by Unibot III » Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:37 pm
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by All Wild Things » Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:05 pm
by Unibot III » Wed Oct 13, 2021 2:13 pm
All Wild Things wrote:I like this idea. I can picture defenders trying to collect the commemorative feathers that TBH awards for raids.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Archinstinct » Wed Oct 13, 2021 3:26 pm
Deblar wrote:If even Switzerland is opposing your imperialist invasion, you know you've fucked up
by The Church of Satan » Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:05 pm
by Unibot III » Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:14 pm
The Church of Satan wrote:I like this. I really miss the whole "awarding pins" thing in R/D.
For coins, would they have a basic format, such as a thick border (gold, silver, and bronze) around the outer edge to simulate the indentation from having the design pressed onto the coin, or would it just be any image that's round? Because having a border I think would make it look better in general.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Kharao » Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:24 pm
by Doge Land » Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:32 pm
Kharao wrote:I like this idea a whole lot, and I've a couple ideas to throw into the mix. First, perhaps there could be some such items generated by NS itself for various things, such as each N-day and Z-day or maybe the site's twentieth next year for example. Maybe these could be available for free but each nation in existence at the time only gets one so they become of some value or something. Second, should any nation with these items cease to exist, perhaps their items could go on sale at some sort of central market connected to everyone's trading page. I really do love this premise and hope something comes out of it.
by Haganham » Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:44 pm
Kharao wrote:. Second, should any nation with these items cease to exist, perhaps their items could go on sale at some sort of central market connected to everyone's trading page. I really do love this premise and hope something comes out of it.
by Unibot III » Sun Oct 17, 2021 7:09 pm
Kharao wrote:I like this idea a whole lot, and I've a couple ideas to throw into the mix. First, perhaps there could be some such items generated by NS itself for various things, such as each N-day and Z-day or maybe the site's twentieth next year for example. Maybe these could be available for free but each nation in existence at the time only gets one so they become of some value or something. Second, should any nation with these items cease to exist, perhaps their items could go on sale at some sort of central market connected to everyone's trading page. I really do love this premise and hope something comes out of it.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Toerana » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:00 am
by Unibot III » Mon Oct 18, 2021 3:33 am
Toerana wrote:Another fab idea Unibot!
Toerana wrote:Alongside this, being able to display these badges on nations would be amazing.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Haganham » Tue Oct 19, 2021 2:35 am
Unibot III wrote:Not only do I think existing regional programs would be able to adopt collectibles and use them for their purposes, but I also think the collectibles would inspire a full new generation of regional programs because there was always something lacking in the old regional programs in that there was a dearth of clear incentives to offer.
by Unibot III » Tue Oct 19, 2021 7:51 am
Haganham wrote:Unibot III wrote:Not only do I think existing regional programs would be able to adopt collectibles and use them for their purposes, but I also think the collectibles would inspire a full new generation of regional programs because there was always something lacking in the old regional programs in that there was a dearth of clear incentives to offer.
Yhat would actually be very possible for palatine. Currently we offer award for various activities and contributions, but it's a pain to track as officers have to report to the herald when someone's earned an award, and the herald has to maintain a load of charts of what awards everyone has and their prestige value. With this officers could just stamp out ribbons for each award and give them out to those who earned them, then people could just bug the herald for promotions when they collect enough.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Fauzjhia » Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:19 am
by Apatosaurus » Thu Nov 04, 2021 11:10 am
Unibot III wrote:Currently the Cards market is for Trading Cards only - the idea I’m proposing would be to include buttons, ribbons, coins, and stamps — and expand the “market” into a general Trading Market.
Why?
Personally I think it helps to connect the Trading Market to NationStates as a political simulator. Politics generates a lot of campaign buttons, trinkets, & commemorative coins.
I would foresee buttons / ribbons / coins / stamps as being player-generated.
A player could issue buttons (perhaps as a token of appreciation to electoral supporters), ribbons (perhaps for GP missions), coins & stamps as regional commemorative items…
Players would submit an image, title, and description - and the more of those items they wanted to “produce” the higher the cost in terms of Card money.
0.01 - Stamp
0.10 - Coin
0.20 - Button
0.30 - Ribbon
You’d then be able to gift the collectibles to folks and the collectibles could be traded & sold on the market just like cards are…
Dates of production would be important to prevent fraud via re-releases or faux releases. The junk value would be equal to the original production value.
(Signed, a RL political memorabilia freak.)
by Free Ravensburg » Sat Nov 06, 2021 12:59 am
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by Unibot III » Sat Nov 06, 2021 2:10 pm
Free Ravensburg wrote:Why not have one with the worth of 1.00? I would call it the note
Hagston wrote:Just gonna bump this. Great idea!
Apatosaurus wrote:This is actually a nice idea! That said, I'm not really a fan of "stamp" and "button"; I think what would be more interesting would be different types of coins and then the lowest, might be, say, tokens; then instead of coins it's bronze coins, instead of buttons it's silver coins and instead of ribbons it's gold coins? Something like that.
Fauzjhia wrote:the ability to allow players to create their own little collectibles could be interesting, but it should be limited.
it could limited to certain regions for example.
because otherwise. there is a big puppet trap in front of us.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
by Apatosaurus » Sat Nov 06, 2021 5:22 pm
Unibot III wrote:Apatosaurus wrote:This is actually a nice idea! That said, I'm not really a fan of "stamp" and "button"; I think what would be more interesting would be different types of coins and then the lowest, might be, say, tokens; then instead of coins it's bronze coins, instead of buttons it's silver coins and instead of ribbons it's gold coins? Something like that.
The idea was that buttons would tie in with NS political campaigns and ribbons would tie in with NS military missions and military gameplay culture.
I proposed the "stamp" as a low cost alternative because I suspected there would be NS artists who would use the “canvas” of a stamp to share their art in-game (in my day, a long time ago, I’d expect AMOM & Jenrak to do so, for instance.) The coin design would be open to how ever its designers approached it — they might use a silver, gold or other texture.
I could see the usefulness of having a “token” option, smaller than a coin, that would be cheaper to produce and could be put into wider circulation like stamps as a part of regional engagement programs and any kind of regional currency initiative.
A few tangential thoughts …
- I think what you'd see is collectors would naturally come to specialize in various kinds of collectibles. Some would be purists and continue to focus on cards only, others might have an eye for coins or buttons or stamps.
- I’d expect NS artists and the Card community to form linkages overtime. The same has happened over time in roleplay and GP circles when graphic skills are needed.
- Buttons & stamps are the most creatively ‘open’ collectibles in the sense you can do almost whatever you want with them. Coins are limited creatively to some extent by the medium - you have to use an engraving filter of some sort to make the graphic look like something like a coin.
by Unibot III » Sun Nov 07, 2021 9:08 am
Apatosaurus wrote:Hmm, okay, but I'm still not really a fan of buttons and stamps.
[violet] wrote:I mean this in the best possible way,
but Unibot is not a typical NS player.
Milograd wrote:You're a caring, resolute lunatic
with the best of intentions.
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