NationStates Issues **SPOILER ALERT**

by **Jutsa** » Sat Dec 28, 2019 5:47 pm

Zwangzug wrote:Jutsa--this was the "doppelganger 213" that got fixed.

Oh yeah right :blush:

TalAkMaChen wrote:I have a long list of changes but umm... slightly hestitant to put it here as Jutsa might well hate me then

Not at all; I'd be delighted. Even if it'd be backbreaking work.

by **TalAkMaChen** » Sun Dec 29, 2019 9:34 am

Okay, then. I sorted them by issue ID and mostly the changes are marked like "123,1" when referring to option 1 of issue 123 or "123, issue" when referring to the issue text itself. Some also refer to the title, marked accordingly. "Dummy" double quotes mark a quote of text like when identifying a part of text where I noticed some change, missing italics or alike. Whole new options are usually put inside a box. Some validities are still uncertain to me, others seemed pretty straight forward to guess and confirm.
All without warrenty, although I was careful to check and note everything as accurate as possible. At least the numbering (issues and options) should all be correct as I was "extra careful" there.

Important things first: Missing texts, options recently discovered:

Next: Validities

And last, the log list of changes, italics, and all the rest I noticed unless listed before.

by **Trotterdam** » Sun Dec 29, 2019 3:46 pm

TalAkMaChen wrote:1041,2 add option from Trot's report I can exclude "No Immigration" from that list; I'd go for Autarky and/or Socialism. Socialism alone did not receive it. Need to check if a Capitalist nation with Autarky sees it.

Oddly, despite my having many more data points on that issue since then (over a thousand for this option), my data still supports all three policies as probably disqualifying the option. This could be due to anti-immigration nations still receiving the option but the players behind them being highly disinclined to choose it, but normally people aren't that consistent, and for something to never happen even once is unusual.

TalAkMaChen wrote:1178,5 slightly changed (I double-checked, Furry Thing's report also had choice-4), still for "Has Corporal Punishment"):
“That’s not a bad idea,” muses @@RANDOMNAME@@, the principal of your niece’s school, who came to your office to discuss the best way to discipline your wayward niece. “Because we don’t allow the use of corporal punishment on children, our kids are out of control! Since teachers aren’t allowed to physically caution the children, we should make a law that forces kids to punish themselves: ‘Timmy, you didn’t do your homework — whip yourself for ten minutes’. It’s perfect!”

That makes me wonder what happens on nations that do allow corporal punishment of children, since that's certainly something you can do (#64), although I didn't think it was a tracked policy flag.

by **TalAkMaChen** » Sun Dec 29, 2019 7:06 pm

I didn't write down which nation didn't receive #1041,2 but I think it was one of the War Dogs. That's how I noticed it had already been reported but still uncertain.
For #1178, I missed option 4 there when I got that text for option 5. Might be option 4 is now the "has no corporal punishment [for all, thus not explicitly mentioning the children]" or some other version the nation did not qualify for; or it actually is the "has corporal punishment" version, but I failed to get that one so far when I was on the watch.

by **SherpDaWerp** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 1:54 am

An addition to TalAkMaChen's monster list, I've got another fix: #993 is called Drug Deals in this list, but 3 days ago I received "Drug Deal" without the "s".

by **Candlewhisper Archive** » Mon Dec 30, 2019 2:19 am

SherpDaWerp wrote:An addition to TalAkMaChen's monster list, I've got another fix: #993 is called Drug Deals in this list, but 3 days ago I received "Drug Deal" without the "s".

It's always been Drug Deal, with no "s", so the list is incorrect.

I'd check TalAkMaChen's list but I have to stare blankly at the wall awhile, sorry.

by **Jutsa** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:27 pm

Oh crap! Apparently at some point I must've mixed up saves and lost my additions for issues 1281, 1285, 1290, 1292 and 1293

Ah well. Back to this!

by **Jutsa** » Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:03 pm

Eh, just as well; forgot the notice that 439.4's restricted and that "Brancalanders" is a new demonymplural. Finished that page, will get back to the rest later tonight.

by **Jutsa** » Wed Jan 01, 2020 6:03 pm

Or not. Guess I didn't meet my deadline. >.>

Meh, not happening tonight either unfortunately. Tomorrow'll have to be the day though

by **TalAkMaChen** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:19 am

And even a new one, fresh from the press. First issue of 2020

#1303: Amateur Hour [Outer Sparta; ed: Zwangzug]

The Issue
The @@NAME@@ College Sports Association has a long-standing policy that collegiate athletes do not get paid. Several high-profile players have taken to camping out in the student loan office until their grievances are addressed.

The Debate
1. “Our team brings zillions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ to campus,” notes @@RANDOMNAME_1@@, a member of the University of @@NAME@@ @@ANIMAL@@ball team. “We put our blood, sweat, and tears into representing this school, and we don’t even get compensation for our work! Give us a share of the wealth we create, so we can pay for tuition, books, and alco... well, all the necessities.”

2. “Kids these days,” trails off @@RANDOMNAME@@, an executive of the @@NAMEINITIALS@@CSA, struggling to remember @@HIS@@ talking point. “I mean to say, they’re already being paid in scholarships! Elite athletes will have plenty of time to profit from their talents once their school days are over, so don’t let scholarship recipients be distracted by monetization. They need to stay focused on earning their degrees.”

3. “Not all sports are equally profitable,” says snow volleyball player @@RANDOMNAME@@, taking a break from practice. “Professionalizing collegiate athletes would let popular @@ANIMAL@@ball players like @@LASTNAME_1@@ make bank while programs like mine fall by the wayside. @@NAME@@ should enforce a code of amateurism in all its sports, on campus or off. It’s the only way to be fair.”

4. “Who let all these jocks on campus?” questions @@RANDOMNAME@@, an honors student at the University of @@CAPITAL@@. “The point of higher education is to pursue knowledge and prepare for your career, not watching your sweaty classmates fight over their balls. Let’s do away with college sports entirely and reaffirm our commitment to what university is really about: learning, research, and pursuing hot co-eds.”

Issue by The Kingdom of Outer Sparta
Edited by Zwangzug

Ohmy, so many macros.

by **Jutsa** » Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:52 pm

Alright so finally got around to this. Hopefully I don't have any more distractions,
like being too tired from constantly waking up after <7 hours' sleep at 7AM to want to do anything other than play puzzle games,
or multiple cats having health problems and costing you 3-weeks' salary in one day.
or a new upload of Crack in the Cryptic where Simon solves an absolutely beautiful sudoku but the video's 50 minutes long.

*gets discord messages from friends now of all times* haha yeah that's my life >.> ok seriously lets do this thing.

Trot wrote:Do note that the current spoiler misses some random name macros (the current spoiler lists Jyn and Asok, I got Rosalia and Harambe) and italics.

Yeah, copy/pasted it too; made sure "any" and the book title were italicized, hope I didn't miss any others.

wait a second wrote:460

OK I have no idea. Arceus Domains was indeed reliable but tbh I won't add anything unless we find option 4. Still, uh, be sure to keep this in your back pocket.
@528: Huh guess I fixed this one already. A post of mine confirms this. :roll:

Merconitonitopia wrote:I have noticed a amendment to #40 which has not yet been accounted for.

Sweet! Thank you; guess I didn't see that one :blush:

Kinda surprised to see "ebonics" in there, after looking up its definition just now.
That said it was kinda fitting to have a word that wasn't popularly used for that option, but ah well.

@1288: Holy crap that issue description — also holy crap MICROCHIPS
Kinda a brutal issue. Also a little surprised to not see option 3 giving them AI citizenship but I understand why not. Dark tho.

CWA wrote:Fixed! Note to self: Capital is spelt with one "l".

TalAkMaChen wrote:For reference, after changing the text of Issue 656, option 3 reads:

Oh! Nice find! Updated that, kept the old one in my list. Also, actually remembered to do that, so woop~

Racoda wrote:I just got issue #284 Drug Legality Run Amok without the fifth option.

Huh. Also a nice catch; updated. Thank you

TalAkMaChen wrote:It may have gone unnoticed before. There's a fourth option to #636 for nations without elections (or with Sortition explicitly, i.e. where I found it had that policy):

According to Trot, it's only gone unnoticed by yours truly.

Updated.

TalAkMaChen wrote:Issue #271
I reported earlier about the 6 options here, but I didn't have all texts. The list includes 1-5 and options 4 and 5 (i.e. choice-3 and 4) have the same wording -- just the effect line differs slightly.

Dang. How the heck are you finding all these?

Great heathens, now that I check each and every issue I receive with great care, I find more and more inconsistencies to the "known", i.e. previously reported versions. It could of course also be that there were amendments done over the years.

Oh dear...
[quote=you also"]The previously reported options are not 1-5 but 1, and 3-6 with option 2 (choice-1) missing in the list[/quote]
oh wow thank you, updated. Also added the italics and capitalized "The" in that name.
Also updated my list of missing options — any idea as to what the validity of this could be? (I didn't even read the options, just kinda trying to update everything.)

you also also wrote:#572, option 3 is not available for No-Computer policy

Ahah, good to know. Thank you

(I assume you also need internet)
(and it was at this point I noticed you had a bajillion things to update) oh dear god yeah no way I'd be able to finish this last year, I'll be lucky if I get this done by the end of this month :rofl:

And speaking of which, it was about this point I got hungry, had a short snack, decided to do something with my brother after realizing it was almost time for bed.
Will get back to all this, this is fascinating, but I tell you, I'm almost convinced the only reason I got inspired to do this was because I had a random surge of energy,
and I can't tell if it was the 10-30 minute nap (learning those are really good as opposed to the 1-3 hour naps I used to take) or the ginseng I started taking tonight,
but either way I'm thankful I had at least a good 30-60 minutes of enthusiasm my past three days off. :lol:

by **Trotterdam** » Fri Jan 03, 2020 9:02 pm

The stateswoman in #1248 appears to be "Jadzia @@RANDOMLASTNAME_1@@". Note that the last name also appears in option 2. I dunno what "Jadzia" might be a reference to.

Incidentally, both this and last time I got the issue, all of the characters were female, though that might be a coincidence.

by **Candlewhisper Archive** » Mon Jan 06, 2020 2:04 am

Trotterdam wrote:The stateswoman in #1248 appears to be "Jadzia @@RANDOMLASTNAME_1@@". Note that the last name also appears in option 2. I dunno what "Jadzia" might be a reference to.

Incidentally, both this and last time I got the issue, all of the characters were female, though that might be a coincidence.

It was a coincidence. It's a full random name.

Jadzia exists in the randomname database because of Star Trek: DS9, I assume, though that's just a guess, not insider knowledge.

by **Jutsa** » Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:21 am

Gotta admit it's a rather pleasant name.

by **Voxija** » Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:45 am

Argh, it's too early in the morning for this..

#1305: The Woman From AUNT [Altmer Dominion; ed: Candlewhisper Archive]

The Issue
An intelligence team, the “Agents Undercover to Neutralize Troublemakers”, has pinpointed the headquarters of notorious crime boss Sal Bone. Unfortunately, it is concealed within a local orphanage, of which Mr. Bone is a sponsor. Lacking only a smoking gun, AUNT has come to your office with a delicate request.

The Debate

1. “AUNT would like to launch a mole operation inside the orphanage,” buzzes Special Agent Angela Haskell, radioing in from an undisclosed location. “One problem: none of the team is young enough to pull off an effective inside job. We’ve been kicking around the idea of recruiting and training a few kids — maybe orphans themselves — to act as our eyes and ears. Already got a circus kid named Grayson as a potential candidate. There’s a lot of covert situations where juvenile agents could be useful. If this mission goes well, we could even expand their role into a full-time intelligence division.”

2. “The team opinion ain’t unanimous!” yells Special Agent Miley Orbison, her voice crackling through the receiver. “We don’t need to endanger defenseless children! We just need to teach smaller-sized adult women how to act like kids. With a convincing enough performance, I’m sure they’ll pass as kids in no time!”

3. “What are these fools waiting for?” bellows Colonel @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@, furiously switching off the communication channel. “A 90% certainty is good enough for me. The best thing to do is to stop messing about, and authorize SWAT teams to kick down doors, blast holes in walls, and raid the orphanage, ASAP. Perhaps if we had a little more efficiency, we could cut AUNT’s departmental budget, and channel it into funding actual combat-ready military counter-terrorism units.”

4. “I represent a group which is... strongly concerned... with the ever-increasing surveillance state within this great nation,” murmurs a @@DEMONYM@@ in a dapper black suit, sidling into the room to hand you a freshly-printed business card. “Spying on a private citizen, a benefactor of an orphanage no less, is nothing less than harassment.” @@HE@@ gestures tenderly to a large briefcase sitting next to @@HIM@@. “I’m sure a... satisfactory arrangement can be reached here. You wouldn’t want to frighten some perfectly innocent children, now would you?”

I don't know whether half of these names are randomly generated or built-in, sorry. Or some of the pronouns. I'm just guessing, really.

by **Bears Armed** » Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:01 am

Voxija wrote:Argh, it's too early in the morning for this..

#1305: The Woman From AUNT [Altmer Dominion; ed: Candlewhisper Archive]

The Issue
An intelligence team, the “Agents Undercover to Neutralize Troublemakers”, has pinpointed the headquarters of notorious crime boss Sal Bone. Unfortunately, it is concealed within a local orphanage, of which Mr. Bone is a sponsor. Lacking only a smoking gun, AUNT has come to your office with a delicate request.

The Debate

1. “AUNT would like to launch a mole operation inside the orphanage,” buzzes Special Agent Angela Haskell, radioing in from an undisclosed location. “One problem: none of the team is young enough to pull off an effective inside job. We’ve been kicking around the idea of recruiting and training a few kids — maybe orphans themselves — to act as our eyes and ears. Already got a circus kid named Grayson as a potential candidate. There’s a lot of covert situations where juvenile agents could be useful. If this mission goes well, we could even expand their role into a full-time intelligence division.”

2. “The team opinion ain’t unanimous!” yells Special Agent Miley Orbison, her voice crackling through the receiver. “We don’t need to endanger defenseless children! We just need to teach smaller-sized adult women how to act like kids. With a convincing enough performance, I’m sure they’ll pass as kids in no time!”

3. “What are these fools waiting for?” bellows Colonel @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@, furiously switching off the communication channel. “A 90% certainty is good enough for me. The best thing to do is to stop messing about, and authorize SWAT teams to kick down doors, blast holes in walls, and raid the orphanage, ASAP. Perhaps if we had a little more efficiency, we could cut AUNT’s departmental budget, and channel it into funding actual combat-ready military counter-terrorism units.”

4. “I represent a group which is... strongly concerned... with the ever-increasing surveillance state within this great nation,” murmurs a @@DEMONYM@@ in a dapper black suit, sidling into the room to hand you a freshly-printed business card. “Spying on a private citizen, a benefactor of an orphanage no less, is nothing less than harassment.” @@HE@@ gestures tenderly to a large briefcase sitting next to @@HIM@@. “I’m sure a... satisfactory arrangement can be reached here. You wouldn’t want to frighten some perfectly innocent children, now would you?”

I don't know whether half of these names are randomly generated or built-in, sorry. Or some of the pronouns. I'm just guessing, really.

Option 1's "circus kid named Grayson" is a fixed name: It's a reference to orphaned circus kid Dick Grayson, who became Batman's [first] 'Robin'

by **Jutsa** » Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:49 pm

Such a good issue.

by **TalAkMaChen** » Thu Jan 09, 2020 6:28 am

I'll restrain from editing the "monster list" but instead add new stuff in new entries, it might get confusing else.

So, to start: The missing option 1 for #1231
1. “@@LEADER@@, rescue us from the Ultra-Violetist terror,” sobs @@RANDOMNAME@@, the leader of the Gullivadian branch of @@FAITH@@, hiding the pale lavender prayer beads that slip out of @@HIS@@ pocket. “Your missionaries saved us from the dread wrath of Violet’s love. Please, allow all those who share your faith to freely enter your country. Those who accept @@FAITH@@ are your spiritual family and would be a wonderful asset for @@NAME@@. Do not abandon your spiritual brethren to despair, dismemberment and death by boiling.”

Comparing to option 2, it appears obvious to be indeed the validity is Immigration being legal or not. I assume the speaker to be random but for reference, I had a female.
85,3 @@RANDOMNAME@@
Issue 123 seems to either have changed or has new options added. I recently got options 1,2,3,5,6 with slightly different texts than listed in the big list:
5. “This is all abhorrent and aberrant!” declares @@RANDOMNAME@@, professor from the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ School for the Serious Study of Scientific Stuff. “You can’t just create meat. It’s against nature, and you’ll find that pretty much every academic will back me up on this one. Living things are born. Or hatched. Or germinated. And then there’s mitosis of course, but that’s not the point - the point is that there are some things that Men were not meant to meddle with. We should keep well away from the whole cloning business altogether.”

6. “That guy has no sense of vision,” says @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister of Demographics. “Why waste this invention on healthcare or cookery when so much more could be done! Mandate that all new people be grown in vats! Disease will be a thing of the past! When they break, just grow new parts! It adopts the industrial method to population management, something we’ve needed for a long time. And now that we finally have the right technology, I say we do it!”

I guess option 4 is the old one, i.e. "more religious" version of this 5th (both ask for a ban of cloning) and have the same effect line. The 6th option might either have replaced the listed 5th, or the listed 5th is the 7th now (I'm sure my reported numbers are correct ). Either way, validity for option 6/7 is unclear to me (one asking to sterilize, the 6th is without that part).
167,3 changed "clean non-fluoridated drinking water" (with a "d" instead of "n" in fluoridated)
314,issue "investigation by The @@CAPITAL@@ Times has shown" in italics
344,2 validity: has prisons
370,issue "overnight collapse of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ economy, panicked"
382,1 @@RANDOMNAME@@ without "Oblate"
420 listed are options 1,3,4; validity: 1 (has prison), 2 (has no prison)
2. “Isn’t this typical?” scoffs columnist @@RANDOMNAME@@, “Once again these crooked politicians are getting away with things that would see regular folk punished. The government is sending a very mixed message by not acting on this. They decry drugs, yet several of their own are known users. If the government has any sense of credibility they would send these criminals to rehab with the rest of the druggies.”
425,4 has some validity check. I did not see it at a Socialist nation, maybe that's why - speaker talks about all the privatized agriculture.
474,3+4 has some validity check, "does not have dinosaurs", cf. here
481,5 "from downtown @@CAPITAL@@ across 110th street."
483,2 "McRonald’s CEO"
499,1 fixed as "Catherine Gratwick" (again her? some editor must be a fan )
525,2 changed "CEO" to "head"
604 options 4 and 5 are exchanged (the listed 4th appeared as 5th at one of my nations while not having option 4 at a Socialist nation).
621,2 @@RANDOMNAME@@
651,2 "uh, I mean compete" in italics
651,3 "contractor firm International Retail Security." in italics
664,3 has some validity check: must have private industries
668,3 "we got a saying: ‘Hey Guvmint! Butt out!’. " in italics
686, issue+1+4 "@@CURRENCYPLURAL@@" instead of "units"
692,2+3 validity: has private industry, 4: has no private industry
703,1 "and author of God May Love You, But Everyone Else Thinks You Suck." in italics
746 validity
1+4: all
2: has internet
3: no internet
5: some anti-Violetist choice in the issue series?
816,4 has a fully @@RANDOMNAME@@, not just last name
876,issue "After the ban on sequels, the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ film industry"
906,4 validity : lean towards secular, I assume? Can't be both the same
967,1 "This Eckie-Cola Scientific Review is" in italics
998,issue "Since its establishment, The Committee On Un@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Activities has been busy" in italics
1008,issue "Little @@ANIMAL@@ Elementary School" in italics
1020,1 "and actually make money from this" in italics
1109,4 "condemned book H₂Whoa: @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Utopia. " and "letting them think.” " in italics
1121,4 must have some additional validity that blocks nations from seeing it. Even with some (low) religiousness, a custom FAITH it wasn't seen at War Dogs IV Maybe the tele-preacher only shows up at nations with religiousness above a certain value.
1178,4
4. “That’s not a bad idea,” muses @@RANDOMNAME@@, the principal of your niece’s school, who came to your office to discuss the best way to discipline your wayward niece. “Everyone’s going on these days about how corporal punishment on kids should be banned. I guess we could spank them less to satisfy the bleeding hearts. And thus, in order to still maintain order in schools, we should make a law that forces kids to punish themselves: ‘Timmy, you didn’t do your homework — whip yourself for ten minutes’. It’s perfect!”
1224,1 " so we had to jump on it!" in italics
1271,1 “@@LEADER@@!” (the opening quote's missing)
1281,3 "panel declaring Number Five Is Alive." in italics
1281,3 validity: has Immigration
1294,2 "remind you, isn’t even on trial, to cut her" in italics (I had it correct in my initial report, duh)

last updated: Jan 17, 2020 | Mar 18, 2020 (edited the 664 entry)

by **Jutsa** » Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:21 am

Alright, lets get back to this. This'll be quite a lot more updating than I thought it'd be. :blush:

(though I'm thankful for all the reporting, really.)

Updated and super-italicized issue #684, got it started last time.

There's a new option 5 to this one for Vegetarism nations

Good to know? Except... vegetarianism? The policy I'd see being a factor would be lack of guns in the police/military. O_o
*Looks* Oh it's in the effect line. Still kinda odd but alright.
edit: Should note I put in option 5's text then, assuming it's exactly the same.*
*Well, sorta; I actually just used one text and had *4&5 in the entry, along with clarifying validities at the end. I do that now and then, though admittedly,
it was at first mostly for earlier issues due to there being 25 issues per page instead of 20, and I'm saving as much room as possible for those.

Italicized 750's opening, added 892.4, updated 902.3, italicized the MooMoo,
fixed the mixup in 1214 (actually I just forgot to put a "not" in 2's validity, oops),
added 1275.2, did nothing to 127.5 (Lest there be confirmation, the text could equally mean opening borders period),

"adjusting his hat" became "adjusting a hat"

Is the comma still there?

Added 181.4 (thank you for going back, was overlooked I guess

),
randomnamified 236.1 and 358.3, fixed 358.2 (Somehow I failed to realize 3 was a variant option),
italicized 572.2 & 631.O; italicized text, indoctrinated the doctor and macroed your leader in 653,
removed a space in 640(not in your list but I did it anyway), and tackled 1053... *inhales* ok.

So, I added an E in @@NAME@@, and added your validity, however I'm not at all sure why this is a validity check for this option.
Also, the name put in there is Mary @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@, which... I don't understand, but alright.
Wouldn't mind some clarification on this one, if at all possible.

Italicized the first instances of rolling highway in 1071.4&5, italicized 1175.3 (already had dashed 1175.1),
got song stuck in my head...
Bah humbug! No that's too strong... 'tis my favorite holiday... confounded retail store holiday music on repeat

Also randomnamified 1236 (kept the important names tho); made sure to mottoify the fourth name.

Gonna go nom on something now. But at least this is part 1 of the megaproject done. :lol:

(And hopefully this'll mean I won't have to go through HUFOI then...

)

by **Trotterdam** » Sun Jan 12, 2020 3:36 am

#1306 The Least Common Educator

The Issue

A report released by the Mathematical Sciences Institute has revealed that only one in four @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolchildren is taught by a qualified math teacher. Your advisers speculate that the populace may eventually be rendered too ignorant to pay their taxes, and so urge immediate action.

The Debate

1. "We have plenty of teachers; they just don't teach math... yet," remarks @@RANDOMNAME@@, a high-level education official. "So just retrain a bunch of <i></i>'em. Mandatory retraining sessions can be held whenever student demand is light, like evenings, weekends, lunch breaks, and national holidays. But sooner or later, boom, you've got qualified math teachers. Didn't even need a calculator."

2. "If a school has four math classes, but only one math teacher, what should you do?" asks @@CAPITAL@@-area algebra teacher @@RANDOMNAME@@, who has been grading multiple choice questions for too long. "Should you, A, cry tears of despair over the impending mathocalypse? B, beat the living snot out of any useless, uninformed bureaucrats who advocate for what is, essentially, educator abuse? Or C, invest more @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ into math departments across @@NAME@@ in order to make teaching more appealing to graduates with math-related degrees? The answer here is clear."

3. "The school system is puttin' too much pressure on our kids," rambles rural bureaucrat @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Where I'm from, the only knowledge y'need is how to live off the land, and how to respect folks. So let's take math out of the curriculum, and stress more practical knowledge, like farming or resource conservation! Might sound stupid, but I never learnt math, and I'm just fine! I've been the mayor of my town for twelve years!" @@HE/SHE@@ says, before checking on @@HIS/HER@@ fingers.

4. ???

5. "This is exactly where a sensible immigration policy would come in handy," states Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Perhaps the addition of skilled, foreign labor is just what we need. Let's offer prospective math teachers a few common-sense perks in order to maximize our appeal. We could, for example, offer lenient visa requirements, generous living accommodations, access to government transportation, and extensive financial benefits. It'd obviously get pricey, but it's for the children."

Issue by Candensia
Edited by Baggieland

For some reason there is a blank italics field where indicated. I left it as HTML tags so it's visible.

I'm not sure what option 4 might be. It could have to do with No Immigration, but the nation I got this on does have that policy and option 5 isn't particularly obvious about "we should change that".

by **TalAkMaChen** » Sun Jan 12, 2020 6:30 am

Why did you have "dummy quotes" instead of the “normal ones”?

by **Candensia** » Sun Jan 12, 2020 8:51 am

My thanks to Baggieland for the stellar edit!

Here is 1306.4 Unless there was a change during the edit, option 1306.4 is valid for nations that allow immigration, 1306.5 is valid for nations that prohibit immigration.

“We’ve got a brainpower outage, it seems,” states Deputy Minister of Immigration @@RANDOMNAME@@. “Perhaps the addition of skilled, foreign labor is just what we need. We should maximize our appeal from an immigration standpoint. Let’s offer prospective math teachers lenient visa requirements, generous living accommodations, access to government transportation, and extensive financial benefits nobody could refuse. It’d obviously get pricey, but we’re doing it for our kids, right?”

by **TalAkMaChen** » Mon Jan 13, 2020 3:25 am

The Free Joy State wrote:
TalAkMaChen wrote:I'm wondering, #474 option 4 was not seen at a puppy of mine. From the text I'd assume it's about pets being legal in the nation, is that so? I can't remember having some pet-related issue at War Dogs VII lately.

The issue is referring to dinosaurs, not pet dogs. As for the legality of pets, issues don't track every possible policy that may exist anywhere in the world.

And kindly use this thread only to report suspected errors with macros or validities, or objective spelling, grammar or punctuation errors. Not merely to satisfy your own curiosity.

Ah, the "not about dogs" was obvious to me as well

The question was why the fourth option was not visible. Alas, I only searched for 474, not continued reading after... seems you already replied to Ransium back in the day so I'll just update the report for "missing validities" so Jutsa can add that to the list.

by **Candlewhisper Archive** » Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:11 pm

For some reason there is a blank italics field where indicated. I left it as HTML tags so it's visible.

It's to make the automated curving of straight quotes curve the right way for 'em. It's a fudge fix, but it works.

by **TalAkMaChen** » Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:45 am

I got a new option for #514, listed as option 4:

4. “For this debtor’s life, let justice itself stand accused!” interjects @@RANDOMNAME@@, famed pedant and interfering busybody. “There is a law mandating measurements made metric, correct? Thus we must conclude, a ‘pound of flesh’ means nothing to the law, and the contract is void. Let precedent be set — without a metric of measure, a promise cannot bind!”

I thought it was due to the nation receiving this was Vegetarian (cutting flesh there, but still... don't need to eat it as well), but it appears to be rather due to "Metricism" as validity.

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