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[The Macabees]

I highly recommend the save as draft function, if you don't write your post on a separate word processor first.

[Maltropia]

Also, wordcounter.net seems to keep the last text you entered into it, even if you close the tab, shut down your computer, etc., so if you use that to check your word count (or for this secondary use) it'll hold onto it.

Edit: Just to amend this, you may need to activate its autosave feature to make it retain your text. It's been a while since I used the site so this change is new and exciting for me.

[Roski]

I'm a little confused by the difference between the RP and the game. I'm a decently-experienced roleplayer, been doing it for a couple of years. But my question is: how much of the "game" impacts the roleplay?

Say my income tax is x number but I don't want income tax whatsoever. Is it godmodding to ignore the stats on the game, or modify them to fit better? All to a reasonable degree, not giving you enough money to buy 100000000 battleships obviously. But rather to fine tune and better play out the nation you want to play. Not the randomly generated one given to you at game start.

I often find its interesting to completely build a nation and to use the NS stats - based on the types of RPs you are in.

For example, Atlas's Roski is extremely less powerful than the NS Stats Roski.

One offers a realistic look into geopolitics, the other one allows for some fun times.

Some times you want a small professional army

Other times you want hundreds of B-2 Spirits blacking out the skies to deal with pesky fascist states.

Both can be a lot of fun, with the former as having a challenge and the latter being "fuck you i have the money to do what I want"

[Nioya]

Can anyone help me try to get into roleplays?

[Wagdog]

Can anyone help me try to get into roleplays?

Sure. What sort of RPs are you mainly looking for?

[Fellutia]

So i have a question...

Can anyone tell me how to figure out the military number from the population?
I know about the '1% of the population' rule but my nation is dictatorship,so i don't think that rule with suit with my nation.
If anyone know how,please reply
thanks

[Steel Butterfly]

So i have a question...

Can anyone tell me how to figure out the military number from the population?
I know about the '1% of the population' rule but my nation is dictatorship,so i don't think that rule with suit with my nation.
If anyone know how,please reply
thanks

Look up real life examples. Find a historical nation under a dictatorship and compare their military numbers to population numbers.

[Steel Butterfly]

Is there anyway to recover a lost post (writing) if you forgot to save the draft and deleted your window browser?

Write in Word / Google Docs and then copy/paste when you're finished. Helps with editing too.

[Roski]

So i have a question...

Can anyone tell me how to figure out the military number from the population?
I know about the '1% of the population' rule but my nation is dictatorship,so i don't think that rule with suit with my nation.
If anyone know how,please reply
thanks

Its a lot more than just "1% rule"

Who are your enemies? How large is your land? What is your population? What is your level of nationalism? Do you have mandatory servicing? How close are your enemies? What is your doctrine, strategy, and tactics. What is your technology level compared to your potential opponents?

[Lubyak]

So i have a question...

Can anyone tell me how to figure out the military number from the population?
I know about the '1% of the population' rule but my nation is dictatorship,so i don't think that rule with suit with my nation.
If anyone know how,please reply
thanks

As has been stated, the best way is to look at a real life nation that you want to emulate and try to base the percentage off of that. Remember though, every person in your nation who's a professional soldier is a person who isn't a professional shopkeeper, student, factory worker, farmer, etc. The '1% Rule' isn't so much a rule, but a guideline. Being a dictatorship doesn't mean you escape the economic realities that come with having an overly large military.

Also remember that states which maintain large standing armies generally have a reason to do so. It includes states like the two Koreas, Israel, the Republic of China, etc. All of these states have large threats on their immediate borders which necessitate large militaries. Others are major resource exporters, and are able to support a military bigger than what a 'normal' state could based on those exports. Try to think about what your state is like and what its geopolitical situation is like before picking, rather than just picking a state at random.

[Charnea]

So i have a question...

Can anyone tell me how to figure out the military number from the population?
I know about the '1% of the population' rule but my nation is dictatorship,so i don't think that rule with suit with my nation.
If anyone know how,please reply
thanks

As has been stated, the best way is to look at a real life nation that you want to emulate and try to base the percentage off of that. Remember though, every person in your nation who's a professional soldier is a person who isn't a professional shopkeeper, student, factory worker, farmer, etc. The '1% Rule' isn't so much a rule, but a guideline. Being a dictatorship doesn't mean you escape the economic realities that come with having an overly large military.

Also remember that states which maintain large standing armies generally have a reason to do so. It includes states like the two Koreas, Israel, the Republic of China, etc. All of these states have large threats on their immediate borders which necessitate large militaries. Others are major resource exporters, and are able to support a military bigger than what a 'normal' state could based on those exports. Try to think about what your state is like and what its geopolitical situation is like before picking, rather than just picking a state at random.

Like how the Dominion of Lubyak on our south border means Charlandia has a big healthy Army. If only there were nu Lubyak on our south, there would be no need for so many Legionaries sitting around and not building railroads or teaching kids how to Life.

[Nkobangou]

OOC: How do people have such big populations and how can I make mine grow faster? I want to have a bigger population to roleplaying with.

[The Templar High Council]

OOC: How do people have such big populations and how can I make mine grow faster? I want to have a bigger population to roleplaying with.

Firstly: this thread is OOC, don't worry about it.

Your population grows over time, passively. Just stay active, and it will grow.

Though you can RP at whatever size you want, if those you're playing with allow it.

[Nkobangou]

OOC: How do people have such big populations and how can I make mine grow faster? I want to have a bigger population to roleplaying with.

Firstly: this thread is OOC, don't worry about it.

Your population grows over time, passively. Just stay active, and it will grow.

Though you can RP at whatever size you want, if those you're playing with allow it.

OOC: I can RP at whatever size I want? So if I want to RP with a population of Congo or Egypt, I'm allowed to do that even though my nation only has a few million people? I didn't see anything in the Welcome to International Incidents! forum but I just want to check if that's a rule.

[The Templar High Council]

Firstly: this thread is OOC, don't worry about it.

Your population grows over time, passively. Just stay active, and it will grow.

Though you can RP at whatever size you want, if those you're playing with allow it.

OOC: I can RP at whatever size I want? So if I want to RP with a population of Congo or Egypt, I'm allowed to do that even though my nation only has a few million people? I didn't see anything in the Welcome to International Incidents! forum but I just want to check if that's a rule.

You don't have to follow NS's provided stats if you don't want to. That's the beauty of roleplaying.

[Nkobangou]

OOC: I can RP at whatever size I want? So if I want to RP with a population of Congo or Egypt, I'm allowed to do that even though my nation only has a few million people? I didn't see anything in the Welcome to International Incidents! forum but I just want to check if that's a rule.

You don't have to follow NS's provided stats if you don't want to. That's the beauty of roleplaying.

OOC: Thank you!

[Kyrusia]

It largely actually depends on several things: 1) Who you are roleplaying with, 2) What community you are roleplaying a part of, and 3) What is the reasoning/justification for a greater population than provided in gameplay statistics, dependent upon which community you are roleplaying a part of.

On NationStates, roleplaying is based entirely on voluntary consent: no one can make you do something (or not do something) you want (or don't want) to do, insofar as it abides by the NS One Stop Rule Shop, NS User Terms and Conditions, etc. This street goes both ways, however; namely, while a player may want to have a population of eighty billion people so they can attempt to make combat and warfare only a numbers game, no one is actually required to respect this claim (or even acknowledge the existence of a player's In-Character entity, state, star-state, etc.). While it was written for Future Tech, this is largely applicable throughout the entirety of the roleplaying community on NS with specifics modified to fit for each community or group of players (scale for Future Tech, reality-emulating socio-economic statistics for Modern Tech, etc.).

More or less, talk with the people you intend or desire to roleplay with. Telegram players whom you are impressed-by and (politely) ask them if they are willing to answer a few questions, give advice, or possibly help you learn the ropes. Importantly, but often ignored in advice, a new player should actually read threads and learn what each community on NS (from different regions, to different roleplaying groups, to different tech levels) expect of any given player, not to mention become involved in those communities (be it through threads, Regional Message Boards, IRC channels, or offsite forums dedicated to each community and/or sub-community).

In the end, it's a learning process - one that is never truly complete. Hope that helps.

[The Fedral Union]

Some communities also have team speak servers ^_^ its easier to get emotional inflection through voice.

[Lothair Udo]

Can lightsabers can be in MT? Albeit weaker.
This is due to the fact that recent stuff on the interwebs show that our tech, in a small amount of years from now, could produce lightsabers.

[Rhodevus]

Can lightsabers can be in MT? Albeit weaker.
This is due to the fact that recent stuff on the interwebs show that our tech, in a small amount of years from now, could produce lightsabers.

In my opinion, they would be closer to PMT, but in your RPs and in your region, they can be MT if you want. For your RPs, I would state that lightsabers count as modern technology, but if you RP within your region, I would make sure to discuss this with the members of your region, just to be on the safe side

[The Macabees]

Can lightsabers can be in MT? Albeit weaker.
This is due to the fact that recent stuff on the interwebs show that our tech, in a small amount of years from now, could produce lightsabers.

We have an (inactive) player in our region who uses lightsabers. I don't know the details, but I think he did the research and was able to persuade us that they were MTish (although, we're an early-PMT region anyways).

[Lubyak]

Can lightsabers can be in MT? Albeit weaker.
This is due to the fact that recent stuff on the interwebs show that our tech, in a small amount of years from now, could produce lightsabers.

Most players would balk at something like lightsabers being considered MT, so in any RP you should definitely ask the other players if they would mind you using such tech. a

[Oseato]

Can lightsabers can be in MT? Albeit weaker.
This is due to the fact that recent stuff on the interwebs show that our tech, in a small amount of years from now, could produce lightsabers.

You might want to clarify what "recent stuff on the interwebs" is before you talk to your RP partners and explain it to them.

[Lothair Udo]

Can I use timing in my posts to justify that my post is not a godmod?

[Verdoro]

I'm looking for some roleplays to be involved in, where should I look?