Global Economics and Trade Help Desk and Q&A

[Western Pacific Territories]

If my GDP is 4 billion, how would I know how much N$D I have?

GDP = NSD.

NSD value is basically universally considered to equal one U.S. Dollar.

[Westwickport]

If my GDP is 4 billion, how would I know how much N$D I have?

GDP = NSD.

NSD value is basically universally considered to equal one U.S. Dollar.

Hi!

Uhm, I am kinda confused here, Azadeshia. You mean how much NationStates Dollars/Universal Standard Dollars (NSD/USD) you can spend for buying things?

Or you mean what is your GDP per capita?

Or maybe, how much NSD you have in circulation in your (nation's) economy?

[Aquitayne]

If my GDP is 4 billion, how would I know how much N$D I have?

GDP = NSD.

NSD value is basically universally considered to equal one U.S. Dollar.

GDP does not equal NSD, exactly. Traditionally, the site standard is that 1 NSD = 1 USD. Western Pacific Territories, there are a lot of different ways to determine how much NSD you have. If you want to get technical, you can divide your population into tax brackets and just find the amount of revenue you get from each bracket - but honestly, for generic RP purposes and buying stuff on GE&T, as long as you're not spending 100 billion NSD everywhere you go, it's really not anything you have to worry about. You can't "run out" of NSD or other money like you would in other games.

[Azadeshia]

I want to make an airlines.But I don't know how to start.Can anyone help me with this?

[Arthropol]

I want to make an airlines.But I don't know how to start.Can anyone help me with this?

How do I make an airline and airport thread?

For an airline thread, I‘d recommend some history, fleet info, service info (eg. classes), destinations, hubs and applications all with pics.

For an airport thread, I’d recommend some history, terminals, gates, pictures, destinations, applications etc.

Before you make one, I would recommend you look at some successful storefronts and take inspiration.

Examples: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=419746
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=417663
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=417981
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=417822

I posted this a while ago, I think it will help you.

[Westwickport]

I want to make an airlines.But I don't know how to start.Can anyone help me with this?

Since I don't see any good reply here (to your question), I am guessing at least one Roleplay Mentor has telegrammed you by now (since time of posting; Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:44 am). I have telegrammed one Mentor to tell him to telegram you to help you out. I hope that you have received a telegram from that Mentor. If not, that would be very disappointing indeed.

Making an airlines storefront is just like making any other storefront. This is what I would do if I want to make an airlines storefront:

Step 1: Go to some real life airlines websites
Step 2: See how they advertise their services on their websites
Step 3: Copy the sentences, replace some of the words, reword in your own words
Step 4: Copy the layout of the images used by those real life airlines websites
Step 5: See some good airlines storefronts in the Global Economics & Trade forum; one good example: [ click me ]
Step 6: Don't copy that storefront, but look at how the opening poster (Cirdia) present his/her storefront
Step 7: From doing that you will see three main stuff: A brief history saying how the company was founded; a basic explanation of what the company do; and then the lists of routes, destinations, and other stuff
Step 8: Write out stuff. Don't worry about writing the wrong stuff: just write. Put some application forms so people will know how to reply to your storefront. Even if what you write is not good, submit your post anyway. You can always edit it later. Writing wrong stuff is always better than not writing anything but instead garishly filling your storefronts with too many images copied off Google images, with no writing stuff at all: The Global Economics & Trade sub forum is a roleplaying sub forum; not copy-pasted picture spam sub forum. There is the [ F7 sub forum ] for that

If you want me to give you an example of how to do it step by step (if the above explanation is not enough), feel free to tell me here. And I will make a quick airlines storefront for you.

[Azadeshia]

I want to make an airlines.But I don't know how to start.Can anyone help me with this?

For an airline thread, I‘d recommend some history, fleet info, service info (eg. classes), destinations, hubs and applications all with pics.

For an airport thread, I’d recommend some history, terminals, gates, pictures, destinations, applications etc.

Before you make one, I would recommend you look at some successful storefronts and take inspiration.

Examples: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=419746
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=417663
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=417981
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=417822

I posted this a while ago, I think it will help you.

Thanks for the help

[Azadeshia]

I want to make an airlines.But I don't know how to start.Can anyone help me with this?

Since I don't see any good reply here (to your question), I am guessing at least one Roleplay Mentor has telegrammed you by now (since time of posting; Wed Oct 25, 2017 1:44 am). I have telegrammed one Mentor to tell him to telegram you to help you out. I hope that you have received a telegram from that Mentor. If not, that would be very disappointing indeed.

Making an airlines storefront is just like making any other storefront. This is what I would do if I want to make an airlines storefront:

Step 1: Go to some real life airlines websites
Step 2: See how they advertise their services on their websites
Step 3: Copy the sentences, replace some of the words, reword in your own words
Step 4: Copy the layout of the images used by those real life airlines websites
Step 5: See some good airlines storefronts in the Global Economics & Trade forum; one good example: [ click me ]
Step 6: Don't copy that storefront, but look at how the opening poster (Cirdia) present his/her storefront
Step 7: From doing that you will see three main stuff: A brief history saying how the company was founded; a basic explanation of what the company do; and then the lists of routes, destinations, and other stuff
Step 8: Write out stuff. Don't worry about writing the wrong stuff: just write. Put some application forms so people will know how to reply to your storefront. Even if what you write is not good, submit your post anyway. You can always edit it later. Writing wrong stuff is always better than not writing anything but instead garishly filling your storefronts with too many images copied off Google images, with no writing stuff at all: The Global Economics & Trade sub forum is a roleplaying sub forum; not copy-pasted picture spam sub forum. There is the [ F7 sub forum ] for that

If you want me to give you an example of how to do it step by step (if the above explanation is not enough), feel free to tell me here. And I will make a quick airlines storefront for you.

Thanks for the information

[Shwe Tu Colony]

In the above excerpt from the guide to etiquette on purchasing & selling goods on the market, it mentions to generally avoid using the pronoun "I." Would it still be considered reasonable in purchasing goods to use "I" anyways, since I sometimes make arrangements using only one person, such as my application for a bank account (at the end) .

[Azadeshia]

I want to buy something, but I don't know how to send money.

[Shwe Tu Colony]

I want to buy something, but I don't know how to send money.

You pretend to have money — within reason — to purchase goods here. In other words, don't go throwing trillions upon trillions each time you want to buy from a store.

[Crookfur]

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In the above excerpt from the guide to etiquette on purchasing & selling goods on the market, it mentions to generally avoid using the pronoun "I." Would it still be considered reasonable in purchasing goods to use "I" anyways, since I sometimes make arrangements using only one person, such as my application for a bank account (at the end) .

If you are rping the interaction of a single individual acting on thier own behalf then of course it's ok to use "I". There are no real hard and fast rules just guidelines and its more important to stop and think how various communications might look in real life.

There is an amazing variation in business emails and I have seen orders from some huge companies that are literally "we want x number of y, send quote" and others that are a lot more formal and verbose.

One of the key things is that people always ask for a quote first so anyone asking customers to do thier own maths should really take a long hard look at themselves.

Ok so that went a bit off topic but to get back on track, the point of that guideline is not just to make things more "realistic" but to increase the scope for interaction and satisfying roleplay.

[Azadeshia]

I want to buy something, but I don't know how to send money.

You pretend to have money — within reason — to purchase goods here. In other words, don't go throwing trillions upon trillions each time you want to buy from a store.

So does that mean there is no way to send money to nations?

[Crookfur]

You pretend to have money — within reason — to purchase goods here. In other words, don't go throwing trillions upon trillions each time you want to buy from a store.

So does that mean there is no way to send money to nations?

Exactly. There is no way to send money as the money doesn't actually exist within the game coding. Its all role played so in basic terms it's all pretend. If in a storefront you tell the owner that money is transferred then it will be assumed that this has happened.

[Tippercommon]

Hello everybody. I have fixed the disappeared images that broke when Dropbox changed its image hosting policy. I have also replaced the static list of RP mentors with just a link to the user group page.

TG me if you have any questions or if any new useful links have popped up that you'd like me to add to the OP.

[Lemlar]

I was wondering if anyone had done a Blue Apron Style storefront?

[Shwe Tu Colony]

I was wondering if anyone had done a Blue Apron Style storefront?

I don't think I've seen anyone do that yet, you could certainly try to do it.

[Azadeshia]

What is picspamming?

[Shwe Tu Colony]

What is picspamming?

Too many images & too little text/description to balance it out.

[Lata Eden 2]

What is WIP ?

[Arthropol]

What is WIP ?

Work in progress, basically means that they're not done yet and you should generally not post.

[Lata Eden 2]

What is WIP ?

Work in progress, basically means that they're not done yet and you should generally not post.

Thanks m8

[Azadeshia]

How to make a poll?

[Yohannes]

How to make a poll?

Follow the red arrow (image down below)





(1) Open up an existing thread that you have.
(2) Click 'Poll creation' (again, follow the red arrow as shown above)
(3) Type the question that you want to have next to 'Poll question:'
(4) List down the number of possible answers (under 'Poll options:')
(5) Choose '1' for 'Options per user' if you would like for people to choose one answer only; '2' if you would like for people to choose two answers

Example:



What it will be like:

[Libraria and Ausitoria]

Hello all! I'm planning a Liberal Aid Development Bank topic - I've been planning it for months, but have finally got round to finishing it. (My "Let's get to it then!" response to the inspiry of this). The aim is to give aid to any/all Liberal nations who deserve it (in the short-term, on the basis of their filling in a form). Is this more suited to this subforum, or to the nationstates one? Thank you very much in advance.