NationStates Jolt Archive


Not quite so much deforestation please, if that's alright...

Micropolis
19-05-2005, 16:37
Only a minor but niggling suggestion.

Ever since about my second week in the game, back in... ooh, late 2003, I think, I've had the snippet at the end of my nation description saying that my national animal teeters on the brink of extinction. It's never gone. It's about the one variable that never, ever disappears. I can click any number of issues about education, the military, or anything else, and they come and go in time. Extinction stays.

Can't it be removed, or put onto the regular cycle of descriptions? It's kinda embarrasing, and considering you can get it just by answering the uranium mining question once, it's also too easy a trap to fall into...
Sirocco
19-05-2005, 17:26
All things can change depending on how you answer your issues. Yeh've just got to keep trying.
Micropolis
19-05-2005, 19:41
But does raising the natural beauty of your landscape improve much by answering that issue? Are there even any others which cover that?

And would a civic beautification issue, if decently written, be likely to work its way into the game? *flexes keyboard fingers* 'Cause I could, like, do that, y'know... :)
Sirocco
19-05-2005, 20:01
Almost any subject (within reason - you can judge what's within reason by looking at previous issues (excluding easter eggs)) could potentially be put in the game if written well enough. I really should make a list of issues I'd like to see someday...
Draconomia
20-05-2005, 08:11
LOL! I was wondering this same thing. If I remember right there were 3 answers to that issue and I took the middle road. Scary to think what it might say if I let them do more than a "small" area. :(
Ghorunda
20-05-2005, 08:22
I chose the small area deforestation but my gut tells me I still got the same answer as if it were full deforestation. Yep, I got "massive" deforestion. Stupid hippies blowing everything out of proportion. Or is this a scripting error...?
Wondsing Island
20-05-2005, 08:29
How about submitting some issues that would affect that? :)
Heiligkeits
20-05-2005, 23:09
The game contradicts itself often. What you expect the effect of a selected option could be the exact oposite of what your thinking.

I had many lush forests, but my nation was also a barren, inhospitable landscape...
Light Keepers
21-05-2005, 04:45
It's never gone. It's about the one variable that never, ever disappears. I can click any number of issues about education, the military, or anything else, and they come and go in time. Extinction stays.

Can't it be removed, or put onto the regular cycle of descriptions?
But does raising the natural beauty of your landscape improve much by answering that issue?
Yes, it is possible to raise the beauty of your landscape and environment by answering issues that favor the environment. It may take time, but I've seen it work. I chose to protect my environment every chance I got so have the most beautiful in my region. But my delegate used to have the same problem you are having. He also had a national animal teetering on the brink of extinction, but fought to get his forests back. His description now reads like mine that the animals frolic in his lush forests. You just have to choose in favor of your environment every time you can if you really want it to change for the better. NOTE: The down side of this attempt is that something almost always has to give. So this could for a time hurt your economy or tax rate or something similar depending on which issues you get and how you vote.
Light Keepers
21-05-2005, 05:17
Are there even any others which cover that?How about submitting some issues that would affect that? :)
There are some already that can help you out in cleaning up your environment. Try the options listed below whenever you get any of these issues. (*These are just gathered from my experience and deductive reasoning, not any official mod channels.)

#23: Uranium Deposit Promises To Enrich @@NAME@@ -option 2
#60: Supreme Court Nomination -option 4
#138: Keep The Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters -option 3

These I haven't received yet to test out, but the options are pretty clearly in favor of the environment:
#69: Power Problems Need Bright Solution -option 1
#89: "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters -option 1
#96: Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain -option 3
#97: Landfills Filling Up -option 1
#102: For Whom The Road Tolls -option 3
#156: Waste Going To Waste, Says Industry Lobby -option 3
#170: Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside -option 1