List of regions

[West-Fascististan]

Would it not be better to list the regions according to size than to list them alphabetically? As it is now, I have to look through a lot of pointless regions to find the big ones.

[[violet]]

It would, but it's non-trivial to implement.

[West-Fascististan]

It would, but it's non-trivial to implement.

Really? Isnt´t that quite basic technology?

[Reploid Productions]

At a glance, but it's probably all sorts of potentially game-breaking programming hoops to jump through

[West-Flanders]

"Unofficial NationStates Region Directory" by Goobergunchia.
Ok it's old, it's from 2004, but it contains some of Ballotonia's list of largest regions as recent as april 2006.. He has a script that rank regions in order of size. Don't know if there are any more recent lists.

[Riemstagrad]

damn... NS was big back then...

[[violet]]

It would, but it's non-trivial to implement.

Really? Isnt´t that quite basic technology?

It would be if we were backed by a DB, but we're not. It means adding a script that keeps cycling through all regions, loading them to check their size, then storing the sorted rank somewhere, then adding a function to reference that. Which is not the hardest thing in the world, but it's a much lower cost-benefit than it would be if it just meant adding "ORDER BY size".

[Unibot]

Um.. I'm just going to interject something though it appears that its probably a moot point.

On the NS World Adjustments Thread, a popular idea was to arrange the region listing by regional power ranking - considering the regional power ranking does little at the moment (at least it appears purely cosmetic to the players, I don't know if it effects the hidden mechanics behind the WA or not), having the 'regional power' ranking your region, would give it a lot of significance.

[Naivetry]

I'm always plugging these guys, but that's because it works: http://nsdossier.texasregion.net/

If you want to sort regions by size, click on the "--Custom Dossiers--" drop-down box on the right hand side. You'll see "--World Listings--" and then a list of things like "Regions100", "Regions50", and so on.

Regions100 lists the regions with populations of 100+ nations
Regions50 lists the regions with 50-100 nations
etc.

While the number of nations in a given region is always up-to-date, the rankings are not precise - the lists must only update every once in a while. Still, it's a simple, convenient way to find the largest regions pretty quickly.

[West-Fascististan]

That instrument was great, Naivetry! Thanks! Just what I was looking for!