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Get Smart
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Death of a Leader

Postby Get Smart » Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:47 pm

I have been playing this game since my high school days back in the mid-2000s. I propose:

Upon the real-life death of a person, the general agent/executor of that person's estate with the appropriate log in credentials be able to sign in to the game and go the the settings menu (allowing the entry of the decedent's actual, legal name?).
There, the settings will allow the nation state to be placed in a permanent state of "limbo" if you will, where the nation continues to exist. There could always be the added option that based on how one has answered issues and acted in the past, it continues to do so automatically (via logarithm?). The purpose I suppose, is to leave a legacy on Nation States that allows for the continuance of one's actions on here. Sure, this is a game, but it is a game I have played throughout adolescence and now as an adult. Just a thought.

It may seem stupid to some, but it would be a nice thought to leave some sort of digital legacy?

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Postby Borovan entered the region as he » Sun Jun 16, 2019 2:56 pm

Against that's creepy.

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Postby Reploid Productions » Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:40 pm

While it's a nice thought, if someone cares that much about their NS nation, odds are already pretty good that they have taken the appropriate precautions to ensure that someone can take care of the account in the event of such a situation. The handful of instances to date where a user has passed seem to have taken care of themselves well enough without any moderation action or admin assistance. I really can't see the time needed to code such a tool being justified when it's a situation that has arisen a tiny handful of times in the game's almost 17 years of operation.
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Postby USS Monitor » Sun Jun 16, 2019 7:21 pm

An algorithm to answer issues along the same lines as they did in the past sounds waaaaaaay too advanced to be feasible, on top of what Reppy said about this not coming up too often. It's probably good that it doesn't come up too often.
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