What are your thoughts about the NS Invader/Defender game?

[Marcuslandia]

I get the feeling that most NSG participants never check out the Technical threads. Over there right now, there's some heated discussion about the impact of the region raider game in NationStates. I'm curious about what _YOU_ folks think about the possibility that some day your region may be taken away from you.

So, what's your thoughts on the subject? Do you feel your region is invulnerable and it's something you never have to worry about? Is this the first you ever even heard of the I/D game? Do you think that the I/D game is an absolutely integral feature of NS? Do you think region crashing should be entirely outlawed?

Please! Speak up! I'm anxious to hear what more of you have to say on the subject!

[Conserative Morality]

Who cares?

[Maurepas]

Meh, I think North America is big enough that it wont be a problem...

[Dyakovo]

I get the feeling that most NSG participants never check out the Technical threads. Over there right now, there's some heated discussion about the impact of the region raider game in NationStates. I'm curious about what _YOU_ folks think about the possibility that some day your region may be taken away from you.

So, what's your thoughts on the subject? Do you feel your region is invulnerable and it's something you never have to worry about? Is this the first you ever even heard of the I/D game? Do you think that the I/D game is an absolutely integral feature of NS? Do you think region crashing should be entirely outlawed?

Please! Speak up! I'm anxious to hear what more of you have to say on the subject!

The what?

[Marcuslandia]

I should add that I _especially_ want to hear from players that have absolutely no idea what the Invader/Defender game is.

[Dyakovo]

I should add that I _especially_ want to hear from players that have absolutely no idea what the Invader/Defender game is.

Good, because that'll probably be a majority of what you get in NSG.

[Saint Clair Island]

I'm pretty sure no invaders or defenders will give SA Holding Space a first look, let alone a second. Thus, I don't give a fuck.

[Maurepas]

I'm pretty sure no invaders or defenders will give SA Holding Space a first look, let alone a second. Thus, I don't give a fuck.

Idk, presumably itll be easy to take over, so, they might,

[Marcuslandia]

If your region does NOT have an active Founder, your region can be vulnerable to invasion. Invaders count of there being Founder-less regions that haven't realized just how vulnerable they are.

[Dectubech]

I don't believe that the game is an integral part of the overall program, however, I think it should remain. It adds complexity, and allows for more political expansion. I've made some very good friends in this game in the name of defense.

[Erastide]

*snickers*

I'm not sure most people here even think about where their region is located or if their nation exists as long as they have access to the boards.

[No Names Left Damn It]

I really wouldn't give a shit if it was invaded.

[Galloism]

*snickers*

I'm not sure most people here even think about where their region is located or if their nation exists as long as they have access to the boards.

Wait -

I have a nation?

[Dyakovo]

*snickers*

I'm not sure most people here even think about where their region is located or if their nation exists as long as they have access to the boards.

Spot on Eras

[Ashmoria]

I should add that I _especially_ want to hear from players that have absolutely no idea what the Invader/Defender game is.

i have absolutely no idea what the invader/defender game is. my nation is in the region i landed in when i signed up. i dont know if the game applies to "the south pacific" or what would happen if my region got taken over. ill worry about it if it ever affects me.

[BunnySaurus Bugsii]

I get the feeling that most NSG participants never check out the Technical threads. Over there right now, there's some heated discussion about the impact of the region raider game in NationStates. I'm curious about what _YOU_ folks think about the possibility that some day your region may be taken away from you.

So, what's your thoughts on the subject? Do you feel your region is invulnerable and it's something you never have to worry about?

No, less interested even than that. I'm in Lazarus, 'cos that's where I got put by resurrection.

If something happens to Lazarus, and I end up living in Nazi Occupied Luna ... I frankly don't give a shit. If I don't endorse a WA nominee, or participate in the regional roleplay ... they're a bunch of muppets for considering my Nation significant at all. It's no more significant than a puppet nation they forgot about.

Hell. I just disrespected Muppets. I really should go to bed.

Is this the first you ever even heard of the I/D game?

*weary look*

Yes, actually.

I'll check it out. Tomorrow. Or some day. Could you give me a link I could put in the great festering pile of what-is-this-shit which my browser dignifies with the name of "bookmarks"?

[Scandavian States]

Well, Haven is password protected, so...

But even if someone managed to get in and Trojan his buddies in, they'd find their stay very short and extremely unpleasant.

[Big Jim P]

Hell gets invaded from time to time, but our massive indifference and heaps of abuse tend to repel the invaders in short order.

[Vault 10]

I get the feeling that most NSG participants never check out the Technical threads. Over there right now, there's some heated discussion about the impact of the region raider game in NationStates. I'm curious about what _YOU_ folks think about the possibility that some day your region may be taken away from you.

It's the whole point of having regions in the first place.

Otherwise we could just lump everyone in the Pacific. It's not like the regions affect anything else but themselves.

[Bears Armed]

I get the feeling that most NSG participants never check out the Technical threads. Over there right now, there's some heated discussion about the impact of the region raider game in NationStates. I'm curious about what _YOU_ folks think about the possibility that some day your region may be taken away from you.

It's the whole point of having regions in the first place.

Otherwise we could just lump everyone in the Pacific. It's not like the regions affect anything else but themselves.

It was not "the whole point of having regions in the first place", it was something that some players thought of -- exploiting a loophole in the rules -- after Max had coded 'regions' into the game.
There are two other, and more important, reasons for having mutliple regions:
1/. Having multiple regions possible allows players to group into communities based on national concepts, or RL nationalities (& favoured languages: there are, for example, regions whose RMBS are in French, Dutch, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Polish...), or RL friendships, or shared ideologies, or other factors (consider the existence of, for example, regions such as Haiku or -- on the other paw -- Gay ...);
2/. As the game is currently set up, Regional Delegates play a key role in determining which proposed resolutions actually go forwards to be voted on by the WA membership as a whole and have disproportionately high voting strengths when proposals have got that far...

[Arizona Nova]

Who cares?

Nobody, til the raiders come. v v

It was not "the whole point of having regions in the first place", it was something that some players thought of -- exploiting a loophole in the rules -- after Max had coded 'regions' into the game.

The pioneers in this being Farkers. Know your roots, people.

[Cameroi]

i could care less about invading/defending. what i'm interested in is nation/culture/infrastructure building. the interaction and methodology of this with the collective human psychie.

and possibly the roll play, experiencing, of imaginary possible cultures, in a context where technology is simultaniously optomized both for durable gratification AND harmonious and sustainable integration with nature and nature's cycles of renewal.

if i was interested in invading/defending i'd be playing world of whorecraft or one of those.

[DrunkenDove]

I'd love to see invaders even try to take Lazarus.

[Fighter4u]

Invaders took over the region I was the delegate at the time when they raided and I just kicked everyone out(including the natives and defenders) and moved to another region. Boy were both sides pissed that I ruined a perfectly good fight. But frankly I could had cared less.

[Arizona Nova]

I'd love to see invaders even try to take Lazarus.

Oh they have tried, bless their megalomaniacal little hearts.

Invaders took over the region I was the delegate at the time when they raided and I just kicked everyone out(including the natives and defenders) and moved to another region. Boy were both sides pissed that I ruined a perfectly good fight. But frankly I could had cared less.

Congratulations, you're a griefer!