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Fennijer wrote:

Wherever Gwenstefani is, Happy Birthday to you. Gwen was a major contributor in this area many years ago. No, not THE Gwen Stefani...... at least I don't think so. If it was, that would be cool.

She was on The Voice that one time...*hehe*

In my recollection, it lasts right at 36 hours. Everyone in every region of the RL world starts at the same time. It is critically important you start at the beginning, or you will be overwhelmed by zombies while you sleep and have to depend on other nations to rescue you.

There are three basic approaches:

(1) Cure the Zombies;
(2) Kill the Zombies; and
(3) Join the Zombies.

If you decide on option 1, you will tell NS that your nation is "researching a cure." After about an hour, your nation will start building cure missiles which you can fire at other nations in the region. Once a nation is Zombie-free, it tends to stay that way unless it has chosen option 3, or someone else who has chosen option 3 reinfects it.

If you decide on option 2, you will develop roving killing squads that turn Zombies into dead people. As above, your can send your death squads into other nations in the region to kill their Zombies, too.

If you decide on option 3, you will become very infected very quickly. After an hour or so, you will be able to infect your neighbours or go to other regions and "spread the wealth."

Last year, we were something like the region with the 17th largest numbers of survivors and 14th largest region with no infection. I would like for us to do at least as well again this year.

Here's the plan:

I. At the beginning of the crisis, I will temporarily close our borders to keep out unwanted "guests." If you leave the region, you will probably not be able to make it back in until the crisis is over.
II. I strongly suggest we ALL research the cure. The point of the game is to have the most survivors, so dead people don't count.
III. Anyone who wants to join the zombies should voluntarily leave the region or I will be forced to temporarily eject you for the duration of the crisis--please return after the Apocalypse!
IV. Particularly at the beginning, when your cure missiles are weakest, target the largest nations first--your first few missile strikes will go a surprisingly long way with those nations with 20B+ populations. The 6 largest nations are: Emory, Haldana, Gracieland, Omni-Palonie, BearNation, and Kundu.
V. As the largest nations become zombie-free, turn your attention to other nations, especially apparently inactive ones. Your missiles will be getting stronger, so it won't be QUITE so tedious to rid medium and smaller nations of Zombies. If you leave even a few million Zombies, they will start multiplying again, so be sure the nation you're curing goes completely infection-free!
VI. It takes a minute or so between missile shots, so I advocate that you have 2 or 3 nations (or more if you're really efficient or have someone helping you) online at the same time with different browsers. You might have nation W on Chrome, X on Opera, Y on MSIE, and Z on Safari. Once you fire one missile, immediately switch to the next nation and so forth. By the time you've used your last browser, the first one will be ready to go again!
VII. Be aware that when a nation is hit with any of the three approaches, it cannot do anything for 60-90 seconds, so if you see nations being very active, don't strike them at first. Wait until they stop firing before curing them.
VIII. Perhaps you and 1-2 friends can tag-team a particular nation at a time, continuously bombarding it with cure missiles--it will become infection-free MUCH faster that way.
IX. As the night wears on, network with other awake nations to find any obscure nations with remaining infection.
X. Report any "Join Zombie" nations to me so I can temporarily eject them.
XI. Once the region is completely infection free (usually the next day), you might consider voluntarily leaving Gay to help cure some of our allied/embassied regions. Most regions will be VERY grateful for any help!
XII. Even if you don't plan to stay up at all late, still be sure to research the cure in the first hour of the crisis, so you can at least heal yourself. STARTING EARLY IS KEY. If you wait until 99% of your population is zombified or dead, you won't have any resources to research the cure, since all your scientists will be in the bellies of the walkers! :D

Remember, this is a game, so have fun playing with the Zombies! Note that once the crisis is over, there will be no permanent effects on your nation--everyone will return to their complete populations, no more Zombies, etc.

So I think the Smitty Werbermanjensen nation got deleted... tbh I'm a little sad.

When thinking about it, the new "regional appointed officer" could drive an increase of regions merging, which is pretty cool to me.

LGBT Equality wrote:

For now, let's expend our energies planning for the annual Zombie Invasion at Halloween, just over two weeks away.

I wish you all good luck on Halloween, but i won't be present at this Zombie Invasion.

I am going to take an active part in Election monitoring for the coming elections in southeast turkey.

Troll begone! ;)

I will be gone, less active anyway, for a month or so. I won't be here for the zombie invasion, not will I be here for the bulk of November. Surgery will have me out of it.

Snoopy and wood stock wrote:

Don't you dare say atheism is a religion. I am not religious. I am an atheist. Calling atheism a religion is a christian/creationist thing, man.

ah, i am not calling atheism a religion; it seems that non-atheists (diests) often use that argument. they like to say that science is a religion, as well. i am TOTALLY an atheist, i just prefer naturalist to avoid conflit; i live in a part of the world where it seems everyone i meet seems to be born again, jehovah's witness, or catholic.

i started with atheist, but everybody i meet seems to freak out at the word "atheist", so i use naturalist. most of thet time people just look at me blankly, then continue with their diatribe; i like to avoid conflict!

Heterosexism wrote:

I'm not a troll, but rather a person who has faith that people have the ability in them to respect each other's stances, and avoid putting words in their mouth to try to bring their opinions down. As a leader of this region that is a role-model for all of nationstates, you should be a role-model yourself and display open-mindedness to ideas which aren't parallel to your own. The Community of Heterosexism does not promote heterosexuality as the only good, decent, and proper choice. It states that both sexualities are good, decent, and proper, but that heterosexuality is better, more decent, and more proper.

Oh gosh. He's back.

Otis-T wrote:

I will be gone, less active anyway, for a month or so. I won't be here for the zombie invasion, not will I be here for the bulk of November. Surgery will have me out of it.

So long, Otis! The next month'll be different without you around, man. Good luck. Hope it all goes well, and as Disturbing World said, take care, man.