Every year, the world experiences a short-lived outbreak of zombies. Every year, a majority of regions close their borders in an attempt to contain the infection. But a few maintain open borders, allowing refugees to enter and seek a cure. We are proposing that interested regions with an open border...

We actually had this in the very first Z-Day! A bunch of folks got together to cooperatively help out other regions (mostly working with the NationStates Community as referred to here ). In practice this just meant sitting in the regions for a few ticks until our combined cure expertise + population...

Please don't let COVID cancel Z-Day. Let people opt out, let it be themed differently, whatever - that part I don't care about in the slightest - but this is our only chance each year to weaponize compassion to save each other and ourselves. It's one of the few times we get to pull together as regio...

Will there be a Z-Day next year? Read the news report. I would think so. I don't read the news post as much different from the usual, "Welp, 80% of the world perished in horrific fashion, but that's over and done with now!" announcement that Max usually sends. And there had better be anot...

To be mildy fair, we were behind a password for the first 20 hours or so, and only dropped after we got our own region under control. No password whatsoever is something to maybe think about for next year though... Hm... it'd be nice to be able to track that, too. Scrolling through your RMB, I noti...

I'm not sure if it's even possible to enforce this, but Forest is going to get screwed out of the Most Survivors + No Quarantine trophy because another region (Equilism) resorted to questionable practices with the use of puppets and surging them in from hidden regions at the last second. I know pup...

[violet] wrote:Ooh, pretty.

Unfortunately both of these issues aren't possible to fix (easily) without breaking a lot of existing dispatches, as I discovered last month.

Aw, sadness. I guess my OCD will have to look the other way. Thanks for the response!

I can't imagine a less productive debate than doing this with you, Naivetry. Nothing matters apparently. I'm not sure what gives you the impression that I think nothing matters. I think democratic principles are lovely, and when I was active in the game I would never have worked for a region that d...

Pardon my OCD, but I just finished my first formatting-intensive dispatch , and noticed a couple of super minor things that it would be nice to have fixed. I'm running Chrome on Windows, if that makes a difference. 1) Putting an alignment tag inside a table moves the text closer to the bottom of the...

I suggested that Influence be removed only from the GCRs and be replaced with a static formula that limits the number of nations that a Delegate can eject in one update period (for example 20% of the pre-update population). If we're brainstorming, I'd be very interested hearing what people think ab...

*peeks into Technical and can't resist thread* If you think long-serving Delegates are an issue, then you should start electing your Delegates and introducing term limits. From the political metagaming perspective... nah. Manufacturing elections denies coded reality. Power in the GCRs (TRR excepted)...

So I promised Equilism I'd hand out awards after Z-Day this year. In working on designs for those awards, I came up with some in the style of badges. And then it occurred to me: NS tracks the number of superweapons we send; could we get that added as a badge for nations that participate from year to...

You're confusing your "influence" and your "influence rank". Your influence IS increasing, probably pretty rapidly. What's not increasing is your relative influence compared to your regionmates. That's what controls the "Minnow" to "Hermit" designation. This....

Well, the Latin participle system is definitely a far cry from what is postulated to have existed in the past, as I now realized after some preliminary reading. It does not have the middle participles characteristic of IE languages, as Grk. -men- and Sanskr. -mana- , or the perfect active participl...

I'm not aware of Latin having any sort of parallel construction to that. Latin would just say something like propter hostes in urbem intrantes, Socrates fugit (because of the enemies entering into the city, Socrates flees) or hostibus in urbem ingressis, Socrates fugit (with the enemies having ente...

Themiclesia wrote:I was referring to the articular infinitive.

*nods* That's what I think would require a form of sum for clarity.

Couldn't this be alternatively construed as "it is science to conquer shadows"? Not in the modern sense of "science" as a discipline distinct from the humanities or the arts. Scientia in classical Latin is more like... 'know-how'. Also, despite how often forms of sum are omitted...

Yay.

I'll update the links in the How to Build a Region thread to point here.

I feel like the telegram delivery queue could be explained less vaguely, but I'm not sure exactly how you might word it that wouldn't confuse newer nations. Part of that was my confusion over exactly what is happening, combined with a desire not to state things that might become out of date as the ...

I have just posted a major and long overdue revision to the first four posts. The need to rewrite and reorganize the original material led me to start drafting a section on interregional politics for the first time, as well - but I'm aware that that information may not be helpful to everyone. I woul...

Could we not extend the Liberation function to this as well? I suppose we could. But a better question might be whether non-military regions actually would gain any safety from this method. Most Delegates who are not a part of the R/D world will not have a good way of knowing whether a given nation...

But you must be aware: This does the same thing as regional passwords. A raider dominated region that has a password on it is good as gone regardless of the entry of this method. However, this allows the final measure of security for Foundered/secure WA delegate regions that they have been looking ...

Venatorium wrote:"Chosen by God, guided by the fasces"

Electi a Deo, directi fascibus.

(For plural people, there.)

Why us defenderdom so weak and dysfunctional currently? Cannibalism. Raiders have done a much better job lately of not killing and eating their own. And the rhetoric game. Raiders can just say "it's fun!" and call it a day. Defenders lack a consistent message and rationale for what they d...

Please translate: "Region first, Self second" to latin. Thanks in advance. Hm. This depends on the meaning you want to convey. If it's something like "Put your region first and yourself after," I might say something like this: Regionem antepone tibi. That would be speaking to on...