Region Tags!

[SalusaSecondus]

If you can find me a few other regions this would apply to, then yes.

As for the master list. Yup, I just need to take care of some stuff first.

P.S. Check out the [region-tag] bbcode for easy linking to search results...

Well, There's Green Planet and Futaba Aoi.

I'll get another mod to look into this one.

Yup, I'm already seeing the Collector regions abusing the tags.

Hey, there's a good tag "Collector" for those regions that abuse new features just to have the most.

Yeah, I've spotted them too. I don't think that I'll create a collector tag, but that might change.

I plan on adding very powerful search functionality to tags, but I didn't think that you guys would want me to delay launching tags by several weeks just to get that implemented.

[-Rhodesia]

Great idea! Well done Mods!

[SalusaSecondus]

Created: National Sovereigntist and International Federalist
(I had to get another mod to explain them to me.)

[Herrebrugh]

Created: National Sovereigntist and International Federalist
(I had to get another mod to explain them to me.)

Ah yes. There aren't a whole lot of games that actually take the time to LISTEN to their players. I've got to love Nationstates. Thank you Salusa .

[Stefannica]

Bravo! this makes things easier! thank you!

[Corusant Sphere]

Bravo! It's really awesome!

But please, include my region in "Future Tech" and in "Capitalist"

[Revert]

Corusant, you're founder. You can add tags.

[Corusant Sphere]

OMG...Silly me

Anyway..it's great!

[Selegnia]

Could you create a fascist tag? Who are anti-fascist going to fight if fascists do not exist?

[Improving Wordiness]

Nice feature. Founderless tag just paints a target on a region though. Surely this is not needed?
Invaders can find them without giving them an easy jump.

[Ballotonia]

I'm more concerned with the Founderless tag not being useful information for people, since it also includes all the regions which have a (temporarily?) non-existent founder. One could move there, and then two days later the founder returns... that's not what the new recruit joined up for!

Also, perhaps set a maximum number of tags allowed? Some regions out there are just adding tags at random, which really pollutes the value of the search function.

Ballotonia

[The Bruce]

Thanks! I really like this new feature. The fact that you added in a search feature on the world page is will really be a help to new players.

[Anime Daisuki]

I'm more concerned with the Founderless tag not being useful information for people, since it also includes all the regions which have a (temporarily?) non-existent founder.

Also, perhaps set a maximum number of tags allowed? Some regions out there are just adding tags at random, which really pollutes the value of the search function.

Seconded for both of the above.

[Ballotonia]

And one more comment: the order of the tags seems rather... random.

Could you please make it so the system-provided tags are listed after the user-set tags?

Ballotonia

[Copenhagen Metropolis]

When searching regions it says "Sort by: Today's World Census | Population | Name". Shouldn't the 'Tags' be in there as well? (=Sort by: Today's World Census | Population | Name | Tags)

[Azurianah]

Great idea!!

[Charlotte Ryberg]

Just a clarification request: I assume that founder changes to tags also have no cost? Thanks.

[Turttallia]

could there be a region tag for the number of embassies?

[New South Hell]

See Pragmatic Extremists or Ideology Testing Inc for examples of issue-playing regions. I'm calling them "Game Player" for now, but I'm not sure that's how the tag is intended to be interpreted.

In a similar vein, I suggest Experimental, which applies to almost all of my regions.

Suggestion for game-assigned tag: Active RMB, indicating a high frequency of RMB posts.

Suggestions for user-assigned tags: inviting (or perhaps open or friendly) (meaning, wanting more residents), closed community, gated (you can get in, but you have to ask for the password).

More: politically diverse (or simply diverse), religious (quite different from theocratic, perhaps even Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Atheist and any other religious grouping that regions form around), casual (as an antonym to serious, without implying silly, snarky, etc.), intellectual, fandom (there's a difference between LoTR role playing, for which Fantasy Tech is a good tag, and a region for LoTR fans. Similarly for Future Tech and fans of Star Wars).

Lots of ideas, so little time...

[Denecaep]

Oh, and as for some more tags...

"Raider" definitely. Maybe "armed," "defense alliance," "free trade?"

I'm mainly just thinking about what I would be searching for if I was looking at regions.

I'm not sure I understand these tags (except maybe 'free trade'). How is raider different from invader? (Remember, I'm mostly a techie.) What do these tags mean?

Raider, as in the regions that make up various "region raiders," who go into a region and try to overthrow the delegate. There are many regions like this, so "raider" is a very specific label that goes along with many regions.

As for defense alliance, it shows the regions that will attack if one of their own is attacked.

[New South Hell]

Oh, and one more thing. "Medium" is a bit ambiguous. I suggest that "Medium-sized" would be much clearer.

[Krulltopia]

I won't be creating an anti-recruiter tag since that is the default and doesn't need to be stated. I just don't see what purpose it would serve.

Personally, I would find it useful . On a serious note though, it could be useful for Gargantuan user regions which get frequent RMB posts from particularly stupid RMB recruiters. I don't whether that would actually work as a deterrent or not, it's just a thought.

Other suggestions: could there be a 'Real Nation Based' tag for those many regions based on real life nations/alliances/continents? i.e Japan, Europe etc? It needs a better name, though.

[Lordieth]

- Green Paradise
- Intellectual

Two nice tags to have.

Fantastic new feature. A tag checkbox type search would make 'tag whoring' useless, and would produce targeted results.

[Ballotonia]

could there be a region tag for the number of embassies?

Please no. There already are too many regions out there which will randomly propose to exchange embassies with anybody else. Let's not encourage that. Or encourage creating puppet regions for the specific purpose of boosting embassy count.

Suggestion for game-assigned tag: Active RMB, indicating a high frequency of RMB posts.

Wouldn't that simply encourage spam/bumps on the RMB? Not a good idea, especially since the game will try to remember the RMB forever these days.

Raider, as in the regions that make up various "region raiders," who go into a region and try to overthrow the delegate. There are many regions like this, so "raider" is a very specific label that goes along with many regions.

Yeah, that's already called "invading". Since the early days of the game, that's the name for it. Let's not extend the gameplay invader/defender propaganda war to also argue the naming of tags, ok?

Other suggestions: could there be a 'Real Nation Based' tag for those many regions based on real life nations/alliances/continents? i.e Japan, Europe etc? It needs a better name, though.

Provinces? Cities? And for all languages and spellings? Examples: Netherlands, The Netherlands, Holland, Nederland, and even "Pays Bas" would be possible. All refer to the same Real Life country. It would be a long list, and thus I wonder what the added value would be. Suppose a Dutch player is interested in finding a Dutch region (hey, don't we already have the non-English tag for that?) and somehow manages to not figure out to try the name of ones own country, what good would a gigantic list do of all nations in existence (there are region hawkers who try to get all of them, so they exist), with all the spelling/language variations possible?

My personal preference would be a "Dutch" tag, but I do understand that's probably overly specific

Ballotonia

[Sedgistan]

Just a clarification request: I assume that founder changes to tags also have no cost? Thanks.

There's no influence cost for adding/removing tags - this applies to founders (obviously, since their use of regional controls never has an influence cost) and delegates too.

Raider, as in the regions that make up various "region raiders," who go into a region and try to overthrow the delegate. There are many regions like this, so "raider" is a very specific label that goes along with many regions.

Most people see 'invader' and 'raider' as synonymous, but for some 'raider' means raiding/leaving (as against attempting to hold a region). 'Invader' was chosen because it was the more general term - it encompasses all practices of invading, so would avoid confusion.