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[The Free Joy State]

Can you have another look at #1122/#1124 (or whichever number this ended up being)? I think the validity is bugged. Nobody's gotten it except for the author, even nations who meet the suggested trigger in the draft thread.

Yep, I see what that is.

Fixing now.

EDIT: Fixed.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Hmm, strange.

1124 is hard to get, but should have been some nations getting it. Code looks fine.

Edit: Ah right, got it. It was bust, but Free Joy State has fixed it. Should work from now.

[Fauxia]

Can’t be sure about the numbering quite but I believe it’s 1129.2- should be bourgeois concept, not bourgeoisie concept, I think- it’s an adjective.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Can’t be sure about the numbering quite but I believe it’s 1129.2- should be bourgeois concept, not bourgeoisie concept, I think- it’s an adjective.

thx, fixed

[Hurjaki]

Issue 104 Option 1 mentions voting, but works also in regimes like mine where no elections exist at all.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Issue 104 Option 1 mentions voting, but works also in regimes like mine where no elections exist at all.

Good point. Fixed.

[The Ursine Northlands]

After Brancaland announced an increase in tariffs on all goods imported from abroad, several other countries retaliated by doing the same thing to Brancalandian goods. They now expect a response from The Ursine Northlands.

(Option 1) “Let’s just do what everyone else is doing and increase tariffs on Brancalandian imports,” suggests your Trade Minister, Kimberly Pelosi. “The Brancs rely heavily on us to supply them with iron, copper, and other raw materials. When they have to start paying through the nose for them, I’m sure they’ll see sense and reconsider their own tariff increase.”

(option 2) “If we raise tariffs as well, that will surely increase the cost of goods for consumers!” panics Ranil Watson, your Economic Advisor. “We need to work with the Brancalandians, not against them. So we should actually lower tariffs in an attempt to get them to buy more from us; once they see that we’re giving them a fair deal, they might even lower their tariffs for us. They get to trade more goods, we get to trade more goods, and the average Bear reaps the savings. Everyone wins!”

This doesn't make sense: It's Brancaland's' own tariffs on imports which are already pushing up the price of the materials that you export to them, whereas you putting tariffs on the goods which you import from Brancaland wouldn't affect the cost of your exports to them... and you lowering your tariffs on imports from them doesn't make your exports to them cheaper.
To make those first two options work properly, you need to have Brancaland (and the nations responding to it) taxing their exports rather than their imports.

[Fluffard]

1130 needs... punctuation after "matter".

[Chief Alpaca]

I just had issue 333 (No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice At All), and selected the final option, which includes the text "It’s time we recognized that, as a forward-thinking people, we can no longer afford to allow the practice of any religion." I was a little surprised to find that this didn't actually trigger the Atheism policy, which is what I was hoping and expecting it to do. I'm not sure if that is an error, or simply me having high hopes for something that wasn't intended, but I wanted to double-check!

[Bears Armed]

I just had issue 333 (No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice At All), and selected the final option, which includes the text "It’s time we recognized that, as a forward-thinking people, we can no longer afford to allow the practice of any religion." I was a little surprised to find that this didn't actually trigger the Atheism policy, which is what I was hoping and expecting it to do. I'm not sure if that is an error, or simply me having high hopes for something that wasn't intended, but I wanted to double-check!

The 'Atheism' policy is what they call a "pseudo-policy": Instead of being triggered by a single event, it's based on stat values.

[The Free Joy State]

1130 needs... punctuation after "matter".

Fixed.

I just had issue 333 (No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice At All), and selected the final option, which includes the text "It’s time we recognized that, as a forward-thinking people, we can no longer afford to allow the practice of any religion." I was a little surprised to find that this didn't actually trigger the Atheism policy, which is what I was hoping and expecting it to do. I'm not sure if that is an error, or simply me having high hopes for something that wasn't intended, but I wanted to double-check!

This issue does already make you lean very strongly atheistic. But I do see why "we can no longer afford to allow the practice of any religion" does suggest the atheism policy.

I'll take it backstage and discuss this for the future.

I just had issue 333 (No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice At All), and selected the final option, which includes the text "It’s time we recognized that, as a forward-thinking people, we can no longer afford to allow the practice of any religion." I was a little surprised to find that this didn't actually trigger the Atheism policy, which is what I was hoping and expecting it to do. I'm not sure if that is an error, or simply me having high hopes for something that wasn't intended, but I wanted to double-check!

The 'Atheism' policy is what they call a "pseudo-policy": Instead of being triggered by a single event, it's based on stat values.

While the Atheism and Theocracy policies are pseudo-policies, and triggered and deactivated based on stat values, somewhat unpredictably (as outlined in the OP of the Unusual Effects Thread -- which is the best place to look for these queries, Chief Alpaca), it is possible to force them -- we usually do not (so don't start asking us to, good GI people) because stats are guided by set operational rules.

But this wording does suggesting Atheism, so it's worth raising.

[Flanderloin]

Just answered #369 where I deregulated employment. It gave me an effect of 'emigration to countries with labour laws is all the rage', but I have the no emigration policy.

[The Free Joy State]

Just answered #369 where I deregulated employment. It gave me an effect of 'emigration to countries with labour laws is all the rage', but I have the no emigration policy.

The line now reads "clandestine emigration to countries with labour laws is all the rage", which can imply that it's just secretive or that it's done illegally.

I hope you enjoyed our one time offer: your editor in five minutes or your pizza's free.

[Flanderloin]

Just answered #369 where I deregulated employment. It gave me an effect of 'emigration to countries with labour laws is all the rage', but I have the no emigration policy.

The line now reads "clandestine emigration to countries with labour laws is all the rage", which can imply that it's just secretive or that it's done illegally.

I hope you enjoyed our one time offer: your editor in five minutes or your pizza's free.

That was seriously quick, and that makes me feel even worse about this reply time. It took me until another year, I feel I should bury my head (hopefully in pizza, but shame works just as well).

Thanks anyway for the super quick fix, and here's to a new issue chain in 2019.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

After Brancaland announced an increase in tariffs on all goods imported from abroad, several other countries retaliated by doing the same thing to Brancalandian goods. They now expect a response from The Ursine Northlands.

(Option 1) “Let’s just do what everyone else is doing and increase tariffs on Brancalandian imports,” suggests your Trade Minister, Kimberly Pelosi. “The Brancs rely heavily on us to supply them with iron, copper, and other raw materials. When they have to start paying through the nose for them, I’m sure they’ll see sense and reconsider their own tariff increase.”

(option 2) “If we raise tariffs as well, that will surely increase the cost of goods for consumers!” panics Ranil Watson, your Economic Advisor. “We need to work with the Brancalandians, not against them. So we should actually lower tariffs in an attempt to get them to buy more from us; once they see that we’re giving them a fair deal, they might even lower their tariffs for us. They get to trade more goods, we get to trade more goods, and the average Bear reaps the savings. Everyone wins!”

This doesn't make sense: It's Brancaland's' own tariffs on imports which are already pushing up the price of the materials that you export to them, whereas you putting tariffs on the goods which you import from Brancaland wouldn't affect the cost of your exports to them... and you lowering your tariffs on imports from them doesn't make your exports to them cheaper.
To make those first two options work properly, you need to have Brancaland (and the nations responding to it) taxing their exports rather than their imports.

Will discuss this backstage, as what you're saying does make sense.

[Verdant Haven]

While responding to another player's question today, I noticed that one of the NPC nations that has occasionally been mentioned is spelled/gendered incorrectly.

Issues 706, 1041, and 1042 all feature the nation of Marche Blanc, a rival to Marche Noire. The color is gendered incorrectly here - it should be Marche Blanche, as "marche" is feminine (and the use of "noire" confirms that for the NS world, if that matters). It's hard to provide a good English equivalent to this, since we long ago dropped gendering from most of our nouns, but it would be a similar issue to writing something like "he is an actress." Not world-stopping, but a bit confusing to read.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

It's weird-looking, but I don't think it's really a problem. These nations aren't explicitly French.

[Trotterdam]

It's weird-looking, but I don't think it's really a problem. These nations aren't explicitly French.

Marche Noire was originally Marche Noir too, though, and was updated last year, presumably specifically for the sake of French correctness.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

It's weird-looking, but I don't think it's really a problem. These nations aren't explicitly French.

Marche Noire was originally Marche Noir too, though, and was updated last year, presumably specifically for the sake of French correctness.

More for consistency, because we were using both forms.

I've no objection to another editor going through and fixing all of these, if they want to.

[Sanctaria]

I had five minutes. Done.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I had five minutes. Done.

Nice one.

[Republic of Ravens]

#1069, Option 1: shouldn't it be "prevent us FROM?"

[The Free Joy State]

#1069, Option 1: shouldn't it be "prevent us FROM?"

"prevent us being" sounds perfectly acceptable in British English, which the author/editor uses. I don't feel it needs changing.

[Merni]

Issue 731, option 1:

“This is a travesty!” yells Nick Jordan, a Marche Noirian asylee and head organizer for the Freedom for Oppressed Peoples’ Initiative. “Mr. Kratt cruelly subjugates our people and maintains power in Marche Noire by sowing seeds of hatred between its various ethnic groups. This is our chance to peaceably remove him. Please, do not allow him to use Merni as a podium to tighten his stranglehold on our people. Emperor Xaranas IV, to show our solidarity for Marche Noirians and oppressed peoples everywhere, we must ban Otto Kratt and every other tin-pot dictator from coming to our country immediately!”

Shouldn't the apostrophe in "Freedom for Oppressed Peoples' Initiative" be removed?

[Hurjaki]

Issue 226, option 3 allows residents to resettle in Hurjaki and establishes policy No Emigration.
I also have active policy No Immigration and thought it would be killed by taking that option, but that didn't happen.