by North East Germany » Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:39 pm
by Pogaria » Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:49 pm
North East Germany wrote:is there ever going to be a time when we can change the name of our nations?
by North East Germany » Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:10 pm
by Gandoor » Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:04 pm
North East Germany wrote:Pogaria wrote:No, that's never going to happen. The underlying code would have to be completely rewritten.
Not really, the code implemented to allow you to change the capitalization of your name is no different than the code needed to change a nation name. Computers don't process whether a letter is upper or lower case, they process which letter is being displayed A or a, and sees them both as individual letters with their own binary code. So, the possibility of nation name changing is already implemented from a computer and code standpoint, the question is simply, will they fully implement it and if not, why?
by The Gipper » Thu Jun 13, 2019 5:06 pm
North East Germany wrote:Pogaria wrote:No, that's never going to happen. The underlying code would have to be completely rewritten.
Not really, the code implemented to allow you to change the capitalization of your name is no different than the code needed to change a nation name. Computers don't process whether a letter is upper or lower case, they process which letter is being displayed A or a, and sees them both as individual letters with their own binary code. So, the possibility of nation name changing is already implemented from a computer and code standpoint, the question is simply, will they fully implement it and if not, why?
by Reploid Productions » Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:17 pm
North East Germany wrote:Not really, the code implemented to allow you to change the capitalization of your name is no different than the code needed to change a nation name. Computers don't process whether a letter is upper or lower case, they process which letter is being displayed A or a, and sees them both as individual letters with their own binary code. So, the possibility of nation name changing is already implemented from a computer and code standpoint, the question is simply, will they fully implement it and if not, why?
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by North East Germany » Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:00 am
Reploid Productions wrote:North East Germany wrote:Not really, the code implemented to allow you to change the capitalization of your name is no different than the code needed to change a nation name. Computers don't process whether a letter is upper or lower case, they process which letter is being displayed A or a, and sees them both as individual letters with their own binary code. So, the possibility of nation name changing is already implemented from a computer and code standpoint, the question is simply, will they fully implement it and if not, why?
As Gipper and Gandoor have already commented, it is entirely different. Capitalization of nation names means nothing as you accurately point out, because in the system, your nation name is "north_east_germany," and whatever choice of capitalization you use doesn't change that. Your nation name is your nation's ID to the system, and there are a lot of things in the game engine that point to your nation's ID that can very readily end up completely breaking your account if that ID were to be changed and one of those connected elements wasn't updated properly. Regions, World Assembly, RMB posts, telegrams... basically every element of the game's functioning is linked to that ID. And our clusterfuck of late 2002 code cobbled together with a wide assortment of patches and MacGyvered fixes makes ensuring all those connecting elements all properly update following an ID change... very, very difficult.
by Ghost Land » Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:06 am
by Valentine Z » Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:22 am
Reploid Productions wrote:North East Germany wrote:Not really, the code implemented to allow you to change the capitalization of your name is no different than the code needed to change a nation name. Computers don't process whether a letter is upper or lower case, they process which letter is being displayed A or a, and sees them both as individual letters with their own binary code. So, the possibility of nation name changing is already implemented from a computer and code standpoint, the question is simply, will they fully implement it and if not, why?
As Gipper and Gandoor have already commented, it is entirely different. Capitalization of nation names means nothing as you accurately point out, because in the system, your nation name is "north_east_germany," and whatever choice of capitalization you use doesn't change that. Your nation name is your nation's ID to the system, and there are a lot of things in the game engine that point to your nation's ID that can very readily end up completely breaking your account if that ID were to be changed and one of those connected elements wasn't updated properly. Regions, World Assembly, RMB posts, telegrams... basically every element of the game's functioning is linked to that ID. And our clusterfuck of late 2002 code cobbled together with a wide assortment of patches and MacGyvered fixes makes ensuring all those connecting elements all properly update following an ID change... very, very difficult.
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by The Marsupial Illuminati » Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:27 am
North East Germany wrote:Okay, I understand why it would be so diffictult to actually do, but what I'm reading is it's not literally impossible.
by Bears Armed » Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:36 am
by Gandoor » Fri Jun 14, 2019 4:41 am
North East Germany wrote:So why not introduce it as a paid element? Like, I 100% would be okay with paying $10/$20 to change my nation name, and if the act of changing it for the mods is so difficult, surely giving them the money I've paid would be incentive enough to be willing to do it?
by Reploid Productions » Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:36 pm
North East Germany wrote:Okay, I understand why it would be so diffictult to actually do, but what I'm reading is it's not literally impossible. So why not introduce it as a paid element? Like, I 100% would be okay with paying $10/$20 to change my nation name, and if the act of changing it for the mods is so difficult, surely giving them the money I've paid would be incentive enough to be willing to do it?
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by The Baldlands » Fri Apr 02, 2021 11:39 am
by The Unified Missourtama States » Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:27 pm
The Baldlands wrote:It would be nice to migrate attributes from one nation to another. For example, maybe we could trigger different decisions or events in one nation that already occurred in another nation. The functionality appears to already be there for dossiers, where users can manually export their dossier for one nation and then upload it to another nation. If we add that functionality to issues and telegrams and whatever else would make sense, perhaps users can do the work of merging their nations without overhauling the site code.
By the way, is it possible to restore a region that has ceased to exist?
by Frisbeeteria » Fri Apr 02, 2021 3:47 pm
The Baldlands wrote:Is something along those lines technically feasible?
The Baldlands wrote:is it possible to restore a region that has ceased to exist?
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