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The ambassador of india wrote:I like Revenge of the Sith and The Empire Strikes Back.
Their my all-time favorites!

BURN THE WITCH! 🔥🧙‍♀️🔥

Post self-deleted by Elvolf.

Densaner wrote:BURN THE WITCH! 🔥🧙‍♀️🔥

Densaner wrote:BURN THE WITCH! 🔥🧙‍♀️🔥

*pushes Densaner down a chute leading to the trash compactor*

Holly United, Johanneslanden, and Maowi

A Down and Dusky Blonde wrote:*pushes Densaner down a chute leading to the trash compactor*

My lord! There be an entire coven of heathen monsters round these parts!

BURN THE REGION! 🔥🌏🔥

Bwhahahahahaha! 🔥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

Densaner wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

Please no ... not that horror ... anything but Baby Shark

A couple of hours of babysitting family friends' three-year-old and I never want to see that thing again

Maowi wrote:Please no ... not that horror ... anything but Baby Shark

A couple of hours of babysitting family friends' three-year-old and I never want to see that thing again

I’ve yet to hear it. I’m told that it’s slightly annoying or something. Thank the good lord for the volume control. 😈

Johanneslanden

Alright
Back to the embassies
Are there any embassies that anyone has a particular desire to keep open

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Holly United, and The ambassador of india

Johanneslanden wrote:Alright
Back to the embassies
Are there any embassies that anyone has a particular desire to keep open

Yep, all of'em.

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Holly United, and The ambassador of india

The ambassador of india

Johanneslanden wrote:Alright
Back to the embassies
Are there any embassies that anyone has a particular desire to keep open

India's embassy should be kept open, haha

Johanneslanden

Densaner wrote:Yep, all of'em.

I had been going to say "and I'm not accepting 'all of them' or suchlike as an answer", but I'd assumed that peeps would be sensible enough to know that for themselves.
I intend to close any embassies that have absolutely no purpose whatsoever. If there are specific embassies that you would like to remain open, then I'm happy for you to name them, so long as you can provide a reason. However, in my current post as MoFA, to be able to do anything, I need to have a reasonable number of embassies to work with. We simply cannot use this many embassies for anything useful, especially as many of them are with regions that simply acquire embassies for the sake of acquiring embassies. I don't intend on closing embassies with regions such as the bar on every corner, or with regions such as TEP, XKI and TSP that we can use.

The ambassador of india wrote:India's embassy should be kept open, haha

Of course! I wouldn't dream of closing the India embassy

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Holly United, Maowi, and The ambassador of india

Johanneslanden wrote:I intend to close any embassies that have absolutely no purpose whatsoever.

A lot of our current embassies don't meet the embassy requirements, like some of the regions only have four or so members and haven't had an rmb post in months.

Personally, I don't see the use of having gameside embassies without actually interacting with those regions, but they're not exactly doing harm either. Like, with a lot of them, I don't think it really matters whether we keep them or not because I don't think you have to go and send ambassadors and have relations with every single embassy we have.

Johanneslanden wrote:I had been going to say "and I'm not accepting 'all of them' or suchlike as an answer"...

Yeah, but you didn't, did you?

Johanneslanden wrote:I need to have a reasonable number of embassies to work with.

I managed as sole delegate with no regional officers and with more embassies than you have now.

Johanneslanden wrote:I don't intend on closing embassies with regions such as the bar on every corner, or with regions such as TEP, XKI and TSP that we can use.

I've already noted the names of the embassies that you've closed. If at some point in future I happen to be delegate then those embassies will be opened right up again.

You can't have too many embassies. This is a game.

The lepearchauns, Dorig, A Down and Dusky Blonde, and Holly United

Maowi wrote:A lot of our current embassies don't meet the embassy requirements, like some of the regions only have four or so members and haven't had an rmb post in months.

Personally, I don't see the use of having gameside embassies without actually interacting with those regions, but they're not exactly doing harm either. Like, with a lot of them, I don't think it really matters whether we keep them or not because I don't think you have to go and send ambassadors and have relations with every single embassy we have.

You don't need to send an ambassador at all. The embassy was nice, new feature they introduced a while back so that regions could get to know one another better. The more the merrier I say.

The lepearchauns, Dorig, A Down and Dusky Blonde, and Holly United

This week's Newspaper is released!

Please upvote our Newspaper if you liked it!

Weekly Newspaper-13.05.2019

by The newspaper boy


Edition 2
Issue IV

HEADLINES
•Elections going on in The North Pacific.

•Kyrogia elected as the new WA Delegate of The Rejected Realms.

•Armistice signed between The Wolf Clan and Order of Southern North.

•The Region of India soon to hold WA Delegate Elections, tightens security.

•The people of Europeia voted and elected then-Minister of Culture Lloenflys to the office of first minister.





The Political Scale

Last week we had held a poll,asking where did the nations found themselves on the political scale.Here are the results:

Left:25%
Centre-Left:22%
Centre:11%
Centre-Right:16%
Right:26%

A major portion of voters expressed that they are somewhat alligned with Right,the option gaining only a slight 1% more vote than the Left.

Further it is interesting to note that in the first few hours of the poll,'Right' had acquired about more than 40% of the total votes,followed by Centre-Left with only 25% of the total votes.

Another thing to note is that,this time our poll was held for the shortest duration but got maximum amount of votes.


Armistice Signed between The Wolf Clan and Order of Southern North

On May 5,an armistice was signed between TWC and OSN with the help of Odinburgh.

The purpose of the armistice was to gain peace and prevent further incursions of activities of subterfuge attempts and sabotage from the OSN and stop further affiliation with the Kaiserreich via OSN.

Some common points agreed upon were:

1.Agree to cessation of active attempts at subterfuge and sabotage.

2.Ban of mass recruitment telegrams between OSN and TWC regions.

3.OSN assurance that their troops and/or spies would not be pressed into service by Kaiserreich against the TWC.

The Arbitrator regions were Novus Lucidum,HoG,The FM,Hartfeldon and Lazarus

Full treaty can be read here.

The nation of Odinburgh has shown good leadership skills in mediating peace between the two region.


Elections in The North Pacific

The set of elections are the general elections, meaning that candidates may run for WA Delegate, Vice Delegate, Speaker of the Regional Assembly (Speaker), and Attorney General. These elections are held once every four months. The nominations process started at the beginning of the month, and voting began on May 6. Voting will end on May 12th.

The Candidates are:

WA Delegate: El Fiji Grande, Lady Raven Wing

Vice Delegate: Sil Dorsett, Malphe, Praetor, Kirostan

Speaker: Artemis, Dreadton
Attorney General (AG): Darcania, Funkadelia, Dinoium

Results are expected to be declared till 13 May.


Court Trials in Regime of Great Cyan

In the recent election for Executive Head, excitement were on the candidates wondering who would win. New Kurusau Drumopia did managed to win the elections, however puppet flooding has been brought up, leaving New Kurusau Drumopia on trial for multiple offences. The Executive Head role was passed on to the runner-up, Recruitment Telegram Receiver; for the time being. If New Kurusau Drumopia is proven innocent, it is suspected that the role will be given to him. If proven guilty, ejection/banning might be an option.


Elections in Europeia
Source:EBC

The people of Europeia voted and elected then-Minister of Culture Lloenflys to the office of first minister, beating out incumbent Rand by a margin of 35.9 percentage points. When polling closed, Lloenflys/Sopo had 25 votes, Rand/Pichtonia had 11 votes, and cuddlebuns/Vlaska had 3 votes. In his opening address, Lloenflys thanked his opponents, and spoke to concerns about the staffing issues faced by the regional government.

In Europeia's first election for the new office of Chief of State (with the incumbent serving due to her election as President), in an uncontested race, incumbent Chief Kuramia was reelected, with World Assembly Delegate and Speaker Aexnidaral on the ticket as deputy. In her platform, Chief Kuramia discussed her motivation for seeking reelection, explaining "I still feel excitement for serving this region in a place I've always loved."


New Region,New Hope

In recent conversations with Puntia,Founder of Greater Astoria which was recently transformed from former region Manasawala,said,"We are doing good and have shown a small blockage cannot stop us or our progress".

The region recently received a shock when more than 20 puppets of Hamramstan,their former Founder,were deleted and they came to know about the truth.As of now,as per reports,the new region is doing good with Roleplays and have successfully set up the new region.




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Making Star State

By:Vanquaria

Star State is my latest roleplay project in the P2TM forum. Its a SciFi roleplay that I really just started out of impulse. I further solidified my desire to do SciFi by watching some cool space battle videos. Seeing the clash of spaceships numbering in the tens of thousands amidst the twinkle of stars really motivated me to work toward making my ideas a reality.

The name of the roleplay, 'Star State', was derived from chatting with folks from the NS FT (Future Tech) server and Kyrusia termed FT nations as 'star states' which I thought was a pretty cool name. The title of any roleplay is important because it is the first thing people notice when they look at your thread in the forums. Is it cool? Is it provocative in a positive manner? Roleplayers have to understand that their game's title influences whether a player's decisions to check it out or not.

Worldbuilding is not an easy process but I am fortunate enough to be blessed with NS buddies with experience in the realm of FT roleplay. The first thing I did before even making a draft for the OOC was to setup a Discord server then talk about my ideas with others. I learned alot about FT roleplay while conversing with them. Concepts such as the Alcubierre drive were introduced to me and I learned about hard and soft FT, a concept I grasped immediately because of my background in MT/PMT roleplay. I also utilized the NS FT server, just asking questions because that is what the server was made for. I wasn't afraid of speaking my mind in such a large server since I've been on many NS RP servers and I'm used to it though I can see why newbies would be less inclined to be as open because of the number of people that would read their questions.




Another Exciting Week at NHL!
By:Columbus bluejackets

Another exciting week in the NHL has commenced!
For the past week the Scamblers cup, a tournament aiming at getting teams in the leauge to 14 games played. This week saw some historic feats as well. From the first shutout in leauge history to the most OT periods in a single week of play. Let's get started, shall we?

We begin with a game facing two of the original franchises in the Nationstates Hockey Leauge.
Kansas City Scouts @ Brooklyn Americans

The first period started off slow, with Kansas City taking an early lead over the home team 2-1. But, the Amerks, one of the top teams in the leauge would not have it. The Americans would take a 3-2 lead in the second period, using there stellar defense to shut the visiting team out in that period, while having their equally mesmerizing offense score two goals.
The scouts head coach would later state in a post game press conference, "I was vexed. We played so good in the first period and to just fall off like that was painful. I mean, they literally shut us down."
And alas, his team would start off the third period with an easy goal for the Amerks only 12 second into said period. But the scouts were resilient. They would not give up another goal for the remainder of the game. The scouts would go ahead and Rush across the ice, where he would score a goal, only 24 seconds in to the game. The scouts would have to wait until the end of the period, with only 14 seconds left and facing another painful loss, Chuck areas on would rush up the court, and swing his stick, hitting the puck and into the goal with only 4 second remaining! The Amerks would take a swing and horribly miss it as the buzzer goes off, signaling A SO/OT. The scouts would manage to pull off the victory In the fourth shootout period. The final score: 5-4

The Complete Article can be read here.


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Read dispatch

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Holly United, and Norgiestoileckylockj

These regions were probably not on your radar for prospective closure, but just in case, I'll voice my support for their embassies remaining:

Christmas, Bus Stop, NewsStand, Pony Lands, Underworld.

You won't hear any complaint from me if you cancel the embassy with Lardyland with extreme prejudice.

A Down and Dusky Blonde wrote:When I lived at home, we had a kennel of Alaskan Malamutes. They were used for all sorts of purposes around the ranch. You should have seen the reactions from them when we would bring the harnesses out. We also used to race them in long distance sled dog races.

Big wicked Bill by Stuart Hamblen

Sometimes in the hush of an evening when the winds have grown tired and are stilled
By the fire I sit dozing and dreaming letting memory bring back what she will
She often holds back the curtain of time and my heart grows warm when I see
A sleigh running light over glistening snows just as real as it used to be

I hear the cry of mush as a whip licks out and cracks like the shot of a gun
A malamute team coming straight toward me eight dogs and all on the run
The leader is big and he comes running low pulling that sleigh with a will
Time never can dim the memory of him my lead dog Big Wicked Bill

The driver seems worried as he hurries his team in fear he keeps looking back
And as night closes in he hears it again the cry of a killer wolfpack
Then the northern lights come out to play like fingers they feel for the sky
And the driver screams mush to his weary team you mush or we all got to die

The moon looks down on that race of death at the wolfpack closing in
And the driver knows if his lead dog falls the battle is over for them
Till his rifle is empty he drives them off then unafraid they close in for the kill
Then helpless he knows his own life depends on the fangs of Big Wicked Bill

But still running strong Big Bill fights them off right up to the cabin door
When I get him inside I soon realize Big Bill won't fight anymore
Wicked I'd named him when he was a pup Wicked cause he loved so to fight
But because he stood off that killer wolfpack I had lived through a terrible night.

If you've never owned a big malamute perhaps you can't understand
That old longing I get especially at night just to feel his big head in my hands
So at times in the hush of an evening when the winds have grown tired and are stilled
I sit here just waiting for memory to call just hoping she'll bring Big Wicked Bill

It's like you actively want me to shed tears...

But please tell stories of sled races. I find few things more romantic in the world, though I've only a passing understanding of what it's really like.

Panther wrote:It's like you actively want me to shed tears...

But please tell stories of sled races. I find few things more romantic in the world, though I've only a passing understanding of what it's really like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIkFdqbYes

I'll have to write up some of my recollections of things that I saw and experienced beginning with my first race with one dog, my Nanny, Tonka.

A Down and Dusky Blonde wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBIkFdqbYes

*opens link*

*reads title*

*closes page*

I remember a Animaniacs episode where the Warner's where taking shots at a characterization of Jerry Lewis...

Yacko: We're remaking Old Yeller.

JLC: I get to play the boy?

Yacko: No, you get to play Old Yeller.

A Down and Dusky Blonde wrote:I remember a Animaniacs episode where the Warner's where taking shots at a characterization of Jerry Lewis...

Yacko: We're remaking Old Yeller.

JLC: I get to play the boy?

Yacko: No, you get to play Old Yeller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsW6pMuhxz8

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Holly United, and Norgiestoileckylockj

I wish...you could have more than one World Assembly nation

I realize the game uses it as a sort of ID, but it makes it difficult to meaningfully be a part of more than one region. And there's just so many regions!

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Holly United, Norgiestoileckylockj, and Johanneslanden

Panther wrote:I wish...you could have more than one World Assembly nation

I realize the game uses it as a sort of ID, but it makes it difficult to meaningfully be a part of more than one region. And there's just so many regions!

The game uses WA membership to insure that any player gets just one vote/chance. Too many have tried to influence elections and raids/defenses by using multies. Everybody should just play nice and not cheat.

Dorig, Holly United, Greaterkankakee, Johanneslanden, and 1 otherPanther

A Down and Dusky Blonde wrote:The game uses WA membership to insure that any player gets just one vote/chance. Too many have tried to influence elections and raids/defenses by using multies. Everybody should just play nice and not cheat.

Yeah, and that is understandable. I gather that the game was sort of hobbled together over the years upon its original limited platform.

But here's what I propose just for fun and to no one who can actually do anything about it:

One main WA nation, able to vote in the World Assembly and Endorse. Then two lesser-WA nations, only able to Endorse delegates.

Of course, should I get that, after awhile I would probably just start feeling limited all over again...

A Down and Dusky Blonde, Bria wores bobba, Holly United, and Norgiestoileckylockj

Norgiestoileckylockj

Panther wrote:Yeah, and that is understandable. I gather that the game was sort of hobbled together over the years upon its original limited platform.

But here's what I propose just for fun and to no one who can actually do anything about it:

One main WA nation, able to vote in the World Assembly and Endorse. Then two lesser-WA nations, only able to Endorse delegates.

Of course, should I get that, after awhile I would probably just start feeling limited all over again...

I want this because there are some things my non-WA nation can’t do that my WA nation can do. I would like a system where I can register both nations to my name which causes my vote to only count for one nation, as if I voted with my other nation it wouldn’t let me.

The lepearchauns

Norgiestoileckylockj wrote:I want this because there are some things my non-WA nation can’t do that my WA nation can do. I would like a system where I can register both nations to my name which causes my vote to only count for one nation, as if I voted with my other nation it wouldn’t let me.

The problem is that it breaks all sorts of things. WA status breaks WA votes. Which you propose are tied to a single account. But that would involve the programming of an account management system. But then how does votes toward delegacy work? If multiple nations can have multiple delegacy votes, that opens up a whole can of worms. If you can endorese a delegate multiple times, theres vote rigging, the defender/raider game breaks down entirely if they can multi up these massive armies from one person. And if you want to restrict WA delegacy voting to one per nation per region, how do you tell the system which nation gets the vote. And how would NS track people circumventing the system with multiple accounts if each of those multiple accounts, tracked to multiple names were each having more than one WA nation? Itd make moderation a nightmare. And keep in mind that this is a free game moderated by volunteers

lep

The lepearchauns wrote:-snip-

Everything you say makes perfect sense, and I realize my desire is infeasible. But just to play out my fantasy, I suppose one workaround for the raiding/multiple endorsement problem could be to not allow each of your WA nations to endorse the same delegate. Or even to not allow them to enter the same region.

Of course, as you say, the main issue is how the game and/or moderation could track these things. Like you say, this is a free game with an unpaid staff. It's actually quite surprising that this game is as involved and complex as it is. Sometimes it's easy to fall back into thinking that this is a more "prestigious" type of game, one with a staff of developers and coders on hand dedicated to making improvements.

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