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Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 12:01 am

pretty sure that's circular logic. or atleast circular logic-ish.

Also, how the spork does a TROPICAL ARCHIPELAGO suffer a WATTER SHORTAGE?! rain is super common in that sort of geography, and it's ideal for building desalinization plants! THIS SHOULDN'T HAPPEN!

HoundInATree · Post by **HoundInATree** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:40 pm

Maybe there was so much rain that the reservoirs become contaminated with sea water?

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 5:45 pm

how the heck would that work? It takes phenomena the strength of a hurricane or tsunami to significantly effect sea levels, and rainwater isn't sea water. Even if one of those did happen, the issue would be about that disaster, not a water shortage.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:05 pm

'Sensible' and 'reasonable' are not strong suits of this game.

HoundInATree · Post by **HoundInATree** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:37 pm

ok, maybe it's not the rain, maybe it's the shoddy reservoirs. Maybe it's locals letting out the water to go 'surfing'. Maybe it's just *brick'd*.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:38 pm

"marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams"
WHERE DID THAT COME FROM!!!!???!?!?!????!?!?
No issue had anything to do with that!!
These issues are starting to annoy me because I am given an important issue with 3 possible choices, each choice worse than the last.

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Sun Oct 18, 2015 6:40 pm

Hehe, could be the ground is over saturated, and all rain is just become runoff, while the population can't just get water since it's all below ground? Best thing I can come up with for you... Unless you want to start making trade agreements, hehe...

HoundInATree · Post by **HoundInATree** » Mon Oct 19, 2015 7:47 am

All ready using your new found powers, ay?

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 3:27 am

I save the environment, increase spending on mental health support, trimmed off useless money wasting politicians and overnight I became a Corrupt Dictator......I love this game.
Wait so how did lowering taxes also lower the average income?
The good thing is that cancer is no longer killing people, instead they are getting lost in the wilderness. Hey they wanted the tress.

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CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 2:31 pm

Note that in this game environment tends to have an inverse effect on the economy and vice versa. Improving the environment probably hurt the economy. Likewise, cutting down on 'useless money wasting politicians' probably tanked your political freedom score enough to cross into the 'dictatorship' line.

Pretty much every option you choose in this game will have some sort of backlash, sometimes ones that you didn't expect. Others are more... transparently obvious, but they're not really good with 'reasonable' choices.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 6:00 am

Good point CosmicCoyote, each choice can have unpredictable effects like how children can now cut up money in arts and crafts....for some reason.

HoundInATree · Post by **HoundInATree** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:40 pm

'postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation'

how did this happen? Last I remember I was improving the postal service, not making it worse...

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Wed Oct 21, 2015 5:16 pm

Mailmen selling junk mail as insulation? How is that not improving the postal service?

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 2:29 am

WHAT.

CosmicCoyote · Post by **CosmicCoyote** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:07 am

You act like it's not a thing that's actually happened.

A lot of events are drawn from off-kilter 'actual' events, then thrown to the edges of their wildest possibilities.

Buster · Post by **Buster** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:05 am

CosmicCoyote wrote:You act like it's not a thing that's actually happened.

. . . . .

WHAT.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 4:37 am

Buster wrote: . . . . .WHAT.

You said it. Also I took away peoples alcohol to improve public health and safety. They didn't take it very well.

"Scientists using cloned human embryos for research are on the verge of a medical breakthrough."
This is very vague. I don't know at what stage of development the embryo is cloned, the processes or the ethics.
All I know is that this is similiar to the real life event where they cloned a sheep.

Oh and by the way Czukay has joined.

Czukay · Post by **Czukay** » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:44 pm

Hey, guys! Just to say it here for anyone who asks later (yes, I know you know who I am). I am the Dominion of Kezara, and we are currently Liberal Democratic Socialists, with no crime and a bad economy.

IdleCurator wrote:Also I took away peoples alcohol to improve public health and safety. They didn't take it very well.

Yeah... That doesn't tend to work too well, as crime goes up. Example is 1920s America during Prohibition of alcohol when an amendment to the constitution was passed making the sale/distribution/consumption of alcohol illegal. Then the crime rate skyrocketed, and big Gangsters like Al Capone got rich off of money selling illegal alcohol.

HoundInATree · Post by **HoundInATree** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:07 pm

Here's another illogical decision that nationstates has made.

Now a while ago, my citizens voted for the death penalty. This has not been repealed yet. So, the game in it's infinate wisdom has decided that the following is somehow going on...

convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes

Now, is it me or does my nation imprison ghosts in addition to the death penalty?

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Sun Oct 25, 2015 7:19 pm

Maybe cause with the problem you said earlier about there being no crime, there are no murderers. So it does really matter what murderers can do because there are no murderers to begin with. Same problem that Buster had said, circular logic. They either have the death penitently to deter a non-existent criminal population, and a rehabilitation to quiet any people who don't like that such a thing is in place...

And hey, it gives the people jobs, hehe... Easy jobs.

Douglas Collier · Post by **Douglas Collier** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:26 am

Or it could be that murderers attend rehabilitation until their death sentence date.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:45 pm

Douglas Collier wrote:Or it could be that murderers attend rehabilitation until their death sentence date.

You see there is a logical reason for this, they don't want criminals clogging up the after life. (which afterlife you can chose)

NationStates wrote:Police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races, crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters, travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies, and retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites.

There is something so amazingly satisfying with this.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:06 pm

"NAT 1344" is my nation, created today

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 3:08 pm

Nice, you should join the Housepets! group over there too... Deal with the craziness together! Hehe...

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:29 pm

tsMKG wrote:"NAT 1344" is my nation, created today

I have sent you directions to our region if you would like to join.
PleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePleasePlease

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:32 pm

Don't you just love the propaganda displayed here, it's crosses the forums to the NationStates now... Perfect. Be sure to join the WA too, just cause, you know... It adds more to the game...

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:39 pm

It is amazing.
Try to make decisions as much as possible, the less you dismiss the more enjoyable the game is.
Also constantly check your nation overview. It can be hilarious some times.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:40 pm

#@* I regret the name i chosen
can i create a new Nation???

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:41 pm

tsMKG wrote: #@* I regret the name i chosen
can i create a new Nation???

You're not supposed to but you can.
I won't tell....much.

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:43 pm

Well and i have two games to play so more fun

"Tiny Russia"

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:44 pm

IdleCurator wrote:
tsMKG wrote: #@* I regret the name i chosen
can i create a new Nation???
You're not supposed to but you can.
I won't tell....much.

Don't listen to him, and be friend, sheesh, we want more to have fun with us on NS don't we...
Anyways, yes you can make a new nation (Called a puppet, or making it your main and the other is your puppet nation.), but you can't rename a nation... And you can't have two in the WA at the same time either. That's it.

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:51 pm

tsMKG wrote:"Tiny Russia"

But what if it was only a slightly smaller Russia?

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:54 pm

Crime is proportional to economy?

because in my poor NAT 1344 has no crime but in Tiny Russia is a problem

I read my desc and its seems that T.R. is too much capitalist.

Also, Gryphons are the national animals on my two nations (Cube Gryphon and Diamond Gryphon on NAT 1344 and Tiny Russia respectively)

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 4:58 pm

tsMKG wrote:Crime is proportional to economy?

No, I have a large economy and no crime problem... Just luck... And are you going to join the WA with one of your nations?

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:01 pm

Civilization wrote:
tsMKG wrote:Crime is proportional to economy?
No, I have a large economy and no crime problem... Just luck... And are you going to join the WA with one of your nations?

WA is acronym for?

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:02 pm

tsMKG wrote:Gryphons are the national animals on my two nation

My national animal is the Yveltal......yes I did select a pokemon for my animal.
The scary thing is that its lore states that if one dies it drains the life force of everything around it. Now this is troubling when they were shifting through my rubbish bins.

tsMKG wrote: WA is acronym for?

The World Assembly

IdleCurator · Post by **IdleCurator** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:03 pm

Sorry about the double post.

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:03 pm

tsMKG wrote:WA is acronym for?

The World Assembly... Equivalent to the United Nations in real life. Pretty much do the same thing on a much more ridiculous level

tsMKG · Post by **tsMKG** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:12 pm

Yes, I'm gonna join with NAT 1344

Civilization · Post by **Civilization** » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:13 pm

That's how I propagate! YEAH! Join NationStates, then the WA, get one free endorsement from me for wasting time on a game that I take seriously...