I've just un-de-CTE'd for the 286,000th time and received my usual round of recruitment telegrams, and as I was automatically ticking the checkbox to delete them all without reading them, I had one of those lightbulb moments. I don't know if anybody has had this idea before (I did a quick search but couldn't see anything - I could be wrong, though, as the search term is understandably woolly), so I thought I'd raise it.
Nation tags!
Especially considering that (I assume) many recruiters are paying real money-dollars for telegram stamps nowadays, it strikes me that there should be a better way of targetting recruitment spam at people, beyond simply "new nation", "restored nation", or whatever else the categories are. I'm thinking that nations could identify themselves as 'RPers', 'Raiders', 'Defenders', 'Regional Politicians', 'FT', 'MT', etc. I'm not a developer, nor familiar with the code of NS, so I don't know if this is something feasible or not. But if it were feasible, it might make it easier for regions to target their recruitment ads towards like-minded nations.
Just a random thought, anyway.