Max unaddressed Issue increase?

[Star Wattage]

Hello! I've noticed that my issues tab does not hold more than 5 unaddressed issues at any given time, which is upsetting as I usually leave Nation States unattended for a few days between each log-in, and were I to increase this cap, I could address more issues.

I'm almost positive there has to be a setting for this, but I can't find it for the life of me.

[Phydios]

Hello! I've noticed that my issues tab does not hold more than 5 unaddressed issues at any given time, which is upsetting as I usually leave Nation States unattended for a few days between each log-in, and were I to increase this cap, I could address more issues.

I'm almost positive there has to be a setting for this, but I can't find it for the life of me.

You cannot currently change the number of issues you can hold at one time, and I can't tell you how likely that is to change. However, you can change how often you receive issues in your Settings.

[Star Wattage]

Hello! I've noticed that my issues tab does not hold more than 5 unaddressed issues at any given time, which is upsetting as I usually leave Nation States unattended for a few days between each log-in, and were I to increase this cap, I could address more issues.

I'm almost positive there has to be a setting for this, but I can't find it for the life of me.

You cannot currently change the number of issues you can hold at one time, and I can't tell you how likely that is to change. However, you can change how often you receive issues in your Settings.

That's a shame to hear. I already have issues set to "no throttle". Can we really only hold 5 issues?

[Engineerinia]

You cannot currently change the number of issues you can hold at one time, and I can't tell you how likely that is to change. However, you can change how often you receive issues in your Settings.

That's a shame to hear. I already have issues set to "no throttle". Can we really only hold 5 issues?

Yep

[Imperial States America]

You cannot currently change the number of issues you can hold at one time, and I can't tell you how likely that is to change. However, you can change how often you receive issues in your Settings.

That's a shame to hear. I already have issues set to "no throttle". Can we really only hold 5 issues?

Yes the only way anyone would be able to answer more issues well two ways is either create another nation or change the game code dealing with issues completely.

[Drasnia]

That's a shame to hear. I already have issues set to "no throttle". Can we really only hold 5 issues?

Yes the only way anyone would be able to answer more issues well two ways is either create another nation or change the game code dealing with issues completely.

Actually if you're at 5 issues and an issue you wrote is added to the game, you automatically get it and will have 6 issues in your inbox. Otherwise, no you can't hold more than 5 issues.

[Ransium]

We've talked backstage about, perhaps, increasing the max issue number in the past, and I think it's a good idea. I might bring this up again backstage soon.

[Star Wattage]

We've talked backstage about, perhaps, increasing the max issue number in the past, and I think it's a good idea. I might bring this up again backstage soon.

Please do. I doesn't seem like it would be hard to increase the cap significantly. 5 seems like an arbitrary and small number. I would increase it to at least 10.

[Luna Amore]

We've talked backstage about, perhaps, increasing the max issue number in the past, and I think it's a good idea. I might bring this up again backstage soon.

Please do. I doesn't seem like it would be hard to increase the cap significantly. 5 seems like an arbitrary and small number. I would increase it to at least 10.

Bumped up our internal discussion again.

5 made more sense when we had 300 issues and 2 per day. I'm definitely for the change.

[Trotterdam]

I think anywhere from 8 to 12 would be a good number with the current issue rate.

[Cresenthia]

I think anywhere from 8 to 12 would be a good number with the current issue rate.

12 seems a bit much at three days inactive, and simply how many people would just go and dismiss all 12 issues rather than peruse through them, and actually respond. 8 or 10 seems better.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Increasing the number does affect dismissal rates, but that's not a terrible thing in itself, as that marginal change represents players having the option of selecting out the issues that they find fun and interesting for a given nation, rather than being forced to play what they have been dealt.

It also might encourage issues to be read faster, which is a shame for authors and editors, but is a good encouragement to all us creators to remember that brevity is the soul of wit.

We've discussed this a lot backstage, just so y'all know. It's a good idea, worth thinking on.

[Trotterdam]

Increasing the number does affect dismissal rates, but that's not a terrible thing in itself, as that marginal change represents players having the option of selecting out the issues that they find fun and interesting for a given nation, rather than being forced to play what they have been dealt.

Is players answering 8 issues and dismissing 6 really worse than players answering 8 issues and dismissing 2? In the former, dismissal rates are higher, but the same number of issues are still getting answered.

It also might encourage issues to be read faster, which is a shame for authors and editors, but is a good encouragement to all us creators to remember that brevity is the soul of wit.

I read issues in detail the first time I see them, either on my nation or in the spoiler thread. After that I often skim.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Is players answering 8 issues and dismissing 6 really worse than players answering 8 issues and dismissing 2? In the former, dismissal rates are higher, but the same number of issues are still getting answered.

I agree, and we still gain as much useful information backstage, we just adjust our expectations of how often a good and bad issue gets dismissed.

I read issues in detail the first time I see them, either on my nation or in the spoiler thread. After that I often skim.

Yeah, but you're hardly an average player. Your eye for detail is really, really good.

[The United Providences of Perland]

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[Omniabstracta]

Or if it is increased, could we at least have an option like with the issue throttle so you can decide how many issues you want a day between 5-10?

I thought this thread was about increasing the maximum number of issues a nation could hold at one time, not the number of issues they recieve per day, no?

[Luna Amore]

Or if it is increased, could we at least have an option like with the issue throttle so you can decide how many issues you want a day between 5-10?

I thought this thread was about increasing the maximum number of issues a nation could hold at one time, not the number of issues they recieve per day, no?

Correct. We aren't looking to increase it past 4 per day. This is about how many you can hold, which is currently 5.

[Bedetopia]

The issue rate was doubled, so it's logical to also double the inbox. 10 slots it is for me.

I don't know about other issue players, but I tend to bank some issues (most often #455, along with new issues until the wiki gets updated), and I can only bank up to 2 (even then it's possible I don't have access for 18 hours) or else my inbox fills up. And I'm pretty sure a full inbox completely freezes the timer, losing a few minutes here and here results in losing issues over time. An increase would be very helpful in that regard.

[Trotterdam]

Yes, it would help a lot if the timer were frozen when the game tries to add a new issue and fails due to the inbox already being full, rather than the moment the inbox is filled. That's effectively +1 maximum issues.

[Trotterdam]

Well. I lost another hour today because I had the audacity to occasionally play other games.

[[violet]]

Casual.

[Free Republics]

Yes, it would help a lot if the timer were frozen when the game tries to add a new issue and fails due to the inbox already being full, rather than the moment the inbox is filled. That's effectively +1 maximum issues.

And it'd help even more if there was a counter in the database that was incremented whenever the timer hits zero and the game can't add a new issue tracking the number of new issues that are "due" to that nation. Given how integers are stored in computers, there'd be effectively no limit to this counter (the maximum 32 bit signed integer is around 2 billion, which nobody's ever going to hit in a human lifetime at a rate of 4 new issues or so per day). Then, its just a simple if statement to implement: if counter > 0 and number_of_issues < 5, give the nation a new issue and decrease counter by 1.

My assumption is that something like this would probably use fewer resources on the server side than doubling the maximum number of issues and would effectively mean that a nation could have an unlimited number of issues (I'm guessing there's probably 5 fields in the database for each nation listing an issue ID or a specific number, probably -1 or 0, that signifies no issue).

[Trotterdam]

Well, your way would mean that if a nation hasn't logged in for several weeks, when the player comes back his issues will come in as soon as they're replaced and he'll have to click through dozens of issues before his inbox is empty (or not-full) again. That's effectively having unlimited unaddressed issues, but only five of them are visible at a time. I think that's going too far.

[Frisbeeteria]

*speculation on code and process*

Not to worry, Trotterdam. Free Republics' speculation was entirely incorrect, beginning with the idea that national issues are stored in a database. They either forgot or aren't aware of how kludgy this game is since its 2002 start.

[Trotterdam]

The only thing I know for sure is that it is already possible for nations to have more than 5 issues in their inbox under rare conditions (if your inbox was already full when you were directly assigned the issue due to having written it yourself, or other editor fiat), which implies that this is a soft limit (there is a specific line of code telling the game not to add more issues even though it easily could, and changing the limit is a simple matter of changing this one line) rather than a hard one (the game can only track 5 unanswered issues and it would take a major reworking of the code to allow it to handle more this).