Myuta wrote:That moment when you should have read the whole thread.
I think 500,000,000 is still too low, I think it should be tied to age. Say a nation is locked for 1 year after ceasing to exist per 100,000,000 of population and a ceiling of 3 billion. Promised I'd file a help request to someone then read the whole thread after I'd posted the help request, so she's not going to be happy. I hope the administrators will take another look at the limits here to establish if there is actually going to be a reasonable prospect of them returning.
Just for the record, I have read this entire thread at least twice now; most of it is people posting whatever cool name they got back in the first few months of this program.
Personally, I think 3 billion is too high, even if it does take 30 years for the name to be re-released. It takes almost a year and a half of consistent use to reach 3 billion people, and I wouldn't want some guy to have used his nation from, say, 2002-2004, had it reach 2.989 billion people, rediscover the site in 2036, try logging into his nation, and find its name in use by someone else. In general, if your nation ceases to exist before 500 million people, it's due to getting bored or frustrated with NS, forgetting to log into a puppet before it ceases to exist, or forgetting its password (still upset about what happened with my puppet
December Land in 2014); odds are, no matter the circumstances, that you don't particularly care about the nation or its name, and if you did, you'd probably create another one with the same name when it's freed back up anyway.
Personally, back when the cap was only 250 million, I always found this funny:
Deleted nation Crap Britain
Founded: Fri Jul 1 2005
Last activity: Mon Oct 3 2005
Population: 498 million
Reserved: This name was used by a former nation of significant size.
But now that the cap is 500 million, alas, it displays that name as "soiled".