Hogsweat
01-04-2004, 21:05
First off,
This "joke", or what it has been speculated to be, has not been very funny at all. It has fretted many Nations, pretty much all of them RP ones. And First of all, it has broken the Aprils Fools Day joke - all jokes past 12 O clock are on you: So the jokes on you!
Second off,
If this ISNT a joke, then I have something to say, as a frequent NS RP'er and NS fan.
To quote Max Barry:
Good news! A long-running bug that allowed some nations to grow much faster than they deserved has now been fixed. This means nations can no longer benefit from abusing the so-called "population bug."
Because it's impossible to tell who exploited the population bug and who didn't, all nation's populations have been reset to 5 million. This way we can ensure a level playing field.
I assure you, this does NOT ensure a "level playing field" This has taken some fun out of RP'ing, because there is no way to prove that your nation is however size. Alliances now depend upon the number of nations in the alliance {And for us Left-wings - thats bad}. Why reset it? All websites and games have bugs.
I remember when I passed 500 Million - I was eager to think up my pretitle. And when I passed 1 Billion Mark, I remember when I sent my fleet into space. All that, all those memories have just been erased, by giving me and other experience and old RP'ers the n00b status - we are statswise the same as all these new people. Now, I will have to wait painstakingly, ever day, for my Popn to go up 1-5 Million a day - twenty odd days for one hundred million - a hundred odd days for five million, and near on ANOTHER year for me to reach my old status, when I should be 2 Billion by then, and reserve my status and Power.
This is the ramblings of an irritated, extremely irritated NS fan. However, I would at least like a response.
This "joke", or what it has been speculated to be, has not been very funny at all. It has fretted many Nations, pretty much all of them RP ones. And First of all, it has broken the Aprils Fools Day joke - all jokes past 12 O clock are on you: So the jokes on you!
Second off,
If this ISNT a joke, then I have something to say, as a frequent NS RP'er and NS fan.
To quote Max Barry:
Good news! A long-running bug that allowed some nations to grow much faster than they deserved has now been fixed. This means nations can no longer benefit from abusing the so-called "population bug."
Because it's impossible to tell who exploited the population bug and who didn't, all nation's populations have been reset to 5 million. This way we can ensure a level playing field.
I assure you, this does NOT ensure a "level playing field" This has taken some fun out of RP'ing, because there is no way to prove that your nation is however size. Alliances now depend upon the number of nations in the alliance {And for us Left-wings - thats bad}. Why reset it? All websites and games have bugs.
I remember when I passed 500 Million - I was eager to think up my pretitle. And when I passed 1 Billion Mark, I remember when I sent my fleet into space. All that, all those memories have just been erased, by giving me and other experience and old RP'ers the n00b status - we are statswise the same as all these new people. Now, I will have to wait painstakingly, ever day, for my Popn to go up 1-5 Million a day - twenty odd days for one hundred million - a hundred odd days for five million, and near on ANOTHER year for me to reach my old status, when I should be 2 Billion by then, and reserve my status and Power.
This is the ramblings of an irritated, extremely irritated NS fan. However, I would at least like a response.