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I was over 320 Million yesterday, now i'm down to 5 million. WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!??!??!!

either a) an april's fool joke
b) they have fixed the "evil" pop bug

I was something like 1.8 billion, and now im also down to 5 million...

Edit:
Heh, makes sense to be an april fools joke(dear GOD i hope this is it...)

But now the pop bug will never bother us again!

Its an April Fools joke. My population is too! But I was hardly over 111 million.

Please god let it be an april fools joke.......

Im hopin so too because my lovely nation had 2.5billion! Ive spent a year building it up! As far as i know ive not done the pop bug, risen by about 2-5 mill a day depending on my choice of issue! :( a very sad day for NS if it isnt an april fools day joke :(

It better be an April Fool's joke...

Oh I'm soooo glad. I thought it was just me. not sure how amused to be. I was shaking a bit then. I only had 530 milltion but it's taken a while and I was on the verge of getting really quite agitated.

Funny, 5 million is pop of my RL RP nation Israel. :P

Looks like everyone was reset. How --er-- refreshing. :evil:

I hope it is an April Fools joke too. If not I vote that an asteroid hit the planet and wiped out all but the hardiest of citizens! Either that or the devil came in the night to take all sinners away :twisted:

Only time will tell.

maybe its some sort of plague...SARS....asteroid impact.......nuclear war......nuclear accident......invasion and massacare by Bush/Blair......or hey its an April Fool

Can someone explain this population bug to me?

AHH!!! GIVE ME BACK MY PEOPLE! :x

Eh, an April Fool's joke, for sure. Look at the forum titles -- what a hoot. Man, who had time to program all this stuff? :mrgreen:

look ok people stop poluting the thread with "i hope its an april fools joke"
it isnt ok

and lets face it none of us really cared about the population bug did we those people who used it wernt playing the game right so i say we damn well tell them that we want the populations back as they were!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



SPARK THE REVOULUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is REALLY starting to peeve me. :evil: I used to have over 2.2 billion people, now some IDIOT is releasing a population bug throughout NS?!? :evil: *sight*

Eh, an April Fool's joke, for sure. Look at the forum titles -- what a hoot. Man, who had time to program all this stuff? :mrgreen:

someone OBVIOUSLY had too much time in their hands! :shock:

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.


I pity tha fool!

In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.


I pity tha fool!

Sorry about the possible double posting, as this piece of crap some call a modem doesn't seem to be working as it has been designed to.

if this isnt a pop bug specially for april fools then nations should start aligning themselves.. hehe 8) good vs. evil, eh? :twisted:

From 583 million to 5 million overnight.

Someone finally realised that the NationStates have populations of immortals. This must be The Gathering!

I fully expect that There Can Be Only One, which given the population drop overnight will probably show up tomorrow.

What happens then? We all go to International Incidents with swords?

Dammit, I leave my secret police on massacre mode go out for a coffee and before I know it I've lost over 100 million people.

Bollocks.

dont you think it would all be so hilarious if it wasn't an April Fool's joke :D i only had a population of 80 million so im not too fussed. I like my spatulas. I am currently massing an army of genetically modified nazi hamsters that will rule the world. muahahahahahah!

I was over 320 Million yesterday, now i'm down to 5 million. WHAT'S GOING ON?!?!??!??!!

http://www.nationstates.net/news/

(just in case ;) )
http://www.nationstates.net/news/2004/04/01/index.html#aprilfool

well woot and stuff o_O

I dont like this joke

That's only good news in the way that Professor Farnsworth brings good news in Futurama.

Yeah im haveing the same problem my pop is back down to 5 million! :lol: :lol: LOL cool joke :P ihope it will get back to normal soon :P

600 million to 5 million. :( This better be a joke.

Well great, and here we had mobilized a nation wide hunt for a mass murderer and it turns out to be the administration. Hmmm, guess we can't rightly try and execute them...ah well. I do miss my 1.1 billion, though. :*(

Eh, an April Fool's joke, for sure. Look at the forum titles -- what a hoot. Man, who had time to program all this stuff? :mrgreen:

someone OBVIOUSLY had too much time in their hands! :shock:

nagghh... it's simple, just change the variable for a person's population to be a constant (5 million), as long as our real populations are still in the database....
probably only a change in one line of code...

It BETTER be a mother-effing April Fool's joke, and if it is IT IS NOT FUNNY!!!
I was at 2.68 billion yesterday, and I have spent a year and a half building it up...and now this...I'm royally pissed!

It BETTER be a mother-effing April Fool's joke, and if it is IT IS NOT FUNNY!!!
I was at 2.68 billion yesterday, and I have spent a year and a half building it up...and now this...I'm royally pissed!

It BETTER be a mother-effing April Fool's joke, and if it is IT IS NOT FUNNY!!!
I was at 2.68 billion yesterday, and I have spent a year and a half building it up...and now this...I'm royally pissed!

extinction level event

It certainly appears to be an April Fools Joke. I'd feel better if we had some official word on it though.

BTW, has anyone noticed that our titles underneath our names have changed? Postmasters are now THE POSTINATOR, people with 2 posts are OMG NOOB, etc...

Use this GDP calculater to find out your real population:
http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/gdpcalc.php?nation=

I half-believed it at first, but then I noticed that after I dealt with an issue and the legislation went through, the population didn't bump up to 6 million. Nice try. What time zone is Max Barry in? He does know it's 7 years' bad luck if he doesn't say "April Fools!" before midday, right? :wink:

It BETTER be a mother-effing April Fool's joke, and if it is IT IS NOT FUNNY!!!
I was at 2.68 billion yesterday, and I have spent a year and a half building it up...and now this...I'm royally pissed!

Breathe, my friend. Breathe.

Max, you're crazy. Scared me for a minute until I read the news, when I saw the date..

No harm done. NOT FUNNY THOUGH! :wink:

*posting to see title*

at least its not random, its everybody

at least its not random, its everybody

I wanna do a massive disaster thread now!!! :D

In the name of Lenin, please, please give us back our population that we had.This is not funny! :cry: :tantrum:

Awwww, they reset it!

I wanted it to at least last 24 hours.... :twisted:

Early Today....

High Presiding Monarch Everant Askmilliam woke up in the capitol building bedroom.

"What a beautiful day," he thought to himself. The phone rang soon and an urgent voice was on the other end. It was the voice of Tioja Esten, the Secretary of Labor. She knew this because all Secretaries of Labor are equipped with the master tracking device that is uplinked to the microchips implanted on every citizen.

"Your highness, something awful has happened! For some strange reason 99.98% of Elvandair has dissappeared!!" she said.

"What?! What on earth do you mean?"

"Just simply vanished your highness! Look around the capitol, the city is practically empty! Square miles of land have been deserted!"

Everent rushed to the window with the cordless phone in hand and witnessed a gloomy sight. Cars seemed to have been parked on the streets without people them. People had dissappeared and left everything they were doing just as it was.

"What.... what could be the cause of it? Disease...? Terrorists...?" said the stunned monarch.

"We don't know sir, we just...." Then there was static on the other end of the phone. There was a blinding flash of light outside and the sound of a thunderclap.

And then....

The cars were occupied. People walked the streets. Everyone came back and everything was back to being normal.

"Huh? How could.... What just...?" Said the monarch, further stunned. The voice on the other end came back.

"Sir... Um... Now everyone is back. I don't understand what just happened. I'm going to make a few phone calls to see if everything is restored, one being to Elvandair Military Intelligence. I think it's safe to say that everything is back to normal. Breathe easy sir, you sound panicked."

He was. He came back to his senses, and made some phone calls; he had a nation to run.

Moral of the story?

People are way the Hell too wrapped up in their nations.

April Fools. :P

Hahahaha.