Suggestions:
2. Telegram mailing lists. These would be kind of like templates, where the user can paste a short code in the "To:" field. If a mailing list is longer than eight nations, it would require stamps. Basically, the site would take the mailing list code and interpret it as a list of nations. Creating one could be as simple as sending a blank message to multiple nations, which currently returns the error "Your message appears blank.", but could instead return a code similar to a telegram ID.
3. Showing upvotes/downvotes on dispatches. I was thinking that maybe they should be displayed only to the dispatch author. The score alone would be visible to other nations, the way it is now, to reduce visual clutter. This is because (in my experience) downvotes are used less often for bad dispatches and more often for good dispatches that certain groups want to hide. Letting the author see the points would at least provide them with more feedback.
4. Would it be possible for nations to pin dispatches in regions outside their own? I cannot remember if the game knows where any given nation has RO authority (including founder status), but if it does, it would be convenient to be able to pin dispatches in a region while not being present there. That would imply having multiple pinning buttons on dispatches when applicable, which would be even better.
5. Allow choosing sources for "Latest Forum Topics." For example, I am only interested in reading threads from Technical, Gameplay, Got Issues, and Security Council. I do not want to see RPs, NSG, etc. Being able to select a few subforums would be nice. I realize that this is probably quite difficult, due to the way the forums interact with the game.
7. Right now, the Advanced Dossier feature allows players to add lists of nations from text files. Could this be expanded to regions? I like to monitor large numbers of regions, and sometimes have a need to add them in bulk.
8. Could the [tab] BBCode tag be enabled in WFEs and RMBs? Right now you can use [list] to make indents, but it is odd that we need a workaround when the [tab] code is already usable in dispatches.
9. The list of regions in the dossier shows fifteen regions per page. Could this be changed to ten for ease of counting? If there is a good reason for making it fifteen, could there at least be numbers next to the region names?
10. Would it be possible to add the ability to select a time period on activity feeds? For example, say I wanted to find out who received an endorsement in The North Pacific five days ago. Even if I filtered everything but endorsements, I would need to scroll through a hundred pages to find it. Digging up anything from the World activity feed is even worse. Being able to choose "on 06FEB18 between 0600 and 0700" would save a lot of time.
11. Many regions have networks of dispatches that contain their histories, government descriptions, maps, etc. Sometimes, one of these dispatches changes hands (eg, the region gets a new cartographer), and suddenly all the links need to be changed too. The only solutions here are to have a shared nation maintaining all the dispatches (not recommended) or to spend lots of time fixing links whenever one of the dispatches is recreated.
My suggestion is to allow redirects in dispatches. Implementation would be a code, similar to TG template codes, that looks like this: [REDIR-#######] (where the #s are a dispatch ID). When the code is pasted into a dispatch, that dispatch would redirect to the dispatch whose ID was in the redirect. Obviously, there would need to be an error-checker to prevent someone from redirecting a dispatch to itself and creating a loop.
12. A couple years ago, new influence ratings (Sprat, Shoeshiner, etc) were added because there were too many Minnows and the rating covered a huge range of nominal influence values. I think it is time to do the same with Regional Power ratings. According to NSDossier, over 98% of regions are at Low power. Less than half a percent are at High or above. As Regional Power ratings are tied to percentages of the world's total influence, this disparity will only grow more extreme as that total rises--since early last year, the threshold for Very High has gone up by 200k+ points, dropping a number of regions to a lower rating.
My suggestion is to split Low (currently 0% to 0.01% of world influence; nominally 0 to 30k) and Moderate (0.01% to 0.05%; 30k to 150k) into a few additional ratings, which would mirror the higher ratings. They could be something like Extremely Low (0% to .003%; 0 to 10k), Very Low (.003% to .01%; 10k to 30k), Low (.01% to .025%; 30k to 75k), Moderate (.025% to .05%; 75k to 150k). This would distribute the ratings much more evenly.
Fixes:
4. Another one from my thread last year. The "Latest Forum Topics" list is almost always half-covered by the banner ad. On my Supporter nations, this issue still occurs, but with white space instead of an ad.
