NationStates Jolt Archive

"The nation you are writing to is part of a school class. Its members cannot receive telegrams from outside their own region."

So is Nation States now hosting classes? Amazing. Teachers have integrated this game into their curriculum. Maybe I should show my nation to a professor and demand credits! 8)

Anyways, I tried to respond to a TG sent by some one in the region. As you can see, it wouldn't fly. Why not?

Weird. If that's actually the case, I should get credit for creative writing. :D

perhaps the teacher of this class requested that [violet] instigate this ban on telegrams, to keep the members "safe"

try sending it from their region

What's the region?

It is the region of CV 02, and it's password protected. I already tried to do that :?

Cool, I guess [violet] added a way too make it a class only region, I wonder if you can just choose that when you make a region now

astounding, nearly every nation in the region has around the same population, which is strange seeing as there are over 100 members

Probably some sort of class project.

http://www.quia.com/pages/camp.html
F-ing A! They can get 100% for being in the top 10 with endorsments...
If I could get A+s for NS... I'd have really good grades.

I created a region a couple of days ago, and I didn't get that option. Must be a special arrangement type thing

http://www.quia.com/pages/camp.html
F-ing A! They can get 100% for being in the top 10 with endorsments...
If I could get A+s for NS... I'd have really good grades.


I thought of telling this site to my NSL teacher but I don't think the NS community would like the new members :|

Yep, there are a couple of schools running NationStates-based classes. I've designated their regions as private, which means the nations in it can't leave, nor receive TGs from outsiders. They're also all UN members even though they share a computer lab.

thats cool, it would be nice to be able to say Hi to them, or something, like perhaps make them special flags as a prize for the top nation(s) each week.

addendum,

I emailed the teacher this


Greetings Mr Campbell,
I saw your Classes Nation States Project website, my nation is 1 Infinite Loop, I am delegate of the East Pacific region, as you may know I make custom flags for nations if you like I can make a custom flag for your students as a reward for whatever goals you set, such as top nation each week (Mon _ Fri) let me know what you think,
if you are interested I wll post them here
http://invisionfree.com/forums/The_East_Pacific/index.php
in teh East Pacific's offsite forum, there is also a gallery of some I have done for others to give you an idea of what I can do,
I thank you for your time in reading this,

"Loop"
--
Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste and chuck keys for electric drills.


It would be cool to help them out

That's pretty neat. I wonder what kind of class it is.

This is pretty sweet! I would love being involved in this!

]Yep, there are a couple of schools running NationStates-based classes. I've designated their regions as private, which means the nations in it can't leave, nor receive TGs from outsiders. They're also all UN members even though they share a computer lab.

Wonderful, glad you did this. I recall the nation who was a school teacher, explaining not all of her students had e-mails to get into the UN, not to mention the whole sharing a PC thing. Very glad you found a way to make NS more functional, more part of something.


Errm, in short, good show old chap.

That's a cool setup. Am I the first person to actually discover this?

There's another neat class web site at:
http://www.bornemania.com/gov/projects/nationstates.shtml

cool I made him the same offer,

]There's another neat class web site at:
http://www.bornemania.com/gov/projects/nationstates.shtml

Now why can't my lecturers be as cool as this guy?

]There's another neat class web site at:
http://www.bornemania.com/gov/projects/nationstates.shtml

Now why can't my lecturers be as cool as this guy?

i told a friend/old prof of mine about ns. he's contemplating using it as part of his "radical and utopian politics" class next semester.

]There's another neat class web site at:
http://www.bornemania.com/gov/projects/nationstates.shtml

Nice site, but I have a bit of beef.

Nationstates is an on-line message board created by Max Berry, author of Jennifer Government, a novel set in a "parallel universe" in which corporations have virtually replaced governments as the operative ruling forces on the planet. Nationstates is a (potentially) amusing message board in which people create nations and respond to a limited set of questions (about 30) daily in which they determine the sort of government their nation has.

NationStates is a MESSAGE BOARD???!!?!?!?!?!? *explodes in rage*

And there are now about 80 issues.

(1) Ranking Points: Once you have been admitted into the Region of Bornemania, every Monday, I will check to see which three nations are ranked highest in whatever is being ranked that day. The highest rank will receive three points, the second highest will receive two points, and the third highest will receive one point. If there is a holiday on Monday, I will check the next day (Tuesday) to see who is highest ranked. Additionally the very last country on the list will get a "Pity Point." Those points will be immediately input that same day for ranked students registered in the class. If the ranking from one week to the next is based on the same factors, the ranking will be taken from the next day's list.

This is obviously going to unfairly favor pro-business nations.

(4) If any member (current or not) nation of Bornemania succeeds in getting a proposal to the UN I will award 10 points to them (either immediately on their grade or to be distributed as "foreign aid"). If any member nation succeeds in getting an "issue" accepted and posted by Mr. Max Barry, I will also award 10 points.

I hope he means a resolution....

Has the Conway Elementry Principal contqacted you guys yet?

I showed NS to her, and she said that she was going to incorporate it into all of the sixth grade classes, but since I go to Amherst High School and haven't spoken to her since I have no way of knowing.

Very nice. Hopefully NS can be a good education tool.

Hmm...

Insane jealousy at the people getting ahead in school by playing NationStates.

<snip>
Except for the resolution part I noticed those and decided, oh well, it is his problem.

You could tm him though of course.

Insane jealousy at the people getting ahead in school by playing NationStates.
Of course imgine having one of those names and being stuck in that region. . .

That's really nifty. :)

--Felix

(4) If any member (current or not) nation of Bornemania succeeds in getting a proposal to the UN I will award 10 points to them (either immediately on their grade or to be distributed as "foreign aid"). If any member nation succeeds in getting an "issue" accepted and posted by Mr. Max Barry, I will also award 10 points.

you know, I think someof us should seriously consider "Helping" with that,
the part about the getting a UN resolution accepted,

hey [violet] can the members of the school groups view the boards?

perhaps they should be given the ability to set a Buddy list of natios that they can speak to, and can speak to them as well, make it easier for them to get issues help and support for their resolution, as well as help those who wnat my aid in making flags.

Loop

NationStates is a MESSAGE BOARD???!!?!?!?!?!? *explodes in rage*
Yes, the forums are. :?

hey [violet] can the members of the school groups view the boards?
Technically they can, but I don't think any of them will be, at least on school time. The idea is that the school class doesn't interact with the rest of the NS community. Obviously it would kill the class idea pretty quick if students came into contact with inappropriate material on this site.

understood hence the reason I suggested a buddy list idea, like they can only recieve and send TM's to nations in their dossier

[violet]'s a genius. That is such a great idea.

How is the grading based and what all do they do? Is it the same as if they owned nations outside of their school?

I am interested now....curse you all. :wink:

understood hence the reason I suggested a buddy list idea, like they can only recieve and send TM's to nations in their dossier

That can still be a bad idea, god knows how corruptted we all are here. :)

Lol, you got that right, especially me, Im Loopy

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Loop
My current flag
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/1_infinite_loop.jpg

Nationstates is an on-line message board created by Max Berry, author of Jennifer Government, a novel set in a "parallel universe" in which corporations have virtually replaced governments as the operative ruling forces on the planet. Nationstates is a (potentially) amusing message board in which people create nations and respond to a limited set of questions (about 30) daily in which they determine the sort of government their nation has.

NationStates is a MESSAGE BOARD???!!?!?!?!?!? *explodes in rage*

And there are now about 80 issues.



There is currently an enormous backlog of player-submitted issues -- about 2,500 of them -- and it'll be quite a while before the mods work their way through all of that!



And going up. :lol:

Intresting....my school is not blocking ns

Intresting....my school is not blocking ns

No, no. Teachers can have their students have "School Accounts" which have certain limitations, including the inability to receive telegrams from nations outside their region.

Essentially, it let's school projects happen without the teacher having to worry about their student getting "U R GHEY!!!111lololololololololol" telegrams.

Maybe they can take a look at my nation to see how you shoudn't run a country :)

Some day I'm going to propose to a teacher/professor about using NS...of course, if it's still around by then. :D Since I already have a nation, I'll own all my classmates.

Maybe they can take a look at my nation to see how you shoudn't run a country :)

What are you talking about? We have ideal nations for this type of project. You notice that we're ALWAY at the top of the list for UN economy related rankings, which compose 90% of the UN rankings categories. Granted our personal governing styles may be somewhat distasteful to an "ultra liberal hippy teacher" who would be so inclined to adopt this as a learning tool..................yeah.......... :wink:

Intresting....my school is not blocking ns

No, no. Teachers can have their students have "School Accounts" which have certain limitations, including the inability to receive telegrams from nations outside their region.

Essentially, it let's school projects happen without the teacher having to worry about their student getting "U R GHEY!!!111lololololololololol" telegrams.

No I just meant that my school used to use bess to block sites, one of which was NS, but today I could access it for some reason :?

Well I got a reply from Mr Bourneman, he loves my flags and wants to make them a reward for the Delegates, as a way to get a few students more active and stuff, this si going to be fun, the only problem is talking to them,

Same here, only it was my banner that he liked. He's a fan of Dr. Seuss. Well and he ddn't suggest me making birthday banners for his students of course.

And you can talk to people in Bournemania, otherwise how did our tms reach him?

tag

actually I emailed him, perhaps his nation an send and recieve outside messages, [violet]? can the teacher recieve and send to outside nations?

tag

and thats how you get to be a Postmaster General, by posting [b]Tag[/b ]in every thread you can, :?
I know it wasnt to bump the thread as it was only third from the top when you posted tag,

Loop

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and thats how you get to be a Postmaster General, by posting [b]Tag[/b ]in every thread you can, :?
I know it wasnt to bump the thread as it was only third from the top when you posted tag,

Loop
I will have to agree. Ban tags!

actually I emailed him, perhaps his nation an send and recieve outside messages, [violet]? can the teacher recieve and send to outside nations?
Well I thought that [violet] said that the settings were for the entire region. :?

I will have to agree. Ban tags!
No, tags can be quite useful in moderation (no pun intended).

tag

and thats how you get to be a Postmaster General, by posting [b]Tag[/b ]in every thread you can, :?
I know it wasnt to bump the thread as it was only third from the top when you posted tag,

Loop

*shakes head*

Perhaps 50 to 75 of my posts are tags. I get this many posts by giving help in mod or technical, and then RPing a hell of a lot. Tagging a thread is so you can go back and read it later, or keep up with updates if it falls off the main few pages. That is why I did it.

I will have to agree. Ban tags!
No, tags can be quite useful in moderation (no pun intended).

Occasionally, yes. but not in Tech.

I will have to agree. Ban tags!
No, tags can be quite useful in moderation (no pun intended).

How's about a 'favorites list' of topics you can suscribe to?

I will have to agree. Ban tags!
No, tags can be quite useful in moderation (no pun intended).

Occasionally, yes. but not in Tech.

That is your opinion...(Edited to prevent flamewar)

I will have to agree. Ban tags!
No, tags can be quite useful in moderation (no pun intended).

How's about a 'favorites list' of topics you can suscribe to?
That's an annoying way of doing it.

tag

and thats how you get to be a Postmaster General, by posting [b]Tag[/b ]in every thread you can, :?
I know it wasnt to bump the thread as it was only third from the top when you posted tag,

Loop

*shakes head*

Perhaps 50 to 75 of my posts are tags. I get this many posts by giving help in mod or technical, and then RPing a hell of a lot. Tagging a thread is so you can go back and read it later, or keep up with updates if it falls off the main few pages. That is why I did it.

then make a real post, something helpful, imagine if everyone did this in every post, like your RP threads, Imagine if Myself and say 50 or 60 other folks tagged your RP's for later reading, it would really break up the monotony of serious incharacter posts wouldnt it,

But like you said...this is technical...there are no characters here...merely information and discussions of that information...which you broke up...since you hate "tags" so much and decided to post about it.

your Tag derailed the entire topic,
and yes there are bo characters here but there are folks trying to discuss, stuff like the fact as to whether the teachers of the special school regions can talk to people outside his region.
any word on that [violet]

Now lets get back on topic.

Now lets get back on topic.

Agreed