How did you find NationStates?

by **Torisakia** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:52 pm

I didn't find NationStates. NationStates found me.

by **Brunswick-upon-Raritan** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:54 pm

The Hindustani State wrote:It became popular in my college

Now is this the British college that’s really high school or American college that’s really university?

by **Preusses** » Mon May 25, 2020 8:58 pm

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:
Preusses wrote:Basically an ex-friend of mine forced me into the game but never actually taught me how to RP properly and kept showing off his nation calling my nation a ruthless dictatorship. Ironically his nation wasn't exactly feasible in any alternate history scenario. He also kept calling me out in my earlier days of nationstates for being bad at naming nations. Then when we had an arguement and broke the friendship he pledged to destroy all my nations and bar me from ever playing again as his revenge.

Uh... Does he still play?

Idk. He recently made a huge mistake in starting a French Civil War forum thread wherein his Royals and Military fought against a rebellious religious faction. The thread died and thus his main nation died with it. Or at least I think it's going to collapse. I reckon it's gonna be like last time when he left his nation alone for 27 days and logged in at the last second.

by **MineLegotia and Equestria** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:01 pm

Exalted Inquellian State wrote:
MineLegotia and Equestria wrote:Found NationStates through a My Little Pony fanfiction.

Yes, fanfiction.

Um... I would like to have an explanation.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/260248 ... ghtlicious

This. Just this. Good story, I read the description, decided, "Hey that looks cool" and here I am

by **Exalted Inquellian State** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:05 pm

MineLegotia and Equestria wrote:
Exalted Inquellian State wrote:Um... I would like to have an explanation.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/260248 ... ghtlicious

This. Just this. Good story, I read the description, decided, "Hey that looks cool" and here I am

Well, as a wise skeleton said, "Interesting".

Sad the nation died, though.

by **Social Democratic Of America** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:08 pm

I Always Wanted To Create My Own Fictional Nation But I Have Not Find A Website, Until I Found NationStates And Now I Can Create All The Fictional Country That I Want.

by **Reuturn** » Mon May 25, 2020 9:21 pm

dReW dUrNiL

by **Pax Nerdvana** » Wed May 27, 2020 5:35 am

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I'm getting deja vue. I think I've seen this thread at least 3 or 4 different times. A friend of mine told me about NS.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been affected by nostalgia over the years

You're not. Nostalgia affects us all at some point in our lives.

by **Picairn** » Wed May 27, 2020 6:08 am

Aeisonia wrote:So many new players..

I found it from a google search of "nation simulator"

Same. I was super into nation building games and was bored because Google Play couldn't provide anything interesting... So I Googled "Nation building games" and boom, the first link displayed is the NationStates website. Been addicted to it since.

by **Soled** » Wed May 27, 2020 8:22 am

You know how youtube channel pages have those little icons on the bottom right, to social medias and so on? Some guy linked his NS nation on there and I clicked on it. Fun fact: my first nation was named Kazbulikstan. Wait, that was six years ago? Guess I'll bring it back to life, then.

by **Mushet** » Wed May 27, 2020 8:27 am

Wasn't there another thread about this very recently?

by **Anatoliyanskiy** » Wed May 27, 2020 8:31 am

I was scrolling through the comments section of a video and I saw someone mention nationstates. I thought it seemed interesting so I decided to join. Simple as that.

by **Inishavon** » Wed May 27, 2020 8:40 am

I used to be on NationStates under a different name a few years ago - I can't quite remember exactly how I first discovered it. I think I had an interest in nation simulation/worldbuilding beforehand and I gravitated towards NS for those reasons. I came back after leaving it for a while because I fondly remembered the NS forums and felt that they were more conducive to in-depth discussion than most social media, as weird as that might seem!

by **Port Spratly** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:08 am

through google a few years ago then stop for some moment.

by **Dumb Ideologies** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:13 am

I was trapped here as an unfortunate by-product of the binding ritual that secured the immortality of my main soul.

by **Awesomeland012345** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:14 am

50% of my friends at school played it and I thought it was for social studies. The thing was, I never heard about it in social studies. They played NS for at least a year until I asked them about it. The only reason THEY played it is/was because it's one of the only unblocked games on the school-issued chromebooks. So I started to play and now I'm addicted to it.

by **Solomons Land** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:17 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:I'm getting deja vue. I think I've seen this thread at least 3 or 4 different times. A friend of mine told me about NS.

I think a lot of people have made threads exactly the same or very similar to this one in the past.

by **British Socialist Syndicates** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:18 am

I first stumbled across it back in 2013/14 - I think I just googled 'make your own country' or something, and ended up here. I made a few different nations but got bored of them pretty quickly. About a year ago I rediscovered this site after suddenly remembering it and, after a few other unsuccessful attempts, decided to create this nation, which is the first one I've actually stuck with for longer than a week. I'm glad I did.

by **Awesomeland012345** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:19 am

Brunswick-upon-Raritan wrote:
The Hindustani State wrote:It became popular in my college

Now is this the British college that’s really high school or American college that’s really university?

What?
Now that's just confusing...

by **Harmonic Empire** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:21 am

If i remember, i was googling for uni stuff then found NS.

by **Shazbotdom** » Wed May 27, 2020 9:58 am

If I remember, I found it via a game server on Tribes 2 back in the day. One of the guy's on the server played NS at the time (not sure if he still does or not) and I joined it at that time. I haven't tried to find out of he still is on it or not, but that was nearly 16 years ago. It will be 16 years this September.

by **-Astoria** » Wed May 27, 2020 10:47 am

Surfed around too much on other nation & city-building sites, & here I am.

by **Ludania** » Wed May 27, 2020 10:51 am

I think I was quite young about 11-12ish and googling games where you run countries. Those were the days! I can't even remember what the countries I made were called. I've had this one since 2012, and the first ones were definitely a long time before that as I took a break. Didn't really understand it being that young.

by **Hapilopper** » Wed May 27, 2020 10:51 am

About 15 years ago, someone (it may have been Xanneria) mentioned NationStates on another message board I was on. I was intrigued, joined as Wrecker and enjoyed it for a year and a half. Last year, Xan mentioned it on a group chat he and I are on and I decided to give it another whirl. I've been here since.

by **-Astoria** » Wed May 27, 2020 10:53 am

Ludania wrote:I think I was quite young about 11-12ish and googling games where you run countries. Those were the days! I can't even remember what the countries I made were called. I've had this one since 2012, and the first ones were definitely a long time before that as I took a break. Didn't really understand it being that young.

Life flies when you're young - ~~also, early 2010s gang rise up!~~

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