Mikeswill wrote:Does this mean that Founderless Regions remain Founderless?
ie. I am unable to ask to become Founder of NationStates and opt in the Frontier status?
One of the key points of the change is that regions in your situation by default are no better or worse off than they are now -- unless you count the miniscule chance in your case of someone successfully invading and occupying the region long enough to switch it to "Frontier" status and back to gain what is effectively the new name for an Executive Founder (Executive Governor); but that's not too different to the risk you already face of someone successfully invading and locking down / refounding your region.
There is the additional opportunity that you could use the new mechanics yourself to change to Frontier and back to Stronghold and get yourself the equivalent of Executive Founder status (Executive Governor), which gives you long-term security. I would imagine that you would have the political clout/friends to get the support needed to do that if you wanted.
The Stalker (Delegate of long-term founderless Hell) is in effectively the same position as yourself, and was heavily involved in the discussions.