread on the Subject
Post on the Subject (Against)
• Open Source NationStates
• Close down feeders
• Easter Egg Issue for National History
• My Attempt to Write it
• Give Telegram System an Outbox
•United Anacreon's post on a Sent Box
••Avalaun's Thread on the Subject
•••[Violet]'s post on the Subject
• Releasing Ancient & Reserved Names for Use
•Naivetry's Post on the Subject
••Cameroi's Post on the Subject (Against)
•••Erastide's Post on the Subject (Speculation)
••••Avalaun's Important Thread on the Subject
• Similar Names Suggester Feature for Nation Creation
• A World Summit for Players to decide raiding/defending rules
••[Violet]'s post on the Subject
•••My post on the Subject
••••Naivetry's epic essay/thread, "Military Gameplay and Game Mechanics - A Primer"
• A Display of On/Offline activity for Nations
• An Issues Development Committee to review old issues, and develop their options.
••My Post on the Subject
• A New World Census Report Ranking (Xenophobia)
•• Sirocco's Post on the Subject (Freedom of the Press)
•••Zwangzug's Post on the Subject (Jingoism)
• Update the Changelog !
• Increasing the number of Issues per day
• Sirocco's Post on the Subject
• Improving the Random Factor of NationStates' issue randomization
• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
•• New South Hell's Interesting Analysis on Issue Repetition
• Improving the usage of Plurals in Nation's Currency and Animals
• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
• Ban 'WFE Gloating' by Raiders
• [Violet]'s Post on the Subject
•••Marcuslandia's Post on the Subject

I'll add to the list as you or me find/remember more.

[Unibot]

*UPDATED*

Now fully operational

[Unibot]

*UPDATED*

NEW FORUMS SECTION,

If you've got any ideas for the forums you've brought up - please post a link and I'll add it.
I haven't seen too many new ideas yet on our brand spank'n new Technical.

Dahm this is exciting!
I get to say I was here for the beginning of something in NS for once!

[Spartzerina]

I get to say I was here for the beginning of something in NS for once!

I get the feeling... I was founded too late for the UN to WA change, and not much has happened since. Now I also can say I was here for the beginning of something in NS.

[Unibot]

I get the feeling... I was founded too late for the UN to WA change, and not much has happened since

Exactly... It's weird because I wrote about how this would come about, and how our generation would handle it a while back in my anthropological essay (I'll have to transfer it over probably) - yet it still feels so unexpected and weird still - I feel like some parent that gets all teary and proud when talking about watching the moon landings with their own eyes, or being there for Woodstock or something....

[1010102]

Get rid of the forum. that's a big improvement already.

[Scolopendra]

Get rid of the forum. that's a big improvement already.

You're skating on thin ice as it is, what with the spamming and the like elsewhere. Perhaps you want a permanent time-out, given your previously-warned status?

[Third Spanish States]

Extra styles or at least improving the current one to something less "limey".

[Unibot]

Extra styles or at least improving the current one to something less "limey".

This thread is for archiving ideas mostly,

However this link seems to be a good place to start for design moans and suggestions > http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=102

[Scolopendra]

I get to say I was here for the beginning of something in NS for once!

'Cept Northrop-Grumman beat you to the "improvements and suggestions thread" idea.

[Unibot]

Cept Northrop-Grumman beat you to the "improvements and suggestions thread" idea

Ah, the Bruce beat me to the "NS World Improvements" thread too, and that worked well anyway.
This is a list for the organization of ideas... Yet I still feel biologically driven to shoot laser beams in Northtrop's general direction... er....

[Unibot]

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Alternative Forum Skins

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Also Updated : My humblingly low post count

[Unibot]

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[Seraosha]

I get the feeling... I was founded too late for the UN to WA change, and not much has happened since

Exactly... It's weird because I wrote about how this would come about, and how our generation would handle it a while back in my anthropological essay (I'll have to transfer it over probably) - yet it still feels so unexpected and weird still - I feel like some parent that gets all teary and proud when talking about watching the moon landings with their own eyes, or being there for Woodstock or something....

Wait, what? You wrote about NSer's for an anthropological essay?!

[Unibot]

Wait, what? You wrote about NSer's for an anthropological essay?!

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=585073

[Todd McCloud]

*sobs* what about my suggestion?

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=590075

*clasps hands in prayer*

[Unibot]

*Grants Prayer with a Wave of Magical Hand*

Yeah Todd, I already had the idea under Regional Advertisement and Community Growth - you see Mayor For Life had already posted it in the NS World Feeders thread. However thinking about it a second time, I figured I'd put your thread there for reference as well.

[Todd McCloud]

Sounds like a plan!

[Unibot]

*UPDATED*

With loads of stuff about the beta forums, reserved nation names and [violet]'s post that brought me to my knees in sheer happiness.

Enjoy.

[SoWiBi]

I'm making a move to have my suggestion to include a function where you can choose to remain invisible on this forum to appear ont his list, too:

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=237#p3029

[Bears Armed]

Two more suggestions:

1/ Allow at least some forms of punctuation in nation's names _ Apostrophes for names involving a 'possessive' element, such as "Khama's Country", or contractions such as "Llanfair'goch"; full stops for use in names that (due to the limited length allowed, or for other reasons) include initials or other abbreviated terms; and maybe exclamation marks -- and perhaps some other symbols, too -- for use in names from languages with sounds that don't exist as letters in English (such as, for example, the 'clicks' in "!kung" & in certain other tongues from southern Africa).

2/ In the tables showing how the nations in each region are rated relative to each other for whatever trait is being compared each day, add a column giving their ratings "in the world" as well so that people who like to see how their nations' compare to their neighbours in that respect too don't have to check each neighbour's national 'home' page separately.

[Naivetry]

2/ In the tables showing how the nations in each region are rated relative to each other for whatever trait is being compared each day, add a column giving their ratings "in the world" as well so that people who like to see how their nations' compare to their neighbours in that respect too don't have to check each neighbour's national 'home' page separately.

That's brilliant. Seconded.

[Unibot]

*UPDATED ENTHUSIASTICALLY*

- Max's update to the WFE codes, YAH!
- Invisibility to Lurkers
- Punctuation in Names
- World Ranking in Regional Ranking

Awesome progress over the weekend guys. NationStates is smiling down upon us!

[Unibot]

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[Unibot]

U P D A T E D

With forum stuff, and some chat about the TG-all feature.