This thread was originally posted by Qaaolchoura, and after he left the game, Goobergunchia reposted the thread here. Since he has since left the game, I'm reposting the thread myself.
What follows has been edited for content and updated as there have been a number of changes to this content since that thread was last updated in November of 2009. 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 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?
- Why do I keep getting the same issues?
- How can I get more issues per day?
- How can I change my position on an issue?
- Why do my issue choices randomly change after I select them?
- 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?
- What formatting tags can I use on my region’s Civil Headquarters?
- How is a region picked to be the featured region?
- 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.
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