NationStates Jolt Archive

It would be nice to be able to somewhat focus on a specific type of issue when building your nation. This should basically allow you to double the probability of getting an issue affecting the stat your focus is on.

This would reflect a real government's concentration on one aspect more - you still have other issues to deal with but you get to focus on the most important aspect of things.

Yetar for example would right now need a few issues that help their current campaign against further environmental destruction, it doesn't help there when we do not get any environment-related issues for a week, instead having serial deaths of 108-year-old Supreme Court judges.

Of course you should be able to change this at any time.

The coding for this could be as simple as

randomly select issue;
if (issue doesn't affect focus stat) {
randomly select a different issue;
}

Serial death don't help? I recall that one choice allowed you to put an environmental friendly judge on the supreme court.

But in reality, national leaders don't get to decide what their citizens want. For example, the major event of Bush's presidency (9/11) was totally out of his controll (at least for the purposes of this argument .. no conspiracy theories, please). He did, however, get to choose how he reacted to that event (no critiques of his reaction would also be nice, this is an example not a political debate).

Similarly, governments in NS have no control over what issues come to them, only what they do in responce.