Revolutionizing NationStates

[Chyeknovostan Republic]

Cyber nations seemed pointless to me... NS beats her hands down Im gonna play Tribal Wars and see what its like

[The Wandering Bard]

I was already thinking of an idea for regions I'm a part of: To create Facebook pages for those regions, privatize them and then to have those who wish to do so, create an account on Facebook under their nation name or the name they use on the off-site message boards of the regions, subject to rules of

1. No signing up for ANY facebook apps under that name,
2. no sending invites of Facebook apps to the names who subscribe to the regional Facebook page
3. To privatize said Facebook pages of both nations and regions so that you can't receive any updates except what the Regional Page sends
4. You can use a temporary e-mail address to create the Facebook account, as people already do this for MSN, Yahoo, etc.
5. The Regional Facebook pages can ONLY send updates pertaining to Regional occurances. No spam.
6. No personal information.

and it could go on from there. That's the idea that spawned my suggestion, anyway.

People really aren't too keen on the idea because of the mention of Facebook. They see it as a security concern, and as a distasteful idea because of all of the negative aspects of Facebook, but if proper guidelines are initiated, it really shouldn't be a problem.

[Burchadinger]

This wouldn't revolutionize much of anything.

It'd be a new way to look at the current system that will take a while for people to get used to (plus a few bells and whistles that will confuse people). It doesn't change the reality of the game, and, where the in-character is strongest (factbooks and information and regional RP's) doesn't need improvement (save my suggestion, maybe, about the forums. But, that may be a technical difficulty, even then).

I actually have an idea for NS3 that would include a world map, complete with cities, resources and military. However, a lot of the NS community wouldn't like the idea due it replacing most IC posts. I would probably have to market it as a modern version of Tribal Wars, or a realistic version of CyberNations.

I was doing an "experimental" version of NS3 along with another nation, Reinnapani. We were making good progress until he CTE, and left without contact. I have very few screenshots, and I'll post them if i can.

[Orlkjestad]

This wouldn't revolutionize much of anything.

It'd be a new way to look at the current system that will take a while for people to get used to (plus a few bells and whistles that will confuse people). It doesn't change the reality of the game, and, where the in-character is strongest (factbooks and information and regional RP's) doesn't need improvement (save my suggestion, maybe, about the forums. But, that may be a technical difficulty, even then).

I actually have an idea for NS3 that would include a world map, complete with cities, resources and military. However, a lot of the NS community wouldn't like the idea due it replacing most IC posts. I would probably have to market it as a modern version of Tribal Wars, or a realistic version of CyberNations.

i would join

The player would start off with one city, holding 5 million citizens. It would grow at 1.5% per week/month, and max out at 25 million. They could then found new cities, which each start off with 1 million and max out at the same amount. The population required to unlock customizable fields would be much lower, and issue submission would be time-based.
Based on the population and economy, each city would have a certain amount of production at its disposal. In addition, buildings and units would require three resources (food, energy/oil and metals), extracted from resource bases on the map. You could militarily capture any city or resource base except the capital. Attacking one person would declare war on their entire region.

I like to call this the wonderful world of the "other" country sim game, Simcountry.

[Mediterreania]

This wouldn't revolutionize much of anything.

It'd be a new way to look at the current system that will take a while for people to get used to (plus a few bells and whistles that will confuse people). It doesn't change the reality of the game, and, where the in-character is strongest (factbooks and information and regional RP's) doesn't need improvement (save my suggestion, maybe, about the forums. But, that may be a technical difficulty, even then).

I actually have an idea for NS3 that would include a world map, complete with cities, resources and military. However, a lot of the NS community wouldn't like the idea due it replacing most IC posts. I would probably have to market it as a modern version of Tribal Wars, or a realistic version of CyberNations.

i would join

The player would start off with one city, holding 5 million citizens. It would grow at 1.5% per week/month, and max out at 25 million. They could then found new cities, which each start off with 1 million and max out at the same amount. The population required to unlock customizable fields would be much lower, and issue submission would be time-based.
Based on the population and economy, each city would have a certain amount of production at its disposal. In addition, buildings and units would require three resources (food, energy/oil and metals), extracted from resource bases on the map. You could militarily capture any city or resource base except the capital. Attacking one person would declare war on their entire region.

I like to call this the wonderful world of the "other" country sim game, Simcountry.

I checked it out, it seems pretty good.

[Texina]

All these ideas for NS3 are completely pointless. They have almost no association with NS except for the name. The point of NS was not to implement those factors.

[Itinerate Tree Dweller]

The great thing about NS is that most of the details are not set in stone. You can make your own map, culture and even languages, all through forum role playing.

[Astholm]

I for one, am happy with the system the way it is, sure, things have to evolve and change, but the proposals are too radical for many people's liking.
As they say... "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" (not counting version updates, of course).

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