Nation name release!

[Omigodtheykilledkenny]

Do you mean that the issue was accepted after the author had already CTE'd?

[Sanctaria]

Do you mean that the issue was accepted after the author had already CTE'd?

It depends. It could have been submitted, then the author CTE'd, and was picked up and put in game, or it could have been accepted while the author was alive but was still being worked on when they CTE'd (as editing can take a while).

The badge only gets applied when we physically press the button to put it in-game, so the CTE'd aspect of the author only comes into play then.

Typically we don't check if an author is still around or not when we're working on an issue unless we want to do some heavy edits and then we usually check to make sure it's ok or else ask them to work on it again.

[Tinhampton]

Do you mean that the issue was accepted after the author had already CTE'd?

It depends...

Actually, #1214 was first sighted on SPOILER ALERT last May - so after Endraas CTEd. I made the Endraas request because their population was under 500 million but their name should have been reserved on other grounds.

[NoniLand]

What does Disgraced mean in the boneyard

[LiberNovusAmericae]

What does Disgraced mean in the boneyard

The nation was deleted by a moderator or administrator for rules violations.

[Farinacci]

Hello after a long break (9 years) i play nationstates again I played with the peoples protectorate of le caldreaux... i was wondering if you can restart your nation?

Greetings Volker.

[Luna Amore]

Hello after a long break (9 years) i play nationstates again I played with the peoples protectorate of le caldreaux... i was wondering if you can restart your nation?

Greetings Volker.

You can't restart that nation, but you should be able to reset the password using the email that is on file for that nation.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=forgot_password

[Farinacci]

Think I abandoned that email adress

[Awesomeland012345]

Under the proposed rules, a name would be available for re-use unless the former owner:

1. is mentioned in the History of an existing region
   How would a nation be mentioned in the history of an existing region? In a factbook?
   
2. authored or was the subject of a WA resolution (incl. Historical ones)
   What is a historical resolution, and how would you author one?

[Zizou]

Under the proposed rules, a name would be available for re-use unless the former owner:

1. is mentioned in the History of an existing region
   How would a nation be mentioned in the history of an existing region? In a factbook?
   
2. authored or was the subject of a WA resolution (incl. Historical ones)
   What is a historical resolution, and how would you author one?

I think the history of an existing region part is referring to the regional history page.
And by historical resolutions, I believe they mean nations who authored resolutions in the UN before it became the WA.

[Awesomeland012345]

I think the history of an existing region part is referring to the regional history page.
And by historical resolutions, I believe they mean nations who authored resolutions in the UN before it became the WA.

Thanks!

[Ostrovskiy]

I think the history of an existing region part is referring to the regional history page.
And by historical resolutions, I believe they mean nations who authored resolutions in the UN before it became the WA.

Thanks!

I always thought the history meant in a regional factbook

[The Perpetual Peace]

Hi guys, curious to who the guy was, when that person had the good nation names around (Korea, China, California, Israel, Russia, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Thailand etc?), but all of sudden, was disgraced / DoSed around 2014. I'm not asking for the nation names at all, but a mere curiosity, and the reason behind the person being DoSed, on what rule did that person breach?

Not sure if this is the correct place, nor should I ask this at all.

Thanks!

*Leaves hand sanitizers and N95 Masks in front of the Moderator' Door*

[Frisbeeteria]

what rule did that person breach?

I don't recall the specifics and can't / won't share them with anyone other than the player involved in any event. I do recall that they were puppetswept and lost several hundred nations, including many real nation names.

[Corinthina]

Q: "250M population is too low." / "Five years is too long."
A: If the release goes well, we might look at loosening the restrictions in the future¹ to make nations with slightly larger populations or more recent CTE dates available. But that's something to consider later.

I'm know this has been mentioned before, but is there ever going to be a further loosening of restrictions of some nations? Some CTE nations who had populations between 500 million and 1 billion have ceased to exist over 15 years ago. Surely now would be a good time to consider a loosing to perhaps 750 million or 1 billion, as the last loosening of restrictions was made back in 2013. I don't feel like this is an unreasonable thing to be considered. Thank you.

[Tech Support URL]

As long threatened, we're going to open up old nation names for re-use.

For a sneak preview, use this page to see if/when a particular nation name would become available:

http://www.nationstates.net/page=boneyard

Under the proposed rules, a name would be available for re-use unless the former owner:

1. is active
2. ceased to exist less than 5 years ago
3. accumulated a population of 500 million or more ^{(changed from 250 million in Spring 2013)}
4. founded an existing region
5. is mentioned in the History of an existing region
6. authored or was the subject of a WA resolution (incl. Historical ones)
7. authored an Issue
8. was a moderator or admin
9. was deleted by a mod
10. is marked by a Game Mod as reserved blocked from being reused

There are a very large number of nation names that were used only briefly, and whose former owner is highly unlikely to ever return, so the feeling is that we should make those available for people who want them. Nations that hung around for a reasonable length of time, however, or ceased to exist relatively recently, or did something of particular note, should remain reserved in case the former owner one day wants to revive them.

If an old nation has its name re-used, it cannot be resurrected, even if the newer nation ceases to exist.

Please let me know your thoughts! There is some time before this will go live, and we can tweak in the meantime.

To anticipate a couple of questions:

Q: "250M population is too low." / "Five years is too long."
A: If the release goes well, we might look at loosening the restrictions in the future¹ to make nations with slightly larger populations or more recent CTE dates available. But that's something to consider later.

Q: "Why does the Boneyard say different names will become available on different days?"
A: Just to spread things out, so we don't get hammered by everyone trying to reclaim an old name at once.

Q: "I really, really want this one name. Can't you make a special exemption and let me have it?"
A: No.

¹Limit raised to 500M in Spring 2013

if a nation is deleted by a mod why can't it be restored? if it is deleted can't there be a first warning or second warning? the third time the nation does (something very wrong) it can be deleted, that system would help a lot! right???

[Sysillia]

As long threatened, we're going to open up old nation names for re-use.

For a sneak preview, use this page to see if/when a particular nation name would become available:

http://www.nationstates.net/page=boneyard

Under the proposed rules, a name would be available for re-use unless the former owner:

1. is active
2. ceased to exist less than 5 years ago
3. accumulated a population of 500 million or more ^{(changed from 250 million in Spring 2013)}
4. founded an existing region
5. is mentioned in the History of an existing region
6. authored or was the subject of a WA resolution (incl. Historical ones)
7. authored an Issue
8. was a moderator or admin
9. was deleted by a mod
10. is marked by a Game Mod as reserved blocked from being reused

There are a very large number of nation names that were used only briefly, and whose former owner is highly unlikely to ever return, so the feeling is that we should make those available for people who want them. Nations that hung around for a reasonable length of time, however, or ceased to exist relatively recently, or did something of particular note, should remain reserved in case the former owner one day wants to revive them.

If an old nation has its name re-used, it cannot be resurrected, even if the newer nation ceases to exist.

Please let me know your thoughts! There is some time before this will go live, and we can tweak in the meantime.

To anticipate a couple of questions:

Q: "250M population is too low." / "Five years is too long."
A: If the release goes well, we might look at loosening the restrictions in the future¹ to make nations with slightly larger populations or more recent CTE dates available. But that's something to consider later.

Q: "Why does the Boneyard say different names will become available on different days?"
A: Just to spread things out, so we don't get hammered by everyone trying to reclaim an old name at once.

Q: "I really, really want this one name. Can't you make a special exemption and let me have it?"
A: No.

¹Limit raised to 500M in Spring 2013

this could also be a rule in influence, because we can link the population standards with influence and it could make influential situations more stable onwards. in this case, its not only for population it could be for influence also

[Merni]

if a nation is deleted by a mod why can't it be restored? if it is deleted can't there be a first warning or second warning? the third time the nation does (something very wrong) it can be deleted, that system would help a lot! right???

Mods already give a lot of warnings, both unofficial and official, and then bans, before taking the drastic step of deletion. Once that's done it's assumed that the offence was that bad. (the deletion can also be appealed). The exception is obvious adbots and adspammers, which are deleted immediately.

[Tech Support URL]

noted.

[Sysillia]

The following is the Unlocater paradox

[Sysillia]

A re-use section has been quoted below by Merni and Sysillia.

I have no idea what im doing because its my first day in FORUM.

[Tech Support URL]

the region of the North Pacific, the largest region in NationStates, has 7-10,000 nations. only 17% of new nations decided to stay in the North, west, East, south or any other COMMON spawner for nations. some tend for their own region, or move. this is due to them being a past player or simply just want to rule by them selves. so, it is rare for regions to go this way: region starts, then it becomes bigger, stars growing, reaches 1000+ nations, and decline. but it is more common for regions like this: Region starts, stays small, gains 1-20 nations.
this weird coincidence has been named the Unlocater Paradox and it yet to be solved in nationstates. for example;
If a region has 1,000 nations when it is formed, only 170 nations will remain over time. so large regions need to be very careful to
stop losing nations or it will be the next Run-away flood. EXAMPLE:

if the Pacific changed government, 92% of the region would vanish leaving 8% of what the pacific is today. this is just an example and should not be taken into consideration. and this post is getting too long...

Thank you for reading,
Regards,

Capitalist Republic of Sysillia

that is a brilliant idea, and I have a solution! how about we make a law that;

only 1 nation can leave a region per 30 seconds and there, it fixes the paradox by 40% but the large region problem is still to br solved... and maybe Tech Support can help you on that!

and, this is my first times on the FORUM and i did not know i could post here but i guess its very efficient in terms of messaging.

Thanks for the Idea Sysillia!

[Merni]

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Not sure what either of you are saying, but it doesn't seem to be related to this thread's topic (re-use of nation names after nations are CTE for some period) in any way.

Also, imposing arbitrary limits on nations leaving regions would not only hamper nations' ability to choose a region they want to be in (most people don't want to stay in the feeders), but also make R/D gameplay pretty much impossible.

[Sysillia]

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Not sure what either of you are saying, but it doesn't seem to be related to this thread's topic (re-use of nation names after nations are CTE for some period) in any way.

Also, imposing arbitrary limits on nations leaving regions would not only hamper nations' ability to choose a region they want to be in (most people don't want to stay in the feeders), but also make R/D gameplay pretty much impossible.

yes it would so I'm stopping this topic, by the way, i have a question, if mods delete a nation, why cant they be restored...?
like just why???

here is an idea:

moderators can delete a nation but it can be restored, but when the nation is restored all progress is lost and the newly restored nation starts with 5 million citizens and is spawned in the feeders. this could particulary apply to deletion of nations and i think this could lower abuse and it also applies to name usage as deletion does the same thing too!

also im thanking Tech support for support, check out their region!

Region; Tech Support URL

[[[this is my first time on FORUM so i have totaly no idea what im doing]]]

[Aikoland]

Not sure what either of you are saying, but it doesn't seem to be related to this thread's topic (re-use of nation names after nations are CTE for some period) in any way.

Also, imposing arbitrary limits on nations leaving regions would not only hamper nations' ability to choose a region they want to be in (most people don't want to stay in the feeders), but also make R/D gameplay pretty much impossible.

yes it would so I'm stopping this topic, by the way, i have a question, if mods delete a nation, why cant they be restored...?
like just why???

here is an idea:

moderators can delete a nation but it can be restored, but when the nation is restored all progress is lost and the newly restored nation starts with 5 million citizens and is spawned in the feeders. this could particulary apply to deletion of nations and i think this could lower abuse and it also applies to name usage as deletion does the same thing too!

also im thanking Tech support for support, check out their region!

Region; Tech Support URL

[[[this is my first time on FORUM so i have totaly no idea what im doing]]]

I mean, the mods can restore nations, I've seen it happen a couple times in my nearly 12 years on this hellsite (on my main, before anyone goes 'but you joined in 2011'). It's very rare because deletion typically only happens after a nation gets multiple warnings, temp bans, etc and they've still shown no signs of being willing to follow the site rules, so it's not all too often that someone successfully gets their nation restored, it's usually only in cases of moderator mistakes (one case I know of was how, last year, the nation Gigaverse got deleted when the mods puppetswept all the accounts of the user Asigna because that user did have access to that account in the past, but their account was restored, presumably when the mods checked that Asigna's IPs hadn't accessed that account in years and therefore wasn't part of their current crop of alt-accounts)

Now as to why they won't do what you're saying: releasing deleted nation names and let people start all over with them. Well, the simple reason why is because nation deletion is a punishment, the nation name has been soiled and won't be released because that would kind of defeat the purpose. (Especially so because tons of nations that get deleted are just trolls who think it'd be funny to name their account something to do with genitalia, or swearing, or racial slurs, etc. What would the point in letting names like 'Fuk the Mods' back into the game?)