PETITION TO MAX: Do something like this every few months

[Azurand]

But NS has laws. Flaming is not allowed.

Beside, freedom is slavery.

He can send it to me via telegram then.

And may be reported via GHR.

Usually though, flaming doesn't get reported unless it's two sides flaming each other, or by the person being flamed.

Well, fair enough

EDIT: Wait, no. Eye of Mods everywhere.

[Katganistan]

Sure. Let's schedule it for.... twelve months from now.

[Casl]

Sure. Let's schedule it for.... twelve months from now.

Lol once a year is fun but honestly with the quality of the last two (This and IPO) they are really just becoming fun, maybe have two a year.

[Saurisisia]

Sure. Let's schedule it for.... twelve months from now.

Sounds good to me.

[The United Soviet Socialist Republic]

Sure. Let's schedule it for.... twelve months from now.

Heil to the Mod!

[Nefrotos]

No! No! No! No! No!

This whole thing was fugging stupid! It's NOT NationStates! I like NationStates, and over the last two nights, I thought I was on a completely different website!

It's ridiculous, never do anything like this again, and please, put my nation's "leading causes of death" pages back to the way they're supposed to be, without all the Walking Dead fan fic crap!

You'll have to excuse me if I disagree. I've played this game since 2003. This is the most fun I've ever had playing this game (not that I didn't have fun during the ten years). I actually WANTED to play today. I kept checking the website to see how I was doing. Yeah, I was by myself, but it was wonderful to see my nation recover so quickly. I even got to help another nation needing it!

How is being the leader responding to such a crisis not NationStates? Yes, it's a fictional event, but this game is about as real as my favorite series by Terry Goodkind. I found it exciting to see how a decision and the speed at which the decision was made could affect how well a nation handled such an event. Waiting even an hour resulted in millions to billions more people either infected or dead. The whole event also allowed everyone to compare to other nations that made different decisions at different times. It showed how important it is for neighbors to cooperate in times of crisis and how well assistance extended could benefit those around. It also showed how badly the affects of shoving problems to other nations affected neighboring nations. This wasn't NationStates? You obviously haven't been here that long. This is completely NationStates. I look forward to repeat events and even spinoffs.

[Great Nepal]

Should we do this again? I'm just putting it out there. Because this time, it would actually be practical to run a Z-Day on a regular basis... say, annually for Halloween. I think we would need to ramp up the potency of zombie exporters, since everybody would be better prepared for the apocalypse. But it could be done.

Yessssssssssss please!
Every year for Halloween and maybe even running for 48 hours instead of 24... and two waves of diseased. Although maybe call it something cool rather than zombie.
But, if none of that can happen, just what was done yesterday for Halloween please...

Edit: Oh, and IPO thing we did last year too... please

[Toiracsi Saduj]

No! No! No! No! No!

This whole thing was fugging stupid! It's NOT NationStates! I like NationStates, and over the last two nights, I thought I was on a completely different website!

It's ridiculous, never do anything like this again, and please, put my nation's "leading causes of death" pages back to the way they're supposed to be, without all the Walking Dead fan fic crap!

You'll have to excuse me if I disagree. I've played this game since 2003. This is the most fun I've ever had playing this game (not that I didn't have fun during the ten years). I actually WANTED to play today. I kept checking the website to see how I was doing. Yeah, I was by myself, but it was wonderful to see my nation recover so quickly. I even got to help another nation needing it!

How is being the leader responding to such a crisis not NationStates? Yes, it's a fictional event, but this game is about as real as my favorite series by Terry Goodkind. I found it exciting to see how a decision and the speed at which the decision was made could affect how well a nation handled such an event. Waiting even an hour resulted in millions to billions more people either infected or dead. The whole event also allowed everyone to compare to other nations that made different decisions at different times. It showed how important it is for neighbors to cooperate in times of crisis and how well assistance extended could benefit those around. It also showed how badly the affects of shoving problems to other nations affected neighboring nations. This wasn't NationStates? You obviously haven't been here that long. This is completely NationStates. I look forward to repeat events and even spinoffs.

Yeah... Don't try to pull rank on me. I've been playing NationStates for more than three years now, so I'm not a noob. Thank you.

And this little zombie event is NOT NationStates because it's not real. Zombies aren't real. The dead do not rise and feast on the flesh of the living. It's fiction, fantasy.
And that would be fine for a different game, but not NationStates. This game, this simulator, is supposed to be based in reality. Issues and decisions that a real political leader could potentially face in reality. And, I'm sorry, zombie plagues just aren't part of that.
Now, certainly, epidemics are - influenza, bubonic plague, smallpox, etc. A lot of people die from those things. But you know what they don't do? Rise from the dead and start eating living people! Those events exist only in the realm of fantasy.
Furthermore, I govern almost all of my nations in a vaccum, and enjoy doing so. Though it's something I wouldn't mind trying out with one or two, the vast majority, I don't want to get involved with "regional activities" like this. I just want the story of the particular nation of mine to stand on its own, not be part of some region-wide narrative. And that's the charm of this website that I love - I can be a total isolationist, I don't have to get involved with other players if I don't want to. But if you all want to force things like this on us on a regular basis... It would completely change the face of this MMO, and none for the better.

[Regnum Dominae]

You'll have to excuse me if I disagree. I've played this game since 2003. This is the most fun I've ever had playing this game (not that I didn't have fun during the ten years). I actually WANTED to play today. I kept checking the website to see how I was doing. Yeah, I was by myself, but it was wonderful to see my nation recover so quickly. I even got to help another nation needing it!

How is being the leader responding to such a crisis not NationStates? Yes, it's a fictional event, but this game is about as real as my favorite series by Terry Goodkind. I found it exciting to see how a decision and the speed at which the decision was made could affect how well a nation handled such an event. Waiting even an hour resulted in millions to billions more people either infected or dead. The whole event also allowed everyone to compare to other nations that made different decisions at different times. It showed how important it is for neighbors to cooperate in times of crisis and how well assistance extended could benefit those around. It also showed how badly the affects of shoving problems to other nations affected neighboring nations. This wasn't NationStates? You obviously haven't been here that long. This is completely NationStates. I look forward to repeat events and even spinoffs.

Yeah... Don't try to pull rank on me. I've been playing NationStates for more than three years now, so I'm not a noob. Thank you.

And this little zombie event is NOT NationStates because it's not real. Zombies aren't real. The dead do not rise and feast on the flesh of the living. It's fiction, fantasy.
And that would be fine for a different game, but not NationStates. This game, this simulator, is supposed to be based in reality. Issues and decisions that a real political leader could potentially face in reality. And, I'm sorry, zombie plagues just aren't part of that.
Now, certainly, epidemics are - influenza, bubonic plague, smallpox, etc. A lot of people die from those things. But you know what they don't do? Rise from the dead and start eating living people! Those events exist only in the realm of fantasy.
Furthermore, I govern almost all of my nations in a vaccum, and enjoy doing so. Though it's something I wouldn't mind trying out with one or two, the vast majority, I don't want to get involved with "regional activities" like this. I just want the story of the particular nation of mine to stand on its own, not be part of some region-wide narrative. And that's the charm of this website that I love - I can be a total isolationist, I don't have to get involved with other players if I don't want to. But if you all want to force things like this on us on a regular basis... It would completely change the face of this MMO, and none for the better.

Real life nations have deadly pandemics that cross borders.
Real life nations don't exist in a void.

[Espartius]

Maybe this can be done every some months, but my greatest worry is that, in the long-term, we are doing this rather too commonly, it's going to become not as interesting as it used to be.

[Toiracsi Saduj]

And this little zombie event is NOT NationStates because it's not real. Zombies aren't real. The dead do not rise and feast on the flesh of the living. It's fiction, fantasy.
And that would be fine for a different game, but not NationStates. This game, this simulator, is supposed to be based in reality. Issues and decisions that a real political leader could potentially face in reality. And, I'm sorry, zombie plagues just aren't part of that.
Now, certainly, epidemics are - influenza, bubonic plague, smallpox, etc. A lot of people die from those things. But you know what they don't do? Rise from the dead and start eating living people! Those events exist only in the realm of fantasy.
Furthermore, I govern almost all of my nations in a vaccum, and enjoy doing so. Though it's something I wouldn't mind trying out with one or two, the vast majority, I don't want to get involved with "regional activities" like this. I just want the story of the particular nation of mine to stand on its own, not be part of some region-wide narrative. And that's the charm of this website that I love - I can be a total isolationist, I don't have to get involved with other players if I don't want to. But if you all want to force things like this on us on a regular basis... It would completely change the face of this MMO, and none for the better.

Real life nations have deadly pandemics that cross borders.
Real life nations don't exist in a void.

Dude, why don't you try reading posts before you start criticizing their content.
For instance, Don't say:

Real life nations have deadly pandemics that cross borders.

When you can see, I already wrote:

Now, certainly, epidemics are - influenza, bubonic plague, smallpox, etc. A lot of people die from those things.

And don't say:

Real life nations don't exist in a void.

When you can see, I already wrote:

And that's the charm of this website that I love - I can be a total isolationist, I don't have to get involved with other players if I don't want to.

Come on, bro. Show a little better situational awareness when you post.

And are you ever going to reply to that telegram I wrote you? You know, the one where I asked yout to explain that very rude comment you said to me a couple pages ago?

[Reploid Seductions]

I think I'll just let the hideous looking old green guy respond for me regarding a rather severe case of Chronic Anal Pain Syndrome floating around here.

[Shape Cod]

Personally, I really liked this event. I genuinely panicked when I found out that my nation had zombies in it!
(P.S. What's this IPO event I see everyone discussing about?)

[Reploid Productions]

Personally, I really liked this event. I genuinely panicked when I found out that my nation had zombies in it!
(P.S. What's this IPO event I see everyone discussing about?)

That was our April Fools gag last year- that Nationstates was going to become a publicly traded company, but as a special gesture to players, they got shares before the stock sale. It quickly devolved into a hilariously depraved scramble for power and shares (much like a real business stock sale!)

[Great Nepal]

Personally, I really liked this event. I genuinely panicked when I found out that my nation had zombies in it!
(P.S. What's this IPO event I see everyone discussing about?)

That was our April Fools gag last year- that Nationstates was going to become a publicly traded company, but as a special gesture to players, they got shares before the stock sale. It quickly devolved into a hilariously depraved scramble for power and shares (much like a real business stock sale!)

You forgot the best bit. Within hours Max lost his majority share holding and towards end of the day, plurality.

[Thesan]

I support this, but only if for the admins and Max Barry isn't a pain

[New Tyran]

This was very fun but every few months? No, then it kinda becomes repetitive as ideas will run out quickly. Every year yes for Halloween or April 1st I agree one hundred percent.

[Bacopa]

No. I absolutely hated it

[Bears Armed]

I dunno if it also can count as a suggestion but to give it a more challenging twist... why not allow the "population" that dies, remain dead? (I know it sounds hard core... but I think it will make the Zombiepocalips more interesting to play and it will also make the "Population" analysis on each region to vary every year).

So anybody who couldn't get online for that day, for whatever reason, might discover afterwards that their nation had lost ALL of its people and consequently no longer existed (and couldn't be revived)? Hopefully the message
"HELL NO!!!"
adequately conveys my opposition to this suggestion.

How about next we do the Neurax Worm from Plague Inc?

How about the risk of a lawsuit from that other game's owners?

[Crystal Spires]

I would like it for there to be fun events like this one every few month on special events like holidays and the like. As for those who are hating on Fantasy, first SPEAK FOR YOURSELVES. Nationstates is a fantasy and a fictional multi-verse. There are simultaneously spacefaring nations, and pre-gunpowder nations. There are also straight up fantasy and and modern technology. To say that NS is Strictly based on reality is silly and utterly chauvinistic as the greater majority of NS nations don't exist in reality. They're fictional nations. Dare I say that Toiracsi Saduj exists no where but in your imagination. There is no realistic nation in modern day globalization that can shut themselves off from a global pandemic in reality. No one. So maybe you should take off your hate lens for Fantasy and take off the googly gremlin eyes and remember you are not playing realistically either and should embrace the chance for creativity and fun expression while also allowing for some opportunities for roleplaying for everyone.

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

I agree that monthly would be too often, requiring too much work and maybe getting boring/commonplace, but if it's not too much trouble I do think having something like this two or three times a year would be wonderful: it's such a lovely opportunity for nations to work together on a grand scale. Definitely twice a year would be nice.

Also as Spires says above, there are plenty of versions of reality floating around. For instance, in Libraria and Ausitoria the Zombies went for love bites and became aggressive against vegetable-flesh instead. Less scary. Thus we ICly pretty much ignored it.

Nonetheless, maybe we could let bored/boring people opt out?

[Nationalist State of Knox]

It would get boring after the second time.

[Ameca]

The biggest reason I play this game instead of the other nation simulators is that it doesn't require constant upkeep.

I can get sick or take a vacation for a week or go to work every day and my country won't go down the shitter while I'm gone

Even though I knew it was April 1st, I was rather disappointed to get home from work to find over 90% of my population gone in less than one day

[Idealised Monetary Expertise]

I loved this year's event and would love to try it again sometime, be it in six or twelve months. It was a shame that I live in the UK and missed the first 7 hours as I was asleep

[Nationalist State of Knox]

I loved this year's event and would love to try it again sometime, be it in six or twelve months. It was a shame that I live in the UK and missed the first 7 hours as I was asleep

No matter where you live, you'll miss some if it, unless you're awake for the whole 24 hours.