April Fools Minigame 2023? (Regional Maps!)

[Tinhampton]

As is the form, we are guaranteed some sort of April Fools entertainment - but, unlike the certainty of a Global Trade Fair we got in advance last year, there are no promises this time around. In which case, any takers for what novelty you think's going to roll up and around this time tomorrow or so? How fun a minigame do you think we're in for, too, given the variable experiences of recent years? (I honestly don't think I could even try and predict that particular factor, let alone everything else.) Obligatory end-of-summary stuck-out-tongue emoji

Past pin-the-tail-on-the-April-fool threads: WA Antiprank 2008, Z-Day 2013, World Assembly Whispers 2016, N-Day 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Here, for historical reference, are the start times in BST of the past April Fools minigames (in terms of the time they started, not the year they occurred in):

• 2017 (N-Day): 9pm on March 31st
• 2016 (SecGen election I): 10:30pm on March 31st
• 2021 (Best Nation in the World): 11pm on March 31st
• 2020 (SecGen election II): 11:10pm on March 31st
• 2019 (Trivia Challenge): midnight on April 1st
• 2012 (the IPO): roughly midnight
• 2013 (Z-Day): roughly 12:45am
• 2022 (Global Trade Fair): 1:02am
• 2018 (Trading Cards): 3:30am
• 2015 (C.A.N): roughly 4am
• 2008 (World Assembly antiprank): 5am or so
• 2014 (ByteCoin): 1pm on April 1st
• 2023 (Regional Maps): 10pm on April 2nd

[Improper Classifications]

I'm saying 9:30pm is gonna bring us either some sort of world-map conflict (which would be cool) or some sort of national competition. (Generic!)
I hope it will be F/S but April 10th is a long way away...

[Panagouge]

Plot Twist: It'll end up being Frontiers and Strongholds.

[Luna Amore]

Plot Twist: It'll end up being Frontiers and Strongholds.

Double plot twist: It'll be the most subtle April Fool's day. The site will switch from NationStates to NotionStates.

[Portzania]

Plot Twist: It'll end up being Frontiers and Strongholds.

Double plot twist: It'll be the most subtle April Fool's day. The site will switch from NationStates to NotionStates.

Ah, but there is a triple plot twist: Nothing will change, everything will be exactly the same on April 1st, the same on March 31st. This will be the ultimate April fools.

[The Ambis]

Double plot twist: It'll be the most subtle April Fool's day. The site will switch from NationStates to NotionStates.

Ah, but there is a triple plot twist: Nothing will change, everything will be exactly the same on April 1st, the same on March 31st. This will be the ultimate April fools.

Quadruple plot twist: They make a change on April 2nd

[Haganham]

I for one an looking forward to being able to flip my tables.

[Improper Classifications]

Ah, but there is a triple plot twist: Nothing will change, everything will be exactly the same on April 1st, the same on March 31st. This will be the ultimate April fools.

Quadruple plot twist: They make a change on April 2nd

Quintuple plot twist: They already made the change. We didn’t see it.

[Feyrisshire]

There will be a game that all nations from one region can join. There will be a game for each region. In the game, all the nations turn into catgirls then you and the other nations go drive a Hummer 4WD (As catgirls ofc) in a green hilly track. Then you need to catch cute Froggy Frogs and Cats while driving the Hummer 4WD, that is the point. Then you will see the other nations from other regions also in the track - they appear as blobs of poop to you but to them they appear as catgirls, and you kill them using different weapons.

The region that has the highest kills of blobs of poop and highest catch of cute Froggy Frogs and Cats wins.

[Refuge Isle]

Maybe the fools were us all along

[Trivalve]

Maybe the fools were us all along

Or maybe the April Fools event was the friends we made a long the way

[Improper Classifications]

Maybe the fools were us all along

Or maybe the April Fools event was the friends we made a long the way

Perhaps I was the fool for not making friends and sitting at my computer playing browser based nation simulators…

[Islands Of Ventro]

Quadruple plot twist: They make a change on April 2nd

Quintuple plot twist: They already made the change. We didn’t see it.

Sextuplet twist: Everything is nationstates, but everything’s isn’t, we live in a world that isn’t real, but as real as could be, a story unfolding, wrapping a neat little with the April fools event, whilst starting a magnificent story at the same time.

[Tinhampton]

It is 3:50am nearly 4:10am BST and there is still no April Fool; this is becoming increasingly unprecedented territory. Moreso because:
> Between this and this - I now believe CAN started at 4am on April 1st 2015 rather than 5am.
> The only minigame that dropped after 4am BST was the first - and even then, it was just before midnight in Melbourne, so convenient for Max. Turns out that started at 1pm spot, too, not 1:30.

The wait for the April Fool is getting so long that I'm spending my time updating the chronology of past April Fools...!

[Cataleenia]

still nothing at 6:31am BST

[Cataleenia]

Plot Twist: It'll end up being Frontiers and Strongholds.

Double plot twist: It'll be the most subtle April Fool's day. The site will switch from NationStates to NotionStates.

Notionstates

Edit: may I suggest a full replacement?

[Alinghi Federal-Democratic Republic]

Matbe this is the april fool, we expecting something, and the fool is that NS does't do anything.

[Cuba 2022 RP]

Matbe this is the april fool, we expecting something, and the fool is that NS does't do anything.

Don’t give them ideas!

[The United Penguin Commonwealth]

hopefully it’s better than the reddit arg

[Tinhampton]

Every other April Fools minigame was in full swing by now. Just saying!

[Merni]

Every other April Fools minigame was in full swing by now. Just saying!

Maybe the April Fool was getting people excited for a nonexistent event.

[Portzania]

Maybe the real April Fool’s was the friends we made together.


oh wait someone already said that

[North Cromch]

yeah it is a bit odd

[Tornado Queendom]

There's no April 1st joke?

That's bad.

[The Second Order of Life]

There's no April 1st joke?

That's bad.

The end is nigh.