Gameplay Advice Thread - We're here to help!

[Comfed]

Why can I not disable policies?
I have a ban on automobiles which I wanna remove, there should be a button to remove policies.

PS: This thread was made on my 8th Birthday lol (I am 14 now *TOO OLD*)

Policies can only be removed by answering an issue that can repeal policies. Issues are basically the only way to change your national stats including policies.

[Nunaqujjuk]

Why can I not disable policies?
I have a ban on automobiles which I wanna remove, there should be a button to remove policies.

PS: This thread was made on my 8th Birthday lol (I am 14 now *TOO OLD*)

Policies can only be removed by answering an issue that can repeal policies. Issues are basically the only way to change your national stats including policies.

Kinda annoying imo

[Bears Armed]

Policies can only be removed by answering an issue that can repeal policies. Issues are basically the only way to change your national stats including policies.

Kinda annoying imo

You can ignore it for RP purposes, and even say so in your sig, though...

[Sedgistan]

Kinda annoying imo

You can ignore it for RP purposes, and even say so in your sig, though...

This isn't a roleplay forum. Generally people come to the Gameplay forum with gameplay questions, and want a gameplay answer to it. Telling people that they can roleplay as bears or whatever, and put it in their signature is not relevant or helpful advice here.

[Nunaqujjuk]

You can ignore it for RP purposes, and even say so in your sig, though...

This isn't a roleplay forum. Generally people come to the Gameplay forum with gameplay questions, and want a gameplay answer to it. Telling people that they can roleplay as bears or whatever, and put it in their signature is not relevant or helpful advice here.

Thanks
but I do actually see his point
Might do that actually, I am actually making a wiki page for my nation on the Constructed Worlds Miraheze wiki, so will use that for roleplay soon.

[Japuile]

What thread tags can I use? I've seen a few, but I need to expand (and explain) them, and I've been looking for a whole list of them for a long time.

[Beanocratic Republic]

Hey, possibly a dumb question, but I accidentally just banned parliament in my nation is there any way to undo that?

[Almonaster Nuevo]

Hey, possibly a dumb question, but I accidentally just banned parliament in my nation is there any way to undo that?

Yes.

You may have to wait a while, but eventually an issue will come up which will have an option to re-enable democracy.

[Uwuguaya]

It is my hope that this thread can become a valuable resource for nations seeking help in the Gameplay arena. Whether they're looking for advice on recruiting, R/D, or regional politics, I believe that it is in the best interests of NationStates for us to help them be successful. The practice of ridiculing every new idea into oblivion is destructive and poisonous to the NS community at large, and my goal is to create a place where these ideas can be discussed and critiqued honestly.

If you are here to provide honest input towards a discussion, no matter what side of the fence you play on, your input is welcome!

If you have a new idea and would like to know how to make it work, what hurdles you may need to overcome, or what won't work, feel free to ask!

If you're here to ridicule someone for their idea, or even ridicule the idea itself, I respectfully ask you to avoid posting in this thread.

The aim of this thread is to give people looking for help access to people who are willing to help. This is not a recruiting thread. We are here to offer guidance, not to move to your region to actually do the work for you.

With all of that being said, how can we help you?

That’s the thing; I don’t know if you can help me or where to ask exactly but I have a kinda-gameplay-kinda-not-related question regarding black markets or more specifically how to increase it cause I want to create a new nation with a huge black market but I don’t how to do it and what to do to make it go through the roof; also, what’s the best (starting) setup for such a nation?

[Almonaster Nuevo]

Not something I've specifically looked in to. Black market is like total economic output - it scales with population, so you're never going to start very high,


My guess would be that you want to combine a big economy with high crime.Try a libertarian gov type, strongly agree with corporations do more good than harm. Go for anything else that increases, economy, crime or gambling; or decreases law enforcement. The best origin may be "sackers and salvagers".

[PhilTech]

Not something I've specifically looked in to. Black market is like total economic output - it scales with population, so you're never going to start very high,


My guess would be that you want to combine a big economy with high crime. Try a libertarian gov type, strongly agree with corporations do more good than harm. Go for anything else that increases, economy, crime or gambling; or decreases law enforcement. The best origin may be "sackers and salvagers".

I am no expert. But you're wrong. Well not entirely especially in the population increase, but can be misleading. The best answer, generally, "It depends".

Go and see the top 100 in black market, almost all of them are authoritative/totalitarian governments with surprisingly low crime rates and an omnipotent law enforcement. I think my best assumption would be Corruption and Economic Freedom(not Economic Efficiency) being the major contributing factors.

Although some outliers exist, I have 99 Economic Freedom, and I still got a substantially large black market. In fact, whenever I decrease my law enforcement and increase my crime rates, my black market goes down. IIRC, there was this issue that I technically allowed crime organizations to take over the state, and my black market just plummeted drastically.

So, to summarize, I don't know. Like I said, I am no expert.

[Almonaster Nuevo]

Interesting.

If one of the stats-wallahs wanted a project, I'd be very interested in knowing the corrlations between all the pairs of stats.

[Haganham]

Not something I've specifically looked in to. Black market is like total economic output - it scales with population, so you're never going to start very high,


My guess would be that you want to combine a big economy with high crime.Try a libertarian gov type, strongly agree with corporations do more good than harm. Go for anything else that increases, economy, crime or gambling; or decreases law enforcement. The best origin may be "sackers and salvagers".

My experience with libertarian nations is they tend to have very low black markets, I think that is both because of the low opportunity for corruption, and that there just isn't a lot of the market that is black.

[Uwuguaya]

Not something I've specifically looked in to. Black market is like total economic output - it scales with population, so you're never going to start very high,


My guess would be that you want to combine a big economy with high crime. Try a libertarian gov type, strongly agree with corporations do more good than harm. Go for anything else that increases, economy, crime or gambling; or decreases law enforcement. The best origin may be "sackers and salvagers".

I am no expert. But you're wrong. Well not entirely especially in the population increase, but can be misleading. The best answer, generally, "It depends".

Go and see the top 100 in black market, almost all of them are authoritative/totalitarian governments with surprisingly low crime rates and an omnipotent law enforcement. I think my best assumption would be Corruption and Economic Freedom(not Economic Efficiency) being the major contributing factors.

Although some outliers exist, I have 99 Economic Freedom, and I still got a substantially large black market. In fact, whenever I decrease my law enforcement and increase my crime rates, my black market goes down. IIRC, there was this issue that I technically allowed crime organizations to take over the state, and my black market just plummeted drastically.

So, to summarize, I don't know. Like I said, I am no expert.

Thank you, I will try that; though I think Weaponisation and Recreational Drug Use might also somehow be related to Crime and maybe also Corruption; I tried it with one nation and they do seem to be related. If any data nerd knows more please, your help will definitely be appreciated.

[Bigpipstan]

How are defenders able to rewrite world factbooks to exactly as they were for obscure regions after they were edited by a WA delagete. When the history of changes isn't publicly available?

[Tinhampton]

How are defenders able to rewrite world factbooks to exactly as they were for obscure regions after they were edited by a WA delagete. When the history of changes isn't publicly available?

By using tools like Eyebeast.

[Almonaster Nuevo]

Or to put it another way, the factbooks are available to scripts via the API.

[Verdant Field]

Is there a way to find dead nations?, im trying to find my old nation but searching for it in the world page thing wont work.

[PhilTech]

Is there a way to find dead nations?, im trying to find my old nation but searching for it in the world page thing wont work.

Boneyard: https://www.nationstates.net/page=boneyard

[Verdant Field]

Is there a way to find dead nations?, im trying to find my old nation but searching for it in the world page thing wont work.

Boneyard: https://www.nationstates.net/page=boneyard

Thank you.

[Il Sonno della Ragione Genera Mostri]

Hello. Nothing special here, I just wanted to post these newspapers. Lately in my Nation so few changes happen that it seems some newspapers does not know what to say:

[Anitillace]

How to force persuade talk to very nicely find a flag maker

[Almonaster Nuevo]

:?: How to force persuade talk to very nicely find a flag maker

For design advice, try here.
Once you know what you want, go here.

[Anitillace]

:?: How to force persuade talk to very nicely find a flag maker

For design advice, try here.
Once you know what you want, go here.

OMG. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[New Anitillace]

Aright. Me and a friend, got a region, right, and I got some questions!
1) How do you add WA delegates?
and 2) What regions should I embassy, that isn't going to take too long, like having to fill out an online form for the Pacific regions.
Thank you for your time!