Nationstates - Useful Links
Posted: October 25th, 2007, 10:53
What is <a href="http://www.nationstates.net">Nationstates</a>?
Nationstates is a very simple city management simulator. Each day you are given an issue from your adoring public to think about, and choose a plan of action from a number of choices. The choices you make shape the description of your country, ruling it as anything from a 'Liberal, social heaven' to a 'Psychotic dictatorship'.
For instance;
Other issues may change your country's views on Harry Potter books, legalised drugs, children gambling, teenage pregnancy, army conscription, space travel, strip clubs etc..
On itself however, this does get a little tiring, and that's where the roleplaying aspect of Nationstates comes in. The information you're given is very lacking, but it does encourage imagination - pretending to act out issues on the Nationstates, or in our case, 5punk forum.
The Setup
Most of the roleplaying is done in the game's official forums, Nationstates and International Incidents, but we'll probably be using 5punk to play most of our small issues, and head to the NS forums when we want to do something on a more global, or galactical scale. People forge alliances, investigate technological breakthroughs, take on massive building projects, and perhaps most popularly wage war.
Threads are usually marked with a number of tags.
(ATTN: Nation) - Ie. (ATTN: Braxis VI)
This would mean that it's probably a good idea that I take a look at this thread. Someone's just launched nuclear warheads at my city and wants me to pay attention and roleplay what my response is. It could also call people who are allied with me to take a look and make some kind of response.
(IC) or (OOC) - Ie. The Great Bridge (ATTN: Mongo, IC)
In Character our Out Of Character - Small roleplay threads are usually a mixture of both of these, a small tag framing a piece of text said out of context, perhaps to explain a concept to someone else, or to mention something that your roleplaying character may not. For example, you may use OOC in your post to tell someone to stop Godmodding.
If the roleplay is likely to be long, and a lot of people involved, you might want to make one IC thread, and label it as such, and a separate OOC thread for people to discuss stuff seperately. Just makes things a little easier to comprehend, sometimes.
Godmodding? What's that?
You hardcore beardy types can probably explain this a little better than I can, but this is how I understand Godmodding. You can say that you fired a gun, and you can account for your own losses. Telling someone else that they've fired a gun, or accounting for someone elses losses is out of bounds, and considered cheating.
For instance - You could say that you've pushed an enemy leader up against a wall with your gun, and pulled the trigger. It will be up to the player you've shot weather or not the bullet hit, or indeed if it was fatal. The likely hood is that you've given the guy a new poop chute with that shot - But maybe he has powerful armour, maybe he can teleport out of the way? It's up to the player you're shooting at the end of the day.
However, if someone attempts to shoot you in the face with a gattling gun, replying with..
You're going to loose people, potentially important people.
Lesson to be learned here, is don't take major political figures into battle if you don't want to loose them.
That's a lot to take in..
Not really. Roleplaying is about having fun, and we're not going to be mega-serious here. We do have 'The Armed Republic of Biker Grove' after all, and K'Or, home of the Brobbinses has a Protected Unicorn Enrichment Zone.
Make stuff up, make some characters, give them a brief back history. Have a mad scientist, start wars, build 8,000 Mile bridges to the icecaps, have a space race to see which breed of horse will make it into orbit first, evaporate a great lake to make way for a skate-park the size of London.
I'll be adding extra stuff to Mongo - Might even make a couple moons for when people advance to space travel, fault lines may crop up, and natural disasters might suddenly make themselves apparent. Stir stuff up, you know?
Nationstates is a very simple city management simulator. Each day you are given an issue from your adoring public to think about, and choose a plan of action from a number of choices. The choices you make shape the description of your country, ruling it as anything from a 'Liberal, social heaven' to a 'Psychotic dictatorship'.
For instance;
I am then given three choices. I can privatise, which raises the cost of postage, but encourages businesses in my nation. I could nationalise, which increases government income, raises tax, and gives me more money. Or I could make a healthy balance. I choose one, and my country description will change the next day.The Issue wrote:It has come to your attention that there is some serious debate over whether Braxis VI's postal service should be either privatised or nationalised.
Other issues may change your country's views on Harry Potter books, legalised drugs, children gambling, teenage pregnancy, army conscription, space travel, strip clubs etc..
On itself however, this does get a little tiring, and that's where the roleplaying aspect of Nationstates comes in. The information you're given is very lacking, but it does encourage imagination - pretending to act out issues on the Nationstates, or in our case, 5punk forum.
The Setup
Most of the roleplaying is done in the game's official forums, Nationstates and International Incidents, but we'll probably be using 5punk to play most of our small issues, and head to the NS forums when we want to do something on a more global, or galactical scale. People forge alliances, investigate technological breakthroughs, take on massive building projects, and perhaps most popularly wage war.
Threads are usually marked with a number of tags.
(ATTN: Nation) - Ie. (ATTN: Braxis VI)
This would mean that it's probably a good idea that I take a look at this thread. Someone's just launched nuclear warheads at my city and wants me to pay attention and roleplay what my response is. It could also call people who are allied with me to take a look and make some kind of response.
(IC) or (OOC) - Ie. The Great Bridge (ATTN: Mongo, IC)
In Character our Out Of Character - Small roleplay threads are usually a mixture of both of these, a small tag framing a piece of text said out of context, perhaps to explain a concept to someone else, or to mention something that your roleplaying character may not. For example, you may use OOC in your post to tell someone to stop Godmodding.
If the roleplay is likely to be long, and a lot of people involved, you might want to make one IC thread, and label it as such, and a separate OOC thread for people to discuss stuff seperately. Just makes things a little easier to comprehend, sometimes.
Godmodding? What's that?
You hardcore beardy types can probably explain this a little better than I can, but this is how I understand Godmodding. You can say that you fired a gun, and you can account for your own losses. Telling someone else that they've fired a gun, or accounting for someone elses losses is out of bounds, and considered cheating.
For instance - You could say that you've pushed an enemy leader up against a wall with your gun, and pulled the trigger. It will be up to the player you've shot weather or not the bullet hit, or indeed if it was fatal. The likely hood is that you've given the guy a new poop chute with that shot - But maybe he has powerful armour, maybe he can teleport out of the way? It's up to the player you're shooting at the end of the day.
However, if someone attempts to shoot you in the face with a gattling gun, replying with..
.. Is generally also considered godmodding.Utter retard wrote:admiral akbar jumpd out of tha way and did a barrel roll to avoid tha bulletes, he emerged unscathud frum tha violant assult. lol.
You're going to loose people, potentially important people.
Lesson to be learned here, is don't take major political figures into battle if you don't want to loose them.
That's a lot to take in..
Not really. Roleplaying is about having fun, and we're not going to be mega-serious here. We do have 'The Armed Republic of Biker Grove' after all, and K'Or, home of the Brobbinses has a Protected Unicorn Enrichment Zone.
Make stuff up, make some characters, give them a brief back history. Have a mad scientist, start wars, build 8,000 Mile bridges to the icecaps, have a space race to see which breed of horse will make it into orbit first, evaporate a great lake to make way for a skate-park the size of London.
I'll be adding extra stuff to Mongo - Might even make a couple moons for when people advance to space travel, fault lines may crop up, and natural disasters might suddenly make themselves apparent. Stir stuff up, you know?