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[Gnejs]

Not really the thread for inquiring about 'weird' stat effects. Just saying.

[Tinhampton]

“It’s not just horseball,” mentions Jennifer Parkarvarkar, a techie joining the conversation via Trype. “Think about legball. Concussions happen there all the time. It’s just not in the news anywhere as often. And then there’s hoopball. They wipe each other out all of the time. Us video gamers have fun without ever knocking our skulls together. I propose we ban all physical sports. It’s only the safest op-” he says before the screen turns off with a security guard twirling the plug.

Gender inconsistency: The name "Jennifer" is matched with a "he".

[Drasnia]

“It’s not just horseball,” mentions Jennifer Parkarvarkar, a techie joining the conversation via Trype. “Think about legball. Concussions happen there all the time. It’s just not in the news anywhere as often. And then there’s hoopball. They wipe each other out all of the time. Us video gamers have fun without ever knocking our skulls together. I propose we ban all physical sports. It’s only the safest op-” he says before the screen turns off with a security guard twirling the plug.

Gender inconsistency: The name "Jennifer" is matched with a "he".

I'm guessing it's coded as @@RANDOMNAME@@ instead of @@RANDOMMALENAME@@, just like in the spoiler thread?

[Ransium]

Gender inconsistency: The name "Jennifer" is matched with a "he".

I'm guessing it's coded as @@RANDOMNAME@@ instead of @@RANDOMMALENAME@@, just like in the spoiler thread?

Correct. I've put in a request to have it fixed.

[Aclion]

The space research organization in Aclion has requested more government funding for space-related research and development, and the possibility of creating orbital weapons platforms has become a topic of intense debate.

That should be

A space research organization

(or the organisation should have a name)

[The United Providences of Perland]

Issue 543 option 2;

“They can’t keep getting away with this,” states Chief of Police Amanda Rose calmly, eyes fixed on a slow motion playback of the incident’s CCTV footage. “This snot nosed little punk wasted an entire day’s worth of police time with unnecessary evacuations and dealing with panicking crowds. An online perpetual ID system should be used, so home-grown terrorists can’t hide behind their shrouds of anonymity.

I don't have CCTV.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I'm guessing it's coded as @@RANDOMNAME@@ instead of @@RANDOMMALENAME@@, just like in the spoiler thread?

Correct. I've put in a request to have it fixed.

Done

[Candlewhisper Archive]

The space research organization in Aclion has requested more government funding for space-related research and development, and the possibility of creating orbital weapons platforms has become a topic of intense debate.

That should be

A space research organization

(or the organisation should have a name)

I think it reads fine as it is. "The" implies that there's only one.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Issue 543 option 2;

“They can’t keep getting away with this,” states Chief of Police Amanda Rose calmly, eyes fixed on a slow motion playback of the incident’s CCTV footage. “This snot nosed little punk wasted an entire day’s worth of police time with unnecessary evacuations and dealing with panicking crowds. An online perpetual ID system should be used, so home-grown terrorists can’t hide behind their shrouds of anonymity.

I don't have CCTV.

Clarify please.

Do you mean that you've previously answered an issue which stops your nation having CCTV? If so, flag that issue option for me, and I'll see if I can flag it as a potential future policy flag.

Or that your imagined setting for your nation includes the fact that you don't have CCTV? If so, I think no changes are needed, as the NS issues have to assume some default level of how nations look and are, and will never encompass all the nation shapes that can be rped.

[The United Providences of Perland]

Issue 543 option 2;

“They can’t keep getting away with this,” states Chief of Police Amanda Rose calmly, eyes fixed on a slow motion playback of the incident’s CCTV footage. “This snot nosed little punk wasted an entire day’s worth of police time with unnecessary evacuations and dealing with panicking crowds. An online perpetual ID system should be used, so home-grown terrorists can’t hide behind their shrouds of anonymity.

I don't have CCTV.

Clarify please.

Do you mean that you've previously answered an issue which stops your nation having CCTV? If so, flag that issue option for me, and I'll see if I can flag it as a potential future policy flag.

Or that your imagined setting for your nation includes the fact that you don't have CCTV? If so, I think no changes are needed, as the NS issues have to assume some default level of how nations look and are, and will never encompass all the nation shapes that can be rped.

In the CCTV issue, I have never picked the option to implement them in public places (I can pull the exact issue if you need it). But what I'm stating is that in issue 543, in the above option (option 1), it uses CCTV as a medium for viewing the incident. This wouldn't make sense for nations without public CCTV.

[The Huge Golden Empire]

I have had some problems with civil rights. If I legalise homosexual marriage the only thing which grows is secularism and not civil rights. However, if I legalise abortion only to rape and when the mother's life is in danger, the civil rights lower from very good to good.

Don't you think that legalising homosexual marriage is something which improves civil rights?

[Zwangzug]

I have had some problems with civil rights. If I legalise homosexual marriage the only thing which grows is secularism and not civil rights. However, if I legalise abortion only to rape and when the mother's life is in danger, the civil rights lower from very good to good.

Don't you think that legalising homosexual marriage is something which improves civil rights?

The game already recognizes that your country has freedom of marriage and shouldn't become any more free or have more civil rights due to that issue. Other countries may have their civil rights raised by recognizing same-sex marriage (or adoption).

[Phydios]

Clarify please.

Do you mean that you've previously answered an issue which stops your nation having CCTV? If so, flag that issue option for me, and I'll see if I can flag it as a potential future policy flag.

Or that your imagined setting for your nation includes the fact that you don't have CCTV? If so, I think no changes are needed, as the NS issues have to assume some default level of how nations look and are, and will never encompass all the nation shapes that can be rped.

In the CCTV issue, I have never picked the option to implement them in public places (I can pull the exact issue if you need it). But what I'm stating is that in issue 543, in the above option (option 1), it uses CCTV as a medium for viewing the incident. This wouldn't make sense for nations without public CCTV.

The issue regarding cameras in public places is talking about government-controlled cameras. Real-world police departments, when investigating incidents, request footage from private CCTV systems all the time. Your nation isn't free of security cameras just because your government isn't overtly spying on citizens.

[The Huge Golden Empire]

I have had some problems with civil rights. If I legalise homosexual marriage the only thing which grows is secularism and not civil rights. However, if I legalise abortion only to rape and when the mother's life is in danger, the civil rights lower from very good to good.

Don't you think that legalising homosexual marriage is something which improves civil rights?

The game already recognizes that your country has freedom of marriage and shouldn't become any more free or have more civil rights due to that issue. Other countries may have their civil rights raised by recognizing same-sex marriage (or adoption).

Thank you. In this case I'll have to wait until an useful issue comes to me.

[Lamebrainia]

The introduction:

citizens have accosted you while on your morning stroll

I don't think an incomplete clause starting with "while" is a good grammatical choice here: "while" doesn't work in the same way "that" or "who" do, because it describes the predicate, not an argument. I would strongly recommend changing the bit quoted above to "citizens have accosted you while you were on your morning stroll" to avoid confusion (what the hell are citizens doing on your morning stroll?!).

Well, and congratulations on getting a new editor for your team. I hope to see more issues from Wyethalania in the future.

[Drasnia]

The introduction:

citizens have accosted you while on your morning stroll

I don't think an incomplete clause starting with "while" is a good grammatical choice here: "while" doesn't work in the same way "that" or "who" do, because it describes the predicate, not an argument. I would strongly recommend changing the bit quoted above to "citizens have accosted you while you were on your morning stroll" to avoid confusion (what the hell are citizens doing on your morning stroll?!).

Well, and congratulations on getting a new editor for your team. I hope to see more issues from Wyethalania in the future.

I don't think it's exactly causing any confusion. The you are is being implied, which I find pretty clear enough already.

[Lamebrainia]

I don't think it's exactly causing any confusion. The you are is being implied, which I find pretty clear enough already.

I've just politely rephrased that which means "this is gramatically incorrect". Whatever's implied, this is not how English sentences are structured. English lacks the fully-pronounced grammatical genders and cases to make any such phrase clear. Because both the pronoun and the verb are omitted, the adverbial clause automatically gets attached to the main clause of the sentence, thus making citizens accost you while they are on a stroll. Adverbial clauses have to have the same subject as the subject of the main clause. There's a famous example attributed to Chekhov, I think:

Approaching the station, my hat fell off.

Issue #676 suffers from a similar ill. You might argue the subject is obvious, but you are referring to contextual obviousness, and I am referring to the grammatical structure a sentence has to follow.

[Phydios]

I don't think it's exactly causing any confusion. The you are is being implied, which I find pretty clear enough already.

I've just politely rephrased that which means "this is gramatically incorrect". Whatever's implied, this is not how English sentences are structured. English lacks the fully-pronounced grammatical genders and cases to make any such phrase clear. Because both the pronoun and the verb are omitted, the adverbial clause automatically gets attached to the main clause of the sentence, thus making citizens accost you while they are on a stroll. Adverbial clauses have to have the same subject as the subject of the main clause. There's a famous example attributed to Chekhov, I think:

Approaching the station, my hat fell off.

Issue #676 suffers from a similar ill. You might argue the subject is obvious, but you are referring to contextual obviousness, and I am referring to the grammatical structure a sentence has to follow.

English ain't a tightly structured language, especially in casual conversation. There aren't no one way to structure an English sentence in this situation. Only need be just structured enough to be understandable. "Contextual obviousness" make up lot of English comprehension and ya certainly aren't gonna get people on a Internet game to follow every obscure grammar rule from history. This ain't no academic or professional context. Wonder, do ya follow "ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which i will not put" stuff?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

As someone who is frequently prescriptivist, I have to say I agree with your assessment of that Lamebrainia, but not sufficiently to over-ride what is both an authorial AND an editorial call here. The meaning is clear, so I'm not going to call for a change in the grammar unless Wyethalania is keen on a change.

[Swietopelk]

Found out that if you choose the option to remove all exams and let schools teach what they want, the result is "the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills." Things like the Sudbury model of school (basically the students doing whatever they want with no classes or anything) have shown that children who aren't taught math end up doing just as well or sometimes better than if they are taught math or any other subject because they learn it on their own. Same goes for a lot of other subjects.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Found out that if you choose the option to remove all exams and let schools teach what they want, the result is "the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills." Things like the Sudbury model of school (basically the students doing whatever they want with no classes or anything) have shown that children who aren't taught math end up doing just as well or sometimes better than if they are taught math or any other subject because they learn it on their own. Same goes for a lot of other subjects.

It's just comedic exaggeration in the effect line. You'll note in the stats, your nation got smarter and more cultured.

[Trotterdam]

Did someone change the random last name macro to expunge all spaces from its entries? Because I noticed them missing in some names that should be multiple words.

[Big Brain City]

Issue 656 result 2 effect line pluralizes from the adjective demonym rather than the plural demonym:

The "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Brainishes any less frightened.

should be

The "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Brainishpeople any less frightened.

[Drayxaso]

“Cars are only a part of the problem,” argues transit advocate Marin Abbott, assembling a toy train set on your desktop. “Trucks and busses are just as deadly. We need to shift entirely to railroads and get rid of cars AND trucks - hi-speed trains between cities, light rail to the suburbs, monorails and trolleys in town. We can dump those old speed limit laws - people won’t get run over if they stay off the tracks! So what if a few industrial complexes have to relocate or close? It’s for the greater good!”

Should be "High-Speed."

Sorry to be a bother, but I don't think this was noticed.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Issue 656 result 2 effect line pluralizes from the adjective demonym rather than the plural demonym:

The "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Brainishes any less frightened.

should be

The "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making Brainishpeople any less frightened.

Cheers, straight error on my part. Fixed.