Raiders

[Zane Winchester Scott]

Getting it taken back takes 12 hours. Now, answer my question. It wastes everyone's time. It has no point in the end, so why even take the time out of your day to do it?

Wait, are you asking about my dispatch or raiding?

Raiding. It does nothing to benefit anyone. It just causes people to take time out of their day. Answer the question.

[Ever-Wandering Souls]

Did you even read the dispatch? I explain that they can't do anything until the next update, and I explain how to take back your region. When I say "clean up your region quickly" I am referring to after it is taken back.

Getting it taken back takes 12 hours. Now, answer my question. It wastes everyone's time. It has no point in the end, so why even take the time out of your day to do it?

You could easily make "it" posting to NSG, or Roleplaying, or going on NS in general. And just as you could equally say "it expands my political horizons," "improves my writing skills," and "it's a fun place to blow off stress and meet new people," raiding has it's own factors that keep new people coming and having fun.

[New Axiom]

Wait, are you asking about my dispatch or raiding?

Raiding. It does nothing to benefit anyone. It just causes people to take time out of their day. Answer the question.

Raiding is fun, therefore it benefits the raiders who are having fun.

[Zane Winchester Scott]

Raiding. It does nothing to benefit anyone. It just causes people to take time out of their day. Answer the question.

Raiding is fun, therefore it benefits the raiders who are having fun.

At the expense of others being unhappy. That is essentially bullying.

[New Axiom]

Raiding is fun, therefore it benefits the raiders who are having fun.

At the expense of others being unhappy. That is essentially bullying.

So, I could say that killing someone repeatitively in Call of Duty is bullying. note I said Call of Duty, which is a video game.

Besides, after a raid, I telegram the delegate or founder of the region I just raided and say "good game, wanna be Freinds?"

[The Wolfussian Colony of Oceania]

Why is this in NationStates?

[We Are Not the NSA]

Wait, are you asking about my dispatch or raiding?

Raiding. It does nothing to benefit anyone. It just causes people to take time out of their day. Answer the question.

Because it is fun. For those who understand how gameplay works, R/D provides an intricate simulation of foreign policy, espionage, and warfare that cannot be found anywhere else on the site. It is more exciting than roleplaying for the people who do it because there are actual material holdings at stake, and the outcome is never certain and often out of the player's control. It requires cooperative play styles to be effective, which causes tightly knit communities to form around the activity.

Now that I've answered your question, I'll address the rest of your post. The argument that raiding is pointless is completely ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the rest of the activities on this site have a point? Please, enlighten me as to how role playing is less pointless than gameplay. At least when I'm occupying a region I'm actually there, doing something, not just saying I am. I have nothing against RP, but to argue that it has a point, or at least a better point than raiding, is ridiculous. We're all playing this game because we find it fun, not because there is a point.

Raiding is fun, therefore it benefits the raiders who are having fun.

At the expense of others being unhappy. That is essentially bullying.

As New Axiom has pointed out, complaining about your region being raided is like complaining about being killed in an MMO. Raids are easily combated or fixed, and are nothing to complain about. There are so many tools and guides for avoiding raids provided to players that no one has any excuse to not utilize them.

[Zane Winchester Scott]

Raiding. It does nothing to benefit anyone. It just causes people to take time out of their day. Answer the question.

Because it is fun. For those who understand how gameplay works, R/D provides an intricate simulation of foreign policy, espionage, and warfare that cannot be found anywhere else on the site. It is more exciting than roleplaying for the people who do it because there are actual material holdings at stake, and the outcome is never certain and often out of the player's control. It requires cooperative play styles to be effective, which causes tightly knit communities to form around the activity.

Now that I've answered your question, I'll address the rest of your post. The argument that raiding is pointless is completely ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the rest of the activities on this site have a point? Please, enlighten me as to how role playing is less pointless than gameplay. At least when I'm occupying a region I'm actually there, doing something, not just saying I am. I have nothing against RP, but to argue that it has a point, or at least a better point than raiding, is ridiculous. We're all playing this game because we find it fun, not because there is a point.

I really don't do roleplaying. Also, raiding doesn't have much of a strategy and isn't intricate whatsoever. I have been in DEN and I have seen what the commands say. Just go to this link and endorse this fake nation. Then the information is given to you without consequence or risk. Just find a smaller region, endorse, wait.

[Zane Winchester Scott]

Raiding. It does nothing to benefit anyone. It just causes people to take time out of their day. Answer the question.

Because it is fun. For those who understand how gameplay works, R/D provides an intricate simulation of foreign policy, espionage, and warfare that cannot be found anywhere else on the site. It is more exciting than roleplaying for the people who do it because there are actual material holdings at stake, and the outcome is never certain and often out of the player's control. It requires cooperative play styles to be effective, which causes tightly knit communities to form around the activity.

Now that I've answered your question, I'll address the rest of your post. The argument that raiding is pointless is completely ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the rest of the activities on this site have a point? Please, enlighten me as to how role playing is less pointless than gameplay. At least when I'm occupying a region I'm actually there, doing something, not just saying I am. I have nothing against RP, but to argue that it has a point, or at least a better point than raiding, is ridiculous. We're all playing this game because we find it fun, not because there is a point.

At the expense of others being unhappy. That is essentially bullying.

As New Axiom has pointed out, complaining about your region being raided is like complaining about being killed in an MMO. Raids are easily combated or fixed, and are nothing to complain about. There are so many tools and guides for avoiding raids provided to players that no one has any excuse to not utilize them.

Being new to the game. That's an excuse. Also, I hate MMOs and find that they are a large source of cyberbullying. The only reason of why I came on here was for a school assignment. I got onto the thread was so I could show everyone the holy light of our one true lord and savior

The great yellow one

[Federal Union of America]

Because it is fun. For those who understand how gameplay works, R/D provides an intricate simulation of foreign policy, espionage, and warfare that cannot be found anywhere else on the site. It is more exciting than roleplaying for the people who do it because there are actual material holdings at stake, and the outcome is never certain and often out of the player's control. It requires cooperative play styles to be effective, which causes tightly knit communities to form around the activity.

Now that I've answered your question, I'll address the rest of your post. The argument that raiding is pointless is completely ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the rest of the activities on this site have a point? Please, enlighten me as to how role playing is less pointless than gameplay. At least when I'm occupying a region I'm actually there, doing something, not just saying I am. I have nothing against RP, but to argue that it has a point, or at least a better point than raiding, is ridiculous. We're all playing this game because we find it fun, not because there is a point.


As New Axiom has pointed out, complaining about your region being raided is like complaining about being killed in an MMO. Raids are easily combated or fixed, and are nothing to complain about. There are so many tools and guides for avoiding raids provided to players that no one has any excuse to not utilize them.

Being new to the game. That's an excuse. Also, I hate MMOs and find that they are a large source of cyberbullying.

Good for you, nobody asked if you hated MMOs. Any website could be a source of cyberbullying, and NS certainly isn't because it's comprised of mostly mature young adults and adults and not thirteen year-old kids who don't like anything that lets them feel any emotion in a game whatsoever.

[Zane Winchester Scott]

Being new to the game. That's an excuse. Also, I hate MMOs and find that they are a large source of cyberbullying.

Good for you, nobody asked if you hated MMOs. Any website could be a source of cyberbullying, and NS certainly isn't because it's comprised of mostly mature young adults and adults and not thirteen year-old kids who don't like anything that lets them feel any emotion in a game whatsoever.

YAY! YOU GUESSED SOMEONES AGE! Wow, really great job. Lets see what you've won for saying an age disrespectfully! Behind curtain number one, nothing! Behind curtain number 2, the fact that you were once 13! Behind curtain number 3, the possibility that you are 13! Well that's all for tonight folks, see you next week!

[We Are Not the NSA]

Because it is fun. For those who understand how gameplay works, R/D provides an intricate simulation of foreign policy, espionage, and warfare that cannot be found anywhere else on the site. It is more exciting than roleplaying for the people who do it because there are actual material holdings at stake, and the outcome is never certain and often out of the player's control. It requires cooperative play styles to be effective, which causes tightly knit communities to form around the activity.

Now that I've answered your question, I'll address the rest of your post. The argument that raiding is pointless is completely ridiculous. Are you trying to say that the rest of the activities on this site have a point? Please, enlighten me as to how role playing is less pointless than gameplay. At least when I'm occupying a region I'm actually there, doing something, not just saying I am. I have nothing against RP, but to argue that it has a point, or at least a better point than raiding, is ridiculous. We're all playing this game because we find it fun, not because there is a point.

I really don't do roleplaying. Also, raiding doesn't have much of a strategy and isn't intricate whatsoever. I have been in DEN and I have seen what the commands say. Just go to this link and endorse this fake nation. Then the information is given to you without consequence or risk. Just find a smaller region, endorse, wait.

We don't discuss topics like that on the rmb, we discuss it on our forums or in our Skype chat: places you never joined in your time in DEN. So to assert that you know what you're talking about here is ludicrous. Do you really think that raiding is as simple as "go here, endorse this person"? That is piling, which is the easiest concept in raiding. Someone had to infiltrate that region, someone had to crunch the numbers on how to utilize influence, someone had to participate in the original jump to take the region. And don't get me started on tagging. Tagging is much more complicated than is first implied. It requires complete focus and precision timing from the support troops, fast switching for the point and in the moment decision making for the trigger. And that is when we are tagging unopposed. The moment defenders show up we have to start deploying evasive tactics which are usually a pain in the ass. And I know I said "don't get me started" before, but I am not actually capable of typing out how complicated infiltrating/espionage/counter intelligence is, so I won't.

[We Are Not the NSA]

Being new to the game. That's an excuse. Also, I hate MMOs and find that they are a large source of cyberbullying. The only reason of why I came on here was for a school assignment. I got onto the thread was so I could show everyone the holy light of our one true lord and savior

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The great yellow one

I was under the impression that the guides that I previously mentioned were specifically created for new players. Always read the instruction manual folks.

[New Axiom]

Good for you, nobody asked if you hated MMOs. Any website could be a source of cyberbullying, and NS certainly isn't because it's comprised of mostly mature young adults and adults and not thirteen year-old kids who don't like anything that lets them feel any emotion in a game whatsoever.

YAY! YOU GUESSED SOMEONES AGE! Wow, really great job. Lets see what you've won for saying an age disrespectfully! Behind curtain number one, nothing! Behind curtain number 2, the fact that you were once 13! Behind curtain number 3, the possibility that you are 13! Well that's all for tonight folks, see you next week!

This has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

[Jenrak]

Hi folks!

I'm locking and closing this thread because this discussion crops up quite a bit. You can likely find it in Gameplay. Furthermore, from an RPers' perspective, you might find United Gordonopia's article here useful. Please keep the forum primarily for RPing, and thanks for reading!