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by Mzeusia » Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:14 am
by Candlewhisper Archive » Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:54 am
Mzeusia wrote:Is there an updated list I can see about issue ideas that have yet to be done?
by Tsandonown » Fri Aug 09, 2019 12:46 pm
by Trotterdam » Fri Aug 09, 2019 2:22 pm
by Tsandonown » Fri Aug 09, 2019 5:35 pm
Trotterdam wrote:Seriously, the government needs to do something to prevent it?
It's already a high-security military base patrolled by sentries with guns. It was that even before a bunch of idiots with no espionage training started talking about "raiding" it. That's why they became suspicious enough of what's going on there to think of raiding it.
"Yes, top-secret military bases should be guarded" is not a difficult decision.
by Artsotska » Sat Aug 10, 2019 4:32 pm
by The Free Joy State » Sun Aug 11, 2019 12:13 am
Artsotska wrote:How many issues are there exactly? And what is the funniest one? Pick a number as well. This is related to what I'm going to do. How, you'll find out soon when you get an issue.
by Chan Island » Sun Aug 11, 2019 1:00 pm
Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.
by Trotterdam » Sun Aug 11, 2019 2:53 pm
by Chan Island » Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:46 am
Trotterdam wrote:Rivalry between different branches of the military is very common in many nations, even if it's more extreme in some than in others (if you're lucky, it just takes the form of friendly ribbing).
In some nations, such as Nazi Germany, this has been deliberately encouraged in order to ensure loyalty. The idea is that if you have several military branches which all hate and distrust each other and are united only by technically serving the same nation, if any one of them gets any ideas about rising up and overthrowing the government, the other branches will stop them. (Nazi Germany was also motivated by the Social Darwinist idea that competition would lead the survivors to become stronger.)
It's also possible that there isn't deliberate rivalry, so much as there's just insufficient communication, with one branch being caught off-guard by something that the other branch knew but considered classified information, or even too trivial to bother mentioning.
Instead of making the issue about "do we support branch A or branch B?" (which #147 already covers), I suggest making it about "how do we get the different branches to play nice with each other?", with the token crazy option for deciding that you actually don't want them to play nice with each other. (Most things Nazi Germany did qualify as crazy options.)
(Also compare #1144 for a weirder take on the subject. Well, weirder by modern standards.)
Conserative Morality wrote:"It's not time yet" is a tactic used by reactionaries in every era. "It's not time for democracy, it's not time for capitalism, it's not time for emancipation." Of course it's not time. It's never time, not on its own. You make it time. If you're under fire in the no-man's land of WW1, you start digging a foxhole even if the ideal time would be when you *aren't* being bombarded, because once you wait for it to be 'time', other situations will need your attention, assuming you survive that long. If the fields aren't furrowed, plow them. If the iron is not hot, make it so. If society is not ready, change it.
by Trotterdam » Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:48 pm
Some communication problems are inevitable in any scenario of two or more organizations (or even two or more people) having any overlap whatsoever in responsibilities. It might be more serious in some times and places and others, but it's unlikely to ever go away.Chan Island wrote:The communication angle would be an interesting one, but probably one that won't age to be very relevant.
by Australian rePublic » Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:19 pm
by Trotterdam » Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:29 pm
Numerous existing issues assume @@ANIMAL@@ to be a really-existing animal that is native to your nation (although you can drive it to the brink of extinction). Parsing the field to recognize all of the numerous keywords that would suggest a mythical animal would probably be impractical.Australian rePublic wrote:Are there any issues about @@NAME@@'s national animal being mythical?
by Australian rePublic » Wed Aug 14, 2019 2:46 pm
Trotterdam wrote:Numerous existing issues assume @@ANIMAL@@ to be a really-existing animal that is native to your nation (although you can drive it to the brink of extinction). Parsing the field to recognize all of the numerous keywords that would suggest a mythical animal would probably be impractical.Australian rePublic wrote:Are there any issues about @@NAME@@'s national animal being mythical?
by Pogaria » Wed Aug 14, 2019 7:41 pm
Australian rePublic wrote:Trotterdam wrote:Numerous existing issues assume @@ANIMAL@@ to be a really-existing animal that is native to your nation (although you can drive it to the brink of extinction). Parsing the field to recognize all of the numerous keywords that would suggest a mythical animal would probably be impractical.
Why? Lots of issues contradict eachother. For example, we have numerous issues which explicately state that the ethnic majority are the native population (as is the case with much of Europe and Asia). And we also have many issues which assume that the native population are an ethnic minority. (As is the case with Australia and the Americas). Both assumptions are contradictory and mutually exclusive, and yet both assumptions could be recieved as issues by the same nation simultaneously
by Australian rePublic » Wed Aug 14, 2019 8:55 pm
Pogaria wrote:Australian rePublic wrote:Why? Lots of issues contradict eachother. For example, we have numerous issues which explicately state that the ethnic majority are the native population (as is the case with much of Europe and Asia). And we also have many issues which assume that the native population are an ethnic minority. (As is the case with Australia and the Americas). Both assumptions are contradictory and mutually exclusive, and yet both assumptions could be recieved as issues by the same nation simultaneously
We have no way of checking whether the text in a custom field is something that actually exists. A list of all real-world animal species would be an enormous file. Comparing custom fields against this list would be a waste of server resources. It's not worth it for one issue.
by Luna Amore » Wed Aug 14, 2019 9:12 pm
Australian rePublic wrote:Pogaria wrote:We have no way of checking whether the text in a custom field is something that actually exists. A list of all real-world animal species would be an enormous file. Comparing custom fields against this list would be a waste of server resources. It's not worth it for one issue.
You've failed to see my point here. If we can assume that @@ANIMAL@@ does exist, why can't we assume it doesn't?
by Australian rePublic » Thu Aug 15, 2019 11:52 pm
by Candensia » Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:54 am
The Free Joy State wrote:Time spent working on writing skills -- even if the draft doesn't work -- is never wasted.
by Australian rePublic » Fri Aug 16, 2019 4:13 pm
by Trotterdam » Fri Aug 16, 2019 6:07 pm
by Australian rePublic » Sat Aug 17, 2019 2:01 pm
Trotterdam wrote:Issues up to #1257 have been posted to the spoiler thread, even if they haven't been edited into the main list in the first few posts.
#1258 exists too, but has not yet been reported because it has an obscure validity.You need to be a nation that practices slavery, then choose to abolish it (using any of the three issue options that allow you to do so).
by SherpDaWerp » Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:34 am
by Trotterdam » Sun Aug 18, 2019 6:04 am
The subject sounds suspiciously familiar, but it may have been an old draft that never made it into the game.SherpDaWerp wrote:AFAIK, there hasn't been an issue on habitat fragmentation yet.
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